Speaker 1: Factors are Dolphins Factrick throwing touchdown? What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow, you know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big one. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Official
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your team, your three and three Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: each and every day. How's it going everybody? I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring
Speaker 1: you your weekly Dolphins football recap here on the official
Speaker 1: daily podcast of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. And on
Speaker 1: today's show, Win Win, Win Win, the Dolphins pull off
Speaker 1: a dominant win in dominant fashion with dominant defense and
Speaker 1: explosive first half offense. We're gonna hear from some of
Speaker 1: the guys. We're gonna get you the takeaways from this game,
Speaker 1: the individual performances, and get John Conjemmi on the horn
Speaker 1: to help us break down the dolphins twenty four to
Speaker 1: nothing victory. All of that more on this Sunday, October
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Speaker 1: into this game, I was very curious about this because
Speaker 1: we know how comfortable the Dolphins victories have been. The
Speaker 1: two victories they have so far under or over rather
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and San Francisco, with a seventeen win a thirteen win.
Speaker 1: I was just very curious about how often the Dolphins
Speaker 1: win games in blowout fashion, and I was expecting to
Speaker 1: have to go back further. But you might recall the
Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen season, the Dolphins had six victories
Speaker 1: by double digits. They played some games where they just
Speaker 1: wipe people off the field quickly with a high scoring
Speaker 1: offense and good defensive performances. And I did think I
Speaker 1: was gonna have to go back further than that, because
Speaker 1: over the past five years two thousand fifteen through two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, Dolphins have five double digit wins total, So
Speaker 1: coming up close to that this season with three already
Speaker 1: with a twenty four to nothing victory over the New
Speaker 1: York Jets and absolute dominant performance from the defense. The
Speaker 1: a f C East standings now because of the Patriots
Speaker 1: loss against the Denver Broncos and the Jets loss here
Speaker 1: at home to the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills are four
Speaker 1: and one. They have the Chiefs tomorrow with Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champions, Dolphins at three and three,
Speaker 1: Patriots at two and three, Jets at oh and six,
Speaker 1: Dolphins and second place in the a f C East,
Speaker 1: And if Kansas City can take care of Buffalo tomorrow,
Speaker 1: then I'll put us one game within the lead for
Speaker 1: the a f C East Division. So I talked about
Speaker 1: this on Friday, or maybe it was Thursday, not gonna
Speaker 1: start looking at the standings, But here we are talking
Speaker 1: standings in week number six, And let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start this Sunday night, reek half edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast as we do weekly, taking a look at
Speaker 1: the stats from Miami's to zero twin win win win
Speaker 1: over rival New York. Let's go ahead and turn that
Speaker 1: down real quick. Over the Jets. The Dolphins had a
Speaker 1: defensive showing. This probably gonna put them quite a bit
Speaker 1: up in the rankings in terms of yards allowed, points against.
Speaker 1: All the fun stuff we talked about on the Tuesday
Speaker 1: podcast here on Drivetime, the Dolphins defense allows just two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three yards one hundred and fifteen on
Speaker 1: the ground, a couple those big runs in that second
Speaker 1: half with the scoreboard looking pretty lopsided. One hundred and
Speaker 1: forty eight passing yards for the Jets. The Jets were
Speaker 1: four of twenty on third and fourth down. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think it wasn't until their thirteen third down conversion
Speaker 1: they picked one up there late in that second half.
Speaker 1: On third down, the Jets were just two of seventeen
Speaker 1: in the game. They got two out of three fourth
Speaker 1: downs in the game. Dolphins also had an interception and
Speaker 1: three sacks and committed just five penalties for twenty five
Speaker 1: yards compared to the Jets seven for eight arts and
Speaker 1: had the ball for twenty eight minutes compared to the
Speaker 1: Jets thirty two minutes. In this game, Dolphins did have
Speaker 1: more turnovers rather with two. They also gave up two
Speaker 1: sacks on the day, and the Dolphins had three two
Speaker 1: yards of offense one ten rushing, one two passing, and
Speaker 1: we're just one for nine on third down. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk more about that third down here in just one
Speaker 1: second let's go ahead and dive right away into the takeaways,
Speaker 1: my five takeaways before we get into John Congemmi's three
Speaker 1: takeaways later in the podcast. And number one was part
Speaker 1: of the game plan we talked about on Thursday to
Speaker 1: heat up Joe Flacco, but primarily on the interior with
Speaker 1: those rushes, bringing linebackers and get those big defensive tackles
Speaker 1: kind of moving guys backwards and filtering in linebackers behind them,
Speaker 1: just constantly putting pressure in the face of Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: And you saw it right away the very first third
Speaker 1: down of the game. He has to throw off his
Speaker 1: back foot and kind of fade away and take a
Speaker 1: vertical shot up against Byron Jones, and I think it
Speaker 1: was twice against Byron Jones. He went for too Brashad
Speaker 1: Perriman just falling off that back foot. Because the only
Speaker 1: option you have when you're a quarterback that maybe doesn't
Speaker 1: move like a Russell Wilson or a Josh Allen to
Speaker 1: go side to side. You're only option in the rushes
Speaker 1: in your face like that is to kind of fall
Speaker 1: away from the rush so you can get the throw
Speaker 1: off and then put it up there and give your
Speaker 1: guy a chance to make a play. We've seen Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: do that, and Fitzpatrick obviously does have that scrambled ability,
Speaker 1: but we've seen him with three rushers in his face.
Speaker 1: You just kind of have to protect yourself, fall away
Speaker 1: and throw the ball up, and he does that so well.
Speaker 1: Flacco did that the first I want to say, five
Speaker 1: or six throws of the game. Dolphins just consistently put
Speaker 1: pressure right up the middle. They were doing stunts, they
Speaker 1: were running games, they were doing different types of blitzes,
Speaker 1: different coverages. One of my favorite looks in the game
Speaker 1: was going cover zero in the third quarter at one
Speaker 1: point with McCain up on the line of scrimmage, pressed
Speaker 1: up against the receiver to really put the screws to
Speaker 1: the Jets. I think it was at the point where
Speaker 1: they still had like over twelve on third down and
Speaker 1: they wanted to get that third and two stop, and
Speaker 1: it did work on that place. So Dolphins defense just
Speaker 1: pushed all the right buttons him, not stepping into throws,
Speaker 1: constantly forcing him to come off the first read because
Speaker 1: of good coverage downfield, the way the rush and the
Speaker 1: coverage kind of sinks up. You hear coach Flores and Joe,
Speaker 1: Alexander and Mary and Hobby and Josh Boyer talk about
Speaker 1: that so so much and how important it is for
Speaker 1: a defense, and we're gonna talk more about some of
Speaker 1: the other plays later on in the podcast, but to
Speaker 1: just see Sam eg Von come in and have such
Speaker 1: a big impact a year after being such a prominent
Speaker 1: fixture on the Dolphins defense and playing so many snaps,
Speaker 1: has done so well to accept a special team's role
Speaker 1: and a sub package linebacker. I talked to my buddy
Speaker 1: Kevin during this Morning formerly of the Analysis podcast at
Speaker 1: Kevin m D four and I was talking to him
Speaker 1: about how I was really pleased with the way that
Speaker 1: both Tyshan Render and Sam Edgban played last week, and
Speaker 1: in this potential absence of Kyle van Noy, who was
Speaker 1: questionable coming in and Shack Lawson was questionable coming in,
Speaker 1: we wind up losing Andrew van Ginkl in the game
Speaker 1: he did not return with a concussion, and Commu grug
Speaker 1: Hill did come back in after a hand injury. The
Speaker 1: way these linebackers were, you know, getting dinged up for
Speaker 1: Sam edg Van to step right in and have such
Speaker 1: a big impact in those sub packages. We talked all
Speaker 1: training camp long last year about how explosive this guy was,
Speaker 1: how fast he was, how he can rush the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And he was up on PFF's off ball linebackers at
Speaker 1: the top of the list, top two or three in
Speaker 1: terms of total pressure. So you knew how this Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense used him throwing him at the quarterback relentlessly and
Speaker 1: for him to get pressure and get on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And just to watch the way this defense can fill
Speaker 1: in and have bodies step up and replacement of other
Speaker 1: bodies is fun to watch with that interior pressure. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and play some sound here from Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: I asked him postgame about the way the Dolphins mixed
Speaker 1: things up and the plan to put pressure on the
Speaker 1: opposing quarterback, but also to kind of break down the
Speaker 1: sack he had with Sam eg Van, who's had a
Speaker 1: great pick stunt on the play to free up Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and Wilkins says that he definitely recognized Sam ag Von
Speaker 1: helping him make that play would be more than helping him. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been doing a lot of different things. We've just
Speaker 1: been saying all the multiple in art and art and
Speaker 1: our stuff and just guys work hard. Guys really want
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, so we're working hard to get after him. Um.
Speaker 1: And on that play, Uh, Sam just did a good
Speaker 1: job setting me up. Um. He did a kind of
Speaker 1: move inside, didn't just you know, hit the center and
Speaker 1: I was able to come free. Um. So I had
Speaker 1: to make sure I find Sam because you know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have made that play without him. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the great thing about football. It's the ultimate team sport.
Speaker 1: And I definitely I know for a fact that would
Speaker 1: have made the play with us him. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear a lot of that theme on this podcast guys
Speaker 1: passing credit. It's it's one of those things that maybe
Speaker 1: you get a little bit frustrated with in the media
Speaker 1: when these guys say cliche things, right like we're gonna,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play for each other, we're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: take it one game at a time. We're gonna it's
Speaker 1: more than a one guy sport. But to see them
Speaker 1: put those words into action and have it bear fruit
Speaker 1: in big victories, it really changes the way you perceive it.
Speaker 1: When these guys consistently play with the same mentality, the
Speaker 1: same mindset, and the same just general philosophy of their
Speaker 1: head coach and not sure it's fun to watch for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defense and entire football team. Jerome Baker, Landon
Speaker 1: Roberts both got in there as well. They were in
Speaker 1: my notes here for the pressure getting on the quarterback
Speaker 1: point number two. Takeaway number two was a point to
Speaker 1: establish the run and I thought they really did a
Speaker 1: good job of that early in this game. It's set
Speaker 1: a temple for this game. Wore down that Jets defense
Speaker 1: early and helped get the defense arrests they can get
Speaker 1: back onto the field and make a bunch of plays.
Speaker 1: The very first touchdown drive, it was the Dolphins second
Speaker 1: drive of the game. The very first drive stalled out
Speaker 1: on a three and out, but on the touchdown drive,
Speaker 1: four rushes for forty two yards on that drive, three
Speaker 1: forty seven coming to Miles Gascon and Brita had won
Speaker 1: five yard carry on that drive. And Brian Flores talks
Speaker 1: about trying to improve on things that you can get
Speaker 1: better at. Right, every player, every team, every unit has
Speaker 1: things they can work on to get better. And he
Speaker 1: talks about it with the young guys. He talks about
Speaker 1: it with guys that have success on a game and
Speaker 1: how they can build upon that and improve other things
Speaker 1: in their game, Like if you're good at one thing,
Speaker 1: maybe you can work on if you're good at rushing
Speaker 1: the pastor for instance, maybe you can work on your
Speaker 1: run game. And for this Dolphins offense, I think that
Speaker 1: was an area they wanted to come out and really
Speaker 1: develop and and show that they were going to be
Speaker 1: a strong running team that can be a balanced offense.
Speaker 1: And they executed on that level. You heard coach Flores
Speaker 1: talk about it last week and the win over San Francisco,
Speaker 1: how he liked the way they were able to get
Speaker 1: chunk gains and try to help run the clock out
Speaker 1: through the running game. Chan Gailey talked about it, We
Speaker 1: didn't have to pass as much because the running game
Speaker 1: gave us those twelve fifteen yard gallops that would keep
Speaker 1: the offense going. With the rushing game and the career
Speaker 1: high day for Miles Gaskin one six yards from scrimmage
Speaker 1: for him. I wrote down my notes the push of
Speaker 1: the offensive line. My individual notes had Jesse Davis wiping
Speaker 1: out a player off a wine bag run off his edge.
Speaker 1: I had Ted Carriss getting good push a couple of times.
Speaker 1: My notes Eric Flowers getting to the second level, moving
Speaker 1: linebackers out of the way for Gaskin, chunk runs, Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt displacing body, Solomon Kinley with a body count, and
Speaker 1: then back to Miles Gaskin. For a team that talks
Speaker 1: about consistency so much, and going back to the themes
Speaker 1: of this team, right, he is the bell of the
Speaker 1: ball when it comes to consistency because this dude is
Speaker 1: consistently hitting those wine back runs. He consistently surges through
Speaker 1: the arm tackles and turns out extra gardage through contact.
Speaker 1: Because you know, the defense hits the hits the ball
Speaker 1: carrier and they want to stand him up and not
Speaker 1: let him get extra yards. But Gaskin always finds a
Speaker 1: way to kind of angle his shoulder or dip in
Speaker 1: under the shoulder pad of the opposing tackler and get
Speaker 1: those extra two or three yards, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's not second and six, it's second and four, and
Speaker 1: the playbook just expands more upon that. He consistently preaches improvement,
Speaker 1: he consistently works at it. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: from Miles gasking and my question for him posting about
Speaker 1: the way the offensive line has continued to be consistent
Speaker 1: in the way they block, because we talked to Miles
Speaker 1: after the Jacksonville game and I wanted to ask him
Speaker 1: what it was about the way these these guys block
Speaker 1: up front that suits his running style. And so now
Speaker 1: that Austin Jackson's not in there and Robert Hunt has
Speaker 1: replaced him with Jesse Davis swinging over to the other
Speaker 1: side of the offensive line, I wanted to get Miles
Speaker 1: to to give us an opinion about how this offensive
Speaker 1: line just basically replaced a player and stepped right up
Speaker 1: and kind of go back to that first takeaway with
Speaker 1: how consistent this team is in their messaging. Here's Miles
Speaker 1: Miles gasking about his offensive line and how he can
Speaker 1: do better himself as a running back as those guys
Speaker 1: work on every day. Very talented Google guys and a
Speaker 1: very own Usually when you see that group of guys
Speaker 1: that are very talented, sometimes they're not coachable. But those
Speaker 1: guys are coachable and they're not afraid to speak up,
Speaker 1: Like when I'm in the wrong or say I hate
Speaker 1: the wrong, all that they're going to tell me am
Speaker 1: like what the hell you looking at or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So those guys work hard
Speaker 1: every single day. It motivates me to work hard for them.
Speaker 1: It's so much easier to be accountable. And this is
Speaker 1: just my own experience speaking here, so I have to
Speaker 1: imagine it's true for football players. It's so much easier
Speaker 1: to hold people accountable when you have a high level
Speaker 1: relationship and a positive working relationship with those people, right
Speaker 1: Like I can tell my brother, who I've known for
Speaker 1: a billion years, hey, you're screwing up right here, whereas
Speaker 1: maybe for someone I don't know as well, it's a
Speaker 1: little more uncomfortable. So when you see these guys on
Speaker 1: the sideline high five and giving their backup quarterback and
Speaker 1: standing ovation as it goes in the game, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that in one second. Every interaction you see with
Speaker 1: this team is all positive. They're pumped up for each other,
Speaker 1: and we'll hear coach Florence talk about that as well.
Speaker 1: You just it's it's consistent in the way they preach it,
Speaker 1: and I think that also has that accountability factor to that.
Speaker 1: You hear Myles gas can talk about there with the
Speaker 1: offensive line, like hey you didn't see that cutback lane,
Speaker 1: or hey I had him bounce, Why didn't you just
Speaker 1: go ahead and bang that thing. Like to have that
Speaker 1: type of accountability and self policing, man, that's that's a
Speaker 1: good sign to have for a football team. Take Away
Speaker 1: number three the ability to absolutely put your foot on
Speaker 1: the neck of the opponent and bury somebody. And we
Speaker 1: talked about the first time with three double digit wins
Speaker 1: since and the mindset of the head coach and the
Speaker 1: entire football team to to make it a point to
Speaker 1: finish the game and play hard for sixty minutes. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from coach Flora's on that here in just
Speaker 1: one second. But at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: they get a stop short of the sticks, and Flora's
Speaker 1: is down there calling time outs despite the fact that
Speaker 1: they have a twenty one nothing lead, Like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of the fact that we can get
Speaker 1: a ball back here, we can get some more points
Speaker 1: on the board, and we're gonna put this team out
Speaker 1: of their misery and end this game right now. I
Speaker 1: love the aggressive play calling, the aggressive approach to managing
Speaker 1: the game. We saw him go for it on fourth
Speaker 1: down in his own territory last week because they were
Speaker 1: confident in the call. That's what you're doing Madden right,
Speaker 1: you feel good about your call, you play call you
Speaker 1: have on fourth and one, then you're gonna go for
Speaker 1: it like try Sen. Your coaching, trusting your players, trusting
Speaker 1: the execution, and that's what coach Floras does consistently. Now,
Speaker 1: he talked a little bit about the shutout and how
Speaker 1: important that was this team, and I wanted to go
Speaker 1: ahead and play that audio for you guys, And we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with coach Floress talking about how
Speaker 1: they were able to shut out the Jets on offense
Speaker 1: with good practice, good calls from Josh Boyer. I'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and let him finish his thought here, contributions from
Speaker 1: a lot of different guys. Guys made plays and um
Speaker 1: and they played for sixty minutes. I'm proud of that effort.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's the way. That's the focus we need,
Speaker 1: um really, you know, throughout the league. And then you
Speaker 1: got execute player on the game I thought they did
Speaker 1: so to go ahead and get that fourth down stop
Speaker 1: when the Jets were into field goal range and possibly
Speaker 1: gonna punch it in for a touchdown there at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, to get in completions, to get
Speaker 1: no way a bonogamy back in coverage, breaking up balls,
Speaker 1: running guys out of the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: Just like he talked about sixty minutes, How can you
Speaker 1: ask for more than that? To have these guys step
Speaker 1: up and play hard for an entire game when you
Speaker 1: know it was twenty one nothing, a three score game
Speaker 1: at halftime. To play that hard the entire four quarters
Speaker 1: has a lot about the makeup and personality of this
Speaker 1: football team. Let's go ahead and let coach continue. Has
Speaker 1: thought about the importance and how it feels to get
Speaker 1: a shut out, you know, defensive minded coach, how it
Speaker 1: feels for him to shut somebody out on a Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, there's a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: like playing together. So when other guys make plays where
Speaker 1: there's offense, defense, special teams, you see, uh, a lot
Speaker 1: of excitement, a lot of energy. So guys were excited
Speaker 1: for but to make a play. Guys excited about the
Speaker 1: situation and getting to stop and get him out of
Speaker 1: field goal range um, and they were excited about, you know,
Speaker 1: the potentially two to get a shut out. So I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what I'd like to see, you know, guys, you
Speaker 1: know enjoying, enjoying kind of the process of working through
Speaker 1: the week, prep and preparing, walk through these meetings, practice,
Speaker 1: and then we're on executing on a on a Sunday afternoon. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they're they're just they're just happy about for
Speaker 1: each other and kind of weeping some of the And
Speaker 1: that's that's why I talk about right the same consistent
Speaker 1: messaging we've heard all season long. We're gonna be a
Speaker 1: team that cares for each other. We about the right guys,
Speaker 1: and it's not about the best fifty three. It's about
Speaker 1: the right fifty three. And you can talk about it
Speaker 1: in the spring, in the summer, in training camp, and
Speaker 1: maybe the first couple of games you're not winning. But
Speaker 1: then when you see victories and you see it every
Speaker 1: single week, and you see guys going nuts for each other,
Speaker 1: how do you not buy in? Like I keep on,
Speaker 1: I'm having this argument with myself right now, trying to
Speaker 1: convince someone that's not in front of me right now,
Speaker 1: But it's it's so obvious to me how you just
Speaker 1: buy in a belief. So three and three is a
Speaker 1: great spot to be right now after a tough start,
Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do, obviously going forward,
Speaker 1: but just the general makeup of this team. Man, that
Speaker 1: stuff gets me excited. And speaking of that, and speaking
Speaker 1: of being excited for guys to a ton of bolo
Speaker 1: comes into the game and completes two passes, and I
Speaker 1: want to talk about the reaction of the way these
Speaker 1: guys handled to a coming off the bench and the
Speaker 1: crowd going crazy, the sideline going crazy too. Was dancing
Speaker 1: with his teammates prior to coming into the game, put
Speaker 1: the helmet on, ran out there. People lost their minds
Speaker 1: and there was one head cheerleader of the group. And
Speaker 1: who other was it than quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from fits on a comment that Brian Flora has
Speaker 1: made after the game about the relationship of those two.
Speaker 1: The question was, what does it say about those two people,
Speaker 1: both on the football field and off and their personalities
Speaker 1: that they have that tight knit relationship between Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: and to a tongue byloa and Flow kind of laughs
Speaker 1: at the question here at first because he likes the idea.
Speaker 1: He didn't know that Fitzpatrick was cheerleading for to uh,
Speaker 1: here's flows answer to what that means and what there's
Speaker 1: guys relationship means for this football team. M I didn't
Speaker 1: know that, but that doesn't surprise me. I mean, the
Speaker 1: two those guys have a great relationship. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: they root for each other and that's those are some
Speaker 1: of the relationships that are building really throughout the team.
Speaker 1: You'd like to see that and hopefully when you you know,
Speaker 1: watch but people see that, and um, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's it's nice to hear that. I mean, it's I
Speaker 1: didn't actually see it, but I know there was some excitement,
Speaker 1: you know once he went in and you know, I
Speaker 1: have two of but you know, that's that's I like
Speaker 1: hearing that. So I wanted to ask coach Flow about
Speaker 1: or rather I wanted to ask Ryan Fitzpatrick about Flow's answer.
Speaker 1: There here's fits on the exact answer from coach Flores.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would say we're still we're still a
Speaker 1: work in progress, but we're we're definitely heading in the
Speaker 1: right direction. We've you know, brought in a lot of
Speaker 1: new guys this offseason, and um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: we brought in the right kind of guys and everybody
Speaker 1: has really meshed well. Um, you know, even a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, sitting at one and three, not really
Speaker 1: feeling sorry for ourselves, but continuing to work and now
Speaker 1: you know, to get a couple in a row, and
Speaker 1: sitting at three and three going into to buy uh.
Speaker 1: It was a good feeling for us. And I think
Speaker 1: we're coming together as a team. I think we're coming
Speaker 1: together as a team. As the calm month there, Fits
Speaker 1: leaves us with and on the two tongue Boa two
Speaker 1: passes again, he converted the only third down of the
Speaker 1: day for the Dolphins offense to Jachim Grant after throwing
Speaker 1: a pass on a naked boot in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone. Fits also talked about the difficulty of
Speaker 1: that throw and he was kind of rolling along the
Speaker 1: back line there, the back end line of the Dolphins
Speaker 1: end zone. But on the third down play, that's where
Speaker 1: I was really impressed, was to see this guy just
Speaker 1: kind of step up into the pocket, kind of some
Speaker 1: pressure coming around him to step up and deliver a
Speaker 1: throw there for a big first down conversion. We saw
Speaker 1: that quick twitch and that quick processor and the quick
Speaker 1: trigger at Alabama repeatedly every Saturday the last two or
Speaker 1: three years down there in college football, and also on
Speaker 1: the same takeaway here talking about burying somebody. Dolphins have
Speaker 1: a plus forty seven point point differential right now. That's
Speaker 1: best in the division. That's ahead of Buffalo right now,
Speaker 1: who's minus three at four and one. It's also better
Speaker 1: than the four and two Cleveland Browns who have a
Speaker 1: negative point differential. It's better than the five and oh
Speaker 1: Titans who have a thirty eight point differential the culture
Speaker 1: at forty two at four and two point differential. It's
Speaker 1: better than the Kansas City chief who have a thirty
Speaker 1: nine point point differential at four and one. So this
Speaker 1: team is playing good football right now, putting up points
Speaker 1: on the board, stopping the opposing offenses from putting up
Speaker 1: points of their own as well. So let's take away
Speaker 1: number three a long winded one at that. Actually, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish the stuff. I wanted to hear
Speaker 1: this comment here or play this comment rather from two
Speaker 1: A ton of Baloa on the moment for getting out
Speaker 1: there on the field for his first time in his
Speaker 1: pro career one year after his injured hip. I think
Speaker 1: it was a very special moment um for me because
Speaker 1: my parents weren't here, so I couldn't really remember where
Speaker 1: we ended our drive at so trying to sit close
Speaker 1: to where we ended our drive at and I ended
Speaker 1: up FaceTime with my parents because they couldn't be here. Um,
Speaker 1: So I that's usually how it goes. I usually talked
Speaker 1: to my parents, um, you know, after the game, and
Speaker 1: my parents usually never missed my game. So that's what
Speaker 1: I did. I went out there and I talked to them. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's what that moment was about. Pretty
Speaker 1: satisfying when all the way around for the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: the entire roster, everybody getting in on the action. You
Speaker 1: heard Coach Flores talk about having plenty of contributors in
Speaker 1: this game. The fourth takeaway, We're gonna go to an
Speaker 1: individual here. It's the Sunday Spotlight if you guys haven't noticed.
Speaker 1: In addition to the recap article up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com, we're also going to have a weekly Spotlight edition.
Speaker 1: We had Exit rather DeVante Parker in the loss to
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Last week, we had Ryan Fitzpatrick and the
Speaker 1: win over the San Francisco forty Niners. And this week
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard because he came into this game with a
Speaker 1: pick every eight point six targets going back to that date.
Speaker 1: We always talked about right December eight point six targets.
Speaker 1: You try this guy, he's gonna get himself an interception.
Speaker 1: It's been so impressive, sixteen in his last twenty eight games,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that he's only had twenty eight games
Speaker 1: out of forty three possible since. And he talked about
Speaker 1: on the interception, how they ran that over route so
Speaker 1: many times against him. We saw the old do that
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. We saw the Seahawks do that against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. We saw the Niners tried that against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And x actually got his hands on a football on
Speaker 1: that play but couldn't quite squeeze it off of his fingertips.
Speaker 1: Almost the exact same look here, and this time he
Speaker 1: undercuts it and gets his hands on the ball and
Speaker 1: does squeeze it, pulls on the interception. He would of
Speaker 1: course later get to pick in that San Francisco game
Speaker 1: on what Jerald Alexander called a layup in his media availability,
Speaker 1: But xaviing Howard does get this one, the tougher interception
Speaker 1: this time. And now in back to bad games, this
Speaker 1: guy has been targeted eight times, no catches, two interceptions,
Speaker 1: two pass breakups, ridiculous ball production. And somebody asked him postgame,
Speaker 1: are you gonna write a book about how you get
Speaker 1: to the ball? Ball find me is exactly right, exaviing
Speaker 1: Howard six team picks in his last twenty eight games
Speaker 1: and the fifth takeaway, How can we talk about anything
Speaker 1: besides this Miami Dolphin defense. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: the entire the numbers piece tomorrow that I'm gonna write,
Speaker 1: because I can't wait to look at where this team
Speaker 1: ranks on the defensive points per game and yards per
Speaker 1: game passing game. It's gonna be a nice little bump
Speaker 1: up the standings and the rankings there for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How about this drive chart that I was going I
Speaker 1: took it for about the first two and a half quarters,
Speaker 1: maybe three quarters of the game. First drive for the
Speaker 1: Jets three place three yards. Second drive three place five yards.
Speaker 1: Third drive they had some success ten place thirty five yards,
Speaker 1: but eventually with punt on that drive as well, obviously
Speaker 1: it didn't score points. Fourth drive three plays negative four yards,
Speaker 1: Fifth drive three plays four yards and a pick. Sixth
Speaker 1: drive three place four yards, seventh drive three place nine yards,
Speaker 1: and the eighth drive after the interception there with about
Speaker 1: twenty seconds left, and the half they go four place
Speaker 1: for twenty two yards end of half. So in that
Speaker 1: first half, thirty two plays ninety three yards over eight
Speaker 1: on first downs or on third down, rather than just
Speaker 1: four first downs in the game. How about the second
Speaker 1: half come right out of the locker room, three plays
Speaker 1: negative four yards, four plays sixteen yards, five place thirty
Speaker 1: eight four place nineteen yards, eight plays eight yards. That
Speaker 1: was the ag Bas sack play negative twenty eight yards
Speaker 1: on that play, and then the next drive was four
Speaker 1: plays for sixteen yards. So I mean we're talking about
Speaker 1: like five first downs amongst among was it fourteen drives
Speaker 1: here and four of them came on one series. Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins a sack, a couple of past breakups, a couple
Speaker 1: more tackles. Eric Rowe had ten combined tackles in the game.
Speaker 1: We talked about Samuel go Van Emmanuel Ogball gets two
Speaker 1: more sacks in the game. He now has a sack
Speaker 1: in three consecutive games. He has at least a half
Speaker 1: a sack in five consecutive games, and he now has two,
Speaker 1: three or four five sacks on the season. So og
Speaker 1: Ball really paying dividends at that pass brush position. I
Speaker 1: thought shack loss was damn good as well. Off the
Speaker 1: other side playing the run play in the past, the
Speaker 1: linebackers got themselves involved, the defensive backs the way Eric
Speaker 1: Rowe and Bobby McCain are communicating on that back end
Speaker 1: and kind of passing things off, walling guys off, playing
Speaker 1: into their leverage, playing into their calls. It's just been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch this defense the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, and they just keep climbing up up up
Speaker 1: those ranking boards. And another zero point performance and less
Speaker 1: than three yards of offense. That's gonna help big time
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense absolutely dominant in a shutout victory over the Jets.
Speaker 1: A few individual notes we didn't talk about here. There
Speaker 1: was a play the Preston Williams touchdown. I love that
Speaker 1: play by both Preston and Fits and the call by Chan,
Speaker 1: the design by Chan because Preston one the route is beautiful.
Speaker 1: He's got a cornerback one on one coverage, kind of
Speaker 1: takes the outside step first and it cuts back across
Speaker 1: his face once that corner drives his hips to the sideline,
Speaker 1: gives him a chance to cross face. Does it perfectly
Speaker 1: and then from there a six ft five frame. Good
Speaker 1: luck defense, You're not gonna stop him. I love that
Speaker 1: play also because the quick fake handoff to not kind
Speaker 1: of carry out the fake handoff the play action, but
Speaker 1: to fake it, put it out there, show the defense
Speaker 1: to the the football, pop up, and then throw it out quickly.
Speaker 1: It allows you to get at the ball out much faster,
Speaker 1: and Fitzpatrick just kind of throws to a spot like
Speaker 1: he talked about last week and his media availability, throws
Speaker 1: the ball to a spot right where Preston Williams is touchdown.
Speaker 1: Dolphins loved that play. We talked about Miles Gaskin. I
Speaker 1: put DeVante Parker the notes here a few times, just
Speaker 1: the way he uncovered and and make some contested catches.
Speaker 1: Had a tough catch in traffic where he kind of
Speaker 1: got knocked to the ground there. So another good day
Speaker 1: for DeVante Parker. The tight end room, Derham Smith Adam
Speaker 1: Shaheen a pair of touchdowns from those two guys, one each,
Speaker 1: Shaheen and Smith both getting that little under route from
Speaker 1: the previous week that Shaheen ram. Love to see those
Speaker 1: guys contribute in the passing game. Shaheen also had the
Speaker 1: big forty three yard catch down the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: So good work from those guys. Offensive line. I mean,
Speaker 1: these guys have been playing so well all year long,
Speaker 1: one through five. Jesse Davis, Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: and Solomon Kinley in there, just getting some push in
Speaker 1: the running game, helping protect the quarterback in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Another good effort here from the Dolphin's offensive line. We'll
Speaker 1: have more for you guys on that on the All
Speaker 1: twenty two review. On Tuesday's podcast, on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: we talked about Agba. Didn't get much of a mention
Speaker 1: about Zach Seeler, but my goodness, how many times did
Speaker 1: he lock out, get those big, strong, long arms locked out,
Speaker 1: and then just work with his athletic ability down the
Speaker 1: line on those outside runs and disengage and get there
Speaker 1: for a tackle at the lion of scrimmage. So in pressive,
Speaker 1: so powerful, so athletic and agile. Also the player where
Speaker 1: he retraced a screen and got helped with a Land
Speaker 1: and Roberts on a tackle short of the sticks which
Speaker 1: would force the Jets to punt on fourth and one.
Speaker 1: Just a really good game again from Zach Seiler. The linebackers.
Speaker 1: The Land and Roberts put another damn good game. I thought,
Speaker 1: flying all over the field, aggressive but in control, big
Speaker 1: time hitter. Definitely lays the wood when he arrives. Loved
Speaker 1: the work of Sam Ego van As. We talked about
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker got in there for some pressure on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: goes a gap blitz pressure looks just coming in hot
Speaker 1: on Joe Flacco and the defensive backfield. We didn't talk
Speaker 1: about Byron Jones, but the first two pass attempts of
Speaker 1: the game from Joe Flacco, they tried to go deep
Speaker 1: on Byron Jones, and he just said, go ahead and
Speaker 1: try to run pass him, because you're not gonna run
Speaker 1: by me. So he gets that jam kind of the
Speaker 1: underneath trail technique, and then he runs right under that
Speaker 1: thing and does such a good job to get himself
Speaker 1: back in position to make a play on the football.
Speaker 1: We talked about Eric Row and Bobby McCain. I think
Speaker 1: both of these guys are playing so damn well right now.
Speaker 1: And then xaviing Howard. You don't even gotta say it.
Speaker 1: He's just been awesome so far. Special teams. I thought
Speaker 1: Jachem had his best day returning punts today, so that
Speaker 1: was also very good to see. Jason Sanders remains perfect.
Speaker 1: Matt Hawk put another punt inside the ten yard line,
Speaker 1: so everything came up aces in this game for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: A good looking performance three and three heading into the
Speaker 1: bye week, and then we'll see the Rams next week.
Speaker 1: After that, we gat at home here at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: And with that, let's go ahead and welcome in my
Speaker 1: weekly Sunday Night Recap podcast co host guest John con Jemmy.
Speaker 1: We get to watch the games with each other at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium, and we got another chance to watch
Speaker 1: a dominant Dolphins performance twenty four nothing. John, How you
Speaker 1: doing man, I'm doing great. It's too bad we can't
Speaker 1: cheer where we sit because we had a lot of
Speaker 1: cheering to do tonight, especially how dominant you know the
Speaker 1: performance was by the team, you know, twenty four nothing. Uh,
Speaker 1: the first time you know that happened in six years.
Speaker 1: You get a shut out and they've been outscoring opponents.
Speaker 1: What was at sixties seven and seventeen the last two
Speaker 1: opponents I heard during the broadcast, So a lot of
Speaker 1: things have a lot of positives to talk about. When
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Miami Dolphins. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: our silent fist bump we do in the press box. John,
Speaker 1: That's a good way to to get the little ws
Speaker 1: under our belts. Here's a fact I just learned during
Speaker 1: the podcast. I'll tell you John, the Dolphins have a
Speaker 1: better point differential right now than Kansas City. Isn't that crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That is crazy. I would have I would have guessed
Speaker 1: the Kansas City. But um, you know, I mean, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are playing some good football. They're they're five, which
Speaker 1: is positive, all right. They had a chance to beat
Speaker 1: Seattle at home. They hung with Buffalo, who's probably the
Speaker 1: you know, the class right now the a f c S.
Speaker 1: But we're we're kind of getting on their heels a
Speaker 1: little bit and waiting for them to maybe take a
Speaker 1: step backwards and and build momentum and get closer to
Speaker 1: challenging for the crown. Well, we'll go ahead and root
Speaker 1: for Kansas City to take over us in the point
Speaker 1: differential category tomorrow so they can beat Buffalo and we
Speaker 1: can get within one game of the a c S League.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have John con Jemmy on the podcast later
Speaker 1: this week, guys to talk about just kind of a
Speaker 1: season recap so far and look ahead. But John, for
Speaker 1: now want to hear your three takeaways, Go ahead and
Speaker 1: kick it off with number one. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I think it was a dominating defensive performance by the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I thought in every facet, you know, when
Speaker 1: you looked at the way they played upfront with the
Speaker 1: defensive line, you know, your minus the god chow, you're
Speaker 1: going in and you're playing you're playing rookies, and you're
Speaker 1: playing guys a little bit out of position. But I
Speaker 1: thought every every time you looked, someone stepped up. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba and his two sacks, Christian Wilkins had multiple passes deflected,
Speaker 1: he had a sack. I thought Zack Seeler played an
Speaker 1: outstanding game in and around the line of scrimmage. I
Speaker 1: thought Landon Roberts was behind the line of scrimmage. I
Speaker 1: thought Brandon Jones came up from the safety spot and
Speaker 1: had some spectacular plays. And you talk about the takeaways
Speaker 1: of Xavian Howard, the way they tried to challenge Byron
Speaker 1: Jones down the field and he responded. So I just
Speaker 1: thought it wasn't one guy, it was a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1: On defense that built, uh this all against the New
Speaker 1: York Jets that they couldn't convert on third down. I
Speaker 1: think they were over right in the first half, only
Speaker 1: two verse seventeen. Throughout the game, they had bits and
Speaker 1: pieces of maybe some chunk plays or some exciting plays
Speaker 1: down the field, but they were, you know, one out
Speaker 1: of every ten or twelve plays. So I thought the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense really controlled the tempo and they had a
Speaker 1: dominating performance. Yeah, you talk about those couple of chunk plays.
Speaker 1: I think that those plays kind of made the box
Speaker 1: score not quite do the performance justice because I mean
Speaker 1: there was a point in a game where the Jets
Speaker 1: had under three yards per play. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: just swarming, dominating. And I'm really glad you mentioned Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones because he came in late and made a bunch
Speaker 1: of big plays. Damn near got himself a pick six
Speaker 1: there at the end. To John, how about takeaway number
Speaker 1: two for you? I thought it was a balanced attack
Speaker 1: on offense, and I think it was aided by the
Speaker 1: field position that the Miami Dolphins had throughout the game.
Speaker 1: You know, it was close to about a twenty or
Speaker 1: twenty five yard discrepancy in average start fuel position between
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Dolphins, and Miami held that advantage,
Speaker 1: and I think that allowed them to kind of play
Speaker 1: uh mixing in the run and the pass and the
Speaker 1: play action. They got their tight ends involved. I thought
Speaker 1: the checkdowns were really timely, where you get the ball
Speaker 1: in hands of running backs that could do a little
Speaker 1: something with it. I thought Miles Gascon had an outstanding performance,
Speaker 1: not only running it close to a hundred yards we
Speaker 1: had over five yards per carry, but he caught the
Speaker 1: football with efficiency and made people miss when he was
Speaker 1: in the open field. So I thought the way fits
Speaker 1: fits played at the quarterback spot. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a balanced attack with the run and passed. He'd love
Speaker 1: to have the pick back by the end zone. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't care about the long shot he took down
Speaker 1: the field and the crazy circus interception down the field
Speaker 1: that happened later in the game. But the one, the
Speaker 1: one that he wanted back, was down by the ends
Speaker 1: and he tried to squeeze one in too. I believe
Speaker 1: it was Mike Casicki on a crossing route and during
Speaker 1: that or of the game, you know, the Dolphins get
Speaker 1: the ball on the plus forty six, they get the
Speaker 1: ball on the plus thirty four. Again, they get it
Speaker 1: on the plus forty eight, and you come out with
Speaker 1: seven points on the touchdown to to Derm Smithe. But
Speaker 1: you had a chance to really knock out the Jets
Speaker 1: before halftime, and I thought they bounced back from that
Speaker 1: pretty well. But overall, my my overall takeaway was the
Speaker 1: balance that they showed with play action, with running the football.
Speaker 1: I love the new little draw counter that they put
Speaker 1: in behind Solomon Kinley and moving moving that running lane
Speaker 1: a little bit to give the guys some room. But
Speaker 1: all all in all, I thought it was a great
Speaker 1: balanced attack. Yeah, those uh, those failed attempts to cash
Speaker 1: in down there, that just gives coach a coaching point
Speaker 1: for the next two weeks. Right now he can kind
Speaker 1: of draw the guys and get on them. So that's
Speaker 1: all they need and fits Fitz talked about that pick
Speaker 1: after the game a little bit. He knows, he knows
Speaker 1: that was a mistake on his partner. A part of
Speaker 1: the field and part of the game where you can
Speaker 1: probably cash in some points there and get, you know,
Speaker 1: get a three score lead on the board. They're going
Speaker 1: into the second into the third core or second half
Speaker 1: easy for me to say, but he talked about it.
Speaker 1: And you know, that's kind of one of the things
Speaker 1: with Fitzpatrick where maybe you just kind of have to
Speaker 1: live and die with that because he trust his eyes
Speaker 1: so much and it makes so many big places for you,
Speaker 1: but like you mentioned, kind of gets caught with his
Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jar on this particular plate. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number three from you, John, You know, I thought that
Speaker 1: all three phases really contributed, and I'm really starting to
Speaker 1: like the way this this team piggybacks off of, you know,
Speaker 1: a solid defensive performance, the offense picks it up. The
Speaker 1: special teams you're there, So I thought this was a
Speaker 1: complete team win, and you count in the special teams.
Speaker 1: Let me start with those guys. I thought that Joachim
Speaker 1: Grant really did an excellent job of making the first
Speaker 1: defender miss. Coming down those gunners and and the long snapper.
Speaker 1: He was able to make people miss and really, excuse me,
Speaker 1: add to the field position that I talked about when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins really took advantage. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: a spark that that needed to catch up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I love the way that obviously, you know, the kicking
Speaker 1: games going with Matt Hawk and the punting and the
Speaker 1: and you know, you can't do much better than fifteen
Speaker 1: for fifteen. Uh, you know, it's like shooting threes out
Speaker 1: there for for Jason Sanders, And it's really a good
Speaker 1: thing to see that. You know, there's complementary football happening
Speaker 1: between offense and defense and special teams. So I thought
Speaker 1: that compliment was was one of my takeaways today, the
Speaker 1: way that the defense kind of set the tone gave
Speaker 1: the field position to the offense. About the offense cashed
Speaker 1: in when they had chances and probably could have stepped
Speaker 1: up a little bit more, but then the special teams
Speaker 1: kept that field tilted, and then Jachine Grant was able
Speaker 1: to add his spark on special teams to continue that
Speaker 1: really pristine field position that the Dolphins enjoyed all night long.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be nice for a coach to have a
Speaker 1: placekicker that he can pretty much trust is going to
Speaker 1: get three points every time he trots him out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's such an advantage of having your
Speaker 1: back pocket. And you talked about the way they kind
Speaker 1: of manage the game. I thought the way Flores called
Speaker 1: this game, and I talked about an earlier takeaway before
Speaker 1: I had you on John, the way he went down
Speaker 1: and called that time out after the Dolphins got a
Speaker 1: third down stop towards the end of the half. They're
Speaker 1: just the way they manage this game. And then with
Speaker 1: um there was a a long field goal attempt that
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders could have taken, but they punted it away
Speaker 1: because the defense was playing so good. Don't give the
Speaker 1: Jets a short field. So just like you say, a
Speaker 1: total team win all phases, coaching staff, good stuff in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to zero a shutout win. John, appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you later this week, sir, sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thanks for Travis, And there he goes John kN Jemmy
Speaker 1: love getting his take here on the podcast. That little
Speaker 1: nugget there about the counter draw. That's what John gives
Speaker 1: you a good eye for the game. Love watching football
Speaker 1: next to that guy, like I talked about every week
Speaker 1: on the podcast. He makes me a smarter football fan
Speaker 1: and a smarter football journalist as well. Alright, guys, that's
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