Speaker 1: Two fires touch Dolin Waddles knocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami tight broke window. They had to get that
Speaker 1: touchdown on that play. They give it. What is up?
Speaker 1: Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins Podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody, It's a victory Tuesday. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, and I was always I am
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: On today's show, I think you know what time it is.
Speaker 1: That's a seventh seventh straight win win win, win, win win.
Speaker 1: We only play that song on victory Monday's or in
Speaker 1: this case, a victory Tuesday earlier this year at victory Friday.
Speaker 1: But you get the idea. The Dolphins takedown the Saints
Speaker 1: twenty three and we have heard that song seven straight
Speaker 1: weeks with a dominant defensive performance. As the Dolphins move
Speaker 1: into the seventh position in the a f C with
Speaker 1: two weeks left to play in the regular season, we'll
Speaker 1: get to the takeaways the individual performances, will play a
Speaker 1: segment from the post game show with myself and the
Speaker 1: guys from the Fish Tank Seth and o J will
Speaker 1: have some postgame audio from coach Flores into a tongue
Speaker 1: of Valoa as well from somewhere in South Florida in
Speaker 1: the early morning hours. This is the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and open up this podcast
Speaker 1: starting off with Brian Flores message when he was asked
Speaker 1: postgame about how this team was able to stick together
Speaker 1: and put themselves in the position they find themselves here
Speaker 1: on this early Tuesday morning. I think this team is
Speaker 1: stuck together really the entire year. Mm and I think
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we doubled a lot of versay earli
Speaker 1: in the year. Um and I think, you know, revealed
Speaker 1: a lot of real, real a lot, I would say,
Speaker 1: reveal the character of the guys in our locker room. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, revealed you know that you know, some people
Speaker 1: with you and some people are on the fence. Um
Speaker 1: and Uh. I think our guys just kept fighting, they
Speaker 1: kept sticking together, and UM, you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: the support each other. When they work hard, they give
Speaker 1: great effort. And when you do those things, UM, you
Speaker 1: put yourself in position to get the results you're looking forward.
Speaker 1: I wanted to start the podcast with that audio because
Speaker 1: I think it's instructive and also something you really want
Speaker 1: to hear if you're a fan of the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: because that is by no accident of the construction of
Speaker 1: this football team and the things that have been prioritized
Speaker 1: by the Miami Dolphins for three years and that have
Speaker 1: consistently been preached by that guy you just heard, the
Speaker 1: head coach of these Miami Dolphins, that has Miami with
Speaker 1: their eighth win of the season after a ten win
Speaker 1: season last year, eight wins through sixteen weeks this season
Speaker 1: hasn't in position that they're in right now to go
Speaker 1: out to Tennessee and play a meaningful football game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and the most important game on the schedule coming up
Speaker 1: is the next game with those Titans. But back to
Speaker 1: the point there, to be able to weather the storm
Speaker 1: of a one and seven start, to be able to
Speaker 1: put together a seven game win streak within that same
Speaker 1: within that same time frame or same season, I should say,
Speaker 1: which is the first team to ever do that in
Speaker 1: the history of the National Football League. Like coach Flores says,
Speaker 1: it does say a lot about this team and what
Speaker 1: else this team told us again on Monday night is
Speaker 1: our first takeaway of the postgame podcast. Here the defense
Speaker 1: does the damn thing once again. The Saints go over
Speaker 1: twelve on third downs in this game, and they net
Speaker 1: five yards total on those third downs. Now, they were
Speaker 1: in the negative before Alvin Kamara rips off a nineteen
Speaker 1: yard run on third and twenty, but they'll still count
Speaker 1: just the same, so they do wind up with the
Speaker 1: five yards on those third down plays a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty four total yards for the Saints offense. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: registered eight sacks. That was the first time they had
Speaker 1: done that since two thousand and two or two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: Rather excuse me, they have now BacT to back games
Speaker 1: in which they have recorded five plus sacks and five
Speaker 1: straight games with at least three sacks recorded, and over
Speaker 1: the previous seven games, Miami has forty three sacks over
Speaker 1: that winning streak, so over six sacks per game during
Speaker 1: the during this winning streak for the Miami Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: Within this game, they Emmanuel ab picks up two sacks,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker one and a half. Brandon Jones puts himself
Speaker 1: atop the list of all defensive backs in terms of
Speaker 1: sacks in this league with his fifth of the season,
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard gets his first sack of the season, Zach
Speaker 1: Seler has a sack, Christian Wilkins and ray Kuan Davis
Speaker 1: both record a half sack each. And we'll have the
Speaker 1: updated season numbers for both the individuals and the team
Speaker 1: on the podcast tomorrow, taking a deeper dive into this
Speaker 1: victory for the Miami Dolphins. But for now, I do
Speaker 1: want to go to head coach Brian Flores, who has
Speaker 1: asked post game about this defensive performance and the approach
Speaker 1: against Ian book credit to Josh the defensive staff. But
Speaker 1: we have a nice game plan, um, you know, mixing coverages, uh,
Speaker 1: mixing the for did a good job stopping a round run,
Speaker 1: which was a big emphasis. Um. But the guys just played.
Speaker 1: They played hard, they played fast, they gave great effort.
Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna be a sixteen of game.
Speaker 1: We knew it wasn't gonna be easy. It was a
Speaker 1: physical Saints team. Uh. You know, Seawan had him ready,
Speaker 1: had some some made some adjustments in the game that
Speaker 1: then we had to make some adjustments. So though they
Speaker 1: had a good plan, um, you know, we we we
Speaker 1: just made a few more players than they did and
Speaker 1: you heard him say he liked the way Josh, which
Speaker 1: is Dolphins defensive cordinator Josh Boyer, the way he was
Speaker 1: mixing the coverage with the rush. And I really thought
Speaker 1: that was the case all night as well, because multiple
Speaker 1: times I noted in Miami doing something a little bit
Speaker 1: different than the previous time on third down to get
Speaker 1: stops and changing the picture post snap against the rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: Like early in the game, Byron Jones comes off the
Speaker 1: edge for a cat blitzer, a cornerback blitz, and he
Speaker 1: applies pressure on Book who asked to flee the pocket,
Speaker 1: and winds up in trouble doing that. Later in the game,
Speaker 1: they get eight man coverage look with and the umbrella
Speaker 1: of linebackers like Andrew Van Gigel and Jerome Baker for instance,
Speaker 1: nixaviing Howard who also was part of that underneath shell,
Speaker 1: with the safety help over the top, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: playing that ape man coverage, they had eyes on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and Book, after surveying the field and seeing nothing there
Speaker 1: against that ape man coverage, decides to flee. But because
Speaker 1: of that point, with all the eyes and the quarterback,
Speaker 1: they're able to just string him all the way out
Speaker 1: of bounds, and I think that was the play where
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard got the sack. And then later you have
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara. He he he flexes out into a position
Speaker 1: where we kind of talked about this with me, Seth
Speaker 1: and o J right before this play happened, about how,
Speaker 1: notice how Alvin Kamara has just the one reception tonight.
Speaker 1: That's a great job by this Dolphins defense to keep
Speaker 1: him kind of off the books in that regard. And
Speaker 1: as we're saying this, I said, notice how we know
Speaker 1: what Jalen Waddle can do for an offense and against
Speaker 1: the defense, and how they have not yet been able
Speaker 1: to neutralize his production. We were very excited about that thought.
Speaker 1: And then outcomes Alvin Kamara into a position of where
Speaker 1: you can really kind of create a matchup for a
Speaker 1: guy where he's into a it's a nasty split, which
Speaker 1: means you're in close to the formation, in close to
Speaker 1: the two tackles on either side. And they also put
Speaker 1: him on a stack, which means he's behind another player
Speaker 1: aligned in that position, which typically creates a free release
Speaker 1: because you can't go press a guy through another guy.
Speaker 1: So Camara gets aligned into this position and Jones has
Speaker 1: outside technique is the wide corner. I'm thinking, is he
Speaker 1: gonna take the top man off the stack? What's gonna
Speaker 1: happen here? Because Van Ginkle is also over there, but
Speaker 1: neither of them has capped Alvin Camara or anyone either
Speaker 1: of the two receivers on that stack, and I was
Speaker 1: wondering how that was gonna look, so I kept an
Speaker 1: eye on it, and they just they turned the point
Speaker 1: man on the stack free into the second level and
Speaker 1: the safety closed down. That had to get closed from
Speaker 1: depth right there, but they bracketed Alvin Camara in a
Speaker 1: way that kind of kept him inside because when he
Speaker 1: has that free release and from that position close to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, he kind of has a two way go
Speaker 1: where he can either hit that kind of juke, move
Speaker 1: speed out and kind of leave the cornerback leaning inside,
Speaker 1: or cross space over the middle of the Texas route,
Speaker 1: the little angle route where you go outside back inside,
Speaker 1: and that's a tough matchup to handle. But you throw
Speaker 1: that bracket on him and that creates a third and
Speaker 1: short or that wasn't the third and short rather, and
Speaker 1: it forces the Saints to punt right there. So I
Speaker 1: love the way they were able to mix the coverage
Speaker 1: with the rush there and change the picture for the
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And in the first half of this game,
Speaker 1: I do not have the next gen status of the
Speaker 1: second half. Miami blitz book of his dropbacks, which was
Speaker 1: the most in one half for any team this season.
Speaker 1: So they wanted pressure, they got pressure, and it was
Speaker 1: effective all night long. To the tune of eight sacks.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make a quick note of Nick Needham
Speaker 1: and Van Ginkle on the pick six that really set
Speaker 1: the tone for the course of this game. The Saints
Speaker 1: get that stop, the Dolphins defense comes out on the
Speaker 1: third play of the game, gets an interception that goes
Speaker 1: back for a touchdown, and from there it's just kind
Speaker 1: of changes the dynamic of the game in terms of
Speaker 1: how it was played, and I thought it let Miami
Speaker 1: get into their offensive plan sooner. It let the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense settle into that game, and it it made INDUCED
Speaker 1: made this point that when a rookie makes it play
Speaker 1: like that early in the game, he might now kind
Speaker 1: of having the back of his mind. While I can't
Speaker 1: let that happen again, so there's a possibility of second guessing.
Speaker 1: I won't say that he was, but it's something to
Speaker 1: think about, and that's why you set the tone early
Speaker 1: is certainly an important element, and that's what the Dolphins
Speaker 1: did in this game. On that play, Nick need Um,
Speaker 1: I thought he was driving on the play before the
Speaker 1: ball even came out, so he was gonna be in
Speaker 1: good shape regardless of the tip or not. And I
Speaker 1: thought Van Geinkel to recognize on a third and two
Speaker 1: when books back foot hits the top of his drop
Speaker 1: and you see the hands start to separate off the football,
Speaker 1: he's got his eyes on the quarterback. And we've talked
Speaker 1: about this for years how important it is at the
Speaker 1: rush positions to keep your eyes on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: have gap integrity within this defense. I thought Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: showed that with eyes in the quarterback and then to
Speaker 1: create distance between he and the man in front of
Speaker 1: him too. That helps you then get your hands up
Speaker 1: and get yourself clean so you can't elevate and try
Speaker 1: to swap the football down. And he gets a piece
Speaker 1: of the ball and it goes into that pick for
Speaker 1: Nick need Um in a huge play to get them
Speaker 1: going seven nothing off the top. They're just fantastic work
Speaker 1: by the defense and before we get to our next
Speaker 1: takeaway here I talked about blitzing Ian book and getting
Speaker 1: effective pressure that way. Six of the dolphins eight sacks
Speaker 1: came with four or fewer rushers in this game per
Speaker 1: next Gen, and in fact, Miami's eleven percent sack rate
Speaker 1: without blitzing is the best in the NFL since Week nine,
Speaker 1: since the winning streak began. That's insane. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about the guys with a ton of pressure production on
Speaker 1: the season, like it's a variety of things, but they
Speaker 1: can all really flash rush ability with you know, a
Speaker 1: consistent winning type of move that they have shown to
Speaker 1: be effective time and time again. Like Zach Seeler his
Speaker 1: snatch and pull up from that defensive end position. It's
Speaker 1: getting guys every single week. Emmanuel Ogba the cross chop
Speaker 1: to get off that edge and then corner around the outside.
Speaker 1: It's getting home every single week. We've seen Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: convert speed to power frequently. We've seen Jerome Baker get
Speaker 1: those skinny angles up the A gap and really put
Speaker 1: immediate pressure when he times up those blitz is right
Speaker 1: on the opposing quarterback. We've seen games work where there's
Speaker 1: different pick stunts we saw Brandon Jones set a pick
Speaker 1: stunt tonight. We've seen Christian Wilkins do that all season long.
Speaker 1: In addition to his own ability all of a sudden
Speaker 1: where he's now becoming a just he was always a
Speaker 1: really good run defender in the past. Rush production has
Speaker 1: slowly just come along as well, but it's kicking up
Speaker 1: to another gear even this year. And then you have
Speaker 1: Adam Butler, the quick, good off and the way he
Speaker 1: can get by the imposing interior defensive offensive line. I
Speaker 1: should say, Andrew van Ginkol, I mean that little shoulder
Speaker 1: dip and run around the corner. He's found the way
Speaker 1: to get pressure on the posing quarterbacks. So those are
Speaker 1: all guys that had pass rush production in this game,
Speaker 1: and you factor that with the ability to blitz the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's how you wind up playing three games over a
Speaker 1: seven game stretch with only with zero touchdowns allowed, and
Speaker 1: the total touchdowns in those seven games six. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number two. The offensive game plan should come as
Speaker 1: no surprise in this game. In fact, to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Valoa, let's go ahead and let him kick off
Speaker 1: this segment, or let's takeaway I should say that the
Speaker 1: offensive game plan should have been no surprise to Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans out there. Well, we we always stress playing complementary football.
Speaker 1: Uh so, the defense giving the offense the ball back
Speaker 1: in offense capitalizing on those turnovers, and then also in
Speaker 1: the kicking game, you know, whether it's a punt being
Speaker 1: able to back their team up and putting our defense
Speaker 1: in a good situation and vice versa with our our
Speaker 1: kick return and our punt return game. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely something that gives us life. Whether it's
Speaker 1: the offense scoring on the first drive or scoring in general,
Speaker 1: or the defense getting a big third down stop or
Speaker 1: getting a turnover and scoring, it's definitely something that gives
Speaker 1: I would say this team life very clearly stayed there
Speaker 1: by two a tongue of blow that when you've generated
Speaker 1: game plan for the Miami Dolphins, it's going to be
Speaker 1: about winning the football game. It's not gonna be three
Speaker 1: singular elements offense, defense, and special teams. It's a general
Speaker 1: plan about winning the football game. And that might be
Speaker 1: how it is in every single organization, but we know
Speaker 1: for sure that it is here with the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: and the complimentary game plan. I mean, we told you
Speaker 1: about the Saints numbers on offense, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: one of those situations where if you just if you
Speaker 1: don't really lose the game offensively with that type of
Speaker 1: defensive performance, then you won't lose the game, if that
Speaker 1: makes sense. And so I actually would probably give some
Speaker 1: love here to my co host on the post game
Speaker 1: show on five sixt w q A M to Seth
Speaker 1: Levitt and the analytics debate that he and I seemingly
Speaker 1: have every single week, whether it's on the podcast or
Speaker 1: on the post game show, or on the lunch Bunch
Speaker 1: on Friday afternoons and Instagram Live, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: we always go back and forth on that, and it
Speaker 1: kind of hurt my soul throughout the course of this game.
Speaker 1: You guys know, I'm I love the aggressive mindset of
Speaker 1: of being aggressive on fourth down. The Dolphins have been
Speaker 1: that this season many of times and going for fourth downs,
Speaker 1: and even as I watched this game unfold and typically
Speaker 1: always fourth and short, go go, go, go go, my
Speaker 1: my my mantra there during the games watching the games.
Speaker 1: But in this game, you know, kick it away, let
Speaker 1: the defense do their thing, because they were so red
Speaker 1: hot and you kind of feel the flow of the game.
Speaker 1: So in this particular instance, if maybe the numbers tell
Speaker 1: me I should go here, I think the game plan
Speaker 1: to play that complimentary style where you really just trust
Speaker 1: a defense is playing so well is a very smart play.
Speaker 1: And it might not be the sexy play or the
Speaker 1: attractive play, but you always have to appreciate the right
Speaker 1: play when you make it, especially when it's not the
Speaker 1: sexy play. And I think that's what Miami came up
Speaker 1: with here and put together a football game where they
Speaker 1: just were in control from the outset because of that
Speaker 1: style and because of that approach, I mean we saw
Speaker 1: a third and twelve running play that's that's a field
Speaker 1: position play all the way. Kind of some quick game
Speaker 1: on the short yardage as well. And now I did
Speaker 1: like the shot play at to Jalen Waddle in that
Speaker 1: situation towards the end of the half there where you
Speaker 1: have a second and kind of medium is long and
Speaker 1: you've got only thirty seconds or so one I'm out.
Speaker 1: I think it was that moment and you're right around
Speaker 1: the thirty or so yard line, the ball was just
Speaker 1: a bit wide and that very tight spot and the
Speaker 1: kind of to look that the Saints defense was in
Speaker 1: and that pylon shot. Uh, you know, there's no real
Speaker 1: need to throw the ball. They're also in those last
Speaker 1: couple of drives. So to run the ball thirty times
Speaker 1: for eighty six yards compared to just twenty eight dropbacks
Speaker 1: to have a heavier run to pass balance, I think
Speaker 1: that's that's exactly how you want to play this game
Speaker 1: coming in and for Miami to be able to get
Speaker 1: to that and execute and achieve it, I think there's
Speaker 1: there's a tip of the hat to be made in
Speaker 1: that situation, and just real quick to finish up this takeaway.
Speaker 1: I thought the combination of Duke and Lindsay was was
Speaker 1: nice to see both of those guys got thirteen carries.
Speaker 1: I liked what Philip Lindsay showed in the Wildcat. There's
Speaker 1: the overall decisiveness they've shown behind the line and they're
Speaker 1: limited work this year. I've really enjoyed seeing that. Let's
Speaker 1: get to take away number three, but real quick first
Speaker 1: these words. So takeaway number three is going right back
Speaker 1: to the rookie class and it's a one singular word.
Speaker 1: It's just waddle. I think that Jalen Waddle's production this
Speaker 1: year and what he means to the offense. We've kind
Speaker 1: of seen it down the stretch here. It's been so
Speaker 1: so impressive and just really quick on him in this game,
Speaker 1: ESPN showed the graphic late on the telecast that he
Speaker 1: tied Jerry Rice for the most catches by a rookie
Speaker 1: on a Monday night football game with his ten receptions tonight,
Speaker 1: just under one yards for him another touchdown, he goes
Speaker 1: in for his fifth receiving touchdown, his sixth total touchdown
Speaker 1: as a pro. He became the Miami Dolphins all time
Speaker 1: rookie receiving guardage record holder tonight in that game or
Speaker 1: last night, I should say, and he's now within striking distance.
Speaker 1: Just five more to go from an Kwan Bulden for
Speaker 1: tying the record for all time receptions by a rookie
Speaker 1: in a season. And if they try to say, hey,
Speaker 1: he didn't seventeen games, No he didn't. He missed a game.
Speaker 1: So if he plays the next two games and he
Speaker 1: gets the record, that'll happen in sixteen games for him.
Speaker 1: So good on Jalen Waddle. And just to further the
Speaker 1: point beyond the stats in the box score, here and
Speaker 1: what your eyes tell you, he just doesn't disappear from
Speaker 1: the game. I mean O J. McDuffie and I were
Speaker 1: talking about this during the during the broadcasting. Man, what
Speaker 1: a fun time we had watching that game tonight with him.
Speaker 1: Seth and Jason Sarni of fins Maniacs came over for
Speaker 1: the game and hung out with us in the in
Speaker 1: the Verizon I think it was Talent Lounge at the
Speaker 1: five sixties studio there. I was awesome to have that
Speaker 1: little moment and hang out with him, and I hope
Speaker 1: you guys saw the promotion for the postgame show. Sarni
Speaker 1: got involved on that, but I was talking to O
Speaker 1: J about how Waddle just doesn't seem to have these
Speaker 1: games where it's like two catches for twenty one yards,
Speaker 1: like he's always part of the game plan, always finding
Speaker 1: a way to factor into the equation. And Juice said
Speaker 1: that he thinks the reason that he's able to do
Speaker 1: that is because they do a great job of finding
Speaker 1: ways to make sure they move him around so he
Speaker 1: can't get taken away by an opposing defensive game plan.
Speaker 1: So that's highly valuable when your top guy is not
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say impervious to being shut down. But so
Speaker 1: far in his rookie season, he's shown you that he
Speaker 1: does not go away in games ever. Really, he also
Speaker 1: catches everything. He's tough as hell and can maintain possession
Speaker 1: through contact, whether it's the ground, whether it's a hit,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the case may be, he finds a
Speaker 1: way to hang onto that football opens up so much
Speaker 1: creativity for the offense, and again, really don't think we've
Speaker 1: seen what he's truly capable of in the vertical game.
Speaker 1: So getting him and not just getting him, but acquiring
Speaker 1: an additional first round draft pick to go along with
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, you just can't do it any better than that.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number four. The offense had a rough night, and
Speaker 1: it started up front against a very strong States front
Speaker 1: with Cameron Jordan, with Marcus Davenport, with David Anya Mata,
Speaker 1: with Marcus or Marshawn Lattimore in that defensive backfield. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to make a quick note about some of
Speaker 1: the mistakes that got on my radar in that first
Speaker 1: half that I thought killed some drives that otherwise had
Speaker 1: some promise to them, and it was either penalties or
Speaker 1: sacks early on. So on the first the field goal drive,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins first field goal scoring drive of the game.
Speaker 1: There's a sack on third and four. That one just
Speaker 1: the it happened so quickly that it was you hope
Speaker 1: they can confer on that short yards throw the third
Speaker 1: and two call, there's a holding call that negated a
Speaker 1: first down on that play. It was a Eikenberg holding call,
Speaker 1: and they converted for big yards on a third and
Speaker 1: two and a pass over the middle to Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: was the first drive of the second quarter, and that
Speaker 1: was the one where Eikenberg barely made contact with anybody
Speaker 1: and was flagged for holding. And that one comes back,
Speaker 1: but still a mistake that that really winds up killing
Speaker 1: a drive there. And then second and one, there's a
Speaker 1: holding call on the missed field goal drive the fifty
Speaker 1: nine yard or and this holding call gets called in
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson to back them up. They would convert that.
Speaker 1: But later same drive, after getting to a first and
Speaker 1: short for or a first and five rather after a
Speaker 1: neutral zone and fraction, Michael Dieter gets hit with a
Speaker 1: holding call. They get themselves back into position, but on
Speaker 1: that same series on a third and two, a negative
Speaker 1: nine yard sack which sets up a fifty nine yard
Speaker 1: field goal. But you know you you understand the thought
Speaker 1: here to this game. Again, like we talked about this,
Speaker 1: it's if you don't make the big mistake, you don't
Speaker 1: turn it over. With the defense playing the way they did,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult to lose that game if you
Speaker 1: can stay true to that plan. But again, those long
Speaker 1: drives do create more opportunities for penalties, for sacks, for mistakes.
Speaker 1: I mean, and we saw that. That's how that that
Speaker 1: plan kind of goes. You live and die by your plan.
Speaker 1: We saw that kind of rear its head at certain
Speaker 1: points in this game. You have the one turnover, you
Speaker 1: have the missed field goal in that game that costs
Speaker 1: you some points. Obviously, by the way the Jalen Waddles
Speaker 1: hustle play to get that football back after the sack
Speaker 1: in the first on the Dolphins first field goal drive.
Speaker 1: Great great effort by that young man to get himself
Speaker 1: into the equation and not give the Saints an easy
Speaker 1: scoop up. I think it was either him or Ikenberg
Speaker 1: the film the football, but it was Waddles effort that
Speaker 1: kept the play alive to get a forty eight yard
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders field goal. But back to the idea, this
Speaker 1: was a rough night for the offense. I thought in
Speaker 1: general to a you know, he missed that crosser earlier
Speaker 1: in the game against pressure, and this is a play
Speaker 1: that we've talked about on the altstly two or sometimes
Speaker 1: there's pre sure if the interior and one of those
Speaker 1: crossers comes right and behind that and they're open, and
Speaker 1: the ball does not always get there. I think that
Speaker 1: was something we saw in this game. He kind of
Speaker 1: threw it wide and high of Miles Gascon at that throw,
Speaker 1: and then also later a third and short throw that
Speaker 1: came before another Standers field goal attempt that was high
Speaker 1: to Miles Gascon on an in breaking route. So I
Speaker 1: kind of hit those. Hopefully we get those ironed out
Speaker 1: for next week and are better in those. I thought
Speaker 1: that the shot play to Waddle was a good idea
Speaker 1: and really close to good location, but just a bit
Speaker 1: wide on that and then the bad pick and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and let to a break down that interception
Speaker 1: he threw and what he was going through on his
Speaker 1: process on that play just stepped up, and I thought
Speaker 1: I could give back a good back shoulder. Didn't expect
Speaker 1: him to break it across, uh like it happened, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, took a chance there. Obviously we could have
Speaker 1: just hit the easier throw, the easier passed to Jalen
Speaker 1: on the incut on that play. But it was what
Speaker 1: it was. You know, I think our defense did outstanding, um,
Speaker 1: giving us opportunities that you know, we obviously need to
Speaker 1: capitalize on. Uh, but that's that was done. So there
Speaker 1: you're here too talking about the interception. Obviously, the big
Speaker 1: thing you take away from that is he talks about
Speaker 1: noticing Waddle coming across the middle of the field open
Speaker 1: on that play and just kind of going through what
Speaker 1: we you know, we we're gonna be critical when when
Speaker 1: it's called for and praise when it's called for as well,
Speaker 1: but you know, to just kind of being transparent about
Speaker 1: his performance on a night that we call not up
Speaker 1: to what I think we would all himself would agree
Speaker 1: as his standard still goes nineteen twenty six for a
Speaker 1: buck ninety eight and a touchdown, passing a ninety one
Speaker 1: point five passer rating. I mean, he winds up with
Speaker 1: a healthy yards per attempt, just under eight yards per
Speaker 1: attempt for almost seventy completion he hit seventy against a
Speaker 1: defense or in a ninety point five passer rating, point
Speaker 1: one passer rating against a defense who last week held
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and that offense of passing game to a
Speaker 1: fifty seven point one passer reading just four point five
Speaker 1: yards per attempt and fifty four percent completion. So I
Speaker 1: mean perspective here, right, It's all you can acknowledge the
Speaker 1: plays that didn't go your way while also appreciating the
Speaker 1: greater body of working in this game too. In the
Speaker 1: offense did enough to win the game within that game plan.
Speaker 1: But kind of back to the takeaway, just not super
Speaker 1: efficient five for fifteen on third downs, three sacks, two
Speaker 1: nine yards in the game. I think obviously you hope
Speaker 1: and expect to be more efficient and just more sharp
Speaker 1: in the coming games. It wasn't there in the running
Speaker 1: game either, just three yards per carry for Duke Johnson,
Speaker 1: less than that for Philip Lindsay. Uh. Just to kind
Speaker 1: of further flash out this idea, I thought there was
Speaker 1: a left first down on the field on the Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskins second and nine conversion that Miami wound wound up
Speaker 1: not getting on the Brissette rollout that I thought could
Speaker 1: have been. There was kind of left in the field
Speaker 1: there in terms of him getting past the sticks there,
Speaker 1: So all that in mine again, remember that defense shut
Speaker 1: out the Bucks and Tom Brady a week ago. The
Speaker 1: fifth takeaway coming up after these words, and the fifth
Speaker 1: takeaway here on the drive time Victory Tuesday recap edition
Speaker 1: is speaking of twa. How about the response after another
Speaker 1: bad pick? You love to see that, I mean, coming
Speaker 1: back from adversity is really what this game is all
Speaker 1: about in that position for sure. And last week on
Speaker 1: the game winning drive, it was the touchdown throw and
Speaker 1: the second throw to Mike Asiki, but again the third
Speaker 1: and eleven touchdown throw to put the team of seven
Speaker 1: points late in the fourth quarter there was huge and
Speaker 1: this time it's a forty yard bomb, absolute dime to
Speaker 1: get them off their own goal line. And just the
Speaker 1: situation there that the flow of that game, like e
Speaker 1: p A is a big stat right that e p
Speaker 1: A expected expected points added and the win probability added
Speaker 1: stats out there that had to have jumped pretty significantly
Speaker 1: on that play because you go from punting from your
Speaker 1: own fifteen yard line if that completion is not hit
Speaker 1: and the Saints probably get the ball. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about att five yard gross in terms of the kick
Speaker 1: that puts them, you know, in the plus thirty five
Speaker 1: thirty yard range to get the football and that spot
Speaker 1: down by seven opposed to having the Dolphins with the
Speaker 1: football and plus territory on the Saint side of the field,
Speaker 1: which would wind up going in to score a touchdown
Speaker 1: to go by four team points. That's a huge, huge
Speaker 1: swing in that game. And on after the interception was thrown,
Speaker 1: Two went six for nine eighty two yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown after that pick Sol again, he bounces back in
Speaker 1: a big way with that nine play eighties six yard,
Speaker 1: four minutes and thirty second touchdown drive following the interception
Speaker 1: and mac Hollins. Let's talk about mac Hollins on that reception.
Speaker 1: I mean the inside release and the way he's able
Speaker 1: to stack that defensive back. I mean he showed the
Speaker 1: outside release cross face and then got on top of
Speaker 1: him really quickly, and that gave to a clear window immediately,
Speaker 1: which is where I think he really excels in the
Speaker 1: vertical game when he can see it early and rip
Speaker 1: it early and anticipate that downfield shot. That's what you
Speaker 1: saw a lot of Obama was those handoffs. What I
Speaker 1: mean by that is the balls right on the money.
Speaker 1: Mac stacks early to a let's it rip early. What
Speaker 1: it does is it gets the ball out before the
Speaker 1: past protection or the pass rush even factors into the equation.
Speaker 1: And it also gives you those one on one opportunities
Speaker 1: where if you can win early and go get the football,
Speaker 1: can create some big place down the field. It did
Speaker 1: in this game the early anticipation vertical shot to Mac.
Speaker 1: Great job getting that separation and also great job penning
Speaker 1: that punt down at the one yard line late in
Speaker 1: that game. That was a fantastic play to stay right
Speaker 1: there outside of the white stripe. What a game this was.
Speaker 1: Dolphins win their seventh straight and again are in the
Speaker 1: seventh position in the a f c UH standings at
Speaker 1: this moment. Two more games to play. Next Sunday in
Speaker 1: Nashville against the Titans. Should be a fun one. But
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for my time on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: and guys. We talked about the offense there a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I do want to go back to the defense
Speaker 1: because I think that was the story I mean of
Speaker 1: the game pretty clear. That really requires a whole lot
Speaker 1: of explanation. But again, the over twelve on third down.
Speaker 1: That's three straight games for Miami with five sacks, five
Speaker 1: straight games with three sacks, if you can put that
Speaker 1: together in your head, forty three sacks over the last
Speaker 1: seven games. And I think the part that really impressed
Speaker 1: me the most juice was the way they finished out
Speaker 1: this game. There was a series in the middle of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter where Seeler finishes up with a huge
Speaker 1: sack for eleven yard loss. Ogba then finishes them up
Speaker 1: with a huge hit, and then Eric Rowe comes in
Speaker 1: for a hit. You had Baker and Javon Holland combining
Speaker 1: for that sack and a big pop on the quarterback
Speaker 1: they were finishing. These guys often kind of something that
Speaker 1: message to the rest of the league of this defense,
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna bring the physicality to yeah. Man.
Speaker 1: They shut down any potential threat like from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and every single time they had an opportunity, it looked
Speaker 1: like to even get something going. I mean, you put
Speaker 1: the one st that out there over twelve on on
Speaker 1: third down. That's that's that's getting it done. You know,
Speaker 1: I think one for one on maybe no one for
Speaker 1: three is I'm on fourth down as well, So one
Speaker 1: for fifteen on third and fourth down. Unbelieved. How how
Speaker 1: they did on on defense? There was really no true
Speaker 1: thread out there, and they tried to put a little
Speaker 1: drive together to him. The defense played their butts off man.
Speaker 1: And and that's where you know, we talked about it
Speaker 1: over and over and over against why our bread is buttered. Uh.
Speaker 1: They got some guys over there that you paid some
Speaker 1: big buck to make big plays. And that's what they do,
Speaker 1: a mix of young, a mix of old, bringing in
Speaker 1: a bunch of different guys to make plays for his team. Man,
Speaker 1: it was fun. You know, you sit up there and
Speaker 1: you watch and see a team get eight sacks and
Speaker 1: it spread out through around the around the whole defense.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody seemed like they got a little piece
Speaker 1: of you know, a book today and it was important. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: if you were listening to the hopefully you were listening,
Speaker 1: because that was a rough you know, that Monday Night
Speaker 1: crew was definitely not dolphin favored, that's for sure. But
Speaker 1: if you were listening to the game being called on
Speaker 1: w q A, m J T was ready to leave
Speaker 1: the booth. He said he was ready to go downstairs
Speaker 1: and try to get a few sacks himself. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: He would have come out of retirement for I think
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter for this anime and then gone right
Speaker 1: back into the booth. But yeah, they were licking their chops,
Speaker 1: pinning their ears back, whatever phrase you want to use,
Speaker 1: and and it didn't matter if it was a defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: a linebacker, a defensive back. They were going after that
Speaker 1: young guy. Kept having the team meeting at the quarterback. Man,
Speaker 1: that's what you always want to do, man, you want
Speaker 1: to have a team meeting at the quarterback. Tell you
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna tell you what they always said. And
Speaker 1: then when you hit the quarterback, the whole team feels it.
Speaker 1: And he felt it more than anything. They got a
Speaker 1: nice yeah book I saw, and he sold to beginning
Speaker 1: his whole family there. Man. You know, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a tough way to get started, man, against
Speaker 1: a dolphin defense like that, Man, it's a tough way
Speaker 1: to start your career and get on the players, but
Speaker 1: also good in the coaching staff because something that Seth
Speaker 1: came in a little bit fired up about was he
Speaker 1: wanted to get after that quarterback from the opening snap,
Speaker 1: and I thought they did that with pressure looks. They
Speaker 1: actually Next Gen Stats posted a graphic or that they
Speaker 1: posted a graphic on the on the broadcast from next
Speaker 1: next Gen Stats that Miami blitzed him of the passing
Speaker 1: plays in that first half and that was the most
Speaker 1: by any team in a single half this entire season.
Speaker 1: Use I love the way they change the picture on him.
Speaker 1: Don't make it easy on don't play some soft coverage
Speaker 1: that gives him the easy opportunities. There was a great
Speaker 1: player early in the game, eight man coverage with eyes
Speaker 1: in the quarterback and Jerome Baker closes it down, or
Speaker 1: maybe he was xaviing Howard that got that sack. They
Speaker 1: throw the cat blitz with a cornerback Byron Jones off
Speaker 1: the edge. He never blitzes. That's a new look. Later on,
Speaker 1: you have Alvin Camara kind of in a close condensed
Speaker 1: set close to the formation and he has a possible
Speaker 1: option route there and they bracketed and take him away.
Speaker 1: So I thought the game plan too, was fantastic from
Speaker 1: this Dolphinse coaching staff. Yeah, when you look at me,
Speaker 1: who are you gonna take away in this game? You
Speaker 1: have to you have to find a way. And he's
Speaker 1: more Dames, I think in the passing game than he
Speaker 1: is in the run game. So yeah, you get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: You got your you know, you got your guys ex
Speaker 1: and environ, you know, on on some one on ones.
Speaker 1: But then you get a guy like like Kamara and
Speaker 1: you bracketing. We'll call I know, got some own inside,
Speaker 1: some money outside. Whatever you do, we've got to cover.
Speaker 1: And that's ideal. You know, you got a quarterback that's
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure from the beginning of this game,
Speaker 1: and you gotta you know, running back that they're gonna
Speaker 1: run a shorter rouse with you bracket that. Then where
Speaker 1: as you go with the football, he gets sacked. That's
Speaker 1: what happened this game. So when you go with a
Speaker 1: defensive scheme like that, bringing some pressure, different looks, it
Speaker 1: looks like guys are coming eight across. You know, some
Speaker 1: guys are bailing, some guys are coming off the edge,
Speaker 1: and and vice versus. I mean, that's exactly what you
Speaker 1: do to a young quarterback, smart quarterback and with the
Speaker 1: Notre Dame play some big games. But hey, he ain't
Speaker 1: played against Miami Dolphin defense or any NFL defense for
Speaker 1: that matter. Yeah, but even that, he wasn't playing against
Speaker 1: the starters. He didn't get any reps against the ones.
Speaker 1: So so look, that was an eye opening experience. I'm
Speaker 1: sure for him he'll grow from that. He'll never see
Speaker 1: anything like that again in his life. And you know,
Speaker 1: but that's I go back to what I said earlier.
Speaker 1: That's what you're supposed to do against the young guy
Speaker 1: who isn't prepared to handle that kind of heat. That's
Speaker 1: what you have to do. Would you guys be upset
Speaker 1: up with me if I told you I was disappointed
Speaker 1: about the fifty six yard complation a little or company,
Speaker 1: because it would have barely been over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: with that playing the camera play the nineteen yard rush,
Speaker 1: they were under a hundred yards without those you plays,
Speaker 1: and I thought they both were a little bit could
Speaker 1: have gone either way. So for some reason that annoys
Speaker 1: because it was so dominant by Miami, and it it
Speaker 1: certainly shows up in the stats. To We talked about
Speaker 1: eight sacks book finishes the game twelve for twenty a
Speaker 1: buck thirty five, two picks and eight sacks and that
Speaker 1: first pick. How pumped were you guys on? What was
Speaker 1: the third defensive play of the game, A tip passed
Speaker 1: by Andrew Van giegl who I thought did a fantastic
Speaker 1: job of going again third and two. I'm trying to run,
Speaker 1: run this pass rush game. But I see the quarterback
Speaker 1: get to his drop. I'm gonna go, and he's separating
Speaker 1: the hands, which means the ball is coming out. So
Speaker 1: he gets separation from his man juice and gets his
Speaker 1: hands up in the air, gets the tip, and there's
Speaker 1: Nick Needon to take it in. Talk about how that
Speaker 1: kind of set just set a tone for the course
Speaker 1: of that game. Well, even more importantly, Travis, the fact
Speaker 1: that the offense went out there and with with three
Speaker 1: and out, you know, and you know we got the
Speaker 1: ball first, went out there with three and out, and
Speaker 1: I said, well, this is just as good as us
Speaker 1: getting the ball first and scoring. It was huge. You know,
Speaker 1: defense comes in there and they and they get a
Speaker 1: score right away. I mean, you couldn't ask for a
Speaker 1: better defensive start, and it kind of set the tone
Speaker 1: for the whole rest of the game, and how the
Speaker 1: defense is going to play, man, but tech of a
Speaker 1: play as usual. Look, man, we can sit here and
Speaker 1: talk about our defense like all night because of you know,
Speaker 1: so many guys were such had such an instrumental part
Speaker 1: and an instrumental role, and what we're doing, and just
Speaker 1: that start right there, Van Ginko getting his hands up,
Speaker 1: not getting there, and something quick getting his hands up
Speaker 1: and we run down there for a pick six. Then
Speaker 1: all the sacks when guys are gluing guys you know,
Speaker 1: across the board, eight in the box it looks like,
Speaker 1: and guys come from different angles, you know, and guys
Speaker 1: getting there. So I thought that start right there is
Speaker 1: the way you set the tone right away, especially when
Speaker 1: you're going into you know, in the New Orleans we're
Speaker 1: so loud in there. It was loud for a while,
Speaker 1: but then there's loud because I heard a lot of
Speaker 1: dolphin chatter, you know what I mean. I heard the
Speaker 1: duke chance. You know, we quiet a crowd that's usually
Speaker 1: incredibly loud, especially on Monday night football. And that was
Speaker 1: that's how you do you start about getting it done
Speaker 1: early with your defense. That was quiet people that are
Speaker 1: really fat fast. Yeah, I thought you mentioned need him
Speaker 1: driving on that past. I thought he was in possession
Speaker 1: to make a play regardless of the tip. And that
Speaker 1: was just out of the whole focus of the night
Speaker 1: seth And that's kind of been a focus of the
Speaker 1: whole season. Getting your hand on the football. But man,
Speaker 1: up front, these guys are deep, they come in waves.
Speaker 1: They put pressure on you, absolutely against the running game.
Speaker 1: How pumped are you to watch that when I know
Speaker 1: you have a bit of affinity for defensive line play. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: certainly around the edge, but now, I mean, look, just
Speaker 1: put pressure on the quarterback. I've been talking to you
Speaker 1: about this since the offseason, where I don't I don't
Speaker 1: even remember who the guests was, but we wanted to
Speaker 1: start changing the way that we play defense. This was
Speaker 1: a physical, dominant defense last year that forced turnovers, one
Speaker 1: of the top teams in the league forcing turnovers. Do
Speaker 1: what you do best. You know how many times have
Speaker 1: we hurt this year? We're gonna take what the defense
Speaker 1: gives us. How about you do what you do best
Speaker 1: and you dictate to the other team, and and so defensively,
Speaker 1: I don't wan't give them anything, you know, especially when
Speaker 1: you have these rookies that show up and start bringing
Speaker 1: heat like that, especially when you have two safeties that
Speaker 1: can bring heat like that, especially when you have corners
Speaker 1: that can cover get after the quarterback. This entire is
Speaker 1: built around the ability of the quarterback to make plays
Speaker 1: moving offense, lead a team. And if you can disrupt
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you disrupt the entire game plan of that
Speaker 1: team on both sides of the ball. And that's what
Speaker 1: they did today. And you have to do that when
Speaker 1: you're playing the fourth string quarterback, and you know, regardless
Speaker 1: of how many games he won at Notre Dame, regardless
Speaker 1: of how bright his future may or may not be,
Speaker 1: you have to get after the quarterback. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what they did. I'm glad you mentioned the safety is
Speaker 1: talking about the d line there. It's it's all three
Speaker 1: levels as pass rush comes from. Brandon Jones gets his
Speaker 1: fifth sack of the season, that's most in the NFL
Speaker 1: among all defensive backs. Javon Hallen gets a half sack
Speaker 1: as well. We'll check on pressures and the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: will have those numbers for you on the recap podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to come back and talk more about the offense.
Speaker 1: The mistakes and all to a tong about Loto bounces
Speaker 1: back again, but first