WEBVTT - Dolphins Comeback Comes up Short, Recapping 20-13 Loss in Denver 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:15.680 Touchdown Miami n What is up, Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.160 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.439 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.720 every day. How's it going everybody? It is late Sunday night. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.920 I am your host, Travis Winkfield, and I am here 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.480 through thick and thin to bring you your daily dose 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.720 of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the winning 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.920 streak has come to an end as a Dolphins fall 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.480 in Denver to the Broncos. We'll get the takeaways. I'll 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.320 talk general thoughts about my expectations going into the game, 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.680 what happened in this game. We'll hear some audio from 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.400 Coach Flores to a tongue of byloa Ryan Fitzpatrick, and 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.320 we'll talk about some of the individual performances from the 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.520 Dolphins in loss. All of that and much more coming 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.720 here on the Monday, November the twenty three edition of 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:08.759 the Drive Time Podcast Drag Thomas brought to you by 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.520 Auto Nation. It's time to shift the way you celebrate 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.640 the holidays and gear up in a new Mercedes Benz 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.760 during the winter event. Enjoy holiday savings on your favorite 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.800 Mercedes Benz Vehicles, So visit your six South Florida Mercedes 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.319 Benz dealers today part of Auto Nation at Mercedes f 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.840 l A dot Com. We have plenty to get to 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.080 here as Dolphins fall in Denver, no more winning streak, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.800 but we have a chance next week to get that 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.600 thing back to plus one next Sunday against the New 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.320 York Jets. The sixteen game Turnover Street continued with Xavian 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.759 Howard's first quarter interception. That is the longest active streak 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.559 in the NFL. But the twenty games with a sack 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.960 that streak will come to an end. Dolphins did not 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.720 get a sack on the Broncos quarterback in this game. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.240 A couple of things I wanted to look at and 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.040 we'll talk about throughout the course of this podcast was 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.240 the pressure on Drew Lock. We know the story coming 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.680 in all week was about the brew rused ribs with 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.520 the banged up ribs he had coming into the game. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.280 They announced on Saturday that he would start the game. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.680 He did. He played well and made enough place for 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.680 the Broncos to win this game. We'll talk about the 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.040 Dolphins pressure fronts and pressure attacks and how they went 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.000 after quarterback Drew Lock. I was curious about the running 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.720 back rotation with savan Akhmed and Matt Rita now back 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.720 in the fold. We learned pregame that Chandler Cox and 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.600 DeAndre Washington we're not going to be active, so it 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.440 was amed with Brita and Patrick Laird mostly the savan 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.360 Akhmed show once again in this game, so we'll get 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.600 a look at that. The same offensive line that started 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.560 the game last week starts this game on Sunday in Denver. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.160 It was Austin Jackson, Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss, Solomon Kinley, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.919 and Jesse Davis, though it did not end that way 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.440 as Solomon Kinley left the game with a foot injury. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.880 They kicked Jesse Davis into right guard and put Robert Hunt, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.640 the rookie out at right tackle. I was curious about 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.120 third down in red zone defense in this game. Miami 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.799 entered this game with eight touchdowns and their last ten 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.919 red zone possessions. They wound up getting their first red 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.120 zone trip with a touchdown them and cash that thing 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.320 in to go nine for eleven, but the interception at 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.080 the end of the game made it nine for twelve, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.120 so Miami still batting seven fifty in the red zone 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.360 here in recent games, they also on defense had a 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.680 fourth down stop in the red zone, forced to fumble 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.880 at the one yard line and forced a field goal 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.000 as well. So plenty of good defensive effort in the 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.600 key area down around the goal line. In this game, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.080 again we talked about the Amiba packages and how that 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.400 got that first drive looking like the Dolphins We're gonna 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.640 do what they do every single week. Now, it seems 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.160 like you've got Jamal Perry is one of the defensive 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.920 backs up in that pressure look this time. We talked 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.560 about it on the Tuesday podcast, how they showed Clayton 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.000 Federalum and Cavan Fraser five defensive backs on the or 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.000 five safeties rather on your eight defensive back your dollar 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.400 package showing pressure at the quarterback. This time, Jamal Perry 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.960 was involved up there with Bobby McCain. So it doesn't 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:50.640 matter who you are on this team, you can get 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.720 in there for those pressure looks. We saw that early. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.560 It was effective early in this game. We talked, or 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.600 I should say I tweeted during the game on Mike 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.240 Gasiki's first couple of recept in this game. It was 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.640 a good job of Ta replacing the bliss with the football. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.120 That was something I thought was a bit of a 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.720 struggle early on. The Broncos are blitzing, and To told 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.520 us himself post game, he held onto the football too long, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.880 wasn't getting it out, wasn't seeing things the right way, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.560 mentioned that in his postgame presser. But it was nice 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.520 to see them make the adjustment there and get the 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.359 ball out hot on that drive that went down for 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.279 that field goal in the second quarter, to kind of 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.040 get things going there a little bit with a couple 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.080 of those rips to Mike Gatsicky and then DeVante Parker 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.400 making some plays like a number one receiver. How about that. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.359 By the way, the stuff he was doing, it looks 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.560 like you want your number one receiver to do with 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.640 a touchdown grab one handed, just majestic work down around 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.719 the back corner, the back pylon, the hitch on the drive, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.960 the field goal drive. I mentioned to to move the 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.640 sticks on third and down in tight coverage with a 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.400 defender and draped all over him. Then that diving catch 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.360 on the slant just a few plays later. I think 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.440 it was the very next third down to move the 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.320 sticks once again. The fifteen yard catch and run up 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.479 the sideline on that last possession with Ryan Fitzpatrick in 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.400 the game on that series, some big time plays from 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.800 number eleven on the offense for Miami, and then some 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.360 more things I wanted to look at here was how 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.800 Vic Fangio called this game with the pressure looks. We 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.120 saw guys coming from all over the field trying to 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.320 confuse that rookie quarterback. Young rookie quarterback on the road 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.919 against a good defensive coach with a good defensive scheme 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.279 and defensive talent. You kind of get this type of results. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.680 Sometimes not every time, but sometimes you're gonna have this result. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.159 I thought that was a big storyline in this game, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.680 with the offensive line, the six sacks giving up on 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.600 two and and the quarterbacks for the Dolphins in this 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.479 game just not getting those blitz is picked up in 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.560 the quarterback, like he said, maybe holding the ball a 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.320 little bit too long as well. And you heard the 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.880 broadcast say that the Broncos were stunting and it was 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.479 given the Dolphins problems all game long. Upfront, you have 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.320 one guy, the inside guy work outside, the outside guy 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.440 works inside, causing some confusion in the protection scheme and 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.520 getting pressure on the quarterback. Accordingly, let's go ahead and 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.680 get to our takeaways for this game. But first, before 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.440 we do that, the stats from the game. The Dolphins 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.960 with two d and twenty two yards of total offense. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.320 Denver had four forty nine in the game rushing that 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.360 went to the Broncos in a big way, one eighty 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.920 nine for Denver to Miami's fifties six. The passing yards 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.520 also goes to Denver to seventy two one sixties six 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.200 with the advantage there. On third down, Miami's defense was 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.760 pretty solid and we'll talk about this four for twelve 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.360 for the Broncos on third down, Miami was seven out 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.320 of sixteen on the money down and takeaways Miami had 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.440 two of those, Denver had the one, the crucial one 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.039 there at the end of the game, the Justin Simmons interception, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.680 and then six sacks with the Broncos zero for the Dolphins, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.599 that of course a huge factor in the game. Miami 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.360 had five penalties for fifty yards, Denver had eight for 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.599 seventy yards, and t op time of possession was pretty 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.359 even for the Dolphins, thirty nineteen for the Broncos. And 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.120 the first takeaway from this game and to me it's 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.839 that this team just excels with leadership and bringing the 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.040 right type of people into the building that you want 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.080 to have. We heard Shack Lawson talk about that. We 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.920 heard Emmanuel Ogba talk about that last week. We've heard 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.760 Brian Flores talk about that, and not just in that 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.960 specific instance, but in every single one of his press conferences. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.240 When you ask him about a player, what he does well, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.000 what attracted the Dolphins to him. He's smart, he's tough, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.840 he's competitive. It's important to him. He works hard. And 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.240 I think you saw the reflection of that team in 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.560 defeat show up in this game. And I guess a 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.880 subcategory of this is that two quarterbacks is better than one. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.960 It's good to have two quarterbacks on your roster if 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.880 you lose your starter, you like to have a guy 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.880 that can come off the bench and make some plays 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.280 for you. It didn't wind up working out in the end. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.640 And we'll hear from Fitzpatrick here in just one second, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.920 but you've got some plays that were fits towards the 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.320 end of the first or the end of that game. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.520 Gives you confidence if he has to come off the 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.200 bench later in the season at a moment's notice and 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.160 make some plays the run to get that personal foul call. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.560 It's a vintage Fits play where he just takes off 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.560 and gets the yardage with his feet. They put a 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.040 late hit on in fifteen more yards. Got that drive 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.720 really going, the shot to Parker up the sideline to 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.440 really get that possession looking like it might end up 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.280 in the end zone and might end up in a 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.000 tie game. The quick RP O pop to Mike Gatsiki 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.120 for a conversion on that same drive. You like to 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.920 have the Obviously, you never want to see your backup quarterback. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.320 Ideally he never has to play, but it doesn't hurt 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.560 to have a guy that can come off the bench 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.440 like that and make plays the way Ryan Fitzpatrick did. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.920 He's been doing it his entire career. Should be no 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.280 surprise that he did it once again in this game. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.560 But back to the original point and the leadership, And 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.400 there's a reason I mentioned Ryan Fitzpatrick because he's a 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.280 huge element of the way this team is constructed and 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.920 of the way this team really conducts themselves in that 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.680 leadership department. You just see the way these guys talked 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.400 about it after the game. There's no question about where 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.199 this team is headed, who belongs in what position, how 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.200 they feel about certain situations. It was a clear concise 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.280 message from Ryan Fitzpatrick to a tongue of Valoa and 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.360 Brian Flores with what's gonna happen post game, what their 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.800 approach is going to be coming back to work next week, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.080 getting ready for the New York Jets. And we'll go 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.480 ahead and start here with coach Flores. And I think 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.240 the first question he was gonna be asked was a 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.679 pretty obvious one. He was asked post game about the 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.920 quarterback position, the switch and whose job is it too? 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.520 Wasn't injured. We just feel like it was the best 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.840 move at that point of game. Short and sweet there. 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:01.959 He also mentioned that he felt at the time the 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.400 Dolphin's gonna go up tempo and that Ryan Fitzpatrick gave 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.880 him the best chance to win at that point in 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.320 the game, and that was the message afterwards, forgot the 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.640 course of the players and the coach as well with 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.719 Brian Flores, the the up temple offense, Ryan Fitzpatrick, a 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.960 spark coming off the bench, gave him the best chance 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.959 to win. What about the problems that went wrong on 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.520 the offense when two was in the game, I mean, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.240 we knew this all week. It's a good defense, you know, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.959 one of the top defensive minds in the game. They 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.120 got good players, they had good scheme, they pressured us, 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.239 they mixed the coverages, and they did a good job defensively. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.280 So we gotta execute better. And we had some opportunities 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.960 we didn't we didn't we didn't take advantage of them. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.840 And then you know, tightly contesting that on the road, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.000 we've got to we've gotta we've gotta play better. And 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.120 I think they ended up with five or six sacks. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.320 They pressured us a good job in the back end 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.920 from a cover standpoint, and we just struggled getting to going. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.040 And when that's going on throughout the course of the game, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.120 you got to try to do something to create some momentum. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.480 That's why we made switch. And but yeah, I think 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.760 he's he's healthy. So there's your answer on to his 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.920 health and status going forward. How about the concerns over 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.679 possible confidence shaking, Floris says, No, he's a confident kid. No, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.480 not at all. I think he's he's dealt with a 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.960 lot of adversity. He's he's a confidence kid. I don't 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.840 think this is I think he's fine. And you continue 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.560 talking about the resilient group. This Miami Dolphins team has 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.520 the Andrew band Gangle fumble forced there late in the 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.760 fourth quarter to give the Dolphins a fighting chance late 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.960 in that game. Here's coach Floras on what that says 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.000 about his football team, the ensuing drive with Ryan Fitzpatrick, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.600 what they were trying to get done on that drive, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.320 Just talking about the fourth quarter and playing for sixty 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.040 minutes in a game that before the Melvin Gordon fumble 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.079 seemed like it might have been lost. Yeah, I think, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.559 you know, this is a resilient group. So you we 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.480 things look bleak. They're on the goal line, we make 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.880 a play, we get on the one yard line, we 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.160 start to make a drive. You know, we bring put 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:02.920 it into the end zone. We've got an opportunity to 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.959 you know, punch it in and you know and perhaps 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.400 tie the game there. And look, this game comes down 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.360 to three plays, and the most critical plays are you know, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.720 normally at the end. And I think fits was trying 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.400 to fireball in there and they made a good play. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:21.800 You know, Simmons is a good player. I mean we 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.560 talked about him all week. Hopefully we learned from it. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.760 I think, you know, there are other players throughout the 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.040 game that we didn't make, you know, drop balls from 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.439 protection standpoint defensively, you know, in the run game, No, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.640 look like we came clean on a punk lock and 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.520 we didn't make that one either. So we gotta take 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.480 advantage of our opportunities. And um, look that's that's the 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.599 way it is in this league, and we gotta but 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.360 I think this is a resilient group. Will keep our 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.440 heads up. We'll get back in there and and prepare 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.760 for our next opponent. And when they turned around, but 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.720 you know, try to get a victory next week. You 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.800 heard Flores talk about the confident kid that to a 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.520 tongue of blow is a two gold quarterback making his 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.400 fourth NFL start in this game. Let's go ahead and 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.360 hear from two on what his reaction was to being 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.199 pulled out of the game as the starter in the 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.960 Dolphins quarterback on this Sunday. Yeah, my my thoughts were, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.520 whatever it was going to be best for the team. Um, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.040 you know, we couldn't well when I was in we 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.280 we couldn't really get things going, and um, you know, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.840 coach felt like it was the best decision to put 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.520 Fits into trying to give us a spark. Um. So 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.280 when I heard that, I mean, you know, it's really 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.800 what's best for the team. And I mean, if if 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.920 we were to win with Fits in there, you know, 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.160 the locker room would be a lot different. Everyone would 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.560 be a lot happier. But you know, it just sucks 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.880 to lose. Definitely right about that too, It does suck 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.840 to lose. Up next to it was asked about what 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.520 you can take away from this game, the lessons you 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.400 can learn from a loss, his first in the NFL. Well, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.760 I think you look at the entirety of the game 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.560 and you learned from a lot of what the defense. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:01.160 You know that the Broncos had shown. Um, I mean 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.640 they played a lot of base too to our normal 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.199 you know, the our normal offense. Um. You know, we 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.559 try to get them out of their base look and um, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.920 you know what what we were doing, we just couldn't execute. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:21.400 And for me, it was a great learning experience. Um Now, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.160 and I felt like I was holding the ball a 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.520 little too long. Just gotta get completions and you know, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.240 gotta gotta get the ball um in the hands of 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.199 our guys to make place for us and let's go 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.559 ahead and finish up the postgame pressers here with Ryan Fitzpatrick, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.320 who of course came off the bench late in this 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.559 game and it almost rescued. It almost got the Dolphins 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.280 back into a thie situation there. If a touchdown goes in, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.120 if a Jason Center's p a t after that assumed 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.679 touchdown goes in, all of a sudden, it's a twenty 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.800 football game late there in the fourth quarter. Here's Fitzpatrick 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.680 on the conversation he had with Brian Flores about going 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.880 into the game in that situation. Uh well, oh, we 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.880 all came up and just said, we you know, need 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.760 a little bit of a spark and we're going to 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.160 kind of do the up tempo deal. And uh so 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.400 he said I was going in. So I talked to 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.839 those guys and just let them know, you know, a 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.760 that I was in there be you know, some of 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.000 the stuff that potentially we could do, but just trying 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.520 to get a little bit of juice going with those guys, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.720 and um, you know, unfortunately we came up short there, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:28.760 but um, you know again, I mean that that was 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.600 a tough game that their defense played really well, and 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.520 uh you know, I wish I wish I would have 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.760 hit that last throw go ahead and fall up. It 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.520 fits his thoughts on long term outlook for the quarterback 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.080 position of the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, I mean it's it's 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.520 very clear this is this is to his team and 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.760 you know Two is going to continue to get better 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.640 and grow and um, you know, so for me, my 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.840 defined role right now is whatever whatever coach flow and 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.480 where the team needs out of me, and um, you 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.440 know today it was different than the last few weeks 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.080 and that he needed me to go out there and 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.520 try to move the ball and provide a spark. But um, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.680 a few weeks before that, it really was just full 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.840 support mode on tour and even in the game like 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.800 today when I'm out there, I'm still talking with Two 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.960 on the sideline and we're going through stuff and just 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.320 trying to get him, you know, to see what I'm 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:24.000 seeing and why I'm doing the things I'm doing. So, uh, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.760 you know, this is it's it's such a tough position 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.320 to play, and uh it just has to You're just 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.360 gonna continue to learn and it's it's going to be 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.840 a bumpy road, but you just hope that you know 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.600 the things that you learn, you you put him in 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.440 the back, and you make a catalog in the back 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.640 of your head and you continue to get better. Go 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.000 ahead and get one more SoundBite here from Fits about 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.360 the conversations between he and Tungo by Loa throughout the 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.600 course of this game, when one's in the game, when 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.080 one's in the bench, and vice versa. Well, I mean 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.520 those are those are discussions that you know I had 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.560 with him on the sideline and stuff that will continue 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.600 to have as we watch the film. But um, you know, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.520 without getting into too many ciffics, it's what I just 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.000 said is it's creating a catalog. Um, even in the 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.160 games that you win, you know, things aren't going to 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.960 go right all the time. So what happened in this game? 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.360 You know, what could I have done differently? Um, you know, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.680 they seem like they were getting some pressure up front, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.000 So what are what are some things that I can 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:19.960 do as a quarterback to combat that you know? And 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.000 he just keep putting these things in the back of 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.040 your mind and as we go forward and he'll be 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.400 able to lean on and continue to use some of 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.040 those And for me, I think, you know my role here. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.280 I learned those things in sixteen years but is to 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.760 accelerate the things that he's gonna and learn and you know, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.400 make sure that he learns it faster than I did. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.400 And so that really was my main takeaway. There was 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.200 the leadership provided by two guys in those leadership positions, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.440 and Brian Flores and Brian Fitzpatrick, who again these guys 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.840 are in their late thirties, flows thirty nine, and if 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.320 Fitzpatrick is thirty seven years old to a tongue of Valoa, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.120 as I mentioned earlier, is a twenty two year old kids. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.160 So this is his first NFL season, whereas fits has 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.040 almost twenty years in the league, Brian Flores has twenty 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.280 years in the league as a coach and in various positions, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.440 whether it's offense, defense, special teams, assistants, head coach. Now 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.840 he's done pretty much everything you can from a coaching standpoint, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.680 and so to have that leadership corps, that that group 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.200 of experience that can help this young team, who still 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.879 is the second youngest team with a young quarterback playing 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.640 his fourth NFL game. To me, it's just the way 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.280 these guys spoke about this game afterwards, in the way 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.480 they conveyed that message about whose team it is and 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.120 backing up their quarterback and and him having the same 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.800 mindset of well, I'm here to see this team win, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.160 and I'm here for it's all about if we get 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.800 the w at the end of the day. He has 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.919 the right mindset. It goes back to what Brian Flores 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.080 says about the players he wants to bring in. It's 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.679 important to them they have a team first mindset. And 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.200 Ryan Fitzpatrick and to a tongue of Valoa in the 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.800 natural leadership position that is the quarterback spot. They have 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.800 that trait and those those skill sets inherently in spades, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.040 and that's what you want out of that position. And 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.000 I think that it's only going to benefit this team 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.960 going forward to have those guys in those positions and 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.840 to help the rest of the team kind of revolve 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.440 around that and kind of rally around that and galvanize 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.640 the locker room with the way their quarterback is. Takeaway 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.920 number two. The fast starts, and despite you know, things 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.120 slowing down considerably after that quick start, it still happened. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.800 The Dolphins were up seven zero with four minutes and 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.000 twenty two seconds of game time gone. After starting the 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.919 game on the defensive side of the football. We're not 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.320 talking about a four minute drive to take the opening 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.680 kickoff and go four minutes for a touchdown. They began 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.680 the game on defense. Xavian Howard gets an interception here, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.760 which we'll get into here our next takeaway. But on 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.280 the season, the Dolphins are now plus seventy one points 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.639 in the first half as far as point differential, plus 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.520 forty nine points in first core differential. This was their 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.840