WEBVTT - Week 3 Dolphins at Raiders Recap 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:15.240 That book fail, Touchdown, Miami Run? What is up? Dolphans 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.279 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.600 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.320 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.720 and as always I am here to bring you your 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.320 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:35.840 we're at the first and we won't be the last 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.639 ones to have our hearts broken in Las Vegas as 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.080 the Dolphins fall in overtime on a Daniel Carlson buzzer 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.400 beater field goal as time expired as Miami falls to 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.680 one and two on the season. We'll give you the 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.599 reactions on this podcast before we come back on Tuesday 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.000 and really clean it up with the rewatch in the 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.480 Omissions podcast in the All twenty two. But I want 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.840 to talk to you podcaster to listener today. We'll do 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.920 the five takeaways, just kind of assess. Thanks here on 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.959 this edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the Baptist Health 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.520 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:14.880 Drivetime Podcast, So look right now, it's tough to be 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.039 a Dolphins fan. Slow start to the season one and 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.640 two in a year where you know expectations outside. We're 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.040 definitely gleaning a little bit with fans and had excitement 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.200 for the season. It's only three games into this thing. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.399 You have the same record as last season, but we 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.200 were pretty excited coming into this year. I think that 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.280 that maybe is what kind of permeates the feeling you 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.520 have right now, is expectations versus what the results have 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.640 been through just three games. And of course it is 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.720 just three games, but they were explosive all off season, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.800 in training camp and through the preseason. A good reminder 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.200 that August does not necessarily equate to September success. And 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.800 you've been waiting for this breakthrough year as a Dolphins fan, 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.000 right like you want it. We all crave. It's so 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.000 bad to be able to become that brash and confident, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.480 cocky Dolphins fan and go into games knowing that you're 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.480 gonna win, or at the very least you're gonna be competitive, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.480 regardless of which team it is across from you. And 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.120 this Dolphins team has been competitive with almost everybody they've played. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.680 But I get it. I'm with you nothing. It is 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.360 better to me than hanging out at the w q 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.680 A M station with o J McDuffie and Seth Levitt 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.000 and you know, slapping hands after big plays. You guy 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.680 saw a reaction video up on my Twitter handle at 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.840 Winkle NFL after the two point conversion of Will Fuller 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.160 where we're slapping hands and given let's goes and jumping 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.760 around the place. And thanks to DJ Presch for filming 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.960 those moments for us, very special moments that we will 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.160 we love. We talked about it on the radio show 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.440 that we'll remember those moments for the rest of the 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.680 season even though it didn't come out in a game 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.639 or result that we wanted to the way it did. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.880 But you know, it hurts, and I understand that it hurts, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.840 Like let it hurt. I think it's good to have 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.280 something in your life that you can look forward to 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.480 and get excite it about. That's a hobby. That's something 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.560 you look forward to, regardless of the outcomes. Shoot. For 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.840 a long, long, long time that was me. It was 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.440 a hobby. It was a hobby that I loved so 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.600 much that I refused to not let it become a 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.120 career so that people wouldn't think I was weird for 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.560 having such an obsessive hobby Like it's I love this team, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.400 I love this game. I love being part of the 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.560 Dolphins community. But we have to also enjoy the all 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.320 encompassing experience of football fan, and we have to find 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.680 ways to enjoy it and not be so wrapped up 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.560 in every little thing that we become prisoners of the 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.000 moment and can't see the forest for the trees. Like 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.480 this is a tough speech to give right now. It's tough. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.800 I know that, and you're well within your fan rights 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.840 if that's even a thing to be frustrated. But I 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.760 promise you this, all the guys in that building are 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.440 ten times more frustrated than you are right now, and 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.320 they're gonna work until it's right. So Miami falls and 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.960 overtime to the Las Vegas Raiders. A valiant effort comes 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.200 up short as Miami's offense answers back to the Raiders 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.640 twenty five when I entered points with eleven of their 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.760 own after a fourteen zero start. To get themselves into 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.400 the overtime period, the Raiders would win the coin toss, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.760 go down, kick a field goal, Miami would respond with 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.000 the field goal, and then Las Vegas would kick another 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.680 field goal, so three field goals in the overtime period 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.040 and Daniel Carson Carlson's game winner makes the Raiders a 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.400 winner as they moved to three and oh in Miami 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.799 falls to one and two here and your three underhead 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.000 coach Brian Flores. But you know what, actually, I want 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.960 to finish the entire point off that intro on the 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.200 back end of the podcast. We'll stick with us and 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.240 before we get to the takeaways, you know the show 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.320 is gonna look a little bit different tonight. I have 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.840 a lot I want to discuss, but I think you've 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.040 got to tip your cap here first to the Las 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.680 Vegas Raiders because you know, the Dolphins did a good 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.760 job and we'll talk about this later on of kind 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.240 of minimizing what Darren Waller did in this game. He 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.120 had he had some catches in some yards, but nothing 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.200 like last year and nothing like his usual per game 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.480 pace and nothing like he's done to the first two 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.200 games so far. So the Raiders spread the football around, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.000 went away from what they did best in that regard. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.000 That's what they've done through two games. Six targets twenty 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.960 six and total to Darren Waller for the whole season. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.600 He had just seven in this game, and they had 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.680 chunk plays from their entire crew, and that's what makes 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.240 us offense dangerous for the Raiders. And also finding a 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.279 way to get Hunter Renfrow on Exaviing Howard in the slot, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.760 Like if you want to find a good matchup on X, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.720 there's not many of them, but try to find a 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.839 way to get him in the slot. And that's where 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.080 you know Hunter Renfrow can do what he does and 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.200 does best and score that touchdown. So good on them 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.520 for finding matchups that work for them. There's a real 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.560 rhythm to that offense. And I think the way that 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.919 Derek Carr through the well through the ball well behind 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.720 the blitzing attack of the Dolphins and under pressure and 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.000 kind of fading away from that pressure and putting these 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.680 perfectly placed intermediate balls that would kind of scrape the 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.880 sky there an Allegiance Stadium and come back down to 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.200 the earth right in the correct place. That was very 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.359 impressive and just their overall game plan to throw in 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.560 vacated areas behind the Dolphins blitz is you have to 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.520 take your cap to the Las Vegas Raids. They had 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.640 some answers for some of the questions of the test. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.440 The Miami Dolphins through at them in this contest. More 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.000 than that later as well. Let's do the five takeaways 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.120 here real quick. The number one takeaway I think have 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.920 to start with the offensive struggles and it got better late. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.880 Dolphins had a couple of nice drives there late in 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.560 the game too, really kind of bookend what was a 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.280 nice defensive showing to help the offense get some points. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.839 I mean, fourteen Dolphins points came off of a pick 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.160 six and eighty two yard pick six by a land 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.080 and Roberts. What a great play that was by him. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.240 We'll talk about that more in here in just one second. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.040 A fourth, third and short and fourth and short stops 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.119 to get you a drive in Raider territory that would 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.320 end with a twenty four yard Malcolm Brown touchdown run. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.120 So early on the offense was doing a good job 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.800 of finishing off with the defense did on that one 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.280 drive to get that four team point lead, and I 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.080 thought that was gonna be a great way for this 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.040 game to play out because of the Raiders kind of 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.520 and Jacoby Brissett talked about this, how Gus Bradley invites 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.560 short stuff because it's a sin in that defense to 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.479 let the ball get behind you. He said those words 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.360 about it being a sin to let the ball get 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.800 behind you and this guys Bradley defense in his postgame 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.400 press conference. And that's one reason why I think it 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.159 was impressive for Miami to find the way or to 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.080 find a way to get the ball downfield the way 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.840 they did late in that game, because once the Dolphins 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.479 started going vertical, it seemed to open things up for 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.920 guys like DeVante Parker, for guys like Mike Kasicki. And 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.360 even though they didn't convert on those long balls, Parker 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:15.680 had a chance on a deep one where he was 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.240 a step behind the defense. Balls a little bit underthrown, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.080 but a great play by the defensive back to get 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.160 his hand in there. Will Fuller had a chance at 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.440 that catch in the end zone with a slight tug 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.040 on the back of his jersey there, but still the 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.200 ball was kind of in position to make a play. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.560 The point is, once Miami started to go vertical and 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.720 open things up, they found offensive success. But other than that, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.760 at one point this offense was you know, the numbers 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.920 aren't favorable still that they were so against Miami in 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.320 terms of just overall successive drives throughout the course of 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.800 this young season, going back even to Week one when 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.559 the Dolphins had some i'd say four good drives against 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.720 the Patriots and three scoring drives and the one to 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.200 finish that game, and then really nothing to write at 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.040 home about the Buffalo game. And then you come back 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.920 and that's the showing so far through the first you know, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.200 two and a half three quarters of this game against 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.280 Las Vegas, it just wasn't looking good. And you take 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.680 a look at everything that has gone wrong with the offense. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.400 It's just kind of a little bit of everything. They're 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.040 too stuck in the mud, whether it's you know, big penalties, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.480 protection breakdowns from the entire offense, not just the offensive line. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.400 There's not really any rack built into the offense so far. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.040 Some of the throws are off target and causing some 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.400 some errors that way as well from the quarterback position. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.280 It's just largely been broken as an offense early on 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.720 in this game. And you know, late into that game, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.480 the longest passing play was twelve yards, where the Raiders 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.920 had seven players with more than that for their long 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.120 reception in the game. So we start getting those vertical shots. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.200 I think that's a good way to kind of open 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.199 things up for the offense. But so far, the offensive 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.320 struggles playing back where it's playing under pressure, playing behind 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.520 the chains, just not capitalizing on the opportunities you do have. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.600 It's just not been good enough, and it has to 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.680 get a lot lot better, especially in today's NFL. You've 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.400 seen what poor offensive production can do to a defense, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.680 because this Dolphins defense was off to the races in 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.320 this game and they start playing more and more snaps, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.360 wind up with eighty snaps in the game, and that's 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.760 how Derek Carr goes for almost four passing yards. So 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.760 it's complimentary. Everything goes together, and the offense needs to 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.959 pick up their part to help the defense, who has 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.560 had their own struggles as well. Later in football games 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.199 so far this year. But offensively finding a way to 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.320 get the football to receivers running up the field, running 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 horizontally vertically. I'm not sure how that works or what 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.320 the Dolphins you know, staff is looking at, or how 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.839 they want to attack that. But you watch the Raiders 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.920 attack and there were guys catching the football already taking off, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.320 you know, heading up vertically up the field, and O. J. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.440 McDuffie pointed this out. So many of the Dolphins routes 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.800 are coming back to the quarterback to where they're stationary 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.520 when they catch the football, and it's very hard to 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.040 create yards after the catch when you aren't on the move, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.440 where you're not being led into a good position to 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.960 attack the defense with the football in your hands. I mean, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.760 we've talked about that with two a tongue of Vloa 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.560 and some of his skill sets that made him a 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.800 top prospect. It's putting receivers in position to run through 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.440 the catch and never break stride, and that results in 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.240 big yacht numbers. It results in offensive production for both 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.440 the quarterback and the receiver and on the scoreboard as well. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.920 So again I don't know how this works or how 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.000 they do it, or what the plan is or if 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.040 that's been the plan, just hasn't worked out yet. But 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.400 finding a way to get the ball in receiver's hands 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.400 on the move to make them a threat after the catch, 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.360 I think it's a very big key for this offense. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.040 They haven't had it happened barely all so far this season, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.040 and that's something that has to I think has to 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.560 improve going into week number four. So hopefully some of 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.600 these things are ironed out and we can get a 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.319 w or two under our belts so that when two 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.240 a tongue baloo comes back, we can hit the ground 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.920 running with the quarterback back into place and the offense 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.840 hopefully clicking at that point. But so far it's just 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.520 not been good enough through three games. Takeaway number two. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.200 The heart and the resolve of this team. You never 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.360 can question it under Brian Flores. It's been that way 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.319 for three for two plus years now. You know, you 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.160 go down eleven points and admitted out there, we mean 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.960 we were pretty doom and gloom in the in the 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.600 w q a M station, admitted out there, you probably 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.000 thought that that game was put on the Rocks when 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.199 they went down by two cours, even after the miss 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:02.840 p a t just because of the way the offense 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.599 was performing and it just didn't look like it was 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.840 gonna happen for them. But they go out and they 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.600 get a field goal. It doesn't sound great, but they 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.760 got points, make it a one score game. They go 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.160 out on defense, complimentary football, They get a stop and 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.040 get it right back to the offense. Then they go 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.439 down and score a touchdown with two fourth down conversions, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.760 a tough, tough fourth down catch by DeVante Parker to 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.320 keep the game alive. Then the scramble played by Jacoby 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.720 Brissett on fourth and goal to keep the game alive, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.719 to get them to a two point conversion to then 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.760 convert that. I mean, there were four or five players 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.360 in this game for the offense alone, not not even 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.040 the defense, which also has included in that. For the 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.960 offense had to make a play to keep the game going, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.800 and they did it, and that was impressive. I thought, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.120 to measure those team's heart and the resolve and the 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.080 fight they're gonna show you and why, I think that's indicative. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.199 And you know, again going back to my experience with 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.400 OJ McDuffie and Seth Levitt, I walked out of the 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:52.800 building with O J to nine. He said, I'm not 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.480 worried at all because of the way the team finished 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.320 that game. I think it tells you everything you need 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.520 to know about their heart and their resolve. They're gonna 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.400 work to get it fixed and they're to find a 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.679 way to get it fixed. And I know it's all 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.840 like it's all talk right now, you don't want to 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.559 hear it, but that's that's what I took away from 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.840 the end of that game. This team's heart and resolve 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.000 will end up going a long way for this team. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.679 Take Away number three. We talked about it all week long, Right, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.760 run the football and try to minimize Max Crosby and 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.880 Yannikway and that raider's pass rushing. For the most part, 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.160 that was the case early on. Miles Gaston had thirteen 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.680 carries for sixty five yards in this game. No savan 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.360 Akhmed carries in this game, no receptions either, But Malcolm 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.160 Brown had seven for thirty one as well. And you know, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.080 there was a couple of players that were really well blocked. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.920 I thought, you know, there was a wide run, an 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.280 outside run where Myles Gaskin kind of presses outside and 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.800 cuts it back inside. The Malcolm Brown twenty four yard 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.320 touchdown run is as well blocked as you could ask 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.920 for on that player. We'll talk about that here in 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.920 just one moment. But they also wind up with seventy 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.640 eight rushing yards in the first half, and then they 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.360 got some more late in that game. So some good 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.839 balance stretched across that game. For a hundred and thirty 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.560 three rushing yards, that's a good number for any team 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.320 in any offense and any level of football. And I 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.400 thought that was impressive that they got the run game 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.240 going that way, and a lot of that has to 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.800 do with the offensive line because and I talked about 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.079 it on the podcast last week, I thought Austin Jackson's 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.520 work in the running game has been pretty strong so far, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.640 especially in this game. And on that touchdown run, he 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.600 is six seven eight yards downfield on a block and 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.120 buries a guy into the turf their Allegiance Stadium for 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.079 a pancake block and a touchdown off the back of that. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.160 And also, you know, I talking again about Oj McDuffie. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.640 He and I lined up and broke this play down 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.520 because we were so intrigued by Adam Shaheen's work off 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.000 the edge to not only reach the five techniques, so 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.440 that the tight ends playing outside the outside shoulder of 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.840 this defensive end who's lined up with the five technique 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.600 and to reach him, you're gonna have to get back 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.120 across his face on the inside and then swing your 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.240 butt around that. I was kind of showing Oj this move, like, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:43.920 you have to get that left leg and I was 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.920 pattent it. You have to get that thing around your 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.800 backside and wall that thing off and put it in 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.720 the ground and anchor against this guy, so you can 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.200 seal that lane and create space for your running back. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:53.959 And the way O J and I did it was 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.920 like kind of fun. Today I'm sitting with a NFL 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.000 player breaking out a play. We talked about that and 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.240 that was very impressive. With Adam Shaheen on that play, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.400 with Austin Jackson on that play, with Jesse Davis on 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.040 that play, and Michael Dieter and really the entire group 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.160 upfront Malcolm Brown to find that crease and to hit 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.160 it so offensively the running game finding some footing, I 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.400 think it's pretty encouraging. They got some stuff outside and there, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.760 they got some stuff inside. Now there are sometimes I'd 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.760 like to see Miles just hit it and go, like, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.600 hit that thing with some acceleration and try to hit 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.440 some home runs because this offense is lacking in the 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.520 home run department right now. But I thought there were 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.800 some nice things to build on in the running game. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.000 Takeaway Number four is that the defense in general to 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.360 me was just interesting and has been this season. Number One, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.600 Let's let's talk about the obvious, like third down defense 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.200 has to get better. It's more than double the conversion 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.120 rate than what it was last year when they led 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.440 the National Football League at a thirty one point third 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.520 down conversion rate. Right now, it's just not been anywhere 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.560 close to that. They're allowing way too high of a 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.640 success rate on third downs. It's extending drives, it's given 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.920 the offense less chances as putting the whole team under pressure. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.920 So this is not to say the offense is to 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.120 blame for the outcome of these last couple of game. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.200 It's a it's a full team effort and the defense 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.560 is a big part of that, and that the third 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.400 downs isn't maybe a bigger part of that, and of 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.120 course red zone as well, which they've been pretty good 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.480 in the red zone. So we'll keep keep that, you know, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.560 moving forward and trying to correct some of these other stuff. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.120 But like the pressures, the sacked numbers have not been 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.200 there so far this year. The defensive structure has been 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.240 really the main takeaway for me here because they start 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.960 office game three and out, pick six, four and out 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.400 and then punt and then it just fell apart for 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.320 several drives in a row. And some of that is 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.680 the offense making place. I mean, Derek carrs putting the 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.360 ball where it had to be an offensive. Guys were 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.880 making catches and tough catches and tapping their toes on 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.120 the sideline and and you know, making plays after the 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.720 catch and all that stuff. But there was a period 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.840 of the game where the Raiders had converted on seven 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.840 of nine third downs after starting I think it was 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.480 over three on third downs. And they finished off with 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.360 some third down stops as well to get to eight 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.200 to eight for fifteen on the night. But they've got 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.120 to get better on third down. It's just that's the 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.040 money down on defense. And that's why they've not been 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.800 able to get off the field on some of these 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.440 long drives that probably gassed them towards the end of games. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.320 Because the Raiders nine drives thirty one yards field goal. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.200 This is after the first four ten plays nine yards touchdown, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.760 nine place, seventy two yards touchdown, eleven place, eighty four 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.920 yards touchdown. Like that's that's taxing on both the scoreboard 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.760 and your energy. And I got a couple of three 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.560 and outs off the back of that, and obviously starts 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.640 the game pretty well as well. But I just thought 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.000 the defense in general and the way they defended Darren Waller, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.080 and I think this kind of dictated how the Raiders 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.480 offensive attacks spread the football around so well. Byron Jones 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.480 was on Darren Waller quite a bit in this game. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.360 That's an interesting matchup piece to think about for future 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.000 reference in terms of you have different body types and 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.320 different builds, and obviously a tight end on a cornerback 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.680 is not something you usually expect, but to get Byron 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.000 Jones to hold him to just fifty four yards, and 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.000 I'll look at the coverage numbers on the Tuesday podcast 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.400 and talk more about who was who else was responsible 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.320 for containing Waller because it wasn't just Byron Jones alone, obviously, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.040 But I thought that was an interesting game plan. I 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.080 love the fact that you saw the safeties get back 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.600 to coming after the quarterback, and a couple of those 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.160 safety pressures were so paramount in this game at the time, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.520 like Eric rose pressure on Derek Carr lead to a 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.040 land and Roberts's pick six for eighty two yards and 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.719 that touchdown to kick things off. And Brandon Jones had 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.720 two sacks in this game, one cutting right down the 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.760 pike down the middle on a five man front where 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.520 he comes clean up the middle and runs through a 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.560 running back and gets home to Derek Carr and then 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.520 later in the game a huge sack to lose a 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.720 bunch of yards on Derek Carr. So big day for 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.080 Brandon Jones rushing the passer. Good to see them get 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.800