WEBVTT - Bye Week Look Back - Five Takeaways from the 2022 Miami Dolphins Season So Far 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Whingefield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:16.599 looking water, Dolph touchdop Tonrick call man. I want to 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:21.000 help you soon up on the wattle, waddle to a shotgun, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:26.520 back to throw, looking steps up fires, It's waddle. It's 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:32.880 six touchdown of the day. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:39.760 Now let me check your pulse. If further what is up? 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.960 Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:49.920 the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.320 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.240 And on today's show, we're taking you right into the 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.920 bye week with a look back at the season so far. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.480 We'll examine five big picture things I think a general 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.280 five takeaways from the first ten weeks of this Miami 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.479 Dolphins season. We'll discuss the numbers from that first half, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.880 and we'll make the week eleven picks and look at 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.000 what the NFL slate has to offer us during this 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.360 bye week. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:25.119 Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime. I have been 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.640 looking forward to this episode for a little bit now, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.120 just knowing that it would be a comprehensive recap and 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.360 a chance to look back at the fun first half 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.360 of the season without an opponent to prep for this 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.280 coming Sunday, take a look at all the numbers, the stats, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.000 the film takeaways, and that was all part of my 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.120 pre planned content coming in. But then we played the 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.880 Browns and essentially gave us a real life snapshot of 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.560 the best version of really every position group on this 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.360 football team. And just to peel back the kimono a 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.120 little bit, you guys know, my approach to coverage has 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.680 always been to highlight the good and detail why some 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.440 subtleties that maybe go unrecognized, our reasons why you should 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.840 be excited about a player, a position group, or the 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.320 team in general. Right, we will point out when things 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.760 go wrong and talk about areas of improvement needed, but 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.680 that's just always been how I enjoy football both as 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.920 a fan and wanted my coverage to reflect that you 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.200 can't be the best version of yourself if you're not 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.200 genuinely yourself right, and frankly, with McDaniel coming down here 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.960 and just changing everything, it's honestly empowered me to be 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.200 more of myself on the podcast, and I hope that's 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.440 reflected by the absolute silly goose time that we tend 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.880 to have here, especially during the midst of a winning streak. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.359 I just wanted to give that little mini monologue heading 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.600 into our takeaways, because well, how can you be anything 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.560 but positive, excited and extremely hopeful about this team's potential 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.680 this year? And frankly, that's the number one thing that 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.519 stands out to me above anything else with the takeaways. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.240 And this is borrowing a little bit from my fourth 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.400 takeaway in the big picture I had, but fostering this 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.120 environment of playing as one a complete team that prioritizes 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.280 winning above all else. And look, I think this is 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.919 probably the case in most locker rooms, or at least 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.680 a lot of them. Like these are pros. They're guys 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.680 that have understood that since Peewee, the win is the 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.640 most important thing, the only thing. And that's all a 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.959 prelude to watching this game on Sunday, because watch Tyreek 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.960 celebrate alec Ingold and Jeff Wilson's touchdowns, watch Jalen Waddle 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.600 throw out the flex at trent Sherfield every time he 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.799 makes a play. Watch Cedric Wilson go greet Schriff after 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.480 the touchdown pass. I mean that was supposed to be 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.800 his job for the number three receiver, right He's pumped up. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.920 Form doesn't matter. Watch River Cracraft come off the sideline 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.120 to give suff some love. These guys that compete for 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.480 playing time put all that aside and show genuine love 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.560 and excitement for the successes of their teammates. Go watch 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.360 Jeff Wilson score that touchdown in Chicago and Raheem lose 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.600 his ever loving mind over it. Watch Christian Wilkins celebrate 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.200 a Steeler sec. Watch Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb already 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.800 have a sack dance together. Look at the reaction on 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.920 the sideline for Justin Bethel after his last of three 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.640 pass breakups in the game at that cornerback position. That's 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.360 been really tops each Turvie this year. To me, that 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.000 is the most special thing about this team through the 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.599 first ten weeks. You can feel those positive vibes. It's 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.560 a credit to the coaching staff, it's a credit to 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.359 the scouting staff forgetting the right type of people, and 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.479 it's certainly a credit to the players. So I just 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.599 wanted to sort of lay out that prelude as to 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.600 why I'm excited about this team and cannot wait to 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.800 see how they can build off the success they've had 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.280 so far. But to quote to a tongue Vailoa, what 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.160 we came to do and when we came to accomplish, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.600 it's not accomplished yet, So it would be cool speaking 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.279 of potential MVP award, But we have bigger goals and 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.160 aspirations on what we want to do as a team. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.520 And really quickly before the takeaways, I wanted to write 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.040 something I used to do, the One Big Thing, which 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.200 was a rip off of the s VP Sports Center 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.320 show every Sunday night after games on Lockdown Dolphins. I 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.560 missed doing that, so let's do it right now. Big Thing, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.120 a little monologue on the first ten weeks of season 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.040 and what it's meant to a lifelong Dolphins fan. So 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.640 one Big n That was the last time the Dolphins 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.680 produced a top ten NFL offense. Sure, they had some 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.919 of the league's top defenses and even in pour the 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.839 best run game in the NFL in two thousand two, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.719 in an era where that was an acceptable model of 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.560 team building in a legit path to a potential Super 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.280 Bowl trophy? Or was it because that two thousand two 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.000 team had eight Pro Bowlers, just one number fewer than 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.720 their win total that season nine and seven, a year 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.120 without playoffs, in a season where you had arguably the 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.880 best roster in football. Little did we know at the time, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.200 the year prior, with the last time or the most 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.320 recent time that we witnessed a playoff victory, and how 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.200 sweet that was. But how did that victory come to be? 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.120 It required a literal record breaking day from running back. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.880 It required clutch catches by the most clutch receiver in 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.360 Dolphins history, O J McDuffie. It required that defense bring 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.320 it's a game to slow the NFL's latest version of 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.040 the Triplets in Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison and ed You 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.720 and James. It took an all out, dragged out effort 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.159 to find the winner circle late into the overtime period. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.680 But that game could have been curtains much much earlier 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.400 had the Dolphins quarterback not turned the football over three 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.840 times in that game, the same as we could have 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.400 seen a potential return to the postseason in two thousand 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.359 two if it weren't for what can Trent Green do 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.280 that j Fieler cannot do. Just like the two thousand 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.279 three season could have gone to the postseason if not 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.800 for you guessed it. Brian Greasy was the addition to 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.160 the quarterback room that year. And again, this was before 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.880 the league took steps to benefit the offense and make 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.720 the NFL a passing league, and it was still a 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.080 major hindrance, and that vacancy at the quarterback position would 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.000 persist for nearly twenty more years. You've seen the list, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.760 you know the names. You can probably reside it off 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.839 the top of your head chronologically. I know I can. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.919 The train slowly started heading that way in the earlier 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.839 two thousands, but it was still doable to win divisions 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.560 and dominate with that style of football. But looking back 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.480 and you say you enjoyed those seventeen thirteen white knuckle 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.400 contests that came down to a bounce or two each week, 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.960 is that nearly as much fun as the offense that 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.480 doesn't really punt and what you're seeing right now because 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.920 the team continued to get built in that way. Of course, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.600 the two thousand and four season was one that no 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.200 one could see coming. With the retirement of Ricky Williams, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.760 thanks a lot, big seth JK, And sure enough, the 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.640 next regime went right back to the defense. Moreten to 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.080 ten thrillers. Baby. Oh wait, then we get a star 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.360 wide receiver and you're pairing with Chad Henny and trade 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.120 him before he can help our first first round quarterback 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.080 since Dan Reno. And it's back to nine six games, baby. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.760 All the while, at seven eight win seasons, it's too 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.440 good to be bad and too bad to be good. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.560 The NFL's purgatory, the worst place the franchise can be. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.600 Nobody knows how this season will end. The odds are 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.880 it's gonna end in heartbreak. Only one team gets to 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.720 host the Lombardi Trophy every year, and even the favorites 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.080 odds are fractional ones. But doesn't a late January broken 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.320 heart the potential of that sound much better than starting 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.200 the off season in your head in late December. The 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.440 Dolphins have a team to compete, compete with the best 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.680 right now. They have a team built for the modern era. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.120 They have a coach who understands the modern athlete and 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.480 a GM who understands the modern landscape for aggressiveness and 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.040 identifying life cycles and when to keep putting investments into 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.520 what looks like the best Dolphins team this century. I 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.480 am enjoying this with everything in me. I'm enjoying watching 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.000 all the discourse continue about who's to blame, why we 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.480 have to discredit certain individuals, And the funniest thing about 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.480 that is like, yeah, Okay, sure T has elite wide 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.920 receivers and this is somehow a bad thing from my 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.920 favorite football team. You're wrong about what TOO was doing. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.400 We all know that, but thanks for the compliment and 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.880 how this team was constructed properly and effectively and from 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.719 the top down. Seven more games for sure, likely more 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.920 after that, and there's not a team I look at 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.160 and say, hey, we need a miracle to defeat that team. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.080 Strap in, Dolphins fans, you've been waiting a long time 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.120 for this, and no matter how it goes, you have 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.000 a seat at the table, and that's what you've been 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.880 begging for since we put thirteen up in the rafters. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.920 My first half of the season, five takeaways are this 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.760 Number one. This team has multiple ways to win football games. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.880 The Dolphins have seven wins this season. Let's go ahead 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.880 and examine each one of those victories over the Patriots 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.439 on opening weekend. You get a defensive scoop and score 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.520 early two more takeaways for three total. You allow them 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.480 to go four for ten on third and fourth down conversions. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.400 You go too for two on field goals. You have 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.000 four points totaling nearly two hundred yards and a field 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.400 flipping fifty eight yard or and then the gravitas to 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.400 go for it on fourth down with a perfect throw, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.240 great catch and run in for six. The pressure on 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.280 mac Jones was unrelenting, and the run defense held the 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.760 Patriots to an average of three point five five yards 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.559 per carry in that game. Their season average when removing 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.640 Miami's game is four point to one, so more than 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.560 half of a yard less than their season average. That 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:54.240 win definition smothering defense with multiple splash plays, quality special teams, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.000 and timely offense. My phone fell right there by the way. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.360 That was that sound at the Ravens. Six touchdown passes 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.040 for your quarterbacks. Pretty good. Two receivers over a buck 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.679 seventy and four touchdowns among them, three seventy one yards 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.280 among them a yard run on the game winning drive 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.800 with a huge hole opened up, untouched down inside the 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.560 fifteen yard line in a big spot, making all six 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.840 p a t S in that game. And yes, this 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.760 wasn't owed to the offense. But if you get a 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.720 fourth down, if you don't get a fourth down stop 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.599 rather before the time touchdown, if you don't hold the 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.920 Ravens to a field goal when the game is thirty 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.079 five all late in the fourth quarter, this offensive memorable 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.679 day maybe becomes a footnote and a loss win definition 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.840 historic passing performance with timely late defense Week three against 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.480 the Bills, a takeaway early sets the offense up on 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.040 a Golden Golst situation holding arguably the most explosive offense 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.199 in football. In fact, there are six point five yards 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.720 per play is number one right now in the NFL. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.560 He held them to five point four yards per play, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.439 more than a full yard less per play over ninety 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.040 two snaps too, By the way, probably the best big 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.480 moment throw of a young quarterbacks career with that route 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.920 to match from Waddle a young receiver to convert on 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.040 third and twenty two to set up the game winning 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.200 touchdown there in the fourth quarter. And it was the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.160 game winner because the defense held firm on not one 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.800 but two fourth quarter long Josh Allen possessions in the 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.600 middle of that yes, the safety off the butt punt, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.960 but in hindsight, considering more stead nearly seventy three yard 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.520 free kick that we covered beautifully to put the Bills 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.120 in a long field, maybe that was the best thing. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.959 It sure as hell was a nice response from the 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.000 special teams that win definition terrific defensive game plan and effort, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.520 paired with a highly efficient, big time plays by the 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.840 offense and the biggest play by the special teams coverage 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.319 units on a play where they needed it most all 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.760 year long. Took us four weeks. Scar next win back 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.240 under our belts, but over the Steelers in a a week 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.960 number seven. The offense issues an ideal game script with 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.240 early multiple score lead that sustained drives and allows the 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.280 defense to get long rest after stops. And that was 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.079 set up by a first quarter interception from that same defense, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.360 the same defense that hell of the stealers off the 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.080 scoreboard in the entire second half, including two takeaways backed 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.720 up right to the brink of touchdown. Here ends it, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.680 and we have to get stops in the next fifteen 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.200 yards otherwise we're gonna lose this game. And the offensive 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.520 line began a streak that week of superb past protection 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:18.000 numbers the win definition of that game. Offense aids defense 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.000 early with two score lead, and then the defense brings 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.840 it home with a clean sheet in the second half, 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.880 and the field goal team puts ten points on the 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.800 board three field goals and one point after a tribe. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.200 Next week at the Lions, the offense keeps it close 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.240 in the first half, a pay it forward type of 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.360 deal from the second half of the Pittsburgh game, and 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.520 those dynamic wideouts go crazy again. Another one between the 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.080 Cheetah and the Penguin, but it's not just them. Ghasicki 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.160 a huge touchdown, the winner in fact, alec Ingold finds 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.160 the end zone. The ground game gives you one oh 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.760 seven on the ground, and the line protects the quarterback 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.680 for four quarters for the second straight week to help 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.920 aid the offensive onslaught, the defense responds with a second 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.160 half shutout. More Sted's loan punt pins the Lions at 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.560 their own twelve yard line, giving the defense eighty eight 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.640 yards of field to work with on what would have 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.079 been the last possession of the game for the Lions, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.160 or what would be, I should say. The offense then 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.840 converts three first downs to end the game in victory 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.800 formation the Wind definition. Their offense plays a nearly perfect 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.440 game by utilizing every weapon at the skill spots, and 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.160 the defense shows its resolved to absorb an early punch 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.000 and respawn with a second half shutout, aided on the 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.360 final series by a special team's field flip at the Bears, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.480 not that dissimilar to the Lions game. The last points 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.199 scored in the game came with eleven thirty eight to 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.160 play in the fourth quarter, as the defense had to 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.160 have two stops in that fourth quarter and they got them. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.360 The quarterback has another absurd day, throwing plenty again to 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.520 tennants seventeen another twenty eight and two scores from those guys. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.840 The team gets a lift from a couple of new additions, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.760 including seventy nine yards and a touchdown from Jeff Wilson 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.720 in another stellar day from the offensive line. The pass 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.720 rush just kept coming, dbs kept covering, The defense resolved 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.559 once again showed itself again the Wind definition. Their offensive 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.160 fireworks with over three hundred yards and three touchdowns coming 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.280 from Tyreek Jalen and Jeff Wilson. More third down excellent 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.199 and highly efficient football from tah capped off by two 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.160 late stops from the defense. Finally, the Browns. This had 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.720 been building towards complementary football all year long, and this 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.120 was the coming out party. Offense goes off again, but 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.319 this time using every piece of the offense and the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.360 more spread it around output. The run game rolls up 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.240 nearly two yards in the on the ground, five guys 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.800 make at least four catches, seven have at least two, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.200 and eight players in total have receptions in the game. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.200 Third down excellence continues, no punt game needed at all. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.960 Pass rush finally gets time to throw, and that converts 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.680 all those pressures into sax and impact plays. Run defense 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.600 wins better than of their snaps with short running games. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.840 The defense takes the ball away, gives the offense short fields. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.000 Everything comes together, the definition of that one, the culmination 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.000 of all those games where you're so close to putting 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.960 together a complete game for four quarters, pass game, run game, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.960 run de pass, rush, coverage all clicking in this one. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.960 So really, you've got wins by every conceivable variable, run game, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.520 pass game, defensive splash plays and takeaways, late stands and 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.920 discipline game plans, timely special teams, stellar individual stat lines, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.640 really every which way through ten games, the most tried 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.160 and true way has been the electric passing game. Then 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.200 probably the stout defensive game with a critical takeaway for 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.440 a short a score or a short field and preventing 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.440 points late in the game. Then probably the run game 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.920 and special teams. But they've proven that all these things 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.800 can be key factors in the route to victory. Let's 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.480 go ahead and take our first break and come back 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.080 for takeaways two through five. That's next on the Drivetime podcast, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.840 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.520 Big picture items from this season so far, the bye 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.120 week coming up this Sunday, plenty of fun games to 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.640 watch around the league. Will get to that here in 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.760 just a moment in our third segment, we're gonna go 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.880 ahead and pick it back up with takeaways two through 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:56.680 five through ten weeks of two season. And where else 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.760 can you go besides the emergence of tah tongue of viola. 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.760 This on his brief because we've been over it, like 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.600 high level stuff, executing on structure and putting the ball 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.760 in locations on time when it's all right and executed 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.480 like it's drawn up, but also mitigating for the occasional 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.720 breakdowns when they happen, improvising both with the scramble and 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.080 pocket mobility, but also getting very deep into his progressions, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:22.080 quickly beating man zone blitz coverage, killing teams on third down, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.240 red zone, goal to go the fourth quarter doesn't matter, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.560 it's just seven games. It's just seven games. But those 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.320 seven games are pacing towards something we just don't see. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.200 We're talking about not just the top of this year's leaderboard, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.960 the top of some all time leader boards. In those stats, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.880 we talked about rating, third down rating, red zone rating, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.840 yards per attempt, net yards per attempt. A quarterback who 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.120 has full command of the offense in his third year, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.920 his first in the system, the full trust and backing 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.440 of his coaches, players, the fan base, and a true 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.440 leader of not just the offense but the entire football team. Really, 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.600 in season, it's been the model quarterback. I don't know 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.680 how else just say it, and I do want to 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.960 attempt to say it this way. You know, social media 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.000 discourse absolutely exhausts me, and I don't engage nearly as 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:12.200 often as I used to. I'm I've instituted a mostly 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.000 firm policy of not giving a platform to the content 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.199 created just for the absurdity of it all, like the 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.280 circus of it all, you know, I asked the media 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.520 room of other Day, who is that for? Who watches 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.680 these hot takes on television shows? Why would we care 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.080 the takes of people that demonstrate time and time again 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.439 that it's not nuanced conversation, it's not based in film study. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.000 I don't know. It's not that hard to find smart 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.320 content if you have the Internet. I know, the casual 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:36.960 fans not going to go search the annals of the 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.639 Internet for contextual analysis, but to watch that knowing what 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.600 it is. I just don't get who it's for. But 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.760 it's popular, So the joke's on me, right, But man, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.919 I see this stuff every single day, inventing new ways 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.399 to bend back to affirm a previous take. But for what? 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.520 For some flowers on social media? I can tell you 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.040 right now, go back and listen to just about every 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.600 draft episode of Drive Time and or Locked on Dolphins 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.280 the year before that. You'll find seventy eight versions of 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.720 me saying some version of this take two was the 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.760 best college quarterback I've ever seen. In the fine details 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.720 of the position, the subtleties that make for a franchise 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.439 altering quarterback play, manipulation, accuracy, post nap acumen, paired with 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.840 a quickness and all of his ball handling and release 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.040 that mitigates any chance a pass rush has most of 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.800 the time. I mean, I'll try to not injure myself 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.639 pat myself in the back here. But gat man, I 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.040 think I feel confident saying I know about evaluation. But 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.560 guess what, nobody cares work harder? Right? So why do 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.720 we have to regress to mental gymnastics and just hoping 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.800 that our conditions and justifications for why a player is 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.480 having success are factual? Because the craft that I see, 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.200 I can supremely confidently tell you it's not rooted in fact, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.879 it's not based on study. It's based on hypothesizing without 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.400 doing the research to confirm or deny said hypothesis. How 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.440 many times do we do segments here where I put 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.000 out a thought Reese search and confirmed that I was wrong. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.040 That's the beauty of chemistry, White, Mr Wright, Yeah, science, growth, decay, 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.200 then transformation. Cut the tape. It's elite. Do you think 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.080 Mike McDaniel would lie about that? What purpose would telling 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.520 the entire locker room after the Browns game? Hey, this 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.520 dude right here at number one is playing at an 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.320 elite level. If he wasn't. Players aren't stupid, They would 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.800 know that to lie. If it was. You think McDaniels 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.000 lying about that. I thought we trusted and believed in 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.000 what he's done here to the point that we can 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.280 all agree that his word carries some pretty significant weight, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.760 right Because you're telling me that Tyreek and Jalen and 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.600 Mike McDaniel are the only reasons to what is succeeding. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.280 Mike himself would disagree with you, So that by its 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.680 very nature is a contradiction, Like what are we doing? 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.719 Why do we have to get definitive confirmation at the 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.280 same speed of a hungry man meal warming up in 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.359 the microwave? Why can't we exercise no patience whatsoever? Talent 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:58.280 is talent, Sometimes circumstances change, sometimes development occurs. A lot 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.160 of the best quarterbacks in the league right now did 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.160 not hit right away to Ah Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.520 Look at what's going on with justin fields in Chicago. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.960