Speaker 1: That keeps book down, fail touchdown, Miami drawn. What's up, Dolphans,
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's
Speaker 1: it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield and
Speaker 1: as always, I am here each and every day to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, a tough loss at home to a
Speaker 1: division rival. Dolphins fall thirty five to nothing at home
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. We're gonna unpack it, have a
Speaker 1: little bit of a therapy session, do the five takeaways.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Brian Flores on the loss. Will also
Speaker 1: hear from o J mcduffee from part of our post
Speaker 1: game show, the Miami Dolphins Fifth Quarter Post Game Show
Speaker 1: on five six w q AM. We had some great conversations,
Speaker 1: kind of unpacked this thing for you guys, myself, Seth Levitt,
Speaker 1: Oji McDuffie of the Fish Tank Podcast. We'll play some
Speaker 1: sound for you guys from O J from the post
Speaker 1: game show as we kind of worked our way through
Speaker 1: that and got through it together those two hours after
Speaker 1: the game. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. I
Speaker 1: want to jump right into the takeaways on this podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll keep it short and sweet for you guys and
Speaker 1: get you out of here with some optimism. Some frustration
Speaker 1: vented out here on the podcast. But number one takeaway
Speaker 1: is trying to get the offensive line sorted in a
Speaker 1: way that can be more competitive than it was in
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. Just not good enough up front,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what that looks like in terms of
Speaker 1: who plays where, who has some shuffling going on, whether
Speaker 1: the injuries have an impact. We saw Jesse Davis leave
Speaker 1: the game at halftime after taking an ankle injury in
Speaker 1: this game, But it was his guy that came off
Speaker 1: that side of the formation and got to to and
Speaker 1: buried him into the ground that knocked him out of
Speaker 1: the game after just two possessions, after just four passes,
Speaker 1: one completion for thirteen yards from tah and he was
Speaker 1: under darrest from the word go. The first play of
Speaker 1: the game was a sack. The third play of the
Speaker 1: game was a sack. And we'll talk about this a
Speaker 1: little bit later on with regards to how the Dolphin's
Speaker 1: offense approach, went to the Buffalo Bill's defensive approach, but
Speaker 1: getting to a Tungule Bylowa knocked out of the game
Speaker 1: and kind of disrupting what this offense is designed to
Speaker 1: do and really to be at TWA's controls and in
Speaker 1: terms of doing the things that he does well, that's
Speaker 1: just not something that can happen that early on in
Speaker 1: the game. And it came from a rusher who came
Speaker 1: around clean and the one on one assignment and just
Speaker 1: got through the block and got to the quarterback and
Speaker 1: drove him into the turf and just knocked the wind
Speaker 1: out of him, I'm sure, but also caused a rib
Speaker 1: injury that would keep Toungo Byla out of the game
Speaker 1: for the entirety of that game. And you watched to
Speaker 1: a coming off the field or attempting to come off
Speaker 1: the field after that injury. He went down to a knee,
Speaker 1: he popped back up, walks over a little bit, goes
Speaker 1: back down to a knee, and then we see him
Speaker 1: go over to the sideline on the car and he
Speaker 1: exits and would not return. Now. Tom Pelo Serro of
Speaker 1: the NFL Network tweeted out at the conclusion of the game,
Speaker 1: the X rays Onta's rib were negative and m R
Speaker 1: I coming on Monday to see just how that looks.
Speaker 1: Brian Flora spoke after the game to the South Florida media.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from the Dolphin's head coach, number one source
Speaker 1: on Dolphins injuries. We're getting some tests run. I just asked, UM,
Speaker 1: don't know the severity of the the injury right now,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna run some tests tonight tomorrow morning hopefully
Speaker 1: have a little bit more information. So you hear from
Speaker 1: Brian Flora's there and post game, we had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to o J McDuffie, one of the great
Speaker 1: benefits of having a former Miami Dolphins star on our
Speaker 1: post game show on five six w q AM and
Speaker 1: ninete point nine Kiss Country. I had a chance to
Speaker 1: ask o J. You've played through injuries. You've played through
Speaker 1: you know, nix and bruises here and there. What is
Speaker 1: it like trying to come back from that injury and
Speaker 1: play a football game? Here's o J McDuffie bottom lines
Speaker 1: and nothing you can really do about it, you know,
Speaker 1: as as you there's no treatment. They're gonna do some
Speaker 1: some stem and some ice and trying to you know,
Speaker 1: handle some information. It's it's a pain thing, you know,
Speaker 1: with the ribs, you know, not even if they're not fractured,
Speaker 1: so you can't breathe with with the rib situation, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to protect it as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, what can you do right there? I just
Speaker 1: feel back, you know, because if if he could have
Speaker 1: came back in this game, then it would tell you
Speaker 1: how severe the injury is. I think the pain's gonna
Speaker 1: get worse because when you get it during the game,
Speaker 1: it's more adrenaline and you're sorry, you're good to go.
Speaker 1: But by the time he goes to lay down tonight,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be it's gonna get hell. Man,
Speaker 1: it really is. Man. Then the breathing part of it's
Speaker 1: one of the worst things you can do. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I was talking a little bit, you know, I've had
Speaker 1: some injuries where it's so much pain that you feel
Speaker 1: like almost a heartbeating there, and self was talking about
Speaker 1: it during the break something that JT went through. Man,
Speaker 1: it's some of these injuries, especially those like like that,
Speaker 1: they're they're tough to deal with and people just don't
Speaker 1: get as all it's just the ribs. You can cover
Speaker 1: it up, get banged in your ribs, get a broken rib,
Speaker 1: broken car leads, and then try to breathe, walking up
Speaker 1: and down your steps and see how how how little
Speaker 1: pain there is. I can still write a press release,
Speaker 1: you know if my ribs off. But here, so here's
Speaker 1: a question, though, does it matter what side of the
Speaker 1: body of you know, as the left handed quarterback. Do
Speaker 1: you think it matters what side of the body it's on?
Speaker 1: Or rib injuries, a rib injury and that, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of funny, just curious. Well, I
Speaker 1: know that's a that's a great point because honestly, I mean,
Speaker 1: you think about it. If you're defensive guy, I might come,
Speaker 1: I might come blitz from the rib side, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You don't want to hit him on
Speaker 1: this side and see how much alt much he can
Speaker 1: take of it. You know, it really doesn't matter because
Speaker 1: I think more than anything is to breathe, because you're
Speaker 1: everything's gonna expand and uh, you know, and we just
Speaker 1: talked about it with you know, just a second ago.
Speaker 1: Even sleeping becomes a problem. Breathing can walking becomes a
Speaker 1: problem with many comes of ribs man and so um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just hope that X rays have already
Speaker 1: come back negad and hope them a right doesn't show
Speaker 1: anything bad. But bottom line is it's gonna be painful
Speaker 1: a long time. So that you have a duffy talking
Speaker 1: about pain management and pain tolerance. And we know how
Speaker 1: tough of a kid too is as you heard Brian
Speaker 1: Flowers mentioned at the top of the press conference there
Speaker 1: as well. So we'll see how that goes to out
Speaker 1: the course of the week. We'll update you guys here
Speaker 1: on Drive Time on Twitter and the like. I can
Speaker 1: get you the latest on Dolphins quarterback to a Toungo
Speaker 1: by Loo, who exits this game with an injury after
Speaker 1: taking a strong hit on a fourth down in completion
Speaker 1: on Miami second possession. He also had taken two sacks
Speaker 1: prior to that in the game, So Dolphins pass protection
Speaker 1: not great in this game, causing some consternation. Puts Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissett into the game, and he of course would finish
Speaker 1: it as the Dolphins get shut out at home to
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Now, to further this point, we also
Speaker 1: talked about some of the gramifications this result might have
Speaker 1: on the game, and you know, this team is very
Speaker 1: much regimented by the day to day and you put
Speaker 1: in what you get in what you put out each
Speaker 1: and every day by you know, stacking up blocks and
Speaker 1: stacking up wins and putting in good day after a
Speaker 1: good day, and eventually you're good. Process will give you
Speaker 1: good results. But with regards to the offensive line, we've
Speaker 1: now seen two different offensive line combinations, and last week
Speaker 1: in New England it was pretty good. The Patriots didn't
Speaker 1: really pressure a whole lot as far as sending extra rushers.
Speaker 1: They got some pressure with those three and four man looks,
Speaker 1: but they did not send the house at Tungo by
Speaker 1: lower the way the Bills did against both he and
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette. And whether it was Matt Mlano coming clean
Speaker 1: up the middle and and good on Miles gasking for
Speaker 1: some of the past protection reps. He had to step
Speaker 1: up and get his face and the fan and take
Speaker 1: on a very tough assignment. But then he would fill
Speaker 1: that area and defensive back would rush off the edge,
Speaker 1: and you've got guys coming clean off the edge, or
Speaker 1: you've got guys winning one on ones by by getting
Speaker 1: the tackles armed down and ripping around that way. Both
Speaker 1: Davis and Jackson and even Eichenberg where he came in,
Speaker 1: had some moments where they had their hands knocked down
Speaker 1: immediately and the Bill's pass musters were able to corner
Speaker 1: and get in on the quarterback. But as far as
Speaker 1: that right side of the offensive line and two had
Speaker 1: taken that hit, that's the big takeaway from this game
Speaker 1: right here. I think you find a way to try
Speaker 1: to solidify that part of the offensive line, whether it's
Speaker 1: some shuffle, whether it's you know, putting extra guys into block,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. I think you need to
Speaker 1: find a way to get better protection off that side
Speaker 1: because the way it went for two of those first
Speaker 1: two series, that's just not going to be sustainable for
Speaker 1: this team if he's under pressure or drest that much. Now,
Speaker 1: my other point here in this first takeaway is that
Speaker 1: the way the team is constructed with this offense, and
Speaker 1: we've seen it absolutely hummed during training camp, during the preseason,
Speaker 1: and during a few drives last week against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: with the quick game and the ball out of two,
Speaker 1: his hands quickly and his ability to mitigate pressure to
Speaker 1: get off of his spot and have that quick twitch
Speaker 1: to find a new spot in the pocket to make
Speaker 1: Hay where he can. And this is something that that
Speaker 1: Ojan McDuffie talked about post game again. You know, we
Speaker 1: we had a TV on in our conference room that
Speaker 1: we were doing the postgame radio show from and the
Speaker 1: Titans and Seahawks were on and Tannehill took a drap
Speaker 1: back and was kind of stationarying the pocket and got blasted.
Speaker 1: Ball comes out, Seahawks recover, score a touchdown, and he
Speaker 1: talked about how if you're standing back in the pocket
Speaker 1: in that particular spot and the rush is getting in
Speaker 1: or the coverage is holding up to where you're just
Speaker 1: gonna stand there for two or three beats, you better
Speaker 1: find a new spot in the pocket because that pocket
Speaker 1: is not going to become available to you when guys
Speaker 1: do uncover. And that's why I think two A does
Speaker 1: so well to kind of have the feet under him
Speaker 1: to you know, on the balls of his feet and
Speaker 1: dancing around or the toes of his feet rather and
Speaker 1: dancing around and finding new spots to to be a
Speaker 1: threatening position. As far as how to attack the defense,
Speaker 1: I think that the offense is built around two was
Speaker 1: ability to do that around the quick release and around
Speaker 1: the ball, just coming out fast by design. And I
Speaker 1: think when you saw that shift happen, typically in that situation,
Speaker 1: it can be more challenging for the defense to deal
Speaker 1: with a quarterback that they're not they're gonna prepare for
Speaker 1: Jacoby brit obviously in this in case this happens, but
Speaker 1: a quarterback that you're not necessarily as ready for as
Speaker 1: you were the QB one. I think in this instance
Speaker 1: it might have had a bit of a reverse effect
Speaker 1: where the Dolphins are like, we have to come now
Speaker 1: and basically scrap that game plan after two series and
Speaker 1: go to a new game plan to fit this quarterback.
Speaker 1: And you saw early on with some of the heavy
Speaker 1: packages in terms of bigger receivers, you know, DeVante Parker
Speaker 1: and Preston Williams on the field in your twelve personnel packages,
Speaker 1: and that's what you had last year at certain times
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. So ideally you have two
Speaker 1: of back, you have some of these speed guys, the burners,
Speaker 1: the guys that can make plays on the outside, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get a chance to see that all come
Speaker 1: together here very soon, because through two weeks it has
Speaker 1: not so the overall takeaway offensively, just get right, hopefully
Speaker 1: get the best guys onto the field and go from there.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we get that here in week number three. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number two is the defeat defensive approach has actually was
Speaker 1: sound in this game. They I thought early in this game,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Bill scored their first two possessions.
Speaker 1: You let a big run out the gate for forty
Speaker 1: six yards for Devin Singletary, which you know that's that's
Speaker 1: a problem that can't happen. And on that particular play
Speaker 1: you had Jerome Baker and Brandon Jones is kind of
Speaker 1: the stack linebackers in that particular assignment or in that
Speaker 1: particular alignment, and Brandon Jones kind of got caught on
Speaker 1: the block and that run when out his gate, and
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker couldn't get over the top of his block
Speaker 1: to get over there to make that thing happen. And
Speaker 1: then also Adam Butler kind of got sealed off on
Speaker 1: the inside to open up that big gap. And then
Speaker 1: Jason McQuary, the single high safety, just couldn't get over
Speaker 1: the top in time to stop that run from going
Speaker 1: all the way in. So you get that play and
Speaker 1: then you get a fantastic from Josh Allen. After Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba gets pressure in his face, he does what he does.
Speaker 1: He pump fakes, gets a ball off the ground, rolls
Speaker 1: to his right and then find Stefon Diggs all the
Speaker 1: way on the opposite side of the field in the
Speaker 1: end zone and you see Xaviing Howard shoe laying there.
Speaker 1: So X had blanketed Exhabing or X had blanket rather
Speaker 1: Stefon Digs on that play. But because of Alan's ability
Speaker 1: to extend the play and make a play, they got
Speaker 1: some points. And that's to me what the game plan was.
Speaker 1: See how often Josh Allen can do that, Because as
Speaker 1: good as he was last year, and he did it
Speaker 1: every freaking game everything single play, it seemed like he
Speaker 1: was doing that, but today he didn't. And the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive structure, the Dolphins defensive plan in that regard, I
Speaker 1: thought was very strong. There was instances where they're asking
Speaker 1: Josh Allen to hit the whole shot up the far
Speaker 1: hash and a cover two type looker. It might not
Speaker 1: have been covered too, but you have an over the
Speaker 1: top defender and underneath defender. There's plays where you have
Speaker 1: man on man coverage against xaviing Howard throwing a back
Speaker 1: shoulder coming back down the curl the stem on a
Speaker 1: crow route and you have to hit that throw and
Speaker 1: the balls are going high. They're getting in position where
Speaker 1: Dolphins defenders can make plays on it and get p bus.
Speaker 1: We saw x have some of that, We saw Byron
Speaker 1: Jones have some of that. We saw some of the
Speaker 1: safeties have some hands on footballs. So I thought the
Speaker 1: plan to really kind of rush for and they did
Speaker 1: get pressure to move Alan off of his spot and
Speaker 1: then he had to make plays off of that. I
Speaker 1: thought in general that first half they did a great
Speaker 1: job of making him make that big throw, and he
Speaker 1: did it a couple of times, but not as much
Speaker 1: as he did last season, and that to me was
Speaker 1: a big win in that first half. So they have
Speaker 1: nine possessions and they score fourteen points seven straight possessions.
Speaker 1: No points there for the Buffalo Bills in that first half.
Speaker 1: So the defensive structure early on played in a way
Speaker 1: that gave the offense a chance to take advantage of
Speaker 1: all those possessions. They got long game right, and the
Speaker 1: offense just didn't do it. So defensively I thought was
Speaker 1: very good. The first run was problematic out the gate
Speaker 1: for forty six yard touchdown, but in general or in total,
Speaker 1: fourteen yards on sixty four plays four point nine yards
Speaker 1: per play. That's not like blowout thirty five point lost
Speaker 1: crazy numbers. Usually that plays that numbers like in the
Speaker 1: sevens or eights when you have these big discrepancies, but
Speaker 1: just trying to make them make the extraordinary play to
Speaker 1: beat you, I thought was the game plan I thought
Speaker 1: was executed in that first half, and things kind of
Speaker 1: came undone in the second half. And you can challenge
Speaker 1: whether or not that's a function of the weight of
Speaker 1: that game and the way it had gone so far
Speaker 1: starting to wear on you. I mean, eventually the levy
Speaker 1: is going to break, and I think it kind of
Speaker 1: did to open the third quarter their Miami's defense that
Speaker 1: they allowed to drive to go down for a touchdown there.
Speaker 1: But there were so many instances where they got pressure
Speaker 1: with four and forced Alan to to throw off platform,
Speaker 1: and there was a situation where Exaving Howard even bated
Speaker 1: Josh Allen to a throw and damn near got his
Speaker 1: second pick. We did see him get the one pick
Speaker 1: where he makes the play he makes time and time
Speaker 1: again to undercut, undercut a crossing pattern and the catches
Speaker 1: this guy makes, it's like better than receivers can can
Speaker 1: make catches. It's sensational the way he makes plays. But
Speaker 1: to undercut that over route on Stefon Diggs get himself
Speaker 1: a pick and to set the Dolphins up in scoring
Speaker 1: position to the twenty four yard line. Man, xaviing Howard,
Speaker 1: you can do a lot of stuff with him in
Speaker 1: terms of how you kind of funnel this defense around
Speaker 1: what he does well. And what he does well is
Speaker 1: takes guys out of the games and gets his hands
Speaker 1: in the football and takes the damn ball away. He's
Speaker 1: done it now and back to back weeks to open
Speaker 1: the season. So defensively, I thought xaviing Howard was fantastic
Speaker 1: again and the Dolphins in general Josh Allen. If I
Speaker 1: told you before the game that Josh Allen would go
Speaker 1: seventeen for thirty three with a hundred and seventy nine yards,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and a pick and a passer rating a
Speaker 1: seventy five point nine, you would tell me, Travis, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are two note today because that's what I would
Speaker 1: have thought as well. It just didn't go down that way.
Speaker 1: But again xaviing Howard, I think is the way this
Speaker 1: defense kind of works around him as the impressive part.
Speaker 1: In the part you can take away from this defensive
Speaker 1: performance and kind of hang your hat on it because
Speaker 1: before and I hate to use the term garbage time
Speaker 1: because I don't feel like there's ever garbage time in
Speaker 1: this league, but a throw late in the game with
Speaker 1: the final result probably are dy in hand. Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: makes a forty one yard catch, but before that he
Speaker 1: had three for nineteen on saving Howard and a pick
Speaker 1: and a touchdown too, but he finishes with four for sixty.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, with a second leading receiver on the team
Speaker 1: with forty eight receiving yards, Josh Allen only rushes for
Speaker 1: thirty five yards in the game. Their top back had
Speaker 1: eighty two yards. It just wasn't a bad day for
Speaker 1: the defense in total. The result is not what you want,
Speaker 1: but it's tough to keep going out there and getting
Speaker 1: stops after being put in tough spots time and time again.
Speaker 1: So we'll take away number two defense structurally sound execution
Speaker 1: early on after the first two drives sound and then
Speaker 1: things kind of unraveled from there. Takeaway number three, and
Speaker 1: we had this discussion on the post game show with
Speaker 1: Seth Levitt and I loved the point Seth made here
Speaker 1: and my takeaways that I was telling Seth about this
Speaker 1: as we walked over to the conference room to film
Speaker 1: to record the post game show, was is this Dolphins
Speaker 1: team just not ready for this big time opponent yet?
Speaker 1: We when we saw them play the Chiefs tight last
Speaker 1: year and then the Buffalo game weeks sevent, team didn't
Speaker 1: go their way. This is a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: change the perception, and not that there's a negative perception
Speaker 1: around the Dolphins team, but change the overall perception to say, wow, that, okay,
Speaker 1: Dolphins are here and they came up short and that's
Speaker 1: been something you've kind of become accustomed to as a
Speaker 1: fan a little too often over the recent years. And
Speaker 1: are they just not ready to take on this kind
Speaker 1: of game? That's the big takeaway, right Seth Levitt said, No,
Speaker 1: it's not because I didn't feel in any particular area
Speaker 1: of the field except for one and we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that, that Miami was outmatched talent wise, Like there
Speaker 1: was no just overwhelming bludgeoning of this game that made
Speaker 1: you say they don't belong on the same field, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why, because well, DeVante Parker has
Speaker 1: made a career of high pointing footballs and making contested
Speaker 1: catches over Nobody had more contested catches in the NFL
Speaker 1: than DeVante Parker. Albert Wilson had a drop pass on
Speaker 1: a third and five I think it was that would
Speaker 1: have put Miami inside the five yard by with the
Speaker 1: first and goal. If not scoring a touchdown on that
Speaker 1: particular play. Drops that pass, they wind up having to
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down and they fail. Might
Speaker 1: have been fourth and two, actually, now that I think
Speaker 1: about it. And they also had another drop past later
Speaker 1: on in this game. How about Jachem Grant's fumble right
Speaker 1: short of the sticks on third and five? That was
Speaker 1: a third and five. I think he fumbles after it
Speaker 1: would have been probably fourth and inches, And given Brian
Speaker 1: flores his comments earlier this week about being aggressive and
Speaker 1: the calls they had made, it at that point in
Speaker 1: the game already tells you they probably go forth there
Speaker 1: and fourth and inches. Jacoby Brissette sneaking the ball has
Speaker 1: been pretty effective that way. That's a missed opportunity. Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle drops a swing pass. That's I mean the balls
Speaker 1: on his outside shoulder, outside hip, and it's gotta be
Speaker 1: better location than that. But he also has to catch
Speaker 1: that past two. That's just uncharacteristic muffing the punt to
Speaker 1: put the Dolphins in position to make up to make
Speaker 1: a drive. At the end of the half, after Miami's
Speaker 1: defense gets another stop and forces Buffalo to punt to
Speaker 1: the entire field, he has a punt return opportunity after
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant left with an injury to make a return
Speaker 1: from his own forty two yard line, and he must
Speaker 1: a punt and it goes back over to Buffalo, where
Speaker 1: you had thirty seconds to make a drive happen and
Speaker 1: get points on the board. Didn't happen. So the reason
Speaker 1: I'm telling you about all these misques and misfires. How
Speaker 1: about a season high nine penalties or I think high
Speaker 1: in Brian fess tenure, nine penalties for eighty three yards.
Speaker 1: What I'm telling you is that these are all uncharacteristic
Speaker 1: traits of what this Miami Dolphins team has come to
Speaker 1: be over the last two plus years under Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: I mean the pressure all over the place, not picking
Speaker 1: up the additional blitzers, the defensive backs getting home early
Speaker 1: with their blitz is, the off target balls, the drop passes,
Speaker 1: the penalties, just everything that could go wrong went wrong,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's indicative of who this team is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes games play out like this. We talked about it
Speaker 1: last week, like, hey, the result was all that mattered,
Speaker 1: The win was all that mattered. We got the win
Speaker 1: out of New England, will go home with it, will
Speaker 1: be happy with it, will make corrections and move on.
Speaker 1: And that's a great mentality to have. But I think
Speaker 1: you also have to have the same mentality when a
Speaker 1: game like this occurs. Because we saw the Packers in
Speaker 1: their Week one game, a team that was basically, you know,
Speaker 1: ticketed for a deep postseason run once again as they've
Speaker 1: been the last two years, they got blown out. It
Speaker 1: just sometimes it happens. I'm not trying to excuse it
Speaker 1: to say this team will bounce right back and win
Speaker 1: every game the rest of the way, but it's just
Speaker 1: not the end all, be all, And so I think
Speaker 1: that that's kind of the ten thousand foot view in
Speaker 1: terms of it sucked. It went bad, Everything went bad.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you can say this is who
Speaker 1: this team is because of those things, those mistakes that
Speaker 1: are so uncharacteristic because they occurred that way. Now, Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna want to hear any of that. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and go to coach Flora's about why this
Speaker 1: game got out of hand the way it did. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean we didn't play well in any area. Um,
Speaker 1: well beat ourselves. No penalties, drop drop passes, mis tackles. Um.
Speaker 1: You know that starts with me. I gotta do a
Speaker 1: better job. I gotta do a bead job of getting
Speaker 1: us ready to go. Um, that wasn't the case today.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, give Buffalo credit, they're a good team.
Speaker 1: They played well in all three phases. We we need
Speaker 1: to we need to do a much better job from
Speaker 1: an execution standpoint, um, and give ourselves an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be in the game, which you know I thought, you
Speaker 1: know early week, we we we missed, missed a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities. So that's that's the point right there. I
Speaker 1: want to make just the fact that execution was standing
Speaker 1: between Miami and being close in this game at halftime,
Speaker 1: going into the second half and really competing against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo team with your backup quarterback no less and staying
Speaker 1: competitive in that game. So again, mistakes I don't think
Speaker 1: are indicative of a bad football team. But this week
Speaker 1: they were a bad team. Let's just call it what
Speaker 1: it is. And the hallmark of Brian Flores is I
Speaker 1: don't think that. And part of my French for this,
Speaker 1: I don't think that ship happens back to back weeks.
Speaker 1: They have to go out there and prove that it doesn't,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it does from my perspective. Like
Speaker 1: looking at this team from the perspective I have, I
Speaker 1: don't see them going out and doing that back to
Speaker 1: back weeks. We will see if it happens. If it does,
Speaker 1: that's another conversation. But as far as what Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and this coaching staff in this organization represents, I don't
Speaker 1: think it does. Takeaway number four, twenty four consecutive games
Speaker 1: with a takeaway. We talked about xaviing Howard not getting
Speaker 1: the first one, but he did come back and make
Speaker 1: another play later in the game. He and Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: forced takeaways. In this game's mind, he gets a couple
Speaker 1: of those on the board after you know, straight games
Speaker 1: coming in. We get it early on in this game
Speaker 1: set the offense up and scoring position with two more takeaway.
Speaker 1: So good on Miami for continuing one of the most
Speaker 1: impressive streaks in the NFL. The next closest streak I
Speaker 1: believe is nine games by the Dallas Cowboys twenty four
Speaker 1: straight games. Dolphins have a takeaway takeaway number five. I
Speaker 1: think Sam eeg Van is quite a fine at this point.
Speaker 1: He had two more pressures to get the Bill's offense
Speaker 1: off the field. After that Jacoby Brissette I n T
Speaker 1: where he tried the whole shot to Mike Kisiki, and man,
Speaker 1: he is just a slippery rusher who can exploit gaps.
Speaker 1: He has great speed off the football explosion in that
Speaker 1: first step. He can get skinny through those gaps and
Speaker 1: just he gets to the quarterback. And you don't often
Speaker 1: see him bouncing off guys in a way that would
Speaker 1: suggest that he's not effective as attack or as a blitzer,
Speaker 1: and just as a pressure guy in general. So I
Speaker 1: think you look at this roster and you continue to
Speaker 1: talk about the resources they've used or the guys they
Speaker 1: have in place and how they got here. There are
Speaker 1: so many guys like Sam eg Van who just continue
Speaker 1: to make plays and show up in a position where
Speaker 1: they were not acquired with a high capital resource, and
Speaker 1: they show up here, they make plays, they earn themselves
Speaker 1: the right to play significant down for the Dolphins football team.
Speaker 1: And eg Von another one of those guys that continues
Speaker 1: to show up in that way. So those last two there,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of some silver linings for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And at zo defeat at the hands of the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: we get that team again Halloween here coming up in
Speaker 1: a few weeks, but that's a long way down the line.
Speaker 1: Next week will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that game Buffalo. And this was a
Speaker 1: tough one obviously, and the Dolphins had their chances, like
Speaker 1: Brian Floores mentioned, but you just have to execute. If
Speaker 1: you make that many mistakes against a bad team, you're
Speaker 1: gonna lose football games. You make that many mistakes against
Speaker 1: a good football team like Buffalo, you're gonna get blown out.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened today. I don't want to excuse
Speaker 1: it anym or because it sucked. It sucked to sit
Speaker 1: there and watch it. It It stuck to do a postgame
Speaker 1: show and talk about it. It It sucks doing this talking
Speaker 1: to you guys. You know, after a big, a big
Speaker 1: loss like that, I wanted to come on this podcast
Speaker 1: and praise a two and oh start and talk about
Speaker 1: how great it is to be too no En Division
Speaker 1: with wins over those tough, tough football teams in New
Speaker 1: England and with the Buffalo Bills. But it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And as Brian Flores said, their credit Buffalo, they I
Speaker 1: thought they played a great game. I thought early on
Speaker 1: their ability to squat on some of the quick passes,
Speaker 1: like we saw it on the very first snap of
Speaker 1: the game, to A fakes the handoff and looks over
Speaker 1: to Parker for a quick slamp, and they were playing
Speaker 1: that route, they jumped it, they were in position to
Speaker 1: affect the passing lines. So much of the point that
Speaker 1: to A said, I'm not throwing that ball. I can't
Speaker 1: do it because it's it's not open. So I think
Speaker 1: you look at that and you try to develop a
Speaker 1: vertical option off that, some more stretch options off of that.
Speaker 1: And again the things that TOA does well with a
Speaker 1: quick twitch, his inclusion back into the offense I think
Speaker 1: can have a big boost for this offense going into
Speaker 1: the two, Week three hopefully and beyond that. But today
Speaker 1: just not good enough in this game with that regard,
Speaker 1: and and they gotta find a way to adjust and
Speaker 1: make plays off that and get this offense up to speed.
Speaker 1: Because so far defense through two games, I think they've
Speaker 1: done their part. The offense has has been a bit
Speaker 1: of a challenge so far, and we'll see if they
Speaker 1: can click here going into week number three and beyond.
Speaker 1: But so far offense just hasn't been good enough, and
Speaker 1: we'll see if they can they can pick up the
Speaker 1: slack and join the defense and special teams in being
Speaker 1: better that way. A couple of individuals I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and highlight. I thought Jalen Waddle, despite the
Speaker 1: drop and the muff, you know, every time you see
Speaker 1: him kind of be involved as a focal point in
Speaker 1: the offense. To me, he looks like one of the
Speaker 1: best guys on the field, and I thought we saw
Speaker 1: some more of that today. The speed, the burst, the wiggle,
Speaker 1: the hands, everything. I just continue to be impressed by him.
Speaker 1: He finishes the game with just six catches for forty
Speaker 1: eight yards, but still he's a guy that I think
Speaker 1: is going to wind up popping for this Dolphins offense.
Speaker 1: I thought Mike gat sick. He had a stretch there
Speaker 1: with three catches for forty one yards. I believe it
Speaker 1: was where he was almost uncoverable, finding ways to get
Speaker 1: soft spots against that Bill's defense and working off man
Speaker 1: coverage at times. I thought he had a good showing
Speaker 1: there early on in that game. Obviously, Xavian Howard has
Speaker 1: a big, big day, interception, some ball production. They're doing
Speaker 1: a good job on s to Fawon Diggs, thought Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna credit you know, Stefon Diggs for having
Speaker 1: a kind of small yardage day. Byron Jones pretty much
Speaker 1: gave up one big catch and that was it. Had
Speaker 1: a couple of pass breakups, had his hand on some footballs.
Speaker 1: He continues to me to do a great job getting
Speaker 1: out the outside of the shoulder, outside of the outside
Speaker 1: shoulder of his receiver on wide runs to funnel things
Speaker 1: back inside. Got his hands on the football today for
Speaker 1: a near interception, but wind up batting that thing down.
Speaker 1: But another good day from Byron Jones. I thought Javon
Speaker 1: Holland really continues to show you what he can do.
Speaker 1: Had a fumble recovery, had a QB hit in this game.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see more and more of Javon
Speaker 1: Holland going forward. But as far as the individual marriage there,
Speaker 1: besides the guys in the takeaways, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and put a bow on this thing.
Speaker 1: Not the best performance. Offensive line has to get better.
Speaker 1: Offense in general has to get better. Gotta stop dropping
Speaker 1: passes for your penalties, Gotta gotta find ways to create
Speaker 1: space in the running game, and gotta do better and
Speaker 1: pass protection across the board, and the quarterback's gotta be
Speaker 1: better everything offensively obviously, it has to be better. The
Speaker 1: final stats in this game it's ugly, So go ahead
Speaker 1: and bear with those. One first downs to thirteen. Miami
Speaker 1: were eight for eighteen on third downs, the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: seven for thirteen. Dolphins were over four on fourth downs.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of fourth down conversion attempts to not
Speaker 1: convert any of them. That's a big play in the game,
Speaker 1: right there, A big, big stat in the game, I
Speaker 1: should say, And you know, Miami in that first half,
Speaker 1: after allowing just fourteen points, you have a drive start
Speaker 1: at the plus twenty four yard line. After the exhabiing
Speaker 1: Howard interception. You have another drive start at the minus
Speaker 1: forty two yard line after the fumble takeaway there for
Speaker 1: the offense, and both those drives result in no points.
Speaker 1: You have a punt late at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half, with about thirty seconds to go, where Waddle
Speaker 1: receives the punt at the forty two yard line and
Speaker 1: loses it right there. So that's three drives where one
Speaker 1: drive you're already in scoring range. Two drives your two
Speaker 1: first downs away from being in scoring range. So if
Speaker 1: that games fourteen to nine, going into the break at
Speaker 1: like worst case scenario, you think maybe maybe the outcomes different.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's if if if butts and
Speaker 1: candy and nuts and all that fun stuff. But it
Speaker 1: just it didn't feel like Miami was just getting ran
Speaker 1: rough shot up and down the field, like they had
Speaker 1: their chances, they just did not execute them, like Brian
Speaker 1: Flores said. So back to the status here, three fourteen
Speaker 1: total yards to to seventeen, Buffalo out past Miami just
Speaker 1: one seventy one to six. Rushing was significant more than
Speaker 1: double us up one to seventy one. Miami had seventy
Speaker 1: plays to Buffalo sixty four and turnovers to Miami had three,
Speaker 1: Buffalo had two. Dolphins were sacked six times to Buffaloes one.
Speaker 1: That was the big difference in the game for my money.
Speaker 1: And then penalties nine for eighty three, so uncharacteristic six
Speaker 1: for fifty three. For Buffalo time of possession, Miami had
Speaker 1: thirty one thirty four, Buffalo twenty six. So those are
Speaker 1: your final stats from the game. Around the league, I mean,
Speaker 1: the scoreboard looks interesting right now. I'm recording this as
Speaker 1: the Titans and Seahawks are in overtime. Titans are trying
Speaker 1: to put together a drive right now, but the Chargers
Speaker 1: go down. That's an a f C foe that falls
Speaker 1: to one and one afflo to the Cowboys. The Steelers
Speaker 1: fault to one and one. The Raiders, our opponent next week,
Speaker 1: are two and oh two. Big wins for that Raiders club.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a good shot at them next week.
Speaker 1: They are a tough, tough football team. Right now, the
Speaker 1: brown has improved a one on one by beating Houston,
Speaker 1: who falls to one and one. What else around the
Speaker 1: A s C. The Colts fall to o and two
Speaker 1: and the Patriots pickoff Zach Wilson four times six in
Speaker 1: that game. Man, they were coming after him defensively. His
Speaker 1: final stat line nineteam for thirty yards, four picks, four sacks.
Speaker 1: That Patriots defense looks legit to kind of round out
Speaker 1: last week's performance, giving you some more evidence to kind
Speaker 1: of compare how the offense did last week up in Foxboro.
Speaker 1: So that's about it. One on one after this game,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and play the opening segment from the
Speaker 1: post game show on five six w q AM, the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins Fifth Quarter Post Game Show with me, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: Seth levitt O, Jim McDuffie from the fish Tank Podcast
Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. Let's go ahead and
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Speaker 1: You got locked to the postgame show first segment right
Speaker 1: after this What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the
Speaker 1: fifth quarter post game Show on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network.
Speaker 1: I'm here with Seth Levitt, oh J McDuffie, I am
Speaker 1: Travis Winfield, and guys, the good news is this team
Speaker 1: is in position to play a big game at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium here in week number two. But the bad
Speaker 1: news is, well, it started basically from the word go juice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was awful from the beginning, three and out, two sacks,
Speaker 1: giving up long play, big run for the you know
Speaker 1: to play touchdown right after that. But they have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to have you know, go up you know too
Speaker 1: and O home game is Buffalo Bills and go out
Speaker 1: there and just literally laying egg offensively, defensively, special teams.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's unbelievable that that's what happened today. Buffalo.
Speaker 1: We knew they were better than what they showed last week,
Speaker 1: and we weren't up for the task. They were hungry,
Speaker 1: hungry than we were, and obviously on all phases of
Speaker 1: the game, they went out there and showed him man.
Speaker 1: So it was disappointing, especially when your team looking at
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go two and oh, you know, two
Speaker 1: wins in the division. Some of the hardest things we've
Speaker 1: ever had to do with our team, and to go
Speaker 1: out there and not even you know what, not even
Speaker 1: show up jobs, you know, Seth. Last week, the theme
Speaker 1: of our show after the Patriots victory was that, as
Speaker 1: ugly as it might have been at times, you come
Speaker 1: away with a road divisional victory, you want to know,
Speaker 1: a top the a f C. East. You're feeling great
Speaker 1: about that fact. Now you have a chance this week
Speaker 1: to get the style points and get another victory in
Speaker 1: division and really take I guess the perception of this
Speaker 1: team to another level. That obviously did not happen today.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest news of the day with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins quarterback Seth in Paris Pella Sero from NFL
Speaker 1: Network says that X rays on Toa's rib are negative.
Speaker 1: He's in a lot of pain. He'll have an m
Speaker 1: r I on Monday. But what's your take away from
Speaker 1: losing starting quarterback on the second drive of the game, Seth, Well, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great point, Travis. I mean look, this was
Speaker 1: ugly and ugly early. And uh, that's what's gonna sit
Speaker 1: with fans as they're driving home here or turning the
Speaker 1: TV off and trying to figure out what they want
Speaker 1: to have for dinner because they've lost their appetite. But
Speaker 1: to lose your quarterback, uh, And so you know, justice,
Speaker 1: you know this one's there. You want to burn the
Speaker 1: tape and move on to next week and let's focus
Speaker 1: on on Las Vegas. But when you don't have your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, you don't know if you're gonna have your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. And it's not just any player on the roster, right,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's to uh, it's a starting quarterback. You've
Speaker 1: gotta figure out what your offense is gonna look like
Speaker 1: and when the loss is going to sting beyond Sunday,
Speaker 1: that potentially could be problematic. And so that that is
Speaker 1: a concern O J. Sometimes you know, you bring the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback off the bench and it can kind of
Speaker 1: surprise the opposing defense in a way where they don't
Speaker 1: have tape or they don't have preparation for that particular quarterback,
Speaker 1: at least not to the extension with a starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: But in this game. It almost felt like it was
Speaker 1: more of a shock in the Dolphins system because this
Speaker 1: offensive system is built a round a specific skill set
Speaker 1: of two, a tongue of byaloa Jacoby Brissette comes off
Speaker 1: the bench and they just look stuck in the mud
Speaker 1: all day long. Yeah, it really was, man. You know,
Speaker 1: we we try to keep it quick, keep it simple,
Speaker 1: get it to our skill guys, uh, you know, early
Speaker 1: and often, and let them do things. And I think
Speaker 1: that was the biggest thing. Let's let's let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about a little bit why it didn't work out. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk about what we do for two, but the
Speaker 1: game plan is the same. They don't have two game plans.
Speaker 1: You don't have all that time all week to put
Speaker 1: it in two different game plans. So no matter what,
Speaker 1: Jacobe has to go out there and run that same
Speaker 1: game plan. Now when it when that happens, it becomes
Speaker 1: on the skill guys to be able to execute it.
Speaker 1: Our skill guys were terrible today. I'll be let's be
Speaker 1: a one hundred with it. Fumbles, dropped passes, not getting open.
Speaker 1: There were so many things that did not help our
Speaker 1: quarterbacks out. Not to mention we'll talk about some more later.
Speaker 1: And so I'm sure the offensive line not giving opportunities either. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a horrendous offensive day. I think
Speaker 1: the defense settled in after a couple of touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: down two scores mean better in right, But offense was
Speaker 1: was absolutely garbage. Whatever that game plan was, our co
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators, rip it up and burn it. Don't use
Speaker 1: it again. He said, burn it. So if that is
Speaker 1: a concern though, right, Look, sometimes in games like this
Speaker 1: you start to see late in the game. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say guys check out, but you start to
Speaker 1: see more of those mishaps, more of those drops. Concentration
Speaker 1: is lost a little bit. But we were dropping balls
Speaker 1: and critical critical uh times of this game early early,
Speaker 1: and guys who you're not used to seeing that happen
Speaker 1: from So, I don't you know what do you attribute
Speaker 1: that to? Yeah, it's so funny, man, because things like
Speaker 1: that do become contagious. It's it's amazing how the trickle
Speaker 1: down effect. One guy does it, the next guy does it.
Speaker 1: Now guys start pressing like, oh, I can't drop one, guy,
Speaker 1: just drop one. Now, I can't drop one, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't put it in the ground, you know, and
Speaker 1: then and it's it's amazing, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: professional athletes. You know, you think that young guys, you know,
Speaker 1: in high school or college, they go through that, but
Speaker 1: when you get to this level, you've got to be
Speaker 1: the guy that stops the bleeding. You know, there was
Speaker 1: nobody out there to trying to stop the bleeding, make
Speaker 1: a big catch, make one in traffic. You know, defense
Speaker 1: made a few plays, gave offense opportunity to get back
Speaker 1: on track, and we still couldn't do it as an offense.
Speaker 1: You know, defense gave up what they gave up. You know,
Speaker 1: they helped Josh Allen and check for the first half
Speaker 1: and ended up, you know, ended up being what it
Speaker 1: was at the end. But they gave offense opportunities and
Speaker 1: some short fields and they just had nobody that stepped
Speaker 1: up and made something happen for him. Man. And that's
Speaker 1: that's that's frustrating. I always talk about it. Man. When
Speaker 1: I was playing, when our offense was so bad and
Speaker 1: our defense was so good, I just come off the
Speaker 1: field like I need. I wanted to go to the
Speaker 1: long way to get away from the j t s
Speaker 1: and the Zacks. You know what I mean, all those
Speaker 1: guys and Sam's and pass their own defense doing so well,
Speaker 1: you know, and giving us opportunities and we couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1: That's how it felt in this game today, where the
Speaker 1: defense was trying to make it happen, making plays, a
Speaker 1: couple of takeaways, give them short fields and the offense
Speaker 1: to turn around and turn it back over or you know,
Speaker 1: three an hour quick converted fourth down. It's it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Is this one of those instances where maybe the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills are kind of in the Dolphin's head in terms
Speaker 1: of that big brother like you have to get over
Speaker 1: the hump type of thing, because I think sets before
Speaker 1: we came on the air, this is this is not
Speaker 1: a very Brian Flores characteristic performance out of this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. With the misques, the drops of penalties, the
Speaker 1: blowing protection assignments. I mean, it was just everything on
Speaker 1: top of each other. O. J mentioned there you contain
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I think in the first half he was
Speaker 1: something like six or fifteen for seventy yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a pick and like a sub sixty passer rating.
Speaker 1: This is a guy against the Dolphins and his career
Speaker 1: has been over one ten the passer writing every single
Speaker 1: game he plays them with a bunch of rushing yards
Speaker 1: mixed in, so juice? Is there an element of big
Speaker 1: brother kind of comes to town? A couple of things
Speaker 1: go wrong and you start to let that kind of
Speaker 1: cascade in your mind and you can't get over like,
Speaker 1: is there a mental hurl here with this Buffalo Bills team? Man,
Speaker 1: it's so hard to I'm starting to get that. But
Speaker 1: it's a week two yeah, year, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: this year before that. It's not just you know this
Speaker 1: week two, it's it's been it's to the last three games. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Seen this guy now, I think what is he? He's
Speaker 1: five and one, six and one against us right now
Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback. So it's not just you know
Speaker 1: week one or week two, big seth. I think it's
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, this dude is coming in
Speaker 1: here and he's he's beat us up there, he's beating
Speaker 1: us down here. So yeah, we are a little brother
Speaker 1: of them right now, and they are the creaming of
Speaker 1: crops in a FC east and one of creaming the
Speaker 1: crops in a f C maybe in the league, but
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, I yeah, but is that going through.
Speaker 1: So you've been in that offensive huddle on that field,
Speaker 1: on that grass. Is that going through your head on
Speaker 1: the second drive if you're an offensive lineman trying to
Speaker 1: protect your quarterback or is that going through here? Are
Speaker 1: Are you thinking about Josh Allen's success against this team
Speaker 1: historically when there's an opportunity to catch the ball and
Speaker 1: make a big first down or score a touchdown in
Speaker 1: the end zone? Is that going through your head? Well?
Speaker 1: As an offensive line. They don't think anything about Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But what they're thinking about is
Speaker 1: how they just got their their quarterback crushed, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, three and out with two sacks. That's that's
Speaker 1: their biggest issue right there. They don't think about that,
Speaker 1: but they are thinking about us, how that front four
Speaker 1: and maybe a fifth guys coming at him and making
Speaker 1: it impossible for them to make you know, anything happened
Speaker 1: for us. You know, I was. I was shocked at
Speaker 1: how bad the offensive line played today. Yeah, I really was.
Speaker 1: Man getting Atin Jackson back, take that pride that you
Speaker 1: see the offensive alignment take and their leader, man Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: he had zero pressure. You had a couple of opportunities.
Speaker 1: You know, we could have got at him. He got
Speaker 1: out of there, but they gave opportunities to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: Man when they're gonna take pride in protecting their the
Speaker 1: number one on the football team was the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: Jacoby came and had the same issues with him on
Speaker 1: the play that he got hurt. We talked about it
Speaker 1: before he came on the air here that it was
Speaker 1: a second, maybe a second and a half having the
Speaker 1: football in his hands and then boom, he's planted and
Speaker 1: right away the ground. And you saw him come off
Speaker 1: the field. He went to a knee, got back up
Speaker 1: and went back to a knee, comes over to the sideline,
Speaker 1: goes down to the knee again, and then you see
Speaker 1: him getting loaded onto the cart. And man, I was
Speaker 1: I was kind of having flashbacks to his time at
Speaker 1: Tuscaloosa there when he got taken off the cart with
Speaker 1: a very significant injury. But again, the good news out
Speaker 1: of the NFL network reporting is that it's just a
Speaker 1: bruise rib at this point, X rays negative m R
Speaker 1: I on Monday. If this team doesn't have two a
Speaker 1: ton of Baloa next week going in to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I mean Jacoby bursts a really good backup to come
Speaker 1: off the bench and maybe in a pinch gets you
Speaker 1: a W in a tight game. That was not today
Speaker 1: his game obviously, but it would be in a tight
Speaker 1: game he can kind of keep the ball close to
Speaker 1: the vest and play play smart, sound game manager style
Speaker 1: of quarterback. But when you have to put up points
Speaker 1: on the Buffalo Bill's defense, you know it's just not
Speaker 1: gonna happen that way. And then next week to Las
Speaker 1: Vegas that offense can score two, So hopefully two was
Speaker 1: back next week. Right said, well, absolutely, but but I
Speaker 1: would also challenge that a little bit, Travis, because to
Speaker 1: Jacoby's credit, look he threw the interception, he floated the
Speaker 1: ball out there to took a sicky there, probably had
Speaker 1: a lot more to air under it than than needed
Speaker 1: to be bad decision right there, but period, if if
Speaker 1: it has zipped it or with the air, that's that.
Speaker 1: And Buffalo reacted to the design too, because you had
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle kind of take that defender off. Then they
Speaker 1: wanted to rowk Asiki behind it, and he tried to
Speaker 1: shoot that and it was like kind of a turkey
Speaker 1: whole shot, right o. J where the cover two but
Speaker 1: he put way too much air under like you mentioned, sure,
Speaker 1: but then he also put this team in a position
Speaker 1: to score multiple times. The anger of that half and
Speaker 1: the thing that you just can't do, particularly against a
Speaker 1: team that has had your number, is you can't miss
Speaker 1: scoring opportunity after scoring opportunity. You can't get inside the
Speaker 1: red zone. There were three opportunities to score, and you
Speaker 1: had the fumble, you had an interception, Uh, you go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down. But I just wanted to
Speaker 1: put that out there, is that Jacoby Brissette did move
Speaker 1: this offense. He moved it between the twenties, and he
Speaker 1: put the team in a position or he helped put
Speaker 1: the team in a position to score. But they did
Speaker 1: not come away with points. And that's just not gonna
Speaker 1: work against his Buffalo Bills team.