Speaker 1: Bow, cut down, Miami Quaker run? What is 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 to everybody? I know it's not great. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to bring
Speaker 1: you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on
Speaker 1: today's show, a fourth straight loss drops Miami to one
Speaker 1: and four on the season, this time to the defending
Speaker 1: world champion Buccaneers. Will unpack it in its entirety with
Speaker 1: the takeaways, the individual performances, and we're gonna play some
Speaker 1: audio from the post game show with me, Seth Levitt
Speaker 1: and O J. McDuffie of the Fish Tank Podcast. I
Speaker 1: thought we had one of our best shows on Sunday
Speaker 1: after this game from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do the five takeaways here real quick, but first
Speaker 1: I want to focus on a couple of storylines I
Speaker 1: was looking at heading into this game. Number one, would
Speaker 1: there be a shake up along the offensive line? And
Speaker 1: the answer to that was yes, And I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to get to the all twenty two and break down
Speaker 1: the performance of the offensive line in this game, because
Speaker 1: initially I thought it was one of their better games
Speaker 1: as a unit as a whole, while at the tape
Speaker 1: speak for itself on that with Austin Jackson moving from
Speaker 1: left tackle to left guard, Liam Eikenberg going back to
Speaker 1: left tackle where he played in the season opener, and
Speaker 1: then Jesse Davis over right tackle, with Greg Mant and
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt at their same positions as last week at
Speaker 1: center and right guard, respectively. Was also curious to get
Speaker 1: a look at the past rush with the dolphinsive team,
Speaker 1: especially when they went to a four man rush. Can
Speaker 1: you turn over Brady, can you hit Brady? Can you
Speaker 1: move Brady? I don't believe that went the way any
Speaker 1: of us hoped it would in this game. And then
Speaker 1: also would you find a big play on teams on
Speaker 1: special teams in that regard that also did not happen.
Speaker 1: So just a couple of things to point out there
Speaker 1: that I thought Miami had a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: makes some head weight in those departments and didn't go
Speaker 1: that way. And we lead this off with the takeaways
Speaker 1: from this game. The Dolphins fall forty seven team to
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And the first takeaway is what
Speaker 1: the heck is wrong with the defense. And let's actually
Speaker 1: play some audio here from Brian Flores and let him
Speaker 1: take us there first before I talk about it. No,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned. I mean, like we're out of sink, you know,
Speaker 1: in a lot of a lot of ways, um on defense,
Speaker 1: pass defense, pass rush. Um, you know, we're just we're just,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit step behind. I would say, so, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta make a lot of corrections, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of things we've gotta address, and you
Speaker 1: know we'll do that, and we've been doing that. Um,
Speaker 1: We've addressed some things, but we're not we're not seeing
Speaker 1: a production on on Sundays and really that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, I would say we're we're a little
Speaker 1: bit out of sink, out of sink and a step
Speaker 1: behind there, says coach Flores. And the Dolphins are being
Speaker 1: outscored this season one fifty four to seventy nine opposing
Speaker 1: off senses. They're averaging around four hundred and forty two
Speaker 1: yards per game in our offense just five to forty
Speaker 1: five per game, almost double the output when you look
Speaker 1: at the last four games of the season when things
Speaker 1: kind of went off the rails four hundred forty two
Speaker 1: yards to Miami's two hundred forty five yards per game
Speaker 1: last and third down defense. The takeaway streak is no more,
Speaker 1: no turnovers. In this game, Miami lost the turnover battle
Speaker 1: two to zero to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And then
Speaker 1: you hear Brian Flores talk about his concern there with
Speaker 1: the fact that the defense is out of sync and
Speaker 1: a step behind, and the practice work all the week
Speaker 1: long is not translating to Sundays just thinking about this
Speaker 1: out loud. Here is Xavian Howard and Byron Jones, who
Speaker 1: both were on the injury report this week and suited
Speaker 1: up and played, and good on them for getting themselves
Speaker 1: out there and ready to play. But it wasn't good
Speaker 1: for either of those guys in this game. And this
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay receiving corps is absolutely loaded. And that's another
Speaker 1: point we're gonna get to here later on the takeaways.
Speaker 1: But those guys didn't have their best game. The linebackers
Speaker 1: getting stuck on blocks, getting beaten coverage on running backs
Speaker 1: or tight ends or whoever the heck it was the
Speaker 1: inability to get pressure on Brady, whatever the reason was,
Speaker 1: where we aren't seeing the Amiba defense or as much
Speaker 1: zero blitz or all the stuff that really helped this
Speaker 1: defense produce at a high level last year. Players, coaches,
Speaker 1: guys that you relied upon in the past, like an
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe, who had such a good two year run
Speaker 1: here with the Miami Dolphins, has now hit a speed
Speaker 1: bump here in a couple of games this year where
Speaker 1: he hasn't been the exact saying that he was a
Speaker 1: season ago. And that kind of brings me in to
Speaker 1: the point about the defensive backs in general. Not to
Speaker 1: pick on Eric Row, but that's where your biggest resource
Speaker 1: allocation is. And look at what the Bucks were able
Speaker 1: to do to you in the passing game, I mean,
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard gets a pay raise after an all Pro season.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones is one of the highest paid cornerbacks in
Speaker 1: the league, cutting over in free agency after a five
Speaker 1: year run with the Dallas Cowboys where he's fantastic for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. You have Eric Rowe on a contract extension,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, a third round draft pick, Javon Hall in
Speaker 1: the second round draft pick No. Begny a first round
Speaker 1: draft pick, Justin Coleman a free agent, Jason mccordy a
Speaker 1: free agent. Like that's where a lot of the resources
Speaker 1: have been allocated to. And if that's the class of
Speaker 1: your roster and the way this thing is designed, and
Speaker 1: this is what happens, I mean, where do you go
Speaker 1: from there with it? They're gonna have to do some
Speaker 1: real soul searching and find out what the identity of
Speaker 1: this football team is because last year it was pressure defense,
Speaker 1: take the football away and put your foot on the
Speaker 1: throat of the opponent defensively, and that by in part
Speaker 1: helps both the special teams and the offense. But what
Speaker 1: is the thing you're doing well right now? Because you're
Speaker 1: you know, perceived air quotes, best unit on the football
Speaker 1: team giving up forty five points of this offense, which
Speaker 1: is a great one. It's just not the way to
Speaker 1: go when you look at the last three times this defense.
Speaker 1: And I know last year wasn't this year's defense, but
Speaker 1: Buffalo this year thirty five nothing, Buffalo last year fifties,
Speaker 1: now Tampa Bay seventeen. It's just not a good look
Speaker 1: for that defensive secondary. And they're gonna have to find
Speaker 1: a way to play better and be competitive against these
Speaker 1: top level teams and organizations because under Brian Flores through
Speaker 1: two years that this just didn't happen to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: We were used to it before he got here, with
Speaker 1: big time opponents on prime time games or otherwise putting
Speaker 1: up a lobsize score on the Miami Dolphins, and that
Speaker 1: just wasn't the case. And I don't think any of
Speaker 1: us expected that this season, and right now it's happening.
Speaker 1: So you've got to figure it out and get the
Speaker 1: solution quick because this just cannot continue. Take Away number two,
Speaker 1: I mean, just shoot this moon to the season, and
Speaker 1: this shoot this season into the sun as far as
Speaker 1: you possibly can, because the first five games have been
Speaker 1: about as bad as you could have drawn it up.
Speaker 1: If the Dolphins don't get that win into England, that
Speaker 1: of course would be worse. But the general takeaways a
Speaker 1: continuation here of the first takeaway. Your two games this
Speaker 1: season against what I would consider to be the class
Speaker 1: of the league. I think Tampa Bay is the best
Speaker 1: team in the NFC, and I think Buffalo is the
Speaker 1: best team in the a f C. And of course
Speaker 1: you didn't have your quarterback for all but two possessions
Speaker 1: of that to contest, you know, continuation of those two games,
Speaker 1: the aggregate of those two games, and you lost those
Speaker 1: games by a combined I mean, that's just that's a
Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow. Oh and you know, four forty
Speaker 1: two yards per game to two forty five yards per game.
Speaker 1: We saw some not great body language in that second half.
Speaker 1: We saw Jalen Waddle drop a pass that led to
Speaker 1: a pick. Joe Kobe Brissette had some more mrs after
Speaker 1: what was a very strong start for him in this game.
Speaker 1: Talk about the secondary having their struggles. Nick Needham fell
Speaker 1: down on a route and didn't see the ball going
Speaker 1: right behind him and kind of jogged after the play.
Speaker 1: That's after exhabing Howard got beat in the slot where
Speaker 1: the Bucks were able to dictate their matchup by moving
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown who X was traveling on across the formation
Speaker 1: and create favorable matchups for themselves, and that just hasn't
Speaker 1: happening on the other side of the ball. Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: having you know, not his best game in coverage against
Speaker 1: Geo Bernard or out wide on some stretch runs in
Speaker 1: the areas of the game where speed and reactiveness and
Speaker 1: and quickness, the hallmarks to his game. It's not there
Speaker 1: for him right now either. So I just look at
Speaker 1: so many things, like Brian Flora has mentioned, out of seeing,
Speaker 1: out of sorts, It's just so many things that are
Speaker 1: contributing to this this effort that's just not good enough
Speaker 1: right now. And it's why you you fall behind five
Speaker 1: hundred fifty eight yards to three hundred one yards in
Speaker 1: the offense. That's why your third downs or eight for
Speaker 1: eleven for Tampa Bay two for seven from Miami. It's
Speaker 1: why your time of possessions thirty seven oh seven to three.
Speaker 1: That's why your offense has three hundred ten yards, two
Speaker 1: hundred three yards two three hundred and thirty yards two
Speaker 1: dred and sixteen yards two hundred and fifty nine yards.
Speaker 1: How do they pull us together? That's the question, and
Speaker 1: that takeaway takes us into our third takeaway. And Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissett alluded to this in his postgame press conference that
Speaker 1: he believes that they are building offensively, and Brian Flores
Speaker 1: mentioned in his press conference as well. I won't play
Speaker 1: the audio for you, guys, but they both said they're showing,
Speaker 1: you know, some progress in terms of building offensively, I
Speaker 1: thought we all we all can agree. We saw that. Shoot,
Speaker 1: this was the second highest yard and output for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins this season, and the majority of that came early
Speaker 1: in the game when they were competitive, including an eight
Speaker 1: seven yard drive to pull within one score and you
Speaker 1: get a third and tent from the defense to possibly
Speaker 1: get a stop and get the ball back and get
Speaker 1: the ball back to your offense. That would have been
Speaker 1: fun to see how the offense responded and build momentum.
Speaker 1: But again, complimentary football is just not there with the
Speaker 1: third takeaway as signs of life for the offense, but
Speaker 1: they and the entire team need a complementary effort because
Speaker 1: it just has not happened one single time this year
Speaker 1: hasn't happened one time. But back to the signs of
Speaker 1: life offensive line shuffle. I thought Austin Jackson and I
Speaker 1: talked about this. I thought he had traits that could
Speaker 1: excel at the left guard position. There were certain traits
Speaker 1: that you might worry about, and one of those is
Speaker 1: the sand in the pants, especially against a pass rusher
Speaker 1: like a Vita Vea. But Vita Vea didn't wreck this game.
Speaker 1: I thought Austin Jackson played well in the area. In
Speaker 1: that area also saw him put some bodies on the
Speaker 1: ground and Leam Eichenberg I thought was better at left
Speaker 1: tackle and just the offensive line in general. I agree
Speaker 1: with Brian Flores's assessment. Initially I thought it was okay,
Speaker 1: but I have to go back and look at the
Speaker 1: tape to get a better idea of it. But if
Speaker 1: that offensive line can continue to build off of that,
Speaker 1: and this is maybe you know, if they get better
Speaker 1: every week, If this is the worst we see them,
Speaker 1: that could be a good sign of life going forward.
Speaker 1: How about the I mean just real quick to finish
Speaker 1: that point. The Bucks got after them in the second half,
Speaker 1: And that's where the complimentary component comes into this, right,
Speaker 1: because these units have to help each other out because
Speaker 1: one side is just carrying way too much of the
Speaker 1: load all season long. Because the Bucks can now pin
Speaker 1: their ears back and rush the passer and play against
Speaker 1: a one dimensional offense, which their run defense kind of
Speaker 1: does that for them. But if you can stay more
Speaker 1: you know, balanced, and not have to be so aggressive
Speaker 1: when the scoreboards more in your favor, then the offense
Speaker 1: can get to their full compliment that way and just
Speaker 1: be more creative and more flexible, and the Dolphins just
Speaker 1: have killed themselves this year with not being able to
Speaker 1: stay complimentary, whether it's the offense not helping the defense
Speaker 1: vice versa, and how special teams makes into that all
Speaker 1: those things are not coming together. But back to the
Speaker 1: things I liked. I liked early on some of the
Speaker 1: play calls and really the course of the game for
Speaker 1: the sequencing of the offense. They ran the Bucks out
Speaker 1: of some zones and took some of the short stuff
Speaker 1: to get themselves into manageable situations to create shot plays,
Speaker 1: to stay on schedule, to give yourself the opportunity to
Speaker 1: get those shot plays. I like the way they involved
Speaker 1: the backs in the passing game. Myles Gaskin had a
Speaker 1: game high for Miami here ten targets and it was
Speaker 1: the most catches ever by a Dolphins running back because
Speaker 1: he caught a ton of them for seventy four yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. So good on them for a team
Speaker 1: that loves to blitz so aggressively and come after the
Speaker 1: quarterback and really at times, you know, blitz the running
Speaker 1: back in a way that forces him to stay in
Speaker 1: pass protection for Miami to go after that. You know,
Speaker 1: there's always a vulnerability when you commit guys in the blitz.
Speaker 1: That was the vulnerability. And they found Miles Gaskins successfully
Speaker 1: throughout the course of this game, especially on that second
Speaker 1: touchdown pass against that Bucks blitz where they just sent
Speaker 1: him to where the blitzer is vacated. Took advantage of
Speaker 1: that vacated space and he has choose taking the blitz
Speaker 1: pick up and gets out into the route and the
Speaker 1: ball almost missed him short, but he catches it gets
Speaker 1: into the end zone. I liked that with a sequence
Speaker 1: of the other Gaskin touchdown pass, the wheel route that
Speaker 1: goes based upon what we talked about earlier with chasing
Speaker 1: the Bucks out of some of that zone coverage, and
Speaker 1: you see Richard Sherman's gonna play that zone turn get
Speaker 1: his butt to the sideline, and I the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: play it the entire way. You take enough underneath stuff
Speaker 1: and maybe you push him off with a takeoff route
Speaker 1: or a post route or a corner route, and then
Speaker 1: you run the running back wheel route in behind that,
Speaker 1: and if that linebacker jumps the flat route, then you
Speaker 1: have a wide open pass down the field. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened with Miles Gaskin. On that big touchdown
Speaker 1: in the vacated zones. So I thought that was a
Speaker 1: good design and some good sequencing there. And then finally
Speaker 1: just the fact that we saw guys catching the ball
Speaker 1: on the move on the miles gas can touchdown, run
Speaker 1: some of the crossing routes to these guys that made
Speaker 1: big plays after the catch. We saw a Wattle do
Speaker 1: it once again in this game. We saw a Wattle
Speaker 1: drop a pass interference call because what does he do.
Speaker 1: He creates conflict for the defense, and conflict can create panic,
Speaker 1: and panic can create grabbing and we saw plenty of that,
Speaker 1: especially on a third and one play later in the
Speaker 1: game where you get the defense into an aggressive look
Speaker 1: that wants to come after your offense on that third
Speaker 1: and short because they want to sell out and stop
Speaker 1: the run, right, They want to sell out and stop
Speaker 1: the possible under route or the flat route or the
Speaker 1: quick hook up or the stuff that they think you're
Speaker 1: gonna run to just move the chains. That sometimes creates
Speaker 1: an opportunity for your best shot plays in the entire
Speaker 1: game because their vote r bole in that area, because
Speaker 1: they don't believe you're gonna accept the risk that goes
Speaker 1: with going deep down the field. That could put you
Speaker 1: in a fourth down situation if you don't execute, but
Speaker 1: that can oftentimes be the best opportunity to get some
Speaker 1: big plays. In Miami throws a third and one pass
Speaker 1: into the end zone from the seventeen yard line past interference.
Speaker 1: A couple of plays later, you're in the end zone
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. So I like that look there, And
Speaker 1: I also found it interesting to finish this point here
Speaker 1: in the third takeaway when Jacoby was asked postgame about
Speaker 1: the UH comment mentioned on the CBS broadcast from Tony
Speaker 1: Romo about how he said they streamlined the play calling
Speaker 1: this week with George Godzi relaying the play into Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette's helmet, which would of course bypassed Charlie Fry, who
Speaker 1: used to get the call and then take it into
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And Brissette confirmed that and said that it
Speaker 1: was because they were hoping or wanted to get some
Speaker 1: more priest snap motion, which took some more time and
Speaker 1: gave them less time to make that relaying communication. So
Speaker 1: the positives of that, to me, motion is great because
Speaker 1: it gives you pre snap indicators. It gives you a
Speaker 1: brochure of what the de fence might be doing, or
Speaker 1: how they might adjust to your movement. It gives you
Speaker 1: an opportunity to see how they react, whether a certain
Speaker 1: guys blitzing, whether a safety rolls to show you the
Speaker 1: coverage or he caps a defensive back to show that
Speaker 1: defensive back is gonna come on the blitz. And it
Speaker 1: creates more chances for BUS because the more motion can
Speaker 1: create more communication to pass off. Okay, you're going with
Speaker 1: him over there, I got this guy. We're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna take first man to the point you're taking the
Speaker 1: inside man like we're gonna go. We're gonna Banjoe this thing.
Speaker 1: Whatever the case may be, they have to communicate motion,
Speaker 1: so creates more chances for BUS. Now the con I
Speaker 1: like the fact that Charlie Fry can take things that
Speaker 1: he sees or perceives and gives it to the quarterback
Speaker 1: there at the last minute before the play call. That's
Speaker 1: certainly a pro And both items do have their pros
Speaker 1: to them. I'll be curious see if Miami goes back
Speaker 1: to that way or continues it this way, or if
Speaker 1: it's a combination of the two based upon their opponent.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was very interesting and the more
Speaker 1: motion we saw, I thought the Dolphins best offensive production
Speaker 1: this season is at a direct correlation. Probably not, but
Speaker 1: there's probably something there as well. Our next takeaway and
Speaker 1: these are gonna be quick here. Number four the punting game, Like,
Speaker 1: what the hell was that eight and a half yards
Speaker 1: average punt? That's lower than some teams gross average. Right now,
Speaker 1: I mean small potatoes in a game and a season
Speaker 1: that's been full of despair so far, but that's on
Speaker 1: my radar. Those punts were going straight up in the
Speaker 1: air and not covering much distance, and special teams just
Speaker 1: was a calling card. And right now it hasn't been.
Speaker 1: Number five, And I know you don't want to hear this,
Speaker 1: but there is still time left in this season, and
Speaker 1: nothing has changed that was out there before this game.
Speaker 1: This was always gonna be a tough team to be
Speaker 1: on the road in their house. But now you're in
Speaker 1: the position that you're in, it's time to figure out
Speaker 1: how to crawl the hell out of this thing. Because Jags, Falcons, Bills, Texans, Ravens, Jets, Panthers, Giants, Saints, Titans, Patriots,
Speaker 1: that's what's ahead of you before another long off season,
Speaker 1: which we all despise as football fans, right, I want
Speaker 1: football here all the time, even when the Dolphins aren't
Speaker 1: playing well. I love this time of year way more
Speaker 1: than any other time of year because you basically have
Speaker 1: entertainment every single night. It's the best. And it starts
Speaker 1: next week for the Miami Dolphins in London against the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. Get that, damn win man, get that, am win.
Speaker 1: And I only noted two individuals here in the individual
Speaker 1: portion of the podcast, and we'll get to more of
Speaker 1: that in the All twenty two podcast tomorrow for you guys.
Speaker 1: But I just put down Miles Gaskin and Mike get Sicky,
Speaker 1: and also Jacoby Brissette. But Gaskin for the way he
Speaker 1: caught the ball and ran with it afterwards. I continue
Speaker 1: to believe that's his best trade almost that James White,
Speaker 1: Mold and Mike get Sicky just finding ways to create
Speaker 1: space off leverage and catching passes and generating mismatches. He
Speaker 1: caught a third down pass against Joe try on Shioika.
Speaker 1: The defensive event out of you, dub that's having a
Speaker 1: fantastic year. Defense event slash outside linebacker if you find
Speaker 1: him in coverage on Mike Gasicky. That's a matchup you
Speaker 1: like nothing against Joe because I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a possible deep defensive rookie of the year, but that's
Speaker 1: just not a good matchup for him. And I like
Speaker 1: the way that Gaskin, or rather Mike Asicki was able
Speaker 1: to approach that. And then Jacoby had some good moments
Speaker 1: as well in this game. I would like to see
Speaker 1: him hit the past to waddle, even though it was
Speaker 1: a pick play called on Mike. I just you gotta
Speaker 1: hit those types of throws. And good on him for
Speaker 1: fighting through the hamstring. That was a real, real veteran,
Speaker 1: real you know, professional move there from Jacoby to fight
Speaker 1: through a hamstring injury and be out there for his teammates.
Speaker 1: All Right, I loved our first two postgame show segments today,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go ahead and play those for you
Speaker 1: guys on the other side. A reminder tomorrow's podcast All Review.
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Speaker 1: Fens up you want tough Dolph fans and welcome to
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins fIF for the show here on the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins Radio Network. I am Travis Wingfield. I am
Speaker 1: joined by Seth Levitt and o J. McDuffie, and it's
Speaker 1: four straight losses now for your Miami Dolphins and juice
Speaker 1: that season opening wins. Shure, it feels like a decade ago,
Speaker 1: doesn't it worth a decade ago, wasn't it. I mean
Speaker 1: it seemed like, uh mean, you had a good feeling, man,
Speaker 1: coming off of that one with a win, no matter
Speaker 1: how ugly it was, you know. But at the same time, though, man,
Speaker 1: you it was it was a long time ago. And
Speaker 1: then when you know, when you start compiling losses, you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's even further away. Man. So I'll
Speaker 1: just you know, another tough one today, man, another tough
Speaker 1: one as we experienced last week in the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, as Dolphins and as you know, as were
Speaker 1: coming studio to try to do a show. Um, but
Speaker 1: you know that that that one win was it this year?
Speaker 1: It wasn't this year. I'm not even sure it was
Speaker 1: about a month ago. As we move into mid October
Speaker 1: here in the Dolphins will head to London next week
Speaker 1: at one and four to face the Jacksonville Jaguars. And
Speaker 1: I know last week Stathew joked a little bit about
Speaker 1: maybe turning the pay We talked about London already. We
Speaker 1: have to wait for where you come on, je What
Speaker 1: do you think when I'm on London already? Man? Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on. You were not happy about me doing that.
Speaker 1: I had Joe Rose and j T told me they
Speaker 1: were going to call into the show last week because
Speaker 1: I was ready to move on, and now you're you're
Speaker 1: ready to turn You know, if I talk about this game, seth,
Speaker 1: I think I was this close as you can, you know,
Speaker 1: to get fired last week and I started talking about
Speaker 1: this game like I started talking about will not be
Speaker 1: walking in the studio this time? Man? Yeah he's still
Speaker 1: on Tampa. Yeah goodness, But yeah, man, you know we
Speaker 1: have to talk about this obviously. Man. But I don't
Speaker 1: know where to even start. Travis, I'm glad you're driving
Speaker 1: this show because you know the I know where I
Speaker 1: will start, the bad start, the bad game that mean
Speaker 1: great starting. And the rest of this game was just
Speaker 1: so frustrating, man, you know, And as a fan, I
Speaker 1: sat here and look, I have zero notes, had really
Speaker 1: nothing really right now, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: just I was trying to watch and absorb and listen.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you, man, it each week is
Speaker 1: getting more and more frustrating. It does take a toll
Speaker 1: on you at some point, just as as radio host
Speaker 1: and as fans of this team and people that care
Speaker 1: about this team. And I'll come back to you, Juice
Speaker 1: here a little bit talk about how that might be
Speaker 1: for the players in terms of you know, they talked
Speaker 1: about on the on the post game show there a
Speaker 1: little bit right afterwards there with with JT and the boys,
Speaker 1: just about the conference of the team after four straight
Speaker 1: losses and where you go from here. But I'll get
Speaker 1: to that second, because Seth, you had a point. I
Speaker 1: want to go to you here real quick, my man, Well,
Speaker 1: what I'm most disappointed by? And that was the word
Speaker 1: they used, right, Joe, Jimmy and JT. They talked. They
Speaker 1: talked about being disappointed because I think the expectations were
Speaker 1: a lot higher for this team. We knew it was
Speaker 1: a tough schedule to start. I don't think one in
Speaker 1: four or is what anybody expected. Certainly what isn't what
Speaker 1: anybody wanted. But the defense fellas the defense is what
Speaker 1: that that's our money maker was supposed to be. We
Speaker 1: just talked about this. If you look at the last
Speaker 1: four games, let's talk about the losing street. Four straight losses.
Speaker 1: They're giving up thirty four point five points a game.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. You can't if your offense is fired, you're
Speaker 1: gonna struggle. Given up thirty four and a half points
Speaker 1: a game, How in the world are you gonna survive
Speaker 1: with this offense, with the with an offensive line that
Speaker 1: had been struggling, which I did think stepped up their
Speaker 1: game today. And we'll talk about that with the number
Speaker 1: two quarterback. Regardless of what Jacoby wants to say. Who again,
Speaker 1: valiant effort by Jacoby fought through injury. I thought he
Speaker 1: kept fighting to the bitter end there. But how in
Speaker 1: the world can you give up thirty four and a
Speaker 1: half points per game. I don't care who's on the
Speaker 1: other side, right And I'll tell you what you look at,
Speaker 1: saith is you know the amazziness. You know, we're up
Speaker 1: ten to seven in the first then we give up
Speaker 1: seventeen unanswered in the second quarter. We have been a
Speaker 1: what do you do to fix that? That's a that's
Speaker 1: a question, man, because you know, usually it's a halftime
Speaker 1: adjustment that you make. But look at these great teams.
Speaker 1: When you got a great team with Tom Brady Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians Byron Leftwich. You know, they see what we're doing
Speaker 1: in that first quarter, you know, and make you know
Speaker 1: their adjustments, but we don't seem to be doing the
Speaker 1: same thing. And it's it's pretty it's pretty sad considering
Speaker 1: the offense played pretty well in that first quarter and
Speaker 1: then the defense we're out there, you know, and just
Speaker 1: continue to lay an egg um dropping, giving up forty
Speaker 1: five points in this in this league over almost five
Speaker 1: sixty yards total offense. Son heard of that supposed to
Speaker 1: happen so heard of in this league? Do you I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spending spend a positive here, but do
Speaker 1: you give them any credit for starting games that fast?
Speaker 1: What happens? What changes in the first part the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the game, when Miami comes out like a
Speaker 1: house on fire and goes up four teens up on
Speaker 1: the Raiders comes out here and gets on top of
Speaker 1: the defending world champion Buccaneers, and you know earlier in
Speaker 1: the season as well, and now you come around the
Speaker 1: second quarter and things just start to avalanche. Is it
Speaker 1: is a good coaching early on with bad adjustments? Is
Speaker 1: what's what plays into that juice? Well, you know, most
Speaker 1: teams don't know what you're gonna come with at the beginning,
Speaker 1: which is normal, and so you might get some Each
Speaker 1: team probably scored in the first drive or at least,
Speaker 1: you know, within the first couple of drives, because then
Speaker 1: you know, great teams make adjustments. All right, here's what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Now, Now we just make the adjustment. They're
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball to water, trying to run miles,
Speaker 1: whatever we're trying to do. And so both teams should
Speaker 1: have that. But we look at a team, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: let's look at Tampa and break them down. And when
Speaker 1: you look at a team that has that many weapons,
Speaker 1: that many playmakers, how do you game plan that? Who
Speaker 1: do you take away? I heard in the pregame show,
Speaker 1: heard uh Dono and Um Channing talking about it. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got two great cover corners. But by the way,
Speaker 1: one of them did not did not have the best
Speaker 1: game today, Neither one of them. Then, really, I mean,
Speaker 1: all the all the receivers had a had a hell
Speaker 1: of a day, seemed like. But when you got you know,
Speaker 1: when you got Antonio Brown and Mike Evans and Chris
Speaker 1: God went out there, pick your poison on who you're
Speaker 1: gonna try to take away you know, I think we're
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think we're in manage first, and
Speaker 1: then I think towards the we even tried zone that.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't play Tim Brady with those guys
Speaker 1: in zone no, you know, no grounk today. And they
Speaker 1: didn't they didn't care that. I don't think they even
Speaker 1: targeted the tight end. The whole game with the hour
Speaker 1: had a couple maybe, you know. So it just tells
Speaker 1: you for Net was a grown man, you know, dragging
Speaker 1: us down. So there's a lot of things that you
Speaker 1: know when you look at that Tampa offense. I mean
Speaker 1: they're back in stride like they were, you know when
Speaker 1: they went on that run towards the end of last year.
Speaker 1: I would just like to see us And you said
Speaker 1: it best and you're talking about with j T. Now
Speaker 1: we're talking about step. You said it in the middle
Speaker 1: of I think the third quarter. Maybe the body language
Speaker 1: is just awful. They were defeated way early, you know,
Speaker 1: and that that's that's tough when you got your leaders
Speaker 1: being that way. But on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: there's there's not a hull lot to take away from
Speaker 1: this that you look at positively going forward until next week,
Speaker 1: and I guess the idea that too could be back
Speaker 1: in return for that game. But there's a whole other
Speaker 1: myriad of issues that has to get ironed out by
Speaker 1: that point because O J. You talked about the fact
Speaker 1: that pick your poison with these receivers, But isn't that
Speaker 1: almost an indictment of the entire program because all your
Speaker 1: money and your draft picks, at least the majority of
Speaker 1: them have gone into that defensive secondary. So if you
Speaker 1: want to build a defense and a team for the
Speaker 1: modern era of the National Football League, that has to
Speaker 1: slow down these thirty point per game juggernauts like a
Speaker 1: Kansas City or a Buffalo or a Tampa Bay. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to compete with those kind of guys if
Speaker 1: you want to get to where you ultimately want to go.
Speaker 1: And what more can you do besides extending your all
Speaker 1: pro cornerback, giving a big free agent contract to Byron
Speaker 1: Jones who was all pro level his first five years
Speaker 1: in Dallas, spending two draft picks on safeties and Javon
Speaker 1: halland and Brandon Jones. I mean, the list goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on. First round draft pick on no
Speaker 1: egonogamy and you drop this out there against Buffalo and
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay this year, which I think to me is
Speaker 1: the class of the Dolphins schedule this year and really
Speaker 1: the class with both those squads. You're talking about an
Speaker 1: eighty to seventeen point eight to seventeen deficit for Miami.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're nowhere close to these top level teams,
Speaker 1: and I just it makes me question, where do you
Speaker 1: go from here? Because where's the upside? Where's the tournament? Right?
Speaker 1: You know, and that's all you messu you you really start,
Speaker 1: you mess yourself first of all, first against Buffalo with
Speaker 1: within your within your division, you know, that's what you
Speaker 1: usually draft against. You know, you go get the dvs.
Speaker 1: You need to have a nice running attack, I mean
Speaker 1: past attack, you know, guys up front to stop to run,
Speaker 1: guys that can actually spy, a guy like Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you figure out, you know, how
Speaker 1: to beat the Tampa Bays later. But the way we
Speaker 1: match up, which we don't very well, it seems like
Speaker 1: what people is, it's it's it's frustrating. So going from here,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys, you know, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. It's weird when the team's not
Speaker 1: playing well. Some guys look at in the mirrors. I
Speaker 1: played well today and other guys will not. I think,
Speaker 1: once again, like we talked about last week, everybody's look
Speaker 1: in the mirror and said we didn't. None of us
Speaker 1: play well again. Even Miles Gaskin, who's gonna be out
Speaker 1: there working hard again, had a heck of a game,
Speaker 1: you know, and he might he could probably sit there
Speaker 1: and toot his own horn a little bit. But as
Speaker 1: a team, as a whole, you know, there's there was
Speaker 1: nothing impressive again today, you know, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's almost like groundholl Day from last week.
Speaker 1: Definitely for the Buffalo game, it certainly was. And it's
Speaker 1: I mean not for lack of try and we just
Speaker 1: see an offensive line shake up. I thought early on Juice,
Speaker 1: there was something to the fact that we talked about
Speaker 1: this last couple of weeks, right, we wanted to see
Speaker 1: more vertical outs out of the offense in terms of
Speaker 1: getting guys running upfield around crossing routes supposed to always
Speaker 1: coming back to the quarterback, and that was how the
Speaker 1: offense was successful there early on the Wheel route to
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon. I thought was a brilliant call to get
Speaker 1: a big touchdown there and one of two touchdown passes
Speaker 1: to Miles Gascon. But just other than that seth, I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked about the offensive line shake up. I guess
Speaker 1: it got a little bit better and the offense had
Speaker 1: more success, and I want to say it got a
Speaker 1: lot better. I really am gonna say that. And I
Speaker 1: know that maybe it's not reflected in seventeen points or
Speaker 1: what have you, but for the last two weeks, I
Speaker 1: did not think they lined up and looked like an
Speaker 1: NFL football team on that offensive front. Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know how Jacobe said made made it through the
Speaker 1: three weeks that he did unscathed, and really, you know,
Speaker 1: just to pulled hamstring. You can think about what happened today.
Speaker 1: Those guys got up there and they held their own
Speaker 1: against all I heard. I listened to Drive Time, I
Speaker 1: listened to every other mediu member down here. All you
Speaker 1: heard about was how the Bucks had one of the
Speaker 1: best front seven's in the entire National Football League and
Speaker 1: that they were beat up in the secondary. The offensive
Speaker 1: line held up. Okay, they there there was some pressure
Speaker 1: they gave up a few sacks. Really interesting that you
Speaker 1: flip flop Bikenberg and Jackson and they look like different players. Yes,
Speaker 1: there were some missus. It's gonna be real easy for
Speaker 1: the guys on Twitter to go ahead and throw up
Speaker 1: the one you know somebody with. That's gonna happen when
Speaker 1: you're playing guys who are really good football players. But
Speaker 1: I think overall, they did enough to give this offensive
Speaker 1: opportunity to be effective, and we saw that early on.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened later in the game. Maybe
Speaker 1: the hamstrings started catching up to him. Drew some of
Speaker 1: those throws were getting more and more off target, and
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that we all talked about, we thought
Speaker 1: we were gonna see more of it today, although DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker being down very disappointing does not help at all.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to get into that yet. But
Speaker 1: with the guys that were there, I just didn't see
Speaker 1: them go down the field enough, and when they did,
Speaker 1: they didn't seem to hit him. Yes, there were more
Speaker 1: explosive plays, Yes we had some ten fifty yarders, but
Speaker 1: when you see a team throwing yard passes over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, I'm not saying we have Tom
Speaker 1: Brady back there, but you've got to take more shots
Speaker 1: down the field, don't you. You talk about the well,
Speaker 1: let's come back and talk about that here in just
Speaker 1: a second. Because you talk about the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 1: having kind of a a worst second part of the game.
Speaker 1: You wonder how much of that comes into you know,
Speaker 1: the defense pinning their ears back when they get that
Speaker 1: big lead, because you can't be one dimensional. It gets
Speaker 1: a defense like that, and Brian Flores talks about playing
Speaker 1: complinary football all the time. Defense has to help the
Speaker 1: offense out. Offense hasn't been helping the defense out today.
Speaker 1: They flipped that script. So just cannot find a way
Speaker 1: to get all three phases going at the same time.
Speaker 1: Forty five seven teams, you're five and now back with
Speaker 1: you guys again. We move on to segment number two,
Speaker 1: and so we kind of come off the end of
Speaker 1: that first segment. They're talking about this the conclusion of
Speaker 1: this game and the defense, and I think it's worth
Speaker 1: kind of going back in on that side of the
Speaker 1: football because there was so much that popped up in
Speaker 1: this game and that has really kind of become a trend.
Speaker 1: At this point. We can talk about the class of
Speaker 1: the National Football League and Tampa Bay Buccaneers all we want,
Speaker 1: but over the last four we weeks, it's just not
Speaker 1: been good enough in that area, or really any area
Speaker 1: for that matter. But over the last over this this season,
Speaker 1: Dolphins are pushing up to thirty five points allowed per game,
Speaker 1: and if you include the sixteenth game of the season
Speaker 1: last year. You know, Seth kind of mentioned it in
Speaker 1: the last segment, how they were at that number thirty
Speaker 1: five points this year, but going into the last game
Speaker 1: of the season last year, they were at eighteen point
Speaker 1: three points per game allowed, so almost double the points allowed.
Speaker 1: When you include the Buffalo game last season and the
Speaker 1: first five games of this season, the defense has just
Speaker 1: come apart at the seams. And I kind of want
Speaker 1: to ask you, o J what happened there, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got so many notes here just talking about You've
Speaker 1: got veterans that and I know one game is is
Speaker 1: maybe too much to go over your knee jerk reaction
Speaker 1: on this stuff. But a really rough game for Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: a really difficult game for Xavian Howard. Eric Rose had
Speaker 1: a couple of rough games in a row. These are
Speaker 1: guys that were big time playmakers a year ago that
Speaker 1: you counted on and you knew what you were going
Speaker 1: to get out of them. When those guys start to regress,
Speaker 1: like how do you overcome that? Yeah, that's a tough deal.
Speaker 1: And you know when it's what's crazy is how when
Speaker 1: the young guys see your veterans, you know, not having
Speaker 1: much success, it kind of trickles down a little bit. Man.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, damn, you know, we're in for one
Speaker 1: to day. You know what I mean. It's not what
Speaker 1: they're saying, but that's you know, I saw kind of
Speaker 1: you know, translate what they're what they're thinking about. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys are the ones, especially to that you expect
Speaker 1: not only to go out there and play well, but
Speaker 1: to prepare the best. You know. The veteran guys are
Speaker 1: the ones that look at more film a lot of times.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that you know, anticipate things happening before
Speaker 1: they happen, and then you expected to go out there
Speaker 1: and make plays when they're not making plays. When I
Speaker 1: see him hesitant time, I saw Big hesitated a few times,
Speaker 1: which is unlike him. You know, I'm listening a little
Speaker 1: bit on the radio. Well, Channing, and he talked about
Speaker 1: how prepared guy like Zack Thomas was all the time.
Speaker 1: I never really saw Zack hesitate because he knew exactly
Speaker 1: what was gonna happen all the time, so he wondered
Speaker 1: a lot of times with preparation. You know, whether guys
Speaker 1: are getting surprised by certain plays or certain things, certain
Speaker 1: things happening. But for our veteran guys, that's shocking. That's
Speaker 1: really shocking for me to see our veteran guys go
Speaker 1: out there and get beat our you know, our our
Speaker 1: top paid corners getting beat regularly today, you know, big
Speaker 1: in one on one of the linebackers. I mean with
Speaker 1: the running backs getting beat, you know, I mean that
Speaker 1: was that was that was tough to watch. So I
Speaker 1: don't know how you how you get back to the
Speaker 1: basics hopefully, you know. I was joking about, you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier in the week, whether these guys
Speaker 1: are flying to Tampa or busting up there. I made
Speaker 1: a joke coming in and said they should walk back
Speaker 1: and you know, and maybe watch film the whole way back,
Speaker 1: you know, and let's see if that will help him
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I'm gonna tell you man, it
Speaker 1: has to start with our veteran group or somebody. Have
Speaker 1: we heard of any not nothing. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to bring anything out of building, Travis. Has there been
Speaker 1: any player only meetings and the players actually gotten up
Speaker 1: there and said anything or talk to these guys or
Speaker 1: because honestly, if it's if it's not in within coaching,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be within the players. But sometimes it seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of both, because don't you feel like
Speaker 1: there's enough talent on this team, at least from an
Speaker 1: outside perspective that you should be able to get at
Speaker 1: least as semblance of the production you had a season ago.
Speaker 1: And we thought we had that in the first game
Speaker 1: over the Patriots with the seventeen sixteen. To be aware,
Speaker 1: in New England, sure they ate up from yardage there,
Speaker 1: but Miami is going to clamp down and and get
Speaker 1: off the field in the red zone in those key areas.
Speaker 1: But you just feel like that's kind of the strength
Speaker 1: of the football team. And that's kind of where Brian
Speaker 1: Floor started building this thing. And I just kind of
Speaker 1: keep coming back to the question, Seth, like where do
Speaker 1: you go from here? Because I think you gave me
Speaker 1: the number was it was it four hundred forty two
Speaker 1: yards allowed per game was over the four game losing streak.
Speaker 1: That's since day one, okay that that's since the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. The thirty four and a half points
Speaker 1: was within the losing streak. But you can't give up
Speaker 1: four hundred yards a game and expect to win, and
Speaker 1: especially not again you're you know what are you scoring?
Speaker 1: This is not a team that has this this firepower
Speaker 1: on offense, and this is this is a team that's
Speaker 1: built from the defense first. And it's problematic. You know again,
Speaker 1: thirty four and a half points per game, four hundred plus,
Speaker 1: I didn't even look at what it what it was.
Speaker 1: We can do the mathew really quickly. But the amount
Speaker 1: of yards that they're giving up, juice. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Early on I even heard it on Drivetime with you
Speaker 1: and John con Jemmy Travis, where you said, is this
Speaker 1: a situation where the offense is not getting you know,
Speaker 1: not converting third downs, having too many three and ounces,
Speaker 1: the defense on the field too much. The defense was
Speaker 1: on the field too much today because the defense couldn't
Speaker 1: stop anybody eight for eleven on third downs. Juice a
Speaker 1: lot of points and you know that this cannot be
Speaker 1: blamed on you gotta score more than seventeen points against
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I get that, but this cannot be blamed
Speaker 1: The defensive performance cannot be blamed on the offense. Today
Speaker 1: those guys did not step up. I am a huge
Speaker 1: Xavien Howard fan, and he has been, you know, elite
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this season. But today that was
Speaker 1: not what we're used to seeing from Xavian Howard. Granted,
Speaker 1: the guy he was playing against is pretty good, Juice,
Speaker 1: you said it was kind of interesting that he was
Speaker 1: on a b the entire game, but you just need more.
Speaker 1: I know that Byron Jones was was banged up this week, right,
Speaker 1: and there was a question as to whether or not
Speaker 1: he would even go. But man, you you just can't.
Speaker 1: You can't get up there and let forty five get
Speaker 1: hung on you. Juice. I want to. I want to
Speaker 1: kind of fall up on that point. The heath next
Speaker 1: about Xaviing Howard on Antonio Brown because last year I
Speaker 1: actually had a chance to ask Byron Jones at the
Speaker 1: press conference. You know, in terms of matching up with
Speaker 1: certain guys, how do you feel your your trades match
Speaker 1: up with this guy or you know, so on and
Speaker 1: so forth, and he kind of like put me in
Speaker 1: my place in a way where he said, like, I
Speaker 1: play the right side, exploys the left side. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know about that until obviously he told me that.
Speaker 1: And that was you know, we talked about intent ontent
Speaker 1: all the time with Sam Madison and Pat Curtain and
Speaker 1: all those guys that were you know, did a good
Speaker 1: job back for those defense you know, decades ago. But um,
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard gets gets kicked inside. Go again, Xavian Howard
Speaker 1: gets kicked inside on the slot because he's traveling with
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, And I just I've never thought that was
Speaker 1: where X's strength fled. So when you're looking at matchups
Speaker 1: from receiver standpoint, you you've got a guy that you
Speaker 1: know is going to travel with you, do you start
Speaker 1: to say, Hey, here's where I can get him and
Speaker 1: and go after him that way even when it's an
Speaker 1: all proloct Xavian Howard, does a guy like that have
Speaker 1: weaknesses where you can attack it that way? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: just because you can play on the outside doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you can play in the slot lot as a whole
Speaker 1: different animal man. And you know, especially guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you got a guy with that quick quick twitch like
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. You need guys that have the same type
Speaker 1: of quick twitch. And you look, you notice about about
Speaker 1: x X can run with you. He can, he can,
Speaker 1: he can you know, he can put his hands on
Speaker 1: you when it comes to in short space where you
Speaker 1: got we have to work with some of these guys
Speaker 1: that are slot receivers. Man, It's it's like right now,
Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown doesn't get much faster and quicker and
Speaker 1: slot than that, you know, And so when you got
Speaker 1: the other guys on the outside with guy Win and Evans,
Speaker 1: and you got him in the slot and Brady loves him,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's a problem. So what I would
Speaker 1: have done, I'm gonna go there. What what they should
Speaker 1: have done? In my opinion, No, it was maybe use
Speaker 1: two guys, you know, on inside with with Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: and keep your your main guys that are used to
Speaker 1: playing on the edge outside. And there was a rap
Speaker 1: where they did that and the end zone, I think
Speaker 1: on the first field goal drive they allowed to I
Speaker 1: think when the Bucks made it ten ten, I believe
Speaker 1: at one point and they had halland kind of closed
Speaker 1: down on God win in the end zone on uh
Speaker 1: they capt him and from the slot, and I wonder
Speaker 1: if the Bucks that kind of goes on what we
Speaker 1: talked about the adjustments, right, Maybe the Bucks see that
Speaker 1: and they say, well, let's let's not mess with that anymore.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get their single man coverage. Because we know
Speaker 1: the X is traveling with Antonio Brown, Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and move him inside and take that double team outside.
Speaker 1: Is that something that happens, Yeah, I mean absolutely, and
Speaker 1: you know, and unfortunately, you know, it didn't look like
Speaker 1: anything was gonna work coverage wise. I think they were
Speaker 1: just running routes. It's like seven on seven. And you
Speaker 1: know what else traveling we don't talk a lot about
Speaker 1: is lack of pressure. You can't guard anybody as long
Speaker 1: as we have to and you don't get anything exactly right. Definitely,
Speaker 1: can't let him sit there and pat the rock man
Speaker 1: and let these guys just run whatever routes they want
Speaker 1: to run, you know, and expect our guys to be
Speaker 1: able to hang in there. And that that's a big
Speaker 1: problem and it's going to continue to be a big problem.
Speaker 1: I think we've got a couple of sacks today, But
Speaker 1: at the same time and a few hits. But you know,
Speaker 1: when it was important, when we really needed we couldn't
Speaker 1: get there, couldn't get off the field. You talk about
Speaker 1: the third down stats, and that's usually when you gotta
Speaker 1: have guys that you know, pinting their ears back and
Speaker 1: get to quarterback is getting their face making uncomfortable. Tom
Speaker 1: Braid was way too cold. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: his jersey, I mean, his uniform, his hands a little
Speaker 1: banged up he was at the end. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's right. Look at the drive chart. Here
Speaker 1: Phillas touchdown. This is Tampa Bay's drive chart. Touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 1: missfield goal, punt. There was one punt. Everybody want to
Speaker 1: know how Waddle was gonna return punts. There was one touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 1: end of game. You can't win that way. It wasn't
Speaker 1: even competitive. If you look at that and you don't
Speaker 1: let me take a step back. It was competitive for
Speaker 1: a minute there. You know, at the end of the
Speaker 1: second half, we were the Dolphins were down two scores
Speaker 1: and they're driving and there what I think they got
Speaker 1: to the thirty yard line with about a minute or
Speaker 1: forty five seconds left that when you got hot in here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, we started to feel like maybe that
Speaker 1: that that the team was moving, that that they were
Speaker 1: ready to play, that they did what you expected. That
Speaker 1: you right up. You step up when you're playing the
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champions and when you're I don't think
Speaker 1: your seasons on the line. I hate all that all
Speaker 1: the season's over. Well it's not mathematically over, but man,
Speaker 1: dropping on one and four is tough pill to swallow,
Speaker 1: and so you need to bring it from start to finish.
Speaker 1: And they were driving, had an opportunity to make it
Speaker 1: a one score game going into the half. The strip
Speaker 1: sack doesn't do you any favors, but but they still
Speaker 1: close it, I think, to a one score game at
Speaker 1: one point. But the defense never, never, never answered. There's
Speaker 1: been moments like that all season long. It feels like
Speaker 1: where you start to feel like they're crawling back into
Speaker 1: the game. Obviously, Las Vegas those couple of drives late,
Speaker 1: we still the three of us are still upset about
Speaker 1: the no call on Will Fuller in the end zone.
Speaker 1: You know that feels like even more it does, but
Speaker 1: two and three would feel a lot different than it
Speaker 1: would feel. Love there with QB one and possibly ready
Speaker 1: to come back off the injury reserve list as well.
Speaker 1: And you get ray Kuan Davis back today and maybe
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker's back next week. Who knows about that. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you have some some optimism and going into that
Speaker 1: game overseason to London, maybe they'll find their rhythm over there.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that happens. But just two quick points
Speaker 1: that you touched on their Seth, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about you talked about punt returns. Can we talk about
Speaker 1: punts for a second. Was it thirty eight and a
Speaker 1: half yard average on four punts? I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever seen that before. That's like a gross number, isn't
Speaker 1: it isn't that you're differential off the return usually thirty
Speaker 1: eight something yards. I mean, you gotta do better than
Speaker 1: that there. And then also, Seth, you talked about pass
Speaker 1: brush and we can come back and talk about this
Speaker 1: because we're almost out of time here on this segment.
Speaker 1: But just the court, the types of quarterbacks of Dolphins
Speaker 1: were not just beating last year, but making look like
Speaker 1: they didn't belong on the field. Were these quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: don't run particularly well? And I know Tom Brady's mobile
Speaker 1: within the pocket. But I mean even the defense back
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, it's not, you know, comparable to this season,
Speaker 1: but that defense had far less high draft picks and
Speaker 1: free agents and overall technical quote unquote talent, and they
Speaker 1: stomped out that Tom Brady led Patriots offense. I just,
Speaker 1: I've got so many questions about where to go from here,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna come back and get to more of those.
Speaker 1: Hopefully coach Flores has some answers for him here on
Speaker 1: the other side.