WEBVTT - Dolphins Falcons Week 7 Recap 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:16.040 Looking cutsdown, Miami Run? What is up, Dolphans, And welcome 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.959 to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.480 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.120 I know it's not great, but I'm your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.880 and as always, win or lose, I am here to 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.559 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football on 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.000 today show. I sure thought we were gonna be playing 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.240 Jay Rock on this episode, but we are not. It's 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.680 a crushing defeat six in a row as the Dolphins 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.400 fall to one and six on the season. I have 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.960 some thoughts, my five takeaways, individual performances, a bit of 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.440 a deep dive onto a tongue of Bloa's game and 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.159 year to date numbers. Will play, some sound from the 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.000 post game show, and a heck of a lot more 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.000 on this recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.120 Baptist Health Studios inside the back Just Health Training Complex. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:08.319 This is the Drive Time Podcast. Just a gut wrenching 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.800 loss there at home to the Atlanta Falcons, and some 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.520 losses hurt more than others, and personally speaking, I've always 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.400 thought that these losses were way tougher than the blowout 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.360 ones where your spirit is taken immediately and you just 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.080 never get it back. But to go down by thirteen 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.920 then charge all the way back and to lose like that, man, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.920 that sure is tough living. And so the Dolphins fall 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.959 to the Falcons, they fall to one and six, and 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.040 there's a jugger not waiting for us in their house 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.520 next week in the Buffalo Bills. So it's a tough 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.360 year that continues with another close loss here in week 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.279 number seven. We're gonna unpack it with the takeaways. But first, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.559 before that, I want to go ahead and just touch 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.760 on a few key points. This I thought was probably 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.760 the Dolphins best performance of the year for my money, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.600 and that includes the win. Obviously. You know, the saying 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.880 is that winning is the only thing, and it is 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.040 especially in this league. But as far as analyzing this 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.280 team and breaking things down, I thought this was the 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:09.440 best overall performance today. And to come up without a win, gosh, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.640 you felt like we had that one. As the Dolphins 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.040 could he used that way, I'm sure to've got a 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.720 long way in that locker room for those guys to 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.040 get that victory, and we thought we had it there. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.200 As Miami takes the lead with two twenty seven left 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.200 to play in this football game, you're asking the running 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:32.120 back second in Tahan in motion. He sets up on 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.359 the left side. Now with while it comes back, they 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.040 give it to No, it's the pig back in the 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:44.240 end zone. Touchdown Dolphins. It's Mac Collins. What great play 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.680 action by TWA just run into the back of the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.960 end zone to it look coming open, big target in 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.720 the back and it's a touchdown. What a comeback for 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.040 the Miami Dolphins. And then the Falcons went back to 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.519 work as they were able to do when stretches, but 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.760 the Dolphins certainly had their stretches to and in fact, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.600 at that point I thought were playing their best ball 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.200 defensively of the season. The drive prior was a takeaway 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.799 on an Emmanuel Ogba force fumble scooped up by Nick 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.520 need Hum, and the drive before that was the touchdown 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.040 on the short field after the long interception return for Atlanta. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.600 But before that it was an interception of our own 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.400 and two punts after the opening drive of the second 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.480 half goes down for a touchdown. So all things told, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.240 a good second half there defensively for Miami. But the Dolphins, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.640 they outgained Atlanta four thirteen to three nine seven in 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.200 this game. And I was ready to give you guys 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.920 a cool stat about how Miami posted four hundred yards 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.760 and back to back games. But they did it last 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.680 year in Seattle and San Francisco. But it was the 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.080 second time they've done it since Week two and three 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.720 of the season. And in that game or that stretch, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.800 I should say, the first leg of that was a 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.800 game where Miami fell behind thirty one three playing catch up, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.360 and then the second game was an overtime game where 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.720 they went to full fifteen minutes in the overtime period 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.200 against the Cleveland Browns. And they also did it again 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.840 in twenty and that fun to game Dan Campbell stretch 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.680 over the Titans and Texans. So four yards back to 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.160 back games few and far between. The Dolphins did it 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.520 the last two games here against Jacksonville and Atlanta, also 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.039 seven first down, one first downs, seven for eleven on 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.640 third downs, one week after going nine for seventeen on 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.720 third downs thirty four minutes thirty eight seconds time of 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.200 possession to twenty five minutes two seconds for Atlanta, just 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.919 one sack allowed to go along with zero sacks allowed 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.680 last week and the two takeaways from xaviing Howard Emmanuel 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.159 Augba again need him on the recovery. Uh, such a 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.760 tough pill to swallow. But my first takeaway is one 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.839 that you guys who have been listening to this podcast 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.520 for a long time should not be surprised by. And 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.880 number one takeaways that I think there are no ifs 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.680 ands or butts about whether or not you can build 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.320 a contender around this quarterback. And let's go ahead and 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.040 talk about first the interceptions. And they were terrible. They 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.360 were really, really, really really bad. One in the red 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.719 zone and two US said it was covered two after 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.840 the game. It was a miscommun occasion between he and 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.479 Derma Smith and he took full responsibility for that interception. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.960 We'll find out later maybe or maybe we won't about 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.600 what actually happened on that play to what talks about 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.960 a miscommunication? Who's to blame? Who cares? At this point 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.159 it happened. And then another one in plus territory with 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.279 a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter, 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.000 and the Falcons got three at the end of the 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.800 first half after the first interception and marching the entire 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.799 field in like forty seconds is a tough pill to swallow. Also, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.440 but they also got seven points after the long run 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.200 back on the second interception, So that's ten points right there. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.200 And assume Miami gets minimum six points from field goals 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.760 on those two drives, because they were one already in 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.080 field goal range, two on the doorstep of Jason Sanders 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.600 field goal range if not already in it. So if 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.360 they get the minimum to field goals there, that's at 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.640 least a six team point swing's possibly a twenty point 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.680 swing if they score a touchdown, and if they score 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.400 two touchdowns obviously a twenty four point swing there on 0:05:55.480 --> 0:06:00.000 those two picks. So, look, everybody makes mistakes every single game. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.200 You're not gonna play a perfect game ever, as coach 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.839 Floras likes to say, but the quarterback's mistakes can be 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.240 the one that ultimately kill you, and it looked like 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.520 it would in this game. Everybody thought they were toast 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.479 after that second pick, right, but they weren't, and the 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.719 offense went down and put the team in position the 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.560 defense to two for the most part until the very 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.120 end to win that game. At the end, and to 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.080 the point on the interceptions, the point I want to 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.919 focus on is, how do you fix those Are they correctable? 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.000 Number One, they're not missing these throws. Two is not 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.840 missing egregiously with poor accuracy. That's obviously good. They're not 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.359 a complete failure of understanding of the route concepts and 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.120 the coverage you're seeing and the pre snap indicators for 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.480 the post nap rotation all of that. The one in 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.080 Jacksonville might have been to me, that was the most 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.480 damning of the entire bunch, Like the three throws and 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.120 two weeks that we're gonna scrutinize here for the entire week. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.960 I'm sure not me, others. And then the New England 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.960 game interception where he tried to get the ball out 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.440 of bounds and got blasts. He threw the football not 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.840 a great either, but you know, it's trying to fill 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.560 the football away, trying to get outside and make a 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.559 play for your team. You get hit, the ball gets 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.120 pulled back inside interception. And then today he got immediate 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.800 pressure from Grady Jarrett working over Austin Jackson who did 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.800 a swim move and was in the backfield before you 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.160 could blink your eyes. And I think on that one, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.600 I think he pressed. And that's a whole other topic 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.240 that I won't go into because I'm not gonna sit 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.160 here and try to get inside the mind of two 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.280 a tongue of Byloa and what he's thinking on that 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.440 quick reaction decision as the Dolphins just got a big takeaway, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.840 you got the momentum, the crowd behind you, You want 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.480 to make a big play in a season that's been 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.320 tough for you in this team, and you make a 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.840 poor decision in a snap moment like that. So they're 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:43.200 just these these interceptions are just these really uncharacteristic plays 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.640 from two and what is otherwise very consistent play where 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.920 the ball is out on time and in rhythm. I mean, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.320 he completed eight percent of his passes today. He threw 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:57.200 for two yards and four touchdown passes. Fund stat here 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.280 that I saw from Tim Reynolds after the game. The 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.160 only other orderback in history to endure a loss with 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.840 those numbers or superior to that yards, touchdowns, and completion 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.880 percentage was Matt Ryan of the Falcons. We saw how 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.280 many games that team is one over the year despite 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.720 not having a great defense that allows thirty plus points 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.320 and games, and the only other quarterback to do that 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.200 with two interceptions to their stat line was Dan Marino. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.120 And to further this point, remember the fake Spike game. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.080 Do you know how many picks Dan through in the 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.320 first half of that game? Not one, not to you 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.840 threw three picks. But what do you remember about that game? 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.200 The fake spike? So in college, you know, to only 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.040 through I think it was eight picks. I went back 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.120 and watched them all over and when he was coming 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.400 out of college, making sure I knew everything about the picks, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.840 and for the most part, they were plays where the 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.000 backside safety robbed the front side of the formation or 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.720 vice versa, and comes over and makes a great ranging play. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.240 That was most of his interceptions where he just got 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.320 fooled or baited or maybe the ball was just a 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.800 tick behind. Instances where you can out point to anyone 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.760 thing and say that's a problem that's gonna be him 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.920 going forward. Never happened in college for me scouting this quarterback. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.040 All of this is to say that I really truly 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.080 believe you can coach those three throws that he made 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.360 these last two weeks, and again really bad cannot have it, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.640 but I truly believe you can coach those three throws 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.000 out of him. He's twenty three years old. He's showing 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.640 you all kinds of promise, and still after a two 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.160 interception game, He's got eighteen touchdowns and nine picks in 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.400 thirteen career starts. And that's in a time where he's 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.200 never had will full or available to him. This year 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.679 he had Davante Parker for a single game, the open 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.199 of the one the won. Preston Williams is struggling on 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.320 another level right now. Albert Wilson is to last year. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.959 He was down Parker Grant Gazicki at certain stages of 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.960 the games late in the year as well, so with 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.600 an offensive line. It's also finding his way nineteen touchdowns 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.720 or rather eighteen touchdowns and nine picks given those circumstances. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.360 I just I look at this quarter out. Can I 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.120 see so much there? How can you not? I mean, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.280 the Falcons play this man coverage in the game, with 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.120 tight coverage downfield, and to has the feel for where 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.280 pressure is coming from. Four rushes for twenty nine yards, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.520 and three of those were for first downs. On one 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.000 of them in a crucial critical third down situation inside 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.360 the ten yard line, no less, where he had to 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.920 get a first down, he broke a tackle, ran through 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.040 a guy and searched forward for the extra yardage he 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.440 needed to move the sticks. Absolute gamer. On another one, 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.560 he broke the ankles of Dion Jones in the open field. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.040 Do you guys know who Dion Jones is? You're in 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:37.040 a four back in his combine way back when then 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.240 there's the resilience, the mental toughness. After the interception, what 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.680 do you do? Eighteen yards to Durham Smith up the sideline, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.520 absolute dime crosser to Mike get Sicky for twenty seven yards, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.600 moving to his right, throwing back to his left, dime 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.800 seven for eight nine two yards, two touchdown passes after 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.120 the interception. Remember one time I was scouting Andrew Luck 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.360 two thousand and eleven. The girlfriend I was dating at 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.480 the time and I were on a trip for my birthday. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.960 The World Series is going on and Stanford was playing USC. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.760 I was watching all kinds of sports in this bar, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.120 and I was really into the idea of Andrew Luck 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.959 because Miami was oh and six at the time. Andrew 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.360 looked through a big pick six in the too stand 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.400 to the USC defense. Next drive, he goes ninety yards 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:18.679 and takes me down for a touchdown. No one else 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.520 remembered anything else. With that game, it was a big 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.880 moment in his career because he showed you what he 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.079 can do to overcome. What I saw in this game 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.840 today was too a tongue by lower overcoming his own 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:32.600 mistakes some circumstances that aren't ideal. With will Fuller being 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.400 out the President, Willing dropped in a couple of passes. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.480 I mean, come on, I think there are certain things 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.200 about to his game that might limit him in some areas, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.000 but those are just a smidgeon of the actual position, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.120 like the off script crazy side arm whip throws that 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.600 go thirty five yards in a line that makes up 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.040 like three or four plays a game maximum out of 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.400 eight seven dropbacks over the last two weeks for two 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.160 a tongue by Lowa. I had text from Kyle Crabs 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.319 to the Locked On Dolphins podcast in the Draft Network 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.880 during the game that said there are maybe five quarterbacks 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.000 on the planet that can fit that throw that he 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.079 tried to make on the interception DM Smith and to 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.240 us that it was a miscommunication. So maybe it doesn't 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.360 fully apply here, but it gives you the idea evidence 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.400 a by the type of throw that you would need 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.920 on that play, and maybe fit in the turkey hole 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.040 on the field side throw and to cover two is 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.120 not going to be his thing. That's fine. It's never 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.280 Drew Brees is thing. There's never a lot of quarterbacks 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.439 things that have been very successful in this league. Because 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.960 this guy is managing muddy pockets. He's throwing incredibly accurate 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.040 balls on a day where they had three draw passes. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.120 It's got that fourth quarter mojo man a passer rating 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.280 well over a hundred, and the fourth quarter and the 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.920 first and fourth quarter combined, frankly, which tells you about 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.319 his first quarter fourth quarter splits compared to second and 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.400 third quarter. He gets the ball out quick to the 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.480 tune that in the other or in the three games 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.640 that he started and finished this year in New England, Jacksonville, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.360 Atlanta Dolphins have allowed three sacks in Miami's other games 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.040 fourth rather twelve sacks in those four games. Three sacks 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.000 of game or one sack of game. I'm just not 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.160 sure what you expect to see in a kid's thirteenth start. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.080 It's been good. At times, it's been very very good, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.040 But on balance it's been good and I cannot wait 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.240 to see how he progresses as we go along. I 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.200 have another point to pile on here to fit this 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.360 topic in. But first, Flora said this about Two after 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.280 the game, bringing us back, putting two drives together to 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.280 give us a lead. That's what you're looking for in 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.400 a quarterback. That's what he said after the game. And 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.000 the point I wanted to make was that I think, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.920 and kind of a one be fashion to this, add 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.400 Jalen Waddle to that grouping in the offense. And you 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.240 know Mike Kasicky too, but he's for another point for 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.800 another day, because we know what he is. But I 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.960 think there's a connection there between two and Waddle, And 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.120 I think where I really like Waddles game is that 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.839 he commands attention on every single snap in a way 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.000 that creates chances not just for himself but for others. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.560 We see him catching short passes and breaking tackles and 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.640 making big runs after the catch. I'll have all that 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.480 numbers for you guys on the Tuesday podcast talking about 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.200 the stats and the PFF numbers and the film and 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.640 all that fun stuff. He was hitting those quick out 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.640 routes against man coverage. You just couldn't cover it. And 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.520 the way they were playing that defense to man or 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.480 man coverage across the board, single high free safety, you know, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.920 off coverage. He was eating up those out routes early 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.680 in the game, and it kind of set the pace 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.199 for what they were going to do offensively, what the 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.960 Falcons were going to do defensively. There was a chance 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.440 to maybe go back to that well a few times. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.080 Maybe you add in the wheel route off of that 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.240 out route. There's some meat on the bone there in 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.680 this offense for Jalen Waddle, the quick screen game, I 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.240 mean just throwing the ball to him, the extension of 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.200 the running game, doing that to him and giving him 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.240 chances that way. And if you can get this guy 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:36.040 going vertically or horizontally and the vertical thing, you you're 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.880 gonna need better pass protection to make that happen. Even 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.360 in the game where they only allowed one sack and 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.680 one stack in two games combine. You gotta hold up 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.880 longer for a long shot like that horizontally, especially against 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.720 man coverage like that. If you can get across the 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.440 front side of the formation, through the teeth of the 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.920 defense and the linebackers and the safeties inside, and you 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.840 come out the back end, you can sure run. I 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.920 think there's gonna be a second half of the season. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.480 Opportunities for Jalen Bottle we haven't seen yet. I hope 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.040 and I think they're going to be there for you. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.080 So that's takeaway number one, long long takeaway there. Takeaway 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.080 number two almost back to the old defense, just almost 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.640 we talked about in the open when it was seven. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.240 They had to strap it on and play their best 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.480 ball of the year, and they did punt punt, interception, fumble, 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.200 then the field goal at the end, and of course 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.920 the touchdown drive there late in the game after the 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.760 interception was in there, but I didn't include it because 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.680 it was like a twelve yard drive. But I want 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.520 to get to the subplot of this takeaway before I 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.520 start handing out some praise, and it's that there are 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.160 some areas where I think Miami needs to make strides, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.720 and we saw it in those four possessions. We talked 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.960 about number one linebackers and coverage has been a challenge 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.920 all year long. And Jerome Baker gets hurt early in 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.280 this game, does not come back, so that obviously tests 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.800 your depth there and get takes away your top snaptaker 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.000 and your top cover guy everything at that linebacker position. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.960 But it's been a challenge for the Dolphins to cover 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.120 at that position in the middle of the field, short 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.080 intermediate all year long, number two man coverage marrying up 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.840 with the pass rush. We saw a lot of it 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.600 in this game. I thought to get at Ryan off 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.880 the spot to force him under pressure, to force him 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.200 to throw into that tight man coverage, and that's how 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.520 you wind up getting exaviing Howard picks because it's either 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.680 take a sack, eat the drive, or try to fit 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.360 this tight third down throw. We saw more of it today. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.040 We need more of it. We need more of that 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.160 pass rush when you're in that good man coverage number 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:21.160 three tackling, especially on these TfL situations. I can't tell 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.800 you how many times I've seen ball carriers met in 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.920 the backfield and then they wind up getting two or 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.520 three yards, like a six yard swing. That changes the 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.720 entire outlook of the down and distance. Like a first pitch. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.880 The difference between a ball and strike on the first 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.520 pitching baseball is like a fifty point batting average decrease. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.640 It's the same exact thing, and it goes on through 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.040 the counting back baseball, and it goes on throughout the 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.400 down distance and football. So those three things have to 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.640 get better to get better results. Just a couple of 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.800 positives here, Manuel Agma, what a great season he's having. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.640 What a great two year Runni's halfter the Dolphins. Here, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.800 pressure player getting into the backfield, coming clean, swimming over guys, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.280 using the cross chop, playing against the run, setting the edge, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.040 playing the upfiel shoulder. The effort he showed on the 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.719 force fumble to not just get ran around the quarterback 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.080 around the backside and wind up in bad position, but 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.520 to see Matt Ryan break the pocket and hustle and 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.880 be the one that gets to him. That was fantastic 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.200 effort from Manuel Augba. Speaking of effort, Christian Wilkins looks 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.119 like a damn pro bowler to me, see him on 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.400 the screen, passes out there, the way he retraces those 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.080 screens and just puts in pure effort, and he playst 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.040 fifty snaps a game at that size in this heat. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.359 It's so impressive, the condition he's in, the effort he 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.080 gives down in and down out. The hands, the hand 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.520 usage has been so good this year. The stack and 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.800 peek and shed and come off make the tackle. He's 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.199 got more tackles than any other defensive tackle in that 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.840 twenty nineteen draft class by like a large amount. I'll 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.879 have that number for you guys on Tuesday. His run 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.359 stop win rate is top five in the National Football League. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.600 He's out of the pass rush this year, strip stacked 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.720 last week. Looks like a damn good player. If you 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.640 say otherwise, I don't want to hear. I really don't 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.520 want to hear. He's a really good player. Xavien Howard 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.160 three passes, defense, one pick. We saw it again today. Man, 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.040 That's that's what he does at his best. He makes 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.879 plays in the football. If you want to throw the 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.199 football at him, do so at your own peril. But 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.200 when you do it with pass rush, man, he is dangerous. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.560 Byron Jones, did you hear his name much today? I 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.480 didn't really hear it much. That's the best thing possible 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.520 for a cornerback. We'll have more of that on tape. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.159 And then Javon Holland, Oh buddy, this dude, this guy. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.240 I like javan Holland a lot. That force fumble wasn't 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.600 called a forced fumble, but that hit. The to put 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.959 that hit on somebody in one is so difficult, and 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.119 he did it so clean. The shoulder on the shoulder 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.840 jar that ball loose. It was dang near a fumble. 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:34.760 And he made a couple of big plays later in 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.680 the game as well, had a nice punt return. Now 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.280 he was there on the deep ball that got over 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.879 the top to Russell Gauge. I'm curious to hear. We'll 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.520 talk to coaches this week and hear about that in 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.679 terms of what that look is like in the cuttern 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.800