Speaker 1: Practice factor touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What's up Dolphans And welcome into the Drive Time Podcast,
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the Dolphins do
Speaker 1: fall to Seattle and to one and three. We'll get
Speaker 1: to the five takeaways, the stats from the game, individual performances,
Speaker 1: will hear from coach and the players as well as
Speaker 1: John con Jemmy with his three takeaways, will go over
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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start this podcast as we do
Speaker 1: every single Sunday, recapping your Miami Dolphins as they fall
Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty three to the Seattle Seahawks. Good
Speaker 1: battle back and forth. Dolphins go toe to toe with
Speaker 1: one of the NFC elites and now the four no
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks as they prevail once more in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: as they do with that quarterback and with that coach.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on the Thursday podcast. This guy
Speaker 1: has twenty nine fourth quarter comebacks and twenty two game
Speaker 1: winning drive. So it's just it's kind of kind of
Speaker 1: par for the course for Russell Wilson. Dolphins were there,
Speaker 1: had a chance to make some plays at the end,
Speaker 1: it came out the other way again a few plays
Speaker 1: ago the other direction, as kind of has been the
Speaker 1: case in a few of these games this year. Dolphins
Speaker 1: could have found victory but could not finish something Brian
Speaker 1: Flores and the players talked about post game in this one,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna hear from those guys here in just
Speaker 1: one second. But real quick, on the statistics, Dolphins go
Speaker 1: for four hundred and fourteen yards. Seahawks go for four
Speaker 1: forty one. Miami has a hundred and three on the
Speaker 1: ground compared to Seattle's ninety eight rushing yards. Dolphins passed
Speaker 1: for three twelve Seattle three forty three. On third and
Speaker 1: fourth down, Miami was seven out of thirteen, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: just four of eleven. That includes a fourth down stop
Speaker 1: down on the red zone on an Emmanuel Ogg Boss
Speaker 1: sack that will come up here shortly in the five takeaways.
Speaker 1: Speaking of takeaways, Miami they get one, Seahawks get to
Speaker 1: both interceptions there of Ryan Fitzpatrick Xaviing Howard gets to
Speaker 1: pick on Russell Wilson. Dolphins got two sacks on Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: Fits was sacked just one time. And in this game
Speaker 1: only three penalties and twenty total yardage combined among the
Speaker 1: two teams, and those were all distributed to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Seahawks didn't have any penalties or any yards on the day.
Speaker 1: Time of possession goes to the Dolphins as well, thirty
Speaker 1: three minutes and nine seconds to Seattle's twenty six fifty
Speaker 1: one of game time having the football. So with that,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and jump right into the five take ways,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start here, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to structure this, but I want to
Speaker 1: end with my I think my favorite or my most
Speaker 1: important takeaway, the one that I think that we should
Speaker 1: all kind of step back and take a look at
Speaker 1: contextually and apply context because, as I've said for so
Speaker 1: very long now, process over results. Man Like, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: results are gonna be what puts you, you know, ahead
Speaker 1: and the scoreboard, and there's no debating how important that is.
Speaker 1: It's the most important thing. But if you want to
Speaker 1: think about, you know, in a sixteen game sample size
Speaker 1: football season, where the team might be going and where
Speaker 1: things might be trending, you want to look more in depth.
Speaker 1: You want to have a a broader view, not just
Speaker 1: look at the one single wins and losses and think
Speaker 1: that's what the football team is. In every element. There
Speaker 1: is so much that goes on on game day and
Speaker 1: from Sunday through Friday, or from Monday through Saturday, rather
Speaker 1: before game day out Sunday, and it's important to have
Speaker 1: context to everything that goes into a football game. The
Speaker 1: countless hours that are worked and coached and put on
Speaker 1: the practice field in the weight room. I just think
Speaker 1: it's very disingenuous to not take a full bird's eye
Speaker 1: approach and conte and make every think contextual when it
Speaker 1: comes to such an esoteric sport like football that is
Speaker 1: so complex and so difficult to to learn, to describe
Speaker 1: and to really be able to evaluate yourself. So just
Speaker 1: that's the theme of this podcast tonight, having context behind
Speaker 1: this thirty one twenty three loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And we start here with takeaway number one, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go back into the secondary where I was really
Speaker 1: impressed with these guys, you know and Earnest for all
Speaker 1: about three or four plays in this game. We talked
Speaker 1: all week about Russell Wilson on the podcast, on the Blitz,
Speaker 1: on the Top News, on the game preview, on the flashback.
Speaker 1: He was in every segment we did, and that's because
Speaker 1: he's one of the two or three best football players
Speaker 1: on the entire planet and he's been showing that through
Speaker 1: the first three weeks. And maybe I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I find my perspective a little bit different up in
Speaker 1: the press box, but maybe up there to me, he
Speaker 1: never like took over the game, and that was a
Speaker 1: great sign of progress for the Dolphins on that end.
Speaker 1: Because this guy has taken over great defenses time and
Speaker 1: time again. That you know, the Patriots in Week two,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson went up and down the field and they
Speaker 1: couldn't do anything to stop him. Because when you are
Speaker 1: that good at that position in this league, the way
Speaker 1: it's tailored, it's impossible to stop a quarterback who's red hot.
Speaker 1: You just cannot do it. That's why we have all
Speaker 1: these gaudy stats nowadays. And the Dolphins were able to,
Speaker 1: at least in some semblance, limit Russell Wilson, I thought,
Speaker 1: more so than what he has done the rest of
Speaker 1: the season combined. And look the deep ball at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half. At the end of the
Speaker 1: first half, that just can't happen, it can't. You see
Speaker 1: the safety up top roll over to the other side
Speaker 1: of the formation. Then you've got ig Banogny and Van
Speaker 1: Noy with a two man route combination to that side
Speaker 1: of the field, a high low type of deal. One
Speaker 1: goes short, one goes deep. You just cannot let that
Speaker 1: guy get behind you. You cannot do it, cannot do it.
Speaker 1: But that's when we throw in the trash, the deep
Speaker 1: shot to lock. It sucks too, but that's what this
Speaker 1: offense has done. Like we just said, they've done it
Speaker 1: to everybody all year. They've gotten vertical to Dk Metcalf,
Speaker 1: to Tyler Lockett, David Moore got involved today the touchdown
Speaker 1: off the interception. That's another play that I think you
Speaker 1: want to get rid of such a deflating moment theory,
Speaker 1: because that's the moment where up in the press box,
Speaker 1: for instance, the sports writers, they know where their story
Speaker 1: is going. Their postgame story has the final direction they
Speaker 1: need to take it in Like after the Jacksonville game,
Speaker 1: for instance, after the first couple of drives, I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: this Dolphins coming out strong, putting up a big lead.
Speaker 1: This is probably gonna be my story lead. I'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and write that, and if it mounts that way,
Speaker 1: will continue the story that way. And so that Jacksonville
Speaker 1: story was done within the first two quarters of that
Speaker 1: game because it never really changed. But in this game,
Speaker 1: the storyline kept changing three or four times it changed,
Speaker 1: and that moment, the Fitzpatrick interception, that's kind of when
Speaker 1: you start to get your fingers on the keyboard thinking okay,
Speaker 1: this game might go a certain way right now, And
Speaker 1: that's what happened, and you know, I was furiously typing
Speaker 1: away at that moment because how many times have you
Speaker 1: heard the broadcaster when you're watching a football game say,
Speaker 1: look for them to take a shot right here coming
Speaker 1: off the turnover. It happens, And it happened. But what
Speaker 1: about the rest of the Dolphins secondary. You lose your
Speaker 1: captain in free safety for a couple of series and
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, Jamal Perry stepped in, and I thought he
Speaker 1: did a good job. I'd love to go back and
Speaker 1: watch the tape. I don't have that available to me
Speaker 1: right now, but you know, we'll do that later in
Speaker 1: the week. But I thought he played well and he
Speaker 1: you know, he played safety a smidge in training camp
Speaker 1: last year, and I wrote a little joke in my
Speaker 1: notes here that Jamal Perry has always been a corner
Speaker 1: because he changed his name from Jamal Wilts to Jamal
Speaker 1: Perry this offseason, and he played some safety a little
Speaker 1: bit last year in camp, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: he was in that slot position last year and he's
Speaker 1: been playing there a lot this year as well. So
Speaker 1: for him to step into that free safety roll, good
Speaker 1: work and good versatility and good next man up mentality
Speaker 1: there Noah Bunogamy is a player that they're going to
Speaker 1: continue to count on on this defense. He is a
Speaker 1: player that has such high upside that so many folks
Speaker 1: have spoken so highly of him, both at Auburn and
Speaker 1: now with the Miami Dolphins. Coaches players alike, they love
Speaker 1: this kid. He's super young, the youngest player in the
Speaker 1: entire National Football League. Dolphins have mixed in plenty of
Speaker 1: zone and man coverage in this game and this season now,
Speaker 1: and he was with Tyler Lockett for a fair share
Speaker 1: of the game today and he only caught two passes
Speaker 1: for thirty nine yards. Lock It didn't This is a
Speaker 1: guy that's you know, gone to Pro Bowls before as
Speaker 1: a y receiver, So he's getting some big time assignments
Speaker 1: and you know, there's gonna be some bumps along the road.
Speaker 1: That's what Coach Flora said today. He's gonna have some
Speaker 1: highs and some lows, and we know he's gonna come
Speaker 1: back and compete and be resilient, and we're gonna coach
Speaker 1: him and he'll be better for it. And I agree
Speaker 1: with Coach Flora's there. He's only going to be better
Speaker 1: for seeing all this tough competition. Through the first couple
Speaker 1: of games. A baptism by fire, so to speak, here
Speaker 1: in the first four games of his NFL career. Now,
Speaker 1: how about xaviing Howard on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I was on my tweet deck slash had my notes up,
Speaker 1: and I saw somebody tweet one of my one of
Speaker 1: people I follow on Dolphins Twitter, said, how about Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard play right here? We we've lost Bobby, He's down
Speaker 1: right now, he's not in the game. We and Byron
Speaker 1: Jones isn't in there. How about to play from x
Speaker 1: and what does he do? Goes out and gets one,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to this on the inside the numbers,
Speaker 1: but he's got nearly as many picks the last two
Speaker 1: games as he does receptions allowed. His fourteen picks since
Speaker 1: last December, or since December rather, are the most in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Think about that, he missed thirteen
Speaker 1: games over that span and he's got fourteen picks. Guys,
Speaker 1: A straight ball hawk, a maker. That was the title
Speaker 1: of my blitz article on Friday, talking about xaviing Howard.
Speaker 1: And he goes out and gets another pick up against
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf from Russell Wilson, who had thrown one pick
Speaker 1: all season long so far this year, Eric Rowe just
Speaker 1: continues to be a solid player back there. For me,
Speaker 1: I still can't believe greg Olsen caught that ball that
Speaker 1: he got a hand on Roe got it from behind,
Speaker 1: and he even signaled incomplete because you tipped the balls
Speaker 1: and defender you think that's my job. I probably got
Speaker 1: the incompletion, but the ball lands on greg Olsen's lap
Speaker 1: as he's fallen to the ground. It made no sense
Speaker 1: to me when I saw it live from the press box,
Speaker 1: and then it made less sense when I saw on
Speaker 1: the replay. So that was the one catch I think
Speaker 1: for a chunk game of yardage there that I saw
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe, you know, I guess give up as a
Speaker 1: part of but just a bad bounce and a great
Speaker 1: play there from Greg Olsen. So and speaking of the
Speaker 1: bad bounces, the fumble the Seahawks have this is off topic,
Speaker 1: but I just it's in my notes. The fumble the
Speaker 1: Seahawks had on Chris Carson when in Landon Roberts came
Speaker 1: in with Kyle van Noy and they kind of stacked
Speaker 1: him up and hit him and he fumbled the football.
Speaker 1: There was a pile of four dolphins right there and
Speaker 1: one seahawk in the area, and of course he's the
Speaker 1: one that falls on it. Just that's just the way
Speaker 1: football goes from times, man, the ball bounces a couple
Speaker 1: of different ways. They get that fumble, Olsen doesn't catch
Speaker 1: that pass, who knows what the outcome of the game is.
Speaker 1: And then to finish this segment here, Byron Jones again
Speaker 1: was not out there for the game. They ruled him
Speaker 1: out on frind or he was doubtful on Friday, ruled
Speaker 1: out inactive today before the game. But he talked last
Speaker 1: week and I think this is very important to listen
Speaker 1: to about the importance of communication and growing that development
Speaker 1: together for the defensive back room. We had Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: post games something similar about how communication has to get
Speaker 1: stronger and how they just have to continue to work
Speaker 1: in that area as a secondary, as a defense and
Speaker 1: as a team. And here's what Byron Jones had to
Speaker 1: say on just that fact on Friday when he last
Speaker 1: spoke to the media. We're still wrong. Um, there's no
Speaker 1: question about that. We have no It was really talented
Speaker 1: young rookie, but he just hadn't seen a lot but
Speaker 1: I can tell you this, UM. You know, he's probably
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive young guys I've seen a
Speaker 1: very long time. And the way he approaches the game,
Speaker 1: you know, it's this kid is here early. These are early.
Speaker 1: With the coach looking at film, he's they're late. The
Speaker 1: way he practices, the way he really approaches practice is
Speaker 1: really impressive for a young guy to understand that. And
Speaker 1: for me just to see X when he came back
Speaker 1: towards the end of camp, I think his first couple
Speaker 1: of days he got like two or three picks. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you can see his playmaking ability right away. UM. So
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be special, but it's gonna take work. UM.
Speaker 1: You really have to bond together as a unit. It's
Speaker 1: not just about having, um, just really good players on
Speaker 1: the roster. You really have to develop a bond and
Speaker 1: really developed that level of communication. UM, that can really
Speaker 1: lead us to a different level. Um, there's a lot
Speaker 1: more than just the physical talent. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: mental talent. There's trusting each other, knowing that this person
Speaker 1: is going to be where he's supposed to be, knowing
Speaker 1: you get inside, helth outside help wherever. Whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: so we're still developing that, but that's a fun challenge
Speaker 1: going through the year. Yeah. I just think that really
Speaker 1: that really perfectly addresses this dolphin second, and I'll take
Speaker 1: Byron Jones a word on that over anything right now.
Speaker 1: And again, four games into a team that has been
Speaker 1: really really overturned a lot, it's you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out a lot about these guys over the course
Speaker 1: of the next twelve games for the rest of the
Speaker 1: season and find out what they're made of. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see them try to rise to that challenge.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be kind of the story of
Speaker 1: the year and how they bounced back from one in
Speaker 1: three start played much better the second half of last year.
Speaker 1: We'll see if they can do that the final three
Speaker 1: quarters of this season. Up next. Takeaway number two Shack Lawson,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba. That's just the takeaway. I think the things
Speaker 1: you brought them in to do, they are showing why
Speaker 1: you brought them in to do that. The length on
Speaker 1: the way they're able to stack the edge there. And
Speaker 1: this is mostly Emmanuel Ogball in this game, who I
Speaker 1: thought played really well defending the outside run, getting pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, stacking up the edge and making that
Speaker 1: strong edge, setting a solid, strong edge that that the
Speaker 1: offense has to respect and cut back inside and work
Speaker 1: off that. I think that he did a fantastic job
Speaker 1: in that area, had a big TfL had a couple
Speaker 1: of other stacks where he was able to force the
Speaker 1: back to bubble and allow his teammates, his friends, his
Speaker 1: playmakers around him to come in clean it up and
Speaker 1: make plays that way. There was only one play where
Speaker 1: I remember Seattle significantly winning the edge big time, and
Speaker 1: they had it said it was Andrew Van Ginkle, but
Speaker 1: then it was David Moore on that pop hass on
Speaker 1: a little jet sweep, just puts a little move on
Speaker 1: Van Geekle and he got him a little bit, got
Speaker 1: him out over his skis, and he won the edge
Speaker 1: that way. But for the most part, I thought the
Speaker 1: edge was strong all game long, and these guys have
Speaker 1: really been a big part of that. Shack Laws and
Speaker 1: emmanuel A Ball both playing so many snaps and doing
Speaker 1: what they were supposed to do, stacking the stacking of bodies,
Speaker 1: setting a strong edge and creating plays for everybody else
Speaker 1: in the running game, as well as making their own too,
Speaker 1: but they also rushed the quarterback, and aug Bas sack
Speaker 1: was a very classic Emmanuel Ogba sack. That's just the
Speaker 1: way he gets after the quarterback, heavy hands, he loves
Speaker 1: to kind of draw the punch out of the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and slaps those things away and then he can
Speaker 1: dip and bend the yark, which is impressive for a
Speaker 1: guy that big. My goodness, this guy is tall and
Speaker 1: long and he's able to get around that edge, bend
Speaker 1: it tucket and get to the quarterback and get him
Speaker 1: on the ground. Had that big, big sack on fourth
Speaker 1: down that was such a huge play at that time
Speaker 1: in the game. And then shack loss in his sack too.
Speaker 1: It came right after an ag Ba TfL. Just a
Speaker 1: really damn good play from Shack laws And kind of
Speaker 1: I think on ag bas sack, he was over the
Speaker 1: he was right around the five technique posession, if my
Speaker 1: memory serves me correctly, so he kind of had to,
Speaker 1: you know, line up across the tackle then or the
Speaker 1: four technique five technique and kind of work off the
Speaker 1: outside shoulder. Shack Lawson's was very similar. They're not in
Speaker 1: that really wide set edge where they kind of can
Speaker 1: just run around the edge and you speed and maybe
Speaker 1: a spin moved back inside. They line up over the
Speaker 1: tackle and they they're able to work into the backfield
Speaker 1: from that position. Thought Shack Lawson did the exact same
Speaker 1: thing and then did a great job to keep his
Speaker 1: eyes on Wilson and break down there because even though
Speaker 1: it's the pocket, it's still open space, right because Wilson
Speaker 1: can flee and have their direction to break down and
Speaker 1: get a hand on him and get him to the ground.
Speaker 1: And he got injured in the process of doing that,
Speaker 1: but he came back from the injury, so that was
Speaker 1: great to see. I thought that that entire process of
Speaker 1: that play was just really good work from Shack Lawson.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number three and we'll kind of go towards the
Speaker 1: negative here. It's just the red zone woes and and
Speaker 1: Dolphins talked about it. Coaches talked about it, players talked
Speaker 1: about it. They've got to find a way to execute
Speaker 1: down in that red zone. That's where football games are
Speaker 1: one and lost. There are schemes and defense is built
Speaker 1: on the idea of ending but not breaking. If we
Speaker 1: can hold you to three, we trusted our guys can
Speaker 1: score seven enough to go out and win football games.
Speaker 1: And I think there are certainly opponents that you feel
Speaker 1: you have to be a little more aggressive against and
Speaker 1: go get more points against, or just execute better down
Speaker 1: in the red zone against, because they are more liable
Speaker 1: to come around the back end and score. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were staying in pace for that game because besides
Speaker 1: the seven zero start when things kind of got you know,
Speaker 1: ugly early, the game was never in a situation where
Speaker 1: it was two scores until very late in the game.
Speaker 1: So to continue to stay in that battle and kick
Speaker 1: a field goal and stay and play good defense on
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and you know, through the first seven drives
Speaker 1: of that game, Seattle had seven team points on offense.
Speaker 1: So to be able to do that and kind of
Speaker 1: understand how care defense is playing really well today, Let's
Speaker 1: keep them in the game by continuously putting points on
Speaker 1: the board and staying on the field and converting third
Speaker 1: downs and keeping their defense on the field and keeping
Speaker 1: their quarterback on the sideline. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, there's still gonna be enough drives at the
Speaker 1: end there for Russell Wilson, and he just showed you
Speaker 1: what he can do. So to be able to kind
Speaker 1: of bog down the red zone. That was a big
Speaker 1: reason why this game didn't come back in favor of
Speaker 1: the good guy, in favor of the home team. And
Speaker 1: on a few of those third down plays, you know,
Speaker 1: coach and and Flora and Ryan Fitzpatrick rather both talked
Speaker 1: about execution. On the Dolphins second field goal, they had
Speaker 1: a fourth and or a third and three rather from
Speaker 1: the eleven yard line and could not convert on I
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick passed to Isaiah Ford would wind up kicking a
Speaker 1: field goal from twenty nine yards. You feel if you
Speaker 1: get a first down there and tide the ten, you
Speaker 1: feel good about scoring. So that's a chance right there,
Speaker 1: a player where you can maybe swift the flow of
Speaker 1: the game four points in your direction. That's the second
Speaker 1: field goal of the game. On the third field goal,
Speaker 1: they had a third and four and this one goes
Speaker 1: incomplete from Fitzpatrick to Jachim Grant and they would wind
Speaker 1: up kicking a forty five yard field goal. That one
Speaker 1: came out from the twenty seven yard line. So maybe
Speaker 1: it's not you know, it's such a surefire thing to
Speaker 1: get closer to the end zone. But fourth and three
Speaker 1: or for or third and four and third and three.
Speaker 1: You feel good about your chances to convert those over
Speaker 1: the course of a lot a large sample size, at
Speaker 1: least your percentage wise. On the fourth field goal, that
Speaker 1: was fourth and five from the Seattle twenty five yard line,
Speaker 1: standards made it from forty three yards out. So again
Speaker 1: fourth and five and we'll see if you can get that's,
Speaker 1: you know, not as easy as fourth and short as
Speaker 1: far as the stats stay, as far as converting those
Speaker 1: third and fourth downs, and then the final one in
Speaker 1: the middle of the fourth quarter with about eight minutes
Speaker 1: twenty seconds to go, Dolphins had a third and three
Speaker 1: at the nine yard line, and if Gaskin can find
Speaker 1: a way to you know, if they can get some
Speaker 1: push there and get a couple of positive yardags, maybe
Speaker 1: the differences of the outcome is different there with the
Speaker 1: fourth and shorter, but you go back to fourth and
Speaker 1: five there, that should certainly makes things a lot more
Speaker 1: challenging for the coach to make a decision on going
Speaker 1: for or kicking. So those are just a few plays,
Speaker 1: those three plays right there with third and three or
Speaker 1: four to go, if you can convert those again, just
Speaker 1: like the plays the Greg Olsen player the fumble. If
Speaker 1: you can get those to go the other direction, you're
Speaker 1: talking about possibly a different football game. But still, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's up to these guys
Speaker 1: to execute in the red zone. To find a way
Speaker 1: to look at those third and four, third and three plays,
Speaker 1: convert them, execute them. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: Brian Flores and Ryan Fitzpatrick on the red red zone execution.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start here with coach first. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's just execution down the red zone. Um. Look,
Speaker 1: when you get down there, it's that the onlines are tighter, UM,
Speaker 1: and safeties are closer to the box of the run.
Speaker 1: Games have more guys in the box. It's harder scoring
Speaker 1: the red zone, and that you got to have really
Speaker 1: good execution. We didn't have that today. And you know,
Speaker 1: again against a good team, you gotta punch it in.
Speaker 1: And even though we didn't, you know close, But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know those points, you know,
Speaker 1: three instead of seven, they add up, and you know
Speaker 1: we need every point, especially against a team like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially it's a see him like that, see ill Seahawks
Speaker 1: obviously gonna be a tough out anywhere you get them.
Speaker 1: So if you can get seven points to the three,
Speaker 1: obviously that helps you. And that was the story of
Speaker 1: the day, says Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: that was the story of the day. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to move the ball effectively and not being
Speaker 1: able to do anything in the red zone and um,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it was a penalty or poor execution
Speaker 1: or you know, just a bad read by me, it
Speaker 1: just seemed like every time we got down there, something
Speaker 1: popped up, and red zone execution really falls on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, for me, I walk out of
Speaker 1: this game feeling terrible in that I felt like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys on our team that played well
Speaker 1: enough to win, and unfortunately was not one of them.
Speaker 1: And when that happens in your quarterback doesn't play, you know,
Speaker 1: up to his ability, then you're not gonna win a
Speaker 1: whole lot of games in this league. And those thoughts
Speaker 1: obviously corroborated there and backed up by the rest of
Speaker 1: the players. We spoke to Ted Carriss, Miles Gaskin, Bobby mccainn.
Speaker 1: They all talked about finishing and that includes both red
Speaker 1: zone offensively and finishing on the defensive side. So take
Speaker 1: a number three. Red zone woes are kind of the
Speaker 1: story of the day here. Number four is Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: nine for nine now on this season, hasn't missed a
Speaker 1: point after attempt. He has the best field goal percentage
Speaker 1: and team history, franchise history over the course of his career,
Speaker 1: had a such a strong camp. I seriously do not
Speaker 1: recall him missing a field goal. Now, granted we don't
Speaker 1: have the best angle from my spot, but I do
Speaker 1: not remember him going wide in either direction. He was
Speaker 1: so money all the time. I have the utmost confidence
Speaker 1: in three points on the board when they call Jason
Speaker 1: Sanders out there and he's nine for nine from field goals,
Speaker 1: no miss p a t s in the year, so
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you trust him? But also the kickoff pooches.
Speaker 1: I think that was the first time that I recalled
Speaker 1: the I mean, any game this year. Kickoffs getting returned
Speaker 1: typically goes with the back of the end zone a
Speaker 1: touch back. He did a great job of pooching that
Speaker 1: one down in the corner. Got a funky bounce and
Speaker 1: if from there you almost have a chance to recover
Speaker 1: it possible you know, fumble or whatever. Live ball into
Speaker 1: the ten yard line, the Seahawks wind up grabbing it
Speaker 1: running out to the eleven yard line, puts them back
Speaker 1: on the shadow of their own goal line. So great
Speaker 1: job by Jason Sanders and the kicking game and this
Speaker 1: one and the fifth takeaway. My final takeaway, my my
Speaker 1: kind of ending thought for you guys here is that
Speaker 1: this is a resilient bunch. This Dolphins team is a
Speaker 1: very resilient group. You talk about these the way these
Speaker 1: guys kind of handled them else at the end of
Speaker 1: the game on the postgame pressers, their demeanor after the game.
Speaker 1: They're upset, man, They're mad. They care, and I was too.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to drive from you know, hard Rock Stadium
Speaker 1: to my apartment is about fifteen minutes away, because I
Speaker 1: hate that drive home. I made it twice now after
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game, after the Seattle game. It's like beautiful
Speaker 1: in South Florida, and all I can think about is, man,
Speaker 1: if we just get two or three players the other way,
Speaker 1: we could have been driving home with a victory here,
Speaker 1: but didn't go out that way. I care, And that's
Speaker 1: the same demeanor you felt from these players today. And
Speaker 1: I understand it's a new year a new team. But
Speaker 1: I saw the same coach last year rally a team
Speaker 1: that had far more reasons to be downtrodden and pack
Speaker 1: it in than they are right now, and they never did.
Speaker 1: And this team won't either. That's the one thing I
Speaker 1: can promise you, Like I'm not supposed to speak and
Speaker 1: you know, definitive platitudes, but this team will not close
Speaker 1: up shop. That's not the that's not the mentality of
Speaker 1: this team, of this coach. They're just not going to
Speaker 1: be a team that back down from the challenge. They're
Speaker 1: gonna rise up to it. And this team was. They
Speaker 1: were close. And all three of these games, all three
Speaker 1: losses are against teams who are combined ten and one
Speaker 1: is the Buffalo Bills game. Just went finals recording this podcast,
Speaker 1: And there was legitimate chances to win each of those games.
Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter. They had the lead against Buffalo
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen in the fourth quarter, they had a chance
Speaker 1: to capture a lead with about eight minutes in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Today we talked about the third and three
Speaker 1: with Miles gask and he gets a couple of positive yards,
Speaker 1: maybe it goes the other direction. They have a they
Speaker 1: have more time possession in this game. They are better
Speaker 1: on third downs. They sacked Wilson more than Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: got sack Rick by the way, that's six sacks allowed
Speaker 1: in four games for your Dolphins offensive line. They rushed
Speaker 1: for more yards than the Seahawks. They were not overmatched.
Speaker 1: I talked about how Wilson never seemed to really take
Speaker 1: over the game except for maybe a couple of big
Speaker 1: plays here, but he wasn't consistently hitting big passes and
Speaker 1: just chewing up your defense. Aside from that bad start,
Speaker 1: and let's go ahead and hear from Bobby McCaine real
Speaker 1: quick on the Dolphins start of this game interception on
Speaker 1: offense on a tip pass albeit and then a fairly
Speaker 1: quick score there from Russell Wilson and the Seahawks offense
Speaker 1: on the other side to go down seven zero in
Speaker 1: the first five minutes of the game. I asked Bobby
Speaker 1: post game about how what the defense did the first
Speaker 1: seven actions to limit Russell Wilson in this explosive offense
Speaker 1: to only seventeen points. He talked about how they got
Speaker 1: to start better, how they have to finish better. Here
Speaker 1: he is talking about how a poor start and kind
Speaker 1: of you know, it's good to get that that important
Speaker 1: tone set early. Here's Bobby McCain on starting better. Just
Speaker 1: get stops defensively, be better, um the back end, up
Speaker 1: front as a unit, we gotta be better. We gotta
Speaker 1: start faster. As a team, you gotta start fast and
Speaker 1: come out with the clip energy and come on and
Speaker 1: just have a good start to the game. Because when
Speaker 1: you get behind in the game, you get down the game.
Speaker 1: It makes things, it makes things hard on you, and you, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're back and pigainst the wall. And so aside from
Speaker 1: that bad start, this game was always competitive, going toe
Speaker 1: to toe with a legit contender and they just came
Speaker 1: up short. And not finishing leaves a very sour taste
Speaker 1: in your mouth, and I get that, I feel that,
Speaker 1: But having a broader view is so important. I see
Speaker 1: a team that's improved in several key areas, a team
Speaker 1: that's growing and learning. They need to learn how to finish,
Speaker 1: which is a very learned skill. In this league. You
Speaker 1: have to learn how to close out those close games.
Speaker 1: And it's one of the things that Flora's will certainly
Speaker 1: be talking about when he talks about building on what
Speaker 1: you've done for the guys that have been successful in
Speaker 1: practice and in games that he feels like. He always says,
Speaker 1: I feel good about where he's at. To continue building
Speaker 1: on that means to continue to work better, so those
Speaker 1: four or five players you can make um so they
Speaker 1: do go your way, so you can get that w
Speaker 1: It's the margin for air in this league is so
Speaker 1: so short. And how about the evaluation of this team
Speaker 1: from fits we heard earlier he talked about shouldering the
Speaker 1: blame on his own, you know, taking the blame for
Speaker 1: himself down the red zone, not executing for some of
Speaker 1: the players who he thought played well enough to win
Speaker 1: the game. But he felt like he didn't that evaluation
Speaker 1: from your quarterback, from your very honest, transparent, thirty seven
Speaker 1: year old leader of your football team. I think that
Speaker 1: speaks volumes about where he thinks this team is, where
Speaker 1: they can be, where they should be, and where they
Speaker 1: eventually will get to if they just continue to stay
Speaker 1: the course and work hard and get better and make
Speaker 1: that daily improvement to get the talent up to speed
Speaker 1: and get playing on the same page, on the same level.
Speaker 1: Because this team did bring in a bunch of talent
Speaker 1: and they are so much better and so much closer
Speaker 1: than they were this time a year ago, and I
Speaker 1: think it's very obvious to see that so far. So
Speaker 1: he talked about this team, you know, with that that
Speaker 1: comment about him not getting his job done and so
Speaker 1: many players playing what he said was well enough to win,
Speaker 1: and that in conjunction with what he said last week
Speaker 1: about this team, you know, he said they were upset.
Speaker 1: It was good to see guys upset after the game
Speaker 1: after the one in three record. Now, but last week
Speaker 1: after beating Jacksonville, he said they had plenty of guys
Speaker 1: who thought they were better than their O and two record,
Speaker 1: And I think he's right. And look, I get it
Speaker 1: results based business, but context matters, and context tells you
Speaker 1: that they went down to the wire with three teams
Speaker 1: everybody had in the postseason playoff bracket prediction and wiped
Speaker 1: out the fourth team on the schedule from the word go,
Speaker 1: from the first drive of the game. So you keep
Speaker 1: watching for the improvement, I think you'll find it. How
Speaker 1: about some of the postgame notes here from Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. Our media staff are our communications department, Brett
Speaker 1: to such a great job getting all these notes and
Speaker 1: all these stats out. Davanta Parker posted his first one
Speaker 1: hundred yard game of the season ten catches one eleven
Speaker 1: for Devanta Parker. It's the ninth one yard game of
Speaker 1: his career that's tied for eighth most in Miami Dolphins history.
Speaker 1: He also finished the game with two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: nine career receptions for three thousand, six hundred yards. The
Speaker 1: thirty yards moves him past running back Tony Nathan for
Speaker 1: ninth place in team history in all time receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and he is now just three hundred forty yards shy
Speaker 1: of Jarvis Landry for eighth place. The ten catches he
Speaker 1: had were a career high, and at the end of
Speaker 1: the one PM games across the NFL landscape, he had
Speaker 1: twelve hundred and eighty receiving yards dating back to Week
Speaker 1: seven of last year, and that which encompasses the sixteen games,
Speaker 1: is the best in the NFL. If those sixteen games
Speaker 1: were on its own, Parkers hundred eighty yards receiving would
Speaker 1: be the fourth best mark in single season Dolphins history.
Speaker 1: So a good last sixteen games for Davante Parker. We
Speaker 1: talked about xaviing Howard, picking off Russell Wilson and the
Speaker 1: end zone there with five minutes to play in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Fourteenth pick for Xaving Howard in his last
Speaker 1: twenty six games played since December of seventeen. I told
Speaker 1: you about him leading the NFL and that time span,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller of Chicago, Kevin Byard, Marcus Peters, Quandre Digs,
Speaker 1: Trey White, demonte Akzy, and Marcus Williams go from thirteen
Speaker 1: to ten picks. Among those guys, Xavian Howard now stands
Speaker 1: alone since December seventeen with fourteen interceptions. We talked about
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders going three for three in the first half,
Speaker 1: two for two in the second half, five for five
Speaker 1: in the game. He became the fourth kicker in Dolphins
Speaker 1: history to have two games with at least five field goals.
Speaker 1: Last December against the Jets he kicked five and that
Speaker 1: kicked seven rather against the Jets on December the eight,
Speaker 1: So Jason Sanders has been money in the bank. As
Speaker 1: far as injuries in this game, DeVante Parker, Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, and Shaq Lawson all left the game with injuries,
Speaker 1: but all returned, so a good good news there. On
Speaker 1: the Dolphins injury front. Eric Flowers made his seventy five
Speaker 1: NFL start today, Bobby McCain played his seventy five NFL
Speaker 1: game today, and Clayton Federalum made his Dolphins debut. Chandler
Speaker 1: Cock had his first touch today, a three yard reception
Speaker 1: in the game, first time he's had a carrier or
Speaker 1: a catch in the NFL. Devon god Shaw had five tackles.
Speaker 1: He leads all defensive lineman in the seventeen draft class
Speaker 1: with one dred and seventy nine career tackles for the
Speaker 1: big guy for Davon god Show. A couple of individual
Speaker 1: notes we didn't cover here yet. I thought Matt breeds
Speaker 1: burst look really impressive in this game that catchy had
Speaker 1: coming out of the pistol where he catches the ball,
Speaker 1: turns around and just turns on the Jets ran by
Speaker 1: a couple of Seahawks defenders. He looked nice. I think
Speaker 1: he and Miles gassing or teaming up and start to
Speaker 1: look like a pretty nice little one to punch there.
Speaker 1: Gaskin just so physical and such good contact balance. We
Speaker 1: just say that every single time, despite the fact that
Speaker 1: he's got the biggest back in the world, he always
Speaker 1: finds a way to push the pile, get sideways, get
Speaker 1: skinny press holes until the very last moment before he
Speaker 1: bounces it, bangs it or bends it, and just finds
Speaker 1: a way to get extra yards on seemingly every single run.
Speaker 1: There was a run on the third drop before the
Speaker 1: third standers field goal where he was stacked up at
Speaker 1: the line or kind of behind the line, and he
Speaker 1: just drove his legs through that thing and got a
Speaker 1: couple of extra yards out of it. Was so impressed
Speaker 1: by the way he's able to do that over and
Speaker 1: over again, I thought. In the receiving department, we talked
Speaker 1: about Davante Parker a lot, Isaiah Ford, a trusted receiver
Speaker 1: over the middle, had that big third and tent catch,
Speaker 1: and then Fitzpatrick had a third and ten run shortly
Speaker 1: after that as well. I thought Jachem Grant had some
Speaker 1: nice looking routes, some nice catches in the game, had
Speaker 1: a big third down reception over the middle on a
Speaker 1: crucial part of the game. So getting some more trust
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field there as well. I
Speaker 1: thought Mike Gassicky on that turkey whole shot early in
Speaker 1: the game between the over the top safety and underneath
Speaker 1: cornerback was such a great catch and throw from GASSICKI
Speaker 1: and from Fitzpatrick on the offensive line. Love that heavy
Speaker 1: offensive line package. We talked about a few times, Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt coming into the game getting some real push there
Speaker 1: had Solomon Kinley with some good drive off a double
Speaker 1: team for Ted Carriss in my notes here, and that
Speaker 1: continues to be a theme on this podcast, the double
Speaker 1: teams of the Dolphins offensive line. We'll get more into
Speaker 1: that later in the week. About the offensive line, kind
Speaker 1: of tough to see how they performed from my vantage point.
Speaker 1: Talked about Emmanuel Augbon Shack Lawson. They were in my
Speaker 1: notes a law on the defensive line, and I think
Speaker 1: we pretty well covered the defensive backs as well on
Speaker 1: this particular place. So Dolphins followed one in three. The
Speaker 1: individuals had some good performances. As Ryan Fitzpatrick had said,
Speaker 1: I actually was a big fan of the play calling
Speaker 1: as well. On offense. I thought there was some great
Speaker 1: designs and one of the things I think that Shane
Speaker 1: Hilly has done such a good job of this year
Speaker 1: is that third and short offense, like the third and one,
Speaker 1: third and two working off that play action, bringing Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: across the formation on the Bootleg today had that really
Speaker 1: nice play where they had snuck during smithe across the
Speaker 1: formation and completed a pass to him. So been a
Speaker 1: big fan so far of the play calling and finding different,
Speaker 1: you know, different options in the passing game. Something John
Speaker 1: con Jemmy and I spoke about pregame was they gotta
Speaker 1: find a way to get the ball spread around and
Speaker 1: kind of test the Seattle defense. Don't with them locking
Speaker 1: on one guy and spread them thin and use those
Speaker 1: matchups to your advantage. We thought they did a good
Speaker 1: job of that in this game as well. And speaking
Speaker 1: of John, let's go ahead and bring him on and
Speaker 1: get John conjemmies three takeaways to close up this Sunday
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Speaker 1: neighbor in the Dolphins press box there at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and welcome in John con Jemmy right now, John,
Speaker 1: how you doing tonight, sir, I'm doing great to have us.
Speaker 1: How about yourself? Well, you know, I told the folks
Speaker 1: in the podcast that I drive home just I think
Speaker 1: about the game and kind of replayed in my head,
Speaker 1: and I was a little bit upset today. But after
Speaker 1: some time to kind of marinate the loss and think
Speaker 1: about it, I've kind of seen the bigger picture. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can help us do the same. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I want to get to your takeaways, John, Let's just
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with number one for you. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess the first takeaway is that there were too many.
Speaker 1: I guess you could call it explosive plays for Seattle. Now,
Speaker 1: this is an offense that's going to have explosive plays,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna need to limit those at some point
Speaker 1: in the game. And it just seemed like the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin defense, for as much pressure as they put on
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and for as much good as they did
Speaker 1: for the majority of the game, they just allowed too
Speaker 1: many plays. I mean I was counting as I was
Speaker 1: doing the post game show, and there might have been
Speaker 1: twelve plays of over eleven or twelve or thirteen yards,
Speaker 1: but they just weren't fifteen and sixteen and seventeen. They
Speaker 1: were the variety of fifty seven and thirty five and
Speaker 1: in thirties seven and eighteen and seventeen and twenty three
Speaker 1: chunk yardage plays that a defense that's, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of trying to grind it out against one of the
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks arguably could be the best quarterback this year.
Speaker 1: After four games, you just can't withstand that for four quarters.
Speaker 1: And I think it kind of wore the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense down and and it it kind of exposed a
Speaker 1: little bit again of Noah IgG Bnogamy or or Nick
Speaker 1: need Um in in a situation right before halftime where
Speaker 1: you get a fifty seven yard where you're you should
Speaker 1: be as deep as the deepest player on the field,
Speaker 1: if your safety, if your corner, if your nickel corner
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Let people catch the twelve yard in front
Speaker 1: of you. If you break it tackle, it's eighteen yards.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't turn into fifty seven and it doesn't
Speaker 1: turn into points. So that's probably my first takeaway. Too
Speaker 1: many explosive plays for the Seattle Seahawks, a team that
Speaker 1: doesn't need any help scoring points. No, they certainly don't.
Speaker 1: And that was something that I was curious to ask
Speaker 1: you about. Is I guess we will can do a
Speaker 1: two pronged here. One. Is that something that you think
Speaker 1: is easily fixable or something they can just make a
Speaker 1: quick correction on, because you talk about John the fact
Speaker 1: that they did, you know, the first seven possessions of
Speaker 1: the game seven team points for the Seahawks. That's I
Speaker 1: thought that was a hell of a job on the
Speaker 1: defensive side, but then you mentioned it kind of wears
Speaker 1: on them a couple of big plays. Obviously the play
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half that just can't happen.
Speaker 1: We talked about it. It It just cannot happen. You talked
Speaker 1: about getting as deep as the deepest guy. Is that
Speaker 1: something you can just kind of, you know, fix and
Speaker 1: turn around real quickly or it doesn't take more time. No,
Speaker 1: I think you can. I mean it, it's basically rules
Speaker 1: and assignments, and they were bust in the rules and assignments,
Speaker 1: and you know, you have accountability for each player on
Speaker 1: the field. You know, if you're an offensive guy and
Speaker 1: you're saying, you know, I'm gonna put this up on
Speaker 1: the white board, and every play is designed for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: You're blocking this guy, you're taking this angle, you're hitting
Speaker 1: this creed, you're beating this defender. It should be a
Speaker 1: touchdown right in fantasyland. But you know, on defense, it's
Speaker 1: the same way. I have a defender for this. I'm
Speaker 1: taking this leverage away, so you can't get outside and
Speaker 1: set the edge like Van Ginkel tried to do today
Speaker 1: and was run around for another one of those big
Speaker 1: explosive plays. So there there's different rules and different assignments
Speaker 1: and different expectations for each player on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: And I think that youre's there's been some you know,
Speaker 1: major bust on certain plays, not for the majority of
Speaker 1: the game. I'm talking about snapshots of plays during a
Speaker 1: game that you lose concentration, you may lose focus, or
Speaker 1: you may just flat get beat out, and they turn
Speaker 1: into big plays that game momentum, and more most importantly,
Speaker 1: they put points or lead to points on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: I look at the Dolphins seven for thirteen on third
Speaker 1: down today on offense, and the Seahawks offense was only
Speaker 1: four of ten including a failed fourth down, so four
Speaker 1: for eleven on the money down. Just look at those stats,
Speaker 1: you would assume that Dolphins had to benefit the advantage
Speaker 1: in this game. And that's kind of why I let
Speaker 1: into this podcast talking about how I was encouraged by
Speaker 1: some certain things because they went toe to toe with
Speaker 1: this team that you know is four and oh and
Speaker 1: probably gonna compete deep in the January. So that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a balancing act for sure, John, But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, to come away short on the scoreboard,
Speaker 1: what was your second takeaway from that, John, in this game, Well,
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, the lack of ability to
Speaker 1: score points in terms of in the red zone, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to convert, being able to cash in on
Speaker 1: a lot of these drives where you took five, six,
Speaker 1: seven minutes off the clock and kept Russell Wilson on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, or took advantage of pretty good field position
Speaker 1: and then had to settle for three. And now I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that three points in the National Football League
Speaker 1: you should take for granted, but five of those opportunities
Speaker 1: by Jason Sanders could have been three opportunities and you
Speaker 1: cash the other two in for points in a one
Speaker 1: score game at the end of the four quarters, you
Speaker 1: may end up with a different outcome. And I think
Speaker 1: there there has to be more shots, not particularly Travis
Speaker 1: in the red zone, but on the fringe of the
Speaker 1: red zone. There has to be those explosive plays to
Speaker 1: a six six Mike Cassicki in the end zone or
Speaker 1: a six five Preston Williams or six three Davonte Parker,
Speaker 1: because if you don't complete it, you may get p
Speaker 1: I and you may get down to the two yard
Speaker 1: line or the one yard line, and now you're now
Speaker 1: you're in prime position to cash in for six instead
Speaker 1: of three. The inability for the Dolphins to turn into
Speaker 1: some of those drives into touchdowns really uh. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about momentum on defense, how that kind of
Speaker 1: drags the energy out of you when you allow fifty
Speaker 1: seven yard or a thirty five yard or well does
Speaker 1: the same thing for an offense When you're grinding down
Speaker 1: the field and you're making plays, and you're throwing four
Speaker 1: plays in a row and they're all completions, you get
Speaker 1: to the red zone, you run the football you're throwing
Speaker 1: in completion, you take a sack or a scramble, and
Speaker 1: you're kicking a field goal. That's demoralizing to an offense.
Speaker 1: After a period of time, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: happened today. The minament all they got down there, they
Speaker 1: were knocking on the door, they couldn't punch it in,
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks really won by uh, you know, their
Speaker 1: strength of their of their red zone defense. That's a
Speaker 1: really good point. They talked about that post game. The coach,
Speaker 1: you know, Coach Floors and the players talked about how
Speaker 1: the red zone gets tighter, tighter, windows down, their safeties
Speaker 1: are coming up closer to the the lion scream. There's not
Speaker 1: as much space to operate in. So you're talking about
Speaker 1: going in from you know, twenty five to thirty five
Speaker 1: yard range and taking your shots from there. I recall charting,
Speaker 1: you know, Ryan, Tannehill and Kenny still touchdown passes a
Speaker 1: few years back and they were all, like you mentioned, John,
Speaker 1: in that range, like ten of the eleven or something
Speaker 1: like that. We're from that range, so or whatever, the
Speaker 1: number was a high percentage of it came from that
Speaker 1: outside the red zone areas. A good point there. I
Speaker 1: have a follow up question for you on that is,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I talked about before
Speaker 1: I brought you on, John was that this team, they're
Speaker 1: close to finding ways to you know, win games at
Speaker 1: the end, but they just haven't been able to do
Speaker 1: that so far. Is finishing games and and learning how
Speaker 1: to finish in games? Is that a learned skill? Like?
Speaker 1: Is that something they can they can kind of grow
Speaker 1: and develop into it is? I think it's all about
Speaker 1: execution and confidence. I think when you get in those positions,
Speaker 1: the more times you can you can be successful, The
Speaker 1: more times you can have a drive or an explosive
Speaker 1: play end in a touchdown, the more confidence you have
Speaker 1: of you can do that with more regularity. And I
Speaker 1: think it's it's one of those things that has to
Speaker 1: happen for the Dolphins to get over that hurdle of
Speaker 1: that homp or that that stigma of not being able
Speaker 1: to score once they crossed the torny yard line, at
Speaker 1: least not score touchdowns. You have to do it. It's
Speaker 1: it's a learned trait you have to be able to
Speaker 1: get in. I think the Dolphins did that, you know,
Speaker 1: last Thursday night against Jacksonville, much lesser opponent, but still
Speaker 1: they were able to execute and they were able to
Speaker 1: get people open. They had wide windows to throw to
Speaker 1: on a slant to Williams on a corner to Kassuki.
Speaker 1: They were they were able to find matchups to exploit
Speaker 1: and take advantage of. And I think today the competition
Speaker 1: definitely rose a little bit in terms of the caliber
Speaker 1: of defense in terms of each individual player. But I
Speaker 1: just don't think they didn't They didn't win those one
Speaker 1: on one battles, nor did they give themselves an opportunity
Speaker 1: to maybe get into a different type of play that
Speaker 1: that really put the spotlight on a six six, six,
Speaker 1: five or six three guy going up for a jump
Speaker 1: ball or on a pick play getting the right outcome
Speaker 1: that they were looking for, and uh pressure in the pocket,
Speaker 1: you know, and the inability to Travis. I think it's
Speaker 1: important that the Dolphins have to find a way to
Speaker 1: run the football if they're going to choose to do
Speaker 1: so more effectively in the red zone and not allow
Speaker 1: um contact behind the line of scrimmage. That kind of
Speaker 1: set you back and kind of gets that, oh no,
Speaker 1: here we go again, feeling Yeah. The big third down
Speaker 1: three play the Miles gas and I think really changed
Speaker 1: the course of the game because he picks up two
Speaker 1: yards there third and one. You know, you probably are
Speaker 1: fourth and one, mother, you maybe you have a different
Speaker 1: outcome there, So good point there, John. Take away number
Speaker 1: three from you is what I just thought. There were
Speaker 1: two parts of the game that struck me that were
Speaker 1: very important. The breakdown before halftime and then the dolphins
Speaker 1: ability not being able in the fourth quarter when they
Speaker 1: got the twenty nine yard field goal. Uh they had
Speaker 1: to settle for three, and you mentioned the gas can
Speaker 1: run gets him down to you know, the three yard line,
Speaker 1: and then they get a tackle for lost and I
Speaker 1: thought they should have rolled the dice there and maybe
Speaker 1: gone forward. So I'm gonna say that there was a
Speaker 1: bit of a breakdown before halftime. That's my takeaway. You know,
Speaker 1: the score should have been uh ten nine, maybe going
Speaker 1: a halftime and set of seventeen nine. And even though
Speaker 1: the Dolphins came out and was stood a long drive
Speaker 1: with an interception by Xavian Howard in the end zone
Speaker 1: and they turned that around into points another field goal.
Speaker 1: But I just thought that going into halftime, after giving
Speaker 1: up points with only twenty four seconds remaining before you
Speaker 1: get to halftime, and then that long drive coming out,
Speaker 1: that here we go again type of feeling. They put
Speaker 1: a stop to it. But that's that's almost seven. It's
Speaker 1: off the clock on that drive where you can't get
Speaker 1: it back and in you're a team that's settling for
Speaker 1: field goals. That's going to catch up to you at
Speaker 1: some point in the game. And I think it caught
Speaker 1: up to the Miami Dolphins. So I just thought that
Speaker 1: that momentum before halftime and then not being able to
Speaker 1: to get it in after the Howard interception um somewhere
Speaker 1: along those lines. Something had to go different for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to win the game. John. We've done three of
Speaker 1: these so far. The one we didn't do the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were victorious onto maybe we are the bad luck in
Speaker 1: three weeks. There you go, but hopefully we're doing this
Speaker 1: next Sunday after a win in San Francisco. John, appreciate
Speaker 1: your time tonight, Aman, uh and uh we'll we'll do
Speaker 1: it all over again one week from tonight. Thanks you too,
Speaker 1: But all right, see you, John, And there he goes,
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