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Speaker 1: what is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
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Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Winfield, And on today show, the Dolphins win again,
Speaker 1: win win. It is three straight victories. It's the second
Speaker 1: streak of three wins this season. It's the second six
Speaker 1: and three starts since two thousand two, and we're talking
Speaker 1: about all of it right here on the Drivetime Podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Mike McDaniel to a tungle by loa
Speaker 1: and the key moments, will break down the absurdity that
Speaker 1: is Tyreek Hill, and a heck of a lot more
Speaker 1: in our five takeaways, and we'll tell you about some
Speaker 1: teaching tape and the play before the play from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. We start the show off
Speaker 1: here on the Sunday Night recap as we do each week,
Speaker 1: talking about some statistics, and we'll do it from the
Speaker 1: game perspective. First, pretty even across the board here except
Speaker 1: for a couple of key categories. The teams are close
Speaker 1: and first down Chicago twenty three, Miami twenty the Bears
Speaker 1: to convert ten of sixteen third downs to Miami's five
Speaker 1: of ten. Dolphins oh for two. On fourth down Bears
Speaker 1: one for two. And here's where the big discrepancy comes from.
Speaker 1: Dolphins three d and seventy nine yards Chicago three eight.
Speaker 1: But Miami does that on fifty three plays compared to
Speaker 1: Chicago seventies from Miami's offense. Just rolling right now in
Speaker 1: terms of the yards per play statistic, three oh two
Speaker 1: of that through the air from Miami, seventy seven on
Speaker 1: the ground for the Bears, it was tilted the other direction.
Speaker 1: One sixteen through the air and two fifty two on
Speaker 1: the ground. There's no takeaways in this game. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: register to sacks and don't allow any sacks. And how
Speaker 1: about this Miami three penalties for thirty eight yards, getting
Speaker 1: that cleaned up from the last couple of weeks Chicago
Speaker 1: four for nine two two of those big yards penalties
Speaker 1: coming from d p i s on Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. More on that in a moment. And the
Speaker 1: Bears possessed the ball for nearly thirty five minutes, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins for just a bit over twenty five minutes. And
Speaker 1: takeaway number one from this game? Where else do you
Speaker 1: go to besides the quarterback too? Is in fact him
Speaker 1: and he continues to look the part twenty one for
Speaker 1: thirty three to passing yards. That's another day over ten
Speaker 1: yards per pass for two a tungle by Lowa, three
Speaker 1: touchdown strikes that gives him a passer rating on the
Speaker 1: day of one thirty five point seven. He's the first
Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback, according to CBS Sports, to have back to
Speaker 1: back games with three hundred passing yards, three touchdowns and
Speaker 1: no turnovers, first ever had some good quarterbacks here. By
Speaker 1: the way, he finishes the day six of seven on
Speaker 1: third down passing with a hundred nine yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass and five conversions on those seven attempts. Remember,
Speaker 1: he entered play with a one forty two point seven
Speaker 1: passer rating on third down, which the stat going back
Speaker 1: to when they began tracking that stat by quarter and
Speaker 1: having specific stats for the passer rating, it's the highest
Speaker 1: ever on third down since that time. His QBR on
Speaker 1: the day was eighty one point two. That's his fourth
Speaker 1: game this year with a better than eight qb R
Speaker 1: and by the way, one hundred is the max, zero
Speaker 1: is the minimum, fifty is league average. Four of his
Speaker 1: performances out of the seven starts or six starts, I
Speaker 1: should say check that two three, four seven stars, yeah,
Speaker 1: seven stars. Uh. Four of those seven games with the
Speaker 1: eighty or better QBR, two of them over ninety. He's
Speaker 1: the only quarterback to have four games over an eight
Speaker 1: q b R and he didn't play two games. He's
Speaker 1: also currently leading the NFL at seventy nine point seven
Speaker 1: qb are. The next closest is Patrick Mahomes at seventy
Speaker 1: six point seven. Before we get more here, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and hear from coach Mike McDaniel on the play
Speaker 1: of his quarterback and what he's shown from that first
Speaker 1: team meeting back on April four until now week number
Speaker 1: nine seven months of growth. Coach has been very impressed
Speaker 1: by his quarterback. To a dougle by Loland, it's really um.
Speaker 1: It's as the growth UM really since we started, I
Speaker 1: think our first team meeting it was April four, UM,
Speaker 1: and so in seven months time, the growth has been unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And in how he's playing the position, learning the whole system,
Speaker 1: and then how he's uh handling the ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: of natural um in game MOMENTUM. And UH saw it
Speaker 1: again today. You know he's UM didn't really put UH,
Speaker 1: didn't really give the defense and opportunity UM to take
Speaker 1: the ball away really UM. And then he you know,
Speaker 1: he just continues to UM impressed by by being UM,
Speaker 1: you know, through the course of the game, just taking
Speaker 1: one play at a time, and and and the players
Speaker 1: themselves can really UM feel the visceral confidence and energy
Speaker 1: UM that he's that he's bringing forth UM to play
Speaker 1: the position and responding to it on both sides the ball.
Speaker 1: I feel like I mean, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can top that, but we're gonna try to talk about
Speaker 1: his game a little bit more in depth here than
Speaker 1: you know, even coach gave us there in terms of
Speaker 1: the impact he has notched on the offense with the
Speaker 1: defense and the entire squad. And I just thought we
Speaker 1: saw more of the same with this guy that you've
Speaker 1: come to expect, an addition to creating some plays by
Speaker 1: getting off his spot versus pressure and throwing on the
Speaker 1: move that eighteen yard touchdown pass to Jalen Waddle. When
Speaker 1: I used to chart quarterbacks, I would talk about are
Speaker 1: they throwing from the pocket or on the are they
Speaker 1: on the move left to right? He's out in space,
Speaker 1: he's left the pocket from that pressure, flushed out to
Speaker 1: the left and throws a strike between a trio of
Speaker 1: Bears defenders. And I loved, loved, loved the way Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle came back to the football and went and got
Speaker 1: that ball. It's his ball in the end zone, touchdown,
Speaker 1: his sixth of the season. How about the twenty six
Speaker 1: yard pop to Waddle earlier in the game. More on
Speaker 1: that in the teaching tape moment of the podcast. Spoiler
Speaker 1: Alert we're gonna talk about to his teaching tape, and
Speaker 1: then also getting to the backside to waddle on the
Speaker 1: opening drive of the game after reading a full field
Speaker 1: progression on third down to the front side. You see
Speaker 1: him so quickly going through the progressions the head snap, snap,
Speaker 1: snap to the next spot and then as soon as
Speaker 1: he sees it, sees that I have an opening or
Speaker 1: a spot to put the football into this location from
Speaker 1: my guy to make a play, by the time he
Speaker 1: sees it, like there is just no lag between see
Speaker 1: it and ball out. That release, that decision making, that
Speaker 1: processing is what really makes this quarterback stand out right
Speaker 1: now in terms of leading the league in so many
Speaker 1: key categories. Gosh, he's playing good. I think when coach
Speaker 1: McDaniel talks about playing the position, it's not you know,
Speaker 1: the beauty pageant traits. It's playing quarterback, which is still
Speaker 1: the very most paramount element of the position. Processing decisions, anticipation,
Speaker 1: accuracy to a really checks the box and all those
Speaker 1: marks and all those areas. And that's why he's giving
Speaker 1: you the stats that I've just given you. I mean,
Speaker 1: the ball comes out hot, his ball handling is exceptional
Speaker 1: on a lot of those fakes gets us into good
Speaker 1: run looks. He's absolutely precise with the timing and location
Speaker 1: in the middle of the football field where you have
Speaker 1: to be because things happen so fast there. And he
Speaker 1: entered this game with double the number two quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL of completions. He had thirty two coming into
Speaker 1: today of ten plus eight yards between the numbers in
Speaker 1: the middle of the football field. Had a bunch more
Speaker 1: of those today, so I'm sure that stat will increase.
Speaker 1: He had thirty two second place had six team coming
Speaker 1: into the day. Just continues to attack the middle of
Speaker 1: the field with confidence, bravado, and relentless ability to go
Speaker 1: after those two playmaking receivers, and really the entire complement
Speaker 1: of guys. You know, Cedric Wilson making some plays that day,
Speaker 1: Trent Shirtfield getting some action as well, the running backs.
Speaker 1: Just this full offense running off of what TA can
Speaker 1: do as the distributor. It's fun to watch man. And
Speaker 1: my favorite part about this. For two his games, I
Speaker 1: thought that his placement in that second half was actually
Speaker 1: a tad off. And I say that by to a
Speaker 1: standards because for most quarterbacks that means you're missing throws
Speaker 1: like high low back. You know they're in completions second
Speaker 1: and ten for two. Uh, that means guys have to
Speaker 1: go off the frame a little bit. They have to
Speaker 1: catch the ball down by their belt opposed to their
Speaker 1: chest when he's off by a little bit. So just
Speaker 1: go off the frame and inch pull it in. He
Speaker 1: really is, if not the most, one of the most
Speaker 1: accurate quarterbacks in football, just like Tyreek Hill told us
Speaker 1: back in the off season, speaking of Tyreek, takeaway number two,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hills having an absolutely insane season, and the subplot
Speaker 1: that has his running mate is pretty damn good in himself.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with Tyreek from a play standpoint,
Speaker 1: just the attention that he commands is utterly ridiculous. But
Speaker 1: then he can even still run guys off of the
Speaker 1: double coverage that he does get. We've seen him do
Speaker 1: it multiple times this season with bracket coverage, and I
Speaker 1: love how we get him on those longer developing routes
Speaker 1: that allow him to attack leverage and push defenders to
Speaker 1: their absolute brink where they have to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Am I gonna squat on this and risk him running
Speaker 1: by me? Or am I gonna get on my heels
Speaker 1: and defend against that and open up space underneath. And
Speaker 1: he just has a real innate ability to understand when
Speaker 1: that dB feels that presence to push them off their
Speaker 1: route and then just run away from them. Those little crossers,
Speaker 1: those corner routes, the flag routes, really multiple routes where
Speaker 1: when TWA has time and climbs and fires, Tyreek shches
Speaker 1: it with all kinds of space and then can make
Speaker 1: his moves and get that extra six, seven, eight yards
Speaker 1: after the catch. Gosh, it's been fun to watch. It's
Speaker 1: another hundred yard performance. It's his fifth game out of
Speaker 1: nine with more than a hundred and forty receiving yards.
Speaker 1: It's one thousand, one hundred and four yards on the
Speaker 1: season for Tyreek, which is already the eleventh most in
Speaker 1: a single season for Dolphins history. It's the most by
Speaker 1: any player in the National Football League ever through nine games.
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson when he broke the record. What year is
Speaker 1: that when he broke the record had a thousand, eighty
Speaker 1: three receiving yards that year through nine games. Tyreek also
Speaker 1: has two hundred six point nine Fantasy points that, by
Speaker 1: the way, is the most in his career through the
Speaker 1: first nine games. Of his career, so he is having
Speaker 1: the best season so far in his NFL career through
Speaker 1: these first nine games. He also caught his third touchdown
Speaker 1: pass of the season and did his best, I should say,
Speaker 1: the best backflip I've ever seen from a person who
Speaker 1: is not named a Moan Biles. He caught seven of
Speaker 1: eight targets for a fun hundred and forty three yards
Speaker 1: and the touchdown reception. And how about the penguin on
Speaker 1: the other side, he caught five of seven for eighty
Speaker 1: five and it would have probably been six for eight
Speaker 1: for what was it, seventy more yards eighty more yards
Speaker 1: in that touchdown if we got to him late. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that play in just a minute. He did
Speaker 1: score a touchdown though, getting him six on the year,
Speaker 1: and that gives the tandem on the day twelve catches
Speaker 1: on fifteen targets for two twenty eight and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about efficiency on offense targeting those guys.
Speaker 1: You know you ran fifty three plays a day. Fifteen
Speaker 1: of your plays went through Tyreeke and Jalen, So what
Speaker 1: is that fifteen thirty five It's a little more than
Speaker 1: a between a third four of your place fifteen point
Speaker 1: two yards per play when you go to those guys,
Speaker 1: not bad at all. And and how about thirty two
Speaker 1: and forty seven yards of defensive pass interference yardage on
Speaker 1: either two of those guys. I mean, I'm no mathematician,
Speaker 1: but to twenty eight plus seventy nine put you right
Speaker 1: around the three hundred yard mark. Again for these guys,
Speaker 1: if you were to include the dp I yard, how
Speaker 1: does their quarterback feel about them? I think it's probably
Speaker 1: pretty good. Let's go ahead and throw it to two.
Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what it is. Is if one gets doubled,
Speaker 1: we're looking for the other. And if that one is
Speaker 1: doubled as well, if they double both of them, then
Speaker 1: we gotta find the next guy. So they both complement
Speaker 1: each other, but they also both compliment everyone else on
Speaker 1: on our offense. Really fun game to talk about here.
Speaker 1: So far, we are through the first two takeaways with
Speaker 1: two and the wide receivers. They've been pretty frequent in
Speaker 1: this spot. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: and come back and we'll do takeaways three through five.
Speaker 1: We have the play before the play, the teaching tape
Speaker 1: plenty more talk about some new acquisitions. Here on your
Speaker 1: Dolphins roster. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 1: slash Monday morning depending on when you're downloading this podcast.
Speaker 1: We have the first two takeaways from the Dolphins thirty
Speaker 1: five thirty two victory over the Chicago Bears, another exhilarating victory.
Speaker 1: I did ask Seth and o J do you think
Speaker 1: today might be the day we have just a normal
Speaker 1: regular football game where we go and get a comfortable
Speaker 1: lead and win and we don't have to stress out
Speaker 1: back and forth in the fourth quarter. That was the
Speaker 1: case early, it was not the case late, as the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense does get a couple of stands late to
Speaker 1: hold off the point or I should say the the
Speaker 1: lead the offense gave the defense early in the game,
Speaker 1: as well as special teams getting that punt blocked back
Speaker 1: for six. And speaking of the offense, we're gonna stay
Speaker 1: on that side of the football for takeaway number three
Speaker 1: and it is welcome to Miami. Jeff Wilson. The touchdown
Speaker 1: catch alone, to me was worth getting this takeaway. But
Speaker 1: I mean, we heard coach Mike McDaniel talked this week
Speaker 1: about his physical running style and how it sets a tone.
Speaker 1: And we heard Jeff Wilson say, I like to get downhill.
Speaker 1: I don't like to play a lot of games. And boy,
Speaker 1: we learned that in a big way of both instances
Speaker 1: in terms of him not playing games and setting a
Speaker 1: tone from a physicality standpoint, because it's sure as heck
Speaker 1: did that What a game from him. They Move the
Speaker 1: Sticks podcast, one of my favorite podcast out there. Daniel Jeremiah,
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, NFL Media and Rett Lewis joins them as
Speaker 1: well as a third co host. Sometimes. They had a
Speaker 1: discussion on a recent podcast that was originally about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins passing game. These young quarterbacks kind of taking the
Speaker 1: over the guard of the NFL. Uh and as the
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the Hall of Fame little quarterbacks
Speaker 1: right off into the sunset here towards the end of
Speaker 1: their careers. And he was talking a lot about two
Speaker 1: in this offense and how well Too was playing, and
Speaker 1: they eventually got to the segment about running backs and
Speaker 1: forcing miss tackles and how the scouts view these running
Speaker 1: backs in terms of their ability to make guys miss
Speaker 1: in three phases, Guys that can step through tackles, guys
Speaker 1: that can pull through arm tackles, and guys that can
Speaker 1: run through tackles. So the step through is obviously the
Speaker 1: lowest of the three of those where you can kind
Speaker 1: of get get around the shoestring, get around guys by
Speaker 1: your legs. The pull through is getting through those you know,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins too gapping and he throws that arm out.
Speaker 1: You can get through those tackles. And then when you
Speaker 1: run through guys, those are your Marshawn Lynches, your Marian Barber's,
Speaker 1: those types of folks. And that's about where Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: falls from the physicality standpoint. He's only like a hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: so it's pretty crazy the way he packs a punch
Speaker 1: behind those pads. He just runs through dudes. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to see his missed tackles forced on Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus on the Tuesday podcast. I'll tweet it out on Monday,
Speaker 1: for sure. He's just he brought a different element to
Speaker 1: the offense. I thought his twenty eight yard gallop also
Speaker 1: tied a team high this season. Chase Edmonds twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard run against the Ravens back in Week two on
Speaker 1: the game winning drive in that game, he was picking
Speaker 1: up extra crucial yardage with his effort. He gives US
Speaker 1: seventy two total yards from scrimmage on just twelve touches,
Speaker 1: nine for fifty one on the ground, so better than
Speaker 1: five yards per rush, three for one through the air,
Speaker 1: and a touchdown reception. Let's hear from quarterback to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Valoa on running back Jeff Wilson. Wow. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: that's what I gotta say. Wow, um m is his
Speaker 1: first game with us, and he almost he almost takes
Speaker 1: one to score and and then that same drive, I
Speaker 1: mean he he basically Reggie bushed and dove for the touchdown. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean you you don't. You don't see that often.
Speaker 1: So for for someone like him to to come come from,
Speaker 1: you know, the Niners and fit right into our offense
Speaker 1: like that tells you a lot about his work ethic,
Speaker 1: tells you a lot about who he is as a
Speaker 1: player and who he is as a professional. So wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we felt watching him as too
Speaker 1: as well. To a good stuff there. That's takeaway number three.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number four is the Bradley Chubb acquisition impact went
Speaker 1: well beyond his stat line Chubb finishes the day with
Speaker 1: just a half tackle. In the game, he had three
Speaker 1: QB pressures, which actually led the Miami Dolphins and was
Speaker 1: so so, so damn close to a key stack late.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that more here in just one second,
Speaker 1: But we did see Melvin Ingram get a crucial sack
Speaker 1: to push the Bears behind the chains to get second
Speaker 1: and fifteen after a five yard dumped there from the
Speaker 1: veteran outside linebacker pass rusher a little bit of everything
Speaker 1: in his arsenal. How about Jalen Phillips's effort all day long?
Speaker 1: We talked about his motor and the way he just
Speaker 1: relentlessly pursues thing. They ran a jet sweep to a
Speaker 1: wide receiver that he ran down from the backside. How
Speaker 1: many defensive ends slash outside linebackers guys that play in
Speaker 1: that mold at two seventy pounds were doing that. There's
Speaker 1: not many of them. Jalen Phillips does it and coached
Speaker 1: we'll talk we'll hear from coach here in just a second.
Speaker 1: Talked about players being able to stay even fresher with
Speaker 1: the impact of getting a guy like Bradley Chub on
Speaker 1: the roster and the impact you saw at that possession
Speaker 1: group all day long. For instance, we talked about Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle's value on special teams. What does he do
Speaker 1: but set the Dolphins record for a punt block return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown twenty eight yards is the longest and
Speaker 1: franchise history. Gek's been playing awesome on special teams all
Speaker 1: year and that comes off a play where Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: has himself a one on one block he has to
Speaker 1: be and o J broke this down on the postgame show,
Speaker 1: and o J is so great special teams because his
Speaker 1: rookie year he pretty much was only a special teamer
Speaker 1: and he loves that stuff. I love hearing him talk
Speaker 1: special teams. And he talked about how on that play
Speaker 1: the Dolphins must have seen that this undersized guy was
Speaker 1: gonna be on the edge trying to block a guy
Speaker 1: like Jalen Phillips, who he was giving fifty sixty pounds too.
Speaker 1: And Phillips sidesteps the block and gets in there and
Speaker 1: he he ding near took that ball off the foot
Speaker 1: of the punter. He was in there so quickly, and
Speaker 1: you kind of saw the cool look there from Danny
Speaker 1: Croftsman and the Dolphins special teams coordinator and the entire
Speaker 1: special teams unit where they kind of had some late
Speaker 1: activity in the middle part of the formation. Guys showing
Speaker 1: pressure in the middle, and you saw the Bears squeeze it.
Speaker 1: They kind of got tighter in their splits and that
Speaker 1: left Phillips in a one on one situation to come
Speaker 1: in there and get the pump block. Andrew Van ginkle
Speaker 1: scoops it up, runs it back twenty eight yards for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And there you go that those are two
Speaker 1: edge defenders you know who are not named Bradley chub
Speaker 1: seeing reps on special teams making a huge play that
Speaker 1: changed the game on special teams. That's big time. Man.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel. Who I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to coach because he said it
Speaker 1: it's more important. But we'll come back to that topic.
Speaker 1: Let's go to coach McDaniel. Uh, you know, very very
Speaker 1: good play by both of them. UM. You know, the
Speaker 1: the particular individuals not just their their skills, but the
Speaker 1: human beings. UM getting them this week was exactly what
Speaker 1: UM we had hoped. They're the type of people that
Speaker 1: are both physical, UM but team guys and very talented.
Speaker 1: So that UM that really paid off all week, had
Speaker 1: everyone really excited, I think, UM, I think that it
Speaker 1: paid off in several people's statistics. Defensively, UM, the rotation,
Speaker 1: you guys were able to be a little more fresh.
Speaker 1: UM and um he was he was in and around
Speaker 1: the ball a ton And then UM, Jeff was exactly
Speaker 1: what I had known from my experience with him. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a big game player that UM that really thrives
Speaker 1: when those numbers called upon and and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: bring that aggressiveness and then you know, made a couple
Speaker 1: of plays in the past game that were pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So UM, I'm real happy with those those two guys
Speaker 1: glad there with us. Do you get a little bit
Speaker 1: of a bonus they're talking to for one with Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson as well. But I was what I was getting
Speaker 1: to before that was that I was proud to say
Speaker 1: that I said the exact same thing to Juice and
Speaker 1: Seth in the green room at the radio station after
Speaker 1: that pump block, Like, do we get those reps from
Speaker 1: Phillips and Van Ginkle if we don't have Chub to
Speaker 1: take on so much on the defensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Like it matters, man, this stuff really really really matters.
Speaker 1: I know you guys are very sick of hearing about
Speaker 1: how close we've been in the past rush, but again,
Speaker 1: like that quarterback is pretty extraordinary over there, and most guys,
Speaker 1: you know, I think, I think we get them for
Speaker 1: either sacks or at the very least prevent a lot
Speaker 1: of those guys from big plays, because when a red
Speaker 1: hot quarterback is dealing like Justin Fields was in this game,
Speaker 1: this league is just not really designed to slow them
Speaker 1: down that way. We did our best at times to
Speaker 1: make those plays, but we did make just enough plays
Speaker 1: at the very end, and a big part of that
Speaker 1: came through the play of that edge position with ingram Seck,
Speaker 1: Chubb's pressure and effort, Phillips's pressures and effort, Van Giggle,
Speaker 1: the big pump return or pump block return after Phillips's
Speaker 1: pump block. Good stuff all around from that group. A big,
Speaker 1: big part of this Dolphin's victory and takeaway number five.
Speaker 1: You know, we did four really positives. We have to
Speaker 1: kind of talk about something that we can improve upon,
Speaker 1: and that is the third down defense and the narrow
Speaker 1: misses on offense and again, we have to close this
Speaker 1: because no game is perfect, right to what told us
Speaker 1: as much after the game. But again, justin Fields made
Speaker 1: a bunch of plays, and you, certainly, I think, can
Speaker 1: look inward to see what you can do better. It's
Speaker 1: so tough, and I just want to make that abundantly clear.
Speaker 1: It's so tough, but better tackling, better disciplined. Maybe stay
Speaker 1: in control when you break down and come come up
Speaker 1: from distance or come from depth in the scramble game,
Speaker 1: or when he pump fakes beyond the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: It's tough to stay on your feet. A lot of
Speaker 1: those things are so easy to say but tough to do.
Speaker 1: But man, if we can do him, if we can
Speaker 1: find a way to get him executed, we could really
Speaker 1: put a full game together and maybe get some lopside
Speaker 1: of scores in the you know, as a result of that,
Speaker 1: the Bears go ten for sixteen on third down. They
Speaker 1: convert half of their fourth downs one for two. A
Speaker 1: lot of that was rushing by the quarterback, who sets
Speaker 1: an NFL regular season record for rushing by a quarterback
Speaker 1: with a buck seventy eight on the ground. We'll see
Speaker 1: Josh Allen hearing about a month we already faced Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is not on the schedule, so I don't
Speaker 1: think you'll run into a guy quite like that the
Speaker 1: rest of the regular season. But it's worth pointing out
Speaker 1: the adjustments they'll need to make against a quarterback as
Speaker 1: dangerous as he with his legs, something McDaniel referred to
Speaker 1: several times in his postgame presser, And you know, he
Speaker 1: talked about what fields can do from a natural ability,
Speaker 1: from the dynamic, dynamic element of his game running the football.
Speaker 1: He's a tough quarterback and he looks really good and
Speaker 1: Bears fans should be super happy that he is. There's
Speaker 1: but when a player goes off like that, it presents
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to find out how to get better.
Speaker 1: And I trust Josh Boyer and this Dolphin's coaching staff
Speaker 1: will figure that out on the defensive side. But again,
Speaker 1: two key key stops at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Go back to Pittsburgh, shout out in the second half
Speaker 1: of the game. Go back to Detroit second half of
Speaker 1: the game, no points for the lines on three possessions,
Speaker 1: and you've got a big fourth down stop to win
Speaker 1: that game. Essentially before the offense put it away, so
Speaker 1: no game goes complete with one side of the football
Speaker 1: getting it done to get you to the winner circle.
Speaker 1: And the defense, despite a rough day for the most part,
Speaker 1: bounced back and responded a huge in a big way
Speaker 1: late in the game. And then the point b of
Speaker 1: this fifth takeaway the two misses by the offense, two
Speaker 1: chances to really put this game away, and we missed him.
Speaker 1: And I sure hope that's not the narrative coming out
Speaker 1: of this game. I mean, it probably will be, because
Speaker 1: it's been that way since one got here, so I
Speaker 1: guess who cares. But the two narrow misses are not
Speaker 1: the story here, but we do want to address them
Speaker 1: since we are a comprehensive podcast. The miss to Durham smile,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and hear from two a tongue of
Speaker 1: by Low on a fourth down throw that looked open,
Speaker 1: couldn't complete it, and it gave the Bears offense to
Speaker 1: the football back. Well, I I seen him and I
Speaker 1: was getting ready to throw it to him, and I
Speaker 1: think he took a look up and so it kind
Speaker 1: of through through off the way I was going to
Speaker 1: throw it to him because I didn't know if he
Speaker 1: was going to turn up or or not, and so
Speaker 1: he looked up and I was getting ready to throw.
Speaker 1: Then the ball came out and he looked back. So
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's that's something that you know, I'll
Speaker 1: need to to work on too. I'll get better with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was not really anybody in that area, so to
Speaker 1: not get that ball completed was certainly a heartbreaker at
Speaker 1: the time. Again, thankfully the defense made us not regret
Speaker 1: that miss. That one gives you a first and ten
Speaker 1: if not first in goal depending on Derham's run after
Speaker 1: the catch with seven five to play with a three
Speaker 1: point leading the fourth quarter, so you were then just
Speaker 1: about ten yards away from really putting the game on ice,
Speaker 1: potentially with two score lead and half of the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter gone. Then we get another shot after two runs
Speaker 1: go for negative one total yards uh to kick off
Speaker 1: that penultimate drive before the victory formation drive and Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle gets behind the defense on third and eleven two
Speaker 1: A lobs it down there and it comes up just
Speaker 1: a tad short. We still nearly completed it to a
Speaker 1: put a ton of air under it, and you see,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of these great deep ball throwers
Speaker 1: put the a ton of air under the ball and
Speaker 1: give the receiver a chance to go run under it.
Speaker 1: And we've seen that really, you know, with two all
Speaker 1: year long. I think looking at singular throws like this
Speaker 1: and a vacuum is awfully dangerous because hitting super fast
Speaker 1: guys and stride is not something you expect to do
Speaker 1: at a high volume. But the Dolphins have done that
Speaker 1: all year long. It's worked all year, but you can't
Speaker 1: hit them all. We missed this one that would have
Speaker 1: put the game away, and we just missed it. But again, luckily,
Speaker 1: it's a team game, and our special teams got a
Speaker 1: great punt and great coverage to go get the Bears
Speaker 1: behind uh the chains or behind where they had to
Speaker 1: get to kick a game tying field goal. And that's
Speaker 1: how you win a game with the defense holding up
Speaker 1: their end of the bargain at the very end. So
Speaker 1: there you go, your five takeaways, third down defense, and
Speaker 1: narrow misses on offense. The Chub acquisition impact went well
Speaker 1: beyond his stat line. Welcome to Miami, Jeff Wilson, Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hills having an insane season and his running mate the
Speaker 1: Penguin pretty damn good too. And to continues his hot
Speaker 1: hot start to the season, looks the part at the
Speaker 1: QB position. Let's go ahead and take our last break
Speaker 1: here and come back on the other side and finish
Speaker 1: up with some additional notes the play before the play
Speaker 1: and teaching tape. That's next Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a
Speaker 1: week nine recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast, and I
Speaker 1: want to kick this part of the segment off with
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel's opening remarks at his postgame press conference talking
Speaker 1: about he was asked, is this a sustainable way to
Speaker 1: win games? Where the offense comes out to a hot start,
Speaker 1: defense struggles, and you kind of flip it at the
Speaker 1: very end, here's coach talking about what this team has
Speaker 1: shown him through nine weeks and a six in three market. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of see it the opposite way.
Speaker 1: I see that. UM, I see a strong example of
Speaker 1: complimentary football. UM. There's been instances all season that's I'm
Speaker 1: really fired up about what the team where one phase. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole stadium and both teams can feel
Speaker 1: that they don't have momentum right now. UM. For this game,
Speaker 1: it was defensively they were able to convert some stuff,
Speaker 1: UM and really stay on the field and dominate time
Speaker 1: of possession for UM the first three quarters really UM.
Speaker 1: But the what I'm happy about is the resolve. UM.
Speaker 1: Of course you want to dominate your opponent. UM. They
Speaker 1: get paid to that. They did a good job. UM.
Speaker 1: You know not not we're hoping to get some turnovers
Speaker 1: and they didn't really allow give us give us opportunities
Speaker 1: to that. They were UM, very strategic and how they
Speaker 1: they approached the game plan. I feel like in um
Speaker 1: keeping the ball out of our hands and and you know,
Speaker 1: to their credit, justin fields is um is as dynamic
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands any any player in
Speaker 1: the league. Really so UM. It's they will never be
Speaker 1: sustainable for one side of the ball to dominate in
Speaker 1: the National Football League anyway. UM, it's hard to within
Speaker 1: one game. And UM, what I'm just happy about is UH,
Speaker 1: when the the offense wasn't able to score points, the
Speaker 1: defense found their best their best play. And that's UM
Speaker 1: what we're gonna build on moving forward. This team certainly
Speaker 1: is finding different ways to win games. That's how a
Speaker 1: lot about a football team. All the best teams have
Speaker 1: multiple ways to win games, and this Dolphins team is
Speaker 1: offering a different victory every week, it seems so far.
Speaker 1: Some additional notes before I get out of here. I
Speaker 1: thought the offensive line play was fantastic, especially you know,
Speaker 1: not especially Rob Jones at left guard though, was the
Speaker 1: new guy in the lineup, and I thought he acquitted
Speaker 1: himself quite nicely. Again, we'll have more on that on
Speaker 1: the Tuesday edition of the Drift Time podcast, the All
Speaker 1: twenty two recap edition of the Drive Time Podcast. But
Speaker 1: I thought Tehron, Rob Jones, Connor Williams, Rob Hunt, Brandon
Speaker 1: Shell that one yard touchdown run there from Raheem Moster.
Speaker 1: Shout out to him by the way for finding the
Speaker 1: end zone on the rushing touchdown. But the way they
Speaker 1: cleared space, good blocks all across the board, executing a
Speaker 1: short yardage, big time stuff for the offensive line and
Speaker 1: also no sacks. Love to see that. I thought Duke
Speaker 1: Riley and Channing Tendaal made some nice plays on that dangerous,
Speaker 1: dangerous quarterback. Their speed showed up time and time again.
Speaker 1: Duke had some place late. We'll talk about that here
Speaker 1: in one second. Channing Tendal speed really showed up on
Speaker 1: that first drive of the game where Fields tried to
Speaker 1: scramble on third and ten before the field goal, but
Speaker 1: he got met by forty one who was able to
Speaker 1: get him to the sideline, get him out of bounds,
Speaker 1: and get the Dolphins defense off the field. Kator Co,
Speaker 1: who's tackling continues to be absolutely exceptional, whether he's coming
Speaker 1: up to blow up a screen pass to get a
Speaker 1: tackle for loss on a run play going wide, he
Speaker 1: just comes in there under control, but absolutely fast and ferocious,
Speaker 1: and he makes a lot of great plays behind the line.
Speaker 1: Also had really good coverage again down the field all
Speaker 1: day long. In defense, I thought Eric Rowe had some
Speaker 1: big plays where he really showed you his ability to
Speaker 1: understand angles and passing concepts and getting with in the
Speaker 1: passing game to put some big hits on tight ends
Speaker 1: and cut down their ability to run after the catch.
Speaker 1: Those guys I thought earned some notes here in the
Speaker 1: post game. Will also have more for you guys again
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, covering the entire game from a film standpoint,
Speaker 1: the play before the play. We have to take this
Speaker 1: to the plays before the play because the Bear's final possession.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many of you guys felt like after
Speaker 1: those two conversions they got the two third down conversions
Speaker 1: that like the best case scenario here might just be overtime.
Speaker 1: The only ones who could do something about it was
Speaker 1: the defense, and they did. That's how you win in
Speaker 1: this league, man, And I think that series of play
Speaker 1: showed you a little bit of everything you had. Seeler
Speaker 1: and Wilkins stack up a play for Duke Riley to
Speaker 1: come in there and finish it off for just a
Speaker 1: two yard run from Khalil Herbert. Then Duke again keys
Speaker 1: the quarterback and gets downhill in a hurry and chases
Speaker 1: him down to get him down behind the line out
Speaker 1: of bounds for a two yard sack. Loss of two
Speaker 1: is big there to get to third and ten. Then
Speaker 1: we get some really tight coverage downfield from Keion Crossing
Speaker 1: with Javon Holland coming up over the top, and Keian
Speaker 1: did a good job getting his eyes back on the football.
Speaker 1: I thought Javon is gonna pick it off, winds up
Speaker 1: being a pass breakup. And then the fourth down stop,
Speaker 1: you know's a drop pass. But you know what, by
Speaker 1: making the plays on first through third down, you put
Speaker 1: yourself in position to capitalize on a mistake. Just look
Speaker 1: at our drive at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: A couple of mistakes was the difference with the twelve
Speaker 1: man penalty and a drop pass out. Why between potentially
Speaker 1: seven and three then you wind up with nothing at
Speaker 1: the end of it. So that continued effort was such
Speaker 1: a key part of this whole win, and those first
Speaker 1: three plays on down one through three help you get
Speaker 1: to that key fourth down. The teaching tape I talked
Speaker 1: about it, and takeaway number one with Tah was the
Speaker 1: twenty six yard hit from TWA to waddle where you
Speaker 1: see to A just completely remove the linebacker by kind
Speaker 1: of looking in that direction and then flipping his hips
Speaker 1: and shoulders and his eyes over to the flat, and
Speaker 1: the linebacker gets all the way out of there. It
Speaker 1: creates a gap inside for two to thread the ball
Speaker 1: into a tight window for twenty six yards with the
Speaker 1: catch and run after the fact teaching tape for two
Speaker 1: and the way he displaces those curl hook defenders and
Speaker 1: puts them to the flat and creates space for his
Speaker 1: guys to create their own space to make plays after
Speaker 1: the catch. So really good stuff there from QB one
Speaker 1: again passing yards and three touchdown passes again that gives
Speaker 1: him fifteen touchdown passes to just three picks this year,
Speaker 1: also has not turned the ball over in three games.
Speaker 1: Pretty good way to win football games and your quarterback
Speaker 1: plays that well. All right, let's go ahead and call
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