WEBVTT - Dolphins Win Fifth Straight, Recapping 29-21 Win Over the Chargers 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:15.840 Field touchdown, Miami Run, What is up? Dolphins? And welcome 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.720 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:24.560 official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.720 and every day. How's it going everybody? It is your 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.280 Sunday Night Slash Monday Morning recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.240 and I am Travis Wingfield here to bring you your 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.880 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:46.120 five count them five twin win win win, five wins 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.960 in a row and do you know what that's called? Street? 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.640 That is in fact called a winning streak. Lou Brown, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.640 The Dolphins have won five games in a row. Special 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.840 teams come up big once again, the defense heats up 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.240 her burt and takes some of the shock out of 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.919 the Chargers offense to to touchdowns, and a strong running 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.480 game is enough for the fifth straight Dolphins win. We'll 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.240 get to the stats, the takeaways, the clips from postgame pressers, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.560 individual notes and more, and we'll also welcome in John 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.160 kN Jemmy to get his takeaways from the game. All 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.360 of that more on this victory Monday, November sixte edition 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:31.080 of the Drive Time Podcast, and our time is brought 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.960 to you by Auto Nation, where Dolphins fans can sell 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.560 their vehicle for cash. Now visit auto nation dot com. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.560 And as we do weekly here becoming a weekly thing 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.040 five weeks in a row on this victory Monday edition. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.840 Twin win, win win. That's right, that's five wins there 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.400 from Jay Rock on this victory Monday edition. Let's go 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.120 ahead and start as we do with the stats from 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.400 this game. The Dolphins win the yardage battle by seven 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.600 to eight to two seventy three. They outrush the Chargers 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.760 one eleven to nine, Miami with one and sixty nine 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.840 passing yards the Chargers with one seventy four. The Dolphins 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.280 were five out of fourteen on third downs, the Chargers 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.880 for for thirteen against this top Dolphins defense, one of 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.120 the top five defenses on third down. Both teams had 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.160 a takeaway. Miami had two sacks of Justin Herbert too, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.320 a tongue of Baloa did not take a sack in 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.720 the game. Miami only had three penalties for fifteen yards, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.120 the Chargers had five for thirty one and the t 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.680 op time of possession was almost a dead heat. Miami 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.200 had it for six or thirty minutes and six seconds 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.880 twelve seconds longer than the Chargers. I should say, thirty 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.520 minutes and six seconds compared to twenty nine minutes and 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.960 fifty four seconds of t op for the Los Angeles Chargers. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.799 The Dolphins plus seventy four point first half point differential 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.720 is best in the NFL. Dolphins have now scored twenty 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.480 one points in eight consecutive games this season. It is 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.320 the longest such streak since an eight game regular season 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.400 stretch in two thousand one, the last two games of 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.320 that season and the first six game of two thousand two. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.320 The last time the Dolphins scored at least twenty one 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.720 points in eight consecutive games within one single season was 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.920 four We all know what happened then, Damn Reno through 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.080 for five million yards and forty eight thousand touchdowns that 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.639 season when that team score at least twenty one points 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.400 in all sixteen games that year. So not there yet, 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.200 but the Dolphins offense clicking right now. Eighth straight games 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.720 of over twenty one points the best since in one 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.880 single season. And to kind of help us set up 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.359 the takeaway segment of this victory Monday edition of Drive Time, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.600 a couple of storylines I was keeping an eye on 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.040 heading into this football game, I was really curious to 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.480 see how Miami's rush package would attack Justin Herbert and 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.240 kind of try to put pressure on the young quarterback. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.640 Would they go heavy and blocks the crap out of him? 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.400 Would they play coverage and try to force him to 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.520 maybe play more quarterback and make more decisive reads and 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.280 kind of stand in the pocket and make plays that way. Well, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:52.880 it was a good mix of both those things. We'll 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.960 talk about that plenty here on this edition of the 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.840 Drivetime podcast. I was also curious by how much they 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.200 played two deep safeties in this game, some of at 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.320 some mud cover one, some cover zero. Again, we'll get 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.640 into that. Did they spread it out with more receivers 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.520 and tight ends since the running back experience In the game, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.160 we had a rookie who was in a second career 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.760 game in the NFL, a second year player and undrafted 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.360 rookie last season or undrafted player last season, Patrick Laird, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.440 and a newcomer in DeAndrea Washington who got here twelve 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.440 days ago. Would they go after the receivers and tight ends. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.200 I was curious to take a look at that. We'll 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.960 get to that. How would they replace Preston Williams reps 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.359 with running backs, tight ends, receivers. Curious about that as well, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.880 and also the starting offensive line, which went Austin Jackson, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.320 Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss, Solomon Kinley, and Jesse Davis at 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.280 right tackle. Let's go ahead and open this thing up 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.480 with my five takeaways, and we do start with takeaway 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.800 number one. I teased it in the open there. The 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.840 defensive game plan and the mix of looks on defense, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.480 both in the secondary and up front. Zero pressure, too 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.800 high safety looks. You get a three and out out 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.000 of that look and then a punt on another drive 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.320 one drive later, and then you come back on the 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.400 following drive it's third and twelve. You go seven man 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.920 pressure cover zero and the throw sales high over the target. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.560 That's the kind of pressure you put on teams with 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.720 those looks. They have to play it perfectly to beat 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.000 you from a red standpoint, from a protection standpoint, from 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.920 a route standpoint, one false step, one slip, that thing 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.400 is busted and it's over. The quarterback has to see 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.280 it unfold correctly in that quick blur that he has, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.279 and then he has to be perfect from an accuracy standpoint. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.560 And that's guys, That's why you bring in all these 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.120 different guys with rush skills combined with something else. Right. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.080 It's Jerome Baker who can rush but also cover. Same 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.280 with Camu gruge Hill, he Landed Roberts can rush the quarterback. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.160 That guy has been coming clean once a week, it 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.200 seems like the last five or six games. He can 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.760 also go in there and knock the absolute paint off 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.719 the helmet of the opposition. In the running game. Van Ginkle, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.800 he can rush, he can cover, he can block punts, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.440 he can defend the run. Kyle van Noy does everything. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.599 Emmanuel Ogback can beat you outside, inside, power, secondary, move, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.200 redirect underneath. I mean with Emmanuel Ogba. He's now got 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.120 a sack in six consecutive games, which is the tied 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.640 for second longest streak in the history of the Miami Dolphins. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.279 Back in two thousand to Jason Taylor had eight games 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.360 in a row with a sack. We'll talk more about 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.280 Manuel Ogba here in just one second. Shack Lawson, who 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.000 can play the run on the way to the quarterback. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.880 You've got all these guys that fulfill different roles. They 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.360 don't really have a true position, and this causes absolute 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.080 headaches because the quarterback cannot identify who is what? Who 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:30.680 the hell is he gonna call the mike. Who's he 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.640 gonna identify as a pair of defensive tackles in their 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.360 their alignment, whether they're in double two techniques, they got 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.839 a nose tackle, they go one and a three technique, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.960 whatever they are, those guys can fall back into coverage. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.040 And even now we're starting to see a guy like 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.200 Benito Jones and Jason Strowbridge, who's gonna come up here? 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.599 In the later takeaway and one quick at side on 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.039 Jason Strowbridge, Mary and Hobby talked about him a comment 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.520 back in training camp saying we're gonna need him at 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.760 some point. Might not be Week one, might not be 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.960 Week two, but he's put together a couple of good 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.600 games with a few package of plays that I've been 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.719 impressed with with Jason Strowbridge. But you go back to 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.920 the last play of the third quarter of the Jason 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.080 Strowbridge play, where the Dolphins are giving up a little 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:11.560 bit of ground in the running game, but they've been 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.960 tightening up on other reps. They go ahead and throw 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.560 a little game with Strowbridge, who gets a tackle for 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.960 lost for negative two yards where he loops around Benito Jones, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.520 who just fires off the snap and gets immediate knock 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.440 back and instant penetration, causing someone to kind of tell 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.240 off with him, and Strowbridge loops around. I mean, a 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.400 fifth round draft pick this year, a U d f 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.600 A this year, creating big plays through the scheme as 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.520 the Dolphins go with a little twist or stunt up 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.840 front to make that happen, and just the marriage of 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.160 the scheme and the position these guys are putting these 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.000 players in and the execution of the players. I mean, truthfully, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.280 the only drive where I sat in that press box 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.720 and thought they're gonna score on this drive was the 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.560 one after the failed snap slash fumble return for Nick 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.040 Vigil And that's really it. Maybe at the end of 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.840 the game of the Dolphins were up two scores and 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.840 you kind of play lighter and try to prevent the 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.320 big play from happening. Maybe then, but at that point, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.160 in my opinion, if you have to get an onside kick, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:04.640 you've got a long way to go to win the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.320 football game. But even on the drive that started like 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.440 the what forty seven yard line, if I'm being truthful, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.560 I genuinely thought on that play that two was tackle 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.840 was gonna save at least four points on that drive 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.280 because of my faith and not just the players on 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.200 the field, the coaches on the sideline, but the marriage 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.360 of those two together and how they're mixing up this 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.239 scheme with the talent they have. And just real quick, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.080 a quick aside on that point, talking about that fumble 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.960 that got ran back into Dolphins territory. Let's hear what 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.920 Ted Carriss had to say about that tackle. That to 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.680 a tongue of Valoa maide on that play, it's it's 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.480 the privilege of a lifetime to play with guys that 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.240 play with effort like that. I mean, how much better 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.040 praise can you give a young man than talking about 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.319 the effort and the privilege of a lifetime. I just 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.320 thought that was a really cool moment and the postgame 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.400 presser from Ted Carriss. But back to the defensive structure. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.880 They do that pressure. Look, they bring seven guys, they 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.600 played cover zero, they drop eight and rush three. They 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.560 rotate single too high, they go man coverage, they go 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.680 cover one, cover three, cover six, buzz whatever it might be. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.679 I mean, they've got everything under the sun in this playbook, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.560 and maybe it took two or three weeks to kind 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.880 of get this thing finally tuned and communicated, but my god, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.400 they are and it's just been a lot of fun 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.640 to watch so far. You heard the veterans in the 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.600 cornerback Room Byron Jones, Bobby McCain, Eric Rowe, some of 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.840 those guys talk about how these young guys are doing 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.920 good to come along and they're putting the work in 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.319 to get themselves in position to make an impact both 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.880 in their limited roles on their Special Teams roles, but 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.200 in the future as well. They're putting that mental work in. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.800 But the veteran communication they have on that back end 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.600 has been very valuable and it definitely shows out there 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.920 on a weekly basis. I put a note here for 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.920 you Land and Roberts because I just wanted to make 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.600 a note over the winning streak. How well this guy 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.200 has played. Seems like every single week he's been making 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.040 this play where he's instinctively shooting into the backfield, blowing 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.520 up blocks, throwing guys off the side. But he also 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.280 just works around guys too in the blocking game. And 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.559 Brian Flores always says, you can beat blocks in a 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.320 variety of ways. You don't have to just go in 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.320 there and slam your head into a wall. That seems 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.600 to be a focal point for this defense this year, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.320 beating blocks and doing it in different ways, and they're 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.920 getting that job done. Takeaway number two communication We talked 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.520 about it in the secondary, the constant communication of that 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.600 bat group, and really the number take number two takeaway 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.559 here from me is the defensive backs are as advertised. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.800 Man Eric Row and Bobby mccame the Charger's longest play 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.480 in this game prior to the Mike Williams twenty eight 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.920 yard play or something like that on that final drive. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.240 I talked about where they had to score, get an 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.360 on site kick, and score a game on that. Before 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.480 that drive, the twenty eight year played to Mike Williams, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.360 their longest play was seventeen yards to Hunter Henry. They're 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.439 playing that deep ball well and they're not getting a 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.320 whole lot up underneath either. And the Charges were trying 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.120 to get some of these route concepts up the field 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.199 where you would see switches towards the top of the field. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.280 I was keeping an eye on it because that's one 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.560 thing you can watch live you can't see on the 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.760 television all the time. Is the way the deep routes unfold. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.720 And I watched it in this game and they were 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.079 trying to shoot the ball down field. They have multiple 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.920 guys down there, and Herbert would check that two man 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.720 route combination deep and just check the thing off underneath, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.920 because there's Bobby McCain running everything off of the past 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.160 Byron Jones, exaviing Howard, Nick Needle, whoever might have been 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.040 running that thing underneath trail, getting it right into the 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.640 help and really funneling and bracketing that particular deep shot 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:20.040 option they might have there. You just constantly, constantly see 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.319 these two safeties Rowan McCain having quality communication, rotating getting 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.640 there there. There's not really any bus to happen where 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.960 some guy runs free in the secondary and scores a 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.240 long touchdown. It's just it's just not happening right now. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.199 And the cornerbacks up front, exaving Howard, he does what 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.640 he does every single week, a huge interception in this 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.960 game to really swing a momentum back in the favor 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.640 of your Miami Dolphins. Byron Jones again, rarely ever gets 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.840 his name even called, but the tackle he had on 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.360 Jalen Guiton on a third and twelve. He picks up 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.960 nine yards on the play. It's a straight crosser and 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.760 Jones already has outside leverage where he's lined up on 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.120 the outside shoulder of Guiton, and he's gonna run a 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.600 straight crosser. And when you're in man coverage and that 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.880 guy can run as fast as Jalen Guiton can run, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.640 it is tough because you basically have to run him 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.560 down from behind, catch up to him, and get him 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.680 to the ground short of the sticks. That is a tough, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.599 tough ask, but Jones runs it down flawlessly. That is 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.360 such a big play right around midfield, getting close to 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.680 the logo there at midfield. He tracks him down and 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.320 forces the Chargers punting team onto the field a couple 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.800 more first downs. Maybe they're in field goal range. Maybe 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.800 he gets a bigger play out of that if Jones 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.040 can't make the tackle, So big time play there from 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.160 Byron Jones. We talked about the communication. It's just been 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.320 so much fun to watch these guys play. Let's go 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.960 ahead and hear from xaviing Howard about the marriage of 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.320 coverage and pass rush really working together right now, and 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.360 that's something the players have talked about quite a bit 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.760 in the past, but I wanted to ask xaviing Howard 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.280 because it looked like to me from my vantage point 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.920 that Emmanuel Ogba had a big pressure on his interception. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.679 So I wanted to ask xaviing Howard how much confidence 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.640 playing with that pass rush knowing these guys are gonna 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.160 get home quickly, how much that helps them play aggressive 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.120 on the back end, and how it might help generate 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.640 turnovers for a guy like xaviing Howard, who's five picks 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.160 right now in the NFL lead the entire national football 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.880 You know, that's the way the coaches and the guys, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.680 that's how they want us to play and be aggressive 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.840 no matter what. So you know, everything working together and 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.120 everybody making play, that's what it's all about on the defense. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.959 So they're playing aggressive up front, they're getting pressure on 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.920 the quarterback and the back end. Eric Robe, Bobby McCain, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.559 Savian Howard, Byron Jones, Nick need him, Brandon Jones. These 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.439 guys are out there making plays. It's been awesome to 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.800 watch this defense come together here in the middle part 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.960 of the season. The third takeaway, let's go to the 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.559 offensive side for some of their schematics. We see plenty 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.040 of wildcat action out there, and that's just stuff you 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.240 can continue to build off that the course of the season, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.800 throwing some wrinkols and really just put plenty of stuff 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.680 on tape. Make the defense prepare for everything you offer. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.520 We've seen some RPO pops to have puts that thing 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.680 in their rides out the mesh point, pulls it back, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.640 throws a dart to either Mike a Sicki or Tavante Parker. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.840 They've got built in deep shots they can take off 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.679 this thing where too are just kind of goes down 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.880 the middle of the field, keys the sea the safety. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.840 If he shades one side, go the other direction. That's 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.120 been cool to watch that screened down the red going 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.439 to put Miami at the one yard line before the 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.080 Dirham Smith touchdown. I thought that was a really cool design. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.640 You get some space down there, he gives Savon augmentsive 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.520 opportunity some space to run with rather and then you 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.480 get the touchdown on the throwback to Derham Smith, which 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.120 was just sheer brilliance with a heavy package, especially after 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.680 your first touchdown of the game off the blocked punt 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.160 to Savan Akhmed. They show a very similar formation. You've 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.440 got the heavy package. Here comes Julian Davenport and Robert 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.840 Hunt into the package to get you that smash one 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.760 yard you need on the ground, right, Well, the Dolphins 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.040 did that at first. They even put Solomon Kinley's big 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.040 butt back there at full back and he leads the 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.840 way up for a touchdown run from Savon Akhmed. So 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.840 they go back to the heavy package look and they 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.840 sneak Derham Smith underneath the formation. And a lot of 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.560 times that tight end will go to the backside and 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.000 try to block off that backside of the formation. It's 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.040 called split zone action when you have the tight end 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.520 running against the formation. Well, he shows that action, but 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.640 just leaks out into the flat and there's nobody out 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.000 there because everybody thought that was gonna be a running play. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.080 I think myself included. Everybody in that press box include it. 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.360 And they spring the wide up and touchdown pass from 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.040 two uh to Derma Smith, the easiest touchdown too will 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.040 throw in his entire career. And with that touchdown, Smith 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.960 now has two receptions in the end zone on the season, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.560 and he joins fellow Dolphins tight ends Mike Sicky, who's 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.400 got two touchdowns and Adam Shaheen who's got two touchdowns 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.400 with multiple TV catches this season. The last time the 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.640 Dolphins had three tight ends each have multiple touchdown catches 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.880 in a season we went back to earlier. We're going 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.080 back to five with Bruce Hardy and Joe Rose who 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.960 both caught four and Dan Johnson caught three touchdowns that season. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.120 Back to the offensive scheme, Let's go ahead and here 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.120 with the quarterback to a tongue of Baloa has to 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.240 say or what he thinks about Chan Gailey in this 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.840 Dolphins offensive system. To be honest, I think Chan's just 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.000 finding ways to put guys in certain areas or certain 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:51.359 positions to become successful. We're trying to put guys defensively 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.600 in a bind um to where we can take advantage 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:59.760 of them. Um and yeah, I think up to this point, um, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.720 we to continue to execute on those things. But it's 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.320 still a work in progress. So we'll continue to look 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.400 at the film when it comes times tomorrow and continue 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.200 to grow from there. We're gonna hear from We're gonna 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.160 hear about two a tonk of by later on the 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.120 show with John con Jemmy. But first I want to 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.200 go ahead and just play another quick aside for you guys. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.600 Some audio from to Ah. The very last question of 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.200 his press conference, he was asked about the first throw 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.120 of the game to Mike Asiki, a twenty three yard 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.920 rip on the move, and he kind of broke the 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.520 play down for us. I just thought it was cool 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.440 to listen to him and the recall he had on 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.440 the very first play of the game. Here's two, what's 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.840 recall on the first past to Mike Asiki. Well, knowing 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.200 I got out free and there wasn't a rusher in 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.960 my face, I was able to decipher, you know, what 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.000 that corner was gonna do. If he's gonna stay back, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.680 take Mike on the flag, or he's gonna step up 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.840 and take Savan on the flat um, you know, and 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.240 kept going out. He made his decision and you know, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.960 just stuck to my rules and gave Mike a chance. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.800 And Mike did make the play when he got that chance. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.400 There another player who made his the most of his 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.480 chances was Savan Akhmed damn near popped a hundred yards 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.000 in this game. Why up with eighties six had a 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.200 couple of losses. They're late to kind of push him 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:10.840 back and this was the thing that I was kind 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.200 of watching for, just like the four man pressure looks 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.359 combined with the zero pressure looks they would show was 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.800 what was the running back position going to look like? 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.240 With no Miles gas Can still on injury reserve, with 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.200 Matt Breeda not being active for this game, with Chandler 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.080 cox And and Jordan Howard both inactive as well, you've 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.600 got Savon Akhmed's second career game, DeAndre Washington just got 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.760 here twelve days ago, and then you've got second year 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.159 pro U d f A from last year, Patrick Laird, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.480 and these guys come together for a hundred eleven rushing yards, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.720 no sacks in the quarterback and they had what Ted 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.000 Carriss thought was their best rushing day, their best year 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.919 up front this season for the Miami Dolphins. Well, I 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.000 think that everyone's been working really hard. We've placed a 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.280 nemesis on the run game. We've been, uh, you know, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.280 not where we wanted to be um throughout the beach 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.280 start of this year, but head in the second half 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.000 the year, we really want to emphasize it. And I 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.280 think everyone you know, had their best game in the 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.840 run game. Savan had a great game, and everyone you know, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.200 did their job and it was a great unit effort 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.560 and team effort to win this game. And you heard 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.199 ted they're talking about Savon whyn't we go ahead? And 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.639 here from Zavon himself, who again was kind of the 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.280 bell cow on the day. I love the Dolphins and 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.360 rushing and rushing attempts and rushing yards had a touchdown 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.919 as well. Here's Savon Ackman on what's allowed him to 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.639 produce so quickly now just two games into his NFL 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.680 career eight six rushing yards and game number two. Love 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.800 this answer. I think Savon Akman is going to be 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.560 a guy that people start to gravitate towards in terms 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.880 of his press conferences because his are a lot of fun, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.280 you know, just just practicing hard and asking questions, you know, 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.679 not being not being too proud to ask questions. You know, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.679