Speaker 1: That's booking down Field, clutchdown, Miami folks, run what ends up? Dolphins?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and as always I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. On today's show. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a football Friday and a fan Friday. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have John con Jemmy on for the last word on
Speaker 1: Dolphins at Bills. We'll get to the college three pack,
Speaker 1: we'll pick some NFL games, and tell you about Jacoby's
Speaker 1: Halloween event from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. Alright,
Speaker 1: So if you have not seen it already, Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: host and kids from Alex's Place at Sylvester Center for
Speaker 1: a special Halloween fashion show with his teammates. And if
Speaker 1: you guys haven't seen the photos from all these costumes
Speaker 1: and the guys really making some days and some weeks
Speaker 1: and even years and lifetimes for a bunch of kids,
Speaker 1: go check out our soulcials. Go check out Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com for tons of smiling faces. Who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to see a kid smile? There's tons of it all
Speaker 1: over the place. And the Dolphins players did a great
Speaker 1: job getting out there and not just being out there
Speaker 1: with the kids, but really embracing the entire event and
Speaker 1: really interacting with the kids. And you can see some
Speaker 1: videos of Tuah and Liam Eichenberg dancing on stage with
Speaker 1: some kiddos. It's it's a great, great little thing. They
Speaker 1: did a great event. They did, and you know, I
Speaker 1: talked about or I wrote down some some of my
Speaker 1: favorite costumes here that I saw. I couldn't see them all,
Speaker 1: but some of the ones that I saw that I
Speaker 1: thought were great. First of all, back to Liam Eichenberg,
Speaker 1: him up on stage as buzz Lightyear is for some
Speaker 1: reason just looks right to me. But also the dance
Speaker 1: moves like, I don't William's a father, but from one
Speaker 1: dad to a possibly future father, you got the dad
Speaker 1: dance moves down only and they're looking great out there,
Speaker 1: my man. And then to as Woody was great. He
Speaker 1: talked about that at his press conference on Wednesday. Dressing
Speaker 1: up as Woody from Toy Story to go along with
Speaker 1: a buzz Lightyear there. Jalen Waddle as Elmo was fantastic,
Speaker 1: Blake Ferguson as a teletubby, Rob Hunt as a pirate,
Speaker 1: the scariest looking pirate I've ever seen, and then Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette as At first I thought maybe Paw Patrol, but
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what it was. He had a
Speaker 1: fireman's hat on and a Dalmatian costuhim and a great
Speaker 1: smile with all the kids there too. So again, go
Speaker 1: check out the Miami Dolphins socials Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, also
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins dot com. Tons of smiling faces. Really cool
Speaker 1: for these guys to get out there and go do that.
Speaker 1: All right, It's Friday, you know what time it is.
Speaker 1: Let's get my guest in here, John Conjemmy and joining
Speaker 1: us now as he does every single Friday here on
Speaker 1: drive time. Is my friend, my press box neighbor, my
Speaker 1: key line pie buddy, John Conjemmy. How you doing, man,
Speaker 1: I'm up to a bad two pounds Travis and going
Speaker 1: north with this key line Pie. I think I double
Speaker 1: dipped again. I tried to break uh my routine so
Speaker 1: it would bring some good luck to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But it did not help in the end. But it
Speaker 1: got us close in the fourth quarter with that nice comeback.
Speaker 1: It just didn't hold two minutes away from victory there.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe the third key line pie is the
Speaker 1: key next. I'm not sure what hey on the topic
Speaker 1: of on the topic of press box food, so help
Speaker 1: me figure this out, because I think I'm still a
Speaker 1: little bit new in this area. So I always get
Speaker 1: to the stadium and I go have lunch that they
Speaker 1: provide for us, always really good food, and then they
Speaker 1: have that halftime like snack right like it's either chicken
Speaker 1: strips or hot dogs or something to that effect. I
Speaker 1: always find myself not hungry enough to eat at halftime,
Speaker 1: and then after the game when I have to do
Speaker 1: a two hour postgame show on a podcast and half
Speaker 1: about four hours where I can't eat, I'm starving. What's
Speaker 1: the best way to attack that, well, I think the bear,
Speaker 1: as you look at an animal, has it down pretty good.
Speaker 1: They eat as much as they can and then they
Speaker 1: go into hibernation. That's what we do on Sundays. We
Speaker 1: we have to consume as much as we can in
Speaker 1: terms of water or whatever your beverage of choices, coffee,
Speaker 1: and then eat because you're not going to see food
Speaker 1: for probably six or seven hours after that. So that's
Speaker 1: the mentality I've always had, Eat even though you're not hungry,
Speaker 1: because you know you're not gonna get anything until about
Speaker 1: nine o'clock that night. I wrote that down. That's great advice,
Speaker 1: something that I haven't been doing for two years now.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it at the Houston game next Sunday.
Speaker 1: But John, we have a game coming up this Sunday
Speaker 1: on the road, tough opponent, and I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and dive in here and talk about this football
Speaker 1: game with you. I talked about this on my Thursday show,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to get a better sense of
Speaker 1: it from your perspective because the last time these two
Speaker 1: teams played, you know, Tunguevaloa played two series and they
Speaker 1: were they were just full of blitzes, the Skies, blitzes,
Speaker 1: delayed blitz is, ultimately pressures, hits and sacks and our
Speaker 1: quarterback and eventually knocked out of the game. How can
Speaker 1: Miami overcome what Buffalo will certainly again, right, I would
Speaker 1: think so. I think you may see it at some point.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be right away
Speaker 1: in the first quarter on the first couple of series,
Speaker 1: like we saw at hard Rock Stadium. But the way
Speaker 1: to get away and remedy that I guess is identification.
Speaker 1: It's communication, and it's going up tempo because if as
Speaker 1: a defense they want to be unpredictable, they want to
Speaker 1: put the pressure on your offensive line, your center, your
Speaker 1: quarterback to babel to identify, to identify, put a big
Speaker 1: guy on a big guy, put the running back on
Speaker 1: a linebacker or a safety, and they want to make
Speaker 1: your quarterback think about a lot of things pre snapped
Speaker 1: so that it confuses him and it takes him down
Speaker 1: on the play clock where he feels rushed or he
Speaker 1: feels hurried. And I think Buffalo the Bills did a
Speaker 1: really good job of that in the first game. I
Speaker 1: think it was six sacks in the combination of of
Speaker 1: of two and Jacoby. I think they had multiple hits.
Speaker 1: I know when Jacoby was in the game, he was
Speaker 1: flu from the pocket quite a bit. He had to
Speaker 1: extend plays with his legs. So I think it all
Speaker 1: starts up front center, identification, a lot of talking with
Speaker 1: that offensive line, either getting in and out of the
Speaker 1: huddle quickly or being able to go up tempo so
Speaker 1: you can keep the Bills a little bit more predictable
Speaker 1: and put the pressure back on that defense. And then
Speaker 1: you have to be able to make them pay. If
Speaker 1: they're gonna blitz and they're gonna come after you, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to hit a chunk yard eage
Speaker 1: played down the field. You have to get that explosive
Speaker 1: place somewhere in that series, because you know what that does.
Speaker 1: That's like spraying off when the mosquitoes around they all
Speaker 1: go away. You know that those drives go away, those
Speaker 1: blitzes go away because you've been able to expose them
Speaker 1: for for coming after you. And that's the greatest satisfaction
Speaker 1: a coordinator can have a quarterback and have an offense
Speaker 1: can have come on after me because I got something
Speaker 1: for you. And if you don't make them pay, that
Speaker 1: will continue to persist on the defensive side. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: well time screened that well time. When you get a
Speaker 1: two way go from your slot, maybe he wins off
Speaker 1: the release immediately you get the ball downfield. There's ways
Speaker 1: to do it, and I'm glad you made that a
Speaker 1: point of emphasis. That was one of my points of
Speaker 1: emphasis as well. And I do feel like this team
Speaker 1: is more equipped at this stage, and they were early
Speaker 1: in the season to kind of be more aggressive because
Speaker 1: we've seen it with the quarterback now at this stage,
Speaker 1: I mean, two was throwing the ball down the field
Speaker 1: with accuracy and precision right now, and he's he's having
Speaker 1: good success in that intermediate area. And I thought one
Speaker 1: of his best throws of the season early of his
Speaker 1: career was that throw to Mike Kasiki to get that
Speaker 1: first touchdown drive of the fourth quarter, sparked kind of
Speaker 1: falling away to his right, throwing back to his left.
Speaker 1: I think we're we'ren't sore for some more progression in
Speaker 1: that vertical game like you mentioned there this week or otherwise.
Speaker 1: I do think we're gonna see it. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, John, because the other part off that
Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of ask you about was, you know,
Speaker 1: Buffalo played the RPO concept last time. I thought so well,
Speaker 1: they would. They would blitz into the face of the
Speaker 1: back and force to it to make a quick decision,
Speaker 1: and then they would they would fill that slant route
Speaker 1: to Davante Parker, whoever the heck it was that was
Speaker 1: that route at the time. So what's a good counter
Speaker 1: to that? If they're gonna play up, is it the
Speaker 1: shot play, is it going vertical? How do you counter
Speaker 1: off of that RPO look where they pretty much took
Speaker 1: out every option you had on it. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you can do it by running the football. You know,
Speaker 1: remember the first part of the r p O right,
Speaker 1: it's the run. And if you're in man coverage and
Speaker 1: you've got tight corners and they're squatting on that quick
Speaker 1: slant or whatever the route maybe maybe it's a stop
Speaker 1: route or a quick out. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to run the football. That means the offensive line needs
Speaker 1: to do their part. That means to it needs to
Speaker 1: do his part in controlling the edge rusher or the
Speaker 1: edge defender against the run. If two can pull the
Speaker 1: football and get five six yards get down on the turf,
Speaker 1: that's a win. That that's why you have the r
Speaker 1: p O in. And the second part of that is
Speaker 1: once you get that run game and get two on
Speaker 1: the edge and they're not really pressuring up field with
Speaker 1: that the edge defender, you kind of hit that double move.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a slant and go that s Lugo route
Speaker 1: up on top of you take a shot at it,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's a rub route with a combat nation
Speaker 1: on that side that that can build off of the
Speaker 1: r p. Oh. There's a lot of things you can
Speaker 1: get to. But it all stems back to the first
Speaker 1: part of why we call it that run pass option.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to run the football. Just
Speaker 1: the threat of it without anything backing it up doesn't
Speaker 1: really make that play all that successful. So you have
Speaker 1: to be able to give him a little bit of
Speaker 1: run both running back and quarterback that will get people
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage or bring more attention. And
Speaker 1: that's where you get the double move on that slant
Speaker 1: and go, or you can get use a little rub
Speaker 1: route with a combination on the outside. Yeah, I do
Speaker 1: feel like you know, having to with the design run
Speaker 1: as far as you know, if you put the ball
Speaker 1: in the belly of the running back, the defensive end crashes,
Speaker 1: the quarterback goes out the back of the gate. There,
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a help helpful element. I think
Speaker 1: this time around two a four last week on the ground,
Speaker 1: let's see three for twenty two in the Jacksonville game.
Speaker 1: He had the rushing touchdown and gets the Patriots back
Speaker 1: in Week one. So he's been very effective using his
Speaker 1: legs to create plays both designed and scrambling when things
Speaker 1: kind of break down around him. So that's the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. John great stuff there. On the
Speaker 1: defensive side, I think Josh Allen right now, given just
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes current struggles, I don't think it's gonna last
Speaker 1: or anything, but I think right now, Josh Allen's the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the NFL. I would I would put
Speaker 1: my name to that. Uh And even though it was
Speaker 1: a thirty five point blowout, he had his worst statistical
Speaker 1: day of the season, and really against the Dolphins going
Speaker 1: back to his rookie season, because he's played so well
Speaker 1: against this team. How does Miami replicate that success against
Speaker 1: Josh Allen just the passing game of the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: How do they replicate that success this time around? Well,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it has to be a two
Speaker 1: way street. You have to be able to create some
Speaker 1: pressure in the pocket and it has to be mirrored
Speaker 1: up with coverage. You know, we talked about that last
Speaker 1: week against Matt Ryan and all the weapons that they had,
Speaker 1: and you saw at times, you know, when pressure was
Speaker 1: around Ryan, and the coverage was decent. It worked out
Speaker 1: pretty well. But when he had time and he was
Speaker 1: able to select his man to man coverage, uh uh,
Speaker 1: maybe a mismatch for him, or he felt like it
Speaker 1: was in his favor, he threw. He threw perfect passes
Speaker 1: and it beat really good coverage. So I think with
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, the same principles apply. You have to be
Speaker 1: able to pressure the pocket, but you cannot allow him
Speaker 1: to escape that. That's been the biggest thing that has
Speaker 1: hurt the Miami Dolphins over every outing that we've played
Speaker 1: against Josh Allen the Buffalo Bills. He's been able to escape,
Speaker 1: He's been able to use his legs. Maybe not so
Speaker 1: much in the first game uh this year, but in
Speaker 1: the prior five or six contest. Yes. So Number one,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to close the net on Alan.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to limit his running ability
Speaker 1: ability because that generates momentum and extends drives for the
Speaker 1: Bill's offense. So it's pressure, it's type coverage, and it's
Speaker 1: not allowing Alan to extend drives on a third and
Speaker 1: six where he gets fourteen or first and tent when
Speaker 1: you have him on a stack and it ends up
Speaker 1: a negative play ends up being a positive play. Now
Speaker 1: they have another down and they have momentum. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I see when you're facing a big, strong quarterback.
Speaker 1: He can make all the throws, obviously, but when his
Speaker 1: time is limited, the coverage matches up and you don't
Speaker 1: let him escape with regularity. That's why he that's why
Speaker 1: he struggled in the game against US. I thought pressure
Speaker 1: matched good coverage. He didn't run crazy. He maybe had
Speaker 1: thirty some yards. I think on the afternoon, I'd have
Speaker 1: to go back and check. I think he had, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe fifty seven yards. He was averaging. He had around
Speaker 1: forty yards in the game, so it wasn't crazy, but
Speaker 1: it was enough to keep them alive, to keep drives alive.
Speaker 1: That's what the Dolphins need to to limit on Sunday
Speaker 1: and really maintain their their rush lane integrity right because
Speaker 1: the worst place to be on the football fields behind
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And actually, if you watched the strip sacker,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was actually a sacking, might
Speaker 1: have been beyond the last scrimmage at this point, but oddballs,
Speaker 1: forced fumble, he winds up behind the quarterback and great
Speaker 1: effort to get back into the play on Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: But against Josh Allen, you're not gonna flag him down,
Speaker 1: so you have to really stay in front him and
Speaker 1: now let him escape that way and hope to catch
Speaker 1: him from the backside. So that's a great point. And
Speaker 1: then it kind of to follow up on that, John,
Speaker 1: you know, we saw I think I talked about this
Speaker 1: in the preview podcast. How I'm I'm willing to accept,
Speaker 1: you know, sacrificing on run defense to really try to
Speaker 1: put a stop to the passing offense because what can
Speaker 1: hurt you more obviously the passing game, right, but you
Speaker 1: can't be too vulnerable against the run. And we saw
Speaker 1: the I think it was the Bills either first play
Speaker 1: of the game or maybe this is our second series
Speaker 1: where they came out there and had a forty nine
Speaker 1: yard touchdown rush from Devin Singletary. Do you try to
Speaker 1: how do you? I guess my question is how do
Speaker 1: you how do you take care of both? Like is
Speaker 1: it lesser of two evils? Pick your poison? Is there
Speaker 1: an option to take out both of the running game
Speaker 1: in the passing game here for Buffalo? No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think everybody has a job to do.
Speaker 1: You know, those defensive linemen up front seven their run first.
Speaker 1: They're not going after the quarterback. They need to stop
Speaker 1: the run. They have, you know, all their rules and
Speaker 1: all their principles built into every defensive scheme that they're
Speaker 1: going to on on Sunday. So it's it's actually, you know,
Speaker 1: gap identification and integrity, just doing your job, not somebody else's.
Speaker 1: I think that takes care of the run by itself
Speaker 1: sometimes because if you're not letting that that other big
Speaker 1: human move you against your will and you're you're kind
Speaker 1: of in your spot and doing your job. But it's
Speaker 1: a stalemate and we'll and on defense, you'll take a stalemate.
Speaker 1: You don't always have to win. It's about creating a stalemate,
Speaker 1: not getting beat up front, because those things create issues.
Speaker 1: That's what that in my opinion, what creates huge lanes.
Speaker 1: And to your point, that's when Devin Singletary went forty
Speaker 1: six yards. I think it was the second play offensive
Speaker 1: play the Bills had. It was a two play drive
Speaker 1: and it was seven nothing and it took you know,
Speaker 1: all of forty six seconds. Uh So it was one
Speaker 1: of those things where you know, right off the bat
Speaker 1: you get caught and you create a huge lane. I
Speaker 1: think you went in untouched. That that's a problem. That
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, your running back to the
Speaker 1: sideline goal, we're what happens, We're down seven nothing, I
Speaker 1: didn't create a sweat. So those are the Those are
Speaker 1: the types of things on defense. Do your job, have
Speaker 1: gap integrity, take care of the run first and the
Speaker 1: other stuff. You know, there's other guys to get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but that interior needs to do their job
Speaker 1: up front. That's a good point and interesting because I asked, uh,
Speaker 1: I think it was Josh Boyer this week about kind
Speaker 1: of the uptick in Christian Wilkins production. He said that
Speaker 1: his comfort ability and familiarity within his fundamentals and technique
Speaker 1: within the scheme allows him to take a little bit
Speaker 1: more chances. And we've seen him have obviously a kind
Speaker 1: of breakout year here and your number three, we'll need
Speaker 1: that from him and Adam Butler and is actually like
Speaker 1: ray Kwon Davis, Jerome Baker, Landed Roberts the entire crutey
Speaker 1: to step it up this week against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to our final question here before
Speaker 1: the mailback John. The Dolphins will win if if they
Speaker 1: can keep the Buffalo field Buffalo Bills on a long field.
Speaker 1: Um last last game out at hard Rock Stadium, first
Speaker 1: two drives, the Bills headed on the four plus forty
Speaker 1: six and the minus forty eight. Uh you know, singletary,
Speaker 1: we talked about the run on the second play from
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage that the Bills had at seven nothing.
Speaker 1: And then on that next drive, Alan scrambles on a
Speaker 1: third and third and six for seven yards, and then
Speaker 1: it's a shot play to Sanders for thirty five that
Speaker 1: leads to a seven play, fifty two yard drive and
Speaker 1: it's fourteen nothing, you know, and and that can't happen.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to keep the Bills on
Speaker 1: a long field. Now, whether that's you know, kick off
Speaker 1: and the Bills get it start at the twenty five,
Speaker 1: that's great news. But you can't give him a free
Speaker 1: first down or a first down and a half where
Speaker 1: they start on the thirty five or forty yard line.
Speaker 1: A couple of first downs, they're in scoring position, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're across the fifty yard line. So it
Speaker 1: has to be one of those games where you win
Speaker 1: with the kicking game. You win with a couple of
Speaker 1: three and ounce early. You keep them on a long
Speaker 1: field and that extends the game in the first half
Speaker 1: and doesn't get it to where it's fourteen nothing. You
Speaker 1: feel like it's an uphill battle to start. So that
Speaker 1: would be my first key. Secondly, you have to keep
Speaker 1: to a clean six sacks game one. Although he wasn't
Speaker 1: in there for them, they were able to get to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins quarterback in Jacoby Brissette. I think you need
Speaker 1: to keep to a clean What does that mean? Can
Speaker 1: you can you have some balance on the offense. Can
Speaker 1: you run it with the r p O? Can you
Speaker 1: run it just going north and the south? And can
Speaker 1: you convert on third down? Can you find those plays
Speaker 1: that keep your offense on the field. So I think
Speaker 1: communication identification. It goes back to the Bills trying to
Speaker 1: get after the Dolphins in that first game. Can you identify,
Speaker 1: can you communicate? Can you get the ball out on time?
Speaker 1: And you can? Can you have better execution from guys
Speaker 1: like Jackson and Davis, even though there may be in
Speaker 1: different positions, they still have to execute at a higher level.
Speaker 1: And thirdly, I think you need to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the explosive plays. Uh, the Dolphins were down fourteen nothing
Speaker 1: in that first game, but you had a drop by
Speaker 1: Parker in the end zone that was clearly going to
Speaker 1: be a touchdown. You had to catch in a in
Speaker 1: a run after catch with a fumble in the red
Speaker 1: zone that was going to lead to points. You know,
Speaker 1: the score was just a two touchdown game then. So
Speaker 1: if you can take advantage of the plays you're gonna
Speaker 1: make down the field, that's gonna, you know, return served
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills because you know you're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna get thirst, They're gonna get some plays. And I
Speaker 1: would caveat onto that, Travis. The defense has to find
Speaker 1: a way to get off the field. On the first
Speaker 1: series of the second half, they've given up plays that
Speaker 1: everybody except Tampa Bay, and Tampa Bay didn't need points.
Speaker 1: They're already up ten at halftime, but they've given away
Speaker 1: a touchdown I believe in five of the six other outings,
Speaker 1: and it's been a field goal to the Patriots to
Speaker 1: start the third quarter in Game number one. They have
Speaker 1: to find a way to turn that tide. If they
Speaker 1: continue to give up points, all it is is a
Speaker 1: drain on the team, so they have to be able
Speaker 1: to do something positive in a positive manner. You know,
Speaker 1: get a strip, sack, get get off the field three now,
Speaker 1: just don't give up some points to start the second half.
Speaker 1: That was one of my keys of the game, the
Speaker 1: middle eight minutes of the game is be better in
Speaker 1: that area because it's been tough so far for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins this year. And I'm also glad you mentioned the
Speaker 1: keeping two a lane. You know, when he played in
Speaker 1: this game last time, two series two sacks. Now the
Speaker 1: two games back, he's taken one total sack over the
Speaker 1: two games, so hopefully that's a sign positive sign of
Speaker 1: things to come here for two A tongue of Voloa.
Speaker 1: And we talked about the offense pretty significantly there on
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Here John the first questions about defense.
Speaker 1: It's from at s a f C. No at all,
Speaker 1: He asks, the Bills have had success on Miami's band coverage.
Speaker 1: What can the defense do to fix that? Well, we
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, creating some type of pressure, and
Speaker 1: we talked about having better coverage. Now you've got some
Speaker 1: playmakers on the other side, obviously, I mean Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: is gonna get his right, he's gonna get his opportunity.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and Emmanuel Sanders, they're gonna they're gonna pick,
Speaker 1: and in Gabriel Davis, they're gonna pick, you know, around
Speaker 1: the defense, but it all starts upfront. Can you can
Speaker 1: you tighten that net on Josh Allen to make him
Speaker 1: feel a little bit uncomfortable where he's looking to escape
Speaker 1: instead of hanging in that extra half second, you know,
Speaker 1: to to a second that he's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: give his guys a chance down the field. If you
Speaker 1: can alter that timing in any way, it's gonna help.
Speaker 1: It's gonna help you maybe forced Josh Allen to be
Speaker 1: inaccurate with his throw down the field, or it's gonna
Speaker 1: help coverage for that half second. More so, you know
Speaker 1: these are the ball is gonna come out earlier, it's
Speaker 1: gonna come out late. You just don't want it on
Speaker 1: time with a high rate of frequency. So any combination
Speaker 1: of that can help that man coverage down the field.
Speaker 1: And that's your defensive question. We're gon go right back
Speaker 1: to the offense here, John at Michael Shrum sixty four.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed any real growth from the offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: as it relates to play calling, an adjustments and before
Speaker 1: you go in on that real quick John. Last week
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Miles Gascon touchdown reception was one of
Speaker 1: my fair plays the Dolphins have called this year because
Speaker 1: I kind of worked off of the jet motion look
Speaker 1: that Jillen Waddle has scored on a few times this season,
Speaker 1: and then they basically flooded that area and got some
Speaker 1: fall steps, then two or three back to the other side.
Speaker 1: I thought that was great place sequencing. What say you,
Speaker 1: I do too? I thought it was awesome, And I
Speaker 1: think all you have to do is look at the numbers.
Speaker 1: Over the last couple of games, the way to A
Speaker 1: has thrown the football. Um He's strown for three twenty
Speaker 1: nine and two touchdowns. He had four touchdowns against the Falcons,
Speaker 1: high rate of completion percentage. They got a little bit
Speaker 1: better running the football. So I think that it's a
Speaker 1: little easier for a coordinator to call plays with confidence,
Speaker 1: take take chances, take opportunities when you know you're getting
Speaker 1: a little bit more You're getting a little bit more
Speaker 1: continuity in execution, you're getting more consistency with Hey, we're
Speaker 1: starting to stack plays together. Now. I don't feel too
Speaker 1: bad about going off the board and letting to a
Speaker 1: you know live with this play. You know this, this
Speaker 1: might be the time to to hit Kisiki down the rail,
Speaker 1: or find him in man coverage, or let him sit
Speaker 1: down and zone over the middle, or or take a
Speaker 1: chance over the top here. I'd like to see Wattle
Speaker 1: get involved a little bit more, maybe vertically down the field.
Speaker 1: But I do think you're getting more consistency for too.
Speaker 1: I thought he played really two solid games minus the turnovers.
Speaker 1: You've got to eliminate that, obviously, but he's been playing
Speaker 1: at a high level, so you're able to get to
Speaker 1: more of your offense. And I think that trust factors
Speaker 1: coming in. And it also helps that the lines played
Speaker 1: a little bit better over the last two weeks. With
Speaker 1: the different combinations they've had, They've given them a little
Speaker 1: bit more time and they've been able to run the football.
Speaker 1: And all those passes, the gascon and augment, those are
Speaker 1: all extensions of the run. Those checkdowns, those little flat
Speaker 1: flair plays, those are all extensions of the run. So
Speaker 1: it's nice to see that becoming a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: part of the offense where you don't have to really
Speaker 1: line up and rely on moving people. You can you
Speaker 1: can go r P O, you can go check down,
Speaker 1: you can do some screens and that's all an extension
Speaker 1: of the running game. Yeah, you mentioned two of their
Speaker 1: a third straight good game from him, especially doing it
Speaker 1: in that building where you know, Dolphins quarterbacks just have
Speaker 1: not high lot of success in that building, even going
Speaker 1: back to the Marino days, Like it's kind of been
Speaker 1: a house of horse for those Dolphins offensively in that
Speaker 1: Orchard Park building there. So hopefully a third strate good
Speaker 1: game offensively will get some good positive juju going into
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Our last question here, John,
Speaker 1: we hit the offense, we hit the defense at Darth
Speaker 1: Gator double O seven. What a great handle that is?
Speaker 1: Asks under Flora. As the Dolphins had the fourth fewest
Speaker 1: penalties in twenty nine team the third fewest last season
Speaker 1: in one they have the tenth most. How does the
Speaker 1: stat change so drastically and can they get back to
Speaker 1: where they were? Well, when you're struggling as a football team,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that that happened. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons. You know, it could be turnovers,
Speaker 1: it could be penalties that we're talking about now. It
Speaker 1: could be just missed assignments. A lot of things happen,
Speaker 1: your concentration goes to other places, and you're worried about
Speaker 1: patching up a lot of different things when the fundamentals
Speaker 1: of the game are lost. And I think sometimes when
Speaker 1: you're on a winning team, when things are rolling, you
Speaker 1: don't you know, those things come automatically because your concentration
Speaker 1: is so pristine. And I think sometimes when things when
Speaker 1: that ball is rolling the wrong direction, you're thinking about
Speaker 1: ten other things and instead of what you should just
Speaker 1: be honing in on your fundamentals, your discipline, all those
Speaker 1: things kind of get lost in the shuffle, no matter
Speaker 1: how much you harp on it at practice, no matter
Speaker 1: how many times you talk about it in a meeting.
Speaker 1: There's just other things that take paramount. When the lights
Speaker 1: come on or you're out at one o'clock and you go, okay,
Speaker 1: i've got two plays called on offense. I'm an offensive lineman. Um.
Speaker 1: The first one was, you know, on on one or
Speaker 1: on the first sound, they've killed it. Now I've got
Speaker 1: to go to plan B. And you just lose your
Speaker 1: train of thought for a split second and you have
Speaker 1: that tall start, or you know you have that pre
Speaker 1: snap penalty. Those things creep in and get contagious when
Speaker 1: you're not winning football games. I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: creeped in a little bit to where the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: are right now. They didn't expect to be, you know,
Speaker 1: nowhere near one and six. They didn't expect to have
Speaker 1: this role going in the opposite direction. And I think
Speaker 1: some times human nature takes over and you make mistakes.
Speaker 1: You make more mistakes than you would if you were
Speaker 1: on uh pristine assignment. You're on a four game winning
Speaker 1: streak and you're you're crystallizing everything. I think sometimes that
Speaker 1: bleeds into teams. I think you just perfectly explained why
Speaker 1: you know football can be such a volatile sport, Like
Speaker 1: there's so many things that can pop up that if
Speaker 1: you don't nip them the bud right away or take
Speaker 1: care of them on a on a day by day basis,
Speaker 1: on a walkthrough by walkthrough, meeting by meeting basis, they
Speaker 1: can have an impact and those couple of players can
Speaker 1: can ultimately determine whether or not you win or lose
Speaker 1: the football game on Sunday. So great insight there, John,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. I think I have the key
Speaker 1: for the turnaround here as regards to the key line
Speaker 1: pie I can play in the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: about minimal whip cream. I'm bringing the can of what
Speaker 1: Ready whip with me this time. I'm gonna blow up
Speaker 1: thing and we're gonna get a crank in the right way.
Speaker 1: But that's next week. John Bill's coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time is always my friend. Thanks a lot,
Speaker 1: and be well, oh thanks, Travis, all be looking forward.
Speaker 1: I might have to go. I might have to go
Speaker 1: into the third key line if we the lead in
Speaker 1: the second half. For sure, we're gonna be taking pulls
Speaker 1: off that whip cream can all game longer. So looking
Speaker 1: forward to it, my friend, and we'll see you in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Sounds good, Travis, Thanks all right,
Speaker 1: So there he goes. Let's get to a few more
Speaker 1: of these mail bag questions here from y'all. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys putting those in. It really means a lot to
Speaker 1: give us some content here on the show. And I
Speaker 1: want to hear from you guys and and make the
Speaker 1: podcast you know yours as well, because we're doing this
Speaker 1: for for us, for me, but mostly for you guys
Speaker 1: out there, so I appreciate you all putting the questions in.
Speaker 1: I want to start with the Apple podcast reviews because
Speaker 1: we haven't gotten to those in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: This one here from Burr Cheesy the Best five Stars.
Speaker 1: He says after Sunday's lost to the Jags. I told you, guys,
Speaker 1: we skipped a week on this. I couldn't bear to
Speaker 1: listen to anything Dolphins related. But by Thursday I was
Speaker 1: ready and started binging this week's drive time, and man
Speaker 1: did Travis ever deliver. Thank you for that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Talks about the monologue Monday show was perfect. Travis is
Speaker 1: a true true fan. It feels the pain like all
Speaker 1: of us. He had the right words and attitude that
Speaker 1: I needed to hear. Then it was right back to
Speaker 1: breaking down the team, including great soundbites from the coach
Speaker 1: staff that you don't always get on other Dolphins podcasts.
Speaker 1: Awesome stuff. As always, Travis, keep it up, keep it going.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the team matches your production on the field here soon.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being a great voice of Dolphins Nation. Fins
Speaker 1: up well. I appreciate that very very much, and I
Speaker 1: too hope to see some wins here coming down the
Speaker 1: pipeline very very soon. Let's go back to the Twitter
Speaker 1: mail bag in this first question from at riquet hold one,
Speaker 1: seeing where we are with defense, where do we attribute
Speaker 1: most of the problem relative Towy. Is it due to
Speaker 1: parting way with any of the veterans like van Neil
Speaker 1: McCain god Shaw or has it more to do with
Speaker 1: scheme change or simply execution. Well, you kind of hit
Speaker 1: the nail on the head there with all of it.
Speaker 1: It's it's a collection of all of those things, I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we talked with John about the
Speaker 1: volatility of football in general, how the sample size of
Speaker 1: games isn't always going to give you a good indicator
Speaker 1: of future success. And that's true for most sports, but
Speaker 1: football for sure. So you can have you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's a coaching change or a player change, or a
Speaker 1: different call or different whatever the case may be. There's
Speaker 1: so much that goes into the that creates the ultimate
Speaker 1: game plan for a game on Sunday that one or
Speaker 1: two bad ingredients can shift things and get you a
Speaker 1: completely different results. So I just think that this team
Speaker 1: is is close to victory and a lot of these games.
Speaker 1: I know, the production from a yardage and points and
Speaker 1: all that stuff standpoint hasn't been great, but it's not
Speaker 1: like they're completely uncompetitive. And so I just think that
Speaker 1: you're looking at a situation where the team hasn't played
Speaker 1: as well as we thought they would across the board. Really,
Speaker 1: like coach Flora says, I think the coaching hasn't been
Speaker 1: as good as we thought it would be, like coach says, again,
Speaker 1: across the board. And then just kind of some of
Speaker 1: the plays that go against you. I mean a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of muff punts that just almost got called,
Speaker 1: didn't quite get called, Like just little small things like
Speaker 1: that can have the ultimate shift and the outcome of
Speaker 1: the game. And so I think it's a collection of
Speaker 1: all those things. And I hope, I believe that things
Speaker 1: will start to turn around here here very soon. At
Speaker 1: YETI Delphia asks our reporters limited from asking Brian Flora's
Speaker 1: specific questions, and I wanted to get to this one
Speaker 1: because no, they are not. But there's a certain etiquette
Speaker 1: and respect demeanor to those press conferences where if a
Speaker 1: guy tells you something, don't ask him fourteen times over again.
Speaker 1: You know, Brian Flores has been very clear about how
Speaker 1: he's going to keep those conversations between him and whoever
Speaker 1: has those conversations, whether it's a player negotiations or talks
Speaker 1: with a different team. It's always been his philosophy to
Speaker 1: be that way. So this is nothing new, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate the consistency of that, because if you start to say, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot down this rumor, then that means the
Speaker 1: other ones you don't shoot down get more validity. Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? So be consistent across it on all
Speaker 1: matters and have that same answer, and that way you're
Speaker 1: gonna have the same approach from reporters. And so I
Speaker 1: am glad the reporters when I was in that room too,
Speaker 1: didn't bombard coach with those questions because he's told the
Speaker 1: answer to us a hundred times. So that's that's why
Speaker 1: you got what you got, I believe. Next one here
Speaker 1: from at two Lucky nineteen sixty seven. Do you think
Speaker 1: the lack of veterans on this team and experience in
Speaker 1: our coordinators is the biggest reason this team is where
Speaker 1: it is. Well, again, to kind of go back to
Speaker 1: that first question, I think it's part of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, coaches talked about development of players,
Speaker 1: and we've talked on this podcast almost ad nausea at
Speaker 1: this point about guys in this program who didn't start
Speaker 1: their career off with an absolute bang, Like it took
Speaker 1: some time to kind of season those guys and get
Speaker 1: the production you have out of them now. And I
Speaker 1: think that's true of coaches and players and anybody in
Speaker 1: any walk of life. Like a good example, like just myself,
Speaker 1: to to speak from my own experience, I feel way
Speaker 1: more comfortable interviewing people, asking questions at press conferences, doing
Speaker 1: the postgame ring. Like everything I've I do, I have
Speaker 1: gotten better at. That's how it should be, right, And
Speaker 1: so more experience, more reps you I think you'd expect
Speaker 1: to see some improvement across the board. And this is
Speaker 1: a young team both from the coaching staff and on
Speaker 1: the roster. We're gonna do a quick three pack today
Speaker 1: because we're getting short on time. But number six Michigan
Speaker 1: at number eight Michigan State two players to really watch
Speaker 1: in this game, even though both these teams have a
Speaker 1: lot of good players on these team on their team
Speaker 1: obviously to top ten squads, but aiden Hutchinson. He's a
Speaker 1: surefire top ten pick next April. Powers need scheme diverse
Speaker 1: top ten pick off the edge there for Michigan. And
Speaker 1: then Kenneth Walker looks like a first round maybe second
Speaker 1: round running back from me Bell Cow three down contact
Speaker 1: balance can change the angle and the target in a blink,
Speaker 1: right at the last second when when defenders are pursuing him.
Speaker 1: I wanted a little bit in a different direction this
Speaker 1: week because we talked about so many of these same
Speaker 1: teams over and over again. So number nineteen SMU at Houston.
Speaker 1: They have a pair of receivers there. Reggie Robinson sure
Speaker 1: like his game. He's one of the top players in
Speaker 1: that conference. Also, like Danny Gray. I like him because
Speaker 1: he's explosive and also he reminds me of Chris Chambers.
Speaker 1: He's got that high cut with long arms build and
Speaker 1: it helps him go high point the football fund player
Speaker 1: to watch and the guy throwing the football to them.
Speaker 1: Tanner Mordecai is a possible late round draft pick as well.
Speaker 1: And then Grant Calcata at Houston is a transfer from Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: big playmaking tight end. I think he retired and came
Speaker 1: back to the game now he finds himself at Houston.
Speaker 1: He could be a draft pick this coming April. And
Speaker 1: Houston also has Patrick Turner last year, or they had
Speaker 1: Patrick Turner last year, I should say off the edge,
Speaker 1: he was a fun player to watch there. They have
Speaker 1: another guy in the defensive line that kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of him, even though he the defensive tackle six
Speaker 1: ft seven, two seventy five pounds and it looks weird
Speaker 1: at times because he's so tall inside at that size,
Speaker 1: but he's explosive as hell. He can play multiple spots
Speaker 1: three technique, one shade five tech name as Logan Hall,
Speaker 1: long active hands, good array of pass rush moves. He
Speaker 1: loves the swim move in the arm over, and that
Speaker 1: height can cause some pad level issues at times, but
Speaker 1: it also helps him get the arm over moved too,
Speaker 1: so he's a lot of fun to watch. And then
Speaker 1: Fresno State at number twenty one. San Diego State a
Speaker 1: couple of matchups I'm looking for here. Receiver Jalen Cooper
Speaker 1: from Fresno is an absolute burner. He should draw a
Speaker 1: cornerback Taylor Hawkins for s D s U, a six
Speaker 1: ft one two and five pound corner who has excellent
Speaker 1: ball skills and can get into and stay in phase
Speaker 1: on those long routes, so I'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: And then defensive end Aaron Moseby six ft two fifty
Speaker 1: pound edge against offensive tackle of San Diego State Zach Thomas.
Speaker 1: How about that named Zachary Thomas, six ft five, three
Speaker 1: hundred pound tackle with an absolute mean streak. And that
Speaker 1: San Diego State offensive line has dudes every year because
Speaker 1: they run the ball so well, and you see those
Speaker 1: guys pushing people off the football. So again, I know
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of big matchups, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: go with these guys because we always talk about those
Speaker 1: same teams and those same players ahead of next year's draft,
Speaker 1: which of course will cover very in depth here once
Speaker 1: the season concludes. But just giving you guys a taste
Speaker 1: here on these Friday podcasts what to look for on
Speaker 1: the weekend. Last thing we do on these Friday podcast
Speaker 1: NFL picks terrible last week seven and six, seventy two
Speaker 1: and thirty five on the year, we took Arizona over
Speaker 1: Green Bay on Thursday. We'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 1: Falcons over the Panthers. Give me the Falcons to get
Speaker 1: over five hundred and get back on track there after
Speaker 1: starting the season O and two Niners over the Bears.
Speaker 1: We gotta root against the Niers without draft pick, but
Speaker 1: in this game without Khalil Mack for the Bears, think
Speaker 1: the Niers get this one. Brown's over Steelers. I like
Speaker 1: the Lions. I'm taking the O N seven lines again
Speaker 1: over the Philadelphia Eagles. I think Jared Goffkin has some
Speaker 1: success on that Philadelphia defense, and the fighting Campbells get
Speaker 1: their first win. They have been playing their asses offic
Speaker 1: so I want to see that for them. The Bills
Speaker 1: over Dolphins. Titans over the Colts the toughest pick of
Speaker 1: the weekend for me right there. I'll take the running
Speaker 1: game of the Titans, and I think a better a
Speaker 1: better quarterback situation there. Go with tensey Titans in that game.
Speaker 1: Give me the Bengals over the Jets, the Rams over
Speaker 1: the Texans, give me the Chargers over the Patriots and
Speaker 1: bounce back from last year's beat down the Patriots gave
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Jags over Seahawks. I'm just not buying into
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson less Seahawks at this point. I think
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence has gotten better every single games. Will give
Speaker 1: me Jacksonville, give me the football team over the Broncos,
Speaker 1: the Bucks over the Saints, Cowboys over Vikings. Although I
Speaker 1: was back and forth on that one on Sunday Night
Speaker 1: Football and then Chiefs over Giants on Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: with the Manning Cast. Be sure to watch that. And
Speaker 1: then last thing here for you guys, Jalen Phillips. I
Speaker 1: talked about the uh the charity work off the top
Speaker 1: of the podcast. There but the Lotus House Shelter. Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips teamed up with One Goal, One Dream as part
Speaker 1: of the Football Units initiative and they were out there
Speaker 1: first some arts and crafts kind of Electrocoby's event. Just
Speaker 1: smiles for days from those kids. It's the best thing
Speaker 1: to see. Go check out our socials and Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com to get a look at those all right, guys,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my time on this Friday edition of
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