Speaker 1: To us fires touch stop waddle stuck into the end
Speaker 1: zone of Miami type pro tide window. They had to
Speaker 1: get that touchdown on that play, they get it. What
Speaker 1: ends up? Dolphins And Welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and as always, I am here to bring
Speaker 1: you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on
Speaker 1: today's show, it's a deep dive Wednesday, as we'll hear
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins coordinators Josh Boyer, Eric Studisville, and Danny
Speaker 1: Croftsman on some of the biggest storylines, including Nick Needham's versatility,
Speaker 1: winning in the trenches, and flying to the football. Plus
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the offensive line, the players off the edge,
Speaker 1: and tell you what's going on around the web in
Speaker 1: Dolphins world. All of that and much more from somewhere
Speaker 1: in South Florida. This is the Drive Time Podcast. So
Speaker 1: I began my Tuesday morning, as I do each week,
Speaker 1: taking a look around the web trying to see what
Speaker 1: type of Dolphins related content is out there. And here's
Speaker 1: what I found today. Number One, I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: are familiar with Good Morning Football, right and Angry Runs.
Speaker 1: And we saw our quarterback drop his shoulder and run
Speaker 1: through a defender in the game on Sunday, And so
Speaker 1: guess what he got. That's right, he got the scepter
Speaker 1: from Kyle Brandt on Good Morning Football the week fifteen
Speaker 1: Angry Runs winner goes to quarterback to a tongue vyloa,
Speaker 1: so he gets the scepter. I'm sure we'll talk to
Speaker 1: me about that later today in his media availability and
Speaker 1: find out where that thing is gonna be kept, where
Speaker 1: it's gonna be held for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: for the rest of time. As he does get the
Speaker 1: scepter for the week fifteen Angry Run. Also on Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football on Tuesday morning, Christian Wilkins made an appearance
Speaker 1: talking to Kay Adams and the breakfast club there at
Speaker 1: the table. If you guys have not checked out Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football every single morning on NFL Network, one of
Speaker 1: the best shows out there for my money, obviously the
Speaker 1: best talk show because well it's about football and they
Speaker 1: have a great cast as well. But here's Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: talking about the entirety of that play, that touchdown. The celebration.
Speaker 1: All of it here on NFL Network. Coach Flora's calls
Speaker 1: your number. I'm first in Gold from the one. What
Speaker 1: was the play call? It looked like you were ready
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, I was ready. Um, you know, Coach
Speaker 1: Flora's kind of you know, we drew it up in
Speaker 1: the sand on the on the sideline. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he just we just needed to spark. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He's needing the athlete out there on the field.
Speaker 1: He's a Christian. You're in, go take care of business,
Speaker 1: do what you do. And I was like, Coach, I
Speaker 1: got you. Don't worry about it. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take care of business. And you know, had a nice,
Speaker 1: nice simple route to the flat. I saw my defender.
Speaker 1: I get he had inside leverage on me. I jabbed
Speaker 1: him inside. You know what I'm saying. I went outside
Speaker 1: wild before a touchdown, crowd goes wild. Talk to me
Speaker 1: about this, what what was this something you planned before?
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the worm. Well, it was kind
Speaker 1: of just a spur of the moment um. You know,
Speaker 1: I just kind of, I don't know, I just got excited.
Speaker 1: I actually had a planned celebration. I was going to
Speaker 1: give a shout out to Jail waddle and do the
Speaker 1: waddle dance. Um, but you know, because he wasn't playing
Speaker 1: in the game Sunday, but I kind of went rogue.
Speaker 1: I kind of went rogue and forgot about him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know he's a rookie anyway, we don't care about him. No,
Speaker 1: So that I just went rogue, got excited, jumped in
Speaker 1: the crowd, came out, still still felt good, still wanted
Speaker 1: to celebrate. So then, uh, you know, just just did
Speaker 1: the worm, did the spinner rooney. You know, they did
Speaker 1: all that. So I had a good time doing that,
Speaker 1: a little throwback breakdance action, going rogue. What else is
Speaker 1: more Christian Wilkins than going rogue on your own touchdown celebration.
Speaker 1: You love to see it, You love to have this
Speaker 1: guy in your locker room, on your team, and all
Speaker 1: of the above. So that's why I found around the web.
Speaker 1: I want to get nowt to my top news story
Speaker 1: up on Miami Dolphins dot com and take a look
Speaker 1: at a few things that really piqued my interest. With
Speaker 1: finding out more about those things that piqued my interests
Speaker 1: through the Dolphins coordinators as we spoke to Josh Boyer,
Speaker 1: Danny Craftsman, and Eric Studisville on Tuesday for this Wednesday podcast,
Speaker 1: and just looking back over how the Dolphins got back
Speaker 1: to seven and seven, and we do want to turn
Speaker 1: the page here, but I think, you know, history can
Speaker 1: be instructive for future results. And I've talked about this
Speaker 1: so many times on this podcast, on my previous podcast
Speaker 1: that I used to host, or whether it's written word
Speaker 1: on on dot COM's or Twitter, that the best NFL
Speaker 1: teams find multiple ways to win games. Like we've had
Speaker 1: instances where even this week's opponent, for instance, the Saints
Speaker 1: with Drew Brees, a Hall of Fame top ten all
Speaker 1: time quarterback, had three consecutives seven and nine seasons because
Speaker 1: they did not have that changeup to Drew Brees and
Speaker 1: the passing game. They didn't have the running game to
Speaker 1: compliment the passing game, they didn't have the defense to
Speaker 1: help them close out games and have the special teams
Speaker 1: to get them to find margins to win games, and
Speaker 1: they relied on their Hall of Fame all time great quarterback,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a great way to win games, but
Speaker 1: it's not a great way to get deep into the season.
Speaker 1: And with the Saints said after that, after those three
Speaker 1: seven win seasons in a row, was they found Alvin Camaro,
Speaker 1: They found Ryan Ramcheck and built up the offensive line
Speaker 1: around a great draft class in a free agency period,
Speaker 1: and they went out and found a defense to get
Speaker 1: pressure on opposing quarterbacks and play lockdown coverage with Marcus
Speaker 1: Lattimore and eventually C. J. Johnson, Gardner Johnson and the
Speaker 1: back end there. And you know about the names and
Speaker 1: the way they piled up eleven and twelve and thirteen
Speaker 1: win seasons and division championships and deep postseason runs with
Speaker 1: Drew Brees because they had multiple ways to win games,
Speaker 1: and over Miami's winning streak, they've won in several different ways.
Speaker 1: They turned the Texans over four times. There was a
Speaker 1: quarterback switch in the Baltimore game. They threw the ball
Speaker 1: forty one times in the victory over the Giants, and
Speaker 1: then Sunday over the Jets. You come back with a
Speaker 1: dominant rushing performance, topping your previous season high by fifty
Speaker 1: yards by rushing for a buck eight three in that game,
Speaker 1: by getting your first individual up over a hundred yards,
Speaker 1: by having Miles Gaskon hit his longest run of the season,
Speaker 1: for thirty yards, and so I look, you know, to
Speaker 1: the rest of the schedule and think, obviously this week
Speaker 1: is the one you look at. But can Miami go
Speaker 1: to multiple ways to win games and just kind of
Speaker 1: go back to the running game here they had success
Speaker 1: really running to a variety of gaps, and again I
Speaker 1: think instructive the past can be instructive for future success.
Speaker 1: And this offensive line is building some momentum. We talked
Speaker 1: about Leam Eichenberg's run with one pressure allowed and three
Speaker 1: straight games. We've talked about Austin Jackson really throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the podcast this season about some of the
Speaker 1: grueling type of reps he has in the running game
Speaker 1: where he can get out in space and and square
Speaker 1: guys up and move guys off the football and create
Speaker 1: space that way. We talked about Robert Hunt all of time,
Speaker 1: about Michael Dieter stabilization upfront as well the tight ends,
Speaker 1: the receiver's contributing in the running game. It's been a
Speaker 1: full team effort. But just to look at some of
Speaker 1: the numbers here, and it was only two carries, but
Speaker 1: Miami did go for an average of fifteen and a
Speaker 1: half yards running behind Robert Hunt, that's a great pro
Speaker 1: football focused stat for you there. He's also on the
Speaker 1: top ten run block win rate numbers for ESPN this
Speaker 1: season among offensive guards, so obviously Rob having a good
Speaker 1: year there, but also looking at some of the numbers here.
Speaker 1: When the Dolphins went left, the results were consistently positive.
Speaker 1: Taking runs into the C gap, which is between your
Speaker 1: tight end and the left tackle, or just outside the
Speaker 1: left tackle when there is no tight end out there,
Speaker 1: the B gap between your tackle and your guard, your
Speaker 1: a gap between your guard and your center. Miami ran
Speaker 1: fourteen times on such runs for eighty three yards and
Speaker 1: an average of five point three nine yards per rush.
Speaker 1: And again some backside pulling guards Robert Hunt had a
Speaker 1: big block on this, Michael Dieter is there to anchor
Speaker 1: at all, and of course the tight ends and receivers
Speaker 1: on the outside. The Dolphins also picked up six first
Speaker 1: downs on such runs and four runs of ten plus yards.
Speaker 1: And again on that left side, his first round draft
Speaker 1: pick in Austin Jackson at left guard second rounder Liam Eichenberg,
Speaker 1: and that duo teamed up for a number of big
Speaker 1: blocks off that side, including some double team looks, some
Speaker 1: duo some single blocks as well. But those combination blocks
Speaker 1: where they chipped the first level climbed to the second level.
Speaker 1: That was a good job on the Dolphins offensive getting
Speaker 1: some space, creating some push there for the Dolphins running backs.
Speaker 1: But according to co offensive coordinator Eric Stuisville, it's really
Speaker 1: more of a team effort in that running game. I
Speaker 1: think you know, there's a lot of different runs in there,
Speaker 1: and they hit different places where, Um, it's not always
Speaker 1: depending on um, you know, a certain tandem. I mean,
Speaker 1: we need everybody, you know, everybody's got to do that.
Speaker 1: We had. There was a lot of line movement that
Speaker 1: happened um in the game against the Jets, and so
Speaker 1: we had to shut line movement off. We did. Obviously
Speaker 1: we did run good behind some double teams. We had
Speaker 1: a number of of double teams where we move people
Speaker 1: off the ball. But but those big runs and things
Speaker 1: that happened, those are involved in a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: It starts with the offensive line. Certainly, the back gets
Speaker 1: all the credit for the yards, but it starts with
Speaker 1: the offensive line and starts with the wide receivers coming
Speaker 1: in and blocking force and pushing people by to get
Speaker 1: extra yards downfield. Um, it's a it's a group effort
Speaker 1: with everybody involved in it. So, um, you know, there
Speaker 1: was some good double teams in there, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of good things that happened in there too, with
Speaker 1: with everybody on the offense trying to contribute to a
Speaker 1: good run. So there you have coach Studentsville breaking down
Speaker 1: the running game. There. He's he's been doing this for
Speaker 1: a long time. Run game coordinator, offensive coordinator, play caller,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff throughout the course of his pro career,
Speaker 1: in college career, and just coaching career in general. So
Speaker 1: good stuff there from coach. You can find the entirety
Speaker 1: of his media availability up on the YouTube channel. And
Speaker 1: we'll come back to some more stuff with coach here
Speaker 1: in just one second. But I want to pivot now
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the football and the edge
Speaker 1: position because I continue to watch the work of Emmanuel Ogba,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, and Andrew Van Ginkl and the surge they've
Speaker 1: shown in recent weeks and how to kind of extrapolate
Speaker 1: that into Sundy or Monday's game rather against the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, when the Dolphins are gonna have to bring
Speaker 1: all kinds of bodies to the party to get Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill and Alan Kamara stopped up and and get some
Speaker 1: pass rush, and they do have to go through the air.
Speaker 1: But I find the construction of this room interesting and
Speaker 1: how it was put together because obviously pretty much every
Speaker 1: position group, actually all of them, really have been remade
Speaker 1: since Brian Flora's arrival back in nineteen with Chris Greer
Speaker 1: being at the head of the front office and his
Speaker 1: scouting staff he put together in the pro personnel and
Speaker 1: everything they've done to rebuild this entire roster. Since they've
Speaker 1: kind of become a tandem here in Flora's and Greer.
Speaker 1: I look at the edge position and think, man, they
Speaker 1: really knocked out of the park and so many different
Speaker 1: avenues to get this collection of players. I mean free
Speaker 1: agent and Emmanuel Ogba, one first round draft pick in
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, one of the first draft picks of the
Speaker 1: Flora as Greer pairing and Andrew Van Ginkle back in
Speaker 1: the fifth round in twenty nineteen. And you know, he
Speaker 1: plays with his hand in the dirt, standing up in
Speaker 1: a two point stance, he drops into coverage. He recognizes
Speaker 1: stick combos as well as anybody in the National Football
Speaker 1: League where you're on the stick route, the little hook route,
Speaker 1: and the flat route. I love watching him defend that
Speaker 1: as well as rush the passer as well as retrace
Speaker 1: the quarterback because he scrambles across the backfield. Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: just a pure pass rusher off the edge, tough to
Speaker 1: deal with the amount of attention he commands and double
Speaker 1: teams and chips and help. And then Emmanuel Ogba and
Speaker 1: his ability to do a little bit of everything, to
Speaker 1: condense inside, to rush from that interior position, to set
Speaker 1: strong edges in the running game. And really this is
Speaker 1: true of all these guys and the multiple capacities they
Speaker 1: play and the past rush ability. And again, one thing
Speaker 1: I love seeing more than anything else we talked about
Speaker 1: in the podcast yesterday is just how they fly to
Speaker 1: the football. They're all over the place. You can see
Speaker 1: it on runs away from their particular gap. They chase
Speaker 1: that thing down from the backside and really show that
Speaker 1: effort in that motor and I think that that helps
Speaker 1: with obviously their skill set to this particular stat where
Speaker 1: they all rank inside the top thirty on Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus in terms of edge players and quarterback pressures. Ogbas
Speaker 1: fifty seven now after one more day of games, is
Speaker 1: tenth among all edge defenders. Andre Vanne giggles forty quarterback
Speaker 1: pressures are tied for in the National Football League among
Speaker 1: edge defenders, and in that same grouping, Jalen Phillips has
Speaker 1: thirty seven that's tied forty in the NFL. So the
Speaker 1: sack production, swatting balls down at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: setting up other guys for chances to make plays, it's
Speaker 1: all part of the job description for this group and
Speaker 1: for the entire defense. Well, I think, you know, any
Speaker 1: any time that you look at individuals stats, there's there's
Speaker 1: obviously a lot that goes into um, you know, all
Speaker 1: eleven guys being on the same page. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, guys doing their jobs well uh
Speaker 1: sets you know, somebody up on defense for production and um,
Speaker 1: you know, and we've been you know, like like we've
Speaker 1: said all year, our guys they work extremely hard. Uh
Speaker 1: They've they've put a lot of work in and I
Speaker 1: believe we're still improving and we've still got room to improve.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's really a credit to them
Speaker 1: for the execution, the communication, the understanding of what goes on. Uh,
Speaker 1: and in each given play and uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: ability to get some production and pressure. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times are our guys are very unselfish.
Speaker 1: You'll see you'll see other guys actually open up stuff
Speaker 1: for other players, and uh they're just as happy. Uh
Speaker 1: you know that that we're succeeding as a team. And
Speaker 1: again I mentioned it there as you heard Coach talk
Speaker 1: about some of the things we've covered the podcast about
Speaker 1: guys being unself or being selfless, I should say to
Speaker 1: set other guys up for chances to make plays and
Speaker 1: celebrate it all together. But as I talk about the
Speaker 1: way they down the backside on running plays or Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins retracing a screen, whatever the case may be, the
Speaker 1: hustle effort we have seen from so many players. I
Speaker 1: think it's the most entertaining part of this defense. How
Speaker 1: they all play with their hair on fire that way,
Speaker 1: and the effort is always going to lead to takeaways.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've heard the term or the the
Speaker 1: idea before the takeaways you're not sustainable. I kind of
Speaker 1: call bs on that because the Dolphins are proving that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've they're putting together another streak here of
Speaker 1: takeaways in terms of getting the football away from the
Speaker 1: opposing offense. After having that twentysomething game streak earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, snapped, picking it right back up and their
Speaker 1: top ten in the NFL and takeaways this season once again.
Speaker 1: And I think that's set up a lot of the
Speaker 1: time by just running to the football and playing aggressively.
Speaker 1: Here's coach Boyer on the coaching point or the mentality
Speaker 1: on that defense to fly to the football. Well, I
Speaker 1: think you know, ultimately, you know when you're when you're
Speaker 1: playing team defense, I mean, you definitely want to get
Speaker 1: everybody with a relentless pursuit to the football. Um. And
Speaker 1: I don't know who said it or what quote it was,
Speaker 1: but you know, a long time ago somebody said, you know,
Speaker 1: you can measure the love of your teammate by your
Speaker 1: distance to the ball. And you know, and I think
Speaker 1: you see our guys, you know, they play hard. Uh,
Speaker 1: they play for one another. Uh, there's a joy out there,
Speaker 1: and they know that people are counting on them, So
Speaker 1: you know, their effort to the ball is very important.
Speaker 1: And obviously we highlight that when it's when it's done
Speaker 1: well and when it's not to the standard. That we
Speaker 1: believe it should be. Then you know we get on
Speaker 1: that too. So but you know, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that fly around to the football out there.
Speaker 1: And again, like I said, we're gonna need our best
Speaker 1: football this week. We got we got a great opponent
Speaker 1: coming up. Um, you know, coach Peyton, coach car Michael,
Speaker 1: phenomenal offensive coaches and make it really hard for you defensively. Uh,
Speaker 1: they got great Uh you know, they got a good
Speaker 1: offensive line, they got great skill players. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: they got really good running backs. Uh, they got a
Speaker 1: dynamic quarterback that can run, he could throw. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a big challenge for us, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna need everybody, all eleven guys on defense to
Speaker 1: be on the same page, to communicate well, to play
Speaker 1: with good fundamentals and good techniques for sixty minutes, one
Speaker 1: play at a time. That's what we're gonna need this week.
Speaker 1: And you know, but we're excited about the challenge. Definitely
Speaker 1: a challenge coming up on Monday night in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and finish that point. Their coach Flora's
Speaker 1: touched on the Saints as well, calling them a tough,
Speaker 1: physical team across the board offense, defense, and special teams.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of great players. Obviously, they're well
Speaker 1: coached really across the board. He too mentioned Sean Payton
Speaker 1: and Pete Carmichael. Dennis Allen has been one of the
Speaker 1: top d season the game for a while now. Rizz Darren, Rizzy,
Speaker 1: we all know who he is. Special teams coach, he says,
Speaker 1: I think they do a great job. They've got a
Speaker 1: lot of really good players. They played well last night.
Speaker 1: That was on Monday. Talking about Sunday night, they've been
Speaker 1: playing really well. Like I said, we have our hands full.
Speaker 1: So there you go, two coaches there, Flora's and boy,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the job coming up on Monday night
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. But I want to go back to
Speaker 1: what coach talked about there about being selfless and celebrating
Speaker 1: place for one another, because I think few guys embody
Speaker 1: that the way that Nick Needham does and being a
Speaker 1: selfless teammate who since arriving in Miami as an undrafted
Speaker 1: free agent back in twenty nineteen, whatever is asked of him,
Speaker 1: he's done it at a high level. He was a
Speaker 1: lockdown corner at you Tep University, of Texas El Paso
Speaker 1: on the perimeter almost exclusively. He played five snaps in
Speaker 1: the slot and one at free safety, according to Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus his final year there at UTEP, you go
Speaker 1: back to his freshman season, he did play a little
Speaker 1: bit more inside, but beyond that it was like a
Speaker 1: total of ten snaps between safety and inside cornerback. So
Speaker 1: he was basically a perimeter cornerback exclusively. And you know,
Speaker 1: like all dbs that come through Miami under Flores, m Boyer,
Speaker 1: Needham took some immediate cross training in that rookies he
Speaker 1: Eason played a hundred and fifty seven snaps on the
Speaker 1: inside compared to five thirty one on the perimeter. But
Speaker 1: then after landing one of the game's top cornerbacks, you know,
Speaker 1: a perimeter cornerback and Byron Jones last year, Needham had
Speaker 1: to find a new position to get that playing time again.
Speaker 1: Because we know they've you know, Charles Burke's, Josh Boyer,
Speaker 1: Joel Alexander, Brian Flores have all talked about this. It's
Speaker 1: hard to crack the lineup when Xavien Howard and Byron
Speaker 1: Jones are on the outside, and those are the two
Speaker 1: positions you get a chance at and those guys don't
Speaker 1: miss games. They haven't missed games over the last two years,
Speaker 1: and that's what they're gonna play. So Needham had to
Speaker 1: move inside to find some more work and he did that.
Speaker 1: And he's been targeted sixty times. Last year, I should
Speaker 1: say he was targeted sixty times by opposing quarterbacks of
Speaker 1: the pass writing of just nine point six on such throws.
Speaker 1: And this year and even an even larger role, his
Speaker 1: pass writing against us right at nine point eight below
Speaker 1: league average. So it's the type of career arc to
Speaker 1: me that exemplifies what it means to play for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. And again Tuesday, Josh all Your showed his
Speaker 1: appreciation for what Nick has been able to do in
Speaker 1: his three years, culminating on Sunday with forty five or
Speaker 1: forty four rather of his fifty seven defensive snaps coming
Speaker 1: in the high post, that free safety position where he
Speaker 1: was not targeted a single time in the passing game
Speaker 1: on thirty four coverage snaps. Well, Nick's a hard worker,
Speaker 1: he's very intelligent. Um, you know he's played inside and outside.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, uh from a corner position, which you
Speaker 1: know he's involved in a lot of communication, especially when
Speaker 1: he's on the inside. And um, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: a strong communicator. He understands where guys fit and where
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be and um, you know, and obviously
Speaker 1: he has a skill set that allows him to do
Speaker 1: multiple things. And you know, he put a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of time and effort in it into it,
Speaker 1: and you know it was credit to him to be
Speaker 1: able to kind of a smooth transition for him even
Speaker 1: though it was a foreign position. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's just his ability to understand concepts and handle conceptual
Speaker 1: learning at a at a fast and high rate. And
Speaker 1: I would say this is something that he's improved, you know,
Speaker 1: each year that he's been here, and he works very
Speaker 1: hard at it, uh to kind of know and understand,
Speaker 1: you know, how everybody fits. And uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: he's a strong communicator, he's confident what he's saying. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he's just a good, good all
Speaker 1: around football player that can play multiple spots. And Flora's
Speaker 1: echoed those sentiments talking about Nick being a smart player,
Speaker 1: how he understands the defense kind of conceptually, who was
Speaker 1: supposed to be in what spot. He hasn't had a
Speaker 1: ton of reps there, he said, obviously throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the year, but he was able to step in
Speaker 1: on Sunday and take some practice reps and then really
Speaker 1: set up up for us in the game. So good
Speaker 1: stuff there from the coaches. I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and keep it here with the coaches and talk about
Speaker 1: Byron Jones as a coach. Bowyer was asked about his
Speaker 1: performance and his production, and he had some good insight
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins outside corner Byron. You know, he he
Speaker 1: had some production for us, uh last week. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I thought he had a very
Speaker 1: solid game. I think he's doing a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that he does on the
Speaker 1: field that I think, you know, even when the ball
Speaker 1: doesn't go away, a lot of people don't see, um,
Speaker 1: so you know, and again he worked. He's one of
Speaker 1: those guys that works in his craft. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. Um, he's very good at film study.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh you know, he seems to be playing
Speaker 1: some of his best ball and we're gonna need that
Speaker 1: this week. Uh, you know, with the Saints coming up.
Speaker 1: You know, again, this is a big game for us
Speaker 1: and you know, and I'm sure Byron will come in here,
Speaker 1: work hard and continue to do some of the things
Speaker 1: that he's been doing. But yeah, we've been getting, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of production out of Byron for sure.
Speaker 1: Now you have coach boy Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up one more here from Josh Boyer talking about Christian Wilkins. Touchdown.
Speaker 1: Some interesting perspectives here from the Dolphins defensive coordinator. You know,
Speaker 1: the funny thing about that is, uh, I have not
Speaker 1: seen it, um, because a lot of times when we're
Speaker 1: on offense, you know, obviously we're we're always preparing on
Speaker 1: what what situations could be coming up defensively, I haven't
Speaker 1: watched any of the offensive film. I'm happy for Christian.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, Christian will probably tell you how
Speaker 1: athletic he is, which he is athletic, um, But I'm
Speaker 1: happy for him. I'm happy for a team. I don't
Speaker 1: care who scores, you know, obviously, Uh, you know, anytime
Speaker 1: we score that, that's that's a good deal for us. UM.
Speaker 1: But I have not seen the play. Let's play a
Speaker 1: few more sound bites here. Let's go ahead and transition
Speaker 1: to Dolphins the special team's corner Danny Crossman, who was
Speaker 1: asked about the snap to the up back in the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, and just what happened there the old
Speaker 1: adage failure to communicate. Again, just as much as we
Speaker 1: have about communication, we have missed communication there on exactly
Speaker 1: the process of what we're trying to get done in
Speaker 1: that situation. And uh, and up with the bad play
Speaker 1: and let's go ahead and been afar here to coach
Speaker 1: talking about Michael Pollardy, I asked him, you know, Pollardi's
Speaker 1: average has gone up over the last few weeks, and
Speaker 1: Coach gave us an interesting perspective about the style of
Speaker 1: punch you asked for in certain situations. Again, I think
Speaker 1: like we've talked about on several occasions, you know, in
Speaker 1: this particular game especially, you know, based on the field
Speaker 1: position and where we're punting from. And we've had several
Speaker 1: games this year where you know, all the puns for
Speaker 1: fifty yard nine plus fifty. This happening to be a
Speaker 1: game where a lot of our puns were backed up.
Speaker 1: So more over an opportunity to flip the field and
Speaker 1: more an opportunity to get the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: In terms of looking at gross I want to go
Speaker 1: back to the offensive side of the football now and
Speaker 1: go back to coach Studentsville, who was asked about Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson's moved to left guard and what he's seen from
Speaker 1: him over the last couple of months of his new position.
Speaker 1: I think he's continuing to work and develop at that position.
Speaker 1: It's obviously new experience going from tackle to guard, but
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's he's committed to it. He's working at
Speaker 1: it all the time, constantly and working to get better.
Speaker 1: And I think we're seeing, um, you know, improvement in
Speaker 1: in all areas. With that, we just all of us
Speaker 1: have to do in every position, We've got to keep
Speaker 1: getting better and keep working to improve all the time.
Speaker 1: So going from the trenches, inside out to the perimeter.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to ask coach about the process of
Speaker 1: losing a player midweek when you have him for part
Speaker 1: of the game plan and regards to jal and Waddle
Speaker 1: who goes on the COVID list late last week before
Speaker 1: coming off and now on Monday for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But how much of a challenge is it to adjust
Speaker 1: your game plan when you lose a guy you were
Speaker 1: planning on having in that particular game plan. I mean, unfortunately, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: those situations happen and where your personnel changes, and when
Speaker 1: it does happen, you know, they're not gonna they're not
Speaker 1: gonna stop playing the game on Sunday. So we've got
Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to get somebody else ready to go.
Speaker 1: Somebody else has got to take advantage of that opportunity
Speaker 1: to be ready to go. And then we've we've got
Speaker 1: the expectation for everybody, coaches and players that we have
Speaker 1: to perform at a high level when that opportunity comes up. So, um,
Speaker 1: does it change your plans to a certain extent. Certainly
Speaker 1: it does with a good player that that you're you're
Speaker 1: missing in there. But um, we've gotta we've gotta be
Speaker 1: ready to go, and someone's gonna step up there because
Speaker 1: they're gonna put the ball down on Sunday. Let's go
Speaker 1: right back to the trenches now, As coach was asked
Speaker 1: about Robert Jones, the undrafted rookie this season who played
Speaker 1: ten snaps in the game on Sunday, you kept hearing
Speaker 1: it on the TV broadcast. I'm sure number sixty five
Speaker 1: has reported as eligible the extra offensive lineman under the
Speaker 1: game six oh line the heavy package. Here's coach on
Speaker 1: the decision to go with that on Sunday. Well, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, um, it's it's something we've talked about and
Speaker 1: have the capability of doing. Um. You know, you can
Speaker 1: utilize an extra player in a number of different ways. Um,
Speaker 1: And it was just an opportunity to get Rob in there.
Speaker 1: We felt it was something that would give us an
Speaker 1: advantage and again we felt it was something that would
Speaker 1: give us productive plays potentially. So UM, you know, we
Speaker 1: we we do those things on different personnel groups at
Speaker 1: different times and where different plays. Whatever that is. We
Speaker 1: we have the capability of using different players, much like
Speaker 1: we use Christian as the fullback in the goal line package.
Speaker 1: It's very very similar sort of concept. And I want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and finish up with this question I
Speaker 1: had for coach regarding the message to the team after
Speaker 1: you face the adversity there, because I think it applies
Speaker 1: to really the rest of the season and every single
Speaker 1: game and every single day in this profession of how
Speaker 1: you overcome something that doesn't go your way, because when
Speaker 1: you're competing against somebody else, it's gonna happen. So what
Speaker 1: was the message to the team after the pick six,
Speaker 1: knowing we have to go put a drive together after
Speaker 1: that happened in the game. Well, I think the message
Speaker 1: is consistent, and it starts, you know, coming from coach
Speaker 1: all the time that hey, we're gonna we've got to
Speaker 1: play for sixty minutes. This game is gonna be sixty
Speaker 1: minutes and we're gonna have to play it right down
Speaker 1: to the end. We don't know how it's gonna end up,
Speaker 1: but we know if we're in it at the end,
Speaker 1: we believe that we're gonna play hard enough and find
Speaker 1: a way. So we've got to play for the full
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. And you know, adversity happens, and our players responded, um,
Speaker 1: you know really well in that situation and gave us
Speaker 1: a chance to win in football game. But we've got
Speaker 1: to play the whole game for sixteen minutes and coach
Speaker 1: preachers at all the time. So there you go. There's
Speaker 1: your Coordinator media from Tuesday. Again. If you have not
Speaker 1: done so already, you can check out the entirety of
Speaker 1: those interviews on the YouTube channel, the Miami Dolphins official
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