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Speaker 3: The wide Dolphin touchdown, tyrequel, uncolievable, just.
Speaker 2: Blue fire for a second time. Don't know where he
Speaker 2: was going right away. I want to hit that there, man.
Speaker 4: I'm want to help you.
Speaker 2: Someone will keep on your bandwagon. Wattle, Wattle to a shotgun,
Speaker 2: back to throw, looking at them up fires touchdown. It's
Speaker 2: Waddle his sixth touchdown paradoun of this day.
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Speaker 5: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 5: the Dolphins win to improve to seven and three, a
Speaker 5: twenty to thirteen victory over the Las Vegas Raiders. And
Speaker 5: you guys know what time.
Speaker 4: It is when win?
Speaker 2: When winn Dolphins?
Speaker 5: I have a chance to make it eight and three
Speaker 5: with two wins and five days with a victory on Friday,
Speaker 5: But we're not gonna get to that. We're gonna talk
Speaker 5: about Dolphins twenty thirteen over Las Vegas. The game script,
Speaker 5: the play before the play, of the stats, the takeaways.
Speaker 5: We'll hear from McDaniel, Tua, Chubb, Ramsey, and Phillips all
Speaker 5: on the mic from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 5: Baptist Health Training Complex.
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Speaker 5: Dolphins and it was twenty one more first downs for
Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins day. They out first down the Raiders
Speaker 5: twenty one to twelve. Both team's not very successful on
Speaker 5: third down, Miami just three for eleven, the Raiders four
Speaker 5: for fourteen. Raiders were also oh for two on fourth
Speaker 5: Miami oh for one on theirs a turnover on downs
Speaker 5: inside the five yard line. Tough pill to swallow down there,
Speaker 5: but four hundred and twenty two yards of offense to
Speaker 5: two ninety six. The Dolphins ran the ball for almost
Speaker 5: three times as many yards as the Raiders, ninety nine
Speaker 5: to thirty six. And the Dolphins also ran nine more
Speaker 5: plays in Las Vegas. So fifty nine plays for your
Speaker 5: defense on a short week is always nice to have.
Speaker 5: That both teams turn the ball over three times. Bit
Speaker 5: of a sloppy game the Dolphins took one sack and
Speaker 5: got Aiden O'Connor to the turf two times, both by
Speaker 5: Jalen Phillips. Both teams had five penalties forty four yards
Speaker 5: for Miami forty one for the Raiders, and the Dolphins
Speaker 5: had the football for thirty two minutes and fifteen seconds
Speaker 5: in this game, and it started off not great. The
Speaker 5: Dolphins defense got a stop right away a first down
Speaker 5: on the opening play that I thought was a good
Speaker 5: job by the Raiders of kind of playing into their
Speaker 5: tendency breakers. You know, Antonio Pierce has come out and
Speaker 5: told you that they want to run the football and
Speaker 5: be physical and be that team. And all they do
Speaker 5: is pull the ball out on the first play and
Speaker 5: run a little play action boot and get a wide
Speaker 5: open tight end on an under route for seventeen yards.
Speaker 5: But then it was back to what we expected for
Speaker 5: the Dolphins defense with some stops. David Long anticipates a
Speaker 5: screen and helps get a tackle with Raykwon Davis on
Speaker 5: a tackle for loss, and then Andrew van Ginkel is
Speaker 5: in great position for a coverage play on Michael Mayer
Speaker 5: and punches the football out and Javon Holland scoops it
Speaker 5: up and it looks like a defensive touchdown to get
Speaker 5: things going, and you're thinking, yeah, fifty burger today, but
Speaker 5: they overturned it. Ball was never quite secure or caught,
Speaker 5: so it goes right back to the Dolphins offense and
Speaker 5: they move the sticks on their first three plays their
Speaker 5: opening series. But Tua gets hit as he's going to
Speaker 5: the turf head first after picking up the first down
Speaker 5: yards with his legs, and the ball just does come
Speaker 5: out before he gets that knee down to the ground.
Speaker 5: So the Dolphins turned the ball back over to the Raiders,
Speaker 5: who then kick a field goal. And that was the
Speaker 5: story of the day for the Dolphins defense, defending short
Speaker 5: fields and keeping the Raiders out of the end zone
Speaker 5: except for one big play down the field to Devonte Adams.
Speaker 5: But you saw more of what I've been talking about
Speaker 5: from this defense right away in this game. Chob Bradley
Speaker 5: Chubb had back to back run stop. Zach Steeler consistently
Speaker 5: reset in the line of scrimmage by getting that knock
Speaker 5: back and push, and they did convert a long third
Speaker 5: and seven where it looked like maybe there was not
Speaker 5: a coverage bus but somebody got turned free on what
Speaker 5: looked like a banjo where you have, you know, some
Speaker 5: one guy takes inside, one guy takes outside, and Mayer's
Speaker 5: able to get yardage to put themselves in position to
Speaker 5: continue to drive. But then they had offensive pass interference.
Speaker 5: You get an awesome play from Cater Kohu to make
Speaker 5: a tackle after a short game to get the Dolphins
Speaker 5: or the Raiders offense off the field to just kick
Speaker 5: a field goal after getting the football at the plus
Speaker 5: thirty two yard Lindes, that's pretty important to get that.
Speaker 5: And then it goes right back to what you expect
Speaker 5: from this Miami Dolphins offense. A critical defensive holding call
Speaker 5: on Jalen Waddell, who gave the cornerback all he could
Speaker 5: handle on a little double move that extends the drive
Speaker 5: on third and eleven. And then I liked how Miami
Speaker 5: was able to get back to what has been their
Speaker 5: bread and butter since McDaniel's arrival, right that fifteen to
Speaker 5: twenty yard and sometimes it's eighteen yard. In that range
Speaker 5: of fifteen to twenty incuts like the deep dig, the
Speaker 5: route that they utilize, the space they create in the
Speaker 5: running game to capitalize with and put those hook linebackers
Speaker 5: and ultimate conflict. They get one to Tyreek for I
Speaker 5: think it was like nineteen yards and then the very
Speaker 5: next play is a thirty eight yard touchdown. On that
Speaker 5: exact play and the balls right there, Tyreek goes up
Speaker 5: and gets it runs when he hit the turf like
Speaker 5: the way he took off. I've said this on the
Speaker 5: podcast before. You know those car those toy cars you
Speaker 5: have when you're a kid, that you pull back and
Speaker 5: that creates the wind up and then you let him go.
Speaker 5: He is like already wound up when he hits the
Speaker 5: ground on this play. In any play that he goes
Speaker 5: in the air for the football, it's just fun to watch.
Speaker 5: And the frequency of hitting that play this season to
Speaker 5: come back to after the bye week, what a great sign.
Speaker 5: That was seven three Dolphins late in the first quarter.
Speaker 5: But then Vegas answers back and this was a play
Speaker 5: I did not expect to happen in this game. It
Speaker 5: looked to me like quarters coverage where you have four
Speaker 5: defenders kind of birds on a fence, basically defending the
Speaker 5: deep shell of the field. And what I thought I
Speaker 5: saw it we'll find out about this layer in the leak.
Speaker 5: What I thought I saw was they tried to kind
Speaker 5: of buzz a route in the short part of the
Speaker 5: field and that got the attention of both Holland and
Speaker 5: Deshaun Elliott, and then DeVante Adams, one of the best
Speaker 5: in the league, got behind him and a great throw
Speaker 5: from Maiden O'Connell, long raider touchdown. You're thinking, is this
Speaker 5: gonna be a shootout now? But it was not, because
Speaker 5: the Dolphins get the football back and they do turn
Speaker 5: it over on downs after a long drive. But you
Speaker 5: could see the Dolphins offense continuing to put up yardage
Speaker 5: and get first downs.
Speaker 2: And move the check.
Speaker 5: This offense, even on its not best day, which we'll
Speaker 5: hear from McDaniel on this in a moment, even on
Speaker 5: not their best day, still posts four hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: yards offense like that is pretty impressive when you're having
Speaker 5: a bad day and that's what your output there. So
Speaker 5: it was more of the same. Tyreek had a crazy
Speaker 5: catch in a triangle of contested coverage where he caught
Speaker 5: the ball, spun out and went for more yards after the.
Speaker 2: Fact in Tua.
Speaker 5: With the confidence to put that football on Tyreek just
Speaker 5: very very impressive. The Dolphins got down into scoring range
Speaker 5: third and five, at the seven yard line, had a
Speaker 5: false start that backed him up, and then they threw
Speaker 5: a short route to Savon Ahmed that I thought was
Speaker 5: really good effort by Savon to kind of push the
Speaker 5: pile for extra yardage and it puts them in a
Speaker 5: fourth and one situation. And that's a no brainer for
Speaker 5: me for this head coach this team, like every time
Speaker 5: they get in that situation, they're going to try to
Speaker 5: go score seven points. I tip my cap to the
Speaker 5: idea of the play, but the it was a two
Speaker 5: on two screen essentially, when they threw the ball out
Speaker 5: wide to Tyreek Hill and River Craycraft kind of had
Speaker 5: to make sure two guys couldn't get to him, and
Speaker 5: they both triggered on Tyreek and flew Downhill and the
Speaker 5: one guy got him to the turf for a turnover
Speaker 5: on down. So tough look, tough call there in terms of,
Speaker 5: you know, not getting the right look for what your
Speaker 5: offensive play was and they turn it over on downs.
Speaker 5: Then the Raiders take back over and you're thinking, just
Speaker 5: get a quick three and out here, get the ball
Speaker 5: back and plus territory and go score some more points.
Speaker 2: But that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 5: The Raiders go three and out after a tackle for
Speaker 5: loss by cater Coo who just quit throwing screens to
Speaker 5: that guy.
Speaker 2: I saw two of them in this game.
Speaker 5: And his run support off the perimeter, his screen game
Speaker 5: off the perimeter, just fantastic. Chubb got a pressure that
Speaker 5: forced an incomplete on the third down and that was
Speaker 5: all she wrote for that drive, and then Tyreek Hill
Speaker 5: had to exit the game. Now you're thinking yourself, well, shoot,
Speaker 5: there goes a potential two thousand yard receiver into the
Speaker 5: locker room. He misses the entire drive. And what does
Speaker 5: Tua do besides wattle for nine raheem for a first down,
Speaker 5: run for four yards, wattle for twelve, wattle for fifteen.
Speaker 5: So wattle, wattle, waddle for thirty six yards on four plays.
Speaker 5: Then Robbie Chosen gets called back into the fray, and
Speaker 5: good for him for keeping his head in a good
Speaker 5: headspace to go make a play when you were released
Speaker 5: and then added to the practice squad then elevated tough
Speaker 5: week for Robbie in that sense. But he gets himself
Speaker 5: in the right headspace and I'm sure the Dolphins communicating
Speaker 5: with him like, hey, here's the plan to get you
Speaker 5: back here and all that stuff, but still it's a
Speaker 5: long road to get there. Right, He makes a big
Speaker 5: play and then Raheem gets a first down and then
Speaker 5: we get the third and down. It's pretty much the
Speaker 5: same call to Savon nakbad. This time the Raiders blitz
Speaker 5: the crap out of it. Great call at a great
Speaker 5: time in low red zone, and that's how you put
Speaker 5: points on the board. A little Texas route behind the rush,
Speaker 5: you get some offensive line out in front. Great work
Speaker 5: by Liam and Connor and Lester Cotton to get out
Speaker 5: in front to lead Savon in for a walk in
Speaker 5: touchdown there on that play. So the Dolphins take a
Speaker 5: fourteen to ten lead, a lead they would never relinquish.
Speaker 2: Dolphins get a quick.
Speaker 5: Three and out and you're thinking to yourself here with
Speaker 5: two twenty eight to play, maybe we'll get the football
Speaker 5: back and go put the ball in the endzo for
Speaker 5: some more points. And that's kind of what was happening.
Speaker 5: Two timeouts, one o nine to play, ball to the
Speaker 5: minus twelve. You get a great raheemost At run, running
Speaker 5: through tackles, getting to the perimeter to get out of
Speaker 5: balance to save time off the clock. Then Julian Hill
Speaker 5: makes it catch it a nice move up field, and
Speaker 5: I was thinking to myself in the moment, that's a
Speaker 5: pretty athletic move to catch it, spin, get vertical, and
Speaker 5: get extra yards. But they punch it out take over
Speaker 5: at the plus three two yard line, and then the
Speaker 5: Raiders kind of settle for a field goal there, which
Speaker 5: I don't understand why you would do that against this team,
Speaker 5: but that's what they did. They ran the football and
Speaker 5: milked off forty seconds off the clock and kicked the
Speaker 5: field goal there at the end to make it fourteen
Speaker 5: to thirteen. Then the Dolphins get the football back and again,
Speaker 5: to tell you what you're thinking here right, you're thinking
Speaker 5: to yourself, they're gonna go score a touchdown, They're gonna
Speaker 5: get the ball back, they're gonna scoregain, They're gonna put
Speaker 5: game where it belongs on ice. But it didn't happen
Speaker 5: that way. And this was the rarest of misses I
Speaker 5: thought for Tua that I've seen from him, where they
Speaker 5: had that Tyreek and Waddle run that two man route
Speaker 5: combination with the vertical. It takes the defense, you know,
Speaker 5: takes the roof off the defense, and then Waddle runs
Speaker 5: that deep over out to take advantage of that space,
Speaker 5: and he was wide open and he was running kind
Speaker 5: of horizontally and Tua throws it vertically and he misses
Speaker 5: and it gets picked off, and that's just something you
Speaker 5: want to see in that spot. Would have been a
Speaker 5: big game, but a rare miss, but a miss. Nonetheless,
Speaker 5: the Raiders get the football back and they go right
Speaker 5: back to three and out thanks to a Christian Wilkins
Speaker 5: third and one run stuff where he just stifled his man,
Speaker 5: no gain, massive win, put him on the ground, get
Speaker 5: a stop, get the football back, and then the Dolphins
Speaker 5: get a field goal or I'd rather a missed field
Speaker 5: goal on the next drive where they got the ball
Speaker 5: again to Tyreek Hill down the field, and then Tua
Speaker 5: had a just another one of these rare misses where
Speaker 5: I thought he had a chance to make an improvise play,
Speaker 5: a scramble play where he got pushed off of his
Speaker 5: spot and he threw to Cedric Wilson to the perimeter
Speaker 5: and it was just high and outside, and you saw
Speaker 5: him on like after he went to the ground because
Speaker 5: he got tackled and he kind of like clapped his
Speaker 5: hands in frustration, like you knew that he felt he
Speaker 5: missed that one.
Speaker 2: He doesn't usually miss those throws.
Speaker 5: We missed the fifty yard field goal, and then the
Speaker 5: Raiders throw it right back to us because Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 5: makes one of the best plays I've ever seen a
Speaker 5: cornerback make. And it's just like rules in the system,
Speaker 5: you go get this guy because he fits what you
Speaker 5: want to do defensively from a schematic standpoint, and he
Speaker 5: can take this thing to a level that I don't know,
Speaker 5: I don't know, man like.
Speaker 2: It is such a good play.
Speaker 5: Like he's got eyes in the quarterback zone, turn butt
Speaker 5: to the sideline, kind of keying the route concept and
Speaker 5: the moment the man that's playing off of his you know,
Speaker 5: he's got outside leverage, which is butt to the sideline,
Speaker 5: drive inside the moment the guy that's inside of him
Speaker 5: breaks on his route inside. He's running the route for
Speaker 5: the receiver and driving inside. And then to cap it off,
Speaker 5: he makes a diving catch, undercuts the route, makes a
Speaker 5: diving grab. What a freaking play that was. Let's go
Speaker 5: ahead and cue up some sound to hear from Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 5: who was asked about the idea of being a defense
Speaker 5: that generates takeaways versus a defense that just holds teams
Speaker 5: off the scoreboard. Here's his intellectual mind thinking about which
Speaker 5: one's better.
Speaker 6: Probably both, right, But I think like the analytics are like,
Speaker 6: if you plus two, you got an eighty percent chance
Speaker 6: of winning, right. Put Like in the same token, if
Speaker 6: you hold a team to under seventeen points, then you
Speaker 6: got a eighty percent chance of winning. So yeah, I
Speaker 6: guess it's kind of like pick your poison. Would you
Speaker 6: rather have a lot of turnovers or like lockdown defense?
Speaker 6: Obviously you will want both, right, But and that's what
Speaker 6: we'll strive to do on our defense, and then the
Speaker 6: offense deal correct some of their mistakes and they'll be
Speaker 6: explosive and do what they are. I mean, they are
Speaker 6: who they are, so we got all the confidence and
Speaker 6: faith in them.
Speaker 5: A bit of a tangent there about the offense. Who
Speaker 5: would get the football back and go kick a forty
Speaker 5: one yard field goal to make it a seventeen to
Speaker 5: thirteen game. After that play a critical nineteen yard rip
Speaker 5: to Waddle on third and one on extend of that drive,
Speaker 5: You only got to pick from Robert Splain. He does
Speaker 5: that about once a week where he finds himself in
Speaker 5: the hook zone and a chance to make a play.
Speaker 5: He just couldn't make this one. And then Tu had
Speaker 5: a third and seventh throw to Waddle that was a
Speaker 5: little bit low and incomplete, and I thought had a
Speaker 5: chance to complete that at the plus twenty three kick
Speaker 5: the field goal, go back out, get another third down stop,
Speaker 5: and like Ramsey, Ramsey had four plays in this game
Speaker 5: to me, the two picks. Obviously, we'll talk about the
Speaker 5: other one here in the moment, the fourth down coverage
Speaker 5: on DeVante Adams.
Speaker 2: But how about on this play third and one.
Speaker 5: Everybody in the universe knows the Raiders want to run
Speaker 5: that football, right, that's a team they want to be.
Speaker 2: So what do they do?
Speaker 5: They break tendency and run a flea flicker and it's
Speaker 5: basically Ramsey versus Adams like one on one with playing
Speaker 5: press and up in his face and Adams gets on
Speaker 5: top and he's like open. But it's like you have
Speaker 5: to throw the football into a Amazon box from fifty
Speaker 5: yards away, Like good luck doing that. He's right there,
Speaker 5: takes away all options besides that Amazon box up top.
Speaker 2: O'colin does not hit it.
Speaker 5: Dolphins get the football right back and they go kick
Speaker 5: a fifty one yard field goal after Tua gets a
Speaker 5: drive starter to Tyreek on an insane route, or he
Speaker 5: is just burning vertically right at the cornerback presses his
Speaker 5: toes and when you pause it, the cornerback shoulders and
Speaker 5: his hips and his feet are square with the opposing
Speaker 5: end zone like he's facing his back to the quarterback.
Speaker 5: So Tyreek just snaps the route off to the perimeter,
Speaker 5: makes a big catch for like thirty two yards in
Speaker 5: that play, and that puts them in position to go
Speaker 5: go ahead and kick the field goal after a miss
Speaker 5: third and one completion to alec Ingold, who was open
Speaker 5: on the peel back with the ball hit him in
Speaker 5: the chest and kind of scorted through his lower half
Speaker 5: and just went incomplete. The Raiders punked the football right
Speaker 5: back after a sack from Jalen Phillips or forces O'Connell
Speaker 5: to the ground or force him off the spot. Rather
Speaker 5: he teamed up with Bradley Chubb for a hit on
Speaker 5: the quarterback, but Phillips gets the sack. So you're just
Speaker 5: hearing three and out, three and out, three and out,
Speaker 5: and all the time the Raiders are within one possession
Speaker 5: of going and taking the lead or tying this football game,
Speaker 5: and it's not happening for them. But the Dolphins get
Speaker 5: the football back and they go.
Speaker 2: Three and out.
Speaker 5: Just a little bit out of sync there, a little
Speaker 5: weird throw on the sideline on a swing route that
Speaker 5: got tipped and looked like it could have been potentially
Speaker 5: picked off where I thought Tyreek Hill was kind of open.
Speaker 5: Just looked a little disjointed in the second half offensively.
Speaker 5: But the Raiders get it back and they turn it
Speaker 5: over on downs again because of Ramsey. In a fourth
Speaker 5: down coverage snap fourth and three, they throw a vertical
Speaker 5: to DeVante Adams, and Adams is running the route on
Speaker 5: the white perimeter on the boundary of the field right
Speaker 5: the sideline, not a good place to be. Ramsey presses him,
Speaker 5: pins him, and holds him there and runs the route
Speaker 5: for him incomplete. After a great play by Cater Kohu
Speaker 5: to get in against an end a round and force
Speaker 5: this receiver to bubble deep, and that allowed Javon Holland
Speaker 5: to come from deep and make a tackle seven yards
Speaker 5: behind the line of scrimmage there, So kind of that's
Speaker 5: a little play before the play there from those two guys.
Speaker 5: Dolphins get it back, get one first down then give
Speaker 5: it back over to the Raiders, and then the Raiders
Speaker 5: move the chains a little bit. And there was a
Speaker 5: play that Christian Wilkins made where Hunter Renfro made a
Speaker 5: catch and got down the field and Brook seventeen tackles
Speaker 5: and Christian Wilkins came from about forty yards in the
Speaker 5: wrong from the defensive line the pass rush and makes
Speaker 5: a tackle on Hunter Renfro. It is insane, insane level
Speaker 5: of retrace down the field and effort and the love
Speaker 5: for your teammates. After I saw Phillips do it earlier
Speaker 5: on the play that XC got beat for the DPI
Speaker 5: slash game of twenty four yards, Jalen Phillips made that
Speaker 5: tackle as well. So the defensive line retracing downfield huge,
Speaker 5: huge part of this game. More on that than just
Speaker 5: one second. Dolphins get it back, punt it back over
Speaker 5: to the Raiders and then the Raiders drive about half
Speaker 5: the field and you're kind of worried about it. Then
Speaker 5: they throw it up into the air into the end
Speaker 5: zone and Jalen Ramsey skies over and makes another play
Speaker 5: on a football and insane catch, a receiver level mossing catch.
Speaker 5: He makes the play and puts the Dolphins in the
Speaker 5: winner circle. Let's go ahead and hear from Jalen Phillips
Speaker 5: on how Ramsey is able to make these plays and
Speaker 5: the professional approach that the rest of the team can
Speaker 5: learn from with Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 4: What happens when you got elite talent and elite preparation,
Speaker 4: and just the mentality really during throughout that whole process. Man,
Speaker 4: I can't imagine how tough it was for him just
Speaker 4: to see us out here playing. Obviously, you know all
Speaker 4: the hype during the offseason and he doesn't even get
Speaker 4: a chance to come out during the regular season, and
Speaker 4: so you know, for him to come out and then
Speaker 4: perform that way, man, I just it's a huge credit
Speaker 4: to him because I know how tough that can be,
Speaker 4: and he really had that fortitude and showed up.
Speaker 2: So that's the game.
Speaker 5: Dolphins win twenty to thirteen over the Las Vegas Raiders,
Speaker 5: improved to seven and three. They've won seventeen of their
Speaker 5: last nineteen in this building at hard Rock Stadium. And
Speaker 5: let's go ahead and take our first break rate here
Speaker 5: and come back on the other side. We'll do five takeaways.
Speaker 5: We'll hear more from head coach Mike McDaniel quarterback to
Speaker 5: a tongue bai looa and do the play before the play.
Speaker 5: That's all next Draft Time podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 5: brought to you, Bye Autnation. I usually save the play
Speaker 5: before the play for the final portion of the podcast here,
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna go ahead and talk about Christian Wilkins
Speaker 5: one more time because you I don't think I've ever
Speaker 5: seen that before. A defensive tackle forty yards down the
Speaker 5: field tackling a slot wide receiver who's made a bunch
Speaker 5: of moves back and forth. But turn on any NFL game,
Speaker 5: turn the game on tonight Monday night, and watch guys
Speaker 5: that are not around the football and the way they
Speaker 5: run after it. It's most guys do run after it,
Speaker 5: but you will see some guys that don't, and guys
Speaker 5: that do what Christian does that is rarefied air. Let's
Speaker 5: go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on that Christian
Speaker 5: Wilkins hustle play, which again Jalen Phillips did the same
Speaker 5: thing earlier. This entire defensive line group, an entire defensive front,
Speaker 5: prides themselves on how they retrace the football.
Speaker 3: That's Christian have you ever watched my practice if and
Speaker 3: you watch him in games, he does that literally every
Speaker 3: snap that the balls down the field. And I think
Speaker 3: in that play, you know when we in particular, when
Speaker 3: we go and review the film, you know there'll be
Speaker 3: a couple guys that are salty of themselves because you know,
Speaker 3: Christian probably wouldn't have had to make that tackle had
Speaker 3: they had the same kind of mindset. But that that's
Speaker 3: what happens when you have players like that that have
Speaker 3: standards with which they go about their game, that you
Speaker 3: raise the level of everyone sometimes that you know, players
Speaker 3: don't like to see that. You know, they're all competitive,
Speaker 3: so you know when when you get somebody pursuing past you,
Speaker 3: that sticks out to them. So hopefully we'll get better
Speaker 3: from it. But it's you know, he he has continued
Speaker 3: to regress in his game all season, something that he's
Speaker 3: done his whole career. So have been very happy with
Speaker 3: him and what he brings to us is is very important.
Speaker 2: Five takeaways.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and kick it off with takeaway number
Speaker 5: one from the dolphins twenty to thirteen win. Taking a
Speaker 5: look at big picture items here. Number one, some tides rise,
Speaker 5: all boat and Jalen Ramsey is one hell of a tie.
Speaker 5: Two interceptions and the fourth down coverage snap and the
Speaker 5: flea flicker coverage snap, all of those press length disruption phase.
Speaker 5: Get in that hip pocket, locate the football like you
Speaker 5: can't create a cornerback in a lab better than this
Speaker 5: dude is playing right now. And the Dolphins got this
Speaker 5: guy for a third round draft pick. And Hunter Long,
Speaker 5: who was a third round pick in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 5: who for all intents and purposes, are probably tied in
Speaker 5: three or four on the team last year in the
Speaker 5: same position this year on this Dolphins team.
Speaker 2: So Chris career tip of the cap.
Speaker 5: And just to continue that point here real quick, we
Speaker 5: had this discussion on the postgame show. Austin Jackson will
Speaker 5: talk about him here a second. The twenty twenty draft
Speaker 5: class right now, franchise quarterback Austin Jackson looks like a
Speaker 5: premier right tackle at this stage of his career. Robert
Speaker 5: Hunt one of the best right guards in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Raykwon Davis a very good nose tackle rotational piece in there.
Speaker 5: We've seen what Brandon Jones can do when he's healthy.
Speaker 5: Not a bad draft class man. It's actually pretty dang
Speaker 5: go to you think about it. But back to Ramsey,
Speaker 5: they didn't throw at him, and when they did, they
Speaker 5: got picked off. In fact, in three games, he's been
Speaker 5: targeted thirteen times, allowed five catches, and picked off three passes.
Speaker 5: Since he got back, Miami's allowing seventeen points per game
Speaker 5: and have upped their takeaway tolls from four in the
Speaker 5: seven games without him to three in the three games
Speaker 5: with him.
Speaker 2: Those were all his.
Speaker 5: He also forced a fumble that did not count because
Speaker 5: of an accepted offensive penalty. If the Dolphins had to
Speaker 5: becovered that one, it would be four takeaways in three games,
Speaker 5: all courtesy of Gilen Ramsey. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 5: from Mike McDaniel on his star quarterback.
Speaker 3: I'm really hoping they throw at him, honestly, he I
Speaker 3: mean both interceptions were out of control in difficulty level,
Speaker 3: so you know you could see him on the first one,
Speaker 3: see the ball, and he was the aggressor. I think
Speaker 3: he was behind the receiver on an end break and
Speaker 3: he bypasses him to get that thumbs together catch that
Speaker 3: he's diving for.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of receivers don't make that reception.
Speaker 3: So and then to track the ball down the field
Speaker 3: and to get contacted in the moment of truth and
Speaker 3: hang on to the ball that was I mean, it's huge.
Speaker 3: So you know that the I think the whole team
Speaker 3: has gotten a little bit better to degree since he's
Speaker 3: been on our team or since he's been back. And
Speaker 3: you know, that's the type of effect that players of
Speaker 3: that caliber can have on people.
Speaker 5: Takeaway Number two is that when you marry the rush
Speaker 5: with the coverage, good things happened. So the Dolphins came
Speaker 5: into this game near the top of the league and
Speaker 5: everything pass rush wise, right, hits, sacks, all that stuff,
Speaker 5: and damn it.
Speaker 2: Look I don't like to gloat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably I do a little bit, But what did
Speaker 5: I say all year last year that the rush was
Speaker 5: doing a great job. We just had issues holding up
Speaker 5: on the back end because of all the injuries. X
Speaker 5: trying to play through the groin injury and missing some
Speaker 5: time here and there, and just severe attrition at the
Speaker 5: cornerback spot. Now X is healthy, Jalen Ramsey's here and
Speaker 5: he's healthy and he's cranking. Toshaun Elliott's here and he's awesome.
Speaker 5: Javon Hollind's always been awesome, cater Co, who's fantastic in
Speaker 5: the slot when you can just kind of mix and
Speaker 5: match and pick his spots to play alongside those two corners.
Speaker 2: Good player otherwise, but I love.
Speaker 5: Him in this role right now, and when you know it,
Speaker 5: we have one of the most feared pass rushes in
Speaker 5: the NFL. As a result, Phillips gets a two piece
Speaker 5: and an interception. I mean, come on, five sacks now
Speaker 5: for a guy that missed nearly half the games.
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb is killing it.
Speaker 5: How about that perimeter run defense, by the way, I mean,
Speaker 5: you know we heard about this rare team and how
Speaker 5: they wanted to run the football. Josh Jacobs today, what
Speaker 5: do you have? Fourteen for twenty nine or something like that.
Speaker 2: Let me hold the.
Speaker 5: Stats I'm searching while I do the podcast. Here, fourteen
Speaker 5: for thirty nine for two point eight yards per carry
Speaker 5: and then a lot of that's off the perimeter where
Speaker 5: Chubb and Phillips just consistently beat tight ends and tackles
Speaker 5: and shut down your perimeter running game. Bradley Chubb talked
Speaker 5: about the impact of the rush and coverage marry together.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and hear from the Dolphins outside linebacker.
Speaker 7: Job, man, and they make our jobs so much easier.
Speaker 7: And it's even times when I'm like, oh, the first
Speaker 7: move didn't work. He about to get the ball off
Speaker 7: and he pumps it and he has the ball again, okay,
Speaker 7: And that's that's when that Russian coverage starts working together.
Speaker 7: And on Ram's first pick, no, I was just I
Speaker 7: was so happy for him because I feel like I
Speaker 7: got in the quarterbacks face a little bit and then boom,
Speaker 7: I see the team defense start to work together, man,
Speaker 7: and it's dope to see.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 7: It's just to keep carrying, keep carrying that on and
Speaker 7: make sure we make more plays.
Speaker 5: So two more sacks for the team. I cannot wait
Speaker 5: to see these pressure numbers. Three picks that will give
Speaker 5: you a jolt in that department. Also, keep your eyes
Speaker 5: peeled on the YouTube channel this week for a Bradley
Speaker 5: Chubb breakdown. I did here coming up very soon. But man,
Speaker 5: this entire unit I thought Van Ginkel was awesome. Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 5: my goodness, he is right back at it, Isn't he
Speaker 5: Just a stellar performance? And when the offense wasn't as
Speaker 5: buttoned up as they normally are, how nice is it
Speaker 5: to have a defense that you can just put the
Speaker 5: lights out for you in a game like this. Again,
Speaker 5: nine consecutive possessions with either a one score or less
Speaker 5: lead in their back pocket, and they never once relinquished it. Also,
Speaker 5: the tackling off the perimeter extends beyond Chubb and Phillips
Speaker 5: and Van Ginkel.
Speaker 2: Ramsey's a fantastic tackle.
Speaker 5: We've talked about Cater Kohu, but how good is Xaving
Speaker 5: Howard been in that role this year? These guys are
Speaker 5: getting after it, and I can't wait to watch them
Speaker 5: grow and improve because I think it's only going to
Speaker 5: get better for this defense as we go on. Here
Speaker 5: take away number three where it could have been better.
Speaker 5: That was on offense. Right, let's go ahead and start
Speaker 5: here with Mike McDaniel's perspective, because I think this is
Speaker 5: important to keep in mind that Dolphins fans have become
Speaker 5: spoiled a little bit, and that includes me.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's hard to do, so I again will
Speaker 3: always be super critical. To call it a bad game,
Speaker 3: I think would be I guess, hats off to to
Speaker 3: us for raising your standard, but that I think I
Speaker 3: think I was really happy with the way the guys
Speaker 3: approached coming off the buy you know you you know,
Speaker 3: I think you learn a lot about people how they
Speaker 3: handle you probably learn more how they handle failures than successes.
Speaker 3: And I thought guys were intentional and deliberate UH to
Speaker 3: a to another level this this week. You know, I
Speaker 3: think that our team in general UH has kind of
Speaker 3: captured the idea of worrying about ourselves and and each
Speaker 3: opponent is very threatening and you have to you have
Speaker 3: to bring your best. You know, I think there's some
Speaker 3: stuff that would will really see in the film in
Speaker 3: the run game that we could have had more in
Speaker 3: you know, that was they were just kind of playing
Speaker 3: soft and and really really why their alignments were different,
Speaker 3: So there was some space there and I thought we
Speaker 3: could have had more. But overall, I'd just like to
Speaker 3: see us hang on to the ball and not have
Speaker 3: some of some of the mistakes that really kind of
Speaker 3: cost us. But you know, it was the first game
Speaker 3: that I can remember not playing with Durhams durham smythe
Speaker 3: and you know, we lost eight chan early and and
Speaker 3: Braxton wasn't it wasn't up. So I thought overall, guys
Speaker 3: in different roles stepped up and you know, will continue
Speaker 3: to progress.
Speaker 5: So there's always room for improvement, right, and so I
Speaker 5: thought the Dolphins pretty thoroughly outplayed the Raiders. Go ahead
Speaker 5: and look at the stats. But when you give them
Speaker 5: two short fields at the plus thirty two and plus
Speaker 5: thirty yard line and then you turn over on downs
Speaker 5: at the plus three yard line, I mean, if the
Speaker 5: Raiders had capitalized on that, that's twenty one point swing
Speaker 5: right there, and it only wound up being a six
Speaker 5: point swing because they kicked two field goals, or I
Speaker 5: guess thirteen because you didn't score a touch on yourself.
Speaker 5: Maybe nine points because you could have kicked a field
Speaker 5: goal on fourth down instead. I digress, but you understand
Speaker 5: the point. It's how you keep teams in games when
Speaker 5: you should have probably won by more and making a
Speaker 5: habit of losing the turnover battle. That's been the difference
Speaker 5: in the losses too. Like, if you think about it,
Speaker 5: that's kind of the last thing this team needs to
Speaker 5: do to take that next step. I would say, convert
Speaker 5: shortyards at a higher rate and win the turnover battle
Speaker 5: battle more frequently. But it's you know, I think it's
Speaker 5: fair to wonder why it's a problem ten games into
Speaker 5: the season, and it's funny because Ramsey flipped this on
Speaker 5: me here, But at one point it looked like Miami
Speaker 5: is going to lose the turnover battle, you know, two
Speaker 5: to nothing at least, and at that point they would
Speaker 5: have been one and six in the to battle in
Speaker 5: the last seven games, with twelve takeaways to four takeaways.
Speaker 2: That was at halftime.
Speaker 5: Then they the first play of the half, they turn
Speaker 5: it over, but then they get three picks from two
Speaker 5: from Ramsey and one from Philip, So it winds up
Speaker 5: being two and five in the turnover battle department in
Speaker 5: the last seven games, but a total of thirteen giveaways
Speaker 5: and just the eight takeaways. So it needs to get better.
Speaker 5: And you know, that pick from Tua just super out
Speaker 5: of character. I thought he missed Cedric on that one
Speaker 5: scramble play I mentioned the improvised play just looked a
Speaker 5: little bit out of rhythm at times in the second half.
Speaker 2: But there were also some dimes.
Speaker 5: That back shoulder shot to Cedric Wilson who made a
Speaker 5: great catch on the on the football. The touchdown the
Speaker 5: Tyreek obviously awesome, but it's just weird to see this
Speaker 5: offense get stifled for that long of a period of
Speaker 5: time because we're just not used to it. And if
Speaker 5: we start converting some short yards plays and flipping the
Speaker 5: turnover battle like, those are the things that you coach
Speaker 5: always talks about wanting to improve and be the best
Speaker 5: version of yourself. If Miami buttons those up down the
Speaker 5: stretch here, they are going to be so so difficult
Speaker 5: to beat because it does feel like a lot of
Speaker 5: times their errors are self inflicted. And once they can
Speaker 5: correct those, man, the sky is the limit in my opinion. Man,
Speaker 5: let's go ahead and hear from Tua on why he
Speaker 5: can be tough on himself and the standard that he
Speaker 5: holds himself to. I think this is one of the
Speaker 5: best answer I've ever gotten from QB one in a
Speaker 5: press conference.
Speaker 1: I have, you know, a standard for myself, just like
Speaker 1: everyone in here has a standard for themselves with how
Speaker 1: they go about doing their job. And I take pride
Speaker 1: in doing my job. And for me, if I'm not
Speaker 1: doing my job to the best of my abilities and
Speaker 1: to be the best in the league doing it, you know,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be out there, you know, doing it. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure each and every one of you here would
Speaker 1: feel the same within your profession. And so it's it's
Speaker 1: not me being super hard or me not extending grace
Speaker 1: to myself. It's just understanding, like, you know, you can
Speaker 1: do better, and it's to a place where I'm not
Speaker 1: beating myself up as much as I probably would have
Speaker 1: my rookie year or my second year, you know, just
Speaker 1: just because of the people that I've had to help
Speaker 1: me through that. So that's what I would say. I
Speaker 1: understand the state of the union, and I'm not blind
Speaker 1: to the mistakes that I've made. But it's not me.
Speaker 1: It's not more so that I'm hard on myself. It's
Speaker 1: more so I know my expectation and the standard of
Speaker 1: what I can do, and it can be better, and
Speaker 1: I want it to be better. And that's what it
Speaker 1: really is. It's being real with yourself.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
Speaker 5: come back on the other side and do takeaways four
Speaker 5: and five. And I also have three players I want
Speaker 5: to highlight that I thought played their butts off in
Speaker 5: this game. That's next Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 5: brought to you by Auto Nation. Takeaways one through three
Speaker 5: from Miami's twenty to thirteen victory over the Las Vegas
Speaker 5: Raiders is in the books takeaway number four guys stepping up.
Speaker 5: So Devon hen goes down the first rush attempt back
Speaker 5: from ir and Coach McDaniel said that Hchan had many
Speaker 5: pleased with coach to put him back in, but they
Speaker 5: decided to protect himself from himself because it was the
Speaker 5: same knee he had the injury on earlier in the season.
Speaker 5: But he goes down after the first carry of the game.
Speaker 5: Savon achmed gets dinged up at one point in the game.
Speaker 5: Did have three carries, the touchdown and the effort on
Speaker 5: the fourth down before the tod was all very very good.
Speaker 5: But because of that, now all of a sudden, you
Speaker 5: have one running back you've dressed, and that is Raheem Moster,
Speaker 5: who I suspect the plan was not twenty two carries
Speaker 5: for Raheem Moster, but he goes twenty two for eighty nine.
Speaker 5: And those were tough tone setting, physical chain moving yards
Speaker 5: that we had to have in key spots, especially that
Speaker 5: final drive where you know, putting the rares back at
Speaker 5: the six yard line was done in large part because
Speaker 5: Raheem moved the chains with some of his rushing attempts.
Speaker 5: So just really appreciate the type of pro that guy is.
Speaker 5: And then our fifth takeaway kind of bleeds into that
Speaker 5: or stems off of that, is that it's nice to have.
Speaker 2: Two number one wide receivers, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Tyreek goes ten for one six in a touchdown on
Speaker 5: eleven targets, by the way, so efficient with how he
Speaker 5: gets things done, but he misses one drive and what
Speaker 5: do you getta Waddle? Wattle Waddle Three receptions from Wattle
Speaker 5: for a total of thirty six yards. And that just
Speaker 5: the ability to be able to feature that guy when
Speaker 5: Tyreek's in the locker room is such a critical element
Speaker 5: of this offense. Then of course Tyreek comes back and
Speaker 5: does what Tyreek does, But just so nice to have
Speaker 5: both those guys at your disposal for this offense. I
Speaker 5: wanted to talk about three players I mentioned. Let's go
Speaker 5: ahead and do that real quickly here. I'll watch the
Speaker 5: tape and get this for you guys in the podcast
Speaker 5: Layer tonight. I think Austin Jackson might have given Max
Speaker 5: Crosby all he could handle. And think about that statement
Speaker 5: for a second, like, what a game for Austin Jackson,
Speaker 5: what a year he's had? Just tip of the cap
Speaker 5: to him, there was a third down conversion where he
Speaker 5: erased Max Crosby. He kind of got into his chest play,
Speaker 5: but then he reset it and anchored and just stopped
Speaker 5: him right in his tracks. That is not many folks
Speaker 5: for doing that these days. Also, Cedric Wilson has return
Speaker 5: game work and tough contested catches. He's become a nice
Speaker 5: key player in this offense and special teams here down
Speaker 5: the stretch and we're gonna need him going forward, so
Speaker 5: that's great to see. And then alec Ingol just a
Speaker 5: couple of crushing, punishing blocks. Some plays in the passing
Speaker 5: game just can never appreciate that guy's work enough.
Speaker 2: Wanted to go ahead and shout him out.
Speaker 5: And then the last punt before the final Ramsey pick
Speaker 5: to pin them at the six yard line. Critical critical
Speaker 5: work there from the coverage team and Jake Bailey. Tip
Speaker 5: of the cap to those folks. That is the podcast
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