WEBVTT - Dolphins Falcons Preseason Week 2 Recap 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:19.079 Touchdown, Miami Run. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.240 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:28.440 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.040 I am your host, Travis Wingfield and as always, even 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.400 in the midnight hour, I am here to bring you 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.000 your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.760 the Dolphins go off in the lone preseason game this 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.560 August at hard Rock Stadium. We're recapping the thirty seven 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:50.360 seventeen Dolphins victory over the Atlanta Falcons. Will do five takeaways, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.000 We'll break down the stats, the big plays on the night, 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.360 go position by position, a big night for the offense 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.440 and Sam Ego Von has himself a legendary stat line. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.840 All of that in a bunch more on this edition 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.520 of the Drivetime Podcast, coming to you from the Baptist 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:12.800 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. I want 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.920 to go ahead and start tonight with the stats from 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.319 the game because they were pretty staggering in Miami's favor. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.880 And last week we talked about the first half of 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.120 the Chicago game and how the Dolphins were the better 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.720 team on the stat line across the board in that 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.480 first half, and then things flipped the opposite direction in 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.280 the second half of that game. But tonight it was 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.399 pretty much from the start of the game to the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.840 end of the game, all Dolphins all the way, but 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.160 the first half with the first team offense out there, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.760 the first team defense with some guys coming in and 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.440 out of the lineup throughout the course of that first half. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.760 But Miami two hundred and thirty nine total yards to 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.400 Atlanta's one. One hundred and eighty yards through the air, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.400 thirty seven for Atlanta. Miami had fifty nine on the ground. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.960 Atlanta had seventy eight, so they won that category. But 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.480 the Dolphins go three for four on third down. The 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.160 Falcons go one for five on third down. Two sacks 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.360 for the Dolphins, one for the Falcons. Miami just two 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.320 penalties for nineteen yards, and in fact, that was their 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.359 game total. So the Dolphins, with ninety players on that sideline, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.160 working in multiple guys and multiple formations and multiple different 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.079 teams throughout the course of the game, just two penalties 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.440 for nineteen yards. What a remarkable stat that is. Atlanta 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.720 winds up with three penalties for twenty five yards in 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.679 the first half, they attack one on later in the game. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.920 Time of possession from Miami seven teen minutes seven seconds 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.000 and Atlanta twelve minutes and forty three seconds. And again 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.520 that trend continued throughout the course of the night, as 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.320 Miami with twenty eight first downs to Atlanta sixteen. Miami 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.200 goes seven for nine on third downs. They did fail 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.000 once on fourth down, but the Falcons to for eight 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.960 on their third downs, two for three on fourth. Miami 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.320 with four hundred and twenty two yards on the night 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.560 to Atlanta's two fifty three, not quite doubling up, but 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.560 getting close to it. Two eighty six passing yards to 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.240 just six s six for Atlanta. Through the air, Miami 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.560 had one thirty six on the ground to Atlanta's one 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.040 eighties seven. They ran eighteen more plays, and they also 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.920 had four sacks in the game. The Falcons had just 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.120 the one sack again, two penalties nineteen yards, Atlanta four 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.639 for thirty five in Miami outpossessed the Falcons thirty six 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.200 forty three to three seventeen. And again, this production from 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.519 the offense without a laundry list of players that you've 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.799 seen plenty get production, whether here in Miami or elsewhere. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:33.000 William Fuller, Lynn bow Junior, DeVante Parker, Preston Williams, and 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.080 Isaiah Ford all receivers not available from Miami in this game. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.640 Javon Holland and Brandon Jones, the two young safeties not available, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.880 Javarros Davis, Vince Beagle, e Landon Roberts, Adam Panky and 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.840 Sethan Carter are your d nps in this game. And 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.840 again it just didn't matter. Miami from the opening gun 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.560 was getting the job done in this game. And I 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.920 want to start off here before the takeaways, just talking 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.120 about some of the explosive plays, because that was one 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.080 of our takeaways on the podcast US last week recapping 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.720 the Bears game. Getting the big past to Mike Gatsicki 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.640 and some third down and long conversions, the touchdown passed 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:11.040 us Von Akhman from Jacoby Brissette. You could look pretty 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.320 much up at your screen every couple of minutes and 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.600 find a big Dolphins play in this one. I started 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.160 off with the Miles Gaskon runs on that first touchdown 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.839 drive where he was ripping off chunk gain after chunk 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.360 gain and produced a big night for the third year 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.120 running back out of Washington. How about two took a 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.840 siki to convert in the red zone on third and long. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.880 How about two out of gasking for the eight yard 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.799 touchdown pass to cap off that second drive and eleven 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.520 play sixty six yards, six and a half minute drive 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.880 for the Dolphins. And that was the case all night long, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.320 just taking the ball up and down the field, getting 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.600 plenty of work in, plenty of plays to put on 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.480 tape to go back and look and and make the 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.279 corrections of the guys are probably doing right now at 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.360 the facility as I sit here talking to you from 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.240 the facility and the podcast studio in the back. Eric 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.560 Rose pass breakup in the end zone Seth Levitt on 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.839 our postgame show on w q A M five sixty 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.920 and available in the Odyssey, by the way, if you much, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.160 I got that podcast the podcast version of the broadcast. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.560 He talked about giving Eric Rowe a game ball because 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.360 of that pass breakup he had in the end zone 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.880 and because he took points off the board fourth and goal. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.920 He gets his hand around like he has wanted to 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.080 do and pokes that thing free. We talked about it 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.960 all week long and the practices really getting a chance 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.000 to go up against Kyle Pitts, and everyone says, well, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.800 how much does it help your game to go up 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.119 against the guy like Kyle Pitts. I asked the question, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.400 Kyle Pitts, how much does it help your game to 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.479 go up against a guy like Eric Rowe? Because really, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.240 in fourteen of the sixteen games last year, Row statistically 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.000 was very very good. In the two games he was 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.120 not as good. Statistically, he was in great position. But 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.680 Travis Kelsey and Darren Waller, a pair of all Pro 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.680 tight ends, they just kind of did their thing in 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.560 those games and made tough, contested catches. So he gets 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.479 another PBu, this one in the end zone, this one 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.599 on fourth down. To me, that constitutes a big play. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.200 How about the completion to Mac Hollands on third and 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.400 ten for fourteen yards from Ta Tonga Byloa. We'll talk 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.800 more about the quarterback and the receiver slash special teams 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.040 Ace that has really made a name for himself this 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.200 training camp in preseason here in Miami. How about thirty 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.919 yards from Tua Tokisiki. Last week it was fifty three 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.159 or fifty four yards. I mean, how many tight ends 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.200 are making thirty forty fifty yard plays in the National 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.400 Football League today, There's not many of them that do that. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.359 Mike KASICKI now doing it back to back weeks. Sam 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.920 eg Van. My notes here say back to back sacks. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.200 Clearly I gotta update that because it was back to 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.719 back to back to back four sacks for Sam Ego. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.920 Van went totally bonkers in the game. Craivon le Blanc 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.599 forced to fumble, Kirk Merritt had to catch and run 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.039 for twenty seven yards where he ran a little jerk route, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.120 stuck the foot in the ground, caught the football, ran 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.760 through contact and was off to the races. Also scored 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.280 touchdown later on in the night. That was awesome to 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.240 see because Kirk Mayor has been making big plays all 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.719 training camp long, so to watch him get production in 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.880 the game very cool to see that for him. I 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.800 put Malcolm Brown for six rushes for twenty five yards 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.840 and a touchdown on one drive on that first d 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.240 I've out of the locker room where the offensive line 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.600 was just pushing the Atlanta Falcons off the football and 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.480 Malcolm Brown was running hard and getting those tough yards. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.040 Big drive there from him. Malcolm Perry had a big 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.000 play up the sideline on a pass reception from Jacoby 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.640 Brissette that gets in here again, a Von four sex 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.679 I guess I put it in here, twice, eleven tackles, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.920 and a safety shoot. Heading into the fourth quarter, a 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.880 Von trailed the Falcons by himself by just one point. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.680 Calvin Munson gets an interception. How about that? And then 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.760 I also have the Kirk Merritt touchdown in here as well, 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.760 So plenty of explosive plays for this Dolphins team on 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.440 offense on defense. I also put a note in here 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.960 that the Dolphins continue to find ways to pin the 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.280 opposing kick return unit inside the twenty yard line. There 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.720 was one today at the twelve yard line. Now, of course, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.160 preseason teams are going to be more inclined to bring 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.480 the ball out because there's no penalty for losing twelve 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.880 yards of field position in a game that doesn't count, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.640 and you want to get those reps. But good on 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.680 Miami for finding ways to consistently win the hidden yards 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.400 battle and flip the field with they're all pro kicker 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.920 and their kick coverage team. They're in Jason Sanders and 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:05.080 Danny Croftsman's special teams unit. Takeaway number one, We're gonna 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.280 go to QB one here, who was asked, how do 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.440 you think you've played tonight? And the question also had 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.520 a bit of a caveat in there. You know your 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.960 coach demands perfection, but how do you think you played 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.600 in this game? I think, uh, you know, kind of 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.200 like last week, and he did while we look at 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.880 you didn't. Well. I think offensively, we came out pretty strong. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.559 I wanted to start fast and obviously going to the 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.200 same drise you conver on third downs, good drives going 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.240 and you know, put points on board. Um, that's that's 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.840 really what we're gonna come back to QB one here 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.319 in just one second. But sixteen for twenty three D 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.880 and eighty three yards at passing touchdown a one oh 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.480 seven point seven rating. And we talked about this in 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.640 the podcast last week about how I thought he demonstrated 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.439 the things in that game that made you really if 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.959 you were a big fan of his as a prospect 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.800 coming out of Alabama, that really made you kind of 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.240 attracted to his game as far as the prospect goes, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.800 because he was showing the quick twitch getting away from 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.120 the pressure, stepping out of harm's way and into position 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.679 in the pocket where there was some space to operate from, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.640 so he could make throws and get the football off 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.800 that way too, multiple big plays from to in that aspect, 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.520 the quick decisions to decipher. Here comes a rusher, Here 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.600 comes a blitzer. He talked about Dan P's showing multiple 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.439 different looks this week in practice and the joint practices 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.640 and how it gave him an opportunity to get through 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.280 some of the stuff you have to get through pre 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.640 snap and how to apply that post snap. I thought 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.600 we saw a very good collection of to a picking 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.720 up not just where the pressure was coming from, but 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.160 how to beat the pressure with the quick decisive throws. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.520 And we're gonna get to that here more than just 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.120 one second. But I want to go back to to 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.800 a now who was asked about the looks the defense 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.360 gave them and the offensive approach to take advantage of 0:09:54.360 --> 0:10:00.800 what the defense was showing. U. You know, on first 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:06.440 and second down, there some changes within the structure, you know, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:12.640 and then now throughout the game, but they gave us 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.600 we handled the ball out and the able to throw. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.200 You know, they're trying to get guys in the box 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:25.679 for the re fit nor as poor guys, and that 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.559 right there is a very dangerous option for an offense 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.920 to have. And I spoke about this again on the 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.559 w q A M five sixty post game show about 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.199 how last week and this week to Dolphins down six receivers, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.040 but last week with all the receivers down and a 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.360 compliment of tight ends available, which she had this week 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.560 as well to a really through the ball to Shaheen 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.440 and Smith and Ghaziki a lot made a bunch of 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.719 plays in the passing game through the tight ends. And 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.120 we saw Jacobe Brissette at the football to running backs 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.360 as well as to to Malcolm Brown last week, but 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.199 now he doesn't a good job of sharing the wealth 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.559 to not just tight ends and backs, but getting receivers 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.439 involved with Jalen Waddle, Mac Hollins, Jechem Grant will talk 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.600 more about the quick game here in just one second 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.400 one of our takeaways. But I thought that was an 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.640 interesting development there, because you go through the course of 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:15.120 a seventeen game NFL schedule, a full seventeen game NFL season, 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.240 and you're gonna face different defenses that have different strengths 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.840 and can take away different things on your offense. So 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.960 the more ways you can win football games, gosh, that's 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.240 a nice recipe for success. I'm not gonna put too 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.960 much on a preseason game, but that's the idea. And 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.439 I always go back to the was it twenty nineteen 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.079 that range of the New Orleans Saints with Drew Brees, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.200 when yeah, it was the tail end of his career, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.400 but he could still get the job done. And we 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.400 saw that in a postseason game against the Minnesota Vikings 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:46.760 that year. I think it was where he was just 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.880 going up and down the field. In the second half 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.240 of that game, the Saints defense wasn't playing as highly 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.200 as they normally did. Alvin Camaro was not getting going, 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.160 so they said, hey, Breeze, we're gonna need you to 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.960 go out there and take care of this game for us. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.079 And he went out there and put up a bunch 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.600 of points in a bunch of ats and a bunch 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.320 of yards. And so you have this where the quarterback 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.920 is there and he can hand the ball off and 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.080 play strong defense, but when we need him, you can 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.360 go to that. So multiple ways to win the football game, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.760 but also the job of the quarterback. It's not just 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.880 the passing plays like people overlook this all time, in 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.520 my opinion, but getting the right look in the right 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.920 count in the running game to what talked about it there, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.400 that is critically vital as well. And we saw the 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.240 Dolphins run game have a bunch of success tonight, especially 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.960 with that first team set of backs and offensive line, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.959 and just the first quarter of the second quarter of 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.559 that game really finding success in the ground game with 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.559 two at the controls. I thought that was fantastic to see. Also, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.360 part of two is takeaway here the third down success rate. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.520 I mean four for four with forty yards tonight. That 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.120 makes it seven for eight with one and fifteen total 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.080 yards in the two preseason games. A little bit less 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.440 than a full game there, but seven for eight hundred 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.240 and fifteen yards. That's a pretty damn good conversion right there. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.640 From your quarterback who also through for nine or eight 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.280 yards per attempt today is to give him eight and 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.440 a half yards per attempt. So stretch in the field 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:05.120 vertically converting third downs and doing it amidst some pressure 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.000 on some of those third and ten places, third and 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.880 eight like, converting these long third downs, and he's making 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.040 it look easy so far through two preseason games. I 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.800 also mentioned the ball placement here in my collective to 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.280 a takeaway just the ability to match up or to 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.840 recognize matchups and where the football should be going. I 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.400 talked about beating the blitz and replacing the blitzer with 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.040 the football. But there was a play where savan Akhmed 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.040 motions out wide at number forty three. The linebacker chases 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.280 him out to the perimeter. And I was sitting there 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.520 in the press box and I said, Achmed's got a linebacker. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.680 That's that's probably where the ball should go. And we 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.760 tried it to try to savan Akhmed. I'll watch the 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.320 replay later and we'll have the Emissions podcast on Monday 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.760 for you guys. Of things I didn't quite see from 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.840 not rewatching the game seven or eight teen times, but 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.199 on that throw, it looked like the location was pretty 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.599 good and Savon had it in his hands, just a 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.199 hit on the sideline, trying to contest with keeping the 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.720 feet down, But the precision on that throw and that 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.800 catch in that route, it looked pretty good to me. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.840 So the idea that you can find these matchups, identify them, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.760 and attack them with this compliment and this arsenal of 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.840 weapons you have, Boy, that's fun to watch for the offense. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.920 So again to a sixteen eighty three yards and a 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.839 touchdown in this game. And he was also the only 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.520 player so far this preseason to complete of his passes 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.120 in a quarter with five or more passes. So how 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.400 about that for a Bob ker from Major League Type 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.920 of satistic, but it's still a fun one. Takeaway number two. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.440 I wrote down the quick game as a takeaway because 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.400 on the first four throws of the game I was 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.960 kind of charting this because they were coming out so fast. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.600 A a quick swing to Waddle, a quick dump off 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.360 to Miles Gascon, a quick hitter to Waddle again, a 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.200 quick jet pass, jet sweet pass to Jachem Grant. The 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.800 first four throws the two had it was catch, fake, fake, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.720 a handoff, throws to the flat catch, pop pass, catch, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.080 get that thing out to the curl route to Jaalen Waddle. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.720 So I think within those four throws he probably held 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.720 the ball collectively for about four seconds. And what does 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.160 that you? I mean that takes away the offensive line, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.000 like you you're not gonna get home. That's design throws 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.800 that get out of the quarterback's hand, get the ball 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.280 to your playmakers in space. They are extensions of the 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.560 running game. And when you can get the ball out 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.200 wide to the running game, through the passing game to 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.560 a guy like Waddle to a guy like grant Man. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.920 That opens things up, and it also takes the pressure 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.720 I think off the offensive line, and now the defense 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.600 has to react to lateral motion to going horizontal, a 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.840 false step left, a false step right, the ball goes 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.920 back the other way. Now all of a sudden, I 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.040 can't pin my ears back and pass rush the way 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.960 I want to, and that's going to help the offensive line. Now. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.720 Coach Flores talked about this in the spring and sorted 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.080 Chris career Dolphin general manager, you know who he is, 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.920 about more ways than just drafting and running back or 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.880 drafting offensive line to improve your running game. And I 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.120 think we saw that tonight. A little bit speed on 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.360 the perimeter, speed going across the field horizontally can really 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.040 dictate the way a defense has to play and open 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.240 things up. This whole entire sport, as coaches mentioned, is 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.000 about complain mentory aspects and complimentary influences. And I think 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.080 the collection of what you have in the passing game 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.440 at the skill spots really benefits what you can do, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.920 not just in the running game, because when you have 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.280 Wattle and Grant or when Will Fuller comes back, or 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.560 these other speed merchants you have on the roster. They're 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.040 going to force the defense into playing too high unless 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.360 you want to risk single man coverage on a four 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.040 three burner and risk giving up the back part of 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.040 the field because that guy can run by your coverage. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.880 So if you get forced into too high coverage, all 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.120 of a sudden, now there's room for the running game. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.080 Right to have mentioned it the box count. If they 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.000 want to stink that defender back, we're gonna go ahead 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.000 and run the football. It's it's a numbers game when 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.040 it comes to the running game. But also there's more. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.520 But wait, there's more. What about throwing the football down 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.680 the middle of the field to a Mike Gasicki to 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.400 a Mac Hollins. That thirty yard catch down the middle. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.560 You see it, You see the receiver's release and you 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.680 see the width that gains and Mike Gasicki has access 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.920 over the middle of the field for a great thirty 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.360 yard rip and run. He gets up ended, but hangs 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.520 onto the football and he gets up Okay, a big 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.680 completion there. So that Dolphins quick game and and incorporating 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.760 some of the elements this offense now has with the 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.280 new pieces they've added, because it was a busy offseason 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.040 bringing in pieces to this offense, and man, it was 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.919 fun to watch on Saturday Night. Number three. I'm going 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.200 to take a bit of a turn in the opposite 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.720 direction here, and this is such a minor nitpick in 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.919 my opinion, because it was really one or two runs. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.520 But Phelippe A. Franks was dead to right a couple 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.560 of times. When he came off the bench for a J. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.280 McCarron early in the game who was injured in the 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.760 game and had to leave and didn't come back. He 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.840 got loose a couple of times. That's why the Falcons 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.399 out rushed Miami was because of the quarterback running and 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.760 I just put running QBS and he evades that pressure 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.480 and gets out of some third down trouble and gets 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.680 out of a sack and extends a drive that way. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.160 And you know, to me, this was the one thing, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.879 and there's never a perfect performance, but this was the 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.520 one thing really standing between Miami and a really really 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.960 really really really really good performance. Like I'm not gonna 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.879 say perfect, but a really really good one. And I 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.199 think if they can sore it, that out and correct 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.560 that and maybe find way to generate pressure on quarterbacks 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.840 with you know, four or five man rushes are just 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.280 find ways to hem those guys in and not let 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.639 them loose the way Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes or 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.720 Kyler Murray, all these explosive quarterbacks you have in the 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.080 National Football League. Now, if you can find a way 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.600 to hem those guys in, man, this defense has the 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.160 pieces and has the parts to really execute and get 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.199 the job done. Like we saw a year ago, and 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.440 they went out and I thought added pieces to make 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.960 them better. So the running quarterback thing is my takeaway 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.320 number three, just because like I said, we're gonna see 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.639 Cam Newton week one most likely, or we'll see if 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.560 it's him or Mac Jones. But I think Cam Newton 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.920 started left the first two preseason games, so right now 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.480 it looks like him, and then week two you get 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.520 Josh Allen. So the running quarterbacks are coming down the pike. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.000 Takeaway number four, I just wrote down the middle, and 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.040 what I mean by that is on defense, because I 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.760 mean how you've heard the podcast, You've heard the training 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.080 camp reviews. In the preseason review against the Bears last week, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.960 Christian Wilkins, Zack Seiler, Ray k One Davis, Adam Butler, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.840 and then I also put Sandag Van but Nardak McKinney 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.680 and although Jerome Baker, I don't think I charged him 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.880 with a quarterback pressure from the press box again got 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.320 to be watched. He's still active and gets We know 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.400