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Speaker 1: How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis
Speaker 1: Wingfield And on today's show, a tough, tough loss up
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, the Dolphins fall to the Ravens blowout fifty
Speaker 1: six to nineteen. We'll talk about the key moments, the
Speaker 1: five takeaways we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and
Speaker 1: quarterback to a Tongue Bailoa from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast Miami Dolphins. Before we get into any of
Speaker 1: the stats from the game, let's go ahead and start
Speaker 1: with Mike McDaniel, who when asked about the Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: injury and gave a very insightful answer and response to
Speaker 1: the decision to have Bradley Chubb in the game at
Speaker 1: that time and the desire for guys to be able
Speaker 1: to get the reps that they wanted lay all the
Speaker 1: guys that were in the game, wanted to be in
Speaker 1: the game to hoefully finish out with a better taste
Speaker 1: in their mouth. As coach McDaniel described it. Didn't want
Speaker 1: to play the whole audio for you guys, but this
Speaker 1: is the back part of his answer talking about the
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb injury, and it just kind of, I guess
Speaker 1: thirty thousand foot view right now of the football team
Speaker 1: and the focus where it already is the players.
Speaker 3: Uh didn't see the result of the game looking at
Speaker 3: looking the way it did, and you know they're they
Speaker 3: were hungry to get right and it didn't work out
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 4: But you know, at the same time, it's it's not
Speaker 4: you have to you have to you know it. Right now,
Speaker 4: a lot of.
Speaker 3: Guys are hurting, as they should be. They've they've invested
Speaker 3: a unbelievable amount into this season. But the biggest thing
Speaker 3: is that with the locker room like this under uh,
Speaker 3: with with those failed expectations, I know, I know they're
Speaker 3: going to grow closer, not further apart. And that's important
Speaker 3: in this this part of the year because you know,
Speaker 3: we'll have a division crown to play for next week
Speaker 3: and that's what we'll have to take everything that we've
Speaker 3: learned good, bad, and indifferent and apply it next week,
Speaker 3: because it's a you know, if we would have said
Speaker 3: that after week four or whatever, if that we you know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna play this this Buffalo team again and it
Speaker 3: will be the last game of the season and it'll
Speaker 3: be for the the division crown. I think everyone would
Speaker 3: have accepted that. So there's there's some perspective that that
Speaker 3: the you know I talked to the team about and
Speaker 3: their their eyes were laser focused and they will be
Speaker 3: eager to uh wash away this past game. And the
Speaker 3: only way you can do that is prepare for the
Speaker 3: next one.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into all of the what's ahead
Speaker 1: next week, what has to happen, and why the sky
Speaker 1: hasn't completely fallen. But I will give you guys a
Speaker 1: bit of a spoiler in that regard. I'm gonna raise
Speaker 1: some things that have concerned me that now have kind
Speaker 1: of come to a head here in week seventeen.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about that in the podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead, though, as we do every single Sunday
Speaker 1: night on the Recap show break down the Dolphins of
Speaker 1: Averis statistics perspective, and it was even early I tweeted
Speaker 1: out and probably going to wind up on freezing cold
Speaker 1: takes the days I thought these are the two best
Speaker 1: teams in the AFC by a pretty wide margin, and
Speaker 1: that was when the score was fourteen to ten, with
Speaker 1: Miami having a twenty yard at advantage, a five play advantage,
Speaker 1: and almost identical time on possession, because Miami in these
Speaker 1: games against these teams have gone toe to toe for
Speaker 1: the most part, and then there's like two eight minute
Speaker 1: spans against Buffalo and against the Ravens where things didn't
Speaker 1: go their way and that reduce or produces i should say,
Speaker 1: completely lop sided scores that make it come away from
Speaker 1: these games with a very very sour taste in your mouth.
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans are right to feel very i mean betrayed
Speaker 1: by your expectations, but just ultimately let down by the
Speaker 1: Dolphins inability to compete in a game like this with
Speaker 1: such such magnitude, such really high level achievement on the
Speaker 1: line for what you could have been this season if
Speaker 1: you had won this game, and of course next season
Speaker 1: and all the stuff that is more important to achieve
Speaker 1: is still there. But to put this showing out in
Speaker 1: that fashion on that stage with everyone talking about how
Speaker 1: fun this game was and Miami's chance to go in
Speaker 1: there and upset the Ravens very disappointing, and you are
Speaker 1: one hundred percent justified and feeling like crap on your
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve and into New Year's DAGs you hear
Speaker 1: this podcast, actually just want to go ahead and put
Speaker 1: that out there. Let's go ahead and get over these stats.
Speaker 1: Twenty four to twenty in the first downs, the Ravens
Speaker 1: were only four to seven on third down because quite frankly,
Speaker 1: they just never really had to deal with them. Miami
Speaker 1: was six for fifteen, which was competitive for a long time.
Speaker 1: Two for four on fourth was Miami Baltimore one for one.
Speaker 1: That one towards the end of the half where they
Speaker 1: get seven instead of potential long Justin Tuck field goal.
Speaker 1: At ten, they outgained Miami four ninety one to three
Speaker 1: seventy five. They get let's see one turnover to Miami's three.
Speaker 1: Dolphins got sacked three times. Lamar got sacked just one time.
Speaker 5: In the game.
Speaker 1: They had seven penalties, We had five, and they had
Speaker 1: the ball for thirty minutes twenty three seconds to Miami
Speaker 1: had the ball for just you know what, twenty three
Speaker 1: seconds short of thirty. On their own side, they had
Speaker 1: more passing three thirty one two twenty one and just
Speaker 1: a bit more rushing one sixty to one fifty four.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned the way the game started off, and
Speaker 1: I thought Miami had a fantastic plan, and with the
Speaker 1: Ravens having their injuries of their own, thought that Miami
Speaker 1: was gonna find a way to march up and down
Speaker 1: the field and have an MVP type of performance from
Speaker 1: Tua and Tyreek and just score forty points and go
Speaker 1: win this thing. Because they go eight plays seventy five
Speaker 1: yards eight Chan twenty five yard opening screen Tyreek with
Speaker 1: a tough catch on the back shoulder for twelve yards.
Speaker 1: Ingle gets a little play action rollout for eighteen from Tua.
Speaker 1: We're cooking eight Chan twelve yards, puts up a first
Speaker 1: and goal, and then we get a one yard run
Speaker 1: a second down in completion, and then Tuoa threads the
Speaker 1: needle on an absolute laser into Cedric Wilson, who ran
Speaker 1: a fantastic sick route with a little shake to the outside,
Speaker 1: bend that thing back inside right behind the hook linebacker,
Speaker 1: right in front of the coverage safety.
Speaker 5: And I told Jus and saith this.
Speaker 1: I thought Tua was a fraction of a hair, not
Speaker 1: even a full hair, a fraction of a hair late,
Speaker 1: and that's why there was contested, a contested catch rather
Speaker 1: than just a touchdown catch than a collision. But either way,
Speaker 1: great play by Cedric to hang on to that thing.
Speaker 1: Great job by Tua to widen the hook and pump
Speaker 1: that thing in there. And we're cooking a third down
Speaker 1: conversion in low in mid red zone. That's like MVP stuff, right,
Speaker 1: But then Baltimore gets it and already third and sixteen
Speaker 1: after an offensive pass interference after they dropped a deep
Speaker 1: shot down the field to a wide open Rashaan Bateman
Speaker 1: against xaviing Howard who got beat badly on the play.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, third and sixteen, ball gonna come right back.
Speaker 1: I gonna go score again. This is gonna be the
Speaker 1: Dolphins day, except it wasn't at all, because they get
Speaker 1: up a first down on a screen pass. Open field
Speaker 1: tackling an issue. We'll hear that from head coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel here in just a second. And then it's bang,
Speaker 1: bang bang, wide open spaces, guys running clean Flowers goes
Speaker 1: twenty five yards in a corner ut around a show
Speaker 1: on Elliott Gus Edwards, then Bateman for fourteen. Lamar just
Speaker 1: beats the Bliss with a quick shot like Lamar was
Speaker 1: on his absolute stuff in this game. Then they get
Speaker 1: the wheel route and they got caught in the offensive
Speaker 1: PAS interference, only this time they hit it as Duke
Speaker 1: Riley tries to work under the cut under the natural
Speaker 1: rub and it's an easy touchdown. Just the offense looked,
Speaker 1: or the defense rather looked so out of sorts. Receivers
Speaker 1: wide open, the ball right on time, no pressure on Lamar.
Speaker 1: Just an absolute regression from what we've seen from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense on that drive, and it will continue throughout
Speaker 1: the day. But the Dolphins offense, like that Buffalo game,
Speaker 1: takes the football right back in marches down the field
Speaker 1: six place sixty five yards. You get a eighteen yard capital,
Speaker 1: a anticipation strike as jtos Holden would say, from tyreek
Speaker 1: or from two of the Tyreek rather. Then ah Chan
Speaker 1: cruises for a forty five yard run after really fantastic
Speaker 1: edges by Julian Hill and Durham Smyth and Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: gets a crackback and Craig Craft is downfield leading a
Speaker 1: big block.
Speaker 5: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is the offense that we know we have against
Speaker 1: a banged up Ravens defense. Let's go score forty points right.
Speaker 1: Then we get a loss and a short gain on
Speaker 1: to eight chan and then Tyreek has another great ball
Speaker 1: from Tua, little anticipation, popped to the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone and it's a room service catch. Tyreek's made
Speaker 1: this catch three thousand times this year in practice on
Speaker 1: air off the jugs machine can't squeeze, it goes out
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone.
Speaker 5: Kick a field goal.
Speaker 1: Took a ten to seven lead, and then you get
Speaker 1: a stop four play seventeen yard drive, a stop where
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler has an awesome rep. There's a great coverage
Speaker 1: sack where they just basically rush their lanes stay in
Speaker 1: good position. I think it was Steeler who got the sack,
Speaker 1: who walked the guard back for the ultimate tackle of
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. But good rushing, integrity, good coverage downfield. Lamar
Speaker 1: has to scramble on third and twenty five and you
Speaker 1: get him off the field. But then Miami's offense gets
Speaker 1: it back and they punt it after what I thought
Speaker 1: was the first instance of the Ravens getting Tua off
Speaker 1: of his rhythm after he converts a third and five
Speaker 1: for twenty yards to Durham Smythe who, by the way,
Speaker 1: do we have a new seambuster? And durham Smyth like
Speaker 1: this guy's catching all kinds of passes in that part
Speaker 1: of the field and the way he blocks on the edge.
Speaker 1: Glad we got that guy locked up here, because he
Speaker 1: looks pretty impressive the last few weeks in this offense.
Speaker 1: But then they got pressure on two where I thought
Speaker 1: his feet kind of got ugly where when they pressured
Speaker 1: him when he was in the middle of his drop.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's very good about interrupting that drop and going
Speaker 1: and making a play elsewhere, but sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: the feet get a little bit clunky, and they did
Speaker 1: right here, and he takes a sack and then he
Speaker 1: throws a ball to Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 5: They're not on the same page.
Speaker 1: Ball a little bit inside Cedric's inside outside of that ball,
Speaker 1: and it almost gets picked, but eventually just a Dolphins punt.
Speaker 1: But still it's ten to seven. You feel good about it, right,
Speaker 1: But then the Ravens march eighty nine yards on ten
Speaker 1: plays and it was almost exclusively through the running game.
Speaker 1: Zack Stealler got banged up on this drive and was
Speaker 1: kind of dragging his arm alongside him, but he comes
Speaker 1: back into the game and continue to make plays the
Speaker 1: rest of the day, just an absolute warrior instead of
Speaker 1: a football player that he is. But they went after
Speaker 1: a Seler went down three runs twenty four yards a
Speaker 1: fourteen yard completion in there as well. You get a
Speaker 1: great player from Zieler and Seeler and Elliott against the
Speaker 1: screen looks like it's wide open, but then Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: makes that fantastic catch in the sideline and I thought
Speaker 1: his hand shifts it off the football, but he ultimately
Speaker 1: they controlled it, so I get why it's upheld like
Speaker 1: that first and goal of the three run in for
Speaker 1: a touchdown right after that fourteen to ten, but in
Speaker 1: Miami's offense gets the ball back once again and marches
Speaker 1: down the field forty nine yards on eleven plays. They
Speaker 1: ultimately wind up having to kick a field goal because
Speaker 1: they bogged down. But you continue to get more production,
Speaker 1: including another third down conversion from Tua to Durham Smyth
Speaker 1: with a great throw on a little high low concept
Speaker 1: that kind of caught the defense flat footed and they
Speaker 1: pick up another third lung.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm gonna get to this.
Speaker 1: But I had Tua in my takeaways originally as a
Speaker 1: potential like Tua quote unquote trying to be funny legacy
Speaker 1: game because he was playing so well in these such
Speaker 1: high leverage positions and put in Miami in positions to
Speaker 1: go win a football game. But then they kicked the
Speaker 1: ball back off to the Ravens in a fourteen to
Speaker 1: thirteen game, and it's a one play, seventy five yard
Speaker 1: touchdown because we get caught on the exact same exit
Speaker 1: motion whatever you want to call that cheap motion, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, where Tyreek starts in and
Speaker 1: runs out into his pattern. They run that play and
Speaker 1: we bust it. Like Eli Apple and Deshaun Elliott not
Speaker 1: in the same page. There, it's a walk in room
Speaker 1: service touchdown for seventy five yards to their fantastic rookies
Speaker 1: A Flowers. That's twenty one thirteen. All right, You're still
Speaker 1: not in bad shape, right because there's two fifty eight
Speaker 1: to play in the first half and you have a
Speaker 1: red hot offense that's playing really well. This whole season
Speaker 1: and this game, and you march it right down the
Speaker 1: field once again four yards or fifteen yards rather to
Speaker 1: von eh Chan seventeen to durham smythe again right down
Speaker 1: the seam. But then as the clock hits the two
Speaker 1: minute mark, I thought they were gonna blow it dead
Speaker 1: because it did hit the two minute warning, But they
Speaker 1: also get that same little grace that you get on
Speaker 1: a delay of game call, right which I think is
Speaker 1: probably what happened there. But Tua tries to force a
Speaker 1: shot in here in between two in between two Ravens defenders,
Speaker 1: and it winds up being a fantastic one handed pick
Speaker 1: by Patrick Queen. And that was kind of the story
Speaker 1: of the day at this point going forward, was the
Speaker 1: Ravens linebackers' ability to get depth and interrupt the passing
Speaker 1: game and then a running game that was either kind
Speaker 1: of explosive player short gain and nothing at all. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of where they took over in this play
Speaker 1: right here, Tua just doesn't just kind of stares onto
Speaker 1: this one play and throws a bad ball into a
Speaker 1: bad spot where he didn't use any type of manipulation,
Speaker 1: and it results in a big, big pick and the
Speaker 1: Ravens wind up going four plays thirty eight drive thirty eight.
Speaker 5: Yards to score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: On the other side because of a fourth and seven
Speaker 1: conversion where we get a big third down pass breakup
Speaker 1: from Eli Apple and another pressure by Chub and David
Speaker 1: Long that winds up forcing a long third and seven.
Speaker 1: They missed that third and seven, and on the fourth
Speaker 1: and seven, Jevon Holland slips and falls to the turf
Speaker 1: on Isaiah Likely who and then turn makes his own
Speaker 1: one handed catch and beats our man coverage and goes
Speaker 1: right down the field for a thirty six yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: So you had two plays for two yards and that
Speaker 1: drive to start, or rather three plays for two yards,
Speaker 1: and then you get thirty six on the back end
Speaker 1: for a touchdown from Lamar Jackson to Isaiah Likely. So
Speaker 1: just these big moments, not making the play us dropping
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the back of the end zone, then
Speaker 1: making two one handed catches to flip the game from
Speaker 1: possibly twenty one to sixteen, maybe even twenty one to twenty,
Speaker 1: or even twenty one to thirteen. Flipping it from that
Speaker 1: to twenty eight to thirteen. It's almost almost good night.
Speaker 1: Nurse it puts you in a position where you can
Speaker 1: make it so on the other side of the two
Speaker 1: minute warnings. So just tough looks, I mean two of
Speaker 1: a mistake. Javon Holland gets beat on that play. Tyreek
Speaker 1: kill a mistake, some offensive line protection issues where they
Speaker 1: get through the sack. Just little a busted coverage leads
Speaker 1: to a big touchdown. Little mistakes against teams like this
Speaker 1: is how this will wind up going. And that's to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have been this year. That's who they've proven
Speaker 1: to be this year. Seventeen weeks into the season, Miami
Speaker 1: gets the ball back six plays, thirteen yards. They called
Speaker 1: the offensive pass interference on Cedric Wilson, which doesn't matter now,
Speaker 1: never would have made a difference in the game, But
Speaker 1: that was a call that I can't fathom. He kind
Speaker 1: of like just ran by the guy and got called
Speaker 1: OPI for it. You wind up not scoring. The Ravens
Speaker 1: get it back, take it to end of the half
Speaker 1: and it's twenty eight to thirteen and you're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: get a stop, get a ball back, go score, and
Speaker 1: you're right.
Speaker 5: Back in the game.
Speaker 1: Didn't go that way at all, because the Ravens take
Speaker 1: a big kickoff return. So now we've introduced a third
Speaker 1: phase that gets beat in this game. The special team
Speaker 1: into this equation and all they needs three plays and
Speaker 1: sixteen yards to go score a touchdown because of a
Speaker 1: huge kick return, two chunk gains, and then once again
Speaker 1: they bust not the busted coverage, but the front side
Speaker 1: blocker on play action leaks to the backside of the
Speaker 1: formation and no one goes with him. It happened three
Speaker 1: times in this game for scores, so it happens again here.
Speaker 1: It was one of six touchdown passes in the game
Speaker 1: for the Ravens, five for Lamar Jackson, one for Tyler Huntley.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and close up this first segment the
Speaker 1: same way we started it with. Coach McDaniel explained the
Speaker 1: six passing touchdowns of the Ravens and how the defense
Speaker 1: can get that fixed.
Speaker 3: Pride ourselves on. You know, if you're gonna score, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to earn it. And what I mean by
Speaker 3: that is, you know, we haven't had many run in
Speaker 3: touchdowns or that many run in touchdowns as we had
Speaker 3: this game, which is the function of tackling a it's
Speaker 3: a you know, it's to their credit. I think they
Speaker 3: had a good game plan and got their players that
Speaker 3: are pretty good in space. In space, however, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm confident saying before watching the film that you know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be very very We're not gonna be happy
Speaker 3: with the way that we we tackled in an open space.
Speaker 3: So we're got to get down to the bottom of that,
Speaker 3: which you know, I'm very confident that we will. And
Speaker 3: you know, we have a lot of talent, talented, prideful,
Speaker 3: invested players that that know that's not the that's not
Speaker 3: what they've created with the Dolphins this season, and will
Speaker 3: be very, very highly motivated to get that stuff corrected
Speaker 3: in a short amount of time. And that's what it
Speaker 3: takes to get get something like that corrected, is high
Speaker 3: motivation because you don't have that much time to do it.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our halftime break right there
Speaker 1: after the opening drive of the second half. It's thirty
Speaker 1: five to thirteen Ravens. We'll come back and wrap up
Speaker 1: the game as well as the five big picture takeaways
Speaker 1: and hear more.
Speaker 5: From two A Tongue Bai Lowa.
Speaker 1: That's all next Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation left off the first
Speaker 1: half of the Drift Time podcast, or the first segment,
Speaker 1: I should say, with a thirty five to thirteen Ravens advantage,
Speaker 1: Miami gets the football back and goes four plays and
Speaker 1: punts after an opening run from Devon h Chan where
Speaker 1: Miami's found these chunk gains man they get big gains
Speaker 1: on first down to open the drive and puts himself
Speaker 1: just a couple of first downs away from field goal range.
Speaker 1: It's been cool to see, but then you go backwards,
Speaker 1: a short run, a sack and a false start makes
Speaker 1: it third and sixteen, check it down, punt the ball away,
Speaker 1: and then you're thinking one more score here. It's probably Curtains,
Speaker 1: but you don't get that. You get a hustle play
Speaker 1: from the guy that we talked about who took an
Speaker 1: injury in the first quarter. In Zach Sealer, they go
Speaker 1: five plays thirty yards, you force a third and ten
Speaker 1: and they get a wide open another one of these
Speaker 1: coverages like man coverage mesh where they just rub us
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field and get a guy
Speaker 1: running free up the sideline for a big game. But
Speaker 1: right after that play, Zach Seeler on first down stays
Speaker 1: with a play that gets out ahead of him. He
Speaker 1: chases it down from the back and knocks the football
Speaker 1: out of the ball carrier's hands, and Javon Holland comes
Speaker 1: up and recovers, and you're thinking, hey, we came back
Speaker 1: on this team down three touchdowns last year, Let's do
Speaker 1: that again. Very first play, Tua gets picked off. He
Speaker 1: tried a window that was sort of there, but Patrick
Speaker 1: Queen got really good depth on that second on that drop,
Speaker 1: and you can in that situation because the run game
Speaker 1: down by that much, probably not gonna happen too much.
Speaker 1: And I took this out of the takeaways in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter because of the shape of the game, but
Speaker 1: I did have a two A takeaway. They'll just go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about here briefly, and I jokingly call
Speaker 1: it the two A legacy game takeaway, like trying to
Speaker 1: be funny about it because Early, because I have downplayed
Speaker 1: the idea of a twenty five year old having a
Speaker 1: legacy game, right, it's kind of silly in practice, But
Speaker 1: Early I thought he was defining himself in a pretty
Speaker 1: cool way where when things would get wonky, he was
Speaker 1: kind of having solved those third down plays he was
Speaker 1: thinking quickly, getting the ball out, putting it on target,
Speaker 1: some big touchdowns on third down, finding Durham for chunks,
Speaker 1: getting the good run looks the screen game going looked
Speaker 1: like an MVP type performance, right, but then things got
Speaker 1: sideways and he made a bad decision, made a bad throw.
Speaker 1: Then he comes back on the other side and presses
Speaker 1: and makes a really bad choice, and you'll hear it
Speaker 1: from him right here.
Speaker 2: I sort of held my eyes a little long on
Speaker 2: the first interception and then with the second interception because
Speaker 2: of the score. I mean, they didn't really need to
Speaker 2: do much. They try to keep everything in front of them.
Speaker 2: They were dropping and that was just a poor decision
Speaker 2: on my part, trying to trying to throw it over
Speaker 2: a back or to get that to Tyreek when he
Speaker 2: could have just checked the ball down. So I gotta
Speaker 2: be better on that part.
Speaker 1: So just to kind of finish the book here on
Speaker 1: Tua for this game and at this juncture of his career,
Speaker 1: like he talks about taking those steps, I think he
Speaker 1: has improved in a lot of ways and learning from
Speaker 1: those mistakes, and coach loves to rect friends of the Baltimore
Speaker 1: game last year, the second pick I remember like it
Speaker 1: was yesterday because I've seen that game twenty four times.
Speaker 1: When he tries to shoot that one deep after we
Speaker 1: we get behind the scoreboard and Marcus Williams makes a
Speaker 1: great play on the football and picks it off, and
Speaker 1: he talked about how to kind of was able to
Speaker 1: process that real time and improve right there. But it's
Speaker 1: frustrating we see those mistakes occur continually, and they're not
Speaker 1: like super continuously, but they have happened several times since then,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit annoying. But I also acknowledge
Speaker 1: that he's a twenty five year old quarterback who's playing
Speaker 1: like one of the best quarterbacks in the.
Speaker 5: League last two years.
Speaker 1: And I think about Lamar Jackson on the other side,
Speaker 1: who has had all these regular season accolades, records and
Speaker 1: cool numbers and rushing touchdowns and such electric highlights and plays,
Speaker 1: but to this point is still one to three in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and was a fourteen to two quarterback in
Speaker 1: MVP who got bounced in the first round. And this
Speaker 1: label developed around this great quarterback that he can't win
Speaker 1: a big football game, and that I'm sure that will
Speaker 1: change this year. They did win a wild card playoff
Speaker 1: game a couple of years ago in the postseason, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it will change this year, but that will
Speaker 1: only further prove the point. Right, Like, this whole idea
Speaker 1: of you're not a a big time team or a
Speaker 1: big time player in these certain moments is true until
Speaker 1: it's not, and then once it's not, it's almost kind
Speaker 1: of silly to think about in hindsight. Does that make sense? Like, look,
Speaker 1: it's okay to be upset that you didn't get the
Speaker 1: big wins, is what I'm trying to say. For a
Speaker 1: team and a quarterback, Like in this instance, the season
Speaker 1: isn't even over yet. I get when the season's over,
Speaker 1: but in this instance, the season's not over. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's far from it. There's a chance. This is kind
Speaker 1: of a silly footnote when you look back on it.
Speaker 1: But also just remember, for a quarterback here who's so
Speaker 1: damn good with his vision and accuracy, anticipation, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: the more to it gets games like these, the more
Speaker 1: situations he has, the more disappointments and failures he experiences
Speaker 1: while also having the success you know, on a grander.
Speaker 5: Scale, the better he'll be for it.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of where I internalize this and I
Speaker 1: know the natural reaction for people when things don't go
Speaker 1: well for your football team or your sports team, especially
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, is to cut bait, move on
Speaker 1: fine replacements. How's it going to get better? It can
Speaker 1: only get better with exterior your help. That's far from
Speaker 1: how I view things, especially with the success we've seen
Speaker 1: from this particular squad and this quarterback in particular, in
Speaker 1: this head coach, I'm excited about the fact that they're
Speaker 1: achieving this in their second year together in a program
Speaker 1: where I think the more time we get the more
Speaker 1: it just gets better and it becomes more second nature
Speaker 1: and those mistakes don't happen and you get to a
Speaker 1: big game where you are the team that it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a week seventeen. Business is hush because for
Speaker 1: us right now, that's not who we are. But I
Speaker 1: think for this team to grow and experience and learn
Speaker 1: this stuff together, I hope we have this core in
Speaker 1: nucleus together for a long time. I do believe it's
Speaker 1: something special and I think that these moments will harden
Speaker 1: the team and ultimately there'll be a hump to get
Speaker 1: over and it could.
Speaker 5: Be next week right, consider that it could be next week.
Speaker 1: But eventually there'll be a hump this team has to climb,
Speaker 1: and when you get over it, it's gonna feel even better.
Speaker 5: And I have such faith that this is a group
Speaker 5: that can do it for us.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of my to a takeaway mid podcast there,
Speaker 1: and we'll get more into the team's overall sentiment. That
Speaker 1: might have been the first takeaway in general there that
Speaker 1: I have for you, guys. Let's go ahead and keep
Speaker 1: moving in the game. As I speak very quickly here,
Speaker 1: Ravens go three and out and you get the football
Speaker 1: right back and then it's a Dolphins touchdown. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're in position to maybe make a push
Speaker 1: at this thing. Fourteen plays, seventy eight yards, a fourth
Speaker 1: and four conversion of Braxton burials is gonna speed out.
Speaker 1: Good timing there from Tua, good catch from Braxton. Then
Speaker 1: you get a third down touchdown reception from Devon h
Speaker 1: Chan who went over one hundred and fifty all or
Speaker 1: rather yards from scrimmage in this one and scored another touchdown.
Speaker 1: So good to see that we've been back in full charge,
Speaker 1: and hopefully Raheem Moster is back with him next week.
Speaker 1: But the defense then seven plays seventy five yards.
Speaker 5: Ravens go up.
Speaker 1: Forty two to nineteen, and really it's two plays, a
Speaker 1: twenty seven yard strike to Bateman to put it into
Speaker 1: plus territory and then a forty one yard justice he'll run,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of ballgame.
Speaker 5: At that point.
Speaker 1: They get another little throwback against the grain for a
Speaker 1: touchdown third and goal to freaking Patrick Ricard, who's like
Speaker 1: three hundred pounds and makes a one headed catch. So
Speaker 1: they're partying, they're having fun. It's forty two to nineteen.
Speaker 1: We turn it over on downs. Tua gets knocked out
Speaker 1: of the game with an injury. He said after the
Speaker 1: game that it was just sore us and he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: The Ravens throw a touchdown, or rather get another touchdown
Speaker 1: pass just boom, boom boom. In the run game, we
Speaker 1: fumble it on the opening play the next series, a
Speaker 1: pitch from Mike White to Chris Brooks cannot be executed
Speaker 1: and they throw a pass into the en zone for
Speaker 1: a touchdown fifty six nineteen. We also lose Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: to what looks like an acl in that play. That's
Speaker 1: what the reports the Dolphins are fearing right now. Of
Speaker 1: course we'll have more on Monday with official I MRI
Speaker 1: as well as with Xavion Howard, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: Tua will be okay as far as he is concerned
Speaker 1: from from his own mouth right just sore on us
Speaker 1: in that shoulder. So a cavalcade of misery in that game,
Speaker 1: and I hope this podcast was therapeutic.
Speaker 5: It was for me.
Speaker 1: We have five takeaways still to get to, which we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and start that right now, but I just
Speaker 1: go lee, I wrote f me and on my notes
Speaker 1: here because.
Speaker 5: That's how I felt after the game. That's kind of
Speaker 5: how I feel right now.
Speaker 1: First takeaway, so we'll get to the second takeaways is
Speaker 1: like my first takeaway. But I layered this in this
Speaker 1: order for a reason. And the first one that I
Speaker 1: wanted to touch on was what happens in the middle
Speaker 1: seven portion of the game, because, like I said, twenty
Speaker 1: one to thirteen to go in the first half, they
Speaker 1: get the ball to start the second half.
Speaker 5: What's gonna happen here?
Speaker 1: You can seize control of the game, or at least
Speaker 1: put yourself back in position to compete going forward. If
Speaker 1: you seize this opportunity right here. But it didn't happen
Speaker 1: that way. In fact, it comically happened in the entire
Speaker 1: converse way. You get an interception where we're moving the
Speaker 1: ball boom boom boom down to the midfield to a
Speaker 1: mix of board decision. I kind of wish they would
Speaker 1: have just gone to the two minute warning there and
Speaker 1: let that clock run a little bit more and run
Speaker 1: a play on that side. But that's not what happened.
Speaker 1: You throw the ball into a tight window and Patrick Queen,
Speaker 1: this team makes you pay. That's there's a reason they
Speaker 1: have now twenty nine takeaways on the season. They came
Speaker 1: in with twenty six. They just that's what they do.
Speaker 1: They take the ball up. They took the football away
Speaker 1: from you, and that's what Patrick Queen did here. Then
Speaker 1: you get the ball back after that, and you puned it.
Speaker 1: After they score the touchdown, they get twenty eight thirteen,
Speaker 1: they punt the ball back. Then they get the opening possession,
Speaker 1: the opening kickoff, and march the kickoff all the way
Speaker 1: into scoring territory, and then they score quickly after that.
Speaker 1: It's thirty five to thirteen with just thirty one and
Speaker 1: a half minutes into the game. So the last three
Speaker 1: minutes of the first half, the first really minute and
Speaker 1: a half of the second half was where the game
Speaker 1: was basically got.
Speaker 5: Out of hand. And that's it.
Speaker 1: Just the Dolphins dominated that area of the game last week.
Speaker 1: A touchdown to go ahead at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half thirteen to six over or thirteen to seven
Speaker 1: rather over Dallas. And then a game winning drive where
Speaker 1: you milk the entire clock to put it at triple
Speaker 1: zeros when the kit goes through to win the football
Speaker 1: game perfection one week, abject disaster the next.
Speaker 5: It's funny how that works in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number two is something that that's to me a
Speaker 1: bit of a one off. I think the way the
Speaker 1: end a half, end of game situation went, because that's
Speaker 1: something this team has been so locked in and so
Speaker 1: solid on really since Mike McDaniel got here, a bit
Speaker 1: of a one off there. I think Takeaway number two
Speaker 1: is who you are. It's mistakes in big games in
Speaker 1: the biggest spots. And I'm not saying it's who you
Speaker 1: were going to be forever, but right now it's who
Speaker 1: you are right because you can change it next week.
Speaker 1: That's all fine, and well, but right now, who you
Speaker 1: are the third and sixteen on the opening drive and
Speaker 1: they eventually score a touchdown there. That can't happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just watched the Bengals convert a fourth and eighteen
Speaker 1: to keep a game alive. They have actually lost to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. But come on, man, that can't happen. A
Speaker 1: touchdown dropped in the back of the end zone where
Speaker 1: you have opening two drive touchdowns, march down the field,
Speaker 1: Your quarterback's gonna be feeling good, your offense is gonna
Speaker 1: be feeling good, your defense, everyone's gonna be feeling good.
Speaker 1: And you drop it in the back of the end zone,
Speaker 1: and like, look, Tyreek's broken the franchise record back to
Speaker 1: back years his first two years. Here, the greatest trade
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins history, arguably one of the greatest players in
Speaker 1: the history of the franchise already just two years in.
Speaker 1: But gosh, man, let's make a play in a big game.
Speaker 1: The drop touchdown against the Eagles, the fubble against the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: the drop touchdown here. It's just like, these are things
Speaker 1: your best players have to rise up and make big plays.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that's caught game changing forty
Speaker 1: yard passes to set up a game winning field goal
Speaker 1: or touchdown drive in the Super Bowl, like he's done that.
Speaker 5: It's just frustrating to me.
Speaker 1: You bust a coverage on a seventy five yard touchdown
Speaker 1: pass that you see in practice every single day. How
Speaker 1: does that happen? Fourth and seven? We slip and fall
Speaker 1: down a man coverage for a thirty six yeard touchdo
Speaker 1: like I said, comical because at a certain point, it
Speaker 1: just gets to where you like I laughed, I chuckled.
Speaker 1: It was a natural reaction to chuckle when Tua through
Speaker 1: that second pick because the minute they gave us some
Speaker 1: life and some hope, it went the other way and
Speaker 1: I was just like, was defeated in that moment. You've
Speaker 1: been in these spots all year. Unfortunately it has not
Speaker 1: doomed you yet. You're not to that time of year,
Speaker 1: and hopefully those experiences like I talked about can build
Speaker 1: a callus that allows us to make those plays in
Speaker 1: those big spots. Because when I talked to Charles Davis
Speaker 1: and I asked him about the emotion coming off of
Speaker 1: a big win over Dallas versus their big win over
Speaker 1: the Niners last week, forgot for a second, how would
Speaker 1: the emotional disparity of those two teams and what they
Speaker 1: had to output, especially with the Ravens coming off of
Speaker 1: a six day or a short week of rest, how
Speaker 1: that impact the team? And he was like, this is
Speaker 1: business as usual for the Baltimore Evens And that's a
Speaker 1: really really good point.
Speaker 5: So we haven't developed that yet. Hopefully it's coming.
Speaker 1: But in this game, in this season, it's been once
Speaker 1: you've been the Eagles two third downs and long in
Speaker 1: the start of the fourth quarter of a seven point game.
Speaker 1: They get seven on third and eight and five on
Speaker 1: fourth and six, and what do they do but tush
Speaker 1: push to first downs on the next couple of plays.
Speaker 1: It's just frustrating. It's the cause of those nerves you
Speaker 1: feel throughout the course of these big games. Before the game,
Speaker 1: I had so much nervous energy today I don't even
Speaker 1: freaking play.
Speaker 5: What's wrong with me?
Speaker 1: But it's because of this, because of the big moments
Speaker 1: that you have not really played your best football at now.
Speaker 1: We did execute the big moments against the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: Seth was great to point that out to me on
Speaker 1: the postgame show.
Speaker 5: So it's not every time.
Speaker 1: It's not every time, and you've done it last year too,
Speaker 1: so it's not every time, but damn it, it feels
Speaker 1: like it right now. The big takeaway, you know, you
Speaker 1: give it right back three and now a long touchdown drive,
Speaker 1: but you scheme up an open two point corner drag
Speaker 1: if a variation of smash. The ball is there and
Speaker 1: we can't convert, we can't catch it, it's a drop.
Speaker 1: And then a perfect pass to Claypool with fifty seconds
Speaker 1: left in the third quarter. That cost you two minutes
Speaker 1: of game clock, which at that time was important. The
Speaker 1: game didn't play out that way, but at that time
Speaker 1: was important. Just consistently making these big, big, big airs.
Speaker 1: It has to change. It can change next week. I
Speaker 1: hope it does. Let's go ahead and take our last
Speaker 1: break right there. Come back on the other side, talk
Speaker 1: about next week, talk about the injuries, talk about the defense.
Speaker 5: That's all coming up.
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Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Takeaways one and two in the books
Speaker 1: from the dolphins fifty six to nineteen loss to the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens clinched the AFC North and the
Speaker 1: one seed in the AFC. More on that and just
Speaker 1: a moment. The third takeaway from this game, these are
Speaker 1: gonna be brief. The long term impact will not not
Speaker 1: be felt from this because Bradley Chubb's injury did not
Speaker 1: look good. Like we talked about, the early fear is
Speaker 1: in acl getting carted off. That's what it looked like
Speaker 1: when he left the field, right. We'll find out more
Speaker 1: on Monday. Xaving Howard injur leaves in a cart. Didn't
Speaker 1: look good. Shoe came off. That never looks good. Tua
Speaker 1: gets the injury that he had leave the game with,
Speaker 1: said he was okay, just soreness. But I mean, you're
Speaker 1: down Connor Williams, one of the most important pieces of
Speaker 1: your team in my opinion, on the offensive line. You
Speaker 1: are down Robert Hunt, one of the best guards in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. You were down Rahiem most are
Speaker 1: today twenty one touchdowns for that guy this year. You
Speaker 1: were down Jalen Waddell, a guy that has three consecutive
Speaker 1: one thous and yard seasons and game breaking speed and ability.
Speaker 1: You were down Jalen Phillips, a guy that I thought
Speaker 1: could have had twelve, thirteen to fourteen sacks this.
Speaker 5: Year if he didn't get injured.
Speaker 1: You were down Jerome Baker, one of your longtime leaders,
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker. You lost Xavier and Howard one of
Speaker 1: the best cornerbacks in the franchise's history. On the first
Speaker 1: drive of the game. Gosh, it's tough to overcome all
Speaker 1: that takeaway number four. The defense just got absolutely thrashed
Speaker 1: in this game, right, They got shredded. First drive. It
Speaker 1: was wide open, and that's what we were so concerned about.
Speaker 1: At the iHeart stations, me, Seth and Oj was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: We're okay if you get beat and they run the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, successfully and convert third downs. But guys are
Speaker 1: running wide open. What's going on here? We got saved
Speaker 1: by a missed forty fifty yard player and by an
Speaker 1: offensive pass interference on that drive, but that was pretty
Speaker 1: much the only time they got stopped the entire day.
Speaker 1: We kick a field goal with three minutes off to play.
Speaker 1: We bust a coverage right after that, Eli Apple jumping
Speaker 1: inside in the motion we've seen so many times every
Speaker 1: day from this team in practice. You get a fourth
Speaker 1: down situation, Javon has a chance to the guy that
Speaker 1: you needed back so bad, and we can't cover one
Speaker 1: on one situation, we fall down in front of the
Speaker 1: play thirty six yard touchdown.
Speaker 5: All those coverage blitz bust, but without blitzing.
Speaker 1: There's not any like usually if you have guys open
Speaker 1: on the back ends because you committed.
Speaker 5: Up from we weren't even doing that.
Speaker 1: So just a really really poor defensive performance in this
Speaker 1: game evident by fifty six points. Lamar had a perfect
Speaker 1: passer rating on the day, and in fact, in his
Speaker 1: career against the Heimi Dolphins he has a perfect passer
Speaker 1: rating in the first half.
Speaker 5: Kind of have to find a solution to that.
Speaker 1: In fact, you can't have to find a solution to
Speaker 1: your pass defense in general and do it in six days.
Speaker 1: As coach had mentioned earlier on the sound bye we
Speaker 1: played previously in the podcast takeaway number fifteen, what do
Speaker 1: we have ahead in week eighteen? I'm already over this game.
Speaker 5: I don't want to.
Speaker 1: We'll do the film podcast tomorrow, probably gonna be briefer
Speaker 1: than usual, but I want to move on under the
Speaker 1: Bills game here. Man, we'll watch the tape, but let's
Speaker 1: talk about this now. So a very fun option now
Speaker 1: exists on the table. You guys ready for that option?
Speaker 1: Are we? Still sad either way. Here it is beat
Speaker 1: the Bills, win the division, get the two seed, awesome, great.
Speaker 1: Buffalo would be the seventh seed and you would get
Speaker 1: a rematch against them, unless unless Jacksonville beats the Titans
Speaker 1: in a game that they need for the AFC South Championship,
Speaker 1: and the Titans are playing out a string and it
Speaker 1: looks like the lost Will Levis today.
Speaker 5: We'll see if he starts next week.
Speaker 1: But Ryan Tannehill finish that game, and the Steelers beat
Speaker 1: a Ravens team who came into this one awfully banged
Speaker 1: up as banged up as us and perform better than us.
Speaker 1: But with a lot of those key guys being fringe plays,
Speaker 1: you have to imagine with the one seed locked up,
Speaker 1: you can rest up and get almost a full strength
Speaker 1: in the divisional round that they'll play in here in
Speaker 1: a few weeks. Also, do they play Lamar. I bet
Speaker 1: he starts the game, but we'll see if he finishes.
Speaker 1: It's a lot on the table there for the Ravens
Speaker 1: in that game to sit guys. But if you get
Speaker 1: that result, if you get a win over Buffalo, you
Speaker 1: get a Jacksonville win over the Titans and a Steelers
Speaker 1: win over the Ravens resting their starters. Potentially your wild
Speaker 1: card matchup would be Pittsburgh down here in two weeks,
Speaker 1: and if you won that game, depending on how some
Speaker 1: of these matchups go week eighteen, you'd be home with
Speaker 1: the divisional that's for sure. And the potential matchups would
Speaker 1: be then the three seeded Kansas City Chiefs, who are
Speaker 1: locked into that spot right now.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't play that.
Speaker 1: You would not play the potential six seed Texans or Colts,
Speaker 1: who are the only two teams that can get that
Speaker 1: seed right now because they play each other and the
Speaker 1: winner gets the spot and the loser goes home. It
Speaker 1: would either be the three seeded Chiefs if they win
Speaker 1: their wild card weekend game against Houston or Indy, or
Speaker 1: the winner of Jacksonville Cleveland.
Speaker 5: That's the options.
Speaker 1: So still could potentially put yourself in a really good
Speaker 1: position to make a run deep into the postseason. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and hear from TUA on the filling of
Speaker 1: the locker room and get the heck.
Speaker 2: Out of here playing the standard that we wanted to play.
Speaker 2: And when those standards are met, you know, it feels
Speaker 2: like it's very disappointing and so I would say in
Speaker 2: the locker room that that's sort of the field. But
Speaker 2: you got a lot of the leaders and a lot
Speaker 2: of the guys stepping up to you know, get our
Speaker 2: guys going for for next week and the games to follow.
Speaker 2: I mean, we still got a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: football left to play.
Speaker 1: So there you go to us as the best right there,
Speaker 1: I think. And so those are your potential first round options.
Speaker 1: At home against the Steelers, could be at home against
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, could be on the road against Kansas
Speaker 1: A Chiefs. That's what you're looking at. Next week will
Speaker 1: determine that all. I believe we'll have the I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm recording this at about eight o'clock on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so I don't have the time for the game, but
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's gonna be Dolphins and Bills on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. I'll go ahead and follow up on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get out of here for this podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys that stuck with me here and took
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