WEBVTT - Dolphins Bills Week 2 Recap 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:14.720 That keeps book down, fail touchdown, Miami drawn. What's up, Dolphans, 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.279 And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.600 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.480 it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield and 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.000 as always, I am here each and every day to 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.320 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.839 on today's show, a tough loss at home to a 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.199 division rival. Dolphins fall thirty five to nothing at home 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.680 to the Buffalo Bills. We're gonna unpack it, have a 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.280 little bit of a therapy session, do the five takeaways. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.920 We'll hear from Brian Flores on the loss. Will also 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.640 hear from o J mcduffee from part of our post 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.080 game show, the Miami Dolphins Fifth Quarter Post Game Show 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.320 on five six w q AM. We had some great conversations, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.440 kind of unpacked this thing for you guys, myself, Seth Levitt, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.720 Oji McDuffie of the Fish Tank Podcast. We'll play some 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.960 sound for you guys from O J from the post 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.120 game show as we kind of worked our way through 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.000 that and got through it together those two hours after 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.560 the game. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:16.800 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. I 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.280 want to jump right into the takeaways on this podcast. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:20.840 We'll keep it short and sweet for you guys and 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.800 get you out of here with some optimism. Some frustration 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.720 vented out here on the podcast. But number one takeaway 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.240 is trying to get the offensive line sorted in a 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.959 way that can be more competitive than it was in 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.959 the game on Sunday. Just not good enough up front, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.160 and we'll see what that looks like in terms of 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.600 who plays where, who has some shuffling going on, whether 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.480 the injuries have an impact. We saw Jesse Davis leave 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.360 the game at halftime after taking an ankle injury in 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.560 this game, But it was his guy that came off 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.520 that side of the formation and got to to and 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.840 buried him into the ground that knocked him out of 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.320 the game after just two possessions, after just four passes, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.920 one completion for thirteen yards from tah and he was 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.640 under darrest from the word go. The first play of 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.560 the game was a sack. The third play of the 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.280 game was a sack. And we'll talk about this a 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.680 little bit later on with regards to how the Dolphin's 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.640 offense approach, went to the Buffalo Bill's defensive approach, but 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.960 getting to a Tungule Bylowa knocked out of the game 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.040 and kind of disrupting what this offense is designed to 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.160 do and really to be at TWA's controls and in 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.519 terms of doing the things that he does well, that's 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.400 just not something that can happen that early on in 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.560 the game. And it came from a rusher who came 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.040 around clean and the one on one assignment and just 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.160 got through the block and got to the quarterback and 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.040 drove him into the turf and just knocked the wind 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.119 out of him, I'm sure, but also caused a rib 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.520 injury that would keep Toungo Byla out of the game 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.760 for the entirety of that game. And you watched to 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.000 a coming off the field or attempting to come off 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.639 the field after that injury. He went down to a knee, 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.880 he popped back up, walks over a little bit, goes 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.760 back down to a knee, and then we see him 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.640 go over to the sideline on the car and he 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.240 exits and would not return. Now. Tom Pelo Serro of 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.320 the NFL Network tweeted out at the conclusion of the game, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.600 the X rays Onta's rib were negative and m R 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.400 I coming on Monday to see just how that looks. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.200 Brian Flora spoke after the game to the South Florida media. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.480 Let's hear from the Dolphin's head coach, number one source 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.480 on Dolphins injuries. We're getting some tests run. I just asked, UM, 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.040 don't know the severity of the the injury right now, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.600 but you're gonna run some tests tonight tomorrow morning hopefully 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.799 have a little bit more information. So you hear from 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.359 Brian Flora's there and post game, we had a chance 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.200 to talk to o J McDuffie, one of the great 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.200 benefits of having a former Miami Dolphins star on our 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.440 post game show on five six w q AM and 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.160 ninete point nine Kiss Country. I had a chance to 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.560 ask o J. You've played through injuries. You've played through 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.920 you know, nix and bruises here and there. What is 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.600 it like trying to come back from that injury and 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.760 play a football game? Here's o J McDuffie bottom lines 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.560 and nothing you can really do about it, you know, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.600 as as you there's no treatment. They're gonna do some 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.960 some stem and some ice and trying to you know, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.800 handle some information. It's it's a pain thing, you know, 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.520 with the ribs, you know, not even if they're not fractured, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.000 so you can't breathe with with the rib situation, you know, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.200 and they're gonna try to protect it as much as possible. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.040 I mean, what can you do right there? I just 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.200 feel back, you know, because if if he could have 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.560 came back in this game, then it would tell you 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.520 how severe the injury is. I think the pain's gonna 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.279 get worse because when you get it during the game, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.000 it's more adrenaline and you're sorry, you're good to go. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.360 But by the time he goes to lay down tonight, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.640 you know it's gonna be it's gonna get hell. Man, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.000 it really is. Man. Then the breathing part of it's 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.040 one of the worst things you can do. Um. You know, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.360 I was talking a little bit, you know, I've had 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.360 some injuries where it's so much pain that you feel 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.159 like almost a heartbeating there, and self was talking about 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.640 it during the break something that JT went through. Man, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.280 it's some of these injuries, especially those like like that, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.800 they're they're tough to deal with and people just don't 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.640 get as all it's just the ribs. You can cover 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.560 it up, get banged in your ribs, get a broken rib, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.120 broken car leads, and then try to breathe, walking up 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.160 and down your steps and see how how how little 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.120 pain there is. I can still write a press release, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.280 you know if my ribs off. But here, so here's 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.719 a question, though, does it matter what side of the 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.640 body of you know, as the left handed quarterback. Do 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.440 you think it matters what side of the body it's on? 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.440 Or rib injuries, a rib injury and that, you know, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.279 you know, it's kind of funny, just curious. Well, I 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.080 know that's a that's a great point because honestly, I mean, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.240 you think about it. If you're defensive guy, I might come, 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.039 I might come blitz from the rib side, you know 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.479 what I mean. You don't want to hit him on 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.040 this side and see how much alt much he can 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.120 take of it. You know, it really doesn't matter because 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.760 I think more than anything is to breathe, because you're 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.919 everything's gonna expand and uh, you know, and we just 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.520 talked about it with you know, just a second ago. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:38.359 Even sleeping becomes a problem. Breathing can walking becomes a 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.000 problem with many comes of ribs man and so um, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.880 you know, I just hope that X rays have already 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.440 come back negad and hope them a right doesn't show 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.160 anything bad. But bottom line is it's gonna be painful 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.560 a long time. So that you have a duffy talking 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.080 about pain management and pain tolerance. And we know how 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.280 tough of a kid too is as you heard Brian 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.240 Flowers mentioned at the top of the press conference there 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.160 as well. So we'll see how that goes to out 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.640 the course of the week. We'll update you guys here 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.840 on Drive Time on Twitter and the like. I can 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.400 get you the latest on Dolphins quarterback to a Toungo 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.919 by Loo, who exits this game with an injury after 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.760 taking a strong hit on a fourth down in completion 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.080 on Miami second possession. He also had taken two sacks 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.800 prior to that in the game, So Dolphins pass protection 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.760 not great in this game, causing some consternation. Puts Jacoby 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.960 Brissett into the game, and he of course would finish 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.320 it as the Dolphins get shut out at home to 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.559 the Buffalo Bills. Now, to further this point, we also 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.040 talked about some of the gramifications this result might have 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.200 on the game, and you know, this team is very 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.279 much regimented by the day to day and you put 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.400 in what you get in what you put out each 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.960 and every day by you know, stacking up blocks and 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.880 stacking up wins and putting in good day after a 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.919 good day, and eventually you're good. Process will give you 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.760 good results. But with regards to the offensive line, we've 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.680 now seen two different offensive line combinations, and last week 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.800 in New England it was pretty good. The Patriots didn't 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.360 really pressure a whole lot as far as sending extra rushers. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.839 They got some pressure with those three and four man looks, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.240 but they did not send the house at Tungo by 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.040 lower the way the Bills did against both he and 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.600 Jacoby Brissette. And whether it was Matt Mlano coming clean 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.880 up the middle and and good on Miles gasking for 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.640 some of the past protection reps. He had to step 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.440 up and get his face and the fan and take 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.120 on a very tough assignment. But then he would fill 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.640 that area and defensive back would rush off the edge, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.120 and you've got guys coming clean off the edge, or 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.600 you've got guys winning one on ones by by getting 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.280 the tackles armed down and ripping around that way. Both 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.960 Davis and Jackson and even Eichenberg where he came in, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.080 had some moments where they had their hands knocked down 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.720 immediately and the Bill's pass musters were able to corner 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.160 and get in on the quarterback. But as far as 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.040 that right side of the offensive line and two had 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.360 taken that hit, that's the big takeaway from this game 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:44.760 right here. I think you find a way to try 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.200 to solidify that part of the offensive line, whether it's 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.320 some shuffle, whether it's you know, putting extra guys into block, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.200 whatever the case may be. I think you need to 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.160 find a way to get better protection off that side 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.080 because the way it went for two of those first 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.320 two series, that's just not going to be sustainable for 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.560 this team if he's under pressure or drest that much. Now, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.240 my other point here in this first takeaway is that 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.720 the way the team is constructed with this offense, and 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.920 we've seen it absolutely hummed during training camp, during the preseason, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.480 and during a few drives last week against the Patriots, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.400 with the quick game and the ball out of two, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.640 his hands quickly and his ability to mitigate pressure to 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.480 get off of his spot and have that quick twitch 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.040 to find a new spot in the pocket to make 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.720 Hay where he can. And this is something that that 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.440 Ojan McDuffie talked about post game again. You know, we 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.280 we had a TV on in our conference room that 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.760 we were doing the postgame radio show from and the 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.560 Titans and Seahawks were on and Tannehill took a drap 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.560 back and was kind of stationarying the pocket and got blasted. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.520 Ball comes out, Seahawks recover, score a touchdown, and he 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.480 talked about how if you're standing back in the pocket 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.720 in that particular spot and the rush is getting in 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.719 or the coverage is holding up to where you're just 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.200 gonna stand there for two or three beats, you better 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.080 find a new spot in the pocket because that pocket 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.320 is not going to become available to you when guys 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.520 do uncover. And that's why I think two A does 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.520 so well to kind of have the feet under him 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.400 to you know, on the balls of his feet and 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.440 dancing around or the toes of his feet rather and 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.960 dancing around and finding new spots to to be a 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.680 threatening position. As far as how to attack the defense, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.559 I think that the offense is built around two was 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.280 ability to do that around the quick release and around 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.440 the ball, just coming out fast by design. And I 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.240 think when you saw that shift happen, typically in that situation, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.679 it can be more challenging for the defense to deal 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.280 with a quarterback that they're not they're gonna prepare for 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.080 Jacoby brit obviously in this in case this happens, but 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.600 a quarterback that you're not necessarily as ready for as 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.760 you were the QB one. I think in this instance 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.240 it might have had a bit of a reverse effect 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.280 where the Dolphins are like, we have to come now 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.880 and basically scrap that game plan after two series and 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.760 go to a new game plan to fit this quarterback. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.079 And you saw early on with some of the heavy 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.760 packages in terms of bigger receivers, you know, DeVante Parker 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.000 and Preston Williams on the field in your twelve personnel packages, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.040 and that's what you had last year at certain times 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.480 with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. So ideally you have two 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.640 of back, you have some of these speed guys, the burners, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.480 the guys that can make plays on the outside, and 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.240 hopefully we'll get a chance to see that all come 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.880 together here very soon, because through two weeks it has 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.240 not so the overall takeaway offensively, just get right, hopefully 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.480 get the best guys onto the field and go from there. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.800 Hopefully we get that here in week number three. Takeaway 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:19.000 number two is the defeat defensive approach has actually was 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.160 sound in this game. They I thought early in this game, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.439 and you know, the Bill scored their first two possessions. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.480 You let a big run out the gate for forty 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.720 six yards for Devin Singletary, which you know that's that's 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.839 a problem that can't happen. And on that particular play 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.800 you had Jerome Baker and Brandon Jones is kind of 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.440 the stack linebackers in that particular assignment or in that 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.560 particular alignment, and Brandon Jones kind of got caught on 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.439 the block and that run when out his gate, and 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.480 Jerome Baker couldn't get over the top of his block 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.439 to get over there to make that thing happen. And 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.800 then also Adam Butler kind of got sealed off on 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.720 the inside to open up that big gap. And then 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.480 Jason McQuary, the single high safety, just couldn't get over 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.240 the top in time to stop that run from going 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.559 all the way in. So you get that play and 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:03.520 then you get a fantastic from Josh Allen. After Emmanuel 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.240 Ogba gets pressure in his face, he does what he does. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.800 He pump fakes, gets a ball off the ground, rolls 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.080 to his right and then find Stefon Diggs all the 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.880 way on the opposite side of the field in the 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.640 end zone and you see Xaviing Howard shoe laying there. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.800 So X had blanketed Exhabing or X had blanket rather 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.680 Stefon Digs on that play. But because of Alan's ability 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.280 to extend the play and make a play, they got 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.480 some points. And that's to me what the game plan was. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.000 See how often Josh Allen can do that, Because as 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.360 good as he was last year, and he did it 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.760 every freaking game everything single play, it seemed like he 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.520 was doing that, but today he didn't. And the Dolphins 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.400 defensive structure, the Dolphins defensive plan in that regard, I 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.600 thought was very strong. There was instances where they're asking 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.000 Josh Allen to hit the whole shot up the far 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.560 hash and a cover two type looker. It might not 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.000 have been covered too, but you have an over the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.240 top defender and underneath defender. There's plays where you have 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.280 man on man coverage against xaviing Howard throwing a back 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.760 shoulder coming back down the curl the stem on a 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.960 crow route and you have to hit that throw and 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.920 the balls are going high. They're getting in position where 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.320 Dolphins defenders can make plays on it and get p bus. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.320 We saw x have some of that, We saw Byron 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.680 Jones have some of that. We saw some of the 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.800 safeties have some hands on footballs. So I thought the 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.280 plan to really kind of rush for and they did 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.160 get pressure to move Alan off of his spot and 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.200 then he had to make plays off of that. I 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.640 thought in general that first half they did a great 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.240 job of making him make that big throw, and he 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.880 did it a couple of times, but not as much 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.720 as he did last season, and that to me was 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.400 a big win in that first half. So they have 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.079 nine possessions and they score fourteen points seven straight possessions. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.760 No points there for the Buffalo Bills in that first half. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.960 So the defensive structure early on played in a way 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.080 that gave the offense a chance to take advantage of 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.000 all those possessions. They got long game right, and the 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.959 offense just didn't do it. So defensively I thought was 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.920 very good. The first run was problematic out the gate 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.800 for forty six yard touchdown, but in general or in total, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.000 fourteen yards on sixty four plays four point nine yards 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.000 per play. That's not like blowout thirty five point lost 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.360 crazy numbers. Usually that plays that numbers like in the 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.440 sevens or eights when you have these big discrepancies, but 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.439 just trying to make them make the extraordinary play to 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.520 beat you, I thought was the game plan I thought 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.840 was executed in that first half, and things kind of 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.240 came undone in the second half. And you can challenge 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.440 whether or not that's a function of the weight of 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.120 that game and the way it had gone so far 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.240 starting to wear on you. I mean, eventually the levy 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:31.679 is going to break, and I think it kind of 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.520 did to open the third quarter their Miami's defense that 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.800 they allowed to drive to go down for a touchdown there. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.160 But there were so many instances where they got pressure 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:43.280 with four and forced Alan to to throw off platform, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.559 and there was a situation where Exaving Howard even bated 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.920 Josh Allen to a throw and damn near got his 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.920 second pick. We did see him get the one pick 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.360 where he makes the play he makes time and time 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.400 again to undercut, undercut a crossing pattern and the catches 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.719 this guy makes, it's like better than receivers can can 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.560 make catches. It's sensational the way he makes plays. But 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.280 to undercut that over route on Stefon Diggs get himself 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.320 a pick and to set the Dolphins up in scoring 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.000 position to the twenty four yard line. Man, xaviing Howard, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.360 you can do a lot of stuff with him in 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.360 terms of how you kind of funnel this defense around 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.400 what he does well. And what he does well is 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.440 takes guys out of the games and gets his hands 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.520 in the football and takes the damn ball away. He's 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.080 done it now and back to back weeks to open 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.160 the season. So defensively, I thought xaviing Howard was fantastic 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.640 again and the Dolphins in general Josh Allen. If I 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.240 told you before the game that Josh Allen would go 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.960 seventeen for thirty three with a hundred and seventy nine yards, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.960 two touchdowns and a pick and a passer rating a 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.360 seventy five point nine, you would tell me, Travis, the 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.080 Dolphins are two note today because that's what I would 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.120 have thought as well. It just didn't go down that way. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.680 But again xaviing Howard, I think is the way this 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.000 defense kind of works around him as the impressive part. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.720 In the part you can take away from this defensive 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.120 performance and kind of hang your hat on it because 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.880 before and I hate to use the term garbage time 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.760 because I don't feel like there's ever garbage time in 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.080 this league, but a throw late in the game with 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.480 the final result probably are dy in hand. Stefon Diggs 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.680 makes a forty one yard catch, but before that he 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.040 had three for nineteen on saving Howard and a pick 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.120 and a touchdown too, but he finishes with four for sixty. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.080 Emmanuel Sanders, with a second leading receiver on the team 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.160 with forty eight receiving yards, Josh Allen only rushes for 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.360 thirty five yards in the game. Their top back had 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.560 eighty two yards. It just wasn't a bad day for 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.280 the defense in total. The result is not what you want, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.320 but it's tough to keep going out there and getting 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.440 stops after being put in tough spots time and time again. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.560 So we'll take away number two defense structurally sound execution 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.480 early on after the first two drives sound and then 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.080 things kind of unraveled from there. Takeaway number three, and 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.000 we had this discussion on the post game show with 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.400 Seth Levitt and I loved the point Seth made here 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.600 and my takeaways that I was telling Seth about this 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.680 as we walked over to the conference room to film 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.520 to record the post game show, was is this Dolphins 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.120 team just not ready for this big time opponent yet? 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.880 We when we saw them play the Chiefs tight last 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.000 year and then the Buffalo game weeks sevent, team didn't 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.520 go their way. This is a chance to kind of 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.320 change the perception, and not that there's a negative perception 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.560 around the Dolphins team, but change the overall perception to say, wow, that, okay, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.000 Dolphins are here and they came up short and that's 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.720 been something you've kind of become accustomed to as a 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.200 fan a little too often over the recent years. And 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.520 are they just not ready to take on this kind 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.000 of game? That's the big takeaway, right Seth Levitt said, No, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.520 it's not because I didn't feel in any particular area 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.920 of the field except for one and we'll come back 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.760 to that, that Miami was outmatched talent wise, Like there 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:37.480 was no just overwhelming bludgeoning of this game that made 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.560 you say they don't belong on the same field, and 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.160 I'm gonna tell you why, because well, DeVante Parker has 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.320 made a career of high pointing footballs and making contested 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:51.040 catches over Nobody had more contested catches in the NFL 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.000 than DeVante Parker. Albert Wilson had a drop pass on 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.280 a third and five I think it was that would 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.560 have put Miami inside the five yard by with the 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.320 first and goal. If not scoring a touchdown on that 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.280 particular play. Drops that pass, they wind up having to 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.879 go for it on fourth down and they fail. Might 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.320 have been fourth and two, actually, now that I think 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.600 about it. And they also had another drop past later 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.560 on in this game. How about Jachem Grant's fumble right 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.720 short of the sticks on third and five? That was 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.600 a third and five. I think he fumbles after it 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.399 would have been probably fourth and inches, And given Brian 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.960 flores his comments earlier this week about being aggressive and 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.720 the calls they had made, it at that point in 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.400 the game already tells you they probably go forth there 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.959 and fourth and inches. Jacoby Brissette sneaking the ball has 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.080 been pretty effective that way. That's a missed opportunity. Jalen 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.800 Waddle drops a swing pass. That's I mean the balls 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.040 on his outside shoulder, outside hip, and it's gotta be 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:41.760 better location than that. But he also has to catch 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.600 that past two. That's just uncharacteristic muffing the punt to 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.840 put the Dolphins in position to make up to make 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.760 a drive. At the end of the half, after Miami's 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.680