Speaker 1: Looking cutsdown, Miami Run? What is up, Dolphans, And welcome
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Speaker 1: covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I know it's not great, but I'm your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and as always, win or lose, I am here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football on
Speaker 1: today show. I sure thought we were gonna be playing
Speaker 1: Jay Rock on this episode, but we are not. It's
Speaker 1: a crushing defeat six in a row as the Dolphins
Speaker 1: fall to one and six on the season. I have
Speaker 1: some thoughts, my five takeaways, individual performances, a bit of
Speaker 1: a deep dive onto a tongue of Bloa's game and
Speaker 1: year to date numbers. Will play, some sound from the
Speaker 1: post game show, and a heck of a lot more
Speaker 1: on this recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the
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Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast. Just a gut wrenching
Speaker 1: loss there at home to the Atlanta Falcons, and some
Speaker 1: losses hurt more than others, and personally speaking, I've always
Speaker 1: thought that these losses were way tougher than the blowout
Speaker 1: ones where your spirit is taken immediately and you just
Speaker 1: never get it back. But to go down by thirteen
Speaker 1: then charge all the way back and to lose like that, man,
Speaker 1: that sure is tough living. And so the Dolphins fall
Speaker 1: to the Falcons, they fall to one and six, and
Speaker 1: there's a jugger not waiting for us in their house
Speaker 1: next week in the Buffalo Bills. So it's a tough
Speaker 1: year that continues with another close loss here in week
Speaker 1: number seven. We're gonna unpack it with the takeaways. But first,
Speaker 1: before that, I want to go ahead and just touch
Speaker 1: on a few key points. This I thought was probably
Speaker 1: the Dolphins best performance of the year for my money,
Speaker 1: and that includes the win. Obviously. You know, the saying
Speaker 1: is that winning is the only thing, and it is
Speaker 1: especially in this league. But as far as analyzing this
Speaker 1: team and breaking things down, I thought this was the
Speaker 1: best overall performance today. And to come up without a win, gosh,
Speaker 1: you felt like we had that one. As the Dolphins
Speaker 1: could he used that way, I'm sure to've got a
Speaker 1: long way in that locker room for those guys to
Speaker 1: get that victory, and we thought we had it there.
Speaker 1: As Miami takes the lead with two twenty seven left
Speaker 1: to play in this football game, you're asking the running
Speaker 1: back second in Tahan in motion. He sets up on
Speaker 1: the left side. Now with while it comes back, they
Speaker 1: give it to No, it's the pig back in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Touchdown Dolphins. It's Mac Collins. What great play
Speaker 1: action by TWA just run into the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone to it look coming open, big target in
Speaker 1: the back and it's a touchdown. What a comeback for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. And then the Falcons went back to
Speaker 1: work as they were able to do when stretches, but
Speaker 1: the Dolphins certainly had their stretches to and in fact,
Speaker 1: at that point I thought were playing their best ball
Speaker 1: defensively of the season. The drive prior was a takeaway
Speaker 1: on an Emmanuel Ogba force fumble scooped up by Nick
Speaker 1: need Hum, and the drive before that was the touchdown
Speaker 1: on the short field after the long interception return for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But before that it was an interception of our own
Speaker 1: and two punts after the opening drive of the second
Speaker 1: half goes down for a touchdown. So all things told,
Speaker 1: a good second half there defensively for Miami. But the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: they outgained Atlanta four thirteen to three nine seven in
Speaker 1: this game. And I was ready to give you guys
Speaker 1: a cool stat about how Miami posted four hundred yards
Speaker 1: and back to back games. But they did it last
Speaker 1: year in Seattle and San Francisco. But it was the
Speaker 1: second time they've done it since Week two and three
Speaker 1: of the season. And in that game or that stretch,
Speaker 1: I should say, the first leg of that was a
Speaker 1: game where Miami fell behind thirty one three playing catch up,
Speaker 1: and then the second game was an overtime game where
Speaker 1: they went to full fifteen minutes in the overtime period
Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Browns. And they also did it again
Speaker 1: in twenty and that fun to game Dan Campbell stretch
Speaker 1: over the Titans and Texans. So four yards back to
Speaker 1: back games few and far between. The Dolphins did it
Speaker 1: the last two games here against Jacksonville and Atlanta, also
Speaker 1: seven first down, one first downs, seven for eleven on
Speaker 1: third downs, one week after going nine for seventeen on
Speaker 1: third downs thirty four minutes thirty eight seconds time of
Speaker 1: possession to twenty five minutes two seconds for Atlanta, just
Speaker 1: one sack allowed to go along with zero sacks allowed
Speaker 1: last week and the two takeaways from xaviing Howard Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Augba again need him on the recovery. Uh, such a
Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow. But my first takeaway is one
Speaker 1: that you guys who have been listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: for a long time should not be surprised by. And
Speaker 1: number one takeaways that I think there are no ifs
Speaker 1: ands or butts about whether or not you can build
Speaker 1: a contender around this quarterback. And let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about first the interceptions. And they were terrible. They
Speaker 1: were really, really, really really bad. One in the red
Speaker 1: zone and two US said it was covered two after
Speaker 1: the game. It was a miscommun occasion between he and
Speaker 1: Derma Smith and he took full responsibility for that interception.
Speaker 1: We'll find out later maybe or maybe we won't about
Speaker 1: what actually happened on that play to what talks about
Speaker 1: a miscommunication? Who's to blame? Who cares? At this point
Speaker 1: it happened. And then another one in plus territory with
Speaker 1: a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and the Falcons got three at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half after the first interception and marching the entire
Speaker 1: field in like forty seconds is a tough pill to swallow. Also,
Speaker 1: but they also got seven points after the long run
Speaker 1: back on the second interception, So that's ten points right there.
Speaker 1: And assume Miami gets minimum six points from field goals
Speaker 1: on those two drives, because they were one already in
Speaker 1: field goal range, two on the doorstep of Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: field goal range if not already in it. So if
Speaker 1: they get the minimum to field goals there, that's at
Speaker 1: least a six team point swing's possibly a twenty point
Speaker 1: swing if they score a touchdown, and if they score
Speaker 1: two touchdowns obviously a twenty four point swing there on
Speaker 1: those two picks. So, look, everybody makes mistakes every single game.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna play a perfect game ever, as coach
Speaker 1: Floras likes to say, but the quarterback's mistakes can be
Speaker 1: the one that ultimately kill you, and it looked like
Speaker 1: it would in this game. Everybody thought they were toast
Speaker 1: after that second pick, right, but they weren't, and the
Speaker 1: offense went down and put the team in position the
Speaker 1: defense to two for the most part until the very
Speaker 1: end to win that game. At the end, and to
Speaker 1: the point on the interceptions, the point I want to
Speaker 1: focus on is, how do you fix those Are they correctable?
Speaker 1: Number One, they're not missing these throws. Two is not
Speaker 1: missing egregiously with poor accuracy. That's obviously good. They're not
Speaker 1: a complete failure of understanding of the route concepts and
Speaker 1: the coverage you're seeing and the pre snap indicators for
Speaker 1: the post nap rotation all of that. The one in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville might have been to me, that was the most
Speaker 1: damning of the entire bunch, Like the three throws and
Speaker 1: two weeks that we're gonna scrutinize here for the entire week.
Speaker 1: I'm sure not me, others. And then the New England
Speaker 1: game interception where he tried to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of bounds and got blasts. He threw the football not
Speaker 1: a great either, but you know, it's trying to fill
Speaker 1: the football away, trying to get outside and make a
Speaker 1: play for your team. You get hit, the ball gets
Speaker 1: pulled back inside interception. And then today he got immediate
Speaker 1: pressure from Grady Jarrett working over Austin Jackson who did
Speaker 1: a swim move and was in the backfield before you
Speaker 1: could blink your eyes. And I think on that one,
Speaker 1: I think he pressed. And that's a whole other topic
Speaker 1: that I won't go into because I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and try to get inside the mind of two
Speaker 1: a tongue of Byloa and what he's thinking on that
Speaker 1: quick reaction decision as the Dolphins just got a big takeaway,
Speaker 1: you got the momentum, the crowd behind you, You want
Speaker 1: to make a big play in a season that's been
Speaker 1: tough for you in this team, and you make a
Speaker 1: poor decision in a snap moment like that. So they're
Speaker 1: just these these interceptions are just these really uncharacteristic plays
Speaker 1: from two and what is otherwise very consistent play where
Speaker 1: the ball is out on time and in rhythm. I mean,
Speaker 1: he completed eight percent of his passes today. He threw
Speaker 1: for two yards and four touchdown passes. Fund stat here
Speaker 1: that I saw from Tim Reynolds after the game. The
Speaker 1: only other orderback in history to endure a loss with
Speaker 1: those numbers or superior to that yards, touchdowns, and completion
Speaker 1: percentage was Matt Ryan of the Falcons. We saw how
Speaker 1: many games that team is one over the year despite
Speaker 1: not having a great defense that allows thirty plus points
Speaker 1: and games, and the only other quarterback to do that
Speaker 1: with two interceptions to their stat line was Dan Marino.
Speaker 1: And to further this point, remember the fake Spike game.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many picks Dan through in the
Speaker 1: first half of that game? Not one, not to you
Speaker 1: threw three picks. But what do you remember about that game?
Speaker 1: The fake spike? So in college, you know, to only
Speaker 1: through I think it was eight picks. I went back
Speaker 1: and watched them all over and when he was coming
Speaker 1: out of college, making sure I knew everything about the picks,
Speaker 1: and for the most part, they were plays where the
Speaker 1: backside safety robbed the front side of the formation or
Speaker 1: vice versa, and comes over and makes a great ranging play.
Speaker 1: That was most of his interceptions where he just got
Speaker 1: fooled or baited or maybe the ball was just a
Speaker 1: tick behind. Instances where you can out point to anyone
Speaker 1: thing and say that's a problem that's gonna be him
Speaker 1: going forward. Never happened in college for me scouting this quarterback.
Speaker 1: All of this is to say that I really truly
Speaker 1: believe you can coach those three throws that he made
Speaker 1: these last two weeks, and again really bad cannot have it,
Speaker 1: but I truly believe you can coach those three throws
Speaker 1: out of him. He's twenty three years old. He's showing
Speaker 1: you all kinds of promise, and still after a two
Speaker 1: interception game, He's got eighteen touchdowns and nine picks in
Speaker 1: thirteen career starts. And that's in a time where he's
Speaker 1: never had will full or available to him. This year
Speaker 1: he had Davante Parker for a single game, the open
Speaker 1: of the one the won. Preston Williams is struggling on
Speaker 1: another level right now. Albert Wilson is to last year.
Speaker 1: He was down Parker Grant Gazicki at certain stages of
Speaker 1: the games late in the year as well, so with
Speaker 1: an offensive line. It's also finding his way nineteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: or rather eighteen touchdowns and nine picks given those circumstances.
Speaker 1: I just I look at this quarter out. Can I
Speaker 1: see so much there? How can you not? I mean,
Speaker 1: the Falcons play this man coverage in the game, with
Speaker 1: tight coverage downfield, and to has the feel for where
Speaker 1: pressure is coming from. Four rushes for twenty nine yards,
Speaker 1: and three of those were for first downs. On one
Speaker 1: of them in a crucial critical third down situation inside
Speaker 1: the ten yard line, no less, where he had to
Speaker 1: get a first down, he broke a tackle, ran through
Speaker 1: a guy and searched forward for the extra yardage he
Speaker 1: needed to move the sticks. Absolute gamer. On another one,
Speaker 1: he broke the ankles of Dion Jones in the open field.
Speaker 1: Do you guys know who Dion Jones is? You're in
Speaker 1: a four back in his combine way back when then
Speaker 1: there's the resilience, the mental toughness. After the interception, what
Speaker 1: do you do? Eighteen yards to Durham Smith up the sideline,
Speaker 1: absolute dime crosser to Mike get Sicky for twenty seven yards,
Speaker 1: moving to his right, throwing back to his left, dime
Speaker 1: seven for eight nine two yards, two touchdown passes after
Speaker 1: the interception. Remember one time I was scouting Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven. The girlfriend I was dating at
Speaker 1: the time and I were on a trip for my birthday.
Speaker 1: The World Series is going on and Stanford was playing USC.
Speaker 1: I was watching all kinds of sports in this bar,
Speaker 1: and I was really into the idea of Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: because Miami was oh and six at the time. Andrew
Speaker 1: looked through a big pick six in the too stand
Speaker 1: to the USC defense. Next drive, he goes ninety yards
Speaker 1: and takes me down for a touchdown. No one else
Speaker 1: remembered anything else. With that game, it was a big
Speaker 1: moment in his career because he showed you what he
Speaker 1: can do to overcome. What I saw in this game
Speaker 1: today was too a tongue by lower overcoming his own
Speaker 1: mistakes some circumstances that aren't ideal. With will Fuller being
Speaker 1: out the President, Willing dropped in a couple of passes.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I think there are certain things
Speaker 1: about to his game that might limit him in some areas,
Speaker 1: but those are just a smidgeon of the actual position,
Speaker 1: like the off script crazy side arm whip throws that
Speaker 1: go thirty five yards in a line that makes up
Speaker 1: like three or four plays a game maximum out of
Speaker 1: eight seven dropbacks over the last two weeks for two
Speaker 1: a tongue by Lowa. I had text from Kyle Crabs
Speaker 1: to the Locked On Dolphins podcast in the Draft Network
Speaker 1: during the game that said there are maybe five quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on the planet that can fit that throw that he
Speaker 1: tried to make on the interception DM Smith and to
Speaker 1: us that it was a miscommunication. So maybe it doesn't
Speaker 1: fully apply here, but it gives you the idea evidence
Speaker 1: a by the type of throw that you would need
Speaker 1: on that play, and maybe fit in the turkey hole
Speaker 1: on the field side throw and to cover two is
Speaker 1: not going to be his thing. That's fine. It's never
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is thing. There's never a lot of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: things that have been very successful in this league. Because
Speaker 1: this guy is managing muddy pockets. He's throwing incredibly accurate
Speaker 1: balls on a day where they had three draw passes.
Speaker 1: It's got that fourth quarter mojo man a passer rating
Speaker 1: well over a hundred, and the fourth quarter and the
Speaker 1: first and fourth quarter combined, frankly, which tells you about
Speaker 1: his first quarter fourth quarter splits compared to second and
Speaker 1: third quarter. He gets the ball out quick to the
Speaker 1: tune that in the other or in the three games
Speaker 1: that he started and finished this year in New England, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: Atlanta Dolphins have allowed three sacks in Miami's other games
Speaker 1: fourth rather twelve sacks in those four games. Three sacks
Speaker 1: of game or one sack of game. I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure what you expect to see in a kid's thirteenth start.
Speaker 1: It's been good. At times, it's been very very good,
Speaker 1: But on balance it's been good and I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to see how he progresses as we go along. I
Speaker 1: have another point to pile on here to fit this
Speaker 1: topic in. But first, Flora said this about Two after
Speaker 1: the game, bringing us back, putting two drives together to
Speaker 1: give us a lead. That's what you're looking for in
Speaker 1: a quarterback. That's what he said after the game. And
Speaker 1: the point I wanted to make was that I think,
Speaker 1: and kind of a one be fashion to this, add
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle to that grouping in the offense. And you
Speaker 1: know Mike Kasicky too, but he's for another point for
Speaker 1: another day, because we know what he is. But I
Speaker 1: think there's a connection there between two and Waddle, And
Speaker 1: I think where I really like Waddles game is that
Speaker 1: he commands attention on every single snap in a way
Speaker 1: that creates chances not just for himself but for others.
Speaker 1: We see him catching short passes and breaking tackles and
Speaker 1: making big runs after the catch. I'll have all that
Speaker 1: numbers for you guys on the Tuesday podcast talking about
Speaker 1: the stats and the PFF numbers and the film and
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. He was hitting those quick out
Speaker 1: routes against man coverage. You just couldn't cover it. And
Speaker 1: the way they were playing that defense to man or
Speaker 1: man coverage across the board, single high free safety, you know,
Speaker 1: off coverage. He was eating up those out routes early
Speaker 1: in the game, and it kind of set the pace
Speaker 1: for what they were going to do offensively, what the
Speaker 1: Falcons were going to do defensively. There was a chance
Speaker 1: to maybe go back to that well a few times.
Speaker 1: Maybe you add in the wheel route off of that
Speaker 1: out route. There's some meat on the bone there in
Speaker 1: this offense for Jalen Waddle, the quick screen game, I
Speaker 1: mean just throwing the ball to him, the extension of
Speaker 1: the running game, doing that to him and giving him
Speaker 1: chances that way. And if you can get this guy
Speaker 1: going vertically or horizontally and the vertical thing, you you're
Speaker 1: gonna need better pass protection to make that happen. Even
Speaker 1: in the game where they only allowed one sack and
Speaker 1: one stack in two games combine. You gotta hold up
Speaker 1: longer for a long shot like that horizontally, especially against
Speaker 1: man coverage like that. If you can get across the
Speaker 1: front side of the formation, through the teeth of the
Speaker 1: defense and the linebackers and the safeties inside, and you
Speaker 1: come out the back end, you can sure run. I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Opportunities for Jalen Bottle we haven't seen yet. I hope
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to be there for you.
Speaker 1: So that's takeaway number one, long long takeaway there. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number two almost back to the old defense, just almost
Speaker 1: we talked about in the open when it was seven.
Speaker 1: They had to strap it on and play their best
Speaker 1: ball of the year, and they did punt punt, interception, fumble,
Speaker 1: then the field goal at the end, and of course
Speaker 1: the touchdown drive there late in the game after the
Speaker 1: interception was in there, but I didn't include it because
Speaker 1: it was like a twelve yard drive. But I want
Speaker 1: to get to the subplot of this takeaway before I
Speaker 1: start handing out some praise, and it's that there are
Speaker 1: some areas where I think Miami needs to make strides,
Speaker 1: and we saw it in those four possessions. We talked
Speaker 1: about number one linebackers and coverage has been a challenge
Speaker 1: all year long. And Jerome Baker gets hurt early in
Speaker 1: this game, does not come back, so that obviously tests
Speaker 1: your depth there and get takes away your top snaptaker
Speaker 1: and your top cover guy everything at that linebacker position.
Speaker 1: But it's been a challenge for the Dolphins to cover
Speaker 1: at that position in the middle of the field, short
Speaker 1: intermediate all year long, number two man coverage marrying up
Speaker 1: with the pass rush. We saw a lot of it
Speaker 1: in this game. I thought to get at Ryan off
Speaker 1: the spot to force him under pressure, to force him
Speaker 1: to throw into that tight man coverage, and that's how
Speaker 1: you wind up getting exaviing Howard picks because it's either
Speaker 1: take a sack, eat the drive, or try to fit
Speaker 1: this tight third down throw. We saw more of it today.
Speaker 1: We need more of it. We need more of that
Speaker 1: pass rush when you're in that good man coverage number
Speaker 1: three tackling, especially on these TfL situations. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many times I've seen ball carriers met in
Speaker 1: the backfield and then they wind up getting two or
Speaker 1: three yards, like a six yard swing. That changes the
Speaker 1: entire outlook of the down and distance. Like a first pitch.
Speaker 1: The difference between a ball and strike on the first
Speaker 1: pitching baseball is like a fifty point batting average decrease.
Speaker 1: It's the same exact thing, and it goes on through
Speaker 1: the counting back baseball, and it goes on throughout the
Speaker 1: down distance and football. So those three things have to
Speaker 1: get better to get better results. Just a couple of
Speaker 1: positives here, Manuel Agma, what a great season he's having.
Speaker 1: What a great two year Runni's halfter the Dolphins. Here,
Speaker 1: pressure player getting into the backfield, coming clean, swimming over guys,
Speaker 1: using the cross chop, playing against the run, setting the edge,
Speaker 1: playing the upfiel shoulder. The effort he showed on the
Speaker 1: force fumble to not just get ran around the quarterback
Speaker 1: around the backside and wind up in bad position, but
Speaker 1: to see Matt Ryan break the pocket and hustle and
Speaker 1: be the one that gets to him. That was fantastic
Speaker 1: effort from Manuel Augba. Speaking of effort, Christian Wilkins looks
Speaker 1: like a damn pro bowler to me, see him on
Speaker 1: the screen, passes out there, the way he retraces those
Speaker 1: screens and just puts in pure effort, and he playst
Speaker 1: fifty snaps a game at that size in this heat.
Speaker 1: It's so impressive, the condition he's in, the effort he
Speaker 1: gives down in and down out. The hands, the hand
Speaker 1: usage has been so good this year. The stack and
Speaker 1: peek and shed and come off make the tackle. He's
Speaker 1: got more tackles than any other defensive tackle in that
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen draft class by like a large amount. I'll
Speaker 1: have that number for you guys on Tuesday. His run
Speaker 1: stop win rate is top five in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: He's out of the pass rush this year, strip stacked
Speaker 1: last week. Looks like a damn good player. If you
Speaker 1: say otherwise, I don't want to hear. I really don't
Speaker 1: want to hear. He's a really good player. Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: three passes, defense, one pick. We saw it again today. Man,
Speaker 1: That's that's what he does at his best. He makes
Speaker 1: plays in the football. If you want to throw the
Speaker 1: football at him, do so at your own peril. But
Speaker 1: when you do it with pass rush, man, he is dangerous.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, did you hear his name much today? I
Speaker 1: didn't really hear it much. That's the best thing possible
Speaker 1: for a cornerback. We'll have more of that on tape.
Speaker 1: And then Javon Holland, Oh buddy, this dude, this guy.
Speaker 1: I like javan Holland a lot. That force fumble wasn't
Speaker 1: called a forced fumble, but that hit. The to put
Speaker 1: that hit on somebody in one is so difficult, and
Speaker 1: he did it so clean. The shoulder on the shoulder
Speaker 1: jar that ball loose. It was dang near a fumble.
Speaker 1: And he made a couple of big plays later in
Speaker 1: the game as well, had a nice punt return. Now
Speaker 1: he was there on the deep ball that got over
Speaker 1: the top to Russell Gauge. I'm curious to hear. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to coaches this week and hear about that in
Speaker 1: terms of what that look is like in the cuttern
Speaker 1: go who goes deep, who comes underneath? But he an
Speaker 1: expert in the area on that play that went over
Speaker 1: the top. But all things told, Holland pressure on Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan to get a big, big takeaway, a big sack,
Speaker 1: rather playing the run up in the box, playing the
Speaker 1: deep post, playing the rat in the hole, playing some coverage.
Speaker 1: He just does everything. He's such a good player and
Speaker 1: another guy that I can't wait to watch him develop
Speaker 1: here in Miami. Takeaway number three, the opening drive touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's three out of four now for two and four
Speaker 1: starts to get the offense down the field and a
Speaker 1: seven nothing lead. That's a great spot to start for
Speaker 1: your offense. It can help you play complementary football. It's
Speaker 1: just a great way to start games right. And what
Speaker 1: does that mean? Though I don't know the answer, I'm
Speaker 1: just putting this out there. The opening game script, you know,
Speaker 1: do you script your first ten, twelve fift team plays.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't have that answer, but obviously
Speaker 1: it's working whatever they're doing. But then from that, the adjustments,
Speaker 1: the adjustments to their adjustments to to you, how do
Speaker 1: you adjust to the adjustment, like you know, who watches
Speaker 1: the watchman as it were. But I'm just curious about
Speaker 1: what this all means. And then the matchups, the matchups
Speaker 1: they create on those opening scripts to get waddled the
Speaker 1: out route two of them on that first drive, third
Speaker 1: down conversions hit him up. Didn't really see much much
Speaker 1: about the rest of the game. And then just finally
Speaker 1: on this note, at the play sequencing, you know, I
Speaker 1: wanted to see them run that out route more and
Speaker 1: maybe go a wheel off of that. There's there's just
Speaker 1: different options, variations you can do off of every single
Speaker 1: look you have. But what I did see was the
Speaker 1: jet suite motion throwback to Myles Gascon for a touchdown
Speaker 1: that was a very similar look to a touchdown past
Speaker 1: we've thrown not once but twice to Jalen Waddle this year.
Speaker 1: I love seeing the Dolphins have a plan and a
Speaker 1: sequence there to go from one play, show one look
Speaker 1: at the defense to think about it, go back in
Speaker 1: the direction for a nice, pretty easy touchdown there for
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskon loved that play calling. I thought the coaching
Speaker 1: today in general was really good as far as getting
Speaker 1: guys in position, dialing up pressures at the right time, offensively,
Speaker 1: kind of taking advantage of what they were doing, throwing
Speaker 1: screens at the right time. Good stuff today from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins coaches just wasn't enough in the very end. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number four, I'm so tired of seeing the same movie,
Speaker 1: the same script. I mean, Marvel has the market corner
Speaker 1: on selling the exact same movie over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. I don't want to see that with a
Speaker 1: football team. Strong start, touched on off the top. Then
Speaker 1: the Falcon score the next ten points in they're blocked
Speaker 1: field goal, and there are something fluke, not flukey, but
Speaker 1: just something weird happening. The seven of the thirteen three
Speaker 1: lead last week in Jacksonville, the early lead against the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the fourteen nothing lead over the Raiders,
Speaker 1: the three nothing started against the Colts like it's been
Speaker 1: the same script every time. The second quarter goes completely dead,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins have only scored ten points at home
Speaker 1: in the first half of games this season. Their second
Speaker 1: quarter numbers have just been abysmal as far as points allowed,
Speaker 1: points for. It's not the same problem every week, it's
Speaker 1: a version of the same problem. Like, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick up the mistakes here in the first quarter
Speaker 1: and talk about the plays that I thought really determined
Speaker 1: this game in terms of Miami not getting a victory.
Speaker 1: And this first one really chaps my ass, and I
Speaker 1: know it did his two because of his reaction. Adam
Speaker 1: Butler was was banging his hands in the ground. Couldn't
Speaker 1: believe he missed this play. But it was third and
Speaker 1: three at our forty two yard line, and Butler destroys
Speaker 1: a block and has Mike Davis dead to rights in
Speaker 1: the backfield, and he whips on the tackle which was
Speaker 1: about two or three yards behind the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and then Davis gets three yards for the first down.
Speaker 1: They kick a field goal on that drive. I don't
Speaker 1: think it of goes for the fourth and sixth there
Speaker 1: if they get that TfL. I just don't. So it's
Speaker 1: a three point swing that one hurts. Then second quarter,
Speaker 1: second and three and plus Terrytory the thirty one yard
Speaker 1: line driving looking to get the lead back in your favor.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams shops the passed beyond the sticks, third and
Speaker 1: three fade route to Mike get Sicky at the thirty
Speaker 1: one yard line. The ball is too far inside. Bad location,
Speaker 1: one on one opportunity, but they're pressing Mike get Sicky,
Speaker 1: and if you watch the tape, Mike is better when
Speaker 1: he's not pressed than when he is pressed. Then they
Speaker 1: blocked the field goal. I mean, that's such a horrendous sequence.
Speaker 1: And again it's never one play, it's multiple things that
Speaker 1: go into this, and three plays right there that give
Speaker 1: you an ultimate terrible result. Then the terrible interception of
Speaker 1: dirm Smith. We know about that thirty nine yard play
Speaker 1: on the ensuing play for Atlanta. It's a great catch,
Speaker 1: but ouch that stings on the quick turnaround. The one
Speaker 1: sack after Atlanta's second half touchdown was a complete blown
Speaker 1: assignment on the right side. Two rushers come at Jesse
Speaker 1: and Robert, and Robert doesn't get his eyes inside enough
Speaker 1: and he gets up the sack right off of the
Speaker 1: jump there drive over, couple of drives later third and
Speaker 1: one conversion with Savon Akhmed holding on Austin Jackson pushing
Speaker 1: back ten yards, drive over, next drive, Austin Jackson beat
Speaker 1: by grade Jerry inside two of compounds it with a
Speaker 1: bad interception, terrible result. After that, you get a second
Speaker 1: down stop to force a critical third and three in
Speaker 1: the red zone on that turnaround drive roughing the pastor
Speaker 1: automatic first down touchdown score the next place. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can point to like ten moments where
Speaker 1: Miami could have won the game, could have put the
Speaker 1: game away, and they just didn't do it. And it's
Speaker 1: happened in in three at least three of these losses. Now,
Speaker 1: the Radar game and ot there had a chance to
Speaker 1: win that one. The Jacksonville game definitely had chances to
Speaker 1: win that one. Now this game you could I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the Dolphins are not great statistically right now,
Speaker 1: but you can make an argument there for four possible
Speaker 1: wins and three losses this season. It's so frustrating to
Speaker 1: see it go that way. And just again, so two
Speaker 1: more tidbits here. The opponent has scored a touchdown on
Speaker 1: the opening drive of the second half and sixth straight games.
Speaker 1: That has to get fixed. And the Dolphins have only
Speaker 1: ten first half points at home this season. I knew
Speaker 1: I had that stat there somewhere there. It is. Fifth takeaway.
Speaker 1: We'll make it quick. Special teams have been just not
Speaker 1: the same. What's going on? Man, penalties, special teams, and
Speaker 1: the fine margins. It's just all been different this year.
Speaker 1: The blocked field goal, like, since when when do we
Speaker 1: do that? And then you double up Atlanta and penalties
Speaker 1: as well, the fine margins, it's tough to deal with.
Speaker 1: Those are the five takeaways. Special teams, penalties and fine
Speaker 1: margins are killing you. The fourth takeaway was tired of
Speaker 1: seeing the same movie the same script. Third takeaway, opening
Speaker 1: drive touchdowns are great. Second takeaway almost back to the
Speaker 1: old defense, but just almost. And number one, I believe
Speaker 1: that you can build a contender around this quarterback. A
Speaker 1: few more notes here before we close it up, and
Speaker 1: we'll get a postgame show segment for you guys at
Speaker 1: The postgame show was fantastic today, so if you haven't
Speaker 1: heard it yet, check out the five sixty, the Joe
Speaker 1: app or the the their their their podcast channel on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast. Easy enough for me to say, I thought
Speaker 1: we had a fantastic show. Will play a segment from
Speaker 1: that for you guys here and play some more as
Speaker 1: we go along this week. But just a few final thoughts.
Speaker 1: Lots of zone D defense today. You know. Brian Flores
Speaker 1: talked about this. I can't remember it was before or
Speaker 1: after the Buffalo game back in Week two when somebody
Speaker 1: asked about all the crossing rocks Buffalo ran last year
Speaker 1: to beat Miami in that game, to take advantage of
Speaker 1: their man coverage and get the big chunk plays, and
Speaker 1: he said, well, you want to you want to match
Speaker 1: what the opponent does well, but at a certain point too,
Speaker 1: you want to do what you do well, and so
Speaker 1: the more man coverage to match the pass rush. I
Speaker 1: thought we saw lots of zone in this game. Tough
Speaker 1: team to man up because of all the matchups they have,
Speaker 1: But I thought I was interesting how many guys went
Speaker 1: up against Kyle Pitts, who looks like the real deal.
Speaker 1: You saw Eric Rowe, Jason mccordy, even xaviing Howard got
Speaker 1: a rep on Kyle Pitts at one point. I thought
Speaker 1: that was interesting worth putting in the podcast. We run
Speaker 1: the most twelve personnel in the entire National Football League,
Speaker 1: and Mac Hollins at one point of this game was
Speaker 1: promoted to receiver too. So you know, Matt is playing
Speaker 1: really good, I think above what we all thought he
Speaker 1: was going to produce this year for this Dolphins team.
Speaker 1: But it just tells you about where the depth of
Speaker 1: the receiver position is. This year. We thought we were
Speaker 1: going to have four and five receiver sets consistently as
Speaker 1: far as what you had available to you, and right
Speaker 1: now it's down to bottle in Hollands really with you know,
Speaker 1: Wilson struggling, William struggling, and obviously Parker and active again
Speaker 1: the hustle. I talked about Wilkins retrace aug Ball on
Speaker 1: the sack, waddle on the I N T. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are plenty more in this game, but this team
Speaker 1: plays hard. I wanted to make that note. And then
Speaker 1: again talking about possibly having a chance to win those
Speaker 1: three games we lost bottom. The Dolphins came into this
Speaker 1: game bottom five and scoring offense and scoring defense, and
Speaker 1: bottom five in total offense and total defense, and still
Speaker 1: close to victories in those two games. It's the margin
Speaker 1: for air is slim in that regard, and my question
Speaker 1: is how do you create more margin for air if
Speaker 1: you can't execute in those moments. We talked about that. O. J.
Speaker 1: McDuffie and Steth Levitt on the postgame show. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and play you guys a clip. But
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Speaker 1: finds up Caroline Daddy is coming home? What's up Dolphins?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Dolphins Fifth Quarter post Game Show.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins podcast network is all here. Seth Levitt,
Speaker 1: O J McDuffie from the Fish Tank Podcast, and Travis Winkfield,
Speaker 1: host of the Drive Time Podcast two interceptions of blocked
Speaker 1: field goals, some drives killed by penalties and guys juice.
Speaker 1: Six straight losses now, and this one seems to hurt
Speaker 1: more than any other ones. I don't know, doesn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: they all hurt. They all really do hurt, man, big time.
Speaker 1: You know, a game that you know, we didn't seem
Speaker 1: like we were going to be doing very well and
Speaker 1: we end up getting back into football game and having
Speaker 1: some opportunities at the end and still coming up a
Speaker 1: little bit sore. But it does thing, you know, the
Speaker 1: ones you get blown out, Travis, you know, when it's
Speaker 1: already fore gone inclusion late in the game. It was
Speaker 1: a little less painful when you get a game like that, Man,
Speaker 1: and I think a team that we should have beat,
Speaker 1: especially at home, um, and you're in it at the
Speaker 1: end and you do make the mistakes that you know,
Speaker 1: we just heard Jason Taylor talk about, you know, towards
Speaker 1: the end of that of the game, you know, the penalties,
Speaker 1: the block field goals, interceptions. We're not good enough. And
Speaker 1: that's proved again that we weren't good enough to close
Speaker 1: this game out. And that's that's kind of what happened
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. There at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: But Seth, I know that you you know, Juice talks
Speaker 1: about the pain, the pain level of a loss. Right.
Speaker 1: You and I were walking down here to set up
Speaker 1: to do the post game show. We were kind of
Speaker 1: jazzed up because we had just in the Dolphins put
Speaker 1: their second straight touchdown drive together to take a one
Speaker 1: point lead right towards the end there, and the defense
Speaker 1: was playing so well we thought maybe this game was
Speaker 1: in the bag. But you keep going back to one
Speaker 1: period of this game, and it's been the script for
Speaker 1: the whole season now, right, one portion of the game
Speaker 1: that continues to kill this Dolphins team. They're losing games
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, fellis And first of all, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't lose the game in the second quarter, right now.
Speaker 1: What happens in the second quarter shouldn't impact you. But
Speaker 1: as everybody keeps saying, this team is not good enough
Speaker 1: to over come the mistakes that they're making in the
Speaker 1: second quarter. And when you have a blocked field goal,
Speaker 1: but a penalty prior to that black field block field goal,
Speaker 1: so that could have been a touchdown drive, Juice, right,
Speaker 1: so you lose an opportunity there. You give them good
Speaker 1: field position, they marched down and score touchdown, and and
Speaker 1: then you have the other the interception there in the
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone. I don't even know. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that whole play, but the bottom line is
Speaker 1: is that this team is losing gains in the second
Speaker 1: quarters and not just getting dominated in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: They are losing games to teams that they have the
Speaker 1: ability to beat. In my opinion that you know, the
Speaker 1: Raider game, they could have beaten the Raiders, the Colts,
Speaker 1: now this game, certainly Jacksonville. These are games that they
Speaker 1: are giving away in the second quarter and it's exciting
Speaker 1: to see what happens in the fourth quarter, but you're
Speaker 1: trying to make up ground and you're simply not good
Speaker 1: enough to do it. At this point. It's a big
Speaker 1: margin between being one and six and having the fans
Speaker 1: question the entire process or being what would be four
Speaker 1: and three at this point, Like you mentioned, so many
Speaker 1: games coming down to the wire there, and you also
Speaker 1: talk about not being good enough to overcome the mistakes
Speaker 1: they did make, well, they did overcome it all, and
Speaker 1: then they're at the very end juice the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, this this league is that This is kind
Speaker 1: of what happens in this league, right when a good
Speaker 1: quarterback gets the ball down lay, they go down and
Speaker 1: put points on the board. And our guy did it,
Speaker 1: and our defense was doing well and kept the Dolphins
Speaker 1: in the game with a couple of big drives, a
Speaker 1: big big takeaway there at the end, offense response plays
Speaker 1: that complimentary football and then right at the end juice
Speaker 1: the defense can't quite hold on that Kyle Pitts guy,
Speaker 1: And I tell you he's something. But when you look
Speaker 1: at that last drive, what what did you see there
Speaker 1: out of the Dolphins defense that maybe you would have
Speaker 1: done differently or how they could have approached this, Like,
Speaker 1: what did you see that led to this eventual loss? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought at the beginning, I thought it
Speaker 1: was it was a good deal right there, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, you look at the play
Speaker 1: that they threw the two pits over X and that's
Speaker 1: just a great throw and a great cats you know,
Speaker 1: And I try to teach these young cats how to
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how good coverage is, you can
Speaker 1: play that ball with the outside shoulder. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got an opportunity. And that's exactly where that ball was thrown. Man,
Speaker 1: just just an outstanding play, and like you talked about
Speaker 1: leading up to that, our defense was having such a
Speaker 1: great day going you know what I mean in terms
Speaker 1: of late in that game. Early in the game it
Speaker 1: was rough, but then you saw the energy. You're tightened up,
Speaker 1: you know, getting some getting off the field, making some plays.
Speaker 1: You know, the the Ryan strip. But in that last one,
Speaker 1: man their confidence and Kyle Pitts to be able to
Speaker 1: run whatever route they want to run against whoever we
Speaker 1: have coveranty you know, it was there and Mattie Ice
Speaker 1: we talked about it. The quarterback position is so critical
Speaker 1: when you get those situations. I don't care what's happened
Speaker 1: up until that point, you get an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: a big throw, make a big play. It's exactly what
Speaker 1: they did. Man, what a perfect throw, great coverage you know,
Speaker 1: better throwing kits and they went, they went across the board.
Speaker 1: They're trying to defend Kyle Pitts. We saw Eric Rowe
Speaker 1: early in the game, Jason mccordy had a big pass
Speaker 1: break up on him. I think in that fourth courter,
Speaker 1: maybe late third quarter, they go with Xavian Howard, your
Speaker 1: best cover corner guy who made a bunch of big
Speaker 1: plays in this game, including a huge interception that went
Speaker 1: back the other direction. But I think that leads us
Speaker 1: into the conversation about the quarterback right seth, because this
Speaker 1: is something we came into this game looking at here
Speaker 1: company arey style football. I told you before the game,
Speaker 1: I need a four touchdown past day from two a tongue.
Speaker 1: We got it. We got four touchdown passes, the first
Speaker 1: time in his career he's done that. In fact, it
Speaker 1: was the first time he had thrown three touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in a game. He finishes thirty two for forty completion
Speaker 1: two yards, four touchdown passes a one oh nine point
Speaker 1: five quarterbacks, but two interceptions and those were killers back breakers.
Speaker 1: And you know, the second one is the one that
Speaker 1: I really want to focus on first week. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about to a lot today because I think
Speaker 1: that's the story here for the Miami Dolphins, especially with
Speaker 1: all the stuff we've been here in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I just saw, aside from those two plays,
Speaker 1: he was so good. But on that second one, Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson gets beat immediately off the line, right, and then
Speaker 1: here comes the pressure on too all you gotta do
Speaker 1: their juice seth whoever wants to jump in is take
Speaker 1: the sack, Eat the sack, go to second down and
Speaker 1: you're still alive M plus territory with still good down
Speaker 1: and distance to look at. And you force a throw
Speaker 1: and it goes back to the direction, turns into seven
Speaker 1: points for them off a touchdown, so losing for sure,
Speaker 1: three points on your end, seven points on the other end.
Speaker 1: You can play as good as you want, right but
Speaker 1: the breaking mistake eventually kills you. Yeah, we talked about
Speaker 1: a couple of swings, you know, we were talking texting
Speaker 1: back and forth a little bit, talking about just point swings.
Speaker 1: You know, the field goal block, you know, that's our
Speaker 1: three points. No, it turns into seven points center, you know,
Speaker 1: so that's ten. I'm I'm gonna give that a ten pointer.
Speaker 1: You know. Look at that situation where you talk about
Speaker 1: throw the ball away, and that's what you have to
Speaker 1: learn to do. Can't make every play. Every play is
Speaker 1: not possible. Sometimes the best play is to throw the
Speaker 1: ball away or eat it or the field I think, well,
Speaker 1: I think falling down the best job we should have done.
Speaker 1: Eat it right there, because you're never gonna get enough
Speaker 1: to get it, you know, to the first roller stands
Speaker 1: or you know, out of bounds anywhere right there at
Speaker 1: somebody's feet. So yeah, the best play right there probably
Speaker 1: was to eat and tee it up again, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's what she has a young quarterback. It's we
Speaker 1: have to start figuring out and have to learn. You know,
Speaker 1: there's so much pressure a lot of time you see
Speaker 1: from from these guys. They think they've got to make
Speaker 1: every single play. And I know too, it feels a
Speaker 1: little bit at pressure, you know. But look, he's coming off,
Speaker 1: honestly without those two picks. What you cannot be without
Speaker 1: those two picks because they were a huge and decide.
Speaker 1: Now coming to the the football game, you know, he's playing
Speaker 1: solid football force makes it a pretty good decision, making
Speaker 1: a pretty good throws. But those are the ones that
Speaker 1: kill you, you know, in this game. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there counting all the possessions, you know, back and forth,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm taking all these notes and stuff,
Speaker 1: and those are the ones that are the backbreakers. If
Speaker 1: this happened in the first quarter, second quarter might not
Speaker 1: be as big a deal unless we get down like
Speaker 1: you know, four touchdown did and bounced back from that.
Speaker 1: When you do it late in games, you know, in
Speaker 1: the games on the line, that's when it's magnified, and
Speaker 1: especially when it comes right after your defense just made
Speaker 1: this huge place too. But two weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: the defense gets you the ball back. We talk about
Speaker 1: how important turnovers are. Part of the success this team
Speaker 1: enjoyed last year with ten wins was because of the
Speaker 1: amount of turnovers that they were able to produce. They
Speaker 1: get one here in a critical point in the game,
Speaker 1: and literally the next play you're giving the ball back
Speaker 1: that on their side of the field too right drews,
Speaker 1: so you have an opportunity to go in there. Even
Speaker 1: if you get a field goal, you're only down three
Speaker 1: with twelve, twelve, thirteen minutes left in the game. Just
Speaker 1: cannot happen, and you know it didn't end up working out.
Speaker 1: You got to give a lot of credit to to
Speaker 1: Waddle for running that guy down and at least giving
Speaker 1: your defense a chance. But how deflating must that be
Speaker 1: for the defense that is, as you said, starting to
Speaker 1: have that energy, starting to get things going. They get
Speaker 1: the ball back and you just give it right back
Speaker 1: to me. You just can't make those plays and if
Speaker 1: you do, you lose six games in a row. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from two A here in a minute.
Speaker 1: I'd be curious to hear what his take is on
Speaker 1: that interception, both interceptions, because maybe the first one, that
Speaker 1: was a play where I think there maybe your five
Speaker 1: or six quarterbacks in the NFL that could have fit
Speaker 1: that throw in their juice. That was a tight window
Speaker 1: that he never should have even looked at, you know,
Speaker 1: And who's he throwing it too? That's not that's not
Speaker 1: the kind of gold there and make that play. We
Speaker 1: saw might come back and make a play in a
Speaker 1: similar situation heavily covered on a touchdown ball later in
Speaker 1: the game, But that's just a throw you can't make
Speaker 1: because one, you know, I'm not gonna bag on too.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of his his traits that
Speaker 1: we love about him, showed up in this game to
Speaker 1: throw for eight percent completion, four touchdown passes and almost
Speaker 1: three hundred yards. But you have to know your limitations, Jewish,
Speaker 1: you have to know what you can play within. And
Speaker 1: on that throw, he you know, I thought he just
Speaker 1: tried to shoot that one in there when he couldn't
Speaker 1: possibly do it. But on the second one. I want
Speaker 1: to hear what he has to say about that interception
Speaker 1: from a psyche standpoint, because I feel like the quick turnaround,
Speaker 1: that's always a good chance to take a shot right
Speaker 1: juice and go for the quick turnaround, the quick seven points.
Speaker 1: On the other end, I wonder if he was pressing
Speaker 1: in that moment because of all the struggles of the
Speaker 1: team throout the course of the season, throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this game, and then he gets his left guard
Speaker 1: beat right in front of him, pressure in his face.
Speaker 1: Maybe in that moment, in that split second, he's got
Speaker 1: to be thinking, I have to rescue this play because
Speaker 1: this is our moment. Is that something that happens for
Speaker 1: a young quarterback, It definitely does. I mean it, it
Speaker 1: happens for a lot of guys, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: one of those things you have to fight against, you know,
Speaker 1: realizing that you know, you don't have to make this game.
Speaker 1: You have to win this game right here right now.
Speaker 1: You know, you you're, like we talked about in great
Speaker 1: position defense gave you a great opportunity right here on
Speaker 1: the field. Uh, you know, just you know, it's growing pains,
Speaker 1: but man, is it painful for us until sit and
Speaker 1: watch sort and things like that, because honestly, and let's
Speaker 1: let's keep it real, I don't feel comfortable anymore going
Speaker 1: to those situations, you know what I mean. And that's
Speaker 1: that's even worse. You know, whereas you might look at
Speaker 1: some of these other quarterbacks, you know, Matt Ryan or
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers or you know, Josh, those guys getting situations
Speaker 1: like that, and you feel confident that they're going to
Speaker 1: make the right decisions and make the right moves. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous all the time now with this team defensively
Speaker 1: and offensively. You know, like at the end, was I
Speaker 1: confident our defent is gonna go out there and get
Speaker 1: another stop? I was not. Was I confident that we're
Speaker 1: gonna go down there and get the scores on offense?
Speaker 1: I was not. And that's one that's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: with the with the team. They gotta start building that,
Speaker 1: you know, that that that kind of that that comfort
Speaker 1: zone security for everybody, including themselves. I wonder in their
Speaker 1: own mind how they feel going in those situations where
Speaker 1: they feel like they can get a stop more than
Speaker 1: down exactly right, It has to rights. Do these guys
Speaker 1: are human act that has to happen. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear some more from that. We were looking at
Speaker 1: Javon Holland right now and as postgame press con works
Speaker 1: with a heck of a game. That rookie hell out
Speaker 1: there today. I thought side from the long touchdown he allowed,
Speaker 1: but he was fantastic. Once again. We're gonna come back
Speaker 1: and talk more about to us performance because I think
Speaker 1: it was very noteworthy in this game. The rest of
Speaker 1: the defense the Dolphins, where they go from here. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from coach Floor's, We'll hear from two A tongue
Speaker 1: of Voloa a lot to come on your way here
Speaker 1: on the on the postgame show. That was the end
Speaker 1: of segment number one. We now move on to segment
Speaker 1: number two. Head We're gonna talk on this segment about
Speaker 1: two A tongue of Vola's bounced back after the second
Speaker 1: interception where you heard the entire life come out of
Speaker 1: the crowd they're at hard Rock Stadium because everyone got
Speaker 1: all juiced up back into the game. After the Dolphins
Speaker 1: got the interception from Xavier Howard, they come right back
Speaker 1: to it, throws a backbreaking interception that goes back nearly
Speaker 1: the distance for a touchdown the other way. Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: has a great hustle effort to save that thing. The
Speaker 1: Falcons wind up punching it in Miami goes down by
Speaker 1: third team. But then after that, that's what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about next, guys it to us. Bounced back
Speaker 1: after that first two plays after the bad interception, eighteen
Speaker 1: yard sideline route the Dermo Smith dime boom got him
Speaker 1: crossing route to Mike Asiki twenty seven yards, moves to
Speaker 1: his right, throws back to his left, dime boom again.
Speaker 1: He finishes the game after the second interest option seven
Speaker 1: of eight with two yards and two touchdown passes after
Speaker 1: the adversity hits him there, running of the football, four
Speaker 1: rushes for twenty nine yards. All those juke moves, we
Speaker 1: saw first downs, third down conversions on third down. So
Speaker 1: I guess what the overall point here, juice I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about, and Saith I want you to
Speaker 1: jump into eventually, if you're the wide receiver and this
Speaker 1: is your quarterback, obviously the juice do you say to yourself,
Speaker 1: twenty three year old quarterback, we've seen him, do these
Speaker 1: have these moments and flashes? He did all the other
Speaker 1: stuff just the bad mistakes stand out. What's your approach
Speaker 1: as the you know, viewing him as your teammate, as
Speaker 1: your quarterback now locker room, do you say we can
Speaker 1: fix those things or is that kind of who he
Speaker 1: is now? I think these things can be fixed, and
Speaker 1: I think it is a young guy in the state. Honestly,
Speaker 1: he hasn't had a full season and started he's already
Speaker 1: talked about. So I think there are some think some
Speaker 1: things that we can fix. When it comes to too
Speaker 1: and decision making, we almost had enough opportunity to you know,
Speaker 1: when he's got a chance of scramble. We almost threw
Speaker 1: it again. You know, we talked what's happened, I think
Speaker 1: last week as well. So those critical decisions and critical
Speaker 1: moments are the ones that we can't fix. And he's
Speaker 1: got to start thinking about in his head, like you know,
Speaker 1: to throw it away, to run, get down for things
Speaker 1: like that. So I think that some of the past
Speaker 1: he's throwing the last couple of weeks and some of
Speaker 1: the decisions, most of the decisions made the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks or something we can be happy about, we
Speaker 1: really can't. I mean, there are some things that he's
Speaker 1: done now to some throws and some players that have
Speaker 1: been outstanding. We're still throwing two yard pass to our
Speaker 1: tight ends and doing things like that, but he's still
Speaker 1: giving other guys opportunity. I looked at that first drive
Speaker 1: and we went down to score, and I think about
Speaker 1: seven or eight guys touched the football. You know, And
Speaker 1: sure it could be scripted that way, but sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta have to be a quarterback, especially a young guy,
Speaker 1: to get in there and try to pull some of
Speaker 1: these other plays out. I noticed that Walla kind disappeared
Speaker 1: again the middle of the game. Can we try to
Speaker 1: find him late when he was bowling at the beginning
Speaker 1: of game. So even too, as a young guy, could
Speaker 1: be like, yo, let's find a way to get seventeen
Speaker 1: going again. You know, he's allowed to talk like that.
Speaker 1: Go to go to all the coordinators and the you know,
Speaker 1: quarterback coach and try to get that, you know, make
Speaker 1: that happen, because he's a has been moving the ball, well,
Speaker 1: get the ball a while finding a lot today. I
Speaker 1: like that a lot. We have some guys that can
Speaker 1: play some ball. Back to your question, though, Travis as
Speaker 1: a young quarterback making those mistakes, I think He's got
Speaker 1: some guys in the locker room. They have his back.
Speaker 1: I think they believe in and they know that those
Speaker 1: mistakes can be correct. You talk about some of the
Speaker 1: players that worked earlier in the game. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: mentioned that point because there was a point I wanted
Speaker 1: to get to about play sequencing. You know, we were,
Speaker 1: me and Seth were sitting there kind of watching the
Speaker 1: game together and John Conjemmy involved as well, just kind
Speaker 1: of breaking down what we were seeing, and earlier in
Speaker 1: that game, it looked like the Falcons were more than
Speaker 1: happy to give some of that off coverage a little
Speaker 1: speed out routes to Waddle. I think he had two
Speaker 1: third down conversions on that route on that drive to
Speaker 1: open the game, and for the third time in four
Speaker 1: Stars from two a toungo Bylo, they'll go right down
Speaker 1: the field for an opening drive touchdown, And so I
Speaker 1: just thought that kind of went away from that look
Speaker 1: to get the battle wattle in those spaces. I thought
Speaker 1: there was a good opportunity to go back to those
Speaker 1: and then an opportunity to go wheel route off of
Speaker 1: that if you want to sequence those plays together. But
Speaker 1: they come back later on in that game, and there
Speaker 1: was the touchdown past two Miles Gasking where Jalen goes
Speaker 1: in motion across the nation. He scored twice on that
Speaker 1: player where they motioned him across, throw the football to him.
Speaker 1: He finds the pylon, but they faked that and go
Speaker 1: back to the direction and there's Miles Gaston wide open
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. So I thought, to a point that
Speaker 1: u Kina made seth coaching was was better today as
Speaker 1: far as play call insition. Defense had a lot more
Speaker 1: of the pressure looks that you love, that we that
Speaker 1: we all love here, that's what that's what helps his
Speaker 1: team win. But from a coaching standpoint, what you see
Speaker 1: out there with the Dolphins coaching staff offensively defensively to
Speaker 1: put themselves in position to have a chance late why
Speaker 1: I think he just said it. Uh. The defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball in particular definitely dialed up more pressure
Speaker 1: and it they gave up some big plays, which, as
Speaker 1: Jews said earlier, you've got one of the all time
Speaker 1: greats in Matt Ryan who's done this for his entire career. Uh,
Speaker 1: and throwing great passes to a guy who looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a great player in this league for
Speaker 1: a long time. So sometimes those guys are gonna make
Speaker 1: big plays, um, but a lot of times they were.
Speaker 1: He was dumping the ball down and they had it bracketed.
Speaker 1: They were getting the ball in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and being able to tackle before the sticks. And
Speaker 1: actually they had that one. We saw it right where
Speaker 1: the ball and I think was ex and Needham and
Speaker 1: they they I don't know who he threw it to,
Speaker 1: who Ryan threw it too, but it was about two
Speaker 1: yards short of the sticks, and he just happened to
Speaker 1: make a play and converted on the third down for
Speaker 1: the first down. And it ends up being the difference
Speaker 1: because those guys continue and drive the ball the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. So but but it just felt like
Speaker 1: they dialed up pressure at the right times. It felt
Speaker 1: like they Uh, there was another one early on. I
Speaker 1: think Adam Jones should have tackle the running back for
Speaker 1: a loss and he ends up spinning out and and
Speaker 1: so the in the in the chess match there, I
Speaker 1: thought the coaches seem to be doing the right things,
Speaker 1: at least from you know, for from me watching it,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Juicy might feel differently. You understand that
Speaker 1: a little bit more but guys gotta execute, they have
Speaker 1: to make plays. There have been games We've heard the
Speaker 1: hot hot garbage remark from Juice in the past. There
Speaker 1: have been games where we come into the studio here
Speaker 1: and we start talking about what happened afterwards, and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of question marks and play calling. I
Speaker 1: did not feel that today. But guys have to execute,
Speaker 1: they have to make they have to make plays. They
Speaker 1: have to help their coach and staff out. At some point,
Speaker 1: those guys are getting paid to make plays. And to
Speaker 1: your point on that, it was Adam Butler mistackled on
Speaker 1: a third or a third and three play where he
Speaker 1: had a chance for a TfL and it was right
Speaker 1: on the fringe of field goal range. If he makes
Speaker 1: that TfL, I think Atlanta punched that ball back to Miami.
Speaker 1: They don't have to. They wind up going down for
Speaker 1: seven more points. And so all these little mistakes that
Speaker 1: acrew over the course of the game. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: Falcons fans will sit there and say, well, hey, we
Speaker 1: had this go against us, we had this go against us.
Speaker 1: But it feels like two weeks in a row fills
Speaker 1: where Miami was just one of like ten mistakes away
Speaker 1: from from finding a way to win this football game.
Speaker 1: And they just couldn't get away from those mistakes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they can't. They're just not good enough to do that.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm gonna going back to one other thing, Travis,
Speaker 1: when you were asking about the coaches and game planning.
Speaker 1: Two has thrown the ball eight seven times in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. It's great. I cannot imagine that that's
Speaker 1: the way they drew it up at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season, or even the beginning of the week. The
Speaker 1: last two weeks, I don't think they're going in and saying,
Speaker 1: if we can throw the ball forty times, we're gonna
Speaker 1: come away with a w. But they they've had to
Speaker 1: do that because they're chasing their tails late in the game.
Speaker 1: And they actually did go back to the run after
Speaker 1: the bad interception. I was y are, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: complaining this. I thought I was saying, we can't go
Speaker 1: software even though the bad interception happened. You have to
Speaker 1: keep going because now you're down by thirteen points. And
Speaker 1: they did it for a couple of plays and it worked,
Speaker 1: and then they got going through the air as well,
Speaker 1: so they found a way to get themselves back into
Speaker 1: some balance there at the end of the game. Miles
Speaker 1: Gasking fifteen for sixty seven, like you mentioned, Tongue of
Speaker 1: by Low of four for twenty nine, Savant Augument seven
Speaker 1: for twenty six. Both those guys involved in the passing
Speaker 1: game as well. Miles four catches ten yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown Savan two for twenty six, so they were involved heavily.
Speaker 1: So were the tight ends. Juice, you got a point here,
Speaker 1: jump on in man. Yeah, I was thinking. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about seven saying, you know, the game plan, not
Speaker 1: really the pass that much. But at the same time, though,
Speaker 1: we gotta think about we talked about last week. Some
Speaker 1: of these passed are like run plays. You know, the
Speaker 1: fact that we did put it up in the air
Speaker 1: forty times eighty seven times and two games. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean a screen is that that's like a run play,
Speaker 1: you know, swing play pass, it's like play All the
Speaker 1: little to yard passed through our tight ends are a
Speaker 1: little those are like run plays to me. You know,
Speaker 1: if you put it up forty times in the air
Speaker 1: and we ran at twenty nine times, almost balanced off.
Speaker 1: The wide receiver says, he's okay with the seven past.
Speaker 1: They don't make some sort of passes. You gotta have it.
Speaker 1: You gotta have it though, you know, so I think
Speaker 1: they're trying to be as balanced as possible. They did
Speaker 1: stick to the run, and they did get the hundred
Speaker 1: thirty two yards on the ground today. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, no, man, everything comes down to timing, you know,
Speaker 1: everything comes down to timing offensively, defensively, turnovers, penalties, mistakes.
Speaker 1: And that's the second damn quarter. It is the second quarter.
Speaker 1: They have been abysmal the entire season in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: So Seth mentions the eight seven passes the last two
Speaker 1: week for two a tongue by lower today it was
Speaker 1: seventeen targets to tight ends, seven to running backs, and
Speaker 1: that gives us twenty four. So it would have been
Speaker 1: sixteen to receivers. You throw the ball to tight ends
Speaker 1: today more than you did receivers. And juice to kind
Speaker 1: of continue that point, we saw Preston Williams get pulled
Speaker 1: from this game for dropping too many passes. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many opportunities do you get in this league? And
Speaker 1: how many times can many possessions do you get? How
Speaker 1: many times you drop the ball in big downs? You know,
Speaker 1: and and you don't get very many opportunities. We see
Speaker 1: guys get cut or traded or whatever. Were fewer mistakes.
Speaker 1: You get an opportunity like this with all the big
Speaker 1: dogs out. You know, Preston is one of the big dogs,
Speaker 1: and you don't play well. That's why we're in more
Speaker 1: three and four tight end sets, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's why Hollins is getting opportunities, and that's why all
Speaker 1: these guys are getting these opportunities because of guys. When
Speaker 1: you get your chance, you you blow it. You get
Speaker 1: other guys get and other guys who can't get on
Speaker 1: the field exactly right. And then back to your point
Speaker 1: about having some of those those built in pass plays
Speaker 1: that are essentially extended running plays to the outside. That's
Speaker 1: too is game, the quick release game, the empty backfield
Speaker 1: to get the ball in, get the ball out, and
Speaker 1: when you only have you know, two receivers that you
Speaker 1: can rely upon, whether it's you know, the Wattle is
Speaker 1: to me, he's banked into that, into that for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins forever. He's a He's a fantastic player. I
Speaker 1: love what he brings to this football team. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: Davantae Parker hasn't been around the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams gets the chance, drops a couple of balls.
Speaker 1: Mc hollins appears to be kind of that other guy
Speaker 1: right now, as Albert Wilson is no longer on the
Speaker 1: field anymore, Jachim Grant was traded, will Fuller's injured. So
Speaker 1: who is that second receiver. It's gotta be MATC Collins, right,
Speaker 1: it's one of the other tight ends. I mean, really
Speaker 1: sickly that's who it is. Yeah. So, and I thought
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of that formationally early in this game,
Speaker 1: where they would go to receiver sets and twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: so one running back, two tight ends. They would put
Speaker 1: both the tight ends on one side of the formation
Speaker 1: the twin receivers on the opposite side of the formation,
Speaker 1: and that was successful for a lot of it, and
Speaker 1: then later in the game they kind of went empty there,
Speaker 1: so some interesting play distribution. But yeah, juice, I mean,
Speaker 1: when you're tight ends get more targets than receivers, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about you right there. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean I would love to see what the other side
Speaker 1: look like too, because seems like it's got a lot
Speaker 1: of targets ends. But we are we are you know,
Speaker 1: we we do our best work out of our two
Speaker 1: and three tight end sets with a couple of wide
Speaker 1: receivers one back. I mean, it seems like it's working well,
Speaker 1: especially when you got guys like you know, likes Mike
Speaker 1: and Shim who were doing a pretty good job of
Speaker 1: catching the ball getting north and south. And we know
Speaker 1: what the sick he can do. I mean, he's unbelievable
Speaker 1: with the route running with Billy, catch the ball in
Speaker 1: traffica his hands are you know, are are sticky as hell.
Speaker 1: You know. At the same time, though, we had my
Speaker 1: opportunities get in the ball on the one PBu against Sicky.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's a back shoulder throw from two
Speaker 1: on the sideline, I mean, that's a great opportunity for
Speaker 1: our six six tight end slash receiver with forty invert.
Speaker 1: Which one are you referring to, the one on the
Speaker 1: on the on the dolphin sideline? Uh, a little bit
Speaker 1: behind him and inside it got broken up. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I got right. We've even talk about that. I
Speaker 1: want to come back and talk about that the other
Speaker 1: side of the show here, because we got we want
Speaker 1: to get into that. Me and Seth talked about that
Speaker 1: for a long time during the game. Just some quick
Speaker 1: numbers for you here. Matt Ryan twenty five for forty
Speaker 1: three thirty six, two touchdowns on a pick, ninety five
Speaker 1: point four passer rating two was one of eight point
Speaker 1: eight today, Waddle seven for eighty three, Sick seven for
Speaker 1: eighty five, one touchdown, and juice Just for some posterity here,
Speaker 1: Falcons tight ends had fourteen targets, running backs had six,
Speaker 1: receivers had twenties, So okay, you can be happy with
Speaker 1: that a little bit