Speaker 1: Fractors, fatric touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow,
Speaker 1: what's up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. It is Sunday Night,
Speaker 1: a recap podcast. Here. I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: rally butt fall to Buffalo for the fourth consecutive game
Speaker 1: going back two years now three years. Actually, Miami moves
Speaker 1: to Owen too. After another monster game from Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and the compliment of Buffalo's receivers. We're gonna recap the
Speaker 1: game with the individual performances for your Miami Dolphins, my
Speaker 1: five takeaways, and we're gonna hear from Dolphins multimedia host
Speaker 1: the co host of the Audible podcast, John Kim, Jemmy
Speaker 1: He and I had a chance to watch the game
Speaker 1: side by side. Just from good notes there from the
Speaker 1: two of us, all of that more on this Sunday,
Speaker 1: September the twentieth edition of the Drive Time Podcasts. Just
Speaker 1: go ahead and kick it off with the stats from
Speaker 1: the game first, as we do on these Sunday recap pods,
Speaker 1: and when you looked at the statboard after the first half,
Speaker 1: things were tilted pretty heavily towards the Buffalo Bills. But
Speaker 1: the Dolphins came out and really responded in that second half,
Speaker 1: especially after that lightning delay, when they got things going
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick in the passing game and the offense
Speaker 1: spread the football around to several different targets. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: had four hundred and eight yards to Buffaloes five thirty one.
Speaker 1: Miami rushed the ball for ninety nine to Buffaloes one eleven.
Speaker 1: The passing went for twenty three oh nine in favor
Speaker 1: of Buffalo. Dolphins converted five of thirteen third and fourth
Speaker 1: down conversions where Buffalo was five of ten. No turnovers
Speaker 1: in the game for the Dolphins, they of course had
Speaker 1: the one on the fumble that Noah Ignogay picked up.
Speaker 1: Miami had one sack compared to Buffaloes three. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: commit just three penalties for twenty yards in the game
Speaker 1: compared to Buffalo six for fifty five, and the Dolphin
Speaker 1: is out possessed Buffalo but thirty one minutes and five
Speaker 1: seconds compared to twenty eight minutes and fifty five seconds.
Speaker 1: But the first part of this game we really want
Speaker 1: to talk about is the first takeaway for me, and
Speaker 1: that's Byron Jones exiting after the very first series of
Speaker 1: the game. He was covering one of those buffalo crossing
Speaker 1: routes they ran them all game long. He trailed it
Speaker 1: behind it and something happened where he came up limping,
Speaker 1: went to the sideline, went over with the trainers, and
Speaker 1: wound up walking off into the locker room. Was questionable
Speaker 1: to return, and we would find out later in the
Speaker 1: day that he would not return to that game. You're
Speaker 1: gonna hear John Conjemmy and I talk about this on
Speaker 1: the other side of the podcast here, and really the
Speaker 1: Dolphins ability to match up with that deep receiving crew.
Speaker 1: We talked about it all week long here on Drive Time.
Speaker 1: And they have John Brown, who's one of the fastest
Speaker 1: receivers in the National Football Leagues Stefon Dix. He had
Speaker 1: the most vertical receiving yards last year on balls of
Speaker 1: twenty yards or more down the football field. How would
Speaker 1: Miami match up their strong press cover corners that can
Speaker 1: play man, that can play zone with those impressive receivers. Well,
Speaker 1: we heard Exaviing Howard talking about the game plan post
Speaker 1: game and how it was the plan to have Byron
Speaker 1: Jones on Diggs and then also some no agnology there,
Speaker 1: and you look at how they match up athletically with
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, who is very sudden, very quick in and
Speaker 1: out of breaks, and he can certainly make guys miss
Speaker 1: in a very short area of space and also get vertical.
Speaker 1: So those matchups made sense, Exaving Howard on the more
Speaker 1: smallest John Brown trying to overmatch him with the physicality.
Speaker 1: They talked about that a little bit post game, and
Speaker 1: immediately after Byron Jones goes out, they get the three
Speaker 1: and out. But then the Bills just start to go
Speaker 1: to work on those long developing crossing routes, the over
Speaker 1: routes where you try to get a guy in close
Speaker 1: to the formation that you then run him upfield and
Speaker 1: attack that inside leverage and just cross all the way
Speaker 1: over the other side of the field. In fact, I
Speaker 1: don't yet have the audio available for this yet, but
Speaker 1: we did have a quote from Bobby McCain, Dolphins safety
Speaker 1: after the game talking about how difficult it can be
Speaker 1: on cornerbacks when you're dealing with those deep crossing routes.
Speaker 1: He said this quote, it's tough on dbs. It's tough
Speaker 1: on corners for sure, trying to play, trying to keep
Speaker 1: that leverage. All crossers do that overs and crossers. So
Speaker 1: crossers can typically be the drag route short or the
Speaker 1: deep crosser where you kind of attack the safety and
Speaker 1: go deeper down the field. Buffalo ran that plenty of times,
Speaker 1: he said. All crossers, overs and crossers, they just beat
Speaker 1: your leverage and they just run away from your leverage.
Speaker 1: We made some corrections and we will look. You live
Speaker 1: and you learn. You play and you learn. That's what
Speaker 1: we have to do quickly. We've got to get this
Speaker 1: thing turned around quickly. So he talks about the Bill's
Speaker 1: ability to use that speed to run away from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins man coverage. They're up in those press looks, and
Speaker 1: we talked about it all off season long with Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: That his athletic profile. It's one of many traits of
Speaker 1: Byron Jones that stands out in that toolbox, that bag
Speaker 1: of tricks that he has the world record long jump
Speaker 1: or broad jump and the ability to run and turn
Speaker 1: and work in short spaces. Dolphins could have used his
Speaker 1: play on the field today, but of course he leaves
Speaker 1: the game. Next man up mentality, the Dolphins had to
Speaker 1: go ahead and respond with some more cornerbacks in that game.
Speaker 1: You know what, A monogamy was up next for the challenge,
Speaker 1: and he too. We didn't have the audio here for
Speaker 1: his postgame press con friends, but he talked about how
Speaker 1: much he learned, not just about the Bills receivers, but
Speaker 1: about himself today his second game of his professional career,
Speaker 1: and remember he is the youngest player in the entire
Speaker 1: national football Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's
Speaker 1: on the Buffalo receivers and the Dolphins struggles covering those
Speaker 1: guys for the course of the sixty minutes. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: struggled to cover him. Uh, they got good receivers um,
Speaker 1: you know we we struggled to cover them. You know,
Speaker 1: they got open um. You know they had time to
Speaker 1: have time to throw it. You get pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to put it all on the
Speaker 1: coverage guys. I mean it's it's it's a team game.
Speaker 1: So but it starts with me and we gotta do
Speaker 1: a better job of um, you know, putting them in
Speaker 1: positions to to to cover the matters. So um, you
Speaker 1: know we struggled there for sure. So Byron Jones going out,
Speaker 1: the first takeaway he is a big part of this defense.
Speaker 1: The second takeaway is the two young players I think
Speaker 1: are really showing their merit in this game. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk more later on about this and some more
Speaker 1: young players that John Conjemmy noticed, but I point out
Speaker 1: obviously Mike Gasicky And this was a game going into
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the preview podcast. How if
Speaker 1: those linebackers Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Mulano, two really really
Speaker 1: good players, if they're gonna be down, that might be
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get tight ends and running backs involved
Speaker 1: in the passing game. And well, you know what, Mike
Speaker 1: Kaski goes off for eight catches a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards, He caught a touchdown in the game, and
Speaker 1: really anyway you splice that, he was finding a way
Speaker 1: to get his hands on the football. We talked about
Speaker 1: the contested catchability of guys like him and Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and DeVante Parker, and last week Gasicki had a big
Speaker 1: time contested catch on the Dolphin's touchdown drive where he
Speaker 1: really caught the thing with his hand stretched all the
Speaker 1: way out with the body using a kind of backboard
Speaker 1: blockout situation on the defensive back and he catches that
Speaker 1: thing away from his body with big, strong hands. That
Speaker 1: was his first catch of the game in this week
Speaker 1: to game against Buffalo, and then he comes back and
Speaker 1: just starts creating separation, getting vertical, going up over guys
Speaker 1: and making plays after the catch. A big time game
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins third year tight end, who's really showing
Speaker 1: his worth at that tight end position. And let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and hear from Mike's quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on the
Speaker 1: emergence of the Dolphins tight end and Mike A sicky.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it for him has been confidence.
Speaker 1: Has been going out there um and working hard in
Speaker 1: practice and seeing results in the games. And I think everybody,
Speaker 1: I think all you guys saw that, you know, the
Speaker 1: half of the last half of last year with how
Speaker 1: much better and more confident he was playing UM. But
Speaker 1: this year he's taken another step. And you know, he
Speaker 1: came out of the that first game and I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, to get him some more targets and every
Speaker 1: every week is different, every matchup. He was a man
Speaker 1: is its own and he does a good job of
Speaker 1: finding the spots and working hard and practice to figure
Speaker 1: those things out. So his his confidence continues to rise,
Speaker 1: and I think we'll just tait to see him get better.
Speaker 1: So there's Fitzpatrick on his young tight end. The other
Speaker 1: player on this list for me here is another young
Speaker 1: player on the defensive line. Christian Wilkins. I thought had
Speaker 1: another big game on the inside playing the run. He
Speaker 1: does so well to keep his eyes up and on
Speaker 1: the backfield on the running back of the quarterback to
Speaker 1: kind of key and read that way because he's able
Speaker 1: to hold the point because of pure power, whether he's
Speaker 1: locking somebody out with a straight arm or using the
Speaker 1: power on the lower half in that base to keep
Speaker 1: guys at bay. And he reads his way to the
Speaker 1: football and makes plays that way. So I was very
Speaker 1: impressed with both those guys. Miles Gaston again, I'll let
Speaker 1: John con Jemmy talk about him and his final takeaways
Speaker 1: at the end of the episode. My takeaway number three
Speaker 1: was the inability to corral Josh Allen was just a
Speaker 1: killer because there was pressure on so many of these
Speaker 1: plays where he's able to extend and make plays Beyond
Speaker 1: the last two touchdowns. They had him dead to rights,
Speaker 1: it seemed, and he just shook free and made plays
Speaker 1: and threw the ball down the field. The big legs,
Speaker 1: the big arm, he can really push the football vertically
Speaker 1: and if you can't get him down on that initial surge,
Speaker 1: that initial rush. We've seen this for three years now
Speaker 1: with this guy, whether it was Cam Wake and Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn or now with Kyle van Noy, Emmanuel Ogba and
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson. If you don't get him to the ground,
Speaker 1: he can then extend plays and beyond that, that's where
Speaker 1: he's the most dangerous. I think we saw that in
Speaker 1: this game as Alan goes up over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: for four touchdowns on the Dolphins defense. The fourth takeaway
Speaker 1: was the dolphins inability to capitalize on some of the
Speaker 1: critical moments in this game. And before I talk about them,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and hear from coach Brian Flores on
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins did not take advantage of their opportunities
Speaker 1: enough to win the game. Win the game. We had
Speaker 1: a chance there in the fourth quarter, you know, we
Speaker 1: made a couple of plays, I took a lead, but
Speaker 1: you know, just offensively, defensively, we just couldn't. We couldn't
Speaker 1: finish the game. So you know, you gotta finish in
Speaker 1: this league. If you want to win the game, you
Speaker 1: finish the game off. So I think we played well
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, but nothing's more important to finishing
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. We didn't do a good enough job there.
Speaker 1: We had opportunities, we didn't take advantage, and thankfully we
Speaker 1: had a quick turnaround. We'll be out there Thursday night
Speaker 1: to so get back to it and try to play better.
Speaker 1: And on that same note, let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: from quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on those same mistakes in the
Speaker 1: critical areas. I mean we played, we played better, but
Speaker 1: you know in the key situations, you know, not being
Speaker 1: able to punch it in and especially on that fourth
Speaker 1: and one, um, you know, for a coach to have
Speaker 1: faith in us to leave us out there, we've got
Speaker 1: to convert on that. But there's plenty of stuff early
Speaker 1: where we just we stalled a little bit. We weren't
Speaker 1: converting third downs. So we got into a better rhythm
Speaker 1: in the second half, and I think some of that
Speaker 1: was some of the adjustments that we made, and some
Speaker 1: of it is just comfort level with the guys that
Speaker 1: we're playing with right now. But I think we've got
Speaker 1: to continue to find ways to run the football and
Speaker 1: rely on the backs because there'll be a big part
Speaker 1: of this offense as we get going. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we just showing up in those critical moments and we
Speaker 1: missed out on a few of them today. And you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear John con Jemmy talk about this later on
Speaker 1: on this podcast about how buffal a team that you know,
Speaker 1: many folks predicted would win the a f C East,
Speaker 1: a very talented team from top to bottom. We covered
Speaker 1: on the preview podcast all summer long as well on
Speaker 1: the No the Enemy series. These guys have a good defense,
Speaker 1: they have good receivers, they've got good backs, and obviously
Speaker 1: their quarterback is getting the job done as well. And
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins to be in position where three or
Speaker 1: four plays can go your way to get the W
Speaker 1: that speaks of the Dolphins growth as well. So you
Speaker 1: look at a few of those plays the Golden Ghost
Speaker 1: series that Ryan Fitzpatrick talked about, at four plays from
Speaker 1: into the five yard line, you'd love to capitalize on that.
Speaker 1: Van Noy got his hands on an interception. Xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: got his hands on a possible interception. Eric Rowe was
Speaker 1: right there neck and neck with Stefon Diggs on a
Speaker 1: big reception that could have been an interception as well.
Speaker 1: You also have DeVante Parker comes back and puts a
Speaker 1: block on I think it was Jordan Poyer that got
Speaker 1: flagged for an illegal block in the back. It was
Speaker 1: real close on that one, but Myles Gascon had bent
Speaker 1: around the edge there and got in the edge and
Speaker 1: put the Dolphins in position for a first and goal
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line. They would later settle for
Speaker 1: a field goal at the inclusion of that drive. So
Speaker 1: some critical areas Dolphins could have just made a few
Speaker 1: plays and just really tight rope situations that could have
Speaker 1: turned this game the other direction and maybe even into
Speaker 1: a w The fifth takeaway from me in this game
Speaker 1: was Ryan Fitzpatrick's ability to continuously navigate when he gets
Speaker 1: pressure or gets compromise pockets or has to extend and
Speaker 1: make plays off script, off structure. We saw all year
Speaker 1: last year. This guy continues to make plays with his legs,
Speaker 1: with his arms, with his eyes moving the defense making plays,
Speaker 1: and I just really love the way he contended to
Speaker 1: battle in this game after you heard him talk about it.
Speaker 1: Not his best performance in Week one, but he bounces back,
Speaker 1: he battles, plays well, throws for over three couple of
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the game for Fitzpatrick, got the offense moving,
Speaker 1: had some long drives in that second half as well,
Speaker 1: and the play at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: I thought that was just exceptional. I thought that set
Speaker 1: a tone for the rest of the Dolphins game offensively,
Speaker 1: and they pretty much are ready to go into the
Speaker 1: locker room with twenty five seconds or twenty nine seconds
Speaker 1: rather at their own twenty five yard line, one time
Speaker 1: out left. The first down play goes in complete Miles Gaskin,
Speaker 1: who by the way his balance and and low center
Speaker 1: of gravity has been fun to watch, the way he
Speaker 1: bounces off tackles, but he rips off a fourteen yard run.
Speaker 1: Dolphins hurry up, call time out. They get to the
Speaker 1: line and then Ryan Fitzpatrick has one play to make,
Speaker 1: and he makes that play where pressure gets in the
Speaker 1: pocket breaks down, he steps up and throws the football
Speaker 1: with an awkward arm angle with pressure in his face
Speaker 1: and Mike Gasicky has not yet cleared the defender. As
Speaker 1: he's crossing in behind the defender. Fitzpatrick throws it early,
Speaker 1: anticipates it, throws it out to a spot Gasicki runs under.
Speaker 1: It's twenty seven yards. It puts the Dolphins in position
Speaker 1: to spike the ball, kill the clock, get Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: up there for a fifty two yard field goal attempt,
Speaker 1: and of course he drills that thing. So Ryan Fitzpatrick's moxie.
Speaker 1: He is who we think he is. We love watching
Speaker 1: this guy play, love watching this guy compete, and he
Speaker 1: brought it in this game again, just not for a
Speaker 1: couple of plays of Dolphins could have executed, could have
Speaker 1: gotten out of here with a w with a strong
Speaker 1: performance from their quarterbacks. The five takeaways Byron Jones very
Speaker 1: important to that secondary couple of young players, and Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Mike Kasiki stepping a big here early on
Speaker 1: in their careers. Getting Josh Allen to the ground would
Speaker 1: be a key. Next time we see these guys up
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Capitalizing on those critical moments, and Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: continues to play well for this Dolphins football team. Let's
Speaker 1: do a few individual notes here. We haven't touched on
Speaker 1: just yet. And we talked about Miles Gaskins seven rushes
Speaker 1: for forty six yards that's six point six yards per carry,
Speaker 1: had a fourteen yard rip, had the one run brought
Speaker 1: back as well. He also caught six passes for thirty
Speaker 1: six yards, so he is showing his worth both in
Speaker 1: the passing game and the running game. Matt Brina had
Speaker 1: seven for thirty seven that's five point three yards per
Speaker 1: rush as well. I thought he showed that speed and explosiveness.
Speaker 1: A couple of good looking performances there from the Dolphins
Speaker 1: running backs. At receiver Isaiah Ford caught seven passes for
Speaker 1: seventy six yards. And the trust, the relationship, the toughness
Speaker 1: there with Ryan Fitzpatrick. Runs a lot of those hook
Speaker 1: up routes you run between the linebacker and the nickel backer,
Speaker 1: linebacker and a safety. You hook up, you set up,
Speaker 1: the quarterback puts the ball right on the numbers, Fords
Speaker 1: their catches, it turns up field. The one catch he
Speaker 1: had where he was short of the sticks and had
Speaker 1: to fight through a tackle and extend over and lunge
Speaker 1: over the first down marker. That was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite plays of the entire day. Big day for Isaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: Tough dude working down there on that Dolphins offense. Davante
Speaker 1: Parker caught five for fifty three and a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: good to see him back and healthy off that hamstring
Speaker 1: as well. So some big performances there in the Dolphins
Speaker 1: passing game tight end. We talked about Mike Asiki obviously
Speaker 1: up front on the offensive line. You're gonna hear John
Speaker 1: kN Jemmy mentioned this here in just a short while.
Speaker 1: Didn't really hear Austin Jackson's name. Didn't really hear Solomon
Speaker 1: Kindley's name. The two rookies. That's always a good sign.
Speaker 1: Along the offensive line. We talked about Christian Wilkins upfront.
Speaker 1: Davon got Chaw had himself some run stops in this game.
Speaker 1: You see big fifty six peeling off the pile when
Speaker 1: they stacked that thing up at the line in the
Speaker 1: backfield or just a couple of yards beyond the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Consistently involved in the running game that way,
Speaker 1: and hopefully these guys can continue to build on these
Speaker 1: performances and put together back to back and consistent performances
Speaker 1: here going forward. And so you've heard my takes, my
Speaker 1: breakdowns here on the Drive Time podcast. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: now and welcome in the co host of the audible
Speaker 1: podcast here on the Miami Dolphins podcast network, John con Jemmy. John.
Speaker 1: How you doing tonight, Man, Oh, I'm doing great. Man.
Speaker 1: Disappointing about the loss, but I thought I thought the
Speaker 1: team fought back for four quarters and just came up
Speaker 1: a little bit short. Yeah, when you took off to
Speaker 1: go do TV and your post game stuff at the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter there it looked like we
Speaker 1: were marching maybe had a chance to talk about a win.
Speaker 1: I was kind of struggling back and forth with my
Speaker 1: written article up on Miami Dolphins dot com because I
Speaker 1: didn't know how to how to word the thing because
Speaker 1: it started off so poorly. Then it got better than
Speaker 1: it kind of went back and forth, and we eventually
Speaker 1: end up with a thirty one Buffalo Bills victory over
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, falling to oh and two. You can
Speaker 1: find my postgame recap article up on the website, as
Speaker 1: well as John's three takeaways from the game, and we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and get right into that there. John, your
Speaker 1: first takeaway from this game, Week two Dolphins and Bills
Speaker 1: was what well. I think it was in the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense just allowing too many explosive plays. I've thought
Speaker 1: they did the same thing in Week one against New England,
Speaker 1: but it was more evident through the passing game and
Speaker 1: through the right arm of Josh Allen. Just too many
Speaker 1: explosive plays. I counted quickly going through my notes, eighteen
Speaker 1: plays of of ten yards or more. And that was
Speaker 1: being generous because I'm sure there was probably fourteen or
Speaker 1: fifteen of of fifteen yards or more. So I think
Speaker 1: that that was the biggest thing today that really hurt us.
Speaker 1: In the passing game. It wasn't the ten yard or
Speaker 1: the nine yard or the eight yard run, the screen pass.
Speaker 1: It was the It was the shots down field in
Speaker 1: the run after catch opportunities by the Buffalo Bills. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Dolphins came up with much consistent edge
Speaker 1: pressure around Josh Allen. I thought there was way too
Speaker 1: much space in the secondary for those receivers to rome
Speaker 1: and for Allan to be more accurate. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Dolphins really forced him uh to throw the football
Speaker 1: with a lot of accuracy. There were a few throws
Speaker 1: that were terrific, but all in all it was it
Speaker 1: was a pitch and catch afternoon for Alan. So I
Speaker 1: think that was the biggest thing for me. No, not
Speaker 1: enough from maybe Agba or Lawson or Van Noyd or
Speaker 1: somebody just to kind of turn the tide. And maybe
Speaker 1: that that interception, uh looked like it would be interception
Speaker 1: down by the goal line when the Dolphins had a
Speaker 1: chance to to get in for points, and then Van
Speaker 1: Noyd got his hands on the football. That might have
Speaker 1: been a turning point, but the Dolphins ended up scoring
Speaker 1: anyway on on the next drive. So um, I just
Speaker 1: thought there was too many explosive plays. I know, for
Speaker 1: for Brian Flores is liking and for most Dolphins fings.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a buddy of mine that hosts
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill's podcast afterward on Twitter, and he was
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, Josh Allen had these nice throws
Speaker 1: down the field, and I told him this is kind
Speaker 1: of what you expect with Josh Allen because he has
Speaker 1: the explosive legs and arm. He can beat you in
Speaker 1: both facets of the game, but he will have his
Speaker 1: misses and he will put the ball in harm's way
Speaker 1: at time, and you mentioned it right there with a
Speaker 1: couple of the near interceptions that just did not get squeezed.
Speaker 1: So you had a couple of those chances. Flores talked
Speaker 1: about it, Fitzpatrick talked about it, some of those critical
Speaker 1: plays that just did not go the Dolphins way. That's
Speaker 1: how the NFL works, right, John, four or five plays.
Speaker 1: You've got to make those plays with what you're gonna lose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I totally agree with you. And normally, you know,
Speaker 1: coaches always do say that it's four or five plays.
Speaker 1: But there were a number of opportunities were for the
Speaker 1: game to swing, and I thought the Dolphins made, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of them. They just didn't make as many
Speaker 1: as Buffalo today. That's exactly right, and so we do
Speaker 1: wind up three points down on the scoreboard there. John.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get into your second takeaway from
Speaker 1: this game. The week two game Dolphins and Bills. I
Speaker 1: thought the team showed a lot of grit, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I thought this was a young team
Speaker 1: that that played with a lot of heart. And you
Speaker 1: just look at some of the numbers, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: not counting um the old guy throwing the football, But
Speaker 1: look at Mike Kisiki and the way he played today
Speaker 1: with eight for one thirty. Uh. Devonte Parker came up
Speaker 1: some big catches. I think Myles gasking again when when
Speaker 1: his number was called, he was uh coming through for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, not only running the football with six
Speaker 1: for thirty six, but catching the football out of the
Speaker 1: backfield with the checkdowns and in the screen game. I
Speaker 1: think the screen game can improve. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was in sync today, to be honest with you. I
Speaker 1: thought the relationship between the distance of where the quarterback
Speaker 1: was throwing the football and where the running back was
Speaker 1: catching it, and or where Bowden caught caught his screen
Speaker 1: on the edge. I just thought that wasn't didn't mesh properly.
Speaker 1: And I think that'll get better. But Isaiah Ford another
Speaker 1: young player that came through and you know, didn't have
Speaker 1: to mention Austin Jackson or Solomon Kinley's name too many
Speaker 1: times today, which is another good sign. Another uh, you know,
Speaker 1: positive step in there and their progression as a young player.
Speaker 1: And I also want to throw in, you know, Jason
Speaker 1: Sanders and Matt Hawk unbelievable job not only today but
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. I thought Hawk did a
Speaker 1: great job in pinning the Buffalo Bills. I mean there
Speaker 1: was a lot of drives the Buffalo Bills to make. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a D plus eighty five plus. Uh. If
Speaker 1: the defense had some answers today, I think it might
Speaker 1: have been a different outcome. Three points inside the twenty
Speaker 1: yard line, one at the minus six. I thought Sanders,
Speaker 1: you know, I had had a big kick before halftime,
Speaker 1: a fifty two yarder. Nails of forty five yarders, three
Speaker 1: for three on the season on the young season. So uh,
Speaker 1: I just thought the team showed a lot of grit
Speaker 1: on on both sides. You miss an opportunity down by
Speaker 1: the goal line, the defense gives you the three and out,
Speaker 1: and then the offense response with with the next drive
Speaker 1: and points. So I thought there was a lot of
Speaker 1: good things. It just wasn't good enough to beat a
Speaker 1: team that's expected to win the AFC East. And I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and add to your special Team's
Speaker 1: comments there, because it is easy to forget about that
Speaker 1: third phase of the game with Jason Sanders, who for
Speaker 1: my money, John, I don't think he missed in training
Speaker 1: camp this this summer. And Matt Hawkers stating balls into
Speaker 1: the ten yard line all day at practice too. But
Speaker 1: also the coverage units too because mac Hollands and Cavan
Speaker 1: Fraser and those guys were getting down there and get
Speaker 1: that thing covered up and did a really good job
Speaker 1: of fortune those guys to kind of angle sideways or
Speaker 1: bubble and work backwards. So just good special teams all
Speaker 1: around there for the Miami Dolphins. And your third and
Speaker 1: final takeaway from this game, John, I just think that,
Speaker 1: you know, the injury to Byron Jones proved costly. Um,
Speaker 1: not that Noah Igmnogeny is gonna, you know, not come
Speaker 1: through for the Miami Dolphins. He's not gonna get his opportunities.
Speaker 1: I just thought that maybe the light shining today was
Speaker 1: a little bit bright, because when you're facing Digs and
Speaker 1: Beasley and Brown, that's not an easy task for a
Speaker 1: guy to come off the bench who's maybe penciled into
Speaker 1: play eighteen to twenty snaps and and play the entire
Speaker 1: game chasing those guys around. So I just after the
Speaker 1: first series when Byron Jones uh went in, you know,
Speaker 1: as we were watching the game, went into the locker
Speaker 1: room and did not return. I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be an opportunity for Noah to come through, but
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a tough assignment and it did
Speaker 1: prove costly that Jones was out of the game kind
Speaker 1: of through this secondary uh not not into a confusion,
Speaker 1: but it did ask more from guys that weren't going
Speaker 1: into the game with that mentality. And I think that
Speaker 1: buff Buffalo just had too many answers in the passing game, uh,
Speaker 1: for a lot of guys. And it wasn't just one guy.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Noah. It's been agony. You know. Everybody
Speaker 1: had their moments where they were chasing down a Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills wide receiver, either chasing him down or watch him
Speaker 1: catch a pass for a touchdown. So I think it
Speaker 1: was a shared environment in the background with that that
Speaker 1: injury really led to a chain reaction that the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills took advantage of. This kind of feels like the
Speaker 1: the game that you signed Buyer and Jones for, right
Speaker 1: because you talk about the depth at the receiver position
Speaker 1: there for the Buffalo Bills, and you've got xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: who's so big and physical and strong, it can really
Speaker 1: lock down a receiver like a John Brown, for instance,
Speaker 1: who you can press and get disruption at the last
Speaker 1: scrimmage and really kind of disrupt that speed receiver that
Speaker 1: he is. And then you have the ultra athletic kind
Speaker 1: of does a little bit of everything, and Byron Jones
Speaker 1: to go out and help with us to fawn digs
Speaker 1: and he you know, he goes out the first series
Speaker 1: and you have to kind of scramble from there. So
Speaker 1: with you all the way, John, we have a short week,
Speaker 1: a quick turnaround here at Jacksonville Jaguars up in just
Speaker 1: four days. What's your first look on that game? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a little bit of the same.
Speaker 1: They've got a hot quarterback that again through for over
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and and was only three point shy
Speaker 1: of of you know, getting a game into overtime and
Speaker 1: winning a game again at home, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a quick turnaround. Obviously, you have to try to slow
Speaker 1: down the passing game of Gardner midjew and the and
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and I would it wouldn't hurt for the
Speaker 1: defense to get their hands on the football, try to
Speaker 1: get a couple of takeaways, get some pressure on the pocket,
Speaker 1: and be able to force the turnovers that are going
Speaker 1: to lead the Miami Dolphin offense to better field position.
Speaker 1: And I think the Dolphins, after watching them for two
Speaker 1: weeks on offense, they have to start with the past
Speaker 1: to open up the run. I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to be run. And then asaid, it looked like they
Speaker 1: were better um at attacking the Buffalo Bills defensively on
Speaker 1: defense with their quick slants, with their screen game, with
Speaker 1: with their passing game, and then it opened up the
Speaker 1: running of a Miles gascon or or Breta. You know.
Speaker 1: I think that's the way they're gonna play, hopefully on
Speaker 1: Thursday night against the Jaguars. Yeah. I think it was
Speaker 1: the first play after the lightning break. They came out
Speaker 1: twelve personnel balanced, one tight end either side of the formation.
Speaker 1: You run that play action, suck the linebackers up, and
Speaker 1: then you wind up with Davonte Parker in behind those
Speaker 1: linebackers and fits and Parker made so much magic on
Speaker 1: that throw last year. Kind of finds a way to
Speaker 1: loosen that defense up, like you mentioned, so with you
Speaker 1: all the way, John, it sounds like they made some
Speaker 1: good adjustments in the second half of that game. Hopefully
Speaker 1: that carries over into weeks against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He
Speaker 1: is John Conjemmi of the Audible podcast. John really appreciate
Speaker 1: it time tonight, Man, you got it, Travis, take care.
Speaker 1: But and so there he goes John Congemmi of the
Speaker 1: Audible Podcast. We'll talk to him on recap podcast here
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime podcast every Sunday, and of course will
Speaker 1: be this Thursday, as the Dolphins are in Jacksonville for
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and those two teams, Jacksonville and Tennessee had
Speaker 1: themselves quite a battle today, quite a quarterback battle there
Speaker 1: with Minshew going for three thirty nine three touchdowns, Tannehill
Speaker 1: on the other side throwing for four touchdowns in that game,
Speaker 1: handling Gardner Minshew preventing that Jaguars passing game from getting
Speaker 1: going a big key that you heard from John, kN
Speaker 1: Jemmy and Minshew. The ability to kind of prevent the
Speaker 1: magic from happening on Thursday night will be a big
Speaker 1: key for this Dolphins team. But quick turnaround. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have practices and coaches, employers talking throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this week. A game preview for you guys. Another flashback
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Speaker 1: that fun stuff as well here on the Drivetime Podcast.
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