WEBVTT - 2022 Review: Quarterbacks 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.399 is Drive Time with Travis Whingfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:15.840 a looking glips alta wind olfan touchdop, clerk kill, unbelievable, 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.120 Just flu by for a second time to know where 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.800 he was going right away? A hit of that man, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.360 I want to help you soon up on his way. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.720 Wattle wattle to a shotgun, factor's thro all looking stups, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:36.160 up fires, totop, it's waddle, It's six touchdown pa. Drive 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:44.519 Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now check your pulse? What 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:49.280 is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.520 of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network covering your team, your 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.880 Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.440 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it is part four 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.280 of the season review series. We stopped by the quarterback 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.880 room and also the specialists and knock out the two 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.559 smallest rooms in one day. And also we're celebrating today 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.960 the top ten celebrations of the season who had a 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.080 better year than Miami in that category. Will also give 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.720 you championship round thoughts. All of that and more from 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.160 the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:34.880 This is and just like that, there was one one 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.840 football game remains, the Super Bowl. I get like super 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.160 down this time of year. Man like we only have 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.120 one football game left and then zero football games left. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.400 I always wind up kind of counting the minutes off 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.160 the clock in the Super Bowl, and I don't really 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.040 enjoy it as much as I probably should because we 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.600 don't get football for seven more months after that. So 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.640 I hope you enjoyed it. Let's go ahead and talk 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.040 about the Championship Round, but first we open with some 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:04.880 Miami Dolphins related news. On Sunday afternoon or Sunday morning, 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.440 the NFL Network reported that the Dolphins and Vic Fongio 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.320 NFL uh around the NFL fans will appreciate that reference 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.920 have agreed in principle on a deal to make him 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.359 the newest Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator. And I want to 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.080 give you my flashpoints and then give you a better 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.560 breakdown on Wednesday's show when I've had some time to 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.079 look deeper into Vic Fangio and the numbers will go 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.240 to Sports Info Solutions and Pro Football Focus and grind 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:34.840 some tape as well. I want to go back and 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.720 watch how they defended Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills, how they 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.840 defended Patrick Mahomes Kansasy Chiefs, how they defended Too a 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.800 Tongue by looa In and that game up in Denver. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.320 All that stuff I want to get to and when 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.160 we get an official for you, I'll give you the 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.640 deep dive on coach as well, which I prefer anyway, because, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.880 like I said, it gives me more time to give 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.200 you a thorough, credible analysis on what coach brings to 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.280 the table. Off the top though the flashpoints. We a 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.560 few things that he brings good defense, He coaches good 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.360 defense wherever he goes. He brings a lot of wisdom, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.120 a lot of knowledge, a lot of experience, a lot 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.400 of respect around the NFL. And there are several things 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.480 that get me excited about this higher. All of you 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.120 guys know that I was big on the Mike McDaniel 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.320 train last year. In fact, I wanted him to get 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.880 the O C job in when his names circulated around 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.760 that particular position. This was the guy that I was 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.960 hoping the dolphins would land. As many of you were 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.280 in that same boat, because why wouldn't you the proof 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.079 is in the pudding, just like it was with Mike McDaniel. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.760 This reminds me, and I'm sure you've heard this already. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.840 I've been talking about it to people that have you know, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.360 text with about the potential of Vic Fongio joining the 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.200 Dolphins staff reminds me of when Sean McVeigh got his 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.680 Wade Phillips. Like I'm in the head coach of the team, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.080 I specialize in offense, you go be the head coach 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.320 of the defense. That's what the contract those guys got 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.320 would signify that they basically run the defense. And it 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.280 gives you another head coach in the building, which is 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.840 never ever, ever a bad thing. What a perfect balance, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.520 by the way, that's kind of how Wade Phillips was. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.120 You've got the young, very very smart, kind of quirky, 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.360 upshot guy and the old, respected, grizzled vet who clearly 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.720 has a mutual respect between the two of them, which 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.000 is so vitally critically important. Uh, you wouldn't take that 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:18.960 job if you didn't. They share the same agent, so 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.320 I'm sure that was a big part of it. And 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.880 making him the highest paid defensive courtier like Dolphins got 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.320 their guy man um More on that just a second. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.359 The four man rush package. I'm sure you know about 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.560 his defense and kind of how he runs things. Four 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.000 man rush, no blitzing. It's like acent blitz defense, which 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.120 is a reduction of over fifty of what the Dolphins 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.080 have ran traditionally the last couple of years. And we 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.160 as we talked about on the podcast, the personnel kind 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.440 of shifted away from that style of defense. The Dolphins 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.400 did not shift away from that style of defense. You 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.000 have to imagine this goes in that direction, especially after 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.520 the Bradley Chubb trade, and how this team should should 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.480 be able to generate pressure with just four rushers. Again, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.120 we'll talk more about that on Wednesday, but man on 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.680 the fire about that. The three year deal is what 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.520 report on NFL Network, which gives you continuity which you 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.359 have never really gotten. I mean the Dolphins, We've always 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.080 talked about this, right, how one side of the ball 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.320 seems to get good and the other seems to set backwards. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.240 And what's a big reason for that? Because you're in 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.920 stable at the assistant positions, at the coordinator positions, you 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.560 can't develop the same system on either side of the football. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.240 Every coach the Dolphins have had has failed at surrounding 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.240 themselves with good assistant coaches, going back to like Tony Sperno, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.279 I mean Brian Flores didn't work out for him, didn't 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.520 work out for Adam Gays At bringing in a defensive 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.640 coordinator on the other side of the football, Joe Philbin 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.480 didn't do it. I mean Kevin Coyle was his first hire. Uh, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.440 Tony Sprawna was really the last one with um Mike 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.599 nolan In was actually the last time the Dolphins hired 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.080 a not first time defensive coordinator on that side of 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:49.520 the ball. Those are some of the best defenses we 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.279 had in those early two thousand tens. Uh. I already 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.040 know what the defense can do. I think this corrects 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.360 a lot of issues on the Dolphins defense in terms 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.360 of the personnel match and that the talent they have 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.560 in the scheme. I think the expectations should be a 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.840 lot higher for this Dolphins team. And I just think 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.800 the Dolphins ability to close on big time names is 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.280 different and attracting big time names Tyreek Hill to Ron Armstead, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.160 those guys both had to choose to come here. Now 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.000 Vic Fongio makes that same choice. I just I'm really 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.280 pumped up about the possibilities here and how the defense 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.919 will match it's personnel. Now, um, in terms of the zone, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.920 we talked about that a lot, right two high shells 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.120 zone defense. We'll see what the safety position looks like 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.080 going forwards to know Javon Holland probably has a big 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.800 role there. We'll talk more about players this benefits UH 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.520 with this new defensive shift on a future podcast. But man, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.040 it's there's a lot to be excited about here. But 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.760 those are your flashpoints. Man, it's a lot, a lot 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.359 of stuff to get to. I want to start at 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:44.720 the tape and come back to you. Guys can talk 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.279 about that. Before we do that. On Wednesday's podcast, Let's 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.840 talk about Championship weekend. What we learned from the a 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.840 f C, NFC championship games. One really good game, one 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.240 not so good game. Another quarterback injury takes the Niners 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.880 pretty much out of it all away across the boards, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.800 Eagles wiped them out for another blood victory for themselves 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.000 in the championship round. They've had that in the last 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.440 two times they went. And the Kansas City Chiefs knock 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.160 off the Cincinnati Bengals, which I was happy to see. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.120 The Bengals were talking too much and the Chiefs were 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.320 I like Mahomes a lot better than the the personnel 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.840 the Chiefs or the Bengals have, I should say, But 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.600 what we learned from Championship weekend pretty brief to me. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.520 We talked about the running game, control a lion scrimmage 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.280 in the divisional round weekend, which I think is still 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.000 very important this time of year. But what we noticed 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.720 in this round was that the stars make the plays 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.280 that make the difference. Davante Smith's catch on that fourth 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.440 down that wasn't actually catched, but I mean still hell 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.280 of an effort and looked really good. Christian McCaffrey's tackle 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.280 breaking running for the niners only touchdown and tie that 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.200 game after Brock Party had gone out. Hassan Reddick having 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.400 like forty five sacks and sixteen four fumbles and recovering 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.559 forty five of those. Uh Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.280 on that scrambled touchdown. Both Chase Higgins or Chase Higgins, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.240 Tee Higgins and Jamaar Chase making absurd individual efforts to 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.280 make big plays, one for a touchdown one on fourth 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.720 and sixth to keep the Bengals kind of in that game. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.920 And then obviously Chris Jones was getting pressure upfront constantly. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.160 I've always said the defense is as good as the 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.760 offense they play in the NFL, But man, that dynamic 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.280 changes when your front four is unstoppable, which kind of 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.760 goes back to the Vic Fongio stuff like get Chub, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.840 get Phillips, get og Ball, get Wilkins, get Seedler, coming downhill, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.400 rush the quarterback, put pressure on them, and if your 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.480 coverage schemes are confusing enough and complex enough to confuse 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.960 the quarterback to hold the ball for just a few 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.040 more seconds, for a few more tents of a second, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.880 that will make all the difference in the world. For 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.280 the Dolphin's pass rush that was very good but couldn't 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.960 quite finish the season. Kind of learned that in this game. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.440 In these games with the Eagles front and with how 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.040 the Chiefs got after the Bengals with their mismatch offensive line, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.200 the Chiefs fronts not normally that dominant, but the Bengals 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.760 offensive line was so shorthanded it kind of turned out 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.560 that way. So again, more on vic Fongio, the rumor 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.040 or not the rumor of the reports that he's been 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.760 hired by the Miami Dolphins will have more and that's 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.720 official for you guys. On a future episode Real Quick, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.040 Whipple Blast did not finish. It did not bring the 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.360 title home. I had a chance on the very last 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.760 game to hit the longest shot. Once you tie a game, uh, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.360 they go to a one hit pitch off and I 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.280 was hitting some some pretty good shots all day, so 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.280 I got the I got the call to have the 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.599 tie breaking hit off, and I hit a groundball that 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.520 like hit the ground and skipped all the way beyond 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.480 the home run marker, which I thought was good, but 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.559 they said no, it's where the ball first lands. The 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.360 next guy comes up and hits the groundball that just 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.440 barely gets higher than mind, but then stops like right there. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.200 So I was like, man, I hit that. My exit 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.599 villa was like a hundred miles more than his, but 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.600 it went further. So we lost. It was my fault. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.640 Um Sucks lost in the first round of the playoffs, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.240 went four. Oh we've now gone eleven and o in 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.439 the last two years with the Blaste. A failure though 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.040 for Juice Crew because we got bounced in the first round. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.480 So there you go. That's the weekend update, Championship round, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.400 reports of Vic Fonjio being the Dolphin's new defensive coordinator, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:49.520 and with full blast updates for twenty three busy podcast 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.120 still to come here, So let's pick it up with 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.520 the fourth part of our season reviews series and go 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.480 to the Quarterback Room, a place I'm sure many of 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.120 you have been looking forward to this particular episode of 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.400 the series. Here breaking down the roster, what we have, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.199 what we have going forward, what's out there, and all 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.280 that fun stuff getting you ready for the off season 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.640 ahead in just a little over six weeks now before 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.880 the new league year, and we're gonna do quarterbacks as 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.280 well as a specialist talking with the quarterbacks here and 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.920 the team accomplishments and stats that occurred. The Dolphins had 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.480 the fourth most passing yards in the NFL this year 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.240 four thousand, seven hundred and sixty five, and again that's 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.480 without their quarterback for four and a half games. They 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.400 were tied for fourth with thirty touchdown passes this year 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.319 without their quarterback for four and a half games, and 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.079 they were eight in passer rating at nine five without 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.120 their quarterback for four and a half games. We threw 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.880 for the most yards we've thrown four since Dan Marino 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.320 was under center. That's pretty cool. And as a whole, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.720 I mean, what have I talked about on this podcast 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.439 more than two a toungle by Lowa. I'm just such 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.640 a believer in his game, and I think he showed 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.840 you why I felt that way this season. His ability 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.760 to attack the whole field based on a snapshot of information, 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.640 to be able to get information backside based upon his 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.840 front side read and make decisions and have the release 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.240 get the football out. Commiserate with that decision making. It's 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.720 your your mind, your feet, your arm are all hardwired together. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.559 That is immense quarterback talent. And we're gonna touch on 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.280 this more in a second here I'll circle back to that. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.079 But the strides that he made with his eye discipline 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.400 and the fact that the offense had progressions built in 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.160 rather than just like hey, look at that. If it's 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.719 not there, figure out yourself, like good luck. Um, that 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.679 was cool. The downfield threat that was among the best 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.400 in the NFL this year. The ability to make plays 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.880 against pressure and mitigate free hitters or create with his 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.640 pocket mobility, Like I feel like that's an overlooked part 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.360 of his game. Like people say, it's not mobile, and 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.319 he's not like the fastest guy by any stretch, but 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.480 he creates. I mean, his first two years in the 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.679 league he had some of the best pressure evasion rates 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.719 in the NFL. Again, he's not gonna burn you with 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.360 like the you know, fifty yards scramble. He's not gonna 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.520 get out on the move and throw a rope fifty 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.720 yards downfield on the move. But he can still evade 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.040 pressure and make plays against pressure, and that pocket mobility 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.320 is very good. And of course the accuracy to turn 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.040 a fifteen yard complation versus the Packers into a chance 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.320 for Wattle to open it up and run eighty four 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.000 yards or the fifty nine yard or in Baltimore, or 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.559 the sixty seven yard or in Buffalo, or that you 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.520 get the freaking idea seventy five yards against the forty nine. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.040 Trent Surefield, I think we have a quarterback who has 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.599 shown high, high level of play in terms of the 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.440 between the ear stuff. And you know, Mike McDaniel talks 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.839 about it with two on the sidelines mid games when 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.839 he doesn't have to. He's not doing that for the 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.240 cameras or for the show. He's doing it because it's 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.400 the truth. Do you think you know more about quarterback 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.040 play than Mike McDaniel, I don't. I take his word 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.240 over mine, and I do this stuff a lot to 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.400 It took a professional approach, put in the work and 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.000 showed you he has what it takes to excel in 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.280 the most important arena of the position, the processing, manipulation, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.880 application of all that stuff. And the best part about 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.200 that is he's twenty four years old. It's only going 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.160 to get better. We even saw growth with things within 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.600 the season, even within a game. McDaniel described the mistakes 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.360 on the second interception of the ball all the more 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:01.839 game and what he was able to do after that, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.880 I mean, five touchdown passes in the second most passing 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.439 yards in a game this season in the entire National 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.679 Football League. And let's go ahead and circle back to 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.040 the talent thing, because I've seen this in a few places, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.559 and I don't worry about fans that you know of 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.160 fans don't understand the nuance that is football, and that's 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.720 totally fine, Like it takes a lot to know this game. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.280 But I also see it from people that cover the game, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.000 beat writers and you know, like, for instance, there as 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.160 a beat writer in Houston was talking about he used 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.640 to work for the Jets Beat and he was talking 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.079 about TWA and Zach Wilson and said that Zach Wilson's 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:39.920 more talented than to U. No, he's not. Like, Talent 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.160 isn't just how far you can throw a football. Man, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.160 it drives me crazy. Talent is the things I just 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.520 talked about. Talent is what Kurt Warner broke down after 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.640 the Baltimore game, and Josh McCowen broke it down, talked 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.040 about his time with Kurt Warner in the same quarterback 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.839 room and the ability to see things, to see them 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.199 open up before they do, the processing, the application. That's talent, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.800 that's part of the quarterback position. Talent isn't just what's 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.400 attached to your shoulder. It's everything. It's you know, and 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.200 even armed talent, like that's not just velocity. Armed talent 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.720 is layering a football into you know, into a bucket, 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.480 over coverage and underneath coverage at the same time, like 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.800 the two hole the cover two hole. Armed talent is 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.280 you know, mitigating a rusher and having your feet not 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.320 aligned to your target and being able to drop your 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.480 arm slot and throw a football accurately regardless of where 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.080 that elbow is or where the release point is to 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.000 what does all that stuff? Man, He's not going to 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.240 throw a fastball through your chest. But he's got immense 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.960 arm talent in terms of the awkward platforms and the 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.800 multi level of pitches you have to have in your 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.360 bag to excel at this position in this league. So 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.320 that's talent in and of itself. But also the other 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.120 stime I mentioned, which really is what really Peter Griffin 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.360 grinds my gears, Like, that's talent, man, It's not just 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.880 about who can go out for a Pro day and 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.640 throw the football. In short, it's like it drives me 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.760 absolutely nuts. So this is what very talented quarterback. There's 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.920 a reason that everybody wanted a piece of him after 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.680 his college career before the hip injury. There's a reason 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.560 why he played at a super high level for a 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.920 super for the majority of the season, a super majority 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.200 of the hells that mean, I don't know, man, Like 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.560 I get on these tangents and rant and rave on 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.840 these podcasts talking about this guy because I just feel 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.000 like he is so unfairly covered by everybody else and 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.360 it's held to a different standard that even you know, 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.560 go watch somebody else play football, tell me what their 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.120 games look like like. Compare other quarterbacks to what toa does. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.280 And he all year long except for a bad stretch 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.480 of games, which, by the way, just because you had 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.640 four bad games or you know, it wasn't even that 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.560 like in the four losses, I think two and a 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.920 quarter of those games were bad by two the other 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.800 game in three quarters was really really freaking good. In fact, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.720 that Buffalo tape on the road is one of the 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.160 best quarterback tapes I've watched of a Miami Dolphins quarterback. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.320 And I've been doing that since two thousand and twelve. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.680 You know, Ryan Tannehill's rookie year. It's not a high bar, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.000 but you get what I'm saying, Like, that was a 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:03.000 great tape. And so you can't just discount a quarterback 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.760 because he had three games you didn't like. You can't 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.080 pick and choose that way, because I can give you 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.640 any even more games that he was good. And so 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.480 I just get really, I'm really annoyed by the discourse 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.960 around this quarterback. I thought his performance this year would 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.280 end that I think it mostly has. And again, you know, 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.280 Twitter's on a representation of real life. But I see 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.320 some folks talking about it the durability. Not going to 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:21.960 argue with you guys on that that's got to get 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.040 its self corrected. But as far as the ability, it's really, really, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.080 really damn good. I say so. Mike McDaniel says, so 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.360 you should trust people like that. With Teddy Bridgewater, we 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.520 heard Skyler talk about his presence a lot in terms 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.640 of that veteran leadership that he provides and helping him 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.320 understand the nuances of the offense and the league in general. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.080 I think when you talk about backup quarterbacks as a whole, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.640 as the football cactnes senti as it were, we tend 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.000 to undervalue the well the value of the backup quarterbacks 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.920 supporting the room in general, helping with cut ups. Hey 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.760 go get me their third long reel. How do they 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.240 blitz uh, you know when we when we motioned this 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.840 h back across the formation. How do they divert their coverages? 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.480 How do they rotate their safeties? How do they make 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.400 them hybrid and interchangeable? Explaining what he sees in terms 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.640 of coverage decisions, communicating the offense in the way that's 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.159 easiest for a player to digest and based on the 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.119 way Skyler talked about Teddy this year, I think it's 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.760 an invaluable trait. Miami has to find that again in 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.320 that backup position. Teddy did see the field, including you know, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.960 some up and down spots against the Vikings and Bengals. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.679 Uh didn't play. I think like you would hope from 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.800 a player that you put that type of investment into. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:33.080 But I think his veteran presence was tangible in that way. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.080 Then with Skylar Thompson about as much as you can 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.000 ask him a seventh round rookie and his coach mentioned 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.280 at the one press at one press or the challenge 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.920 of getting the experience, uh, you know, as the number 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.000 three guy, when the only rapture getting are the ones 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.760 over in the indoor structure after practice. You know. I 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.560 would think it's safe to say you can see a 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.159 big jump from Skyler in terms of how he just 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.040 understands the offense, understands the pro game and the speed 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.680 of the game. I hope so because that was, you know, 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.480 something we needed when he stepped onto the field and 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.280 it's your three quarterback, I don't expect, you know, a 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.479 whole lot more than what you got but you need 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.680 to take a big step in that area. And I 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.840 think the way he works, the way he you know, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.320 perfects his craft, no doubt about it. He'll do that 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.399 this offseason. When you asked me, let's go ahead and 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.200 look at the numbers of the individuals here to a 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.320 Toungo by low up. We've been over the rankings, right. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.880 He was the top ten quarterback in virtually every category, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.240 top two, three and the ones that really indicate the 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.560 level of individual performance right alongside you know, combinations of 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.399 Alan Mahomes Borrow hurts. But for some reason when to 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.439 A does it doesn't count. Fired up here man oh 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.159 yards per attempt eight point nine. Let the NFL touchdown 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.240 interception ratio was three point one to five. I haven't 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.199 had that at a quarterback since Dan Marino or did 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:39.960 Chad Pennington do it into us and they I don't know, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.960 but a three to one touchdown interception ratio is pretty good. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:44.880