Speaker 1: It's Patrick throws put a touchdown. Preston Williams say into
Speaker 1: the in zone from three yard channel is caught touchdown.
Speaker 1: You're sicky, and this is a determined Dolphin team coming
Speaker 1: in here to Jacksonville. Want to start for this offense.
Speaker 1: And now you got third down and let's run a
Speaker 1: kick tacker. You're gonna run a quarterback drawl and he
Speaker 1: does put a touchdown? Do you think they like playing
Speaker 1: with Fitzpatrick sounds you hear? Are the Miami Dolphins feeling
Speaker 1: the Fitz magic? You know? Sometimes it's like you see
Speaker 1: a game on Thursday night football and people, you know,
Speaker 1: aren't that excited about it. They're like, oh, Jaguars Dolphins own, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: and then that game to be an instant classic. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, the this wasn't really that game. This
Speaker 1: was kind of what what people expected it was. It
Speaker 1: was a game. It was a game of football that
Speaker 1: was played Dolphins when thirty one to thirteen UM Greg
Speaker 1: Rosenthal joined on this Thursday Night recap special um by
Speaker 1: the biggest Lakers fan and all of Los Angeles, Patrick
Speaker 1: clay Bonne. I am just a supporter of Los Angeles
Speaker 1: mayor Alex Caruso. Um, Lakers get the win tonight, we're
Speaker 1: able to you know, watch them TNF. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: I devoted my entire attention to the Dolphins of Jack's
Speaker 1: because I got a message from Greg Rosenthal that said, Hey, Patrick,
Speaker 1: would you like to be on your first ever t
Speaker 1: n F recap show? And after several minutes of excited swearing,
Speaker 1: I said yes, I would love to. I ignored the Lakers, uh,
Speaker 1: and I just focused on this uh fits magic. It
Speaker 1: was a virtuoso Gregg performance. Yeah it was. It was
Speaker 1: vintage Fits. It was. It wasn't a great game. We
Speaker 1: talked a little before or you know, we texted in.
Speaker 1: You know, these recap shows are always better if they
Speaker 1: give you a classic, you know, and we didn't. We
Speaker 1: didn't get that. The Dolphins took command of this game
Speaker 1: right away. Um, but you did get like a memorable Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Maybe we've heard We've probably said it so many times,
Speaker 1: one more time in primetime. It's like, okay, one more Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I'll probably doing this in five
Speaker 1: years with some other UM rookie on the bench. But
Speaker 1: it just goes to show if you protect Fitzpatrick and
Speaker 1: I think this is true of most um average to
Speaker 1: above average starting quarterbacks. The difference between like a good
Speaker 1: starting quarterback and like one that won't make it, that
Speaker 1: won't have a twenty year career like Fitzpatrick is if
Speaker 1: you protect him, he's gonna deal, and he was dealing tonight.
Speaker 1: He They had terrible pass protection the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: They were twenty nine um and pressures allowed according to
Speaker 1: PFF in the first two weeks. And still I thought
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick played pretty well, and tonight you played at Jaguars
Speaker 1: defense that doesn't look good. Fact, fits used his legs,
Speaker 1: they were so key and they've been key for his
Speaker 1: entire career, and the Jags defense just didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot to stop him. I was surprised that first drive
Speaker 1: when the Miami offensive line just kind of mowed through Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I immediately thought, oh, that that's a bad sign if
Speaker 1: Miami is mowing through you right up front, because we
Speaker 1: have not seen that out of the Dolphins the first
Speaker 1: two weeks, and it might be a long night for
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. And also Davante Parker was flashing tonight. It
Speaker 1: was good to see him healthy. But to your point, Greg,
Speaker 1: those first couple of drives. At one point um the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had six team plays to the Jags four UM
Speaker 1: and there were I think three third down conversions on
Speaker 1: the on the second on the second drive, and it was,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, that fits Magic with his legs. At
Speaker 1: one point, I believe in the third quarter, fitz Magic
Speaker 1: was out on the edge with the twenty four year
Speaker 1: old Josh Allen right, and he like tries to like
Speaker 1: stiff form and him and do a spin move because
Speaker 1: he was just feeling himself and it's like no, and
Speaker 1: you know, those those days are long gone. But but
Speaker 1: that was to the point where he was like taking
Speaker 1: the heat checks with his legs. He only had two
Speaker 1: incompletions all the night. Uh. You you liked what she
Speaker 1: saw out of a lot of these guys. And and
Speaker 1: on the other side, Uh, it was it felt like
Speaker 1: it felt like Jay Gruden was looking on for the
Speaker 1: answers to the test and just can find them and
Speaker 1: then eventually just started writing A B C A B
Speaker 1: A C. He UM. I thought called two really good
Speaker 1: games against you know, the Colts, and I got really
Speaker 1: excited about what I saw against the Titans last week.
Speaker 1: I watched all those games and and maybe this is
Speaker 1: a reminder don't get too carried away, which I tend
Speaker 1: to do with the early season stories because really or
Speaker 1: at any time of this season, because they can change
Speaker 1: on a dime. And Gardner Minshew struggled in this game
Speaker 1: after after two really good games. He's a he's kind
Speaker 1: of like a rhythm quarterback. I think he's a streaky quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any way to measure that.
Speaker 1: I know, I know you don't believe in momentum Clay
Speaker 1: about neither do I, but I do. I do think
Speaker 1: he's a guy kind of like fits who gets hot
Speaker 1: and and starts feeling it. I mean this is this
Speaker 1: is not a controversial take. And tonight they never got
Speaker 1: into a rhythm as a whole offensive team. Chris Conley
Speaker 1: had a terrible night, dropped the past early that killed
Speaker 1: an early drive. Uh in the first quarter. They had
Speaker 1: some strange third down run calls. I thought throughout the game,
Speaker 1: and Uh, Minshew missed some throws, made some bad decisions
Speaker 1: and UH seem kind of scrambled. Steve Smith in the
Speaker 1: post game show, Um, I wanted to get this quote right,
Speaker 1: so I wrote it down, said Minshew couldn't read zone
Speaker 1: if zone popped him upside the mustache and went inside
Speaker 1: his nose. Now, how getting so zone obviously can he couldn't.
Speaker 1: He couldn't read zone coverage. And so I guess, um, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna question Steve Smith. He's an expert on
Speaker 1: popping people upside their head um and and uh, maybe
Speaker 1: he's right. Brian Flores switched from a defense that's usually
Speaker 1: primarily maned to zone and I don't know, maybe that
Speaker 1: was well you mentioned that calmly drop and honestly like
Speaker 1: that that play. I believe it was on the first drive.
Speaker 1: That's the type of play where you look at Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew and he's like that, that's what he can do.
Speaker 1: There was pressure early, he eludes it. Uh, he throws
Speaker 1: a great ball, Uh, calmly drops it. And you wonder
Speaker 1: perhaps if the game would go differently, at least they
Speaker 1: would have had a first down there. But consistently they
Speaker 1: just weren't able to make the place. And then you
Speaker 1: get late and there's that horrible call where Cam Robinson
Speaker 1: gets ejected because he violated the honor of an official
Speaker 1: or whatever. He kid just stop that. Now, I think
Speaker 1: it was like three years ago when Marshawn Lynch disengaged
Speaker 1: from a raff and it was god the curls plunged
Speaker 1: across America because an official was touched, Like, if you
Speaker 1: don't want to get touched, don't get in there. But
Speaker 1: after after Robinson's ejection, minsh, you just didn't have a chance.
Speaker 1: And this vaunted Dolphins pass rush, it's the re emergence
Speaker 1: of Kyle Van Noy. Um. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they have the personnel to do that weekend and
Speaker 1: week out, but they did it tonight. So hey shout
Speaker 1: out to Brian Florence uh in this defense because they
Speaker 1: stuck it to the Jacks tonight. I mean, is this
Speaker 1: this has I want to call research, I guess or
Speaker 1: email them, but is this the first time in NFL
Speaker 1: history to to um guys with Van in their last
Speaker 1: name got a sack of Van noy and Van Ginkle.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know when you're bringing the Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: on the blitz um that you're generating a pass rush.
Speaker 1: And this this kind of was the uh, the good
Speaker 1: Brian Flores that you hope to have because they really
Speaker 1: don't have players to win one on one up front.
Speaker 1: But if you can be a little better on early
Speaker 1: downs like they were, then you get into the third
Speaker 1: down situations and then Florence starts getting so crazy and
Speaker 1: Van Noyce starts making his money. He had a pretty
Speaker 1: awesome night overall. Uh. And you're the Dolphins and you're
Speaker 1: you're now going to go undefeated in primetime. Congratulations, that's
Speaker 1: it the year and they feel like to one and
Speaker 1: two teams. I guess in in the end, I'm happy
Speaker 1: for the handsome hanks out there these prime time games.
Speaker 1: When you watch your team like they mean a little extra,
Speaker 1: you get a little extra rest. DeVante Parker's out there,
Speaker 1: but he's not quite a hundred percent. You get Byron
Speaker 1: Jones back. Um, you know when you come back, you're
Speaker 1: playing a bank of team next. Who knows it's early
Speaker 1: Patrick Clayton, Well, the one thing I do know is
Speaker 1: fits Magic took some shots. Get a head to the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Uh tonight we will see to uh at some point
Speaker 1: if Royan Fitzpatrick insists on playing football like, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's who he is. I mean, you can't take
Speaker 1: that away from him. But he's just he is not
Speaker 1: safe with he He's made it this far somehow, although
Speaker 1: you know he was on the bench, He's been on
Speaker 1: the bench for a lot of it. I mean I
Speaker 1: covered his very first game, um covered in quotes from
Speaker 1: my you know, from my like three square foot apartment
Speaker 1: in New York for Rhoda World, when he was a
Speaker 1: third string quarterback that came in for the Rams, and
Speaker 1: he just started dealing and he was balls to the
Speaker 1: wall then too. I mean he was, he was with
Speaker 1: Mike March. He's just going going crazy. I mean that
Speaker 1: I think that's what we want to see, uh out
Speaker 1: of Gardner Minshew long term, but this tonight not to
Speaker 1: you know, keep changing talk books. But it's a reminder,
Speaker 1: like they have a pretty small margin fair when Chris
Speaker 1: Connley dropping one path and like you know, they won
Speaker 1: their first game being out gained by two hundred yards
Speaker 1: and when you were kind of this thinking dunk offense
Speaker 1: and you're missing missing DJ Chark, which was a huge loss.
Speaker 1: I think he I mean, he is like a top
Speaker 1: receiver in the league. That that killed him. At least
Speaker 1: the America got to see what I was excited about
Speaker 1: with James Robinson, and I like the looks of Levisca
Speaker 1: Chennaut moving forward. So they got some players. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: got some pieces, especially you know in the world that
Speaker 1: I'm in, uh this year and in the fantasy world
Speaker 1: where you can't just you can't just wipe away in
Speaker 1: the yards that Minshew got late either. It was garbage
Speaker 1: time here in this season of garbage time. But Robinson
Speaker 1: was legitimately impressive from not from just the standpoint of like,
Speaker 1: here's a warm body that we can hand the football too,
Speaker 1: but he was making guys miss. Uh. Came close to
Speaker 1: getting that fourth and eleven late that maybe could have
Speaker 1: changed the game a little bit. But he's you know,
Speaker 1: showing some patience, uh in between the tackles, a good
Speaker 1: receiver out of the backfield. He's nice. He's get a
Speaker 1: lot of people, miss. I mean, you know, making a
Speaker 1: lot of people just bounce off from a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards from scrimmage. I I I always think
Speaker 1: it's a very hard thing to judge, maybe coming out
Speaker 1: of college, but like, running hard is a skill, you
Speaker 1: know that, at least in the NFL. I know everyone
Speaker 1: wants to run hard, but some I just feel like
Speaker 1: some players are able to run as hard as they
Speaker 1: possibly can on every single snap better than others. And
Speaker 1: that's like a key trait. You never see that like
Speaker 1: at the combine as one of the measurables, but he
Speaker 1: seems to absolutely have that. Well. It's it's a certain
Speaker 1: level of acuity of knowing what you're doing right and
Speaker 1: knowing your responsibility on the play, and just those fractions
Speaker 1: of a second of indecisiveness can make you appear to
Speaker 1: you know, not be trying hard when when guys are
Speaker 1: going all out. Uh and I think that uh Robinson
Speaker 1: is a good football player. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: when you come from a place where you don't get
Speaker 1: a lot of exposure, we're constantly shocked by that. But
Speaker 1: like college pro evaluators, they just don't hit all the time.
Speaker 1: Is that a little projection from you coming from Troy, Um,
Speaker 1: you know you're from some small school. I just' you've
Speaker 1: risen to the top of the industry. You're hosting what
Speaker 1: Fantasy Live tomorrow, that's what you're referring to. You are
Speaker 1: now the thrice weekly host of fantasy. Uh fantasy. The
Speaker 1: top of the industry is being alongside you, Greg That's
Speaker 1: that's the top of the industry. Um No, it's Um
Speaker 1: it's maybe it's a little bit of projection. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think that name brand stuff, and that's not just sports,
Speaker 1: that's everything. Like we we assumed that the Kleenex is
Speaker 1: going to be better than the Kirkland brand, all right.
Speaker 1: We assume that guys that come out of Alabama and
Speaker 1: Auburn are are going to be better than a guy
Speaker 1: that comes out of Villa North State. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: you get out there and you make the plays, and
Speaker 1: that's what James Robinson did. I'm glad to see it.
Speaker 1: And to certain extent, you know Gardner Minshew as well.
Speaker 1: Uh you know he's he's a name brand now, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't uh you know, pre mustache, pre r vs
Speaker 1: and bud light. You know, this is this is just
Speaker 1: a dude trying to to get some run somewhere and
Speaker 1: all the other stuff, the mustache conversation, and people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy is a media creation. No, he legitimately can play.
Speaker 1: But as you said, there was just he was. He
Speaker 1: was up against it tonight, he was and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to score a lot of points this here. I
Speaker 1: was glad to see no uh igbogn Um play better
Speaker 1: after a rough, rough game. It's just shows that things
Speaker 1: changed fast and in the NFL because C. J. Henderson
Speaker 1: looked like the best rookie player at any position in
Speaker 1: the entire league the Jaguars first round pick at cornerback
Speaker 1: in Week one, and then he was on the struggle
Speaker 1: bus tonight, So it flips depending on the week. I
Speaker 1: really only did that because I wanted to practice saying
Speaker 1: Mr Igbangans name out loud, and it went fine. Now
Speaker 1: that I did it once, I feel like I can
Speaker 1: do it for the rest of my career. This was
Speaker 1: the first ten point win by the way by the
Speaker 1: Dolphins UM since two thousands seventeen against the Broncos, which
Speaker 1: is outrageous. Can you try to guess the starter in
Speaker 1: that game? So I'm not even gonna have you guess
Speaker 1: it the Jags and the Broncos and twos. No. No.
Speaker 1: It was the first win by more than ten points
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins in any game since UM deep into
Speaker 1: the Adam gay S era. They were playing the Broncos.
Speaker 1: It was December of two thousand seventeen. Oh, I know
Speaker 1: who started a quarterback? That had to be our boy
Speaker 1: that more right now? It was Trevor Simeon versus Jay
Speaker 1: Cutler that we've made big thinks Chase fast. All right, Patrick,
Speaker 1: I I appreciate you joining. Um, I want you to
Speaker 1: enjoy uh this Dolphins win, but also this Lakers win.
Speaker 1: Playoff Rondo is a real thing, and um, the lake
Speaker 1: shows looking looking pretty good right now. The first first
Speaker 1: game Rondo back, I was yelling at my father to
Speaker 1: explain to me why ra Gen Rondo was on the
Speaker 1: basketball court in so yeah, he's proven me wrong. Baby, Yeah, Ricky,
Speaker 1: Ricky who's with us, Eric got tam post are producer
Speaker 1: of course. Uh, she remembers playoff Rondo back when those
Speaker 1: three pointers right at the end and we needed them.
Speaker 1: I almost don't want the Celtics to advance um to
Speaker 1: the finals look good right to get beat down by
Speaker 1: the Lakers, which is I fear what would happen? So
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it won't, but that that's for next week. Um,
Speaker 1: next Thursday night will be uh Jets Broncos, so get ready,
Speaker 1: Dan and Mark will have you on next Thursday night.
Speaker 1: But Claibron, thanks thanks for joining, and uh check them
Speaker 1: out on Fantasy Live Friday in other days join us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, that's it. Sweet for Patrick Claibron,
Speaker 1: Ricky tam Posey, I'm Greg Rosenthal. We will see you Sunday,
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