Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: there will be a Week eighteen of relevant, playoff impacting
Speaker 1: football for your Miami Dolphins. They are winners waits win
Speaker 1: win win, win, win, Yeah, everything goes win win, win
Speaker 1: win as they close out the Cleveland Browns twenty to three,
Speaker 1: going away in the fourth quarter and thanks to a
Speaker 1: bunch of help that went the Dolphins away this weekend
Speaker 1: after a year where helps seemed like it was never
Speaker 1: gonna come from other teams. After two and six start,
Speaker 1: Miami finally gets all the breaks in Week seventeen as
Speaker 1: the Broncos fall to the Bengals and the Colts fall
Speaker 1: on Sunday to the New York Giants. So now the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: by courtesy of their twenty to three victory over the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, now need to beat the Jets in Week
Speaker 1: eighteen and hope the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: and if that happens, the Dolphins will go back to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We'll go to Buffalo to face the Bills
Speaker 1: in the wild Card round. We'll go ahead and take
Speaker 1: a look at the game script talk about the stats
Speaker 1: and the big picture takeaways from the dolphins twenty to
Speaker 1: three win in Cleveland from the Baptist Hill Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time
Speaker 1: Podcast Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and open the show
Speaker 1: with some sound here from Mike McDaniel, who was asked
Speaker 1: after the game talking about the Dolphins turn around from
Speaker 1: two to six to six and two to get themselves
Speaker 1: back to eight to eight and at five hundred for
Speaker 1: the first time since Week number two of the NFL season,
Speaker 1: and Adam Beasley of Pro Football Network had this tweet
Speaker 1: about how there were ten teams following Week nine that
Speaker 1: had six losses this year, and the Dolphins are six
Speaker 1: and two since that mark, and the other ten teams
Speaker 1: that were in that category are ten and forty five
Speaker 1: over that same stretch of games. So the Dolphins were
Speaker 1: the one team from that group that turned things around.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on Miami
Speaker 1: getting back to eight and eight and giving themselves a
Speaker 1: chance to get back into the postseason, to get back
Speaker 1: over five hundred with a win over the Jets next Sunday.
Speaker 2: Very proud of of the locker room, and and the
Speaker 2: and the coaching staff and and just really everyone because
Speaker 2: this one was important for the obvious reasons, but also,
Speaker 2: you know, we were tuned six h staring at the
Speaker 2: l A Rams uh and and this game. Winning this
Speaker 2: game put us at six and two cents. And you know,
Speaker 2: some of the some of the best things in team
Speaker 2: sports occur when you have to galvanize together and there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people telling you, uh, uh, your season's
Speaker 2: over this, that or the other. So you know it,
Speaker 2: I think it speaks to speaks to that. And on
Speaker 2: top of all that, you're you're going through that stretch,
Speaker 2: you're you're five and two in your last seven games,
Speaker 2: and then you're and then uh, you know, on game
Speaker 2: day you're faced with, oh, yeah, you're not gonna have
Speaker 2: your starting quarterback. I think, you know, defensively, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: team football, they rose to the occasion having a couple
Speaker 2: of turnovers and uh not letting them into the end
Speaker 2: zone and and uh, guys made some plays just across
Speaker 2: the board. So it was a team win that felt
Speaker 2: real good for all the reasons above. And and uh,
Speaker 2: the one that was I thought earned through the you
Speaker 2: know not only this last work week, but the accumulation
Speaker 2: of work weeks as they bonded together.
Speaker 1: And if you look at this game by the numbers,
Speaker 1: it will not tell you the full story. Although there
Speaker 1: are some numbers that went in favor of the brow
Speaker 1: then I suppose kept them in the game. But Miami
Speaker 1: wins this one twenty to three. It felt kind of
Speaker 1: over when Jalen Ramsey broke up a pass in the
Speaker 1: end zone on Jerry Judy on a fourth down with
Speaker 1: a ten point lead and late in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: but both the teams get eighteen first downs. The Browns
Speaker 1: were far more efficient on the money down. They were
Speaker 1: seven for seventeen on third downs compared to Miami's two
Speaker 1: for eleven, but the Browns were also zero for four
Speaker 1: on fourth down. The Dolphins zero for one on a
Speaker 1: devon eight chan toss play that did not gain yardage
Speaker 1: on a fourth and one right on the fringe of
Speaker 1: field goal range. Miami had two hundred and eighty yards
Speaker 1: to Cleveland's two seventy six. Two h six of that
Speaker 1: came through the air, seventy four on the ground. The
Speaker 1: Browns did run for one hundred and fourteen and through
Speaker 1: for one sixty two in the game themselves. The Browns
Speaker 1: also had eighteen more plays than are No, nineteen more
Speaker 1: plays than Miami seventy six to fifty seven. Offensively, now,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins had two takeaways and no giveaways big portion
Speaker 1: of the game right there. Miami was sacked four times
Speaker 1: and had just one sack of Dorian Thompson Robinson. Also,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins penalties eleven for nine twenty four in this game,
Speaker 1: Cleveland nine for eighty four. And the Dolphins had possession
Speaker 1: for just over thirty minutes in this game. And it
Speaker 1: started off kind of how the previous non to a
Speaker 1: game started and probably cause a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: tightening of the old muscles across Dolphins Nation as it were.
Speaker 1: As Miami took a seven play, sixteen yard drive that
Speaker 1: ended in a punt after possessing the ball for four
Speaker 1: minutes to open the game, and it just started off
Speaker 1: like a lot of those other drives in the either
Speaker 1: Skylar Thompson or previous Tyler Huntley starts where it starts
Speaker 1: off with a couple of positive runs and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins on first downs when Huntley's in the game,
Speaker 1: like those play action shots to start the drives, they
Speaker 1: typically get the Dolphins like fifteen to eighteen yards. Now,
Speaker 1: this drive kicked off with a eight yard devon a
Speaker 1: chan run. They converted on a screenplay on the on
Speaker 1: the next play, they get themselves another positive run on
Speaker 1: first down. In the next series of plays, but then
Speaker 1: you get a pre snap penalty and a false start,
Speaker 1: you get a personal foul and a low cut block,
Speaker 1: a bad snap essentially kills an entire play, and then
Speaker 1: you have a holding call on a screen pass on
Speaker 1: third down that's kind of a position field position type
Speaker 1: of call. So just a very frustrating start in a
Speaker 1: game where it felt like points were going to be
Speaker 1: at a premium, and that drive did little to inspire
Speaker 1: confidence that Miami would be the ones that would find
Speaker 1: the points to get themselves in the winner circle. But
Speaker 1: luckily the defense on the other side really took care
Speaker 1: of that. From jump three and out to open the game,
Speaker 1: three play four yard drive and it was Tyrrel dots
Speaker 1: and flying all over the field making all kinds of plays.
Speaker 1: He had fifteen tackles in this game and a pick
Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about here in just one second,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins create a third and six on this
Speaker 1: opening drive. And this opening drive kind of told me
Speaker 1: how it was going to go from a Dolphins defensive perspective, because, look,
Speaker 1: Dorian Thompson Robinson minimal playing experience. He's the Browns third
Speaker 1: quarterback to play this year. We saw what happens when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins got to their third quarterback, like it is tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough when you don't have your starter, not much
Speaker 1: less when you don't have your backup. And so on
Speaker 1: QB number three, there was a third and six play
Speaker 1: and they had like a too high coverage look where
Speaker 1: the I think it would Jerry Judy had out leveraged
Speaker 1: the split field safety that was to that side of
Speaker 1: the field and you could just see like the corner
Speaker 1: route was going to open up. But Dorian Thompson Robinson
Speaker 1: was late to see it. He had to kind of
Speaker 1: see the receiver get out of the break and get
Speaker 1: to that leverage and then he threw it and because
Speaker 1: of that, it was late and thanks to Dotson's tackle
Speaker 1: for loss to open the game, Cater Kohu making a
Speaker 1: nice play like he does on screen game to get
Speaker 1: a short game. On the second down play, you created
Speaker 1: a third long situation from jump and the quarterback missed
Speaker 1: the throw in my opinion, to get the defense off
Speaker 1: the field right away. And I just wrote, you have
Speaker 1: to find a way to capitalize on this if you
Speaker 1: are the Dolphins, because this is a quarterback with very
Speaker 1: minimal experience who clearly is not comfortable yet at this
Speaker 1: level to play at a high level, which is evident
Speaker 1: by his one touchdown to nine picks and a uypa
Speaker 1: under four yards average at this point of his career.
Speaker 1: Miami gets it back and points, and it felt like
Speaker 1: any points at this point of the game kind of
Speaker 1: felt like it was going to be one of those
Speaker 1: huge right because we've Dolphins fans know like what thirteen
Speaker 1: to ten wins look like, going back to the Wance
Speaker 1: dead day and the Sperano days and into the Joe
Speaker 1: Philbin days. This team won a lot of games this
Speaker 1: millennium thirteen to ten or sixteen to ten, like defense
Speaker 1: has kind of been it's calling card over those, you know,
Speaker 1: years before Mike McDaniel brought his high flying offense here.
Speaker 1: And so it's a seven play, just twenty six yard
Speaker 1: drive that takes three and a half minutes off the clock,
Speaker 1: but Jason Sanders kisses the crossbar and nudges it over
Speaker 1: the crossbar for a fifty four yard field goal to
Speaker 1: continue his run. He made another field goal later in
Speaker 1: the game, so he is now twenty six consecutive field
Speaker 1: goals made that of course as a franchise record. And
Speaker 1: this drive began, like I talked about the comeback to
Speaker 1: Tyreek more of like a curl route because he's not
Speaker 1: breaking this thing off to the sideline, but he brings
Speaker 1: that route back down the middle of the field, which
Speaker 1: is a curl route, and Huntley was hitting those all
Speaker 1: that long, those curls and glances and slants down the middle,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was a big area of progress
Speaker 1: and his game will talk about that and the takeaways.
Speaker 1: But Miami finds their way into scoring range on that
Speaker 1: John News screen that kind of you know, had been
Speaker 1: not figured out, but defenses were privy too early on
Speaker 1: for a fifth teen yard play. Then eight Chan we
Speaker 1: get a holding call that backs is up to third
Speaker 1: and eighteen and they throw a check down to eight
Speaker 1: Chan that gets you know, ten more yards to put
Speaker 1: him back into field goal range. And every yard of
Speaker 1: that play was needed because the the field goal kicked
Speaker 1: off the crossbar and went in. So Dolphins leaded three
Speaker 1: to nothing after about halfway through the first quarter. But
Speaker 1: then Cleveland mount to drive their own The kind of
Speaker 1: had you thinking like maybe this team can you know,
Speaker 1: post some offensive numbers in this game, as fourteen plays,
Speaker 1: sixty six yard drive, seven minutes, twenty seconds off the
Speaker 1: clock results in a twenty five yard field goal. And
Speaker 1: I just wrote down that Jordan Brooks was already all
Speaker 1: over the field. He stiffed out a tight end leak
Speaker 1: and ran it down for a two yard game after
Speaker 1: he caught that football stuff's a run for a loss.
Speaker 1: And he heats up Dorian Thompson Robinson for a pressure,
Speaker 1: but they hit a holding call on Storm Duck in
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield. Then dtr converts a third and short
Speaker 1: on a quarterback sweep, and then he throws a couple
Speaker 1: of balls that Javon Holland gets hands on but can't
Speaker 1: make the plays. And it was like three plays in
Speaker 1: this drive because Jordan Brooks had one earlier where he
Speaker 1: cut off the hook zone and the ball just got
Speaker 1: into that window. And I was like, that's three balls
Speaker 1: that really were a fraction of a second wave from
Speaker 1: going back the other way. Just kind of felt like
Speaker 1: that many bang bang plays, you're not gonna you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough making a living that way. Through
Speaker 1: the course of a sixty minute game, we miss a
Speaker 1: tackle one of eighteen yards of room Ford runners. Javon
Speaker 1: Holland comes down and he kind of puts a stiff
Speaker 1: arm on him and gets around that tackle. Then Benito
Speaker 1: Joes stuffs up a run play for no game, getting
Speaker 1: off a double team. Then a Ramsey breaks up a
Speaker 1: pass and a slant to create a third down, and
Speaker 1: then they run the football and we snuff it out
Speaker 1: right away. So the Dolphins get off the field down
Speaker 1: in a little red zone. Great to see that in
Speaker 1: a game like this. Imy takes the football back and
Speaker 1: punts it back after four plays twenty six yards. Once again,
Speaker 1: one of those Glands rounts to Tyreek Hill to kick
Speaker 1: off the drive. The ball was out before the break,
Speaker 1: the footwork, the timing was on point, big con big
Speaker 1: compleation to kick off the drive. We stay on schedule
Speaker 1: for a first down run, but b gap penetration on
Speaker 1: the second down play gets us behind the chains. Then
Speaker 1: they kind of bust a protection where they broke through
Speaker 1: the left guard position and snoop pass to flee and
Speaker 1: throw it away. We kick it into the end zone
Speaker 1: a net just twenty four yards. So it's like this
Speaker 1: game of fine margins where you have to find your
Speaker 1: way to get advantages in those margins. It's not going
Speaker 1: your way so far early, but luckily it's still three
Speaker 1: to three. The Browns get the ball back and do
Speaker 1: a quick three and out twenty four second drive and
Speaker 1: a very weird play from Jerry Judy, who had eighteen
Speaker 1: targets in twelve catches in this game, but it didn't
Speaker 1: feel like he had a good game because he had
Speaker 1: a big drop at one point and this play would
Speaker 1: have been an eight yard game to kick off the drive,
Speaker 1: but he just loses track of where he is in
Speaker 1: the field and doesn't put his feet in bounds and
Speaker 1: costs his team eight yards in a catch on the play.
Speaker 1: They drop a pass on second down that was originally
Speaker 1: ruled a backwards pass and Dolphins' fumble recovery but got overturned.
Speaker 1: And that's been how many times has that happen to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins this year? What happened again in this game?
Speaker 1: Third and ten Tyrrel Dawson has a great spy rep
Speaker 1: on dtr forces him into a throwaway where he mirrors
Speaker 1: him at at the line of scrimmage, rolls out to
Speaker 1: the right and made a couple of plays in the
Speaker 1: game at this point and gets the Browns offense off
Speaker 1: the field. Miami goes right back to the same well
Speaker 1: on the previous drive as they do to open this drive.
Speaker 1: It's a dig route full speed, almost retreats and runs
Speaker 1: that tries to outrun the bat by going backwards, but
Speaker 1: thinks better of it and goes down and picks up
Speaker 1: thirteen yards on that play. It's an effective play to
Speaker 1: open drives. They get, you know, chunk plays to kick
Speaker 1: off things. But then another negative play they blow up
Speaker 1: the end a round to Maleak Washington for a loss
Speaker 1: of eleven and that rightly kills the drive. Elijah Campbell
Speaker 1: then has a punt very well covered, but the return
Speaker 1: man calls fair catch and then blocks and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and I couldn't see the flag
Speaker 1: on the broadcast right away. But luckily they eventually got
Speaker 1: to that and showed you that the Dolphins were going
Speaker 1: to have a drive for the Browns beginning on the
Speaker 1: five yard line, and I wrote down, you need to
Speaker 1: find a way to make this a three and out
Speaker 1: drive or turnover. And they didn't get the three and out,
Speaker 1: but they would get a Tyreil Dotson interception right at midfield.
Speaker 1: The Browns ran it for eight yards on the opening
Speaker 1: two plays of that drive. Backed up, they get a
Speaker 1: full back dive for a first down, and I was
Speaker 1: I was mad because I'm like, man, we had to
Speaker 1: get this is a chance where if you get a
Speaker 1: three and out on the opposing team inside their own
Speaker 1: ten yard line, it almost always leads to points. Like
Speaker 1: the percentages are very high of that. I felt like
Speaker 1: that was a spot to kind of have the defense
Speaker 1: get a big win backed up. But luckily they would
Speaker 1: blow up a play from DeShawn Hand who draws a
Speaker 1: holding call and it kind of resets that previous situation.
Speaker 1: But then the Browns get a first down after a
Speaker 1: seventeen yard shot to Jerry Judy. Then deontaey Foreman moves
Speaker 1: the sticks, and then Tyrrel Dotson. This is when my
Speaker 1: ferret plays the entire game, because the Dolphins kind of
Speaker 1: baited dtr into this throw and then Dotson just executed
Speaker 1: and made the play. Like you saw the two high safeties.
Speaker 1: They both played half field coverage and they widened and
Speaker 1: almost like invited this throw to the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: and dtr obliged him by ripping this slant route and
Speaker 1: Dotson just gets a lot of depth on that hook drop,
Speaker 1: and Juice O. J mcduffee was kind of like, was
Speaker 1: that Tampa too him? Like, I don't think it was,
Speaker 1: because he wasn't like running the pipe. He was just
Speaker 1: kind of dropping into the hook zone. Made a great
Speaker 1: play on the football. But they takes his helmet off
Speaker 1: and costs US fifteen yards and back show up to
Speaker 1: the thirty five yard line, and then the offense goes
Speaker 1: three plays negative nine yards and two and a half minutes.
Speaker 1: We get hit with a hold to open the drive.
Speaker 1: It's now six for sixty and just looking not pretty right,
Speaker 1: five of those coming on the offense. Then Isaiah Win
Speaker 1: gets beat across his face and Huntly gets sacked and
Speaker 1: it's third and twenty two. We false start back to
Speaker 1: the eighteen yard line. Like it went. You lost thirty
Speaker 1: two yards on the penalties and the loss of yardage
Speaker 1: on those ensuing plays and they pump the ball back
Speaker 1: in the Brown start at the forty two yard line.
Speaker 1: So again in the game where it felt like you
Speaker 1: had to win in the margins. It wasn't going that
Speaker 1: way early, but then the entire game turned on this
Speaker 1: next drive. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: rate there, come back on the other side and get
Speaker 1: to that drive. The second half, we'll take another break
Speaker 1: and get to the five takeaways all that. Next Draft
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Speaker 1: could be Monday morning the time you hear this podcast
Speaker 1: probably will be for most of you, guys, but you
Speaker 1: are looking at a situation right here. At this point
Speaker 1: of the game, Dolphins are tied up three apiece, it
Speaker 1: is under two minutes to play, and the Browns have
Speaker 1: it in plus territory. After a couple of runs, they
Speaker 1: incomplete a throw on the strangest OUTRW I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: where Derwan Thompson Robinson throws it at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage to the hash like a far hash throw, but
Speaker 1: it gains no yards in a speedout where the ball
Speaker 1: was so far up the field, the receiver had to
Speaker 1: come back to the line of scrimmage to make the catch.
Speaker 1: They can put a nine yard pass on third and
Speaker 1: ten and it creates a fourth and one from the
Speaker 1: plus thirty eight yard line late in the first half,
Speaker 1: and they have the win with their backs. It kind
Speaker 1: of feels like this could be a spot where they
Speaker 1: take a league get the ball at the halftime, and
Speaker 1: then if in the second half, if they go march
Speaker 1: and score on that drive, Like could be you know,
Speaker 1: getting early, dark early for the Dolphins here in this
Speaker 1: week's seventeen game. But none of that happened because the
Speaker 1: Dolphins bow up and Kalaias Campbell makes not the first
Speaker 1: of but one of many plays he made in this game.
Speaker 1: Quintin Bell there on the stop as well as Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler to stack up the Cleveland run and get the
Speaker 1: Dolphins the football back and they would pay it off
Speaker 1: on the other side by a five play forty one
Speaker 1: yard field goal drive. We could a defensive pass interference
Speaker 1: on John Smith who got clobbered by Martin Emerson who
Speaker 1: winds up making like an NFL street pick. Can remember
Speaker 1: that game, how you could like jump in the air
Speaker 1: and like spin and do backflips and catch the football
Speaker 1: like I don't know how the hell he caught that ball,
Speaker 1: but he did, and runs all the way back to
Speaker 1: like the twenty three yard line or something like that.
Speaker 1: But luckily he was all over the back of John
Speaker 1: hus Smith. And rather than having first down in Dolphins
Speaker 1: territory for the Browns having the football, the Dolphins maintain
Speaker 1: possession and have it in Cleveland territory. Then a League
Speaker 1: Washington makes this really sick catching a ball thrown behind him,
Speaker 1: juggling at getting hit and controls it going to the
Speaker 1: ground at the plus thirty seven yard line. But Tron
Speaker 1: Armstead gets nicked up and has to leave the game
Speaker 1: and would not return. Patrick Paul filled in for him
Speaker 1: at left tackle. Down the stretch, Maleak makes another catch
Speaker 1: on a hookup and he immediately gets upfield and find
Speaker 1: space ball to plus thirty yard line. We go back
Speaker 1: to that well one more time for seven more yards,
Speaker 1: and then Jason Sanders connects on a forty yard field
Speaker 1: goal to give the Dolphins a six to three half
Speaker 1: time lead, and then the Browns have the football coming
Speaker 1: out of the break, And this is where that was
Speaker 1: kind of where the game turned to me, this is
Speaker 1: where the game was solidified and how it was going
Speaker 1: to go. The Browns go three and out, They drop
Speaker 1: a third down conversion and leads to a three and
Speaker 1: out with Jerry Judy still struggling on the night, and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins take it back and go six plays seventy
Speaker 1: two yards and three minutes in cap but off of
Speaker 1: a thirteen yard Tyler Huntley touchdown run. Both Denzel Ward
Speaker 1: and Jordan Hicks were down to start the half, and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins came out and went right to Tygreek hill.
Speaker 1: Because we talked about in the preview podcast with Daniel
Speaker 1: Oyufuzi that he said the Denzel Ward had been playing
Speaker 1: so locked down all year long with the other two
Speaker 1: cornerbacks had their struggles. And Miami throws that curl to
Speaker 1: Tyreek for fifteen yards and then we or rather they
Speaker 1: he hits like twelve or thirteen yards. Then they have
Speaker 1: a face mask on Tyreek attacks on fifteen more yards.
Speaker 1: Then we rip an RPO to Maleak for twelve yards
Speaker 1: where Snoop is starting to fill the rhythm. And also
Speaker 1: on this drive they had Jeff Wilson where heem Moster,
Speaker 1: Jalen wright All took snaps on this drive after a
Speaker 1: heavy dose of Devon ah Chan early, so it was
Speaker 1: kind of cool to see the entire running back room
Speaker 1: gets some play. And then on third and eight twenty
Speaker 1: nine yard line, the Dolphins are you know, this is
Speaker 1: a spot where they went what was it one for
Speaker 1: eleven on third downs? Well, here it was. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was the one conversion they got and they had
Speaker 1: to have it in the spot two for eleven. I
Speaker 1: apologize one of their two third downs they had conversions on.
Speaker 1: He throws this gland sproute to River Kraykraft, who stacked
Speaker 1: the corner back behind him, makes a tough, contested catch,
Speaker 1: and then Huntley makes his play of his Dolphins career
Speaker 1: with a thirteen yard touchdown scramble where he got out
Speaker 1: to the right, made some moves, cut it back and
Speaker 1: found the end zone. And the Dolphins, in a game
Speaker 1: where points just felt like an absolute premium, take this
Speaker 1: thirteen to three lead like halfway through the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and it felt like that was a chance, kind of
Speaker 1: a spot where they put the game away. But it
Speaker 1: wouldn't go that way because the Browns would go three
Speaker 1: and out on the next drive and Zach Steeler made
Speaker 1: this play to open the drive where he ran to
Speaker 1: the perimeter on this design DTR run from the five technique,
Speaker 1: and it just like it reminded me of like when
Speaker 1: he rides the wave on outside zone from a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle position. But I can't explain how tough this is,
Speaker 1: like the way he was able to stay on the
Speaker 1: outside edge of that play and force it back inside.
Speaker 1: The Browns then falls start. It creates a third and thirteen.
Speaker 1: Then Kalaius Campbell has a great pass rush where he
Speaker 1: wraps up DTR who tries to throw it away but
Speaker 1: gets hit for grounding. So not only did the Dolphins
Speaker 1: force three out here, they knock him back fourteen yards
Speaker 1: and give the Dolphins offense even better field position. And
Speaker 1: we get an opening attitude run from Raheem Moster on
Speaker 1: first down of that drive, but then nothing on second down.
Speaker 1: And then Miles Garrett wins inside on Patrick Paul for
Speaker 1: a sec. And I was going to compliment how well
Speaker 1: he was doing in the few series I had seen
Speaker 1: of him, and I would actually argue that he probably
Speaker 1: required some help on that play because you saw on
Speaker 1: the on the snap they slid the left side of
Speaker 1: the offensive line with both Jones and Brewer that way,
Speaker 1: but Garrett crossed his face and he split the two
Speaker 1: defenders or the offensive lineman I should say, which, Hey, Miles,
Speaker 1: Garrett's done that a few times in his career, right,
Speaker 1: so there's nothing to be ashamed about with him beating you.
Speaker 1: But I thought that he was able to kind of
Speaker 1: beat the Dolphins protection plan with that pass rush and
Speaker 1: get Miami off the field after three plays in just
Speaker 1: one yard. Took a little less than two minutes off
Speaker 1: the clock. And then the Browns get it back down
Speaker 1: by ten and again like game. On still six play,
Speaker 1: fourteen yard drive that concludes, they sack fumble from Manuel
Speaker 1: Ogbad recovered by DeShawn Hand. They moved it into Miami
Speaker 1: territory on a scramble and a defense holding call onto
Speaker 1: Sean Hand, and then Kalais sniffs out a zone read
Speaker 1: and just crashes on dtr and tackles him in the
Speaker 1: backfield for a three yard loss. Gosh, Kalayis emptied the
Speaker 1: tank in this game, which is playing at a different
Speaker 1: level all night long. So such a valuable player for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins this year. Then Ogba has his best pass
Speaker 1: rush of the entire year where he just completely completely
Speaker 1: took the right tackle to school. You could see, and
Speaker 1: that's Jack Conklin. That's not like a shlub out there.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best right tackles in the league
Speaker 1: for the last you know, basically decade. And he goes
Speaker 1: for the punch and Ogba just swipes the hands down,
Speaker 1: angles around the corner and gets the ball out of
Speaker 1: the hands of the quarterback to Sean hann falls on
Speaker 1: it and the Dolphins are right back in business. But
Speaker 1: they turn it over on downs on the ensuing drive
Speaker 1: where they ran a toss sweep on fourth and inches.
Speaker 1: McDaniel talked about it after the game, saying, like, obviously
Speaker 1: I wanted to play to work. It didn't work out
Speaker 1: that way. But they go on the outside run that
Speaker 1: does not get enough for a first down, and the
Speaker 1: Browns get the ball back, and this is where the
Speaker 1: game kind of got interesting again. It's an eleven play,
Speaker 1: fifty nine yard drive, took four months off the clock,
Speaker 1: and they turn it over on downs after we lost
Speaker 1: consecutive challenges. But yeah, they challenged the third down play
Speaker 1: before the eighth cham play, and I still think that
Speaker 1: Snoop got it, but there's not really a great angle
Speaker 1: a great shot of it for you to get the
Speaker 1: information you need. And then the Dolphins. The Browns throw
Speaker 1: a pass that quite frankly, maybe I'm laterally challenged, but
Speaker 1: I thought that was a backwards pass this time around,
Speaker 1: and I thought Maya's gonna have an issue because nobody
Speaker 1: actually fell on the ball. It got batted around for
Speaker 1: quite a while after the whistle had blown, so I
Speaker 1: didn't think there was a clear recovery because of that.
Speaker 1: But a man, that sure felt like a pass that
Speaker 1: was at least down the line of scrimmage, if not
Speaker 1: backwards by a little bit. But they do hit a
Speaker 1: big run on the drive after that play didn't go
Speaker 1: our way and we lost our second challenge and our
Speaker 1: second time out of the half. They hit a big
Speaker 1: play with basically running the ball right after Jordan Brooks
Speaker 1: splitz and they get down to the thirty two yard line.
Speaker 1: The rain picks up really heavily at this point. Dtr
Speaker 1: misses a throw that has a completion to the twenty
Speaker 1: five yard line, setting up a third and four play.
Speaker 1: They hit Jerry Judy on it out we have a
Speaker 1: switch release where Storm Duck and Jordan Poyer switch it,
Speaker 1: and just because of the route combination they had, it
Speaker 1: was the right read and the right throw from dtr
Speaker 1: Sometimes that just happens. Offenses can be tough to stop
Speaker 1: when they are on their stuff. That's what happens here.
Speaker 1: Then Quentin Bell does an awesome job on second in
Speaker 1: goal to get downhill and force a throwaway with the
Speaker 1: Browns threatening to make it a one score game, a
Speaker 1: three point game, even defense bows up on third down.
Speaker 1: They run the ball on third and three down that situation,
Speaker 1: which again kind of tells you where they're thinking, Like
Speaker 1: obviously in that spot they're thinking four down territory. But
Speaker 1: I think part of that has to do with the
Speaker 1: fact that, again you're starting a quarterback who just doesn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of experience or success in this league
Speaker 1: to this point. And Seth and oj Now were kind
Speaker 1: of discussing this kind of seem like probably a spot
Speaker 1: to kick the field goal there, because with the way
Speaker 1: the rain was going, like maybe field goals aren't going
Speaker 1: to be as easy as you think they might be
Speaker 1: later on in the game. And I understand they probably
Speaker 1: felt like they had to get a touchdown being that close,
Speaker 1: but they throw a fourth down slant to Jerry Judy,
Speaker 1: who's their best player. Right, makes sense to do that,
Speaker 1: but he actually beats Jalen Ramsey on the release and
Speaker 1: kind of had him stacked a little bit. But Ramsey
Speaker 1: is I mentioned this on I Think the Friday podcast,
Speaker 1: like how I've just saw him around the building and
Speaker 1: he's looks like a linebacker. Well, he looks like a
Speaker 1: linebacker and still moves like a premier cornerback because he
Speaker 1: recovers in time to get himself right back into great
Speaker 1: shape and makes the biggest pass defense he's made of
Speaker 1: the entire season to get the Dolphins defense off the field.
Speaker 1: Miami cannot cash it. On the other side. They go
Speaker 1: three and out, three plays five yards. Malik Washington had
Speaker 1: a tough drop on a second and ten throw that
Speaker 1: would have been a first down from the three yard line. Instead,
Speaker 1: we have to kind of play field position. Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: runs it out for five more yards, which I felt
Speaker 1: was the right call. Just punt the ball back and
Speaker 1: stay safe because right now the defense allowing three points.
Speaker 1: You can't lose the game doing that, And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. The Browns get the ball back, they go
Speaker 1: three plays, negative nine yards, one minute off the clock,
Speaker 1: and Javon Holland has a free run on dtr who
Speaker 1: gets hit for his third intentional grounding of the night.
Speaker 1: Becomes third and twenty three. They can't overcome that and
Speaker 1: they have to punt it back to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins take the ensuing drive and they don't score.
Speaker 1: But there was another play where Tyler Huntley on third
Speaker 1: and seven has an eighteen yard scramble where he's able
Speaker 1: to step up out of pressure and weave around the
Speaker 1: field and do a pure wet spin move That didn't
Speaker 1: really do anything for him, but it was still fun
Speaker 1: to watch to just two up more time off the clock.
Speaker 1: It's an eight play, thirty two yard drive that takes
Speaker 1: five and a half minutes off the clock. And then
Speaker 1: Jake Bayley gives you the full complement. Right the defensive stop,
Speaker 1: the offense kills some clock, the special teams hammers a
Speaker 1: punt down to the two yard line, and they down
Speaker 1: that thing right there. The Browns have no choice but
Speaker 1: to try to play four down football. They turn it
Speaker 1: over on downs after Jordan Brooks makes a fantastic tackle
Speaker 1: on fourth down to get the ball back to the
Speaker 1: Dolphins inn plus territory, and they would call game on
Speaker 1: the ensuing drive with a four play, twenty one yard
Speaker 1: touchdown drive capped off by a seven yard touchdown pass
Speaker 1: from Tyler Snoop Huntley to John new Smith, who then
Speaker 1: ties the Dolphins all time franchise record for touchdowns by
Speaker 1: a tight end in a season, a chance to break
Speaker 1: that next week. The Browns would have a twelve play
Speaker 1: turnover on down drives after that, and Miami would end
Speaker 1: the game by kneeling it out on the ensuing drive.
Speaker 1: So twenty three the Dolphins are winners. Before we get
Speaker 1: into the five takeaways. To close this podcast up, I
Speaker 1: want to play some audio here from Mike McDaniel who
Speaker 1: addressed the two a tongue by loa injury and the
Speaker 1: inactive for the game, and also the response by Tyler
Speaker 1: Huntley to get the Dolphins this critical win against the
Speaker 1: Browns here in week seventeen.
Speaker 2: It's been all since the last game. Process. You know,
Speaker 2: he he the hip injury which he sustained in the
Speaker 2: Houston game. It was made worse on one particular play
Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: So then.
Speaker 2: You come in and you see that the injury is
Speaker 2: a little worse. But then you try to forecast, you know,
Speaker 2: how things will heal based upon the only thing that
Speaker 2: you have to work with, which is the previous week's forecast,
Speaker 2: you know, from the Houston game to the San Francisco game.
Speaker 2: So we were hoping, in anticipating for a timeline similar
Speaker 2: to that, and as the week progressed, uh, we didn't
Speaker 2: see the improvement we had hoped. But still uh still
Speaker 2: really you know, allowing his body the full amount of
Speaker 2: time to heal, and you know, ultimately he absolutely wanted
Speaker 2: to play. It wasn't a pain tolerance thing because he
Speaker 2: that's not in the equation for him. He wasn't physically.
Speaker 2: The main thing was is that he uh not only
Speaker 2: was super susceptible to a much more significant injury based
Speaker 2: upon uh that injury if he were to uh fall
Speaker 2: in harm's way, but uh, you know, a major factor
Speaker 2: was the the lack of strength due to the injury
Speaker 2: and his inability, as we forecasted, to TechEd himself and
Speaker 2: his teammates, uh within the pocket and doing the things
Speaker 2: that he normally has to do.
Speaker 1: So you know, the.
Speaker 2: Uh really the I think it was Friday or Saturday
Speaker 2: that uh, you know, the the hopeful trend of improvement. Uh,
Speaker 2: we were kind of faced with reality that that it
Speaker 2: was kind of plateauing right then and then, uh, but
Speaker 2: ultimately all the way up until this morning, I kind
Speaker 2: of kept a you know, an open mind and a
Speaker 2: hopeful mind. But you know, I think the major thing is, uh,
Speaker 2: is in the process. You know, I think what was
Speaker 2: evident was the the positives of time for for Snoop
Speaker 2: and and how far he's come since we last played
Speaker 2: with him. And you know, I thought that was a
Speaker 2: tremendous outing for him. Made some plays, was very good
Speaker 2: with the ball, and you know, those are always cool
Speaker 2: things for a player when they're playing a team that
Speaker 2: they were on that same calendar year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe you didn't know that, but the Tyler
Speaker 1: Huntley was on the Browns roster this summer and then
Speaker 1: was cut and signed to the Ravens practice squad. So
Speaker 1: the Dolphins signed him off the Rayvens practice squad, but
Speaker 1: he did spend the off season with the Cleveland brown
Speaker 1: so he gets to win over his former team. There.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
Speaker 1: come back into the five takeaways. That's Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Dolphins winners over the Cleveland Browns, and we should by
Speaker 1: the time you hear this podcast know what time the
Speaker 1: Dolphins will be playing their Week eighteen game. I think
Speaker 1: there's a possibility it could be on Saturday in primetime.
Speaker 1: There's a possibility it could be a four twenty five
Speaker 1: kickoff on Sunday. It just depends on how these results
Speaker 1: play out. There's really gonna be like five or maybe
Speaker 1: six games that have playoff implications, and the Dolphins could
Speaker 1: be one of the ones that find themselves in an
Speaker 1: island window or that the only game on because they
Speaker 1: are one of the biggest games that matters this coming weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that one second. The Dolphins first takeaway
Speaker 1: from this twenty three win over the Cleveland Browns, Tyler
Speaker 1: Huntley showed you something from the backup quarterback position you
Speaker 1: haven't seen in three years here under this current regime.
Speaker 1: I tweeted that I thought he was playing very good
Speaker 1: football and this was like maybe early second half, and
Speaker 1: it was met with some pushback on that, or rather
Speaker 1: just people saying lol. And I was really taken a
Speaker 1: back by that because I thought that I was watching
Speaker 1: a quarterback play on time and in rhythm in the
Speaker 1: way that no other quarterback has done in this system
Speaker 1: other than to a Tongua by Low. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a massive, massive step from where he played back
Speaker 1: in October, when we heard Tyreek Hill after the game
Speaker 1: or even Tyler Huntley after the game say like, now
Speaker 1: I'm more privy to the motions and shifts in the
Speaker 1: pre snap operation. Tyreek basically said that he didn't know
Speaker 1: the offense. But that's that's Tyreek being tyreekbviously hunting to
Speaker 1: do a little bit of the offense to play the games.
Speaker 1: But it just illustrates a point that like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was fresh and green in this offense and was tough
Speaker 1: for him to get going. And I thought this game
Speaker 1: was a clear example of growth with how he threw
Speaker 1: those curls and those glances on time and in rhythm.
Speaker 1: He made some scramble plays, including a tremendous touchdown run
Speaker 1: which came on the heels of that absolute shot to
Speaker 1: Crek Craft for a first down throw on third and eight.
Speaker 1: Those were the games where the plays where the game
Speaker 1: was kind of sealed. In my opinion, he played really
Speaker 1: good football. Twenty two for twenty six, two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five yards through the air, a rushing touchdown, and
Speaker 1: fifty three yards in the ground. That is really good football, folks.
Speaker 1: I don't care anybody says takeaway number two. And that's
Speaker 1: the downside of all this is the operation and penalties.
Speaker 1: It was just way too many. Eleven for ninety foursm
Speaker 1: is not good. There was drives in the game early
Speaker 1: that were kind of bogged down because of either holding
Speaker 1: or penalties rather or an errant snap at one point
Speaker 1: in the game, or missed opportunities seven for sixty five
Speaker 1: in the first half and the opening drive with the
Speaker 1: cut block, the false start, the hold. We had two
Speaker 1: special teams fouls on saran Neil. The Dotson penalty was
Speaker 1: just a lack of It was a mental air in
Speaker 1: that position that cost us a great field position. That
Speaker 1: stuff really went away when Tua came back back in October.
Speaker 1: But I was just disappointing to see that come back
Speaker 1: in a game like this, especially with the growth we
Speaker 1: saw from Huntley, because they could have had like three
Speaker 1: more scoring drives in my opinion, had they not just
Speaker 1: shot themselves in the foot number three is a defense
Speaker 1: did more than just hold up their end of the bargain.
Speaker 1: They made the splash plays that you kind of have
Speaker 1: to make in a game like this, right, because in
Speaker 1: a game like this, you kind of feel like the
Speaker 1: defense needs to do more than just get three and outs.
Speaker 1: Like Dotson on the lunging pick was a splash play.
Speaker 1: Ogba the amazing pass rush to get a massive takeaway
Speaker 1: Kalays Campbell, a bunch of negative plays, including a fourth
Speaker 1: down stop they got them off the field in Jordan
Speaker 1: Brooks as well. That tackle on the fourth down on
Speaker 1: their last gasp drive that was a perfectly timed up,
Speaker 1: well you know, bring your feet type of tackle. They
Speaker 1: went to their best on our best and the critical
Speaker 1: goal line stand and Jalen Ramsey steps up and makes
Speaker 1: a pass breakup and that was really the game kind
Speaker 1: of ended, right. Granted that a tough offense they faced,
Speaker 1: or they brought to the game tonight. You heard the
Speaker 1: comment early on about twenty three drives and having six
Speaker 1: points under dtr that became thirty drives at one point
Speaker 1: with just six points, But you didn't just hold him
Speaker 1: to three points. You gave the offense two short fields,
Speaker 1: so had to have it, got it from the defense.
Speaker 1: Fourth takeaway, how about all reliable Jason Sanders. I mean
Speaker 1: this guy, he's clutched as hell man fifty four yards
Speaker 1: into the wind. Then the kick at the end of
Speaker 1: the half to go up. You miss either of those kicks,
Speaker 1: I think you give the Browns a little bit of life.
Speaker 1: Twenty second, twenty six consecutive field goals, and after he
Speaker 1: wins November Special Teams Player of the Month, all he
Speaker 1: does is have two games in the stretch with five
Speaker 1: plus with five field goals to really help the mind
Speaker 1: to get two critical wins. Just been reliable in the
Speaker 1: elements and a beast with massive, massive performances and a
Speaker 1: big reason why we're in this position heading into the
Speaker 1: final game of the season. Speaking of that final position,
Speaker 1: the fifth takeaway, what a weekend it was. I've been
Speaker 1: complaining about this all your along. How that's freaking Chargers
Speaker 1: and Falcons game a few weeks back. That was like
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins throwing four picks and they still were driving
Speaker 1: late to win the game and threw a pick to
Speaker 1: end the game. And that Colts and Patriots game where
Speaker 1: the Colts hadn't done anything offensively all day and then
Speaker 1: on the final drive of the game, Anthony Richardson drives
Speaker 1: him eighty five yards and converts to two point conversion
Speaker 1: to win the game. It had just been that kind
Speaker 1: of year all year for the Miami Dolphins. But you
Speaker 1: get a big Broncos loss on Saturday after a game
Speaker 1: that shaved years off of my life because the Bengals
Speaker 1: had that thing won several times and tried to find
Speaker 1: a way to lose it. They do not. They get
Speaker 1: the big win. But then Sunday after the one o'clock
Speaker 1: window I always say morning because the West Coast brain
Speaker 1: still kicks in there, but the one o'clock window for
Speaker 1: the Giants to score forty five points to help the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Like I never would have predicted that in a million years.
Speaker 1: So what an awesome way to see your playoff odds
Speaker 1: go from six percent to twenty nine percent based on
Speaker 1: one model, which is not great, but thirty percent after
Speaker 1: you were six and eight, that's pretty dang good. And
Speaker 1: then the week eighteen schedule should be coming up anytime
Speaker 1: when you hear this podcast or in the morning Monday morning,
Speaker 1: I should say we will know what time Miami plays
Speaker 1: we'll get that on social media. Necessarily important for a
Speaker 1: podcast to have that coverage for you guys. So there
Speaker 1: you go. Dolphins win big twenty to three in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: All on the line next week in New York against
Speaker 1: the Jets. We'll have you covered all week long, including
Speaker 1: the All twenty two podcast review tomorrow on the show,
Speaker 1: and then we'll kick it off with Jets coverage starting
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. In the meantime, you all please be sure
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