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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: coming to you late on a Sunday night here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, that's a rap on the exhibition season.
Speaker 1: No more preseason games. As the Dolphins got their final
Speaker 1: work of the exhibition season in in a victory over
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals in dramatic fashion, the preseason is a rap.
Speaker 1: We have a game to break down, five takeaways, a
Speaker 1: new acquisition, what's to come on the podcast plus a
Speaker 1: bonus from the postgame show on five sixt w q
Speaker 1: A M with myself, Seth Levin and O J. McDuffie
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast, so kicking things off here,
Speaker 1: thirty five players did not participate in the game on
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Bengals. Forty five guys dressed. But among
Speaker 1: those that did and did not, I thought Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and Nick Needham playing were two of the more interesting ones,
Speaker 1: giving Pressing a chance to get his first game action
Speaker 1: since last November. Was a great lookout there see number
Speaker 1: eighteen doing his thing, getting vertical on one particular route
Speaker 1: that almost was a completion, the ball just a little
Speaker 1: bit wide of his reach. So good to see the
Speaker 1: glitch out there, the unicorn doing his thing. Nick Needham
Speaker 1: played a lot of snaps in this game, and I
Speaker 1: thought he showed out very well as he has done
Speaker 1: all camp long, all preseason long. So good to see
Speaker 1: him put a cap on the preseason here. And then
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips as well, another one of these guys. When
Speaker 1: we cover this in the post game show a little
Speaker 1: bit how it seems like they're was a bit of
Speaker 1: a mark for players to hit in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: like coach said, the only way to get better at
Speaker 1: playing football is to play football. And we saw so
Speaker 1: many of the Dolphins ones or starters or prominent players,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, get plenty of reps
Speaker 1: in this preseason. We talked about Austin Jackson, Solomon Kinley,
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt, some of the big guys up front, Michael
Speaker 1: Dieter hitting upwards of seventy eight snaps in those first
Speaker 1: two preseason games. So Jalen Phillips gets his second preseason
Speaker 1: appearance on Sunday in Cincinnati and got plenty of run.
Speaker 1: Will come back to him in the takeaway segment. And
Speaker 1: then Sam eg Van following up the big, big game
Speaker 1: last Saturday and against Atlanta rather and having another big
Speaker 1: game on Sunday against the Bengals, And I like how
Speaker 1: coach gave those guys, you know, the guys that were
Speaker 1: out there pretty much from opening gun to the final whistle.
Speaker 1: He gave them credit for playing as many snaps as
Speaker 1: they did. What a testament to their conditioning and their commitment.
Speaker 1: And there's the fire they showed to play and compete
Speaker 1: in this game. The Bengals began this game with their
Speaker 1: first team offense, someones, some twos in the defense at
Speaker 1: out Miami did really well to kind of show their
Speaker 1: stuff in those portions of the game, but also to
Speaker 1: compete at the end of the game. And that takes
Speaker 1: us into our first takeaway here the Dolphins ability to
Speaker 1: sustain drives. Once again, we saw a seven nearly seven
Speaker 1: and a half minute drive that covered seventy four yards
Speaker 1: and third team plays lad by read senet And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to call that a function
Speaker 1: of the offense, but also just having that function of
Speaker 1: the offense built in with the weapons that can take
Speaker 1: those down and distance shrinkers, the layup type of throws
Speaker 1: the get me into second and four where Twa or
Speaker 1: Read or Jacoby catches the snap turns throws that thing
Speaker 1: out to an easy or not an easy completion, but
Speaker 1: a high percentage completion to get yourself ahead of the chains,
Speaker 1: and then building in some longer shots from that, but
Speaker 1: also converting first downs, because as this team has done
Speaker 1: all preseason, you convert first downs, you stay on the field.
Speaker 1: You give that defense rest, and you give this defense
Speaker 1: some rest. I like their chances to not only make
Speaker 1: some big plays, but to get consistent stops when they
Speaker 1: are fresh and rested, not to mention with the depth
Speaker 1: they have on that defense really at all three levels.
Speaker 1: So Miami's ability to both and this goes back to
Speaker 1: the complementary style of football, right, the more ways you
Speaker 1: can win. You can smother a team on defense, you
Speaker 1: can kick a bunch of field goals and the good
Speaker 1: points on the board. That way, you can shorten the
Speaker 1: game offensively with those long sustained drives, or you can
Speaker 1: be explosive and go up over the top. You can
Speaker 1: score a bunch of points on a day, or the
Speaker 1: defense maybe doesn't have it. And this to me just
Speaker 1: shows you more functions, more ways to win when it
Speaker 1: comes to just the offense in general, because I think
Speaker 1: they can both again sustain the drives, hit the layups,
Speaker 1: stay ahead of the chains, but also have the explosive
Speaker 1: you know, five play a d r drive with the
Speaker 1: big gainer in the middle of that drive with a
Speaker 1: Will full or Davante Parker or Jalen Waddle, a Miles Gascon,
Speaker 1: savan Achmeda might get sicky, you know the drill and
Speaker 1: you get the names there on this club and they
Speaker 1: can make big, exciting plays to go along with the
Speaker 1: ability to sustain those drives, hit those layups, and create
Speaker 1: shorter down and distances. I liked in the same first
Speaker 1: takeaway here how Miami competed against players that you know
Speaker 1: are a higher string on the roster than what the
Speaker 1: Dolphins players are. You know, read Sinet's offense out there
Speaker 1: doing what they did against this Bengals defense. Or the
Speaker 1: opening series for the Bengals going backwards with Joe Burrows
Speaker 1: big you know pronounced return to the field after his
Speaker 1: knee injury last season, which you know, three plays, two
Speaker 1: handoffs in a screen throw. It seemed like it was
Speaker 1: maybe more about optics than anything else as far as
Speaker 1: playing him in that game. But it was nice to
Speaker 1: shut that drive down and for Nick need Hum to
Speaker 1: get in there and make a big play on Jamaar
Speaker 1: Chase on that one pass he did throw. So the
Speaker 1: Dolphins third string, if you want to call it that,
Speaker 1: I hate those phrases. The Dolphins read sin senate lead
Speaker 1: team taking it to the Bengals and Joe Burrow and
Speaker 1: that offense they had out there. The takeaway number two
Speaker 1: for this was the playing time of some of these guys.
Speaker 1: We talked about this already, but Nick need Um doing
Speaker 1: his work to shut down one pass to Jamaar Chase,
Speaker 1: getting a hand on the football and causing a drop
Speaker 1: by playing it tight there, but just playing so much so,
Speaker 1: so many reps. All the snaps that Nick had in
Speaker 1: this game I thought were indicative of how deep this
Speaker 1: Dolphins secondary is, but also just the work and the
Speaker 1: grind that he puts out there because Nick might be
Speaker 1: able to say, like I've earned the right to be
Speaker 1: on that sideline with eating the sunflower seeds and put
Speaker 1: my ball cap on, but he didn't. He's not going
Speaker 1: to complain about it. He looks at the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go out there and play and make plays for his
Speaker 1: team is an opportunity and that's what you need in
Speaker 1: this league to continue to get your chances and to
Speaker 1: to run with them. I thought Nick did a great
Speaker 1: job of playing and playing well in this game. And O.
Speaker 1: J McDuffie on the post game show talked about this,
Speaker 1: how he was always itching to get out there. He
Speaker 1: says his two favorite days or Sunday and pay Day,
Speaker 1: and he said anytime there's a football game going on,
Speaker 1: he wanted to get out there. And I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of indicative of this Dolphins culture and that and
Speaker 1: Coach talked about this in his press conference postgame, talking
Speaker 1: about Jared Oaks as a player that really kind of
Speaker 1: compiles all the things they want in a Miami Dolphin. Toughness, physical,
Speaker 1: smart football player, and guys who love the game. It's
Speaker 1: important to them. And I think we saw that with
Speaker 1: not just Nick need him, but a lot of players
Speaker 1: on this roster, especially on the Dolphins, guys that were
Speaker 1: not playing, the thirty five players that were not in
Speaker 1: the lineup tonight on the sideline cheering their guys on.
Speaker 1: There was one play that ran into the sideline and
Speaker 1: it was the Dts. We always talked about Seeler, Wilkins,
Speaker 1: Davis and Butler, and someone ran strung a play out
Speaker 1: to the side and it didn't didn't gain more than
Speaker 1: a yard or two. And those guys were fired up
Speaker 1: for their teammates. And it's awesome to see those guys
Speaker 1: support each other, whether it's the ones and the threes
Speaker 1: or the threes and the ones. And you know, this
Speaker 1: goes back to something else. Reid sen It said after
Speaker 1: the game, how Jacoby Brissette could have just said, hey, getaway, kid,
Speaker 1: I don't need to help you. You're not part of
Speaker 1: my job. But he didn't do that. He was very
Speaker 1: helpful all off season long, answering questions, being in his
Speaker 1: ear and teaching along the young kid along. So I
Speaker 1: think that's just a great culturally structure. Is that a phrase,
Speaker 1: the term, I don't know, you get it. The structure
Speaker 1: of the culture here too have the same like minded
Speaker 1: type of players that get along and strive for the
Speaker 1: same goal. That's gonna not only create bonds and friendships,
Speaker 1: it's gonna make these guys want to play for each
Speaker 1: other even more. We heard it with last year's team,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like this year's team is kind of
Speaker 1: getting into that same frame of mind, that same mold.
Speaker 1: Here early on in late August, also in the playing
Speaker 1: time mentioned here, Kirk Merritt I thought, all camp long,
Speaker 1: all preseason long, played his way onto somebody's roster, and
Speaker 1: coach Flor has talked about this post game, They're gonna
Speaker 1: have tough decisions to make it a couple of spots,
Speaker 1: and he said that running back was one, receiver was
Speaker 1: one of those positions, and really throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the roster. And I tend to agree with him because
Speaker 1: there are, you know, maybe sixty sixty five guys you
Speaker 1: see on this roster that that belong in this league
Speaker 1: that can play on this league right now, and then
Speaker 1: another handful of guys that maybe can develop more and
Speaker 1: get to that point as well. But I just thought
Speaker 1: that Kirk Merritt and the way he performed to go
Speaker 1: from this position where you look at the roster before
Speaker 1: training camp, there's like, there's no way in your mind
Speaker 1: that kirk Merritt is going to be one of the
Speaker 1: top five or six guys that you keep in the room.
Speaker 1: If you do keep five or six receivers at that position,
Speaker 1: just base upon the accomplished resumes you had with a
Speaker 1: Will Fuller, with a DeVante Parker, with a number six
Speaker 1: draft pick this year in Jalen Waddle, with Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: who produced big time for this team in the past
Speaker 1: and for the Chiefs prior to that, With Preston Williams
Speaker 1: who has production, with Mac Hollins, who has both production
Speaker 1: offensively and on special teams. There are just too Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant as well, and that and that mentioned there. He's
Speaker 1: been a good pro for receiver and for punt returning.
Speaker 1: But for kirk Merritt to see the roster as it
Speaker 1: sat in front of him and to work his butt
Speaker 1: off and to produce and continue to make plays and
Speaker 1: earn promotions up the roster from the third string to
Speaker 1: the second string to getting work with two and the ones,
Speaker 1: it just as a reminder that every single summer, every
Speaker 1: single training camp, you're gonna have these surprises you just
Speaker 1: did not expect to happen. And I think Kirk Merrits
Speaker 1: a great example of that, And I think that sets
Speaker 1: a great precedent on your roster that don't worry about
Speaker 1: what the paper says. Things can happen. Guys can move
Speaker 1: their way up and you can earn your spot on
Speaker 1: this roster if you take care of the things within
Speaker 1: your control and take care of your business. And I
Speaker 1: thought Kirk Mary did that all summer long. Three catches,
Speaker 1: seventy one yards and a touchdown takeaway number three. I mean,
Speaker 1: this probably should have number one, but we're gonna put
Speaker 1: it here at number three. Read Senate, what a game
Speaker 1: he had. The three three passing yards were the most
Speaker 1: in a preseason game by any quarterback since at least.
Speaker 1: That's a great stat fact there from Brett Brett eys
Speaker 1: in here in our PR department. He does a great
Speaker 1: job research in these stats for us, going through game
Speaker 1: books and pulling up all this data for us that
Speaker 1: we used constantly on the podcast and otherwise. So thank
Speaker 1: you for that, Brett, and for read Senate, what a
Speaker 1: game he had, playing under pressure with poise, throwing the
Speaker 1: ball down the field, going off script, the arm, strength
Speaker 1: over the middle. I remember texting or texting tweeting out
Speaker 1: during the Chicago game when he was coming onto the
Speaker 1: field after Jacobe had finished up his first half of play,
Speaker 1: and I tweeted out, so, you guys are gonna enjoy
Speaker 1: watching Reads in a play because I have watched him
Speaker 1: out here at camp every day making plays, whether it's
Speaker 1: with his arm or going off script and scrambling and
Speaker 1: making things happy. And and you know, O J McDuffie
Speaker 1: had a great story for us on the post game
Speaker 1: show talking about how he said, when you went to
Speaker 1: San Diego, you paid them to go to school and
Speaker 1: to play football, like it's a learning institution where you
Speaker 1: pretty much have to take out your student loans. And
Speaker 1: he says he still is paying off student loans. And
Speaker 1: there was a fun segment there on the post game
Speaker 1: show where he talked about giving him the game ball,
Speaker 1: and then we heard from Read on the postgame press
Speaker 1: conference who got a game ball And we had a
Speaker 1: fun joke with that as well. So Reads in it.
Speaker 1: What a great moment for him to get out there
Speaker 1: and play extensively, play the entire game, take some hits,
Speaker 1: keep getting up and keep going downfield, and of course,
Speaker 1: that game winning passed to Chris Myrick for thirty four
Speaker 1: yards to beat the Bengals in Cincinnati. We'll hear more
Speaker 1: about that here in just one second takeaway number four.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips and playing backwards, you know, talking about going
Speaker 1: into coverage, getting down into that curl zone, into that
Speaker 1: hook zone, and playing some of those positions that are
Speaker 1: not necessarily the primary function of an edge player, but
Speaker 1: certainly something they have to do in this defense. And
Speaker 1: we saw that with Jalen Philip, we saw it with
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginkl at times. We've even seen the defensive
Speaker 1: interior drop back into coverage with the Christian Wilkins or
Speaker 1: his acts either whatever it might be. Everybody has multiple roles.
Speaker 1: I can do multiple things, and that's what makes this
Speaker 1: defense really tick is the versatility, and the that versatility
Speaker 1: that creates confusion for the opposing offense and the opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback because you can't pigeonhole any one player into any
Speaker 1: one particular job or anyone particular rep. And so what
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about here with Phillips was one
Speaker 1: of the two things that you really saw on his
Speaker 1: college tape that stood out that you think that most
Speaker 1: likely projects to the next level, and being the eighteenth
Speaker 1: pick in the draft, you would assume that was a
Speaker 1: Dolphin's thought too, like, yeah, he probably projects as a
Speaker 1: good pass rusher and good run defender, but to be
Speaker 1: a complete player, why don't we go ahead and work
Speaker 1: on this third element of his game in the playing
Speaker 1: past coverage, So we saw some of that as well,
Speaker 1: but you also saw plenty of the pressure work too.
Speaker 1: There was one rep where, again going back to the
Speaker 1: postgame show, I went over to Seth and showed him
Speaker 1: here's what I thought why I thought this play was fantastic,
Speaker 1: and I tweeted it out as well. There was a
Speaker 1: play where the Bengals showed run action away from Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: and the tight end on the play side of that
Speaker 1: run action came across the formation. And that's typically a
Speaker 1: split zone look. So anytime you go outside zone, there's
Speaker 1: a counter to that where you bring a tight end
Speaker 1: across the formation. It's called split zone. It just works
Speaker 1: off of a that type of a look, and it's
Speaker 1: basically a complimentary type of play calling in your running game,
Speaker 1: and you bring that tight end across the formation and
Speaker 1: he digs out the backside defensive end or the outside
Speaker 1: linebackeror whatever you want to call it, in the role
Speaker 1: that Jalen Phillips is playing on this play and so
Speaker 1: on this Phillips has a clear shot coming at him.
Speaker 1: He can put the contact on the tight end, he
Speaker 1: can absorb the contact, but he sees a tight end
Speaker 1: cutting across the formation, and he peels off last minute,
Speaker 1: right before the contact arrives. And to me, what I
Speaker 1: saw on the game coverage, now I can't know this
Speaker 1: for sure, was that he had his eyes in the
Speaker 1: right place on the quarterback, on the mesh point, on
Speaker 1: the football, on the running back where whoever the ball
Speaker 1: is gonna go to. He was going to be in
Speaker 1: position to make a lay and closed down on that.
Speaker 1: And so in the quarterback extends the handoff, doesn't make
Speaker 1: the handoff, just fakes it and pulls it back in
Speaker 1: To see Jalen close and the explosion on that first
Speaker 1: step when he said Okay, no more tight end, it's
Speaker 1: time to go after the quarterback. That closing speed was
Speaker 1: on display, and I thought it was a thing of
Speaker 1: beauty and that could be a big, big key to
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defense taking yet another step forward in what
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, but also Andrew Van Ginkle, Emmanuel Ogba, and
Speaker 1: some of the other edge guys can do in this defense.
Speaker 1: But back to Phillips, there was another rep where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins with some of those big defensive tackles, they love
Speaker 1: to run and set picks and create space and just
Speaker 1: have a team mindset pass rush. I thought Jalen showed
Speaker 1: off the lateral agility where he sets up field and
Speaker 1: then crosses back over the inside and loops and scrapes
Speaker 1: off the defensive tackles butt and gets in the middle
Speaker 1: of the pass rush for the into the quarterback's face.
Speaker 1: And I thought he showed you some of the lateral
Speaker 1: agility on that play as well. So I thought Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips showed really well on this game, his most extensive
Speaker 1: work of the preseason, and he had some good produce
Speaker 1: in this game. Takeaway number five. I liked some of
Speaker 1: the offensive line play that I saw in this game,
Speaker 1: particularly Greg Little and der Ball get as Netto on
Speaker 1: the left side of that offensive line. Also want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and give a shout out on one of
Speaker 1: the screenplays, Robert Jones got out in space and we
Speaker 1: watched it about five times in the w q A
Speaker 1: M booth. Watching Robert Jones get in space and just
Speaker 1: throw a defensive back out of the club. Now you
Speaker 1: might say, of course he's gonna do that because the
Speaker 1: size difference, But to get that guy in open space
Speaker 1: to catch him, to block him, to throw him out,
Speaker 1: that was impressive work from Robert Jones. But back to
Speaker 1: Greg Little and derv All, there was some double teams
Speaker 1: where they were blowing dudes off the football, similar to
Speaker 1: what we saw last week with Robert Hunt and Liam
Speaker 1: Eichnerberg off the right side. I thought Greg Little had
Speaker 1: a fantastic game, getting quick to his landmarks. His past
Speaker 1: sets were sharp. He was able to redirect an anchor
Speaker 1: and showed that good work and pass protection, but also
Speaker 1: get pushed in the run game. And then Derve ball
Speaker 1: Kiras Nedo Man just blowing guys off the ball consistently
Speaker 1: standing guys up. You see some of their helmet stand
Speaker 1: straight up when he hits some and he gets good
Speaker 1: push and good drive. And there was one rep where
Speaker 1: Seth Levitt on the postgame show gave Dervall one of
Speaker 1: his his only game ball. We went down to three
Speaker 1: game balls this week. He gave der Ball a game ball,
Speaker 1: and there was a play we watched where Seth was
Speaker 1: enamored because Dervall had one arm straight out and was
Speaker 1: past blocking somebody with his head his right arm out
Speaker 1: and his head looking left looking for more work, like
Speaker 1: I got this one hand, don't worry about it, and
Speaker 1: he did. He had it stud he had a stone
Speaker 1: wall blocked off and was looking for additional work. We
Speaker 1: continue to see strides from Dervall here and your number three,
Speaker 1: and he still has that roster the practice squad roster
Speaker 1: exemption too, So if he doesn't make the club, he
Speaker 1: saw us a chance to stay stick around and work
Speaker 1: on the practice squad and get even more valuable experience.
Speaker 1: So those are the five takeaways. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about some individuals here that we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: the new acquisition, and then play some sound from the
Speaker 1: w q A M Show. But I thought Jared Oakes
Speaker 1: and what he does in short yardage down around the
Speaker 1: goal line, the ability to change the angle last minute
Speaker 1: with the power and the burst that he has to
Speaker 1: fall forward. I think it's a great combination for short yardage.
Speaker 1: And again coach was very complimentary of Jared After the game,
Speaker 1: I talked about kirk Merritt, the shiftiness to shake at
Speaker 1: the top of the route to create separation, and then
Speaker 1: the power to run through a couple of tackles and
Speaker 1: almost get that touchdown which would have been touched on
Speaker 1: number two for him. By the way, Jared did have
Speaker 1: two touchdowns as well as sixty one rushing yards in
Speaker 1: this game, but kirk Merritt three for seventy one touchdown
Speaker 1: almost made it three for seventy two and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: by running through some tackles. But that combination of both
Speaker 1: those things has shown very well this preseason. Malcolm Perry
Speaker 1: made a bunch of tough catches in traffic and hung
Speaker 1: onto the football. I wanted to give him some love
Speaker 1: for that. He had a great week of practice this week,
Speaker 1: I thought, and then carried it over into the game.
Speaker 1: How do you not put Chris Myrick in here for
Speaker 1: his game winning touchdown catch in the corner of the
Speaker 1: end zone. What a hell of a catch that was.
Speaker 1: To high point that thing, keep it corralled into your chest,
Speaker 1: survived the contact of the ground of the defender, and
Speaker 1: get that knee down in the orange part of the
Speaker 1: end zone for six at the same position, tight end
Speaker 1: Hunter Long. There was the drop late in the game,
Speaker 1: but I thought all things told, he showed some things
Speaker 1: that really showed some maturity for a young player at
Speaker 1: that position. Tight end is so difficult to come in
Speaker 1: and make an impact because you have to really excel
Speaker 1: in all three phases run game, pass, game, pass protection.
Speaker 1: You have to do it all, and he did a
Speaker 1: little bit of that today. I thought there was one
Speaker 1: rep where he had a chip and then release on
Speaker 1: a little boot action from reads in it, and he
Speaker 1: was able to hold the block and get into space,
Speaker 1: located the football, get up field and make a play
Speaker 1: after the catch. She'll Hunter Long excited to see what
Speaker 1: he can do, especially just a couple of weeks after
Speaker 1: ly being practiced on a cart. What a tough guy
Speaker 1: he is there out of Boston College, Jonathan led Better.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to mention him here because I saw
Speaker 1: him stay after practice this week a couple of times
Speaker 1: getting some extra work on the sled. And we go
Speaker 1: back to his twenty nineteen loan game of his career,
Speaker 1: the season opener, where he was a damn good player
Speaker 1: in that game, and I thought had a really good
Speaker 1: camp that year, earned himself a starting spot on that
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen club, and then gets injured last year. Suffer
Speaker 1: as an injury in the off season before he can
Speaker 1: even get to the season. So just to see him
Speaker 1: working and get back out there, really enjoy it and
Speaker 1: be productive. I thought he got down the line and
Speaker 1: made a bunch of plays in the running game in
Speaker 1: that In that sense, in this victory for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Banito Jones had some good pressure up the middle. He's
Speaker 1: a load man, He's load to the ground and he
Speaker 1: is heaviest squatty body. He got that roughing call, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's preseason call. I think he just kind of drove
Speaker 1: the quarterback into the ground a little bit. But you know,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do. It's not much you can
Speaker 1: do about that play. But he had good pressure up
Speaker 1: the middle. I thought jackem Griffin had some good pressure
Speaker 1: off the outside. He moved the quarterback off the spot
Speaker 1: a few times. And then Noah ig Bonogny that final
Speaker 1: play of the game. Great position, great coverage. That's what
Speaker 1: you want to see more from Noah. Get that head around,
Speaker 1: locate the football and continue to make plays. He was
Speaker 1: good in this game, I thought as well, and then
Speaker 1: Nick need Um also want to go ahead and mention
Speaker 1: him one more time because I thought he was fantastic
Speaker 1: all game long when he was out there. Before we
Speaker 1: get out of here on this quick recap of the
Speaker 1: third preseason game, and we'll have some all missions on
Speaker 1: tomorrow show for you guys. Gonna go ahead and rewatch
Speaker 1: this game into the morning hours and come back and
Speaker 1: do a podcast for you that will be available for
Speaker 1: you either Monday night or Tuesday am. We'll find out
Speaker 1: about that. But we had some roster activity over the weekend,
Speaker 1: an acquisition. But first to make the acquisition, Vince Beagle
Speaker 1: will miss his second straight season. He has been added
Speaker 1: to the injured reserve. Tough break for Vince. He led
Speaker 1: the team in pressures in nineteen, was having a strong
Speaker 1: camp and talked about how much it meant to him
Speaker 1: to get back out here. I hate to see that
Speaker 1: for Vince and the newcomer former Baltimore Raven, Houston Texans
Speaker 1: and Toledo Rocket, Greg Mance. And he hasn't played significant
Speaker 1: time since sixteen. That year for the Texans playoff team,
Speaker 1: he was a center, played one hundred or one thousand,
Speaker 1: rather two hundred and sixty one snaps for the Texans.
Speaker 1: He only played five sixty and seventeen, three sixty eight
Speaker 1: and two thousand, eighteen, one fifty eight and twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and then one snap last year, so his snap count
Speaker 1: has gone down each year. But he had great grades
Speaker 1: on Pro Football Focus in sixteen, a seventy five point
Speaker 1: seven overall grade, eighty three points having pass blocking grade,
Speaker 1: and then seventy point two in the running game. He
Speaker 1: had some good grades in twenty eight teen as well,
Speaker 1: but the pressure number is the one that I really
Speaker 1: want to look at here on Pro Football Focus in sixteen,
Speaker 1: that year he played twenty one pressures, one sack, four
Speaker 1: hits on seven hundred and forty nine pass blocking snaps.
Speaker 1: That was every thirty six point seven snaps. Then seventeen
Speaker 1: he had twenty six pressures on three d and fifty
Speaker 1: pass blocking snaps. That goes down to thirteen point five
Speaker 1: snaps per pressure, three sacks allowed to QB hits them,
Speaker 1: and then his numbers beyond that eleven pressures allowed. That
Speaker 1: was good for one every nineteen point four snaps. So
Speaker 1: that first year some really good numbers. Since then, the
Speaker 1: analytics are not so not so kind to Greg, But
Speaker 1: all things told, a nice depth acquisition here for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins to get this player right before training camp
Speaker 1: breaks and get him into your system, get him up
Speaker 1: to speed, and get him ready to go. Thirty two
Speaker 1: and three quarter inch arms, seventy nine and five eight
Speaker 1: inch wingspan, did not have workout numbers at the combine
Speaker 1: fifty eight career games, twenty eight starts. He started one
Speaker 1: game in twenty nineteen, four and eighteen seven and twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen and started all six games in He also played
Speaker 1: some tackle too, so the rare center tackle conversion there
Speaker 1: for him. That was a good trade to see there
Speaker 1: for a guy that can play multiple spots like most
Speaker 1: players on this Miami Dolphins club. Alright, We've got a
Speaker 1: few more things to go here on the podcast. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have the Omissions Podcast tomorrow where I talk about
Speaker 1: things I missed, the snap count breakdown, the Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: Advanced metrics breakdown, don't want to miss that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have the fifty three man roster recapping the Dolphins entire roster,
Speaker 1: talk about what those guys do well, the best trade
Speaker 1: from each player. We'll get to that. This week we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a crossover podcast with the Fish Tank. Seth
Speaker 1: and o J. Will join me. You don't want to
Speaker 1: miss that conversation. Will previews season as well before we
Speaker 1: get into actual game week the following week against the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. And before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: a quick bonus for you guys, I want to play
Speaker 1: the audio from the opening segment from the postgame show
Speaker 1: on w q A M with yours truly as well
Speaker 1: as Seth Levitt and o J McDuffie from the Fish
Speaker 1: Tank podcast. Sack throw pressure coming, lots of pressure, gets
Speaker 1: away from it all. Now he's running down field, drows
Speaker 1: it deep to the quarter of the edge. Got it.
Speaker 1: It's touch that. Oh my gosh, that's what throw? What up?
Speaker 1: Sold fans and welcome to the Miami Dolphins fifth Core
Speaker 1: post game Show. Seth Levitt and o J. McDuffie are
Speaker 1: here with me. I am Travis Wingfield. Guys, we just
Speaker 1: watched our first ever Dolphins game together and Big Seth
Speaker 1: I was ready for a boring preseason joke here, but
Speaker 1: we all kind of lost our collective minds in the
Speaker 1: booth after that game. Pseason joke. You never you read
Speaker 1: Senet to Chris Myrick thirty four yards and the Dolphins win. Seth,
Speaker 1: what do you think read to that out there? Man? Listen,
Speaker 1: the guy he had to play the whole prettyseason game, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, probably at a juice for a guy
Speaker 1: like that to get a chance to get that many reps.
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, he fought to the bitter end.
Speaker 1: And you're right, he finished the preseason strong. And we're
Speaker 1: in here celebrating and enjoying this thing, not just because
Speaker 1: the preseason is over, but it was a fantastic finish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I love read. I love his whole story, man,
Speaker 1: And you know, you think about him, man, quarterback situation
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins looks like it's a pretty good hands,
Speaker 1: right Nick, Seth and from Travis we talk about to h,
Speaker 1: you know, and then we got of course we got Jakobe.
Speaker 1: We also got sent it to win it, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? So I like that. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: as a helm of finished man. And then you know,
Speaker 1: and and and to take a wallop at the end
Speaker 1: of that too, man, great job, and that was fun
Speaker 1: to was. I was glad to hear his parents corrected
Speaker 1: the pronunciation on his last name because a lot of
Speaker 1: folks were calling him Senet. It's sent it, so sent
Speaker 1: it to win. It works. That's that's the perfect segue
Speaker 1: for that. He goes twenty two for thirty three forty
Speaker 1: three passing yards of parent touchdowns and a pick and
Speaker 1: like you guys mentioned, I mean, no to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Iloa, no Jacobe prisette, juice to come out here
Speaker 1: and just deal like that. I mean, what does that
Speaker 1: do for his com answer for the future of his
Speaker 1: career in the NFL. I mean, this is a game
Speaker 1: where you gotta make an impression. He sure did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it does a lot. You know, for one,
Speaker 1: confidence is one thing. You know, these guys have done
Speaker 1: so much work together. Uh you know, I know he's
Speaker 1: done a lot of work with Kurt Merritt. You know,
Speaker 1: I know he's worked some more other times and some
Speaker 1: of the other guys. Man, But you know, everybody works
Speaker 1: so hard and but not everybody gets these opportunities. So
Speaker 1: when you get these opportunities, you do what Reed did
Speaker 1: today and you take advantage of Man, you get out there,
Speaker 1: no matter who you're playing with, who you're playing against
Speaker 1: you make the most of the situation, and that's what
Speaker 1: he did today. And you could tell these guys have
Speaker 1: done a lot of work in the all season together
Speaker 1: didn't look like I mean, you look at the penalties,
Speaker 1: you look at you know, the false stars or anything like.
Speaker 1: Everything looks like it was similar to what we've seen
Speaker 1: from our starters, fair point, which is which is good
Speaker 1: as a testimony to how well coached this team is
Speaker 1: and how well these guys pay attention to details. So
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch, man, no matter what, anytime
Speaker 1: we get a win. And we joked about it before
Speaker 1: the game was over. You know, Reid's gonna be sore tonight.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a long play, rude home. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough player ride home. You go a lot
Speaker 1: better with a win. And everybody else. How about the
Speaker 1: guys that didn't play, How are they feeling right now?
Speaker 1: You know they were jumping around, they were jumping around
Speaker 1: in their shorts and T shirts. They're gonna have a
Speaker 1: fun ride home too. Man. So it's always good to win,
Speaker 1: no matter what, preseason, regular season, post season. Getting to win,
Speaker 1: get on a plane, especially on the road, it's it's
Speaker 1: such a great time. Seth grabbed a photo of our
Speaker 1: the boss man, Jason Jenkins himself on the sideline right
Speaker 1: behind the play there behind Chris Myrick, and he kind
Speaker 1: of had the stern looking on his face because touchdown.
Speaker 1: Then he saw the touchdown through the arms up and
Speaker 1: that was really the entire Dolphins sideline all games, Seth.
Speaker 1: I mean we sat here and watched it early on.
Speaker 1: I saw Christian Wilkins and Ray Kwon, Davis Barking, and
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler getting pumped up over there. When you're on
Speaker 1: that sideline in a preseason game with all the starters.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is more of a juice question, but you've
Speaker 1: you've participated in this yourself. Uh well, in a different capacity, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but in a certain sense. I mean it's it's a
Speaker 1: different a different approach, a different environment when you're in
Speaker 1: these exhibition games. But the juice is still there, right yeah.
Speaker 1: I look, sixty of the suster just wants to get
Speaker 1: into the regular season, right juice They want to get
Speaker 1: out of this thing. Obviously, there's guys here that are
Speaker 1: fighting for their dreams and their careers, whether it's here
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins or with another team. But uh, you
Speaker 1: know everybody. Well, it's a little different this year because
Speaker 1: there's no there's no overtime, which I think the only
Speaker 1: thing better than shortening the preseason from four games to
Speaker 1: three games was having no overtime is a part of
Speaker 1: that as well, But you know, either way, everybody wants
Speaker 1: to go home with a win. And this is a
Speaker 1: budding rivalry the Dolphins and the Bengals, right, this is
Speaker 1: a kind of a budding rivalry for different reasons. But
Speaker 1: what a great finish, And you're right, I think that
Speaker 1: that just it puts the right cherry on top of
Speaker 1: this preseason for this Dolphins team, from the last guy
Speaker 1: in the roster all the way up to you know,
Speaker 1: whoever you want to say is the lock of all
Speaker 1: locks on the team. So that's just a little bit
Speaker 1: of a taste of what we do on the postgame
Speaker 1: show on five six w q a M as well
Speaker 1: as on point nine Kiss Country for the first hour.
Speaker 1: It's a two hour show. We have a link and
Speaker 1: an you can find that if you're an outtown Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan as well, So check us out every single
Speaker 1: post game on the w q a M post Game Show,
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins fifth quarter postgame show there with myself,
Speaker 1: Seth and o J. Alright, that's gonna be my time
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Nice and
Speaker 1: short and sweet. We're gonna come back tomorrow and do
Speaker 1: it all over again and every day the rest of
Speaker 1: this week as well. In the meantime, Caroline Daddy is
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