Speaker 1: Booking Down, Fail, Cutsdown, Miami un What's up, Dolph Fans,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna ask you how it's going. I know how
Speaker 1: it's going. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, Dolphins fall seventeen to the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts to fall to one and three on the season.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the five takeaways we're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: Brian Flores in his postgame press conference. I thought he
Speaker 1: had a lot of good stuff to say in that
Speaker 1: press conference. And we'll also play a postgame show segment
Speaker 1: for you guys with myself, Seth and o J from
Speaker 1: right after this game, all on this edition of the
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Speaker 1: play this quickly today, guys, because I know there's not
Speaker 1: a lot you want to hear about right now. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this game critically here, and I want
Speaker 1: to jump into the five takeaways right off the bat,
Speaker 1: and the first one has to be the offensive struggles,
Speaker 1: or really, let's go ahead and call it what it is,
Speaker 1: the ineptitude of the offense total yards, inability to convert
Speaker 1: short yardage, missed downfield opportunities, offensive line and protection issues
Speaker 1: from the quarterback, running back, receivers, drop passes, muffing punts,
Speaker 1: everything you could want to go wrong. Through the first
Speaker 1: four games of the season for the offense, it's just
Speaker 1: not been good enough. And Brian Flora has intimated that
Speaker 1: fact as well in his postgame press conference. You look
Speaker 1: at even the touchdown Passavante Parker late in this game,
Speaker 1: like there's a wide open running back on the backside
Speaker 1: who's just staying there all alone. It's Malcolm Brown sitting there,
Speaker 1: wide open. And then on the Mica Sicki touchdown past,
Speaker 1: he's wide open and the ball hits him in the
Speaker 1: back hip and he trips and gets across the goal
Speaker 1: line but almost fails on that fourth down opportunity because
Speaker 1: of the past behind him. So every single instance for
Speaker 1: this offense right now, it just seems like it's a struggle.
Speaker 1: Seems like it's difficult for them to overcome any of
Speaker 1: the mistakes they make which apparently are appeared to be
Speaker 1: occurring on a play by play or drive by drive
Speaker 1: or series by series basis. And you know, the first
Speaker 1: three quarters of this game, once again, the offense kind
Speaker 1: of stuck in the mud. The only points they scored
Speaker 1: early on was off of the muff punt from the
Speaker 1: Colts early in this game, after a Dolphins four play
Speaker 1: eight yard drive that winds up with three points. After
Speaker 1: that muff punt right on the fringe of the red zone,
Speaker 1: the second drive of the game goes into field goal territory,
Speaker 1: but it gets knocked backwards kind of on the fringe
Speaker 1: of field goal range. On they sacked there on Jacoby Brissette.
Speaker 1: They went up punting that ball and getting them down
Speaker 1: at the one yard line, and then the offense gets
Speaker 1: to the ball back in the exact same position, but
Speaker 1: once again midfield cannot convert any first downs to get
Speaker 1: into scoring range. So the first three quarters looked a
Speaker 1: lot like the first three quarters of the Radar game,
Speaker 1: minus the defensive touchdown and the twenty four yard Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown touchdown run. And then once the fourth quarter comes around,
Speaker 1: it begins to open up a little bit explosive place
Speaker 1: on the first touchdown drive of the game, twenty one
Speaker 1: yards on that drive after the defense allows a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Right after that touchdown drive, Davante Parker forty two yards
Speaker 1: on the first play of that drive on a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty ball. So explosive plays are within this offense is capabilities.
Speaker 1: We just are not seeing it until very late in
Speaker 1: the game of the offense is right up against it,
Speaker 1: against the clock, against the scoreboard, and has to get points.
Speaker 1: Now that's when they can start to open things up
Speaker 1: and get some of the production there. But all things told, offensively,
Speaker 1: it's just not been good enough. You're gonna find this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team near the bottom of the rankings in every
Speaker 1: major major offensive statistical category when you open up the papers,
Speaker 1: or I guess more realistically, open up your website, your
Speaker 1: web browser tomorrow, because in this game from Miami offensively,
Speaker 1: at one point, Jonathan Taylor had more points in the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense combined. But for the Dolphins offensively in this
Speaker 1: game three of eleven on third down, they were two
Speaker 1: for two on fourth down. Two hundred three total yards,
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty eight passing yards, thirty five rushing yards,
Speaker 1: forty nine total plays and they wind up with two turnovers,
Speaker 1: three sacks allowed, and five penalties for thirty two yards
Speaker 1: and twenty two minutes fifty one seconds time of possession.
Speaker 1: But offensively right now, it's broken. I mean, what else
Speaker 1: can you say about it? Your quarterback is out. That
Speaker 1: happened back in week two. Three games now without two
Speaker 1: a tongue by Lowo for the most part, and the
Speaker 1: offense has very very has really really struggled to find
Speaker 1: any offensive efficiency or consistency or points or anything that
Speaker 1: you want to talk about positively. For the offense has
Speaker 1: been very difficult to come by. Injuries at the receiver position.
Speaker 1: Will Flour leaves this game with a hand injury and
Speaker 1: did not return. Waddle gets himself targets early in the game,
Speaker 1: maybe part of the play script early on, and makes
Speaker 1: a bunch of moves in eighteen yard reception to break
Speaker 1: a tackle and get yards after the catch. Then a
Speaker 1: nice catch on a little stick route where he puts
Speaker 1: his foot in the ground and makes a guy miss,
Speaker 1: and then has another catch that's for shorter yardage and
Speaker 1: then doesn't see the ball the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: Davanta Parker waits or not waits, but it took until
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to get Davanta Parker going for four
Speaker 1: catches for seventy seven yards. Mike get sick. He took
Speaker 1: him late in this game to get going for five
Speaker 1: matches for fifty seven yards. So the offensive weapons, to me,
Speaker 1: are there, and there are some drops here and there
Speaker 1: and some miscommunications and you know, just whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. At the receiver position, there have been some
Speaker 1: downsides to that position. But to me, that's been the
Speaker 1: strength of the offense and could be the strength of
Speaker 1: the offense going forward because right now, at the other positions,
Speaker 1: and that's the offense in total. As Brian Flores will
Speaker 1: tell you, it's just not good enough. The quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Balls are off target, they're late. There was an opportunity
Speaker 1: in this game, and it was right after a while.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of nice plays and big gains
Speaker 1: in this game where he comes open on a crossing
Speaker 1: route down the middle of the field and there's nobody
Speaker 1: near him and the ball goes short to Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: on a checkdown. The offensive line, that protection issues continue
Speaker 1: to be a problem through four games. I mean this
Speaker 1: this The quarterbacks are constantly under durest and trying to
Speaker 1: have to make plays. And I think we saw it
Speaker 1: kind of come to a head in this game when
Speaker 1: Jacobe Brissette tried to make a play where it was
Speaker 1: dead in the water. But I don't fault him because
Speaker 1: there was so many things going on around him as
Speaker 1: far as the scoreboard and the defense, as they have
Speaker 1: done this year in the second half, kind of start
Speaker 1: to let up on their grip on the opposing offenses
Speaker 1: throw as they've kind of hold teams down early on,
Speaker 1: and then things get a little bit wonky later on
Speaker 1: in the game, and I think Jacoby might have sensed
Speaker 1: that a little bit try to make a play where
Speaker 1: he just really tried to play hero ball and it
Speaker 1: wind up hurting him there on that fumble. So that's
Speaker 1: not good from the protection standpoint, from the quarterback standpoint,
Speaker 1: and you know, just Austin Jackson in this game, I
Speaker 1: thought had a really really rough go of it. He
Speaker 1: was chasing guys into the backfield for the majority of
Speaker 1: the game. I thought the m Eikenberg had some really
Speaker 1: rough moments as well, even on the interior, some of
Speaker 1: the communication stuff, some of the knock back in the
Speaker 1: running game, allowing penetration just the thirty eight yards in
Speaker 1: the ground as well, So I thought offensive line had
Speaker 1: a really rough go of it today as well. And
Speaker 1: then the tight end position also, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Kasiki has the big game receiving, but they had a
Speaker 1: possible chance to pin an edge and get a big
Speaker 1: run off the outside that he misses that block. Adam
Speaker 1: Shaheen Durham smythe a couple of times as well where
Speaker 1: the edge just does not quite get sealed the running backs,
Speaker 1: whether it's catching the football trying to find daylight in
Speaker 1: the running game, or in past protection, just across the board,
Speaker 1: it's not good enough. And so the first takeaway from
Speaker 1: this game is that the offense has just been completely
Speaker 1: inept through the first four games and they're going to
Speaker 1: see the consequences of that on the stats on Monday
Speaker 1: morning when you open up Pro Football Reference and go
Speaker 1: to the yards and yards per play and every big stat,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be near the bottom from Miami, and that's
Speaker 1: just not where you want to be four games into
Speaker 1: the season. Takeaway number two I thought was kind of
Speaker 1: a lot of these are gonna play off of that
Speaker 1: first takeaway. Takeaway number two is that I thought the
Speaker 1: Colts were playing in a position early in that game
Speaker 1: where there were some opportunities for Miami to attack vertically,
Speaker 1: And I mentioned the wattle throw a lot of Julian
Speaker 1: Blackman's single high looks in that game where he's playing
Speaker 1: off and guys are playing in tight and there zoning
Speaker 1: things up and and maybe some chances to go at field,
Speaker 1: and we we took a couple of later in the game,
Speaker 1: not so much earlier in the game, but once they
Speaker 1: did take those opportunities late in the game, some of
Speaker 1: the deep shots to Davante Parker certainly open things up.
Speaker 1: And I just think Miami is gonna have to find
Speaker 1: a way, whether it's taken with the defense gives you
Speaker 1: dialing up the deep shots within the game, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, They're gonna have to find a way
Speaker 1: to get more space and get more creativity and get
Speaker 1: more vertical in this offense because right now, the way
Speaker 1: things are going, I think opposing defenses have way too
Speaker 1: much confidence in playing in front of them and playing short,
Speaker 1: and it's really handcuffing what this offense can do, and handcuffing,
Speaker 1: like we talked about what the offense is main threat
Speaker 1: I think is is the vertical speed getting up field
Speaker 1: and the playmakers they have on offense. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go to Brian Flores who talked about the
Speaker 1: deep shots early in this game whether or not Miami
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to get deep in vertical. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go to the head coach of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins on the Dolphins attempt to get vertical in this game,
Speaker 1: trying to take a methodical approach early. Um, we did,
Speaker 1: you know, have some shot plays early, they covered them.
Speaker 1: We had to check them down and you know, we
Speaker 1: weren't able to you know, push it down the field
Speaker 1: as much as we wanted to early in the game.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's Brian Flores talking about the
Speaker 1: approach to try to get vertical, but the methodical approach
Speaker 1: wand up being the one they took there. So take
Speaker 1: away number two Colts kind of playing up tight to
Speaker 1: the Las scrimmage there in some instance, isn't giving some
Speaker 1: opportunities for Miami to get those deep shots. They hit
Speaker 1: a few of them later on, But once they opened
Speaker 1: it up. We talked about this in the Wednesday podcast
Speaker 1: last week. Right once they opened up the offense, explosive
Speaker 1: plays of one yards and then after the touchdown the
Speaker 1: defense allowed they come right back on a forty two
Speaker 1: yard pass at DeVante Parker on a fifty fifty ball
Speaker 1: that looked very good. So that's the takeaway number two.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number three here is that the takeaway streak continue
Speaker 1: from Miami. I know it was a muff punt that
Speaker 1: was the only one they got in the game, and
Speaker 1: really that's about where the game turns our for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, but they get the takeaway consecutive games. With
Speaker 1: a takeaway takeaway number four. Going right back into the
Speaker 1: offensive stuff here is that reports indicate that two a
Speaker 1: tongue of by lower from from Adam Schefter will be
Speaker 1: able to come back off the injury reserve and play
Speaker 1: in the Week six game in London. So hopefully that
Speaker 1: can kind of spark this offense and get things going
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And I pose this question to
Speaker 1: O Jim McDuffie post game about how how much of
Speaker 1: this offensive struggle so far can be tied back to
Speaker 1: the fact that you haven't had your starting quarterback who
Speaker 1: you spent the entire offseason kind of, you know, building
Speaker 1: an offensive identity around what he does well. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: want to build it not just for one player but
Speaker 1: for an entire team. But you also want to consider
Speaker 1: the strength of your quarterback, and I thought they did
Speaker 1: a good job of doing that in the offseason with
Speaker 1: the Jilan Waddle selection, with the Will Fuller selection. You
Speaker 1: also think about his quick release and the ball out
Speaker 1: factor in the RPO game and the vertical as well
Speaker 1: as the horizontal game. And when you do take the
Speaker 1: vertical shot, it's timing base so he can put the
Speaker 1: ball up early and let guys run under it. That
Speaker 1: kind of mitigates the not doesn't mitigate the need for
Speaker 1: good protection. You always need good protection, but it can
Speaker 1: help kind of shore up some of those potential woes
Speaker 1: if you do have protection issues up front. With a
Speaker 1: quick release of the quarterback. And to lose him really
Speaker 1: really after the first game because he played what two
Speaker 1: series and it was about five and a half minutes
Speaker 1: into the Buffalo game that he gets knocked out, I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see how this offense looks when he comes
Speaker 1: back in. Get some timing, get some rhythm, gets some
Speaker 1: stuff going for the offense. As far as having some
Speaker 1: content new, maybe they find a little bit more of
Speaker 1: their identity in those next couple of weeks before he
Speaker 1: comes back for the Jacksonville game and they can hopefully
Speaker 1: hit the ground running when he comes back healthy. But
Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter, he says that sounds like two was
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to play coming off the i R
Speaker 1: in Week six in London. But of course we have
Speaker 1: a game next week in Tampa Bay that will be
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette at quarterback once again. As Brian Flores told
Speaker 1: us post game that there was no thought in his
Speaker 1: mind to go to read senate after Jacoby Brissette struggles
Speaker 1: here for his third game here with the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: under center, and then take away number five. Some of
Speaker 1: the stuff I liked in this game. I thought Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle had a lot of good moments operating in space.
Speaker 1: I talked about the three catches he made and just
Speaker 1: the moves he put out there and the way he
Speaker 1: comparatively moves to other guys on a National Football League field.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it shouldn't look like that for anybody, and
Speaker 1: for a rookie to come in and look that good man.
Speaker 1: It's the way he moves and the way he can
Speaker 1: kind of put defenders in conflict the way he did
Speaker 1: on that catch the stick route where he makes a
Speaker 1: move and and break some ankles. I thought that was
Speaker 1: very impressive and early in this game to get him
Speaker 1: the ball early on in the script of the game.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they can find a way to continue pumping him
Speaker 1: the football and get him down the field, because we
Speaker 1: talked about it again on the postgame show. Zero real
Speaker 1: vertical shots so far this year to Jalan Waddle since
Speaker 1: that first pass from two to Waddle for thirty six
Speaker 1: yards in the Patriots game. But I thought he was
Speaker 1: a real bright spot and a tough tough game to
Speaker 1: find bright spots. I liked Waddles game. Also thought Mike A.
Speaker 1: Sikey had some good moments in the passing game. They're
Speaker 1: late obviously five for fifty seven and the touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: Davante Parker just showing you what he does best, right
Speaker 1: going up and getting the football, winning those one on
Speaker 1: one matchups. It doesn't really matter if he's covered on
Speaker 1: those contested balls. DeVante park is gonna find a way
Speaker 1: to go up and get the football. And then also
Speaker 1: the two other guys in my list here are two
Speaker 1: edge rushers, Jalen Phillips had a bunch of QB hits today.
Speaker 1: I'll we'll see the number tomorrow on the recap show
Speaker 1: or the the omission show. It had to have been
Speaker 1: at least three QB hits. Also gets his first career
Speaker 1: half sack, teaming up with Sam edg Van on a
Speaker 1: third down stack to get the Dolphins defense off the field.
Speaker 1: And then Emmanuel Ogba as well. I thought he played
Speaker 1: a fantastic game, getting after the quarterback, stuffing the run
Speaker 1: he had to drive in the second quarter. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was the first quarter where he basically stopped the entire
Speaker 1: drive by himself, had the run stop right at the
Speaker 1: line for no game, had a pressure on Wentz that
Speaker 1: forced an errand throw, and then comes back on third
Speaker 1: down and gets the sack to get the defense off
Speaker 1: the field. So, if you want to look at some
Speaker 1: of the positive individual performances, I thought those guys were
Speaker 1: you're positive takeaways. Now those are the five takeaways, But
Speaker 1: I feel like that's not sufficient enough for this postgame
Speaker 1: recap podcast because we we really got to talk about
Speaker 1: some of the shortcomings and things that went wrong for
Speaker 1: this football team. Number one thing is this team is
Speaker 1: going to have to find a way. It's still so
Speaker 1: early in the season, Like, you can't just sit here
Speaker 1: and say, well, one of three tough, tough luck for us.
Speaker 1: I guess he again next year. That can't happen for
Speaker 1: just for this season for sure, but also for future reference.
Speaker 1: You have to find a way to rally this team together,
Speaker 1: find out which guys are gonna be the ones that
Speaker 1: can stick through it and and battle battle past this
Speaker 1: really difficult start again for the third straight year oh
Speaker 1: and four, two years ago, one and three, last year,
Speaker 1: one and three again this year. Now. Everything turned to
Speaker 1: out in Week five last year against the forty niners.
Speaker 1: Next week tough, tough task with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: on the road in that game. But you have to
Speaker 1: find out which leaders are going to be the ones
Speaker 1: that guide you into the face of this you know,
Speaker 1: this s storm as it were, because that's kind of
Speaker 1: what Miami's facing right now. It's everything looks rough. I
Speaker 1: mean I heard a podcast where someone talked about the
Speaker 1: Raiders game and they said, well, they were playing the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Like that was not the expectation coming into this season.
Speaker 1: This Dolphins team had a lot of positive vibes going
Speaker 1: on around them, and right now the vibe around the
Speaker 1: Dolphins is difficult. So how can you ignore that outside
Speaker 1: noise and rely on the leaders withinside the building here
Speaker 1: to to put in the work, to put in the
Speaker 1: time to make the corrections and get going in the
Speaker 1: right direction. That is going to be the key, because
Speaker 1: there are so many things right now to correct. Me
Speaker 1: go again across just kind of across the board. The
Speaker 1: offensive line, it's it's not been good enough. I mean
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson was chasing guys in the backfield all game long. Um,
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis had some moments I thought where he was.
Speaker 1: He was beating pass rush in the run in the
Speaker 1: run game. Greg Mans some some knock back in the
Speaker 1: running game, and he hasn't played in a while. His
Speaker 1: first game starting kind of surprise, Michael Dieter gets injured
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. You pull up Greg Man's it's a tough task.
Speaker 1: But he had some moments. I thought, Rob Hunt, I
Speaker 1: saw him on the ground a few times, you know,
Speaker 1: struggle for him at right guard today, leam Mikeelberg got
Speaker 1: beat for a second early in this game, just across
Speaker 1: the five front there. It's it's hard to win football
Speaker 1: games as coach floor Let's actually go to coach Floors
Speaker 1: on this point, because I thought this was one of
Speaker 1: his best points in a very good press conference here
Speaker 1: where he talked a little bit about the disconnect and
Speaker 1: where things have kind of gone wrong for this team
Speaker 1: so far at this stage of the season. And again
Speaker 1: I thought he was very forthright and very transparent about
Speaker 1: some of the issues this team is facing because you
Speaker 1: put together good practice, you put together a good camp
Speaker 1: and off season program, and you get out here and
Speaker 1: it hasn't translated to Sundays and the inconsistencies and the
Speaker 1: fact that there are too many mistakes on too many
Speaker 1: plays that just continues to hamper this offense and defense
Speaker 1: as well the entire team. Let's go to Brian Floors
Speaker 1: and hear his answer regarding the disconnect right now for
Speaker 1: this team in the slow start. I think this is
Speaker 1: a hard working team. I think they compete, they prepare
Speaker 1: the right way. It's not it's not manifesting itself on
Speaker 1: Sundays right now. Um, for long enough periods of time,
Speaker 1: we are inconsistent. We can't string you know, plays together.
Speaker 1: When we do string plays together, there's a penalty or
Speaker 1: a drop that sets us back, or a penalty defensively
Speaker 1: and then you know, instead of being off the field,
Speaker 1: we're back on the field. Or a penalty, you know,
Speaker 1: in the kicking game, instead of getting the ball, we
Speaker 1: give it back to them. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things are that aren't connected. You've got to play
Speaker 1: complimentary football in this league. We had not been able
Speaker 1: to do that. I think we got to take a
Speaker 1: look at everything. Um, we will take a look at everything.
Speaker 1: But I would say it's it's really you know, across
Speaker 1: the board, offense, defense, special teams. Starts with me coaching.
Speaker 1: I gotta do a better job. I know I say
Speaker 1: that every week. I don't want to come up here
Speaker 1: and say that every week, but I gotta do a
Speaker 1: better job. I'm figuring out a way to help us,
Speaker 1: you know, play better than that. Um, But we also
Speaker 1: have to, you know, we gotta play better. And we're
Speaker 1: out there taking turns and making mistakes in all three phases,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's not enough. It's not good enough
Speaker 1: talking about taking turns, making mistakes, like he said, it's
Speaker 1: not good enough, and it's just something springs up. I've
Speaker 1: referred to this so many times that the Chevy Chase
Speaker 1: Um Vegas vacation scene where he's trying to plug the
Speaker 1: holes in the damn with with the bubble gum. It's
Speaker 1: like every time you plug something up and you get
Speaker 1: the answer. Right, there's a penalty in the offensive backfield
Speaker 1: for a hole and that brings back a big completion
Speaker 1: that will fuller. Or you get a stop on defense
Speaker 1: and Bran Scarlett's off size and it gives the Colts
Speaker 1: fresh set of downs and gives them a touchdown drive
Speaker 1: when you thought you had the ball back and a
Speaker 1: three zero lead, or you have a quarterback sack in
Speaker 1: the pocket, you got a face ask and extends a
Speaker 1: drive and turns into seven points instead of three points.
Speaker 1: There's so many instances in this game throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the first four games where Miami has just found
Speaker 1: a way to shoot themselves in the foot and be
Speaker 1: so uncharacteristic of what this team has been under Brian Floras.
Speaker 1: And that's why Flow is going to tell you every
Speaker 1: single year is different, every single team is different. You
Speaker 1: cannot bank on previous success. Like everything starts over from
Speaker 1: from ground zero, from from step number one. It's like
Speaker 1: the video game, right, You'll lose it to the final
Speaker 1: boss at the end, and you have to go back
Speaker 1: to level number one. That's how it works in this league.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins just have not found a way to
Speaker 1: get back that moju they had last year and continue
Speaker 1: and carry it over this year with this year's team.
Speaker 1: And it's just been tough to watch, both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 1: So to kind of continue the the theme there of
Speaker 1: not being good enough. Like you heard from coach Flora's
Speaker 1: there talked about the offensive line, I don't think Jacobe
Speaker 1: seeing it as well as he could right now. I
Speaker 1: don't think his accuracy has been as good as it
Speaker 1: could be right now. I think he'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: I think that he's dealing with a lot at the
Speaker 1: same time and has done a great job of making
Speaker 1: plays when he when he can, when he can kind
Speaker 1: of go off script and extend. And it kind of
Speaker 1: came to a head there on that fumble he lost
Speaker 1: late in this game. But I think it's got to
Speaker 1: be better at that position. I think the running backs
Speaker 1: have to be a lot better in past protection and
Speaker 1: in the running game as well, and take advantage of
Speaker 1: when it is blocked well like Malcolm Brown last week
Speaker 1: and hit the big runs. I think the receivers have
Speaker 1: to do a better job of uncovering there's been not
Speaker 1: enough separation down the field, like they have to do
Speaker 1: a better job of making plays after the catch. I
Speaker 1: think they have to do their better job of catching
Speaker 1: the football when they have opportunities to do that as well.
Speaker 1: So the offense across the board not good enough, you know. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw the past rush kind of get
Speaker 1: cranked up today and they they found a found a
Speaker 1: way to get after Carson Wentz, and I thought the
Speaker 1: odd mac oh look provided plenty of pressure on the
Speaker 1: quarterback and even a couple of sacks there as well.
Speaker 1: Where they were finding success early in this game against
Speaker 1: that Colts offense until the muff punt kind of sparked
Speaker 1: things back in the Colts direction. But they did have
Speaker 1: some pass rush there from San Diego Van, from Manuel Ogba,
Speaker 1: from Jalen Phillips, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it wasn't enough. We saw the linebackers in the second level,
Speaker 1: they're a little bit kind of getting caught on some
Speaker 1: blocks and Jonathan Taylor having a big day and he
Speaker 1: made a great cut in the gap to kind of
Speaker 1: get around the land and Roberts for a big touch
Speaker 1: down run there in that third quarter or second quarter,
Speaker 1: I think I think it was the third quarter, the
Speaker 1: first drive of the third quarter. So it's not good
Speaker 1: enough on that level either. And you know, kind of
Speaker 1: getting stuck on blocks has been a theme a little
Speaker 1: bit here in the running game, in the secondary, in
Speaker 1: the back end, getting caught on the rub routes. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's happened all four games so far, guys trying to
Speaker 1: match up one on one. I mean, Eric road Got
Speaker 1: got a couple of touchdowns on his and his coverage
Speaker 1: today from Moley Cox in that area. So areas you
Speaker 1: counted on last year where things were strong just hasn't
Speaker 1: carried over this season. And it's been struggled, a struggle
Speaker 1: on offense, on defense, on special teams, even Jason Standard
Speaker 1: kicks the ball out of bounds on a kickoff. So
Speaker 1: just everything that could have gone wrong so far that
Speaker 1: the first four games kind of has And I think
Speaker 1: you did the kind of positive takeaways that it's only
Speaker 1: up from here as far as this Dolphins team. But
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of you guys were very
Speaker 1: excited about this season. It had certain expectations and I
Speaker 1: certainly did as well, and right now through first four
Speaker 1: games just has not been good enough. And you hope
Speaker 1: it gets better, but right now, such a struggle for
Speaker 1: this team on on all three phases of the game,
Speaker 1: and that's why you wind up near the bottom of
Speaker 1: the league in terms of statistical categor glories offensively, defensively
Speaker 1: special teams, and they're gonna have to find a way
Speaker 1: to get it fixed quickly and and by next week.
Speaker 1: For Tampa Bay, that's a tough, tough matchup there, and
Speaker 1: falling to one and four obviously not ideal. So you
Speaker 1: heard Brian Flores, I'll talk about we have to look
Speaker 1: at everything possible changes. I refer to this in the
Speaker 1: postgame show. Back in twenty six, team I amy started
Speaker 1: off one and four and that was this team's last
Speaker 1: post season appearance. But after the fourth loss, they made
Speaker 1: the wholesale changes. And you know, I can't recommend that
Speaker 1: or give you ideas about that. It's gonna be up
Speaker 1: to Brian Floors and gonna staff to make decisions on
Speaker 1: that for themselves. But clearly it's not good enough in
Speaker 1: several areas right now, and changes and you know, finding
Speaker 1: those leaders to kind of elevate the team and and
Speaker 1: find ways to get more production out of guys that
Speaker 1: you expect production fraud. That's gonna be the number one thing.
Speaker 1: And also maybe there's some guys that haven't had enough
Speaker 1: playing time or haven't had playing time, I should say,
Speaker 1: they can't have an opportunity to make plays, and kind
Speaker 1: of if you don't earn your opportunities, maybe you lose
Speaker 1: it and it goes to somebody else. So that's what
Speaker 1: phases this Dolphin's club ahead this week. And it's definitely
Speaker 1: a tall older for Brian Floors and this coaching staff,
Speaker 1: but they're built for it. That's what they do. In
Speaker 1: the National Football League. You have to be mentally tough
Speaker 1: and have the fortitude to overcome tough stuff like this,
Speaker 1: because Miami right now one in three, it's about about
Speaker 1: as tough as a start as you could have imagined.
Speaker 1: The only thing would be worse, obviously, is if they
Speaker 1: don't get that fumble in the Patriots game they kicked
Speaker 1: that field goal, you're following four, But luckily you get
Speaker 1: that victory and hopefully you get here into October you
Speaker 1: can start turn this thing around and find some success
Speaker 1: because just across the board, it's just not not been
Speaker 1: very good so far. And I want to go back
Speaker 1: to coach for another forty second soundclip here, so and
Speaker 1: just finish up with this before we get to the
Speaker 1: outro and then the postgame segment on the other end
Speaker 1: of the outro, I just want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: play this clip from Brian Flores here talking about the
Speaker 1: little things, attention to detail, and I think some of
Speaker 1: the margins we talked about, like I always talked about
Speaker 1: us in the show, right, like people ask themselves, how
Speaker 1: do the Dolphins win these games? Or how are they
Speaker 1: winning more than some other parts might suggest they would
Speaker 1: because they win in the fine margins through four games
Speaker 1: this year hasn't been the case. Here's Brian Flores. The
Speaker 1: little things are important in this game. They're very important.
Speaker 1: The details are important in this game, and if you
Speaker 1: don't get them right, then you'll have a fall start
Speaker 1: penalty when you don't need them, you have a drop
Speaker 1: when you don't need them. And those are momentum shifting
Speaker 1: plays that if you don't make them and they do,
Speaker 1: you don't get the result you want. So that's where
Speaker 1: we we that's what we have to do. We gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta focus on those uh, those little things, those
Speaker 1: details and play a smarter, more disciplined football game because
Speaker 1: we're not. We're not. We're not doing that right now,
Speaker 1: And once again, Dolphins fall to the Colts seventeen here
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium and fall to one and three
Speaker 1: on the season. As for my time on this podcast,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my time. We're gonna play a postgame
Speaker 1: show segment for you guys are on the other side,
Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, Caroline Daddy
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Speaker 1: you guys until next time sends up. And as I
Speaker 1: was downloading the post game show segment, I just found
Speaker 1: out here in the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex of the Mariners season which was alive
Speaker 1: on the last day of the season will come to
Speaker 1: an end. So its twenty one year playoff drought for
Speaker 1: my Seattle Mariners as well. On the Sunday existence is
Speaker 1: in fact pants go ahead and play the post game
Speaker 1: show here what you can hear on five sixt w
Speaker 1: q AM Kiss Country here in South Florida and on
Speaker 1: the Odyssey app nation wide globally wide. Myself, O J
Speaker 1: McDuffie and Seth Levit Jevron together ahead and we left
Speaker 1: off the last second with the question there from Seth
Speaker 1: over to O J. Talking about what's next because you
Speaker 1: know you talk about Seth watching the game tape on
Speaker 1: this not all that interested in going back and doing that.
Speaker 1: I will because it's my job. I get paid to
Speaker 1: do that, but I'm not looking forward to it, tell
Speaker 1: you that much right now, But I do want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and take a look at what's next because
Speaker 1: I think Dolphins fans across across the globe here in
Speaker 1: South Florida need a little bit of, I mean, something
Speaker 1: to think about going ahead that that makes them positive
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what that might be. But when you talk about offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: or just in the in the locker room, oh J,
Speaker 1: what comes next? How do you? How do you take this,
Speaker 1: take it in, approach it and go out against a
Speaker 1: tough team in Tampa Bay next week and put up
Speaker 1: a good performance. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else gonna
Speaker 1: be done about this past lackless of performance. Right So,
Speaker 1: right now, everybody's got to tighten up individually. You know,
Speaker 1: the cliche always is football is the altimate team sport,
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of one on ones out there,
Speaker 1: and our team right now, instead of last week, we're
Speaker 1: losing the one on one battles. You know, whether it's
Speaker 1: offensive tackle versus defenses end, whether it's Wyrus here versus cornerback,
Speaker 1: whether it's a tight end versus one of our safeties.
Speaker 1: We're losing these one on one battles. So everybody's gotta
Speaker 1: looking at themselves. Everybody's gotta be Michael Jackson here and
Speaker 1: you know, and look in the mirror and see what
Speaker 1: am I doing that's not working. Whether it's even even
Speaker 1: the coaches and coach Flores, I'm sure it's gonna reiterate
Speaker 1: that something's not happening right here. Weekend, week out. I
Speaker 1: get tired of here. We had a great week of practice.
Speaker 1: I get tired of hearing that this guy did had
Speaker 1: a great doing a great job when it doesn't translate
Speaker 1: on Sunday, which all that matters. I don't care what
Speaker 1: you do all week if it doesn't translate on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's like some of the guys you see had great preseasons,
Speaker 1: you know, training camps. I don't care. We've seen that before.
Speaker 1: What are you doing when the when the game is
Speaker 1: on the line to make a player. We've had some
Speaker 1: big time players on this team completely disappeared, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna call anybody's names out. Half them
Speaker 1: on defense, half of them an offense. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on offensive line, you know, But we knew
Speaker 1: that was an issue from the beginning until they figure
Speaker 1: it out. But our defense is what we're gonna hang
Speaker 1: our hat on. But we can't stop anybody except we
Speaker 1: can't get a takeaway when we need one, we'll get
Speaker 1: one to continue our streak, but we need three of
Speaker 1: these special teams takeaway as well. It really wasn't even
Speaker 1: exactly really, I mean a muff punt correct, correct, So
Speaker 1: I mean we have to have guys out there that
Speaker 1: are we're at home. Man, there's eighty degrees out there.
Speaker 1: You know, they're sitting in the sun the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's warm game. But but look at it. They go
Speaker 1: out there and they took it to us, and they
Speaker 1: had injuries of their own. They had a bunch of
Speaker 1: them from the beginning before didn't even play, not even
Speaker 1: not even injuries that happened in the game. It was
Speaker 1: injuries before the game even started. Right. But again, that's
Speaker 1: why I go back to what what has to happen?
Speaker 1: Is it as simple as that is, It as simple
Speaker 1: as everybody looking in the mirror and making sure that
Speaker 1: they handle their job and not point fingers and not
Speaker 1: worry about everybody else, but that they give the best
Speaker 1: version of themselves. I mean, is is there anything else
Speaker 1: that can be done? You know, if you get on
Speaker 1: Twitter and if you dare right, it's scary to get
Speaker 1: on there. Right now, people are calling for this person
Speaker 1: be fired, that person be fired, that person be cut.
Speaker 1: We've seen that, you know, does there need to be
Speaker 1: a shake up? I mean that's to me, it's earlier,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean on the field, does it Because
Speaker 1: to me, I think the roster you have, the coaching
Speaker 1: staff you have is who you gotta ride with the sea.
Speaker 1: So I want to be clear on that. But do
Speaker 1: you think there needs to be some shake up with
Speaker 1: what the product is that's being put out? Our fifty three? Right?
Speaker 1: So we have right look at some of the inactives today.
Speaker 1: You're some guys that you thought might be able to
Speaker 1: go out there and play a little bit when it's
Speaker 1: little gonn get an opportunity because what's going on with
Speaker 1: the oflphicsive line where little can't get an opportunity right now?
Speaker 1: Did you see Jackson Chason in the backfield? Unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy. Look at like our whole, our whole line.
Speaker 1: It's top draft picks, you know, what I mean, everybody's
Speaker 1: the top draft pick. We only have seven rounds. When
Speaker 1: we talk about first three rounds are all top draft picks,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And the fact that we
Speaker 1: can't get those guys to quote unquote figured out. You
Speaker 1: don't even have to have a great offensive line in
Speaker 1: NFL or any any level of football. You don't have
Speaker 1: to You don't have to have a great team on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You have a good group of guys
Speaker 1: that know what the hell they're doing, you know, and
Speaker 1: I want to believe that we do. Drews. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we've seen moments where these guys have played
Speaker 1: certainly better than when this year we've seen it, not
Speaker 1: this year, not this year, right well, when this year
Speaker 1: we talked about when they needed to have that drive
Speaker 1: in game, when they when they had and it didn't
Speaker 1: work out, but when there was a comeback attempt in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, they kind of held it together enough to
Speaker 1: put points on the board and give it. We talk
Speaker 1: about this this this in prevent situation. Things a little
Speaker 1: wide open. You know, we had opportunities on the field
Speaker 1: because they're bringing three man or maybe a form or
Speaker 1: light four man rush. He contained you know, when it's
Speaker 1: early in the game, when you got a pound, somebody
Speaker 1: pass game, run game. When have we've seen our guy,
Speaker 1: When have we've seen our guys go out and having
Speaker 1: initial drive in the first quarter. So, you know what
Speaker 1: that takes me back to. That brings me back to
Speaker 1: the idea. And I told you guys this after two
Speaker 1: have got hurt in that Buffalo game. I told you guys,
Speaker 1: I don't think this offense is constructed in a way
Speaker 1: that Jacobe can have success with because I don't believe
Speaker 1: that it suits his skill set. And you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about his skill set. You know last week. We
Speaker 1: had fun with it, right because he was making plays
Speaker 1: off schedule and getting out of the pocket and making
Speaker 1: the plays down the field. And it was fun for
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, we even had some fun
Speaker 1: with that. But I just wonder how much of this
Speaker 1: offense was built in a certain way that's that's around
Speaker 1: a particular players skill set. And you draft players for
Speaker 1: that guy, you signed players for that guy. You get
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's supposed to be able to be
Speaker 1: more so leaning on players. And I think if you
Speaker 1: look at, for instance, Austin Jackson's good plays, this year
Speaker 1: they've been. They're few and far between. Now he's having
Speaker 1: a rough star to the season, but when he's had
Speaker 1: good plays, they've been in the running game. And so
Speaker 1: you think about those guys leaning on the defensive line
Speaker 1: and kind of established in the RPO game. You can't
Speaker 1: go our poh Kobe Price. It's not his game. So
Speaker 1: that's a it's a chunk of the offense that you remove.
Speaker 1: I don't think r PO is the base necessarily, but
Speaker 1: it's a chunk that you can rely upon for first down,
Speaker 1: for drive starters, for you know, getting yourself seven yards
Speaker 1: and that first that first player the driving and you
Speaker 1: really get the thing going and get to your hurry
Speaker 1: up offense and the communications more fluid and smooth because
Speaker 1: you have that quarterback that has been there for the
Speaker 1: entire offseason program and training camp in preseason. And then
Speaker 1: he goes out and we don't score points against Buffalo.
Speaker 1: We get a defensive score to start the Raiders game,
Speaker 1: and then a short field with the Malcolm Brown touchdown run.
Speaker 1: Then the fourth quarter in overtime happens. Great. That was fun.
Speaker 1: You go all game today and there's nothing happening until
Speaker 1: basically the fourth quarter so how much do you put
Speaker 1: it back on the quarterback? Is it? Is it because
Speaker 1: you're at the backup quarterback? Or is it but it's
Speaker 1: gotta be more. It's got it's it happen. But how
Speaker 1: much of it is the fact that two was not
Speaker 1: out there right now? I'm not willing to say that's
Speaker 1: all it is. It's more than it's more than a
Speaker 1: quarterback position. It really is man and that we keep
Speaker 1: beating his horse in terms of what's going on. We
Speaker 1: haven't established anything up front and nothing even past protection,
Speaker 1: you know, even run protection. And then also I looked
Speaker 1: at the game. It's nice to see the game in person.
Speaker 1: We see guys are not very much separation. Either it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a combination of an NFL offense at
Speaker 1: times where guys are not making plays, not giving protection
Speaker 1: to make plays, or we get an opportunity, we have
Speaker 1: a drop or we have a bad past. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk about not an r p O offense. You've
Speaker 1: got the Colts. Carson Winson is running the r p
Speaker 1: O s that you know, they're they're they're kind of
Speaker 1: they got the same kind of quarterback that we have,
Speaker 1: you know, but his ass is not getting tackled for loss,
Speaker 1: He's not on his on his heels, He's sitting there
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, giving guys opportunities. And so where are
Speaker 1: we at with that? You know, where where the offends
Speaker 1: that when it comes that he's one on one opportunities
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, guy's not getting opened or the
Speaker 1: ball not being on time or zero zero protection. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the protection breaking down I think had a
Speaker 1: lot to do with all of the other things you
Speaker 1: talked about, because there were moments there we talked about it.
Speaker 1: There were some moments early on in the game where
Speaker 1: it looked like there were some guys flashing down the
Speaker 1: field and maybe Jacobe chose to to go in a
Speaker 1: different direction and I don't know what he's seeing there. Yes,
Speaker 1: at times he was under drest, but there were times
Speaker 1: there where maybe he took a throw that was in
Speaker 1: his mind higher percentage. I don't know. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to answer that later. But there were moments
Speaker 1: there where I thought guys were open. There were moments
Speaker 1: where the ball was getting to guys who were paid
Speaker 1: to be playmakers and they were making some plays. They
Speaker 1: were fighting for tough and again it goes back to
Speaker 1: that dincin duck and and and I don't know how
Speaker 1: successful you can be in those template drives, like you
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, those things happened, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like it has to be more than that. And as
Speaker 1: much as we can talk about what went wrong till
Speaker 1: we're blew in the face, the reality is is that there.
Speaker 1: They've got a game next week and it gets pretty
Speaker 1: good football team. Yeah, but we're doing post game, We're
Speaker 1: doing postgame. We're just I can't look back. We're talking
Speaker 1: postgame though we're talking about the game. We just understand
Speaker 1: what the hell else we gonna mean? What are we
Speaker 1: gonna do in terms of you know what I mean
Speaker 1: if we can talk about tomorrow, the next game tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but we got to talk about what just happened today.
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying, but what happened today needs
Speaker 1: to be talked about and discussed because that's our job
Speaker 1: right now, Well it is our job, but it's also like,
Speaker 1: where do you go from it? Because what happened today
Speaker 1: happened last week? You know, I've seen that. I've seen
Speaker 1: that movie already. I've seen it too many times this
Speaker 1: season and we're only four games into it. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is based on what happened today, And I
Speaker 1: get it this is postgame, but but I don't have
Speaker 1: a shot tomorrow to talk about it anyway, So I
Speaker 1: want to look ahead as well. And again coach has
Speaker 1: to get up there. And in the second hour, in
Speaker 1: the second we got all these people that are listening
Speaker 1: to postgame right Yeah, they're not. They're not thinking about
Speaker 1: Tampa right now. They need to. They shouldn't be. They
Speaker 1: need to figure out disagree, need to talk about what
Speaker 1: the hell happened today. I know what happened Jules twenty
Speaker 1: four will applies to wins and losses. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: to move forward. I have to. But but again I
Speaker 1: want to know how do you fix it? I want
Speaker 1: to know how you fix it? Bro, we're in this building,
Speaker 1: the building across the street. Don't want to need to
Speaker 1: fix this, and not that we can do to fix it.
Speaker 1: If we had the answer, they said, had the damn answer.
Speaker 1: So if we're sitting here having this discussion about you know,
Speaker 1: we can't agree on what game to talk about right now.
Speaker 1: So you have to imagine the division in that locker room.
Speaker 1: Not division that's a bad word. I want I don't
Speaker 1: want to. That's the thing they can't get. How do
Speaker 1: how does that? How does the dynamic work in the
Speaker 1: locker room? M now our guys are guys looking over
Speaker 1: their shoulder and saying, hey, this guy didn't make a play,
Speaker 1: or they are they going back? How does Brian Flores
Speaker 1: keep this team right now on the same track and
Speaker 1: keep them all together and get them together because outside
Speaker 1: noise right now is going to try to divide these guys.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to have your leader stuff up and
Speaker 1: and really work to write this ship right usus. I mean,
Speaker 1: every single person on this team should be extremely nervous.
Speaker 1: Every single position, every single person should be extremely nervous.
Speaker 1: And I talked about it before with us, like on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: I'd have somebody in there trying out for every single
Speaker 1: damn position, you know what I mean? Because these guys
Speaker 1: obviously are getting a little comfortable not not making plays.
Speaker 1: You don't make plays in this league. You don't play
Speaker 1: in this league. It's a production, bottom line, performance based job.
Speaker 1: Bottom line as agree with that. And so when you're
Speaker 1: not doing your job, which is all you gotta do
Speaker 1: with your job, nobody else's job. Talk about Will Fuller.
Speaker 1: He exces this game with a hand injury and does
Speaker 1: not return. You know, he's he missed the first game
Speaker 1: from a suspension, miss is a second game from a
Speaker 1: personal reasons. Comes back last week, plays fifty snaps and
Speaker 1: he gets injured there at the end and comes out.
Speaker 1: But he played fifty snaps in that game. Then today
Speaker 1: he plays a few snaps. Do you think that his
Speaker 1: absence because of a big time free agent receiver, ten
Speaker 1: million dollar receiver. Do you think that maybe his absence
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with how the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: kind of stuck in the mud right now, because he
Speaker 1: was a guy that I think, I hope at that part,
Speaker 1: at that price point, his skill set was a guy
Speaker 1: that you kind of had the intentions of of kind
Speaker 1: of constructing this thing around him and Jillen Waddle I
Speaker 1: thought were too big acquisitions to make this receiving corps
Speaker 1: wave giving way more speed, giving way more explosiveness. Is
Speaker 1: his lack of presence maybe to blame for some of this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's that's a great point, great question,
Speaker 1: Especially when you get into Sunday, you never know what
Speaker 1: happens throughout the week and you've got all this game
Speaker 1: planning in so how many of the plays that our
Speaker 1: co offensive coordinators have to scrap because you don't have
Speaker 1: him in the game. How many shot players that they
Speaker 1: have scripted for him because he's not in the game.
Speaker 1: You count on guys playing sixty minutes, and when they
Speaker 1: don't play was the first half at all or most
Speaker 1: of the half or whatever it is? Then yeah, then
Speaker 1: it becomes a problem because you don't have a guy
Speaker 1: in there that well, all right, you know what, all right,
Speaker 1: since he's out and President was inactive, you know you
Speaker 1: got other guys do we say what? All right? You
Speaker 1: got Fuller's role right here. You gotta be the one
Speaker 1: that runs his deep seven or his deep uh post
Speaker 1: route or his deep nine route or whatever it is. No,
Speaker 1: that's not how they worked all week. So it does
Speaker 1: become a problem when you count on guys, you and
Speaker 1: you want to be able to make the adjustments, when
Speaker 1: you count on guys to be out there and be
Speaker 1: able to make those plays. You've got certain plays, certain
Speaker 1: shot plays that we've been talking about the whole time,
Speaker 1: and the guys not in there do you can't You can't.
Speaker 1: It's hard to make that adjustment because you only get
Speaker 1: so many, so many players you work during the week,
Speaker 1: you can look at as much film as you want,
Speaker 1: but when you practicing it, you know, guys are there's
Speaker 1: not as many there's that many reps. There's way more
Speaker 1: mental reps than our physical reps. So when you've got
Speaker 1: a guy that's not out there to take those reps
Speaker 1: and the quarterins having to say, all right, our our
Speaker 1: our home run hitters out basically who else? What do
Speaker 1: we can do? What? What can we do now with
Speaker 1: the guys that we already gained plans some other things
Speaker 1: for not to mention missing almost all training camp after
Speaker 1: going down the very first day of practice. So he
Speaker 1: winds up in this game with one catch for six yards,
Speaker 1: gives him four for six on the season, Wattle three
Speaker 1: for thirty three And in a question I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: ask coach this week, is it seems like what all
Speaker 1: of this catchers are in the first quarter, which goes
Speaker 1: into kind of the playscript you talked about, Like, obviously
Speaker 1: the plants to get him the ball early, why is
Speaker 1: he not getting more targets later in the game. I'm
Speaker 1: very curious about that. We'll try to cover that on
Speaker 1: Drive Time this week, Mike Kasicki five or fifty seven.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Vante Parker four for seventy seven in this game,
Speaker 1: So some guys had some big days productive wise, Seth,
Speaker 1: you got one you want to jump in here? We
Speaker 1: need them. I believe the Dolphins need him counting. That's
Speaker 1: exactly right. This is all drawn up for all the
Speaker 1: guys you're counting on. He's one of those guys you're
Speaker 1: counting on. You know, he's not a guy Thatt. You
Speaker 1: know mid season was like, all right, let's get full
Speaker 1: of a change. When they went out and got him,
Speaker 1: they counted on. When you put a playbook together to
Speaker 1: counting on, it's a passing league. That's what we have.