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Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: five count them five twin win win win, five wins
Speaker 1: in a row and do you know what that's called? Street?
Speaker 1: That is in fact called a winning streak. Lou Brown,
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have won five games in a row. Special
Speaker 1: teams come up big once again, the defense heats up
Speaker 1: her burt and takes some of the shock out of
Speaker 1: the Chargers offense to to touchdowns, and a strong running
Speaker 1: game is enough for the fifth straight Dolphins win. We'll
Speaker 1: get to the stats, the takeaways, the clips from postgame pressers,
Speaker 1: individual notes and more, and we'll also welcome in John
Speaker 1: kN Jemmy to get his takeaways from the game. All
Speaker 1: of that more on this victory Monday, November sixte edition
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Speaker 1: And as we do weekly here becoming a weekly thing
Speaker 1: five weeks in a row on this victory Monday edition.
Speaker 1: Twin win, win win. That's right, that's five wins there
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Speaker 1: ahead and start as we do with the stats from
Speaker 1: this game. The Dolphins win the yardage battle by seven
Speaker 1: to eight to two seventy three. They outrush the Chargers
Speaker 1: one eleven to nine, Miami with one and sixty nine
Speaker 1: passing yards the Chargers with one seventy four. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: were five out of fourteen on third downs, the Chargers
Speaker 1: for for thirteen against this top Dolphins defense, one of
Speaker 1: the top five defenses on third down. Both teams had
Speaker 1: a takeaway. Miami had two sacks of Justin Herbert too,
Speaker 1: a tongue of Baloa did not take a sack in
Speaker 1: the game. Miami only had three penalties for fifteen yards,
Speaker 1: the Chargers had five for thirty one and the t
Speaker 1: op time of possession was almost a dead heat. Miami
Speaker 1: had it for six or thirty minutes and six seconds
Speaker 1: twelve seconds longer than the Chargers. I should say, thirty
Speaker 1: minutes and six seconds compared to twenty nine minutes and
Speaker 1: fifty four seconds of t op for the Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins plus seventy four point first half point differential
Speaker 1: is best in the NFL. Dolphins have now scored twenty
Speaker 1: one points in eight consecutive games this season. It is
Speaker 1: the longest such streak since an eight game regular season
Speaker 1: stretch in two thousand one, the last two games of
Speaker 1: that season and the first six game of two thousand two.
Speaker 1: The last time the Dolphins scored at least twenty one
Speaker 1: points in eight consecutive games within one single season was
Speaker 1: four We all know what happened then, Damn Reno through
Speaker 1: for five million yards and forty eight thousand touchdowns that
Speaker 1: season when that team score at least twenty one points
Speaker 1: in all sixteen games that year. So not there yet,
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins offense clicking right now. Eighth straight games
Speaker 1: of over twenty one points the best since in one
Speaker 1: single season. And to kind of help us set up
Speaker 1: the takeaway segment of this victory Monday edition of Drive Time,
Speaker 1: a couple of storylines I was keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: heading into this football game, I was really curious to
Speaker 1: see how Miami's rush package would attack Justin Herbert and
Speaker 1: kind of try to put pressure on the young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Would they go heavy and blocks the crap out of him?
Speaker 1: Would they play coverage and try to force him to
Speaker 1: maybe play more quarterback and make more decisive reads and
Speaker 1: kind of stand in the pocket and make plays that way. Well,
Speaker 1: it was a good mix of both those things. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that plenty here on this edition of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast. I was also curious by how much they
Speaker 1: played two deep safeties in this game, some of at
Speaker 1: some mud cover one, some cover zero. Again, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that. Did they spread it out with more receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends since the running back experience In the game,
Speaker 1: we had a rookie who was in a second career
Speaker 1: game in the NFL, a second year player and undrafted
Speaker 1: rookie last season or undrafted player last season, Patrick Laird,
Speaker 1: and a newcomer in DeAndrea Washington who got here twelve
Speaker 1: days ago. Would they go after the receivers and tight ends.
Speaker 1: I was curious to take a look at that. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that. How would they replace Preston Williams reps
Speaker 1: with running backs, tight ends, receivers. Curious about that as well,
Speaker 1: and also the starting offensive line, which went Austin Jackson,
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss, Solomon Kinley, and Jesse Davis at
Speaker 1: right tackle. Let's go ahead and open this thing up
Speaker 1: with my five takeaways, and we do start with takeaway
Speaker 1: number one. I teased it in the open there. The
Speaker 1: defensive game plan and the mix of looks on defense,
Speaker 1: both in the secondary and up front. Zero pressure, too
Speaker 1: high safety looks. You get a three and out out
Speaker 1: of that look and then a punt on another drive
Speaker 1: one drive later, and then you come back on the
Speaker 1: following drive it's third and twelve. You go seven man
Speaker 1: pressure cover zero and the throw sales high over the target.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of pressure you put on teams with
Speaker 1: those looks. They have to play it perfectly to beat
Speaker 1: you from a red standpoint, from a protection standpoint, from
Speaker 1: a route standpoint, one false step, one slip, that thing
Speaker 1: is busted and it's over. The quarterback has to see
Speaker 1: it unfold correctly in that quick blur that he has,
Speaker 1: and then he has to be perfect from an accuracy standpoint.
Speaker 1: And that's guys, That's why you bring in all these
Speaker 1: different guys with rush skills combined with something else. Right.
Speaker 1: It's Jerome Baker who can rush but also cover. Same
Speaker 1: with Camu gruge Hill, he Landed Roberts can rush the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That guy has been coming clean once a week, it
Speaker 1: seems like the last five or six games. He can
Speaker 1: also go in there and knock the absolute paint off
Speaker 1: the helmet of the opposition. In the running game. Van Ginkle,
Speaker 1: he can rush, he can cover, he can block punts,
Speaker 1: he can defend the run. Kyle van Noy does everything.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogback can beat you outside, inside, power, secondary, move,
Speaker 1: redirect underneath. I mean with Emmanuel Ogba. He's now got
Speaker 1: a sack in six consecutive games, which is the tied
Speaker 1: for second longest streak in the history of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Back in two thousand to Jason Taylor had eight games
Speaker 1: in a row with a sack. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: Manuel Ogba here in just one second. Shack Lawson, who
Speaker 1: can play the run on the way to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: You've got all these guys that fulfill different roles. They
Speaker 1: don't really have a true position, and this causes absolute
Speaker 1: headaches because the quarterback cannot identify who is what? Who
Speaker 1: the hell is he gonna call the mike. Who's he
Speaker 1: gonna identify as a pair of defensive tackles in their
Speaker 1: their alignment, whether they're in double two techniques, they got
Speaker 1: a nose tackle, they go one and a three technique,
Speaker 1: whatever they are, those guys can fall back into coverage.
Speaker 1: And even now we're starting to see a guy like
Speaker 1: Benito Jones and Jason Strowbridge, who's gonna come up here?
Speaker 1: In the later takeaway and one quick at side on
Speaker 1: Jason Strowbridge, Mary and Hobby talked about him a comment
Speaker 1: back in training camp saying we're gonna need him at
Speaker 1: some point. Might not be Week one, might not be
Speaker 1: Week two, but he's put together a couple of good
Speaker 1: games with a few package of plays that I've been
Speaker 1: impressed with with Jason Strowbridge. But you go back to
Speaker 1: the last play of the third quarter of the Jason
Speaker 1: Strowbridge play, where the Dolphins are giving up a little
Speaker 1: bit of ground in the running game, but they've been
Speaker 1: tightening up on other reps. They go ahead and throw
Speaker 1: a little game with Strowbridge, who gets a tackle for
Speaker 1: lost for negative two yards where he loops around Benito Jones,
Speaker 1: who just fires off the snap and gets immediate knock
Speaker 1: back and instant penetration, causing someone to kind of tell
Speaker 1: off with him, and Strowbridge loops around. I mean, a
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick this year, a U d f
Speaker 1: A this year, creating big plays through the scheme as
Speaker 1: the Dolphins go with a little twist or stunt up
Speaker 1: front to make that happen, and just the marriage of
Speaker 1: the scheme and the position these guys are putting these
Speaker 1: players in and the execution of the players. I mean, truthfully,
Speaker 1: the only drive where I sat in that press box
Speaker 1: and thought they're gonna score on this drive was the
Speaker 1: one after the failed snap slash fumble return for Nick
Speaker 1: Vigil And that's really it. Maybe at the end of
Speaker 1: the game of the Dolphins were up two scores and
Speaker 1: you kind of play lighter and try to prevent the
Speaker 1: big play from happening. Maybe then, but at that point,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if you have to get an onside kick,
Speaker 1: you've got a long way to go to win the
Speaker 1: football game. But even on the drive that started like
Speaker 1: the what forty seven yard line, if I'm being truthful,
Speaker 1: I genuinely thought on that play that two was tackle
Speaker 1: was gonna save at least four points on that drive
Speaker 1: because of my faith and not just the players on
Speaker 1: the field, the coaches on the sideline, but the marriage
Speaker 1: of those two together and how they're mixing up this
Speaker 1: scheme with the talent they have. And just real quick,
Speaker 1: a quick aside on that point, talking about that fumble
Speaker 1: that got ran back into Dolphins territory. Let's hear what
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss had to say about that tackle. That to
Speaker 1: a tongue of Valoa maide on that play, it's it's
Speaker 1: the privilege of a lifetime to play with guys that
Speaker 1: play with effort like that. I mean, how much better
Speaker 1: praise can you give a young man than talking about
Speaker 1: the effort and the privilege of a lifetime. I just
Speaker 1: thought that was a really cool moment and the postgame
Speaker 1: presser from Ted Carriss. But back to the defensive structure.
Speaker 1: They do that pressure. Look, they bring seven guys, they
Speaker 1: played cover zero, they drop eight and rush three. They
Speaker 1: rotate single too high, they go man coverage, they go
Speaker 1: cover one, cover three, cover six, buzz whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got everything under the sun in this playbook,
Speaker 1: and maybe it took two or three weeks to kind
Speaker 1: of get this thing finally tuned and communicated, but my god,
Speaker 1: they are and it's just been a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to watch so far. You heard the veterans in the
Speaker 1: cornerback Room Byron Jones, Bobby McCain, Eric Rowe, some of
Speaker 1: those guys talk about how these young guys are doing
Speaker 1: good to come along and they're putting the work in
Speaker 1: to get themselves in position to make an impact both
Speaker 1: in their limited roles on their Special Teams roles, but
Speaker 1: in the future as well. They're putting that mental work in.
Speaker 1: But the veteran communication they have on that back end
Speaker 1: has been very valuable and it definitely shows out there
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. I put a note here for
Speaker 1: you Land and Roberts because I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: a note over the winning streak. How well this guy
Speaker 1: has played. Seems like every single week he's been making
Speaker 1: this play where he's instinctively shooting into the backfield, blowing
Speaker 1: up blocks, throwing guys off the side. But he also
Speaker 1: just works around guys too in the blocking game. And
Speaker 1: Brian Flores always says, you can beat blocks in a
Speaker 1: variety of ways. You don't have to just go in
Speaker 1: there and slam your head into a wall. That seems
Speaker 1: to be a focal point for this defense this year,
Speaker 1: beating blocks and doing it in different ways, and they're
Speaker 1: getting that job done. Takeaway number two communication We talked
Speaker 1: about it in the secondary, the constant communication of that
Speaker 1: bat group, and really the number take number two takeaway
Speaker 1: here from me is the defensive backs are as advertised.
Speaker 1: Man Eric Row and Bobby mccame the Charger's longest play
Speaker 1: in this game prior to the Mike Williams twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard play or something like that on that final drive.
Speaker 1: I talked about where they had to score, get an
Speaker 1: on site kick, and score a game on that. Before
Speaker 1: that drive, the twenty eight year played to Mike Williams,
Speaker 1: their longest play was seventeen yards to Hunter Henry. They're
Speaker 1: playing that deep ball well and they're not getting a
Speaker 1: whole lot up underneath either. And the Charges were trying
Speaker 1: to get some of these route concepts up the field
Speaker 1: where you would see switches towards the top of the field.
Speaker 1: I was keeping an eye on it because that's one
Speaker 1: thing you can watch live you can't see on the
Speaker 1: television all the time. Is the way the deep routes unfold.
Speaker 1: And I watched it in this game and they were
Speaker 1: trying to shoot the ball down field. They have multiple
Speaker 1: guys down there, and Herbert would check that two man
Speaker 1: route combination deep and just check the thing off underneath,
Speaker 1: because there's Bobby McCain running everything off of the past
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, exaviing Howard, Nick Needle, whoever might have been
Speaker 1: running that thing underneath trail, getting it right into the
Speaker 1: help and really funneling and bracketing that particular deep shot
Speaker 1: option they might have there. You just constantly, constantly see
Speaker 1: these two safeties Rowan McCain having quality communication, rotating getting
Speaker 1: there there. There's not really any bus to happen where
Speaker 1: some guy runs free in the secondary and scores a
Speaker 1: long touchdown. It's just it's just not happening right now.
Speaker 1: And the cornerbacks up front, exaving Howard, he does what
Speaker 1: he does every single week, a huge interception in this
Speaker 1: game to really swing a momentum back in the favor
Speaker 1: of your Miami Dolphins. Byron Jones again, rarely ever gets
Speaker 1: his name even called, but the tackle he had on
Speaker 1: Jalen Guiton on a third and twelve. He picks up
Speaker 1: nine yards on the play. It's a straight crosser and
Speaker 1: Jones already has outside leverage where he's lined up on
Speaker 1: the outside shoulder of Guiton, and he's gonna run a
Speaker 1: straight crosser. And when you're in man coverage and that
Speaker 1: guy can run as fast as Jalen Guiton can run,
Speaker 1: it is tough because you basically have to run him
Speaker 1: down from behind, catch up to him, and get him
Speaker 1: to the ground short of the sticks. That is a tough,
Speaker 1: tough ask, but Jones runs it down flawlessly. That is
Speaker 1: such a big play right around midfield, getting close to
Speaker 1: the logo there at midfield. He tracks him down and
Speaker 1: forces the Chargers punting team onto the field a couple
Speaker 1: more first downs. Maybe they're in field goal range. Maybe
Speaker 1: he gets a bigger play out of that if Jones
Speaker 1: can't make the tackle, So big time play there from
Speaker 1: Byron Jones. We talked about the communication. It's just been
Speaker 1: so much fun to watch these guys play. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and hear from xaviing Howard about the marriage of
Speaker 1: coverage and pass rush really working together right now, and
Speaker 1: that's something the players have talked about quite a bit
Speaker 1: in the past, but I wanted to ask xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: because it looked like to me from my vantage point
Speaker 1: that Emmanuel Ogba had a big pressure on his interception.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask xaviing Howard how much confidence
Speaker 1: playing with that pass rush knowing these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: get home quickly, how much that helps them play aggressive
Speaker 1: on the back end, and how it might help generate
Speaker 1: turnovers for a guy like xaviing Howard, who's five picks
Speaker 1: right now in the NFL lead the entire national football
Speaker 1: You know, that's the way the coaches and the guys,
Speaker 1: that's how they want us to play and be aggressive
Speaker 1: no matter what. So you know, everything working together and
Speaker 1: everybody making play, that's what it's all about on the defense.
Speaker 1: So they're playing aggressive up front, they're getting pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback and the back end. Eric Robe, Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: Savian Howard, Byron Jones, Nick need him, Brandon Jones. These
Speaker 1: guys are out there making plays. It's been awesome to
Speaker 1: watch this defense come together here in the middle part
Speaker 1: of the season. The third takeaway, let's go to the
Speaker 1: offensive side for some of their schematics. We see plenty
Speaker 1: of wildcat action out there, and that's just stuff you
Speaker 1: can continue to build off that the course of the season,
Speaker 1: throwing some wrinkols and really just put plenty of stuff
Speaker 1: on tape. Make the defense prepare for everything you offer.
Speaker 1: We've seen some RPO pops to have puts that thing
Speaker 1: in their rides out the mesh point, pulls it back,
Speaker 1: throws a dart to either Mike a Sicki or Tavante Parker.
Speaker 1: They've got built in deep shots they can take off
Speaker 1: this thing where too are just kind of goes down
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, keys the sea the safety.
Speaker 1: If he shades one side, go the other direction. That's
Speaker 1: been cool to watch that screened down the red going
Speaker 1: to put Miami at the one yard line before the
Speaker 1: Dirham Smith touchdown. I thought that was a really cool design.
Speaker 1: You get some space down there, he gives Savon augmentsive
Speaker 1: opportunity some space to run with rather and then you
Speaker 1: get the touchdown on the throwback to Derham Smith, which
Speaker 1: was just sheer brilliance with a heavy package, especially after
Speaker 1: your first touchdown of the game off the blocked punt
Speaker 1: to Savan Akhmed. They show a very similar formation. You've
Speaker 1: got the heavy package. Here comes Julian Davenport and Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt into the package to get you that smash one
Speaker 1: yard you need on the ground, right, Well, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: did that at first. They even put Solomon Kinley's big
Speaker 1: butt back there at full back and he leads the
Speaker 1: way up for a touchdown run from Savon Akhmed. So
Speaker 1: they go back to the heavy package look and they
Speaker 1: sneak Derham Smith underneath the formation. And a lot of
Speaker 1: times that tight end will go to the backside and
Speaker 1: try to block off that backside of the formation. It's
Speaker 1: called split zone action when you have the tight end
Speaker 1: running against the formation. Well, he shows that action, but
Speaker 1: just leaks out into the flat and there's nobody out
Speaker 1: there because everybody thought that was gonna be a running play.
Speaker 1: I think myself included. Everybody in that press box include it.
Speaker 1: And they spring the wide up and touchdown pass from
Speaker 1: two uh to Derma Smith, the easiest touchdown too will
Speaker 1: throw in his entire career. And with that touchdown, Smith
Speaker 1: now has two receptions in the end zone on the season,
Speaker 1: and he joins fellow Dolphins tight ends Mike Sicky, who's
Speaker 1: got two touchdowns and Adam Shaheen who's got two touchdowns
Speaker 1: with multiple TV catches this season. The last time the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had three tight ends each have multiple touchdown catches
Speaker 1: in a season we went back to earlier. We're going
Speaker 1: back to five with Bruce Hardy and Joe Rose who
Speaker 1: both caught four and Dan Johnson caught three touchdowns that season.
Speaker 1: Back to the offensive scheme, Let's go ahead and here
Speaker 1: with the quarterback to a tongue of Baloa has to
Speaker 1: say or what he thinks about Chan Gailey in this
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive system. To be honest, I think Chan's just
Speaker 1: finding ways to put guys in certain areas or certain
Speaker 1: positions to become successful. We're trying to put guys defensively
Speaker 1: in a bind um to where we can take advantage
Speaker 1: of them. Um and yeah, I think up to this point, um,
Speaker 1: we to continue to execute on those things. But it's
Speaker 1: still a work in progress. So we'll continue to look
Speaker 1: at the film when it comes times tomorrow and continue
Speaker 1: to grow from there. We're gonna hear from We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear about two a tonk of by later on the
Speaker 1: show with John con Jemmy. But first I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and just play another quick aside for you guys.
Speaker 1: Some audio from to Ah. The very last question of
Speaker 1: his press conference, he was asked about the first throw
Speaker 1: of the game to Mike Asiki, a twenty three yard
Speaker 1: rip on the move, and he kind of broke the
Speaker 1: play down for us. I just thought it was cool
Speaker 1: to listen to him and the recall he had on
Speaker 1: the very first play of the game. Here's two, what's
Speaker 1: recall on the first past to Mike Asiki. Well, knowing
Speaker 1: I got out free and there wasn't a rusher in
Speaker 1: my face, I was able to decipher, you know, what
Speaker 1: that corner was gonna do. If he's gonna stay back,
Speaker 1: take Mike on the flag, or he's gonna step up
Speaker 1: and take Savan on the flat um, you know, and
Speaker 1: kept going out. He made his decision and you know,
Speaker 1: just stuck to my rules and gave Mike a chance.
Speaker 1: And Mike did make the play when he got that chance.
Speaker 1: There another player who made his the most of his
Speaker 1: chances was Savan Akhmed damn near popped a hundred yards
Speaker 1: in this game. Why up with eighties six had a
Speaker 1: couple of losses. They're late to kind of push him
Speaker 1: back and this was the thing that I was kind
Speaker 1: of watching for, just like the four man pressure looks
Speaker 1: combined with the zero pressure looks they would show was
Speaker 1: what was the running back position going to look like?
Speaker 1: With no Miles gas Can still on injury reserve, with
Speaker 1: Matt Breeda not being active for this game, with Chandler
Speaker 1: cox And and Jordan Howard both inactive as well, you've
Speaker 1: got Savon Akhmed's second career game, DeAndre Washington just got
Speaker 1: here twelve days ago, and then you've got second year
Speaker 1: pro U d f A from last year, Patrick Laird,
Speaker 1: and these guys come together for a hundred eleven rushing yards,
Speaker 1: no sacks in the quarterback and they had what Ted
Speaker 1: Carriss thought was their best rushing day, their best year
Speaker 1: up front this season for the Miami Dolphins. Well, I
Speaker 1: think that everyone's been working really hard. We've placed a
Speaker 1: nemesis on the run game. We've been, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: not where we wanted to be um throughout the beach
Speaker 1: start of this year, but head in the second half
Speaker 1: the year, we really want to emphasize it. And I
Speaker 1: think everyone you know, had their best game in the
Speaker 1: run game. Savan had a great game, and everyone you know,
Speaker 1: did their job and it was a great unit effort
Speaker 1: and team effort to win this game. And you heard
Speaker 1: ted they're talking about Savon whyn't we go ahead? And
Speaker 1: here from Zavon himself, who again was kind of the
Speaker 1: bell cow on the day. I love the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: rushing and rushing attempts and rushing yards had a touchdown
Speaker 1: as well. Here's Savon Ackman on what's allowed him to
Speaker 1: produce so quickly now just two games into his NFL
Speaker 1: career eight six rushing yards and game number two. Love
Speaker 1: this answer. I think Savon Akman is going to be
Speaker 1: a guy that people start to gravitate towards in terms
Speaker 1: of his press conferences because his are a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: you know, just just practicing hard and asking questions, you know,
Speaker 1: not being not being too proud to ask questions. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of older guys in that room and
Speaker 1: a lot of guys on this team that you know
Speaker 1: that want to help, especially guys, you know, young guys
Speaker 1: like me first year. Um, you know, this this team
Speaker 1: is a family. So you know, I just asked a
Speaker 1: lot of questions and you know, go out there and
Speaker 1: attack practice the best. I here so that's your third takeaway.
Speaker 1: There the offensive schematics and some running game progress and
Speaker 1: too a tongue about Loa talking at the chemistry and
Speaker 1: the scheme there with Chan Gailey. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: jump into our fourth takeaway, and it's got to be
Speaker 1: the special teams, right. This team continues to make big
Speaker 1: plays every single week on special teams. We start this
Speaker 1: game off with a blocked punt. Ball winds up at
Speaker 1: the one yard line, and I wanted to say in
Speaker 1: the podcast, and I'm not one for predictions on the podcast,
Speaker 1: I told my buddy He's I tagged it on Twitter,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are gonna have a blocked punt in this game.
Speaker 1: I felt it was coming. They were getting close. This
Speaker 1: is an opportunity to make a big play in the
Speaker 1: kicking game, and boy did they. That was fun to see.
Speaker 1: Puts the ball on the one yard line, get the
Speaker 1: touchdown right away off of that. Jachem Grant has pump
Speaker 1: returns of eighteen nineteen twenty one yards, a fifty yard
Speaker 1: field goal from Jason Sanders, which gets his streak all
Speaker 1: the way up to twenty two consecutive and nineteen made
Speaker 1: kicks this year without a field goal miss. He would
Speaker 1: then later miss a field goal in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but he then started the streak back over again one
Speaker 1: consecutive made field goal with a fourty nine yard kick
Speaker 1: there to help Miami get that lead. Late in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Matt Hawk had a sixty two yard punt
Speaker 1: and the return man allowed this thing to draw. It
Speaker 1: turned over and over and rolled down. It's had the
Speaker 1: five yard line and it was cooking, and mac Hollins
Speaker 1: ran his butt down there and grabbed that thing, threw
Speaker 1: it back into the field of play. Get them down
Speaker 1: at the five yard line. That then turns into a
Speaker 1: jakeem Grant twenty one yard kick return and then the
Speaker 1: fifty yard field go there from Jason Sanders. So the
Speaker 1: special teams just stacking up all these good plays. Had
Speaker 1: a couple of kickoffs that penned the Chargers deep, one
Speaker 1: at the fifteen or the fourteen rather brought back half
Speaker 1: a distance to the seven yard line. Another one later
Speaker 1: in the game right around the fifteen yard line as well.
Speaker 1: So kicking, game, punning, game, kickoff, game coverage units, return team,
Speaker 1: they're all just getting the job done. And let's go ahead,
Speaker 1: and actually here from coach Flores, on the blocked punt,
Speaker 1: and just in general the value of the kicking game
Speaker 1: and how this team has kind of taken it upon
Speaker 1: themselves to to play well in the third phase of
Speaker 1: the game. Then crossing my special since coordinator comes up
Speaker 1: with some schemes every weekend. You know, we don't get
Speaker 1: to run it all the time, but we have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get that run early. You're invested with it,
Speaker 1: and you know, like you said, we had some a
Speaker 1: little bit of shift in motion moving guys around, and
Speaker 1: we felt like, you know, there was an opportunity to
Speaker 1: maybe get a rush. We got it, but the big
Speaker 1: thing is executing it. Oftentimes, you you can draw something
Speaker 1: up and it it hits the way you wanted to hit,
Speaker 1: whether it's a run play, a past play at defense,
Speaker 1: but didn't gotta make the play. So it's a great
Speaker 1: block and a recovery and it's great to punch it in.
Speaker 1: So that was my question for coach. You heard him
Speaker 1: say you had mentioned that we had a shift and
Speaker 1: some things move around there. There was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a late shift there before the snap where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins got to look, like coach mentioned, they go ahead
Speaker 1: and make that call and make that rush and get
Speaker 1: the big block, the big payoff there on the back
Speaker 1: side of that thing. Really really cool to see the
Speaker 1: way that worked out. The fifth and final takeaway here
Speaker 1: total team football, and this is what I'm talking about
Speaker 1: with complimentary. We're gonna talk about it later with John
Speaker 1: kN Jemmy. Two sequences to start and close the game,
Speaker 1: and we'll go ahead and put a third one in
Speaker 1: there as well, and not officially the close of the game.
Speaker 1: The drive got the football back from Miami. The Nick
Speaker 1: need Um sack to open the game, you get Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba condenses inside, rushes inside, gets a pressure on Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert forces him to flee to his right, and there's
Speaker 1: Nick need Hum on the blitz. You forced the quarterback
Speaker 1: to go where the pressure comes from, and that's how
Speaker 1: they got him on this one got him down and
Speaker 1: that was kind of playing off the previous takeaway. They
Speaker 1: get a late blitz, I guess what you want to
Speaker 1: call it, where the jammer, the guy that jams the
Speaker 1: gunner kind of creates a void for Andrew Van Ginkle.
Speaker 1: Maybe the punter catches that with his eye and says,
Speaker 1: oh man, I gotta hurry up. This operation forces them
Speaker 1: to drop the football there and get you that punt
Speaker 1: on the low or the punt block on the low snap.
Speaker 1: Then the Dolphins come back out and go heavy with
Speaker 1: kim Ley at fullback and Savon Akhmed walks in for
Speaker 1: a one yard touchdown. So meet him an og ballon defense,
Speaker 1: Fan Ginkl and Jamal Perry and the rest of the
Speaker 1: punt team getting the ball back on the punt team, Solomon, Kimley,
Speaker 1: savan Akhmed, all these guys from different parts of the
Speaker 1: team coming in contributing to make that big play, total
Speaker 1: team football to get that seven points on the board
Speaker 1: the defensive series the very end of the game, the
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard pick. Big time players make big time plays
Speaker 1: in big time games. Right Emmanuel Ogba gets the sack
Speaker 1: on the previous play, coming off the block where he
Speaker 1: has to use his eyes. He he locks up the
Speaker 1: right tackle. Brian Bologa, one of the games best for
Speaker 1: a long time, locks him up, sees Herbert trying to
Speaker 1: flee up through that b gap off the left shoulder
Speaker 1: of that right tackle inside, he disengages, gets him down
Speaker 1: for the sack. Keep your eyes in the quarterback, make
Speaker 1: a big play Awesome work again for Emmanuel Ogba. That
Speaker 1: play was set up by the Strowbridge tackle for lost
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier in the podcast, and then Exaviing
Speaker 1: Howard jumps it and gets a pick because of more
Speaker 1: pressure from Manuel Ogba which forces an early throw, gets
Speaker 1: the football out, and then X, like he does game
Speaker 1: in and game out, makes the big game changing pick.
Speaker 1: And then we finish up with the final four and
Speaker 1: out of the game to to really seal this victory
Speaker 1: and get the Dolphins in the victory formation. Zack Seiler
Speaker 1: with the retrace on a play away from him, he
Speaker 1: comes down and bears that thing down. That's why I
Speaker 1: tweeted out that Zack Seiler is a bad, bad dude
Speaker 1: because he just buried that guy on a big hit.
Speaker 1: You get a big tackle off the edge by a
Speaker 1: cornerback I think it was Byron Jones. Will have to
Speaker 1: check the tape, and then you get the Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 1: pressure to force the incompletion on the final down. So
Speaker 1: they just continue to make these plays together and stack
Speaker 1: up good plays together, and I think that's a credit
Speaker 1: to what type of team this team is. As coach
Speaker 1: Flores says, as much as they play for each other
Speaker 1: so dang much. How they're hungry for each other. I
Speaker 1: think that string of plays can be traced to that,
Speaker 1: because that momentum builds and the opportunities gets guys charged
Speaker 1: up and they're talented and well coached enough to make
Speaker 1: those plays. Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flores
Speaker 1: and what he thinks about his football team right now.
Speaker 1: I love this one. We have a manly, tough team.
Speaker 1: I think I think this this team, they know that
Speaker 1: it's important. You know, it's a week to week league.
Speaker 1: How we prepare, how we practice, how we walk through
Speaker 1: it is a direct correlation how we how we play.
Speaker 1: I think I think they understand that no there's there's
Speaker 1: This is a hungry group. They they fight for each other.
Speaker 1: It's important to them. They're competitive, so so they work
Speaker 1: at it and understanding the fruits of that labor out
Speaker 1: on the field. It wasn't perfect. We know we had
Speaker 1: a long way to go. We know it's hard to
Speaker 1: win this league, and we just take it one game
Speaker 1: at a time. We were not looking down the road.
Speaker 1: We're looking at you know, the next day, the next meeting,
Speaker 1: the next practice, and just trying to take it one
Speaker 1: day at a time, and I think that's the approach,
Speaker 1: that that's my message to the team on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: and hopefully they're they're, they're, they're, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: listening to it. And I think that's probably the best
Speaker 1: approach and that has been the approach for us Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. Still a long way to go, seven games
Speaker 1: left in the schedule, but your Miami Dolphins six and
Speaker 1: three the first nine games. That's the first time that's
Speaker 1: happened since the two thousand one season. So enjoy this
Speaker 1: hot start. Enjoy it so far. Before you get to
Speaker 1: John Knjemmy here for his three takeaways, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish up with some individual notes here. We'll talk
Speaker 1: more about the players on the Tuesday podcast with the
Speaker 1: Yeah the Tuesday All twenty two film review podcast, but
Speaker 1: just a couple of notes on to thought. The anticipation
Speaker 1: on the whip route from Jachim the pivot route in
Speaker 1: the end zone was a great read and great timing.
Speaker 1: He flashes his numbers to the quarterback. He shows that
Speaker 1: gets the ball right on time, and Jachem said afterwards,
Speaker 1: coaches told him all week just find that zone, sitting
Speaker 1: that soft zone and two is gonna find you with
Speaker 1: the football there, and that's exactly what happened. He also
Speaker 1: had some really nice anticipation throws to Jachim on the
Speaker 1: out routes where he's not out of the break yet,
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks kind of key in, the quarterback key and
Speaker 1: the receiver and he can drive on that thing. But
Speaker 1: there's a trust there, a chemistry they're developing between he
Speaker 1: and Jachim Grant on those out throws to really have
Speaker 1: that timing and dry them down to make those things
Speaker 1: happen and not have them get caught and ran back
Speaker 1: the other way because they're late, beat late on the
Speaker 1: timing on those throws. We talked about the GESICKI die
Speaker 1: on the rollout, the layers concept players coming over the
Speaker 1: formation two mentions getting out clean with the free rusher
Speaker 1: and just throws an absolute strike right there. Talked about
Speaker 1: the tackle on the on the bad fumble, on the
Speaker 1: fumble on the bad snap there as well, and then
Speaker 1: of course the play where he broke out of that
Speaker 1: sack and almost threw a touchdown downfield to Jakeem Grant.
Speaker 1: That would have been a highlight Reil play. Forever just
Speaker 1: missed that one but it gives you an idea of
Speaker 1: the twitch and ability to escape pressure and get off
Speaker 1: script and make plays that way as well. Had a
Speaker 1: nice couple of r P O rips one to Mike
Speaker 1: Kasicki right and stride, and I just thought he played
Speaker 1: a good game in general. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: again with John Conjemmi savan achmed to eighteen yard runs.
Speaker 1: That's awesome to see. I wrote down he just got
Speaker 1: really good balance where he can kind of stay on
Speaker 1: his feet with through contact. A good shifty player with
Speaker 1: good balance that way as well. At receiver DeVante, they
Speaker 1: catch on the fifty fifty ball on third and ten.
Speaker 1: That is vintage Davanta Parker. How cool is that to
Speaker 1: see Malcolm Perry had that crazy carrier where he reverses
Speaker 1: field out of the wildcat look looks like a loss
Speaker 1: of six winds up gaining six. You see some of
Speaker 1: his running ability that led to two thousand seventeen rushing
Speaker 1: yards at college last season. At tight end, I had
Speaker 1: Smithed with awesome down block, condensing the edge on one
Speaker 1: of the big Akmed runs. I also had Adam Shaheen
Speaker 1: with a good block to create a nice sea gap
Speaker 1: on another big savan Akman rud the offensive line. Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley had a crushing block on the touchdown. We talked
Speaker 1: about from the fullback position. I thought Eric Flowers played
Speaker 1: the hell of a football game, creating big lanes off
Speaker 1: the left side, getting some really good surge. I thought
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss had some good blocks as well where he
Speaker 1: created a plenty of surge upfront, and Austin Jackson and
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis as well getting some space off the edge,
Speaker 1: kind of closing that thing down for a pair of
Speaker 1: savan Akhmed runs as well. We talked about Emmanual aug Ball.
Speaker 1: He's in the notes every single week, collapse in the edge,
Speaker 1: getting his hands in the football, getting sacks. We talked
Speaker 1: about Zach Seeler. This guy's in the notes frequently early
Speaker 1: and often. TfL beats a block, forces running backs to bubble,
Speaker 1: gets knocked backs, gets pressure on the quarterback. I also
Speaker 1: thought Rap Kue Davis had a nice couple of snaps
Speaker 1: where he stacked things up and disengaging got himself in
Speaker 1: the backfield for some plays. Kyle van Nou left and
Speaker 1: came back in the game, had an injury to his hip.
Speaker 1: He was questionable to return he did come back. Love
Speaker 1: the way he cleans up runs in the in the
Speaker 1: running game and has his his his his run fits
Speaker 1: and his gap responsibility. Really he solid in that way
Speaker 1: every single week, talked about a landing Roberts fan Gigl
Speaker 1: had a huge quarterback hit on a third down to
Speaker 1: get the defense off the field at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half. My very first note of the game
Speaker 1: was awesome backside closed down from Brandon Jones for a
Speaker 1: tackle after three yards. Nick Needum had a pass breakup
Speaker 1: right after his sack when I later drive to help
Speaker 1: the defense get off the field, Exaving Howard, Eric Robe,
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, Byron Jones, all those guys making plays again
Speaker 1: as well. So this team getting it done on special teams,
Speaker 1: on offense, on defense. Check out the content on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com. We'll break this thing down more in
Speaker 1: depth on the All twenty two review. For now, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and turn this thing over to my good
Speaker 1: friend John Conjemmi of the Audible podcast for his three
Speaker 1: takeaways from Dolphins twenty nine Chargers and joining me now
Speaker 1: as he does every Sunday night, a tradition like no
Speaker 1: other here on Drive time with five consecutive wins for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. Is the co host of the audible
Speaker 1: podcast and John Conjemmi. John, how you doing tonight? I
Speaker 1: am doing great, man. Another uh, kind of kind of
Speaker 1: a nail biter, but not really. It was like a
Speaker 1: weird game to to kind of sit through because you
Speaker 1: felt good and then you felt kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: not so sure, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: felt secure. So it was a fun game at the
Speaker 1: end to really sit back and enjoy. One of the
Speaker 1: things I pointed out earlier on the podcast was that
Speaker 1: I never felt like stressed out that the defense is
Speaker 1: going to have a letdown or whatever until that fumble
Speaker 1: they picked up and ran back. But even then I
Speaker 1: was expecting them to get a stop and hold them
Speaker 1: the three points there. They did not, But like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the rest of the game, it just never really seemed
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins lost control of their that things were
Speaker 1: starting to avalanche in that direction. Maybe that's one of
Speaker 1: your three takeaways. I don't know. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start here though, first with your number one takeaway from
Speaker 1: Dolphins twenty nine, Chargers twenty one. John, Well, it's generating
Speaker 1: early momentum. I think the Dolphins have done an excellent
Speaker 1: job not only against uh the Chargers at home, but
Speaker 1: you know in the in the last month, they found
Speaker 1: ways either by offense, special teams, or defense to generate
Speaker 1: early momentum and get points or set up points by
Speaker 1: those exceptional plays. And Van Ginkle was uh the man
Speaker 1: on the spot today for the Miami Dolphins, not only
Speaker 1: pressuring the pocket many times and hitting the rookie Herbert,
Speaker 1: but also getting that block punt early which Jamal Perry
Speaker 1: recovers at the one, uh the offense and of line
Speaker 1: and Akmed punch it in from there, and you feel like, wow,
Speaker 1: those are those are found points that you weren't counting on,
Speaker 1: and it really just gives you a shot in the arm.
Speaker 1: It gives you the confidence to go ahead and say,
Speaker 1: we're gonna roll the dice on defense. We're gonna show
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. We're gonna leave the middle of
Speaker 1: the field uncovered. We're gonna get after the young quarterback
Speaker 1: and make him beat us. I think it kind of
Speaker 1: set up the Dolphins to play defense that block punt
Speaker 1: and special teams because Herbert was either gonna throw for
Speaker 1: four fifty and five touchdowns or he was gonna have
Speaker 1: a day like he had today was twenty for thirty
Speaker 1: two seven and most of those big chunkyards came in
Speaker 1: that last drive for the touchdowns. So it was that
Speaker 1: early momentum that kind of set the stage for the defense,
Speaker 1: kind of set the stage the way the offense was
Speaker 1: gonna play because you're stealing points in the first you know,
Speaker 1: five minutes of the game. Yeah, And like you mentioned there,
Speaker 1: you know, that's something that coach Flores has talked about
Speaker 1: in the past. He doesn't really concern himself with the
Speaker 1: stats because they don't always tell the full context of
Speaker 1: the game. I felt like Herbert, I mean, he just
Speaker 1: didn't have a good game, and coach said that we
Speaker 1: put him in position in that game to be kind
Speaker 1: of uncomfortable and have to go outside of that comfort zone.
Speaker 1: And I thought they just did a hell of a
Speaker 1: job on a quarterback who came into this game absolutely
Speaker 1: red hot. And you mentioned, you know, getting the unexpected
Speaker 1: points early. You and I are over here, like every
Speaker 1: game now, it seems like saying, wow, we're seven nothing,
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. By the end of the first half, we're
Speaker 1: up by a bunch of points. Last week two was
Speaker 1: fourth snap, he's got a seven zero lead. This week
Speaker 1: his second snap, he's got a seven zero lead. So,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, good points there, John, what is your
Speaker 1: second takeaway from this game. I just thought the Dolphins
Speaker 1: did a really good job of following up that early
Speaker 1: momentum by winning the hidden yards. I thought in special
Speaker 1: teams and in field position, the Dolphins had a clear
Speaker 1: advantage in the entire game. I thought, you can grant
Speaker 1: not only as a receiver, but as the punt returner,
Speaker 1: did an excellent job of flipping the field and moving uh,
Speaker 1: moving the ball up ten or fifteen and sometimes twenty yards.
Speaker 1: That's two big first downs. The two in the offense
Speaker 1: don't have to grind out. You know you're gonna have
Speaker 1: series where you're three and out. You just drop a
Speaker 1: pass or you're inaccurate with a thrower, you get stuff
Speaker 1: for a loss in a run. You need to find
Speaker 1: hidden yards, and I think the team did that really well.
Speaker 1: They won field position. I think in the first half
Speaker 1: they may have had five possessions that got it on
Speaker 1: the plus one. They had a minus forty four a
Speaker 1: plus forty seven. Uh, they were in pretty good field position.
Speaker 1: And then in the second half. I think they were
Speaker 1: in plus territory a couple of times again or around midfield,
Speaker 1: so they didn't have to go far for points, and
Speaker 1: they didn't have to go far to put a young
Speaker 1: quarterback in a hole and have them have to make
Speaker 1: a lot of plays to get in scoring positions. So
Speaker 1: I thought I thought the team did a really good
Speaker 1: job in the coaching staff did a really good job
Speaker 1: calling the game number one, but execution and putting the
Speaker 1: charges on a long field and on his short field defensively,
Speaker 1: that helped Miami to today. John, you mentioned the getting
Speaker 1: the two or three extra first downs because of the
Speaker 1: big returns and this at this point it's become a
Speaker 1: weekly thing with the special teams group, Like I think
Speaker 1: they have an argument for, if not one of the
Speaker 1: very best special teams unit top to bottom in the
Speaker 1: entire National Football League. And you mentioned those hidden yards.
Speaker 1: I was very adamant about that in my takeaway segment.
Speaker 1: How these big jackem Grant returns the big flip field
Speaker 1: on Matta hawk punts. As an as an offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: or offensive player or even anybody in the team in general,
Speaker 1: do you look at that like those two extra first
Speaker 1: downs and say that's more we can keep in our
Speaker 1: playbook in our back pocket and say for more critical
Speaker 1: downs because we don't have to have a drive starter
Speaker 1: here that gets us, like you mentioned, out to midfield.
Speaker 1: Does that kind of play in the mind of the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, I think you. I think it does because
Speaker 1: it doesn't apply unnecessary stress to the play caller and
Speaker 1: the quarterback on offense, and it doesn't apply unnecessary stress
Speaker 1: to a defensive coordinator when you're saying, hey, I gotta
Speaker 1: I have to try to create something to happen right
Speaker 1: now because they're on the verge of there in field
Speaker 1: goal range. You know, when you're teeing it up as
Speaker 1: a defense and the opposing offense as the ball on
Speaker 1: the twelve yard line, on the eighteen yard line, on
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line, you feel like you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna catch fire. You'll get your rhythm as a defense
Speaker 1: and as a play caller to get after the opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback or be able to have that luxury to give
Speaker 1: up a big explosive play it and not really get
Speaker 1: into field position where you're in scoring range already, so
Speaker 1: you have chances. And I think it applies to every
Speaker 1: phase of the game. It just takes that undue stress
Speaker 1: away from the play callers, and the undue stress away
Speaker 1: from the edge rusher or the corner that feels like
Speaker 1: he has to make a play, or the quarterback forcing
Speaker 1: the football. When you say, okay, we it didn't go
Speaker 1: real well, but we're still punning the football from our
Speaker 1: own thirty five or forty yard line. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna be three plays away from getting the ball back
Speaker 1: in excellent field positions. So don't worry about taking that
Speaker 1: gamble now, Let's extend the game a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: And it's so cliche to say every week that the
Speaker 1: team plays complementary of football. Every team on the face
Speaker 1: the planet wants to do it. But I mean you
Speaker 1: said it right there. They literally are every single week
Speaker 1: just play stack on top of each other. One unit
Speaker 1: picks up together unit. It's it's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to watch and a ton of fun right now to
Speaker 1: be around this team. John I I can't be more
Speaker 1: grateful for how my rookie season is going so far.
Speaker 1: It's been so much fun to watch this football. You
Speaker 1: should enjoy it. You should have seen the pain that
Speaker 1: I've suffered over the past years, and I was with
Speaker 1: you in spirit and and on my couch, just not
Speaker 1: there in the press box. But I can see how
Speaker 1: that would be a little more stressful. But man, it's
Speaker 1: it's been so much fun to watch. And with that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get your third takeaway from the
Speaker 1: dolphins fifth straight victory of this season. You know, I
Speaker 1: was torn a little bit on this because I thought
Speaker 1: there was you know, I thought too of made enough
Speaker 1: place to win. You know, he's three and oh as
Speaker 1: the starter, that could be a highlight, So you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention that. And I think this team
Speaker 1: is getting comfortable playing in any type of game. And
Speaker 1: I think that's my takeaway, uh, for my third one,
Speaker 1: because in tight football games, you gotta remember the Arizona
Speaker 1: game was it was back and forth. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, a tennis match, and you're just going, who's
Speaker 1: gonna you know, who's gonna hit the winner down the line,
Speaker 1: and who's gonna hit the drop shot to win this
Speaker 1: and just you know, and the and the set. That's
Speaker 1: what you felt like. And today you felt a little
Speaker 1: bit like the Dolphins are in control. But I'm not
Speaker 1: a hundred percent convinced, but they still played like they
Speaker 1: were in control. They didn't panic. You didn't see any
Speaker 1: any unnecessary uh penalties. You saw a couple of false starts,
Speaker 1: but three penalties for fifteen yards. That's a win. I
Speaker 1: just feel feel like this team is getting comfortable playing
Speaker 1: in places where they weren't comfortable in the past. And
Speaker 1: I think that goes from the top down, from ownership,
Speaker 1: the way that this this organization's run, to the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: the way the coaches and the assistance, the way they
Speaker 1: run practice, the way they're demanding on whether you're a
Speaker 1: pro bowler or you're a rookie, here's the standard. Come
Speaker 1: out and do it every day. And I think it's
Speaker 1: carrying over or at least it's starting to bleed into
Speaker 1: Sundays because this team is playing that way. Hey, big
Speaker 1: play doesn't phase us. Come back and let's do it
Speaker 1: in in two other phases of the game. We'll catch
Speaker 1: up and we'll find a way to win. That's fun
Speaker 1: to watch as a fan, and it's fun to watch
Speaker 1: these guys go out and start stacking the wins together.
Speaker 1: So I guess getting there getting comfortable playing winning football,
Speaker 1: and it's not always twenty one nothing. Some games are
Speaker 1: tighter than others, and they have to find ways to win.
Speaker 1: And I think they're getting comfortable doing that. And coach
Speaker 1: Flores says much post game that the way these guys
Speaker 1: apply themselves in practice, the walk throughs, the meetings, that's
Speaker 1: a direct correlation to what you're seeing on the field,
Speaker 1: and they understand that they're hungry for each other. Again,
Speaker 1: just more fun with his football team. And you also
Speaker 1: mentioned the I'm glad you mentioned two of there, because
Speaker 1: I also get this sense. And this goes back to
Speaker 1: his college days. I mean, obviously the first college game
Speaker 1: he played. I always feel, you know, as someone watching
Speaker 1: two down on the field and I don't have any
Speaker 1: control over what's going on. I always feel the utmost
Speaker 1: confidence when the offense has to have it. You know,
Speaker 1: last week we saw in the Arizona game. This week
Speaker 1: the Chargers go down an answer and it's fourteen, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the offense needs an answer and
Speaker 1: they go out there and get a field goal. So
Speaker 1: I just I always feel like there is some semblance
Speaker 1: of control when when you know the big, the big
Speaker 1: pressure moments, he seems to rise to them. So five
Speaker 1: straight wins. John, we got a game next week on
Speaker 1: the road in Denver, hopefully another victory for us on
Speaker 1: the next Sunday Night recap podcast, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: again in two weeks, my friend, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Your help sounds great. Travis, thank you and the way
Speaker 1: he goes John Kin Jemmy of the Audible podcast love
Speaker 1: talking football with John, both on the press box at
Speaker 1: the practice field and here on the Sunday Night slash
Speaker 1: Monday morning edition the victory edition of the Drivetime podcast.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, that's gonna be my time. What a
Speaker 1: great day this was. I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: watch the Cardinals and Bills ending, yet it was on
Speaker 1: the red zone at the press box, like I wasn't
Speaker 1: quite watching because I was writing my story and doing
Speaker 1: the postgame presses with coach and the players. So I
Speaker 1: saw the result, but I haven't seen the play yet.
Speaker 1: It's about nine ten o'clock here on the East Coast
Speaker 1: recording this podcast. I'm excited to watch the rest of
Speaker 1: the Ravens and Patriots game, but I cannot wait to
Speaker 1: watch the highlights because I didn't see that play. But
Speaker 1: the Dolphins get their fifth straight victory. Go ahead and
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