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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. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we're at the first and we won't be the last
Speaker 1: ones to have our hearts broken in Las Vegas as
Speaker 1: the Dolphins fall in overtime on a Daniel Carlson buzzer
Speaker 1: beater field goal as time expired as Miami falls to
Speaker 1: one and two on the season. We'll give you the
Speaker 1: reactions on this podcast before we come back on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and really clean it up with the rewatch in the
Speaker 1: Omissions podcast in the All twenty two. But I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you podcaster to listener today. We'll do
Speaker 1: the five takeaways, just kind of assess. Thanks here on
Speaker 1: this edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, So look right now, it's tough to be
Speaker 1: a Dolphins fan. Slow start to the season one and
Speaker 1: two in a year where you know expectations outside. We're
Speaker 1: definitely gleaning a little bit with fans and had excitement
Speaker 1: for the season. It's only three games into this thing.
Speaker 1: You have the same record as last season, but we
Speaker 1: were pretty excited coming into this year. I think that
Speaker 1: that maybe is what kind of permeates the feeling you
Speaker 1: have right now, is expectations versus what the results have
Speaker 1: been through just three games. And of course it is
Speaker 1: just three games, but they were explosive all off season,
Speaker 1: in training camp and through the preseason. A good reminder
Speaker 1: that August does not necessarily equate to September success. And
Speaker 1: you've been waiting for this breakthrough year as a Dolphins fan,
Speaker 1: right like you want it. We all crave. It's so
Speaker 1: bad to be able to become that brash and confident,
Speaker 1: cocky Dolphins fan and go into games knowing that you're
Speaker 1: gonna win, or at the very least you're gonna be competitive,
Speaker 1: regardless of which team it is across from you. And
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team has been competitive with almost everybody they've played.
Speaker 1: But I get it. I'm with you nothing. It is
Speaker 1: better to me than hanging out at the w q
Speaker 1: A M station with o J McDuffie and Seth Levitt
Speaker 1: and you know, slapping hands after big plays. You guy
Speaker 1: saw a reaction video up on my Twitter handle at
Speaker 1: Winkle NFL after the two point conversion of Will Fuller
Speaker 1: where we're slapping hands and given let's goes and jumping
Speaker 1: around the place. And thanks to DJ Presch for filming
Speaker 1: those moments for us, very special moments that we will
Speaker 1: we love. We talked about it on the radio show
Speaker 1: that we'll remember those moments for the rest of the
Speaker 1: season even though it didn't come out in a game
Speaker 1: or result that we wanted to the way it did.
Speaker 1: But you know, it hurts, and I understand that it hurts,
Speaker 1: Like let it hurt. I think it's good to have
Speaker 1: something in your life that you can look forward to
Speaker 1: and get excite it about. That's a hobby. That's something
Speaker 1: you look forward to, regardless of the outcomes. Shoot. For
Speaker 1: a long, long, long time that was me. It was
Speaker 1: a hobby. It was a hobby that I loved so
Speaker 1: much that I refused to not let it become a
Speaker 1: career so that people wouldn't think I was weird for
Speaker 1: having such an obsessive hobby Like it's I love this team,
Speaker 1: I love this game. I love being part of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins community. But we have to also enjoy the all
Speaker 1: encompassing experience of football fan, and we have to find
Speaker 1: ways to enjoy it and not be so wrapped up
Speaker 1: in every little thing that we become prisoners of the
Speaker 1: moment and can't see the forest for the trees. Like
Speaker 1: this is a tough speech to give right now. It's tough.
Speaker 1: I know that, and you're well within your fan rights
Speaker 1: if that's even a thing to be frustrated. But I
Speaker 1: promise you this, all the guys in that building are
Speaker 1: ten times more frustrated than you are right now, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna work until it's right. So Miami falls and
Speaker 1: overtime to the Las Vegas Raiders. A valiant effort comes
Speaker 1: up short as Miami's offense answers back to the Raiders
Speaker 1: twenty five when I entered points with eleven of their
Speaker 1: own after a fourteen zero start. To get themselves into
Speaker 1: the overtime period, the Raiders would win the coin toss,
Speaker 1: go down, kick a field goal, Miami would respond with
Speaker 1: the field goal, and then Las Vegas would kick another
Speaker 1: field goal, so three field goals in the overtime period
Speaker 1: and Daniel Carson Carlson's game winner makes the Raiders a
Speaker 1: winner as they moved to three and oh in Miami
Speaker 1: falls to one and two here and your three underhead
Speaker 1: coach Brian Flores. But you know what, actually, I want
Speaker 1: to finish the entire point off that intro on the
Speaker 1: back end of the podcast. We'll stick with us and
Speaker 1: before we get to the takeaways, you know the show
Speaker 1: is gonna look a little bit different tonight. I have
Speaker 1: a lot I want to discuss, but I think you've
Speaker 1: got to tip your cap here first to the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders because you know, the Dolphins did a good
Speaker 1: job and we'll talk about this later on of kind
Speaker 1: of minimizing what Darren Waller did in this game. He
Speaker 1: had he had some catches in some yards, but nothing
Speaker 1: like last year and nothing like his usual per game
Speaker 1: pace and nothing like he's done to the first two
Speaker 1: games so far. So the Raiders spread the football around,
Speaker 1: went away from what they did best in that regard.
Speaker 1: That's what they've done through two games. Six targets twenty
Speaker 1: six and total to Darren Waller for the whole season.
Speaker 1: He had just seven in this game, and they had
Speaker 1: chunk plays from their entire crew, and that's what makes
Speaker 1: us offense dangerous for the Raiders. And also finding a
Speaker 1: way to get Hunter Renfrow on Exaviing Howard in the slot,
Speaker 1: Like if you want to find a good matchup on X,
Speaker 1: there's not many of them, but try to find a
Speaker 1: way to get him in the slot. And that's where
Speaker 1: you know Hunter Renfrow can do what he does and
Speaker 1: does best and score that touchdown. So good on them
Speaker 1: for finding matchups that work for them. There's a real
Speaker 1: rhythm to that offense. And I think the way that
Speaker 1: Derek Carr through the well through the ball well behind
Speaker 1: the blitzing attack of the Dolphins and under pressure and
Speaker 1: kind of fading away from that pressure and putting these
Speaker 1: perfectly placed intermediate balls that would kind of scrape the
Speaker 1: sky there an Allegiance Stadium and come back down to
Speaker 1: the earth right in the correct place. That was very
Speaker 1: impressive and just their overall game plan to throw in
Speaker 1: vacated areas behind the Dolphins blitz is you have to
Speaker 1: take your cap to the Las Vegas Raids. They had
Speaker 1: some answers for some of the questions of the test.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins through at them in this contest. More
Speaker 1: than that later as well. Let's do the five takeaways
Speaker 1: here real quick. The number one takeaway I think have
Speaker 1: to start with the offensive struggles and it got better late.
Speaker 1: Dolphins had a couple of nice drives there late in
Speaker 1: the game too, really kind of bookend what was a
Speaker 1: nice defensive showing to help the offense get some points.
Speaker 1: I mean, fourteen Dolphins points came off of a pick
Speaker 1: six and eighty two yard pick six by a land
Speaker 1: and Roberts. What a great play that was by him.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that more in here in just one second.
Speaker 1: A fourth, third and short and fourth and short stops
Speaker 1: to get you a drive in Raider territory that would
Speaker 1: end with a twenty four yard Malcolm Brown touchdown run.
Speaker 1: So early on the offense was doing a good job
Speaker 1: of finishing off with the defense did on that one
Speaker 1: drive to get that four team point lead, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was gonna be a great way for this
Speaker 1: game to play out because of the Raiders kind of
Speaker 1: and Jacoby Brissett talked about this, how Gus Bradley invites
Speaker 1: short stuff because it's a sin in that defense to
Speaker 1: let the ball get behind you. He said those words
Speaker 1: about it being a sin to let the ball get
Speaker 1: behind you and this guys Bradley defense in his postgame
Speaker 1: press conference. And that's one reason why I think it
Speaker 1: was impressive for Miami to find the way or to
Speaker 1: find a way to get the ball downfield the way
Speaker 1: they did late in that game, because once the Dolphins
Speaker 1: started going vertical, it seemed to open things up for
Speaker 1: guys like DeVante Parker, for guys like Mike Kasicki. And
Speaker 1: even though they didn't convert on those long balls, Parker
Speaker 1: had a chance on a deep one where he was
Speaker 1: a step behind the defense. Balls a little bit underthrown,
Speaker 1: but a great play by the defensive back to get
Speaker 1: his hand in there. Will Fuller had a chance at
Speaker 1: that catch in the end zone with a slight tug
Speaker 1: on the back of his jersey there, but still the
Speaker 1: ball was kind of in position to make a play.
Speaker 1: The point is, once Miami started to go vertical and
Speaker 1: open things up, they found offensive success. But other than that,
Speaker 1: at one point this offense was you know, the numbers
Speaker 1: aren't favorable still that they were so against Miami in
Speaker 1: terms of just overall successive drives throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this young season, going back even to Week one when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins had some i'd say four good drives against
Speaker 1: the Patriots and three scoring drives and the one to
Speaker 1: finish that game, and then really nothing to write at
Speaker 1: home about the Buffalo game. And then you come back
Speaker 1: and that's the showing so far through the first you know,
Speaker 1: two and a half three quarters of this game against
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, it just wasn't looking good. And you take
Speaker 1: a look at everything that has gone wrong with the offense.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of a little bit of everything. They're
Speaker 1: too stuck in the mud, whether it's you know, big penalties,
Speaker 1: protection breakdowns from the entire offense, not just the offensive line.
Speaker 1: There's not really any rack built into the offense so far.
Speaker 1: Some of the throws are off target and causing some
Speaker 1: some errors that way as well from the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: It's just largely been broken as an offense early on
Speaker 1: in this game. And you know, late into that game,
Speaker 1: the longest passing play was twelve yards, where the Raiders
Speaker 1: had seven players with more than that for their long
Speaker 1: reception in the game. So we start getting those vertical shots.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to kind of open
Speaker 1: things up for the offense. But so far, the offensive
Speaker 1: struggles playing back where it's playing under pressure, playing behind
Speaker 1: the chains, just not capitalizing on the opportunities you do have.
Speaker 1: It's just not been good enough, and it has to
Speaker 1: get a lot lot better, especially in today's NFL. You've
Speaker 1: seen what poor offensive production can do to a defense,
Speaker 1: because this Dolphins defense was off to the races in
Speaker 1: this game and they start playing more and more snaps,
Speaker 1: wind up with eighty snaps in the game, and that's
Speaker 1: how Derek Carr goes for almost four passing yards. So
Speaker 1: it's complimentary. Everything goes together, and the offense needs to
Speaker 1: pick up their part to help the defense, who has
Speaker 1: had their own struggles as well. Later in football games
Speaker 1: so far this year. But offensively finding a way to
Speaker 1: get the football to receivers running up the field, running
Speaker 1: horizontally vertically. I'm not sure how that works or what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins you know, staff is looking at, or how
Speaker 1: they want to attack that. But you watch the Raiders
Speaker 1: attack and there were guys catching the football already taking off,
Speaker 1: you know, heading up vertically up the field, and O. J.
Speaker 1: McDuffie pointed this out. So many of the Dolphins routes
Speaker 1: are coming back to the quarterback to where they're stationary
Speaker 1: when they catch the football, and it's very hard to
Speaker 1: create yards after the catch when you aren't on the move,
Speaker 1: where you're not being led into a good position to
Speaker 1: attack the defense with the football in your hands. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've talked about that with two a tongue of Vloa
Speaker 1: and some of his skill sets that made him a
Speaker 1: top prospect. It's putting receivers in position to run through
Speaker 1: the catch and never break stride, and that results in
Speaker 1: big yacht numbers. It results in offensive production for both
Speaker 1: the quarterback and the receiver and on the scoreboard as well.
Speaker 1: So again I don't know how this works or how
Speaker 1: they do it, or what the plan is or if
Speaker 1: that's been the plan, just hasn't worked out yet. But
Speaker 1: finding a way to get the ball in receiver's hands
Speaker 1: on the move to make them a threat after the catch,
Speaker 1: I think it's a very big key for this offense.
Speaker 1: They haven't had it happened barely all so far this season,
Speaker 1: and that's something that has to I think has to
Speaker 1: improve going into week number four. So hopefully some of
Speaker 1: these things are ironed out and we can get a
Speaker 1: w or two under our belts so that when two
Speaker 1: a tongue baloo comes back, we can hit the ground
Speaker 1: running with the quarterback back into place and the offense
Speaker 1: hopefully clicking at that point. But so far it's just
Speaker 1: not been good enough through three games. Takeaway number two.
Speaker 1: The heart and the resolve of this team. You never
Speaker 1: can question it under Brian Flores. It's been that way
Speaker 1: for three for two plus years now. You know, you
Speaker 1: go down eleven points and admitted out there, we mean
Speaker 1: we were pretty doom and gloom in the in the
Speaker 1: w q a M station, admitted out there, you probably
Speaker 1: thought that that game was put on the Rocks when
Speaker 1: they went down by two cours, even after the miss
Speaker 1: p a t just because of the way the offense
Speaker 1: was performing and it just didn't look like it was
Speaker 1: gonna happen for them. But they go out and they
Speaker 1: get a field goal. It doesn't sound great, but they
Speaker 1: got points, make it a one score game. They go
Speaker 1: out on defense, complimentary football, They get a stop and
Speaker 1: get it right back to the offense. Then they go
Speaker 1: down and score a touchdown with two fourth down conversions,
Speaker 1: a tough, tough fourth down catch by DeVante Parker to
Speaker 1: keep the game alive. Then the scramble played by Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissett on fourth and goal to keep the game alive,
Speaker 1: to get them to a two point conversion to then
Speaker 1: convert that. I mean, there were four or five players
Speaker 1: in this game for the offense alone, not not even
Speaker 1: the defense, which also has included in that. For the
Speaker 1: offense had to make a play to keep the game going,
Speaker 1: and they did it, and that was impressive. I thought,
Speaker 1: to measure those team's heart and the resolve and the
Speaker 1: fight they're gonna show you and why, I think that's indicative.
Speaker 1: And you know, again going back to my experience with
Speaker 1: OJ McDuffie and Seth Levitt, I walked out of the
Speaker 1: building with O J to nine. He said, I'm not
Speaker 1: worried at all because of the way the team finished
Speaker 1: that game. I think it tells you everything you need
Speaker 1: to know about their heart and their resolve. They're gonna
Speaker 1: work to get it fixed and they're to find a
Speaker 1: way to get it fixed. And I know it's all
Speaker 1: like it's all talk right now, you don't want to
Speaker 1: hear it, but that's that's what I took away from
Speaker 1: the end of that game. This team's heart and resolve
Speaker 1: will end up going a long way for this team.
Speaker 1: Take Away number three. We talked about it all week long, Right,
Speaker 1: run the football and try to minimize Max Crosby and
Speaker 1: Yannikway and that raider's pass rushing. For the most part,
Speaker 1: that was the case early on. Miles Gaston had thirteen
Speaker 1: carries for sixty five yards in this game. No savan
Speaker 1: Akhmed carries in this game, no receptions either, But Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown had seven for thirty one as well. And you know,
Speaker 1: there was a couple of players that were really well blocked.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, there was a wide run, an
Speaker 1: outside run where Myles Gaskin kind of presses outside and
Speaker 1: cuts it back inside. The Malcolm Brown twenty four yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run is as well blocked as you could ask
Speaker 1: for on that player. We'll talk about that here in
Speaker 1: just one moment. But they also wind up with seventy
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards in the first half, and then they
Speaker 1: got some more late in that game. So some good
Speaker 1: balance stretched across that game. For a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three rushing yards, that's a good number for any team
Speaker 1: in any offense and any level of football. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was impressive that they got the run game
Speaker 1: going that way, and a lot of that has to
Speaker 1: do with the offensive line because and I talked about
Speaker 1: it on the podcast last week, I thought Austin Jackson's
Speaker 1: work in the running game has been pretty strong so far,
Speaker 1: especially in this game. And on that touchdown run, he
Speaker 1: is six seven eight yards downfield on a block and
Speaker 1: buries a guy into the turf their Allegiance Stadium for
Speaker 1: a pancake block and a touchdown off the back of that.
Speaker 1: And also, you know, I talking again about Oj McDuffie.
Speaker 1: He and I lined up and broke this play down
Speaker 1: because we were so intrigued by Adam Shaheen's work off
Speaker 1: the edge to not only reach the five techniques, so
Speaker 1: that the tight ends playing outside the outside shoulder of
Speaker 1: this defensive end who's lined up with the five technique
Speaker 1: and to reach him, you're gonna have to get back
Speaker 1: across his face on the inside and then swing your
Speaker 1: butt around that. I was kind of showing Oj this move, like,
Speaker 1: you have to get that left leg and I was
Speaker 1: pattent it. You have to get that thing around your
Speaker 1: backside and wall that thing off and put it in
Speaker 1: the ground and anchor against this guy, so you can
Speaker 1: seal that lane and create space for your running back.
Speaker 1: And the way O J and I did it was
Speaker 1: like kind of fun. Today I'm sitting with a NFL
Speaker 1: player breaking out a play. We talked about that and
Speaker 1: that was very impressive. With Adam Shaheen on that play,
Speaker 1: with Austin Jackson on that play, with Jesse Davis on
Speaker 1: that play, and Michael Dieter and really the entire group
Speaker 1: upfront Malcolm Brown to find that crease and to hit
Speaker 1: it so offensively the running game finding some footing, I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty encouraging. They got some stuff outside and there,
Speaker 1: they got some stuff inside. Now there are sometimes I'd
Speaker 1: like to see Miles just hit it and go, like,
Speaker 1: hit that thing with some acceleration and try to hit
Speaker 1: some home runs because this offense is lacking in the
Speaker 1: home run department right now. But I thought there were
Speaker 1: some nice things to build on in the running game.
Speaker 1: Takeaway Number four is that the defense in general to
Speaker 1: me was just interesting and has been this season. Number One,
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about the obvious, like third down defense
Speaker 1: has to get better. It's more than double the conversion
Speaker 1: rate than what it was last year when they led
Speaker 1: the National Football League at a thirty one point third
Speaker 1: down conversion rate. Right now, it's just not been anywhere
Speaker 1: close to that. They're allowing way too high of a
Speaker 1: success rate on third downs. It's extending drives, it's given
Speaker 1: the offense less chances as putting the whole team under pressure.
Speaker 1: So this is not to say the offense is to
Speaker 1: blame for the outcome of these last couple of game.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a full team effort and the defense
Speaker 1: is a big part of that, and that the third
Speaker 1: downs isn't maybe a bigger part of that, and of
Speaker 1: course red zone as well, which they've been pretty good
Speaker 1: in the red zone. So we'll keep keep that, you know,
Speaker 1: moving forward and trying to correct some of these other stuff.
Speaker 1: But like the pressures, the sacked numbers have not been
Speaker 1: there so far this year. The defensive structure has been
Speaker 1: really the main takeaway for me here because they start
Speaker 1: office game three and out, pick six, four and out
Speaker 1: and then punt and then it just fell apart for
Speaker 1: several drives in a row. And some of that is
Speaker 1: the offense making place. I mean, Derek carrs putting the
Speaker 1: ball where it had to be an offensive. Guys were
Speaker 1: making catches and tough catches and tapping their toes on
Speaker 1: the sideline and and you know, making plays after the
Speaker 1: catch and all that stuff. But there was a period
Speaker 1: of the game where the Raiders had converted on seven
Speaker 1: of nine third downs after starting I think it was
Speaker 1: over three on third downs. And they finished off with
Speaker 1: some third down stops as well to get to eight
Speaker 1: to eight for fifteen on the night. But they've got
Speaker 1: to get better on third down. It's just that's the
Speaker 1: money down on defense. And that's why they've not been
Speaker 1: able to get off the field on some of these
Speaker 1: long drives that probably gassed them towards the end of games.
Speaker 1: Because the Raiders nine drives thirty one yards field goal.
Speaker 1: This is after the first four ten plays nine yards touchdown,
Speaker 1: nine place, seventy two yards touchdown, eleven place, eighty four
Speaker 1: yards touchdown. Like that's that's taxing on both the scoreboard
Speaker 1: and your energy. And I got a couple of three
Speaker 1: and outs off the back of that, and obviously starts
Speaker 1: the game pretty well as well. But I just thought
Speaker 1: the defense in general and the way they defended Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: and I think this kind of dictated how the Raiders
Speaker 1: offensive attacks spread the football around so well. Byron Jones
Speaker 1: was on Darren Waller quite a bit in this game.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting matchup piece to think about for future
Speaker 1: reference in terms of you have different body types and
Speaker 1: different builds, and obviously a tight end on a cornerback
Speaker 1: is not something you usually expect, but to get Byron
Speaker 1: Jones to hold him to just fifty four yards, and
Speaker 1: I'll look at the coverage numbers on the Tuesday podcast
Speaker 1: and talk more about who was who else was responsible
Speaker 1: for containing Waller because it wasn't just Byron Jones alone, obviously,
Speaker 1: But I thought that was an interesting game plan. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that you saw the safeties get back
Speaker 1: to coming after the quarterback, and a couple of those
Speaker 1: safety pressures were so paramount in this game at the time,
Speaker 1: like Eric rose pressure on Derek Carr lead to a
Speaker 1: land and Roberts's pick six for eighty two yards and
Speaker 1: that touchdown to kick things off. And Brandon Jones had
Speaker 1: two sacks in this game, one cutting right down the
Speaker 1: pike down the middle on a five man front where
Speaker 1: he comes clean up the middle and runs through a
Speaker 1: running back and gets home to Derek Carr and then
Speaker 1: later in the game a huge sack to lose a
Speaker 1: bunch of yards on Derek Carr. So big day for
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones rushing the passer. Good to see them get
Speaker 1: back to that. But I think you've seen three completely
Speaker 1: different game plans for this defense so far, and they'll
Speaker 1: they'll find their stride, they'll find their rhythm, and they'll
Speaker 1: continue to plan for each opponent. But I think that
Speaker 1: when you look at the structure of the defense and
Speaker 1: that Waller and Jones matchup today, to me, taking away
Speaker 1: that best target against most teams is going to be
Speaker 1: an effective means of stopping the posing offense. Now today
Speaker 1: it wasn't because Las Vegas had so many weapons that
Speaker 1: made plays in so many options that made the clutch places,
Speaker 1: and they had to like I'm never gonna get mad
Speaker 1: about a guy being in phase and perfect coverage and
Speaker 1: having the hand between the two elbows and the receiver
Speaker 1: goes and makes the catch and it's a tough play
Speaker 1: and they make it happen, Like, I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: mad about that, because in football, you cannot stop a
Speaker 1: perfect pass. And there was a couple of those instances
Speaker 1: in this game, I thought, but in general, I thought
Speaker 1: Miami's defensive approach was pretty good. Execution wasn't always there.
Speaker 1: At times it was, but during the big chunks of
Speaker 1: the game, in the middle of the intermediate portions of
Speaker 1: the field of tackling just wasn't quite good enough. But
Speaker 1: the entire story of this defense, I continue to be
Speaker 1: intrigued by it because through three games it's been pretty
Speaker 1: different all three times. And the last note here on
Speaker 1: the defense, I thought, the edge, the edge players are
Speaker 1: getting so close to really giving you a true four
Speaker 1: man rush, because the defensive line had a great game,
Speaker 1: and I thought, for the most part, like several guys
Speaker 1: had big games. Zach Seedler, Christian Wilkins, Manuel Ogba, Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips I thought had a good game. Andrew Van Geigle
Speaker 1: was in there a few times. But I think with Ogba, Phillips,
Speaker 1: van Ginkle, some of the edge options you have, they're
Speaker 1: coming so close and making those plays on four man rushes,
Speaker 1: and man Ogball was so close a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Phillips came looping in a couple of times and got
Speaker 1: in there, and Andrew Van Ginkle got in there close
Speaker 1: a couple of times so close you need those guys
Speaker 1: to finish out. Hopefully we'll get that coming up here
Speaker 1: really soon. Takeaway number five was we had to win
Speaker 1: the small things right, the penalty battle, the field goals,
Speaker 1: punting game. Uh, you can combine the penalty's seven for
Speaker 1: sixty five yards. That's just too many for those Dolphin's team.
Speaker 1: That's not what they do best. It's it's uncharacteristic. A
Speaker 1: couple of those personal foul calls early in the game,
Speaker 1: I think we're almost like a sign of how charged
Speaker 1: up this team was. But you have to remain poison
Speaker 1: still look in those moments as well. But to miss
Speaker 1: a forty eight yard Jason Sanders field goal, to have
Speaker 1: that many penalty yards yardage, the safety on the past
Speaker 1: to Jalen Waddle, which Jacobe Brissette took full responsibility for
Speaker 1: that play, by the way, at his postgame press conference,
Speaker 1: and that's just a dumb play on my part. I
Speaker 1: gotta do something different. I went to the wrong decision
Speaker 1: there and they went empty and through that quick screen
Speaker 1: to Waddle, who the ball was a little bit high
Speaker 1: and he couldn't make a move and they got him tackled.
Speaker 1: In the end, zone for a safety fourteen to two,
Speaker 1: and that's when things kind of started to go off
Speaker 1: the rails for Miami a little bit. But in general,
Speaker 1: I thought there was some nice field flips. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say the hidden yardage battle was lost necessarily, but so
Speaker 1: of the mistakes like that's that's what hurts. And that's
Speaker 1: why I think has coach saying after the game that
Speaker 1: you know, you have a different feeling than in this
Speaker 1: one if some of the players go the other way,
Speaker 1: like he says, if we do those things, will experience
Speaker 1: a different feeling. And right now, you know those couple
Speaker 1: of plays went against the Dolphins, and that's why the
Speaker 1: feeling is what it is. And that Dolphins kind of
Speaker 1: postgame mood was a little bit somber because a tough,
Speaker 1: tough loss here after you thought you had a chance
Speaker 1: to come back and when that game late, so I
Speaker 1: had to do the small things right when those small margins,
Speaker 1: I think Miami camp just short in that area. And
Speaker 1: that was my five A, My five B takeaway was
Speaker 1: you needed the big plays. I talked about this from
Speaker 1: all three phases. A Land and Roberts certainly gave you that.
Speaker 1: On defense with the eighty two yard pick six Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown twenty four yard rushing touchdown that qualifies. Didn't really
Speaker 1: have one on special teams. Damn, You're got a second
Speaker 1: one from Roberts on that great stick around the goal
Speaker 1: line for a forced fumble last I guess got it back.
Speaker 1: You really had a or nearly had a big play
Speaker 1: from Will Fuller with the defender all over his back
Speaker 1: on that possible late touchdown throw that went incomplete. But
Speaker 1: all things told, they needed a big plays, they got them.
Speaker 1: I just thought the margins, those small margins, is where
Speaker 1: this game was lost for the Miami Dolphins. Some other
Speaker 1: things I like in this game. Kind of talking about
Speaker 1: some of the shortcomings that are in the takeaways might
Speaker 1: get sick. He's involvement ten catches for eighty seven yards,
Speaker 1: and you saw the athletic ability, the long reach, the
Speaker 1: catch radius. I think that has to be a focal
Speaker 1: point because of how gifted he is. When the balls
Speaker 1: in the air, he finds a way to either get
Speaker 1: open or make those tough catches. We saw that in
Speaker 1: this game. Talked about Austin Jackson in the run game,
Speaker 1: talked about it all week in the podcast. Some of
Speaker 1: the push he's getting that touchdown runs the thing of beauty.
Speaker 1: There's another rep later in the game and past protection
Speaker 1: where he has helped with Jesse Davis inside and then
Speaker 1: a looper comes back around the edge and he peels
Speaker 1: back and gets both blocks in their loves that that
Speaker 1: anticipation and awareness from Austin Jackson. I like that Jalen
Speaker 1: waddles being pumped targets twelve catches on thirteen targets, but
Speaker 1: for just forty for fifty eight yards in this game.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see him get a little more vertical
Speaker 1: and some catches going, like I talked about going upfield
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe a little bit laterally to just to
Speaker 1: have him with a chance to make some act But
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's a feature in the offense.
Speaker 1: I like the vertical game later on, talked about that early.
Speaker 1: I like the defensive plan against Darren Waller. I like
Speaker 1: their ability to create pressure out of multiple packages, like
Speaker 1: car was under pressure for a lot of the game,
Speaker 1: and a tip your cap to him for some of
Speaker 1: the throws that he made, but creating pressure with four
Speaker 1: aug ball off the edge looks fantastic again for the
Speaker 1: third straight week. Jalen Phillips had a bunch of tackles
Speaker 1: and plays in this game. Talked about Van Gekle as well,
Speaker 1: and then also some of the play sequencing. We talked
Speaker 1: about the the screen past that was you know, Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette took responsibility for It wasn't quite what you wanted there,
Speaker 1: But there was some good play sequencing that I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of. Like, for instance, the third and
Speaker 1: seven run to Miles Gaskin was a brilliant call. You
Speaker 1: knew what you're in, four down territory, You've got a
Speaker 1: good look. You check to that run. He gets a
Speaker 1: big first down and some yards after the two point
Speaker 1: play to scheme up Will Fuller. That's a great looking
Speaker 1: player right there. He's wide open. You cannot miss him
Speaker 1: on that play. Talked about Jacoby taking responsibility for the
Speaker 1: screen past that went for a safety like you love
Speaker 1: the accountability and that's across the board for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: coaches and play is all that stuff. Um. The other
Speaker 1: thing I loved was there was a play in the
Speaker 1: game where they were in this like hook swing concept
Speaker 1: where Mike Asiki runs in the in the hook zone,
Speaker 1: little curl route in the hook zone like five yards
Speaker 1: upfield from the slot, and then Myles Gaskon ran a
Speaker 1: swing route off the back of that, and there was
Speaker 1: a play in the game where they ran that and
Speaker 1: they were both open, and I said, no, throw it
Speaker 1: to Miles because he's running up field and he's running
Speaker 1: back obviously the guy you want with the football in
Speaker 1: his hands, like, throw it to Miles, and Seth was saying,
Speaker 1: right now, we'll take any good play we can get,
Speaker 1: because it was during a tough period of the game.
Speaker 1: They came back to the exact same look later on
Speaker 1: and Jacobe threw it a little bit short that missed Miles,
Speaker 1: and I thought Myles had a chance to catch that
Speaker 1: and run all the way to Vegas, up to the
Speaker 1: down the strip and for you know, keep running until
Speaker 1: he until someone stopped him, because no one there was
Speaker 1: gonna stop him at Allegiant Stadium. That play comes up
Speaker 1: just short. But I thought the sequencing to get to
Speaker 1: that play later on that was encouraging and cool to see.
Speaker 1: Some of the other things I liked in this game
Speaker 1: the individuals. I thought Zach Seeler had a tremendous game,
Speaker 1: getting off box, batting down passes, the line, making patting
Speaker 1: penetration in the passing game. He had the third and
Speaker 1: fourth down stops when Las Vegas went for it and
Speaker 1: deepened their own territory. I thought at Landon Roberts was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Obviously the forced fumble, the interception, had the third down
Speaker 1: stick with Zach Seeler on that three, third or fourth
Speaker 1: down stop on that big drive. Defensively for Miami, he's
Speaker 1: been really good so far this season in the same
Speaker 1: place where he had the injury last year. Great to
Speaker 1: see rob have some success in that building. Thought Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins had some really good moments, some tackles at the lines,
Speaker 1: some TfL. He had a sack in this game where
Speaker 1: Adam Butler did a great, great pick stunt for him
Speaker 1: getting off the ball, forcing the center to open a
Speaker 1: gap and then Wilkins shoots in there for the sack.
Speaker 1: Talked about Phillips and og Bollow some nice pressures off
Speaker 1: the edge and tackles as well. Andrew Van Ginkle loved
Speaker 1: a lot of their their work in this game. So
Speaker 1: there were some individuals that had some moments. Some moments
Speaker 1: I liked in this game. In general, I thought the
Speaker 1: defensive lines ability to kind of take over the game
Speaker 1: at times with all those guys. That was pretty impressive
Speaker 1: as far as just winning those reps in a unit
Speaker 1: where we knew Las Vegas was down some offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: For them to go ahead and make those put the
Speaker 1: onus on that group and forced car to make the
Speaker 1: big plays that he did. I thought that was really
Speaker 1: really impressive and good of this defense to make that
Speaker 1: happen and take over a game at times up front
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. Now, I want to finish the
Speaker 1: podcast with this point about the first few games of
Speaker 1: the season, because here we are one and two Colts
Speaker 1: on deck at home. Hopefully we'll get a w in
Speaker 1: that game, get the two and two, and then we
Speaker 1: have the game in Tampa and then we hopefully have
Speaker 1: to off the injury reserve. We'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: him long term, but that's when he's eligible to come
Speaker 1: off injured reserve, which he was added to on Saturday.
Speaker 1: He'll miss a minimum of three games with the cracked
Speaker 1: or the fractured rib injury that he suffered against Buffalo.
Speaker 1: But this point about the first few games of the season,
Speaker 1: like what have we seen so far? Pittsburgh beat Buffalo
Speaker 1: on opening Day and all of a sudden, people think
Speaker 1: Buffalo is vulnerable. Well since that time, Buffalo scored four
Speaker 1: that's eighty three points in the last two games, looking
Speaker 1: just like the juggernaut they were last year. So what
Speaker 1: are the Pittsburgh Steelers? They were eleven or the start
Speaker 1: of the season last year, lost one five of their
Speaker 1: final six games to close out that season. That's the
Speaker 1: team that beat Buffalo opening Day. They lost to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: on Sunday to follow one and two Titans last year
Speaker 1: off to a five and oh start that got into
Speaker 1: a wild Card round exit. The Broncos have started the
Speaker 1: every season two and oh for like the last seven years.
Speaker 1: I believe it is our three and oh now and
Speaker 1: they haven't done much with that since the Payton Manning time.
Speaker 1: At one point people were calling the Arizona Cardinals last
Speaker 1: year going into the game against Miami Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 1: They missed the playoffs altogether. Look at Seattle's first half
Speaker 1: of the season. Offensively, they were breaking records Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett. Second half of the season, they
Speaker 1: were scoring like ten thirteen points in games. I know
Speaker 1: every game there's a point to this. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get there. Every game is live or die and they're
Speaker 1: all very, very important. That's not the point I'm trying
Speaker 1: to drive home here. I'm trying to tell you. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to tell you to be okay with losses
Speaker 1: because they suck. They hurt. Last week fucking sucked for me.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest about I hated last week, and who
Speaker 1: cares about me? But it seeps into all the things
Speaker 1: that you enjoy, right podcast, football, television programs, primetime games,
Speaker 1: other games, college games, your social media experience. I know
Speaker 1: for a fact worsens significantly after tough losses. It affects
Speaker 1: it all. But if there's one thing I can leave
Speaker 1: you with tonight on this podcast, it's to remember it's
Speaker 1: a long, long, long season. To remember that this team
Speaker 1: will get better. To remember that this just went on
Speaker 1: the brink in a game with our number two quarterback
Speaker 1: against the hottest offense in the National Football League and
Speaker 1: damn near pulled out a victory. This part of the season,
Speaker 1: though as important as any other part of the season,
Speaker 1: is not where the story of this season will be told.
Speaker 1: I recall three and O start back. I recall as
Speaker 1: well both those teams missed the playoffs. Both those teams
Speaker 1: finished below five. In fact, the last two times this
Speaker 1: team made the playoffs, and that's actually include last year,
Speaker 1: to call it, the last three times this organization won
Speaker 1: double digit games. They started off one and three. They
Speaker 1: started off one and four, two thousand and eight, won
Speaker 1: the division that year, started off two and four that season.
Speaker 1: Now it's incumbent on the staff and the players and
Speaker 1: the entire team to get it corrected. You're not just
Speaker 1: gonna show up and have that happen because it happened
Speaker 1: in the past. That's that's malarkey. But September is not
Speaker 1: the part of the season the chill, remember, October really
Speaker 1: isn't either for that matter. And so while the loss
Speaker 1: is hard to deal with, Dolphins are one and two,
Speaker 1: that's hard to deal with. Everything remains right in front
Speaker 1: of you, and they have a chance to get better
Speaker 1: tomorrow and make this team better, come back and get
Speaker 1: a victory next week, and continue to build off that
Speaker 1: and make this team the best version of itself as
Speaker 1: they can in the stretch of the season where things
Speaker 1: really heat up and the standing start to matter, because
Speaker 1: right now you're just wanting to trying to get better,
Speaker 1: trying to find a way to win football games and
Speaker 1: as Brian Flores said, have that feeling feel a little
Speaker 1: bit different for you by making those few plays. Make
Speaker 1: the corrections so you can make those plays. That's the idea,
Speaker 1: that's the focus this week. Let's get back to work, Caroline,
Speaker 1: Daddy is coming home. You all. Please be sure to
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