WEBVTT - Week 9 Recap - 5 Takeaways from Dolphins 35-32 Win Over the Bears 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.399 is Drive Time with Travis Whingefield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:16.239 a looking Gipsilka wine, open touchdop clinic kill, unbelievable, just 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.239 blue fire for a second time. Don't know where he 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.360 was going right away. A hit of that man. I 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.360 want to help you soon. Look up on his way 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.320 Wattle waddle to a shotgut back. That's throw all looking 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:33.560 that was up fires touchtop again it's waddle. It's six touchdowns. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.960 Pass out of this thing. Drive Time with Travis Winfield begins. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.879 Now let me check your pulse. If none of them, 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.320 what is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.800 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.720 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:05.880 Travis Winfield, And on today show, the Dolphins win again, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:12.920 win win. It is three straight victories. It's the second 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.919 streak of three wins this season. It's the second six 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.200 and three starts since two thousand two, and we're talking 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.839 about all of it right here on the Drivetime Podcast. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.600 We'll hear from Mike McDaniel to a tungle by loa 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.399 and the key moments, will break down the absurdity that 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.000 is Tyreek Hill, and a heck of a lot more 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.360 in our five takeaways, and we'll tell you about some 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.959 teaching tape and the play before the play from the 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.480 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:44.720 is the Drive Time Podcast. We start the show off 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.400 here on the Sunday Night recap as we do each week, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.240 talking about some statistics, and we'll do it from the 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.000 game perspective. First, pretty even across the board here except 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.680 for a couple of key categories. The teams are close 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.840 and first down Chicago twenty three, Miami twenty the Bears 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.720 to convert ten of sixteen third downs to Miami's five 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.040 of ten. Dolphins oh for two. On fourth down Bears 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.799 one for two. And here's where the big discrepancy comes from. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.679 Dolphins three d and seventy nine yards Chicago three eight. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.600 But Miami does that on fifty three plays compared to 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.280 Chicago seventies from Miami's offense. Just rolling right now in 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.400 terms of the yards per play statistic, three oh two 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.800 of that through the air from Miami, seventy seven on 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.720 the ground for the Bears, it was tilted the other direction. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.720 One sixteen through the air and two fifty two on 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.960 the ground. There's no takeaways in this game. The Dolphins 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.840 register to sacks and don't allow any sacks. And how 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.280 about this Miami three penalties for thirty eight yards, getting 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.720 that cleaned up from the last couple of weeks Chicago 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.519 four for nine two two of those big yards penalties 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.639 coming from d p i s on Tyreek Hill and 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.720 Jalen Waddle. More on that in a moment. And the 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.560 Bears possessed the ball for nearly thirty five minutes, the 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.720 Dolphins for just a bit over twenty five minutes. And 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.040 takeaway number one from this game? Where else do you 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.080 go to besides the quarterback too? Is in fact him 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.239 and he continues to look the part twenty one for 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.040 thirty three to passing yards. That's another day over ten 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.520 yards per pass for two a tungle by Lowa, three 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.280 touchdown strikes that gives him a passer rating on the 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.919 day of one thirty five point seven. He's the first 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.120 Dolphins quarterback, according to CBS Sports, to have back to 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.440 back games with three hundred passing yards, three touchdowns and 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.920 no turnovers, first ever had some good quarterbacks here. By 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.280 the way, he finishes the day six of seven on 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.240 third down passing with a hundred nine yards and a 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.000 touchdown pass and five conversions on those seven attempts. Remember, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.960 he entered play with a one forty two point seven 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.760 passer rating on third down, which the stat going back 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.160 to when they began tracking that stat by quarter and 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.160 having specific stats for the passer rating, it's the highest 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.360 ever on third down since that time. His QBR on 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.200 the day was eighty one point two. That's his fourth 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.800 game this year with a better than eight qb R 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.240 and by the way, one hundred is the max, zero 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.960 is the minimum, fifty is league average. Four of his 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.880 performances out of the seven starts or six starts, I 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:10.120 should say check that two three, four seven stars, yeah, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.000 seven stars. Uh. Four of those seven games with the 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.000 eighty or better QBR, two of them over ninety. He's 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.160 the only quarterback to have four games over an eight 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.640 q b R and he didn't play two games. He's 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.800 also currently leading the NFL at seventy nine point seven 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.599 qb are. The next closest is Patrick Mahomes at seventy 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.560 six point seven. Before we get more here, let's go 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.240 ahead and hear from coach Mike McDaniel on the play 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.919 of his quarterback and what he's shown from that first 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.120 team meeting back on April four until now week number 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.040 nine seven months of growth. Coach has been very impressed 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:47.240 by his quarterback. To a dougle by Loland, it's really um. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:54.640 It's as the growth UM really since we started, I 0:04:54.680 --> 0:05:01.080 think our first team meeting it was April four, UM, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.320 and so in seven months time, the growth has been unbelievable. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:11.840 And in how he's playing the position, learning the whole system, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.200 and then how he's uh handling the ebbs and flows 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.800 of natural um in game MOMENTUM. And UH saw it 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.159 again today. You know he's UM didn't really put UH, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.080 didn't really give the defense and opportunity UM to take 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.400 the ball away really UM. And then he you know, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:40.640 he just continues to UM impressed by by being UM, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.880 you know, through the course of the game, just taking 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.400 one play at a time, and and and the players 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:53.400 themselves can really UM feel the visceral confidence and energy 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.040 UM that he's that he's bringing forth UM to play 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.000 the position and responding to it on both sides the ball. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.960 I feel like I mean, I don't know how you 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.719 can top that, but we're gonna try to talk about 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.400 his game a little bit more in depth here than 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.159 you know, even coach gave us there in terms of 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.200 the impact he has notched on the offense with the 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.560 defense and the entire squad. And I just thought we 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.840 saw more of the same with this guy that you've 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.000 come to expect, an addition to creating some plays by 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.719 getting off his spot versus pressure and throwing on the 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.200 move that eighteen yard touchdown pass to Jalen Waddle. When 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.120 I used to chart quarterbacks, I would talk about are 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.120 they throwing from the pocket or on the are they 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.760 on the move left to right? He's out in space, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.800 he's left the pocket from that pressure, flushed out to 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.120 the left and throws a strike between a trio of 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.560 Bears defenders. And I loved, loved, loved the way Jalen 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.920 Waddle came back to the football and went and got 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.840 that ball. It's his ball in the end zone, touchdown, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.800 his sixth of the season. How about the twenty six 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.640 yard pop to Waddle earlier in the game. More on 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.280 that in the teaching tape moment of the podcast. Spoiler 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.440 Alert we're gonna talk about to his teaching tape, and 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.640 then also getting to the backside to waddle on the 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.200 opening drive of the game after reading a full field 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.720 progression on third down to the front side. You see 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.159 him so quickly going through the progressions the head snap, snap, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.080 snap to the next spot and then as soon as 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.240 he sees it, sees that I have an opening or 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.920 a spot to put the football into this location from 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.800 my guy to make a play, by the time he 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.320 sees it, like there is just no lag between see 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.280 it and ball out. That release, that decision making, that 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.720 processing is what really makes this quarterback stand out right 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.560 now in terms of leading the league in so many 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.240 key categories. Gosh, he's playing good. I think when coach 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.280 McDaniel talks about playing the position, it's not you know, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.600 the beauty pageant traits. It's playing quarterback, which is still 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:38.320 the very most paramount element of the position. Processing decisions, anticipation, 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.440 accuracy to a really checks the box and all those 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.560 marks and all those areas. And that's why he's giving 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.680 you the stats that I've just given you. I mean, 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.480 the ball comes out hot, his ball handling is exceptional 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.840 on a lot of those fakes gets us into good 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.360 run looks. He's absolutely precise with the timing and location 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.280 in the middle of the football field where you have 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.240 to be because things happen so fast there. And he 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.200 entered this game with double the number two quarterback in 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.240 the NFL of completions. He had thirty two coming into 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.160 today of ten plus eight yards between the numbers in 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.240 the middle of the football field. Had a bunch more 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.200 of those today, so I'm sure that stat will increase. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.840 He had thirty two second place had six team coming 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.200 into the day. Just continues to attack the middle of 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.400 the field with confidence, bravado, and relentless ability to go 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.080 after those two playmaking receivers, and really the entire complement 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.520 of guys. You know, Cedric Wilson making some plays that day, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.120 Trent Shirtfield getting some action as well, the running backs. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.480 Just this full offense running off of what TA can 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.160 do as the distributor. It's fun to watch man. And 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.480 my favorite part about this. For two his games, I 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.200 thought that his placement in that second half was actually 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.719 a tad off. And I say that by to a 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.240 standards because for most quarterbacks that means you're missing throws 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.840 like high low back. You know they're in completions second 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.319 and ten for two. Uh, that means guys have to 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:52.760 go off the frame a little bit. They have to 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.920 catch the ball down by their belt opposed to their 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.200 chest when he's off by a little bit. So just 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.440 go off the frame and inch pull it in. He 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.840 really is, if not the most, one of the most 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.160 accurate quarterbacks in football, just like Tyreek Hill told us 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.320 back in the off season, speaking of Tyreek, takeaway number two, 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.000 Tyreek Hills having an absolutely insane season, and the subplot 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.480 that has his running mate is pretty damn good in himself. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.280 Let's go ahead and start with Tyreek from a play standpoint, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.440 just the attention that he commands is utterly ridiculous. But 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.160 then he can even still run guys off of the 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.360 double coverage that he does get. We've seen him do 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.520 it multiple times this season with bracket coverage, and I 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.640 love how we get him on those longer developing routes 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.600 that allow him to attack leverage and push defenders to 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.840 their absolute brink where they have to make a decision. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.720 Am I gonna squat on this and risk him running 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.760 by me? Or am I gonna get on my heels 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.200 and defend against that and open up space underneath. And 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.880 he just has a real innate ability to understand when 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.719 that dB feels that presence to push them off their 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.400 route and then just run away from them. Those little crossers, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.880 those corner routes, the flag routes, really multiple routes where 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.240 when TWA has time and climbs and fires, Tyreek shches 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.440 it with all kinds of space and then can make 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.800 his moves and get that extra six, seven, eight yards 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.520 after the catch. Gosh, it's been fun to watch. It's 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.720 another hundred yard performance. It's his fifth game out of 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.199 nine with more than a hundred and forty receiving yards. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.760 It's one thousand, one hundred and four yards on the 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.200 season for Tyreek, which is already the eleventh most in 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.199 a single season for Dolphins history. It's the most by 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.480 any player in the National Football League ever through nine games. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.240 Calvin Johnson when he broke the record. What year is 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.959 that when he broke the record had a thousand, eighty 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.920 three receiving yards that year through nine games. Tyreek also 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.240 has two hundred six point nine Fantasy points that, by 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.880 the way, is the most in his career through the 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.200 first nine games. Of his career, so he is having 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.600 the best season so far in his NFL career through 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.720 these first nine games. He also caught his third touchdown 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.800 pass of the season and did his best, I should say, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.160 the best backflip I've ever seen from a person who 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.960 is not named a Moan Biles. He caught seven of 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.360 eight targets for a fun hundred and forty three yards 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.000 and the touchdown reception. And how about the penguin on 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.000 the other side, he caught five of seven for eighty 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.560 five and it would have probably been six for eight 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.079 for what was it, seventy more yards eighty more yards 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.040 in that touchdown if we got to him late. We'll 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.800 talk about that play in just a minute. He did 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.840 score a touchdown though, getting him six on the year, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.120 and that gives the tandem on the day twelve catches 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.600 on fifteen targets for two twenty eight and two touchdowns. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.200 You want to talk about efficiency on offense targeting those guys. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.840 You know you ran fifty three plays a day. Fifteen 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.240 of your plays went through Tyreeke and Jalen, So what 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.320 is that fifteen thirty five It's a little more than 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.360 a between a third four of your place fifteen point 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.880 two yards per play when you go to those guys, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.559 not bad at all. And and how about thirty two 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.200 and forty seven yards of defensive pass interference yardage on 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.880 either two of those guys. I mean, I'm no mathematician, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:01.679 but to twenty eight plus seventy nine put you right 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.240 around the three hundred yard mark. Again for these guys, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.520 if you were to include the dp I yard, how 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.720 does their quarterback feel about them? I think it's probably 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.480 pretty good. Let's go ahead and throw it to two. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:15.240 That's that's exactly what it is. Is if one gets doubled, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.920 we're looking for the other. And if that one is 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.280 doubled as well, if they double both of them, then 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.600 we gotta find the next guy. So they both complement 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.560 each other, but they also both compliment everyone else on 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.480 on our offense. Really fun game to talk about here. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.320 So far, we are through the first two takeaways with 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.320 two and the wide receivers. They've been pretty frequent in 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.280 this spot. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.520 and come back and we'll do takeaways three through five. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.960 We have the play before the play, the teaching tape 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.320 plenty more talk about some new acquisitions. Here on your 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.920 Dolphins roster. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:13:00.240 brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Sunday night 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.599 slash Monday morning depending on when you're downloading this podcast. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.360 We have the first two takeaways from the Dolphins thirty 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:11.400 five thirty two victory over the Chicago Bears, another exhilarating victory. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.000 I did ask Seth and o J do you think 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.040 today might be the day we have just a normal 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.640 regular football game where we go and get a comfortable 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.440 lead and win and we don't have to stress out 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.960 back and forth in the fourth quarter. That was the 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.760 case early, it was not the case late, as the 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.400 Dolphins defense does get a couple of stands late to 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.520 hold off the point or I should say the the 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.000 lead the offense gave the defense early in the game, 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.280 as well as special teams getting that punt blocked back 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.480 for six. And speaking of the offense, we're gonna stay 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.240 on that side of the football for takeaway number three 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:44.079 and it is welcome to Miami. Jeff Wilson. The touchdown 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.000 catch alone, to me was worth getting this takeaway. But 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.360 I mean, we heard coach Mike McDaniel talked this week 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.200 about his physical running style and how it sets a tone. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.959 And we heard Jeff Wilson say, I like to get downhill. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.680 I don't like to play a lot of games. And boy, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.600 we learned that in a big way of both instances 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.840 in terms of him not playing games and setting a 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.400 tone from a physicality standpoint, because it's sure as heck 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.599 did that What a game from him. They Move the 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.720 Sticks podcast, one of my favorite podcast out there. Daniel Jeremiah, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.600 Bucky Brooks, NFL Media and Rett Lewis joins them as 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.160 well as a third co host. Sometimes. They had a 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.800 discussion on a recent podcast that was originally about the 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.600 Dolphins passing game. These young quarterbacks kind of taking the 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.360 over the guard of the NFL. Uh and as the 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.640 you know, kind of the Hall of Fame little quarterbacks 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.200 right off into the sunset here towards the end of 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.120 their careers. And he was talking a lot about two 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.360 in this offense and how well Too was playing, and 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.520 they eventually got to the segment about running backs and 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.320 forcing miss tackles and how the scouts view these running 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.560 backs in terms of their ability to make guys miss 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.160 in three phases, Guys that can step through tackles, guys 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.440 that can pull through arm tackles, and guys that can 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.600 run through tackles. So the step through is obviously the 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.040 lowest of the three of those where you can kind 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.240 of get get around the shoestring, get around guys by 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.600 your legs. The pull through is getting through those you know, 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.120 Christian Wilkins too gapping and he throws that arm out. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.440 You can get through those tackles. And then when you 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.360 run through guys, those are your Marshawn Lynches, your Marian Barber's, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.560 those types of folks. And that's about where Jeff Wilson 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.120 falls from the physicality standpoint. He's only like a hundred pounds, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.960 so it's pretty crazy the way he packs a punch 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.800 behind those pads. He just runs through dudes. I cannot 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.480 wait to see his missed tackles forced on Pro Football 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.240 Focus on the Tuesday podcast. I'll tweet it out on Monday, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.840 for sure. He's just he brought a different element to 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.280 the offense. I thought his twenty eight yard gallop also 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.640 tied a team high this season. Chase Edmonds twenty eight 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.960 yard run against the Ravens back in Week two on 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.400 the game winning drive in that game, he was picking 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.640 up extra crucial yardage with his effort. He gives US 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.880 seventy two total yards from scrimmage on just twelve touches, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.560 nine for fifty one on the ground, so better than 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.640 five yards per rush, three for one through the air, 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.920 and a touchdown reception. Let's hear from quarterback to a 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.520 tongue of Valoa on running back Jeff Wilson. Wow. Yeah, uh, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.280 that's what I gotta say. Wow, um m is his 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.840 first game with us, and he almost he almost takes 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:10.560 one to score and and then that same drive, I 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:17.120 mean he he basically Reggie bushed and dove for the touchdown. Um, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.240 I mean you you don't. You don't see that often. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.880 So for for someone like him to to come come from, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.840 you know, the Niners and fit right into our offense 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.840 like that tells you a lot about his work ethic, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.760 tells you a lot about who he is as a 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.160 player and who he is as a professional. So wow, yeah, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.760 that's kind of how we felt watching him as too 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.400 as well. To a good stuff there. That's takeaway number three. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.760 Takeaway number four is the Bradley Chubb acquisition impact went 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.600 well beyond his stat line Chubb finishes the day with 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.160 just a half tackle. In the game, he had three 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.760 QB pressures, which actually led the Miami Dolphins and was 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.560 so so, so damn close to a key stack late. 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.720 We'll talk about that more here in just one second, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.080 But we did see Melvin Ingram get a crucial sack 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.560 to push the Bears behind the chains to get second 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.040 and fifteen after a five yard dumped there from the 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.880 veteran outside linebacker pass rusher a little bit of everything 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.200 in his arsenal. How about Jalen Phillips's effort all day long? 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.560 We talked about his motor and the way he just 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.240 relentlessly pursues thing. They ran a jet sweep to a 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.360 wide receiver that he ran down from the backside. How 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.280 many defensive ends slash outside linebackers guys that play in 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.880 that mold at two seventy pounds were doing that. There's 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.560 not many of them. Jalen Phillips does it and coached 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.440 we'll talk we'll hear from coach here in just a second. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.080 Talked about players being able to stay even fresher with 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.320 the impact of getting a guy like Bradley Chub on 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.240 the roster and the impact you saw at that possession 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.000 group all day long. For instance, we talked about Andrew 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.040 Van Ginkle's value on special teams. What does he do 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.280 but set the Dolphins record for a punt block return 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.840 for a touchdown twenty eight yards is the longest and 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.600 franchise history. Gek's been playing awesome on special teams all 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.720 year and that comes off a play where Jalen Phillips 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.760 has himself a one on one block he has to 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.600 be and o J broke this down on the postgame show, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.359 and o J is so great special teams because his 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.560 rookie year he pretty much was only a special teamer 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.360 and he loves that stuff. I love hearing him talk 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.119 special teams. And he talked about how on that play 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.320 the Dolphins must have seen that this undersized guy was 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.360 gonna be on the edge trying to block a guy 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.800 like Jalen Phillips, who he was giving fifty sixty pounds too. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.320 And Phillips sidesteps the block and gets in there and 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.119 he he ding near took that ball off the foot 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.240 of the punter. He was in there so quickly, and 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.040 you kind of saw the cool look there from Danny 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.800 Croftsman and the Dolphins special teams coordinator and the entire 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.160 special teams unit where they kind of had some late 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.080 activity in the middle part of the formation. Guys showing 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.800 pressure in the middle, and you saw the Bears squeeze it. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.120 They kind of got tighter in their splits and that 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.800 left Phillips in a one on one situation to come 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.399 in there and get the pump block. Andrew Van ginkle 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.199 scoops it up, runs it back twenty eight yards for 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.680 a touchdown. And there you go that those are two 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.520 edge defenders you know who are not named Bradley chub 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.359 seeing reps on special teams making a huge play that 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.440 changed the game on special teams. That's big time. Man. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.920 Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel. Who I mean. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.080 I'm gonna give it to coach because he said it 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.240 it's more important. But we'll come back to that topic. 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.320 Let's go to coach McDaniel. Uh, you know, very very 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.840 good play by both of them. UM. You know, the 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.840 the particular individuals not just their their skills, but the 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:25.760 human beings. UM getting them this week was exactly what 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.040 UM we had hoped. They're the type of people that 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:34.359 are both physical, UM but team guys and very talented. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.320 So that UM that really paid off all week, had 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.399 everyone really excited, I think, UM, I think that it 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:50.680 paid off in several people's statistics. Defensively, UM, the rotation, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.680 you guys were able to be a little more fresh. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.440 UM and um he was he was in and around 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.720 the ball a ton And then UM, Jeff was exactly 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.520 what I had known from my experience with him. Um, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:10.200 he's a big game player that UM that really thrives 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:14.439 when those numbers called upon and and UM, you know, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.120 bring that aggressiveness and then you know, made a couple 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:19.960 of plays in the past game that were pretty cool. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.040 So UM, I'm real happy with those those two guys 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.000 glad there with us. Do you get a little bit 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:26.760 of a bonus they're talking to for one with Jeff 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:28.840 Wilson as well. But I was what I was getting 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.840