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Speaker 1: on today's show, all review coming your way. We'll take
Speaker 1: a look at the tape, the stats, the snap counts,
Speaker 1: and here from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday
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Speaker 1: is the Drive Time. Let's kick this thing off with
Speaker 1: the offensive notes right off the top, and we usually
Speaker 1: start the quarterback position, so we'll go ahead and do
Speaker 1: that once again here with Teddy Bridgewater. And there was
Speaker 1: some good, some bad, and a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: makes me continue to appreciate QB one every time we
Speaker 1: have a chance to watch a tape. It's not him
Speaker 1: out there, and a lot of that is timing, timing
Speaker 1: and ball placement. There was a completion in the first
Speaker 1: drive of the game that led to a big hit
Speaker 1: because the ball was out a little bit late. On
Speaker 1: the second drive, you got Tyreek Hill screaming across the
Speaker 1: field on a deep over route free access to the
Speaker 1: middle of the field safety and Jawan Bentley, the middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: is getting depth into the hook and Tyreek breaks his
Speaker 1: route off at the forty three yard line, and Bentley
Speaker 1: bites up on Wattle on a high low type of look,
Speaker 1: and he took the cheese on the on the low
Speaker 1: at the thirty seven yard line, and we opt not
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. These are the kind of throws
Speaker 1: that to have made regularly and their high degree of difficulty.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but these are the kind of
Speaker 1: throws we would routinely hit over the course of the
Speaker 1: winning streak, even some of those games and the losing
Speaker 1: streak that produced a top two offense in yards per play.
Speaker 1: We also saw some plays in this game on Sunday
Speaker 1: dropping the eyes against the rush. There was a play
Speaker 1: where Jeff Wilson's leaking out for an easy first down
Speaker 1: catch and run on the third and seven before the fake,
Speaker 1: but the quarterback takes off slide up, dump it off.
Speaker 1: That's the move if your eyes are up. But if
Speaker 1: your eyes are down, you can't see that. That throw
Speaker 1: to Tyreek that didn't count on the first drive was
Speaker 1: an absolute dime, an absolute perfectly thrown ball, really good
Speaker 1: coverage and on a wheel route, i should say, from
Speaker 1: a bunch at the formation at the Alliance scrimmage. In
Speaker 1: the formation, three receivers stacked up together in which Teddy
Speaker 1: has all data throw, but Jonathan Jones doesn't take the
Speaker 1: cheese on the out and he gets vertical. Now Tyreek
Speaker 1: is still behind him because well, nobody in the league
Speaker 1: can run with that guy. But he's made the window
Speaker 1: as small as he can. And so Teddy who throws
Speaker 1: it early. When Tyrek is even with him at the
Speaker 1: forty eight yard line of the Patriots, far hash from
Speaker 1: his own thirty five, so almost twenty yards away. He
Speaker 1: layers a nice little touch throw out to the Patriots
Speaker 1: thirty yard line, right on the hash mark on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: a great reaching gap grab in full extension from Tyreeke
Speaker 1: and there's a still shot where the ball is in
Speaker 1: his hands and the right foot is still touching the
Speaker 1: earth surface. Could they overturn that with the assumption that
Speaker 1: he had control. Who knows, but man, that was a
Speaker 1: close want to know. A great throw from Teddy and
Speaker 1: a great catch from Tyreeke. I feel like we say
Speaker 1: it every week, and a big part of it is
Speaker 1: correct rble, correctable procedural stuff, right, But my god, how
Speaker 1: how lucky unlucky do we have to be on stuff
Speaker 1: like this? We wind up punting from our own side
Speaker 1: of the field opposed to first and ten of the
Speaker 1: New England at the at the New England twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard line. That's points like east will maybe if you
Speaker 1: make the field goal. But a great throw and a
Speaker 1: great catch and it just doesn't go your way because
Speaker 1: a split second decision that goes in the favor of
Speaker 1: the home team. I think there's something to be learned
Speaker 1: off this tape for whichever quarterback plays in this system,
Speaker 1: and that's the benefit of having explosive backs running into
Speaker 1: space created by the attention that has other team paying
Speaker 1: so much regard to the perimeter eligibles. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: tenants seventeen. Of course, that first down on third and
Speaker 1: six to Raheem on the opening touchdown drive that I
Speaker 1: think it was the second or third drive of the game.
Speaker 1: You get seven man coverage and they bracket both Cheetah
Speaker 1: and Waddle, and that puts the hook backer in a
Speaker 1: conflict where he has to say, am I gonna buzz
Speaker 1: the curl and take away the quick throw to Cheetah
Speaker 1: or do I stay right here and do it for
Speaker 1: he most or who hooks up on the middle part
Speaker 1: of the field. He gets caught in between. The throw
Speaker 1: goes to Raheem short of the sticks, but plenty of
Speaker 1: room to run because of that conflict linebacker, and he
Speaker 1: gobbles up nine more yards after the catch. If you
Speaker 1: can mix in those type of plays like timely check
Speaker 1: downs when they really back off their epe man have
Speaker 1: a man coverages with the explosives man watch out. Now
Speaker 1: that said, there are points where we're checking the ball
Speaker 1: down because the ball is not getting ripped on those
Speaker 1: anticipation throws to the intermediate portion of the field. We've
Speaker 1: seen too and make those all year long. So it
Speaker 1: is give and take, and I would prefer the aggressive
Speaker 1: attacking mentality. But the reason he's able to get to
Speaker 1: some of those checkdowns Teddy is because the pass pros
Speaker 1: holding up and then we're just opting to not throw
Speaker 1: the ball to the middle of the field. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you about time to throw here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But Teddy doesn't play the game anywhere near the same
Speaker 1: pace as one and it shows on this tape, and
Speaker 1: that's the case for all the quarterbacks besides two we've
Speaker 1: seen this year. That drive in general, the touchdown drive,
Speaker 1: inspired a lot of confidence in the offense's ability to
Speaker 1: get this done. Because Teddy fired a really good ball
Speaker 1: and a deep comeback to Tyreek against the blitz. Miami
Speaker 1: kept in seven and protection and got Teddy a great
Speaker 1: pocket against a five man rush I think it was
Speaker 1: actually a six man rush, and he threw it before
Speaker 1: Tyreek's out of the break right on target gain of nineteen.
Speaker 1: And Tyreek is an absurd route runner. Man just goes
Speaker 1: from full speed on the vertical to breaking down and
Speaker 1: snapping the route off all like inside of a second.
Speaker 1: It's amazing suddenness. And then I thought Teddy's best throw
Speaker 1: of the day was the shot to the to Mike
Speaker 1: Gasicki into the red zone. Mike is running an out
Speaker 1: route right at the hash to the field, the wide
Speaker 1: side of the field, and Teddy is throwing the ball
Speaker 1: to space based upon the leverage very to a like right.
Speaker 1: That's what he does. And you see on this play
Speaker 1: like it looks like quarters to me, I'm not entirely
Speaker 1: sure if it is, but you have four defenders hanging
Speaker 1: off ten yards off the line kind of protecting the
Speaker 1: end zone there, which that's usually quarters, and Tyreek takes
Speaker 1: the wide corner to the end zone with a wicked
Speaker 1: double move and that displaces the one corner of that
Speaker 1: side of the field, and then underneath to the field,
Speaker 1: you create the under part of that pocket because of
Speaker 1: a flat route with the defender squatting, and that creates
Speaker 1: that pocket from Mike Gasicki to run away from an
Speaker 1: inside leverage linebacker and Teddy throws it with some sauce
Speaker 1: right over that linebacker's fingers for a big completion because
Speaker 1: of a well timed, accurate ball. So there are some
Speaker 1: examples of it on the tape, it's just not as
Speaker 1: frequent as it is with QB one. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what you expect. Going from you know, top of the
Speaker 1: depth chart to the next guy in line. I thought
Speaker 1: the first like, they're not the first real miss, but
Speaker 1: a really bad miss that really costs the Dolphins in
Speaker 1: this game was a third and seven before the missfield
Speaker 1: goals the field goal. Wattle comes open on a speed
Speaker 1: out and the ball is just way too far inside.
Speaker 1: It's pitch and catch like it is a routine on
Speaker 1: air type of throw. Wattle gets plenty of separation, balls
Speaker 1: way off the inside. I mean, that's the throw you
Speaker 1: gotta make. And it kept going from there. That third
Speaker 1: and nine that Sherfield caught out of bounds, just a
Speaker 1: bad ball. It was high and it carried him out
Speaker 1: of bounds. He was open for a first down, and
Speaker 1: we're missing those types of throws to stay on the field,
Speaker 1: which reduces the plays you run on defense, increases the
Speaker 1: players you run on offense, increases time in possession, and
Speaker 1: obviously can lead to more points. Just all the credit
Speaker 1: in the world though for that flip off script touchdown
Speaker 1: that he made to Raheem Moster, that's a great play.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately though, that's where things went back the other direction.
Speaker 1: First down coverage and pressure equals and in completion, second
Speaker 1: down run stuff fall start all of a sudden third
Speaker 1: and fifteen with a four point lead. We gotta play
Speaker 1: some aren't here. I got to know what we're capable
Speaker 1: of because it's still even in the turnover department. And
Speaker 1: if you win this, if you win the turnover battle
Speaker 1: this game, or even tie, I think you win this game.
Speaker 1: Obviously you lost by two points and you were down
Speaker 1: to nothing in that category. You needed that, you know
Speaker 1: you needed to win that. And it's third and fifteen
Speaker 1: and the throw is late into a tight window. I mean,
Speaker 1: what does that result in? Kyle Dougger three times this
Speaker 1: year he stepped in front of passes for pick six
Speaker 1: is he takes it away? And the worst part was
Speaker 1: the window was actually there. And we've seen the offense
Speaker 1: convert third and longs at the best rate in the
Speaker 1: NFL this year, right, and why because we anticipate windows
Speaker 1: opening up as well as anybody else in football. But
Speaker 1: here Sherfield is already coming off the stem breaking in.
Speaker 1: When Teddy goes to throw, that ball has to be
Speaker 1: out before he even clears that first linebacker, that first defender, Timing, timing, timing,
Speaker 1: it's everything, and it cost us not just a first
Speaker 1: down let's play, but seven points going back the other direction.
Speaker 1: It's a killer enter Skyler Thompson. I think the best
Speaker 1: way to describe his game is the way he did.
Speaker 1: He said he felt like he settled into a rhythm
Speaker 1: at a certain point. I thought it was very shaky
Speaker 1: early in hims of timing and field. There was just
Speaker 1: no rhythm going at that point. But once the Dolphins
Speaker 1: got late or got behind, Layton started driving. At that
Speaker 1: touchdown drive, he made some nice plays, you know, to
Speaker 1: to kind of get back into rhythm against what was
Speaker 1: more often soft coverage. And uh, we'll need that. We'll
Speaker 1: need that same type of energy going into next week
Speaker 1: if he is in fact the quarterback but skittish early
Speaker 1: holding the football, not replacing you know, uh, not not
Speaker 1: looking guys off and replacing the ball with guys that
Speaker 1: have moved off of the manipulation that throw to sherfield
Speaker 1: on his first series that was dropped off the chest,
Speaker 1: Wattle was open to the flag behind that little kind
Speaker 1: of you know, the hitch route that kind of acts
Speaker 1: as a smash partition smash portion of that concept. He
Speaker 1: could have manipulated that flat corner or that cloud corner
Speaker 1: and pulled him to the flat and throwing over the
Speaker 1: top to waddle just didn't manipulate at all. And that's okay,
Speaker 1: like that's expected. But these are the things you miss
Speaker 1: when you don't have your quarterback one out there. It's
Speaker 1: a major bumber. The scramble got called back because that
Speaker 1: was a great bit of playmaking for a rookie. And
Speaker 1: that's what he brings you. Right when the pocket is
Speaker 1: compromised in two spots, he still got out. It's what
Speaker 1: he brings you. But on balance, I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: you expect, you know, player coming off the bench, seventh
Speaker 1: round rookie to look, it's just not going to be
Speaker 1: as polished as your former number five pick and a
Speaker 1: guy that's played a lot of reps within this offense
Speaker 1: and in this league and in this sport. So we
Speaker 1: go to Tyreek Hill. We talked about his route running.
Speaker 1: The ability to erase angles is just freaking awesome. Miles
Speaker 1: Bryant had him dead to write on that touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: but he just outran him. And Surefield has a full
Speaker 1: season of great blocks, but this one might be his best.
Speaker 1: He catches the furthest man outside, but then realizes Briant
Speaker 1: has an inside track to shoot up field and get
Speaker 1: Tyreek and take a chance that you can out angle him,
Speaker 1: which was a bad choice. But Trent gets a little
Speaker 1: chip on the shoulder pad of Brian and that gives
Speaker 1: Tyreek just the fraction of a second he needs to
Speaker 1: ensure that he beat him to the pylon. Great stuff
Speaker 1: there from those two guys. I'm curious what happened on
Speaker 1: the deep shot that mccordy dropped, because Tyreek is running
Speaker 1: past the corner and throws the mailbox up and he's
Speaker 1: open and Teddy UNCORKSI but Tyreek stops. Now the throw
Speaker 1: was way too far inside because he actually had the
Speaker 1: pylon to Tyreek for potential touchdown, but Tyreek stopped. Throw
Speaker 1: was inside and then Accordy dropped the pick. Just some
Speaker 1: ugly football all the way around there. Waddle is also
Speaker 1: just a great route runner man. The big catching run
Speaker 1: he had in the touchdown drive, you see mccordy widen
Speaker 1: towards the pylon because Jalen runs that route like a
Speaker 1: slot fade. We've seen him run that route for success
Speaker 1: this year a couple of times. And then the minute
Speaker 1: mccordy gets with Jalen stabs that right foot into the
Speaker 1: ground and breaks it back across the inside. The ball
Speaker 1: is perfect, and that was the moment the offense to me,
Speaker 1: looked the most like we've been used to seeing earlier
Speaker 1: in the year when they were rolling that you know,
Speaker 1: catch it and stride, keep rolling, big run after the catch,
Speaker 1: a nice play. His catch waddles on third and seven
Speaker 1: with the game still within two like in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: was just another example of how well rounded his game is.
Speaker 1: Tough catch, big spots, stationary possession type of route and
Speaker 1: you see him hanging out in that pocket because the
Speaker 1: ball was late, um, but to be able to stay
Speaker 1: there and and survive a hit and elevate and make
Speaker 1: the play. I love his game. Man. Trent Sheriffeld also
Speaker 1: had a great edge seal and a nice raheem run
Speaker 1: to the perimeter the very next snap after the touchdown
Speaker 1: that he or the play that he's he blocked for
Speaker 1: Tyreek on a touchdown. Just had a really good job
Speaker 1: in the in the running game for Trent Schriffl. Once again,
Speaker 1: speaking of blocking, there was some cool protection schemes dial
Speaker 1: up and I thought it was kind of a way
Speaker 1: to mask the fact you didn't have to Ron Armstead
Speaker 1: like one player they pulled Liam to right tackle to
Speaker 1: double Lawrence guy off that edge. You slide Connor, you
Speaker 1: slide Rob to fill the three tech and the nose
Speaker 1: tackle to the exact same thing, but flipped it on
Speaker 1: the second and seven on the following drive, the touchdown
Speaker 1: drive where this time Rob pulls to help a slanted
Speaker 1: defensive line where the Patriots called on a backside one technique,
Speaker 1: front side three technique, and a six technique with Jude
Speaker 1: on to the wide nine all the way to the
Speaker 1: other side. You have this big gap off the right side,
Speaker 1: and they're overloading the pressure off the one side, so
Speaker 1: they they they widen Jude's rush with misdirection and motion
Speaker 1: in that way they kind of forces him to go
Speaker 1: the long way around. Then you pull Rob off that
Speaker 1: week side where he just has to run you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of room because the way you called that motion.
Speaker 1: So you get robbed to help on the heavy side.
Speaker 1: Just a big fan of the creativity and pass pro
Speaker 1: when you're down some dudes, most notably you know to
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead, and then there's good rotation on that Teddy
Speaker 1: scramble on the right before the fourth and one conversion
Speaker 1: where the Patriots went with the same exact look. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know the name of that front is, I
Speaker 1: gotta find it. Basically overload three Judean why technique to
Speaker 1: the weak side. Then they looped from the nose backer,
Speaker 1: this time around the edge, but Liam slides to run
Speaker 1: him around the ark, while Kendall Lamb took his man
Speaker 1: out of the place, slanting inside. And then you get
Speaker 1: Connor and Big Rob doubling Lawrence Guy in the middle.
Speaker 1: Then finally a conversion when I checked down past to
Speaker 1: Raheem Mostert, same look with this time, rather than looping around,
Speaker 1: just tries to split the backside a gap, but Big
Speaker 1: Rob just puts him on the turf. Also, in these
Speaker 1: situations where it's kind of like a three car pile
Speaker 1: up or six car if you count both offense and defense,
Speaker 1: like Connor Williams balance always stands out. If he goes down,
Speaker 1: it would create a potential gap for them to run through,
Speaker 1: but he's literally absorbing contact and getting bounced around there
Speaker 1: but staying on his feet despite like Rob hunting Josh
Speaker 1: j both falling into him. It's impressive to watch. To me,
Speaker 1: this is about the scheme. It's where there's when there's
Speaker 1: balance on the offense and the running game passing game.
Speaker 1: They can create these advantageous pass pro situations. Then on
Speaker 1: obvious passed downs I think two masks a lot of that.
Speaker 1: But then also in those situations you get some you know,
Speaker 1: gas from the positions you've had issues within the past,
Speaker 1: and you know what those are. So uh, scheme quarterback.
Speaker 1: I made a big difference. You've been better a couple
Speaker 1: of positions, but still some of the shortcomings occur obvious
Speaker 1: passing situations from some of the usual suspects. Another point
Speaker 1: of just general offense. I just love the spacing they create,
Speaker 1: and part of that is certainly the speed of tenants seventeen,
Speaker 1: but the design too, that little swing route to Raheem
Speaker 1: where he caught and ran for nine yards in the
Speaker 1: second quarter. Teddy throws the ball and you've got Tyreek
Speaker 1: at the forty at the numbers on one side of
Speaker 1: the field, the balls at the twenty four yard line,
Speaker 1: so sixteen yards downfield. You've got Wattle on the forty
Speaker 1: on the other number on the other side of the field.
Speaker 1: Just hit my elbow. Ouch. You've got Dirham Smith at
Speaker 1: the in the flat Raheem at the fifteen on the
Speaker 1: same side, and then Hunter Long runs a shallow cross
Speaker 1: to the other side of the field at the twenty
Speaker 1: five yard line. You wind up with three Patriots on
Speaker 1: this play covering grass space. Has been impressive all year
Speaker 1: and a major upgrade from what we saw a year ago.
Speaker 1: Without question in that department, the design of the Wilson
Speaker 1: end around toss was incredible. Surefield motions across the play
Speaker 1: side and bluffs like he's gonna run split flow back
Speaker 1: across the formation, and they also pulled Rob Hunt from
Speaker 1: that side to the backside, and you see the entire
Speaker 1: Patriot second level stay in tight because the fake that
Speaker 1: they give to most with all that action, it screams
Speaker 1: inside run like a counter run. Then you hit the
Speaker 1: opposite of the counter with Cedric Wilson a good seal
Speaker 1: play side on the perimeter and Jeff Wilson gets a
Speaker 1: head of steam with Surefield leading him up. It's a
Speaker 1: nine yard first down run on the red zone. Those
Speaker 1: are huge, uh. I just put a note here about
Speaker 1: different tight ends losing at the point of attacks myth
Speaker 1: Hunter Long and I just wrote the tight end position
Speaker 1: was rough. Again to me, it's been comparable to the
Speaker 1: cornerback spot and think about the health of those two
Speaker 1: rooms this season and how that kind of sounds. Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: I thought, had his another not one of his best games,
Speaker 1: like last week, he missed a second level seal and
Speaker 1: then Liam fall off a block at the point of
Speaker 1: attack on a pole, and that would have been a
Speaker 1: bigger game had they made those blocks, had the correct
Speaker 1: leverage and benefit of hitting on the move, and bar
Speaker 1: More just spins off and comes off that block. These
Speaker 1: last two games have just been like his poorest, but
Speaker 1: they're not like, they're not terrible. They're certainly much worse
Speaker 1: games across the offensive line over the year, and he
Speaker 1: just got noticeable losses on these tapes that he wasn't
Speaker 1: having earlier in the year. The first sack, the one
Speaker 1: that really ended that dry before halftime was him getting
Speaker 1: beat on a pretty wicked rip and swim by Carl
Speaker 1: by Carl Davis um Liam Whift multiple times in this game.
Speaker 1: I thought Kendall lamb uh. He lost a key point
Speaker 1: of attack block on Raheem's non fumble rep that didn't
Speaker 1: go for a fumble. Had a huge hole if Kendall
Speaker 1: land hits that block. But However, he was outstanding in
Speaker 1: pass pro manu o j kept trying to convert speed
Speaker 1: to power on him and it just wasn't working for him.
Speaker 1: Like he would kind of get that wide stance, that
Speaker 1: rush up field and try to basically take all that
Speaker 1: power or that speed into the power up into the chest.
Speaker 1: But Land would get the punch into his chest on
Speaker 1: nuch and absorbed that power and dropped the ankle and
Speaker 1: forward it. Later on the completion to Gisiki. Before the
Speaker 1: first touchdown, he gets one on one with Anthony Jennings,
Speaker 1: whose best trip pedigree trade is the arm length, and
Speaker 1: he tries a long arm on Land. He just swats
Speaker 1: it away and gets right back into good positions. So
Speaker 1: he looked really good in past protection. How about another
Speaker 1: short yard conversion running behind big Rob Hunt, like this
Speaker 1: is what we do man. He got great movement leading
Speaker 1: Wilson for that first down, and Connor is a good
Speaker 1: job taking out bar More's the low man in that battle.
Speaker 1: But speaking of Rob Hunt, the way he positions himself
Speaker 1: technique wise on doubles where his double partners climb is
Speaker 1: very very good man. Like you see him latch and
Speaker 1: then rework and rework and get eventually squared back up
Speaker 1: onto the block. And you notice this in the toss
Speaker 1: play to Wilson with Ingold leading the way. It sure
Speaker 1: seems like all of our big runs come from Rob
Speaker 1: climbing up to that second level and wiping out a linebacker.
Speaker 1: We had another ten plus yard run on the drive
Speaker 1: before the half with Rob just blacking out the jersey
Speaker 1: of number eight like you see eight in blue, and
Speaker 1: then it's covered up by sixty eight and white. And
Speaker 1: once more the run before Teddy's touchdown pass another big
Speaker 1: down block turn first and goal from the six to
Speaker 1: second and goal from the three. It's a huge difference, Uh,
Speaker 1: the rest of the offensive line. I mentioned seventy four
Speaker 1: him and seventy five. I just burned this tape. Seventy
Speaker 1: five had some decent moments, or I should say seventy
Speaker 1: four had some decent moments, but way more bad. Really
Speaker 1: rough game for seventy one as well. Uh, Skylar's first
Speaker 1: play that screen. If Shell holds that block for a
Speaker 1: second longer, that play might go out the gate. But
Speaker 1: you had some some rough outings up front on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. How about that catch and run by most
Speaker 1: of it, by the way, have mercy catches at five
Speaker 1: yards shy of the sticks on third and six, makes
Speaker 1: a move to make one man miss at the sticks.
Speaker 1: Then off of that move he drops the shoulder into contact,
Speaker 1: runs over another defender, and then runs through another arm tackle,
Speaker 1: hits a stiff arm for a fourth broken tackle, and
Speaker 1: then the pass pro on that play really helped Teddy
Speaker 1: get to his downfield reads and to the check down nicely.
Speaker 1: By the way, and the last note here, I think
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson sometimes is getting a little too cute with
Speaker 1: the vertical running like or the horizontal running. I should say,
Speaker 1: like take the gaps that are there and put your
Speaker 1: shoulder down and run through it. I think it costs
Speaker 1: a few yards and critical situations in this game. So
Speaker 1: on balance, not a great not a great performance with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense. Some good to look at, some bad.
Speaker 1: I think, some stuff you can carry over to when
Speaker 1: you do get QB one back, whether that's you know
Speaker 1: sooner than later, who knows, but um some good stuff
Speaker 1: for him to take a look at. I think another
Speaker 1: one of these games, we feel like if you had
Speaker 1: a full compliment of your health, you might have a
Speaker 1: chance to win it. But you don't and so you
Speaker 1: gotta find ways to win like we do. Next week,
Speaker 1: we'll do that as well on defense and see what
Speaker 1: went wrong but went well there. That's next Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: Segment number two on a Tuesday. The penultimate game of
Speaker 1: the regular season could be the penultimate game of the
Speaker 1: year in general, if we don't get the dub on
Speaker 1: Sunday and we go back to the previous Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Patriots and pick it up with the defense here
Speaker 1: and the first series, like you get some critical plays
Speaker 1: right away, third and five, press man cover one, Javon
Speaker 1: Hollins in the middle of the field, everybody up on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, pressing there, guys, and they throw
Speaker 1: a back shoulder hitch to Jacoby Myers, and I thought
Speaker 1: the later call were pretty obvious, but this one could
Speaker 1: have gone either way. I also thought the hole on
Speaker 1: cater Cohu on third and two on the opening drive
Speaker 1: could have been a no call. But I also get
Speaker 1: while you called it, he wrapped up Myers and there
Speaker 1: was a slight turn, but it's hard to say if
Speaker 1: it really impacted the play. But that's part of playing
Speaker 1: that aggressive style of man coverage though, but also with
Speaker 1: that in mind, like, I know you've got a baron cupboard,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how you call that much pressed
Speaker 1: man with a guy that grabs every time they play
Speaker 1: that coverage. It's been seven all year long getting aggressive
Speaker 1: and getting flagged for it. At that first drive though,
Speaker 1: was a really good, uh snapshot of Mac Jones at
Speaker 1: his best, some good quarterback play from him. He threw
Speaker 1: with good timing and location on several throws on that drive.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of what Eric Row does. And again,
Speaker 1: injuries put you in positions that you probably wouldn't be
Speaker 1: in otherwise. But covering Jacobi Meyers pressed up one one
Speaker 1: on a two way go with a takeoff route is
Speaker 1: just it's not really a winning formula. And then a
Speaker 1: rough go for him early is Hunter Henry. It's on
Speaker 1: him in that same situation and puts him in the
Speaker 1: spin cycle and man coverage on the very next drive
Speaker 1: for a huge game. So you're just at these these
Speaker 1: positions where and a good job by the opposing offenses
Speaker 1: of attacking these vulnerabilities that have been created because of
Speaker 1: the injury attrition. But I don't know it just there
Speaker 1: are some other moments in the game where they played
Speaker 1: different looks and it worked better. Now. I like the
Speaker 1: way speaking of like two phase a landing Roberts right,
Speaker 1: great and run defense guy that comes off the field
Speaker 1: for sub But I like the way he plays because
Speaker 1: he initiates contact as well as anybody, and he plays
Speaker 1: that physical style and it costs him a little bit
Speaker 1: at certain times. But I thought he had another really
Speaker 1: good game. I think it's been his best season as
Speaker 1: a Dolphin for my money, and these last two games
Speaker 1: might be his best. To Hey, what do you know,
Speaker 1: there's kater co who get another tackle for loss on
Speaker 1: a screen pass. He had a few of those in
Speaker 1: this one. And after that rough opening series, just just
Speaker 1: kind of a side there by the way, after that
Speaker 1: rough opening series and the Patriots moving the ball on
Speaker 1: their second series a little bit, the defense like puts
Speaker 1: their foot in the ground and finds the rhythm. On
Speaker 1: one plays a four man pass rush and it started
Speaker 1: with Wilkins on a picks done and he absolutely blast
Speaker 1: cold strange their left guard who's working against ray Kwon Davis,
Speaker 1: and it knocks him over a full gap. And this
Speaker 1: not only creates a free run for ray Kuon but
Speaker 1: also for Christian and they converge on the quarterback as
Speaker 1: Phillips does as well, who wins his rep to join
Speaker 1: the party on this look, you're soft and off nice
Speaker 1: shell to take away the quick options for Jones. This
Speaker 1: is the most effective way to like win on defense
Speaker 1: with regularity, right, But obviously Easiert had than done is
Speaker 1: the fore man rush getting home. But I liked the
Speaker 1: way the fore man rush with some of those you know,
Speaker 1: softer zone coverages to take away Max early reads with
Speaker 1: Javon Holland buzzing certain spots. And that's where the verticals
Speaker 1: came from, was they didn't really play Javon deep and
Speaker 1: McKinley did a couple of times, and not really. They
Speaker 1: would kind of buzz the crossing route and try to
Speaker 1: take away the short stuff for mac Jones, and he
Speaker 1: was able to get enough of those deep shots with
Speaker 1: either d p I s or connections, and those were
Speaker 1: kind of the difference in the game for the Patriots
Speaker 1: on the two scoring drives. Speaking of Eric Rowe earlier,
Speaker 1: his tackle on the second nineteen run was so clutch,
Speaker 1: and then the very next play third and short landon
Speaker 1: Roberts comes right back with another play just completely disregards
Speaker 1: the back on a blitz against play action and that
Speaker 1: alone ruins the play. And the best case for the
Speaker 1: Patriots there is throw it away, get back to forth
Speaker 1: and inches probably go for it, but nope, he gets
Speaker 1: in there and gets the sack to end the possession.
Speaker 1: What a great play and a great job by Seiler
Speaker 1: also to help him stay with it and finish it
Speaker 1: off there. Ray Kwon Davis, you know, he does a
Speaker 1: lot of like holding the point of attack and creating
Speaker 1: chances for the linebackers to make tackles, but you rarely
Speaker 1: see him come off the block when he has a
Speaker 1: chance to disengage and do so. And to me it
Speaker 1: really stands out next to ninety two who are so
Speaker 1: consistent with that. Jilean Phillips is a really nice job
Speaker 1: when team trying to take care of him with the
Speaker 1: design of the run or a combination of a receiver
Speaker 1: or tied end on a chip or block. And he
Speaker 1: does this by you know, they run the ball away
Speaker 1: from him by staying flat. And what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is up close to the line scrimage, there's no
Speaker 1: openings or gaps or leaks and then sprinting in not
Speaker 1: like a good run, a sprint to eliminate that bend
Speaker 1: back b gap where he jumps over a lane and
Speaker 1: takes it away. And if you want to bend back
Speaker 1: and then kick out around Phillips and bubble wide, than
Speaker 1: the rest of the cavalry is gonna get there. So
Speaker 1: it's really good effort place he makes to get himself involved.
Speaker 1: A huge fan of how he deals with those types
Speaker 1: of runs. We get another stop on second and third
Speaker 1: and long and two man press look too high? Safety
Speaker 1: is good coverage underneath this rupt the timing Wilkins went
Speaker 1: on his pass rush man this defense. Without Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: this year, where would they be? He's been so so clutch.
Speaker 1: Second down play, opening drive of the second half, Cater
Speaker 1: goes outside of a Myers block on a swing route
Speaker 1: and it forces the ball carrier to bubble and that's
Speaker 1: all Christian Wilkins needs to chase it down. There's your
Speaker 1: teach tape for both guys right there. Say what you
Speaker 1: want about. You know, Bradley Chubbs production this year, but
Speaker 1: his presence was missing this game that that that side
Speaker 1: of the offensive line really locked down the Dolphins pass
Speaker 1: rushed from most of the game. Keion Crossing had a
Speaker 1: good rep I think his best one when they tested
Speaker 1: him deep on third and seven where he stayed in
Speaker 1: phase without safety help and press man coverage, mirrored the
Speaker 1: release and ran with Myers in the vertical. Big ask,
Speaker 1: big execution there. And then I just put a note
Speaker 1: in here, like mac Jones, I talked about the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and he was good in the fourth quarter as well.
Speaker 1: He missed so many throws in the second and third quarter,
Speaker 1: and I thought that kind of kept Miami alive in
Speaker 1: some situations wherever some yards should be had by the
Speaker 1: Patriots offense. Javon Holland continuously puts himself in position to
Speaker 1: defend multiple routes, like it's fun to watch him deal
Speaker 1: with Crossers and pass one guy off and go to
Speaker 1: the next. He's constantly defending a lot of field that
Speaker 1: doesn't allow with him a lot of chances of takeaways
Speaker 1: as teams kind of basically just throw the ball away
Speaker 1: from where he is. Why wouldn't you at this point,
Speaker 1: But man, he pops each week on the All twenty two.
Speaker 1: And that said, I do think he busted that third
Speaker 1: and five completion to Taekewan Thornton up the seam. He
Speaker 1: goes and caps a route that was actually really well
Speaker 1: covered by crossing. It's two by two, so he has
Speaker 1: his choice, and I'm not sure his rules here exactly,
Speaker 1: but he vacates a spot where Baker is carrying Thornton
Speaker 1: up the scene, and to me, it would seem logic
Speaker 1: would say you you take the backer passing off receiver
Speaker 1: opposed to helping another cornerback on a receiver on the
Speaker 1: other side. The first play after our go at head touchdown,
Speaker 1: you see Wilkins make one of the best players he's
Speaker 1: made this game, head up over the right tackle and
Speaker 1: he reads him widening, which kind of a cue to
Speaker 1: go inside right, so he slants across the face of
Speaker 1: the guard and makes a play on the run away
Speaker 1: from him. He is a tremendous, tremendous football player. And
Speaker 1: you can look back at a huge chunk of our
Speaker 1: run stuffs this season, and a lot of times it's
Speaker 1: number nine making a great play. Another screen passed, another
Speaker 1: cater stack up at the point of attack, Another hustle
Speaker 1: play from the front, this time Phillips free traces it
Speaker 1: to get down throwing screens tocater Co. Who's a bad idea.
Speaker 1: The Patriots checked down on third and twelve right before
Speaker 1: the Folk field goal to make it fourteen ten, and
Speaker 1: Mac couldn't get to an open Myers because of a
Speaker 1: pressure that Van Ginkl had working against the left tackle.
Speaker 1: He also got pressure from Phillips condensed inside flop flipped
Speaker 1: to the other side of the formation working against left guard.
Speaker 1: That's a big time pass rush way. They're an example
Speaker 1: of the pass rush impacting the game without getting the sack,
Speaker 1: without the rep that Noah Ignogamy had on takeoff ers.
Speaker 1: Tae Kwon Thornton was one of the best that he's
Speaker 1: had as a Miami Dolphin. We brought the house and
Speaker 1: trusted him on their fastest player. And yes the ball
Speaker 1: was short, but you see him do everything right on
Speaker 1: the throw inside hand jam opens the hips, stays in
Speaker 1: phase where vertical gets a hand on Myers as the
Speaker 1: ball or rather Thornton as the ball is in flight,
Speaker 1: and looks back and tracks the football. Great rep there,
Speaker 1: and that's the type of coverage I think you can
Speaker 1: really trust him in. I don't you know, just go
Speaker 1: play your man, don't think about it. Then we get
Speaker 1: to the drive backed up to the minus eleven yard line,
Speaker 1: trailing by two points. In the fourth quarter, we overrun
Speaker 1: a screen that gets them ten yards. Wilkins swats a
Speaker 1: ball and then a five yard swing past creates third
Speaker 1: and five where a misstackle could have made a third
Speaker 1: and eight. But then they get you with the big
Speaker 1: play on third down once again. Switch release on stacks
Speaker 1: and bunches all game long, and we're just a beat
Speaker 1: late to react. You see crossing an eigbow, take a
Speaker 1: beat to see who's got what, and Mac takes advantage
Speaker 1: with an anticipation throw down the field right on the
Speaker 1: bucket for a massive conversion in a big game. Then
Speaker 1: we lose a gap in the run game eight yard rush.
Speaker 1: It was a land the Roberts that missed it. Uh
Speaker 1: sneak moves the chains, then a four yard gain, then
Speaker 1: the run stuff by creates third and six. Then you
Speaker 1: get the crossing dp I cover zero and it was
Speaker 1: over from the start because Myers releases at the line
Speaker 1: in a way that puts Crossing, you know, at a
Speaker 1: big disadvantage. We had to make up ground. And then
Speaker 1: the under thrown ball was the best thing that could
Speaker 1: have happened because him trying to make up ground and
Speaker 1: running full speed like he was always gonna tackle the
Speaker 1: guy before the ball got there. So good on them
Speaker 1: for putting you know, us in that position, but also
Speaker 1: us for putting ourselves in that position. And then the
Speaker 1: touchdown to Myers, nobody covers him until Duke realizes it late.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from head coach Michael Daniel on that. In
Speaker 1: just a moment. I wanted to mention how big time
Speaker 1: that sack was by Seiler on the fourth down on
Speaker 1: the next possession, and we got ourselves into a spot
Speaker 1: where an on side possibly saves it but cannot get
Speaker 1: the football. Another very frustrating table. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to the stats here real quick. Uh, Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: twenty plus yard throws one of three for nineteen yards.
Speaker 1: How does that work? I guess Tyreek coming back to
Speaker 1: the football, Uh ten for ten of nineteen yard throws,
Speaker 1: intermediate three for six fifty two yards and a pick
Speaker 1: when blitzed, two for four forty two when pressured three
Speaker 1: for five for thirty six yards and a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: the average depth of target was ten point seven yards,
Speaker 1: has time to throw was three point oh six seconds
Speaker 1: and that's a big difference what you see from two
Speaker 1: a man that the AI dot is on pace with
Speaker 1: the time to throw, it's like a half second longer
Speaker 1: for Skylar twenty plus yard throws oh for one ten
Speaker 1: to nineteen yard range, four for five for fifty six
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown when he was blitzed one for
Speaker 1: one for four yards. When he was pressured six for
Speaker 1: ten for fifty one yards. Now his A dot drops
Speaker 1: to six. And that's I mean. We talked about the tape, right,
Speaker 1: like trusting the reads down the field and all that
Speaker 1: fun stuff. His time to throw us three point five
Speaker 1: four seconds holding the football, not trusting your eyes as much,
Speaker 1: and that's understandable, man Like reps are what they are.
Speaker 1: Tyreek had seven targets, four grabs, sixty two yards. That's
Speaker 1: one point three four yards per target. That's seven point
Speaker 1: eight six yards per route ran. Seven point eight six
Speaker 1: yards per target. And remember his yards per route ran
Speaker 1: is three point three two this year, so he is
Speaker 1: almost two full yards under his season average, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, two yards in that category is very good.
Speaker 1: He's way over that. Him and Waddle both top five
Speaker 1: this year in that stat and they both were way
Speaker 1: below their league out their season average. Because Waddles was
Speaker 1: one point three three, his average is two point six six,
Speaker 1: So like half of production when you change the quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's funny how that works. For four targets, three grabs,
Speaker 1: fifty two yards one point three three yards per oute
Speaker 1: ran twelve point seven five yards per target um. Again
Speaker 1: that the y pr R YPPR was a big difference there,
Speaker 1: and it's indicative of the quarterback play running backs where
Speaker 1: heem caught all eight of his targets for sixty two
Speaker 1: yards and the touchdown three point six five yards per
Speaker 1: out ran and he averaged two point five yards after
Speaker 1: contact on average. Wilson had thirty one yards through the air,
Speaker 1: he caught three for six and forced the only mistackle
Speaker 1: of the day. For the running game, we need more
Speaker 1: of that from these guys. And then uh he averaged
Speaker 1: one point seven five yards after contact. Pressures allowed little
Speaker 1: four on thirty two pass blocking snaps. Lamb had zero
Speaker 1: on fifteen, Eikenberg had seven, Williams had two, Hunt had three,
Speaker 1: Shell had four. And these are a little bit miss
Speaker 1: leading because look at the time to throw stats and
Speaker 1: how much different that is than our season average. The
Speaker 1: twenty pressures were that were allowed, were the most since
Speaker 1: Week six that was twenty two against the Vikings. In fact,
Speaker 1: the only times we were in double digits since that
Speaker 1: Week six game was the San Francisco game that was
Speaker 1: eleven and the Hughes And game that was seventeen. But also,
Speaker 1: how many of those snaps in the Houston game with
Speaker 1: the second half when two of didn't play thirteen of
Speaker 1: the pressures? In fact, how about this pressures per game
Speaker 1: and removing the Bengals game because I'd have to go
Speaker 1: back and watch the whole thing tallied up. So sand's
Speaker 1: the Bengals game with two hundred one pressures divided by
Speaker 1: eleven and a half games is eight point eight pressures
Speaker 1: per game. And the three and a half games without
Speaker 1: the Jets, the Vikings, the Patriots in the second half
Speaker 1: of the Houston game forty seven pressures divided by three
Speaker 1: and a half games thirteen point four pressures, so uh,
Speaker 1: five pressures more per game without two in the lineup.
Speaker 1: On defense, ra Kuan had three pressures, Seiler and Wilkins
Speaker 1: had two. McKinley, Phillips, Gink and e rob All had
Speaker 1: one apiece. A Landing had six run stops Seiler, Phillips,
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Baker had three cohu and ray Kuan had
Speaker 1: two uh coverage snaps and yards and penalties cater thirty
Speaker 1: eight snaps thirty nine yards. Great game. They're one penalty
Speaker 1: crossing thirty eight for seventeen but the two penalties obviously
Speaker 1: loom large row got beat badly in this game. And
Speaker 1: coverage thirty seven coverage snaps fifty nine yards from the state,
Speaker 1: the spots tough haul and thirty igbo twentive snaps seven
Speaker 1: yards allowed. And I want to end on this. It
Speaker 1: seems like if it seems like each time we had
Speaker 1: a chance to get the ball back in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and go win the game. Yeah, now give them
Speaker 1: credit for stops against Pittsburgh, Detroy, Chicago, Baltimore and Buffalo,
Speaker 1: no doubt, but this will hurt you as much as
Speaker 1: it did me to look up. So here's the drive
Speaker 1: length down by one score, fourth quarter, Bengals fifty five
Speaker 1: yards game over, Jets fifty six yards game over essentially
Speaker 1: Vikings fifty nine yards. That was the closest one, but
Speaker 1: we didn't get that victory back nine years go thirty
Speaker 1: four yards to kick a field goal to go up
Speaker 1: by two scores. The Chargers go seventy nine yards to
Speaker 1: go up two scores, the Bills eighty six, Patriots go
Speaker 1: eighty nine yards to go up by two scores. Tough
Speaker 1: way to make a living there to win games tight
Speaker 1: when you're giving up these long consuming drives late in
Speaker 1: the game like that, Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: second break and come back on the other side and
Speaker 1: do snap counts and Mike McDaniel Monday press conference commentary.
Speaker 1: That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
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Speaker 1: ahead and take a look at the snap counts from
Speaker 1: the penultimate game. You had four offensive lineman go wire
Speaker 1: to wire, seventy one snaps for shell, Hunt, Williams, and Eikenberg.
Speaker 1: Of course, we talked about Greg Little playing thirty nine
Speaker 1: snaps and Kendall Lamb playing thirty two, and Little was
Speaker 1: out there for way more pass pro reps. So you
Speaker 1: kind of get the sense there as to why there
Speaker 1: was so many pressures with him and without him. Receivers
Speaker 1: Hill played a two percent, Waddle played seventy six percent.
Speaker 1: Sherfield played fifty nine percent, and then Craigcraft gave you
Speaker 1: seventeen snaps, with Cedric Wilson giving you eleven snaps. At
Speaker 1: tight end, Smith led the way with fifty nine percent
Speaker 1: of the workload. Gau Sick he had a bigger workload
Speaker 1: this week. Hunter Long gave you twelve snaps as well.
Speaker 1: Um alec Ingle gave you eleven. At fullback, Wilson had
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the running back workload and most are
Speaker 1: had of the running back workload, so they seem to
Speaker 1: kind of favor Wilson when he's out there on defense.
Speaker 1: Crossing and Cohu both only missed one snap. Javon Holland
Speaker 1: missed just three snaps despite the injury. Wilkinson se there
Speaker 1: gave you again. Phillips gave you eighty eight percent. Those
Speaker 1: guys are crazy man, and then Rake Kwan Davis gave
Speaker 1: you sixty eight percent on the nose, and also John
Speaker 1: Jenkins gave you twenty percent also on the nose. Then
Speaker 1: Jay Bronson, I didn't as a practice squad call up
Speaker 1: for eight percent of the workload there at the linebacker position,
Speaker 1: Baker played a two percent, Roberts played sixty eight percent.
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle gave you sixty three percent, with Ingram forty
Speaker 1: seven percent. I think I skipped Phillips there at eight percent.
Speaker 1: He's always out there. Eric Rowe played fifty two snaps.
Speaker 1: That was a lot, pretty high number for him in
Speaker 1: recent weeks, eighty seven percent of the workload. And then
Speaker 1: Igna gave you thirty snaps at cornerback too, so pretty
Speaker 1: well spread across the board. McKinley just ten snaps a row,
Speaker 1: kind of out wrapped him in this game. Elijah Campbell seven,
Speaker 1: Duke Raley five, and Clayton Federlin had one out there.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go to Mike McDaniel here, but
Speaker 1: first we'll tell you that he said that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are preparing as if Skyler and Teddy could potentially Bill
Speaker 1: start the game to us. Status is not something we're
Speaker 1: thinking about right now. He remains in the concussion protocol, obviously.
Speaker 1: He also talked a little bit about the potential of
Speaker 1: signing a quarterback this week. We'll we'll hear more about
Speaker 1: that as a week goes along. He mentioned Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: has a dislocated pinky, not a broken pinky. Um he
Speaker 1: was talking about potentially coming back into the game, but
Speaker 1: decided not to because it was a third and ten
Speaker 1: when he was thinking about coming back in. That was
Speaker 1: too precarious of a situation, Coach said, And they wrote
Speaker 1: it out with Skyler. UM, let's see you talked about
Speaker 1: the potential for the other guys getting back out there.
Speaker 1: I said, probably won't see Kendall land this week. The
Speaker 1: other guys were pretty short, came up just short on
Speaker 1: game time decisions. Let's go ahead and go back to
Speaker 1: Mike here. Talking about Skylar, Thompson said, laying into the
Speaker 1: game once the game got rolling a little bit, I
Speaker 1: think that he got into the rhythm and timing, UM,
Speaker 1: which is much of his game. UH. And you know
Speaker 1: that's you're always gonna it's always gonna take you a minute,
Speaker 1: UM when you get in there, UM considering the UH.
Speaker 1: More often than not, UM. All the live available reps
Speaker 1: that you're able to take with your offensive unit that
Speaker 1: week are eaten up by the UH. UM the starter.
Speaker 1: So I thought he started to find himself a little bit. UM.
Speaker 1: You know you can you can always tell with him
Speaker 1: UM early if things are getting out in rhythm, because
Speaker 1: he's such a rhythm player, you know that he'll sometimes
Speaker 1: have to progress the number three or four, Um, depending
Speaker 1: on the coverage and the play call, but generally, um,
Speaker 1: he gets the ball out pretty quick. So UM, there
Speaker 1: was a couple of times I thought earlier that he
Speaker 1: would have made he would have made throws later. Um.
Speaker 1: Those throws that he missed earlier, he didn't throw, didn't attempt,
Speaker 1: he would have made later in the game. I thought
Speaker 1: he got better as the game progress, for sure. Let's
Speaker 1: finish up here because it's a very long press conference
Speaker 1: and you guys can go to YouTube and check out
Speaker 1: the entirety of it. A lot of injury talk, a
Speaker 1: lot of to a talk as well. Go check it
Speaker 1: out on the team YouTube channel. Also discussing the uh
Speaker 1: the ideal scenario for a starting quarterback being named earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, but you know, it's it's up in
Speaker 1: the air at this point. Like he about, let's finish
Speaker 1: up here. They're talking about how do you get your
Speaker 1: mind right in six days for the biggest game of
Speaker 1: the year and a chance to still get into the
Speaker 1: playoffs with the win over the Jets. Ballistically, Um, what
Speaker 1: what is reality? Reality? You know, we feel a certain way,
Speaker 1: we've we've like you said, one three lost three one
Speaker 1: five lost five. Um. If that if we got to
Speaker 1: the same spot in a different order, if we would
Speaker 1: have lost lost three one three lost five one five,
Speaker 1: would we be feeling different? I think the bottom line
Speaker 1: is that exercise lends you to the that however you
Speaker 1: get there. UM. Your your choice in the NFL season
Speaker 1: is to have stuff um work for you or against you. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we have one game against the Jets, and UM,
Speaker 1: I don't really look at uh, well we should have
Speaker 1: cut or whatever. This this is our our journey and
Speaker 1: the all all my messages to really the team and
Speaker 1: everyone in general is so we're we're playing the Jets
Speaker 1: this weekend. UM. Yeah, We've we've had key players make
Speaker 1: um mistakes and crucial situations, specifically the the last three weeks, UM,
Speaker 1: where we've had the lead late into the third quarter
Speaker 1: at least and lost him. What does that mean for
Speaker 1: this week? It means absolutely nothing unless you let it.
Speaker 1: You can. UM. You know, there will never be a
Speaker 1: season that is void of emotional roller coasters. There's too
Speaker 1: much investment, there's um too much parody. UH. And you
Speaker 1: know the fact of the matter is it's too scrutinized
Speaker 1: because it's too successful of a sport, so you're going
Speaker 1: to get UM knee jr knee jerk reactions either way.
Speaker 1: Might as well get used to it. UM. And And
Speaker 1: you know I I I think that UM running away
Speaker 1: from reality doesn't do anybody service. It's been a tough,
Speaker 1: tough five consecutive weeks, UM for sure, UM. Unless that's
Speaker 1: gonna get us some Asterix points against the Jets, why
Speaker 1: even pay mind to it? Why even think about how
Speaker 1: hard it's been. You have a week with your teammates
Speaker 1: to prepare to play in an NFL game UM on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and if you win that game, certain you know you
Speaker 1: can you can possibly be afforded an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: another game. But regardlessly, even if all those implications are
Speaker 1: our guys just need to UM find a way to
Speaker 1: come together and win a football game and not UM
Speaker 1: not set ourselves up uh to win win it and
Speaker 1: then have critical mistakes down there UM certain fourth quarters.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm really focused on. I think that's
Speaker 1: what we're very capable of doing. UM. And it's a
Speaker 1: it's a challenge that UM. You know, I truly believe
Speaker 1: that the locker room and and the coaching staff is
Speaker 1: up for all right, I think that's more than enough
Speaker 1: time spent on that game. Let's go ahead and call
Speaker 1: the podcast. We'll be back tomorrow for the Wednesday midweek
Speaker 1: show than Thursday preview show. Will have Antoine daily on
Speaker 1: Friday to preview the Jets game as well. In the meantime,
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