Speaker 1: To on the Move Gallan JEP Speedways, Peace Jo Hell,
Speaker 1: peas do from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my havnds in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, well,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins are streaking.
Speaker 1: Thanks twin s win.
Speaker 3: Win win win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything goes win win.
Speaker 2: Win win. As Jalen Waddle said again again again three
Speaker 2: in a row, back to five and six. We got
Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving Day game setup we all wanted before we
Speaker 2: talk about winning that one. Let's go ahead and focus
Speaker 2: on the thirty four to fifteen thumping of the Patriots
Speaker 2: here at home. Takeaways, a game scripts, some stats we'll
Speaker 2: hear from coach Tua and Chop Robinson from the Baptist
Speaker 2: Hell Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 2: the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Excellent another of Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: So the Dolphins that you kind of got used to
Speaker 2: the last couple of years and had to take a
Speaker 2: short hiatus during the stretch that Tua was down. Basically, well,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins team that you had been looking forward to
Speaker 2: seeing all year is officially back, and with this resounding
Speaker 2: victory over the Patriots, especially in the way that first
Speaker 2: half went, that kind of felt like old times again,
Speaker 2: but in a much more improved and evolved and more
Speaker 2: complete way, didn't it. Let's go ahead and talk about
Speaker 2: the stats from this one, because Miami was dominant. There
Speaker 2: was one point in the game where it was two
Speaker 2: eighty to eighty in total yards. And in the second
Speaker 2: half things got a little bit sloppy at times, and
Speaker 2: we'll cover that and hear from head coach or from
Speaker 2: Tua tongue by lower rather on how they can clean
Speaker 2: that up. But I mean in the game, twenty three
Speaker 2: first downs to fourteen for the Patriots. This was our
Speaker 2: worst third down game in quite a while, four for twelve,
Speaker 2: which is good for some teams. For us, it's a
Speaker 2: pretty big step in the other direction. The Patriots were
Speaker 2: just three for fourteen. Miami had no fourth down attempts today.
Speaker 2: The Patriots were one for three on the critical down.
Speaker 2: Miami had three hundred and seventy three yards of offense.
Speaker 2: I mean, I talked about it back when you know,
Speaker 2: playoffs seemed a little bit lost and now they're back
Speaker 2: on again in terms of where the Dolphins are in
Speaker 2: the standings. But if we can just continue to post
Speaker 2: four hundred yard days with thirty points of offense, I
Speaker 2: would feel very good going into the offseason. But we've
Speaker 2: done that and accomplished the wins to put ourselves back
Speaker 2: in the mix. So three seventy three to two sixty nine,
Speaker 2: Miami had three zho eight through the air compared to
Speaker 2: one eighty three for the Patriots. We did get out
Speaker 2: rushed in this one eighty six to sixty five. We
Speaker 2: ran three more plays in the Patriots sixty six to
Speaker 2: sixty three, one turnover for the Dolphins, two for the Patriots.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins were sacked twice. They had four sacks of
Speaker 2: their own and just three penalties for seventeen yards for
Speaker 2: Miami in this one. We're gonna come back and talk
Speaker 2: about that later in the game. The Patriots had ten
Speaker 2: for seventy five. Miami had the football for just over
Speaker 2: thirty two minutes, and the game started off kind of
Speaker 2: like you hoped it would, kind of like you'd expect
Speaker 2: it would. They get a three and out on defense,
Speaker 2: and my first note was the Benito Jones on a
Speaker 2: stack and shed rep right away. He took the guard
Speaker 2: back two yards, stacked him, shedded him, made the play
Speaker 2: right there. For I think it was a one yard
Speaker 2: game once the running back fell forward. Then the Dolphins
Speaker 2: came out of this look that looked to me like
Speaker 2: covers zero, but I think they rotated and to cover
Speaker 2: one like man free with the single high safety. And
Speaker 2: I put that note in there because I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: the Raiders game plan last week and how it seemed
Speaker 2: to kind of rely upon like let's just keep them
Speaker 2: in front of us and rally up and tackle. They
Speaker 2: got after Drake May with a game plan today and
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to watching it on tape to tell
Speaker 2: you what I think happened in terms of how they
Speaker 2: called that game. But they got the checkdown, they got
Speaker 2: the rally up and the tackle short of the sticks
Speaker 2: to get a three and out right away. And then
Speaker 2: Malik Washington has a very smart, like veteran presence play
Speaker 2: for a rookie to let this punt drop and he's
Speaker 2: playing it in front of him, and then it keeps
Speaker 2: quiet hands like receivers do on deep shots, where he
Speaker 2: didn't like show that he was gonna grab it, and
Speaker 2: he gets rabbed next to the football and then cradles
Speaker 2: it and takes off and takes it back to the
Speaker 2: seventeen yard line. When he did that at the five
Speaker 2: yard line, had that ball bounced again, maybe the Patriots
Speaker 2: down that thing inside the five yard line. So a
Speaker 2: smart play there from the rookie, but Miami can't do
Speaker 2: anything with it. A four play nineteen yard drive, you
Speaker 2: get eleven yards and the opening play to John new Smith,
Speaker 2: which like, here we go again, right, and then Devon
Speaker 2: h Chan broke some tackles and turned to a zero
Speaker 2: yard gain. I thought into seven yards pushing the pile,
Speaker 2: but then the Dolphins got kind of stuck in the mud.
Speaker 2: They were playing aggressive man coverage with a zero look.
Speaker 2: On third and two, they pressed up and two. I
Speaker 2: tried to throw a speed out to John new Smith, which, man,
Speaker 2: the more we watch John new Smith get involved in
Speaker 2: this offense, the more it looks like he's kind of
Speaker 2: being schemed for, being planned for in terms of like
Speaker 2: critical throws and money moments, and he's been executing those
Speaker 2: for the last month or so here, So a big
Speaker 2: time boost for Miami in terms of their offense having
Speaker 2: another go to guy in that situation that they couldn't
Speaker 2: convert here, thought the defender was a little early no flag,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't I probably wouldn't throw a flag there either.
Speaker 2: Then the Patriots had what I thought was their best
Speaker 2: drive of the entire game, a twelve play sixty yard
Speaker 2: drive that took seven and a half minutes off the
Speaker 2: clock and produced a missed field goal of forty five yards.
Speaker 2: And it was basically a little bit of run game success,
Speaker 2: not a whole lot, but Drake may just finding his
Speaker 2: way in terms of creating off schedule, off script and
Speaker 2: creating out of the structure and getting on the edge
Speaker 2: and running the football and then throwing some passes off
Speaker 2: those looks as well. But they kept getting behind the
Speaker 2: chains offensively all day. They had a false start that
Speaker 2: put him at first and fifteen a positive gain, then
Speaker 2: another negative game that put him at second in sixteen.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of the modern theory of NFL defenses.
Speaker 2: You can force these offenses to play, you know, ten
Speaker 2: twelve play drives, then you put yourself in a position
Speaker 2: where a couple of mistakes can put you behind the
Speaker 2: chains and you can't get out from behind that, and
Speaker 2: so they did keep getting out from behind that because
Speaker 2: he would find a way to you know, get off
Speaker 2: the edge and check it down to Antonio Gibson or
Speaker 2: Pop Douglas or Hunter Henry and they would create form
Speaker 2: after the fact. Now they did bog down. There was
Speaker 2: a second and six of the Patriots at the twenty
Speaker 2: yard line and they were offensive off sides and the
Speaker 2: guy that was the right tackle blocking, Chop Robinson, holds him,
Speaker 2: so it makes for second and sixteen. They have a
Speaker 2: miscommunication on that throw creates a third and sixteen. They
Speaker 2: run the ball to get a better field goal situation,
Speaker 2: but Kalaeis Campbell is not fooled and stops it for
Speaker 2: a three yard gain. So the Dolphins just found ways
Speaker 2: to win despite getting you know, on their back heel
Speaker 2: on that drive, and the Patriots paid off by missing
Speaker 2: the field goal. And then Miami goes back to what
Speaker 2: exactly they've been doing for the last month. An eight play,
Speaker 2: sixty five yard drive that took four minutes off the
Speaker 2: clock and it results in a seven yard touchdown pass
Speaker 2: his first of four on the day from Tua to
Speaker 2: tight end John hw Smith, and it started off the
Speaker 2: drive the same way stick nod to John who Smith
Speaker 2: stick nods when you basically get down the field, turn
Speaker 2: your head back to the quarterback with one step, and
Speaker 2: then go right back vertical down the field. And he
Speaker 2: hit that for a twelve yard gain, and then Waddle
Speaker 2: catches the dig route against man coverage, and the Patriots
Speaker 2: were in this man coverage look throughout most of the game.
Speaker 2: I'm really curious to see how that comes out from
Speaker 2: Next Gen or from True Media in terms of how
Speaker 2: they played this, because I thought it was man coverage
Speaker 2: almost exclusively in this game, which that's a big deal
Speaker 2: to me because we'll talk about it later on. But
Speaker 2: I feel like the Dolphins have earned themselves back into
Speaker 2: the coverage from the opposing defense that you don't want
Speaker 2: to play against these guys, which is man coverage because
Speaker 2: all they have is man beaters and Tyreek and Waddle
Speaker 2: and now John new Smith and OBJ can do it
Speaker 2: and great Craft can do it. Eight Like, that's not
Speaker 2: a good place to be when you're facing this Dolphins offense.
Speaker 2: But what's worse that or in being aggressive and trying
Speaker 2: to force the issue, or staying on your back heel
Speaker 2: and playing this soft zone that Tua just carves up
Speaker 2: and eats up and down the entire field while chewing
Speaker 2: off eight nine minutes of the clock. You can't win.
Speaker 2: But they run this single high look and Tua throws
Speaker 2: this shot to Waddle, who gets across the face of
Speaker 2: the corner back and then it's a safety trying to
Speaker 2: basically chase him down from a flat foot position and
Speaker 2: he can't do it. And you see Wattle streaking across
Speaker 2: the field for twenty four yards and he ran the
Speaker 2: width of the entire field too, And I'm just been
Speaker 2: dying to see that, and it was so beautiful to
Speaker 2: get a look at it. Do the exact same thing
Speaker 2: in Tyreek. One play later, he could tackle Bill for
Speaker 2: eleven yards. And then they get themselves into a third
Speaker 2: and three at the twelve yard line too. Was hardcount
Speaker 2: gets them to come over the last scrimage for a
Speaker 2: first down. That's two weeks in a row that he's
Speaker 2: had a hard count that worked, And then the first
Speaker 2: and goal went for nothing. Second goal was an inside
Speaker 2: slant to Obj against Christian Gonzalez, a pretty tough matchup.
Speaker 2: That's their best player, and he has a perfect rep
Speaker 2: to break it up. But then Tua finds John new
Speaker 2: Smith on the crosser for six where he felt pressure,
Speaker 2: stepped up off the spot and found John who on
Speaker 2: that little drag route for a touchdown, which to me
Speaker 2: looked like it was deep into the progression. And let's
Speaker 2: actually go ahead and hear from Tua on his ability
Speaker 2: to get through progressions, because that was kind of the
Speaker 2: story of the day for me, was his ability to
Speaker 2: find time in the pocket through good pass protection from
Speaker 2: the Dolphins offensive line, survey the defense and do what
Speaker 2: he does best and make good decision. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and hear from Tua on the progression of the offense.
Speaker 4: Well, it's just going through the progressions. I think that's
Speaker 4: where we've taken a step forward in this offense in
Speaker 4: retrospect to last year. Is one and two, aren't there.
Speaker 4: We're able to flip our feet work through the progression
Speaker 4: and what that entails for us if he's open, if not,
Speaker 4: you know, knowing where our checkdowns are. I think that's
Speaker 4: the biggest difference.
Speaker 2: And we've made no mistake about it here on this
Speaker 2: show that that's an area of growth for two of
Speaker 2: this offseason that has really really made a big impact
Speaker 2: on what this team has been able to accomplish here
Speaker 2: through the last I guess five weeks. With his return
Speaker 2: to the lineup, the Patriots get the ball back. They
Speaker 2: go three plays minus fifteen yards in less than a minute.
Speaker 2: Sealer bowls up a play for a six yard loss
Speaker 2: as him and Jordan Brooks arrive to clean that thing up,
Speaker 2: and Stealer wins so dominantly that he gets into the
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage like before the offensive line can you
Speaker 2: even get to that spot? And it forces these backs
Speaker 2: to like bubble and go backwards, and then once he
Speaker 2: doesn't make the initial tackle, they go further backwards, and
Speaker 2: then Jordan Brooks and Jaylen Ramsey can rally up and
Speaker 2: make the tackle. And then we get a Quinton Bell
Speaker 2: Chop Robinson meet at the quarterback where they come as
Speaker 2: they kind of sandwich Drake May together cater Coho's in
Speaker 2: phase down the field incomplete pass and then Chopp gets
Speaker 2: a big sack a third and sixteen win where he
Speaker 2: smokes the right tackle. The entire defense runs down to
Speaker 2: the opposing end zone and does the chop celeration in
Speaker 2: perfect synchronization in the end zone. What a fun series
Speaker 2: that was. Miami gets the ball back and pays it
Speaker 2: off with another touchdown drive nine plays sixty six yards,
Speaker 2: almost five minutes off the clock, culminating in a nine
Speaker 2: yard Devon eight Chan touchdown reception, and alec Ingold gets
Speaker 2: back into the game today, his first game in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and he has a nice lead block
Speaker 2: for an eight seven yard eight Chan run, and then
Speaker 2: that gets us a third down play where Jalen Wattle
Speaker 2: takes the slant and takes he catches the slam, the
Speaker 2: cornerback jumps in his back and he carries him from
Speaker 2: for like twelve yards. It's like a five yard completion.
Speaker 2: Waddle carries this defensive back and picks up seventeen for
Speaker 2: number seventeen and once again they're still in single high coverage.
Speaker 2: And they tried this one on one ball with Christian
Speaker 2: Ellis to Devon Achan. That's a matchup I like a lot.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins did too. I thought he had a step,
Speaker 2: but the ball was just a tiny bit underneath where
Speaker 2: it had to be and allowed Ellis to make a
Speaker 2: play on the football to break it up. They go
Speaker 2: quick swing to Maleague Washington for one yard, and once
Speaker 2: again it's a third long situation, but Luckily we have
Speaker 2: this quarterback who can deal in those situations, and he
Speaker 2: finds waddle on inside access to get thirteen yards down
Speaker 2: to the ten yard line, and then the now screen
Speaker 2: to Devon eight Chan weaving his way for six yards.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm gonna talk about some takeaways, but
Speaker 2: I just feel like the Dolphins have kind of found
Speaker 2: a solution to some red zone not I wouldn't say woes,
Speaker 2: but just where they could get better at. Last year,
Speaker 2: they found a way to get better at that. We'll
Speaker 2: come back and talk about that more in the takeaways.
Speaker 2: So Miami is a fourteen to zip lead. Patriots go
Speaker 2: three and out a three play, one yard drive, A
Speaker 2: hold puts him behind the sticks. They throw two short completions.
Speaker 2: Then the Dolphins heat up. Drake made with the blitz
Speaker 2: and he misses. He had the hot route figured out,
Speaker 2: but he just missed the receiver. Whether it was miscommunication,
Speaker 2: miss timing the wrong route, whatever it was, the ball
Speaker 2: was not where the receiver was and that leads to
Speaker 2: a quick three and out and Miami goes right back
Speaker 2: down the field ten plays, eighty yards, four minutes and
Speaker 2: thirteen seconds, and again it's Devon eight Chan with a
Speaker 2: touchdown reception. They did have a second and nine drop
Speaker 2: in the drive that looked like it could have maybe
Speaker 2: put the drive in some peril that looked like a
Speaker 2: fumble as well, but it was ruled a Julian Hill
Speaker 2: incomplete pass. And then on third and nine, Tua gets
Speaker 2: off the spot and fires to Waddle with anticipation right
Speaker 2: on the money. Wattle elevates to pull the ball down
Speaker 2: from the traffic there and the Pats are they just
Speaker 2: continue to challenge the Dolphins with their safeties either cheated
Speaker 2: up or playing straight single high safety, and Miami said,
Speaker 2: all right, well we have two very good receivers. We're
Speaker 2: going to attack them. And that's what they did. And
Speaker 2: then Jalen Wright gets a ten yard run on an
Speaker 2: end a round where he takes that little no look
Speaker 2: flip that Tua does. And then Tua had this really
Speaker 2: sick throw to Jaalen Waddle on a deep out against
Speaker 2: outside leverage. And there are a few receivers in this
Speaker 2: league that can do this like Wattle does, where he
Speaker 2: can win the route to the leverage the defense is playing.
Speaker 2: This defensive back is outside leverage trying to take away
Speaker 2: the outbreaking route. He gets around him, stacks him. Tua
Speaker 2: throws this really good ball to like the low perimeter.
Speaker 2: He digs it out, makes the catch, first down Dolphins
Speaker 2: and then a third and three in the red zone
Speaker 2: the plus eleven yard line. Maybe my favorite design of
Speaker 2: the entire year, where I'll look at it on film
Speaker 2: more tomorrow, But I think what I saw was Reak
Speaker 2: and Waddle were shot gun sidecar to Tua and not reaking.
Speaker 2: Wattle reaking and a Chan, and they had the bunch
Speaker 2: trips to the one side of the formation, and they
Speaker 2: fake the give to Tyreek to that side, and the
Speaker 2: entire defense collapses over and then a Chan just sneaks
Speaker 2: out into the flat the other side, and nobody goes
Speaker 2: with him for a walk in touchdown twenty one to nothing.
Speaker 2: At this point of the game, Patriots three and out
Speaker 2: minus ten yards. Chop comes clean and drills Drake may
Speaker 2: I still think that the ball was fumbled. The arm
Speaker 2: was going forward to the letter of the law technically
Speaker 2: tells you it's an incomplete pass, But just like the
Speaker 2: physics of the game, the way the ball popped out
Speaker 2: of his hand as he was coming forward with it,
Speaker 2: it kind of looked to me like it was a fumble,
Speaker 2: but I get the call and then agbad does get
Speaker 2: the sack on third down to clean up the drive,
Speaker 2: get the Dolphins off the field, and then it's a
Speaker 2: twenty one yard field goals. Miami drives at seven plays
Speaker 2: fifty six yards. Wattle has this gorgeous adjustment coming back
Speaker 2: to the football on a slot fade, which is one
Speaker 2: of two's best throws in the entire bag. He comes
Speaker 2: back in and gets it for a twenty nine yard gain,
Speaker 2: and he has one hundred and eighteen yards in the
Speaker 2: first half. At this point, he became the first Dolphin
Speaker 2: with one hundred yards plus in the first half of
Speaker 2: a game since Jalen Wadda last year against the Jets
Speaker 2: in the game when Tyreek Hill was out, then Tyreek
Speaker 2: runs a beautiful corner route down to the three yard line,
Speaker 2: still in a man coverage, he gets big separation. Tua
Speaker 2: finds him for twenty yards and then two incompletions where
Speaker 2: Tua kind of got a little bit. I thought, slop
Speaker 2: you at the ball, putting it in harm's way. He
Speaker 2: even mentioned it. In fact, let's go ahead and go
Speaker 2: to Tua here, who talked about or no, rather we'll
Speaker 2: come back to that. He talked about this later on,
Speaker 2: but he mentioned there was just too many hands on
Speaker 2: footballs down there in the end zone on that final
Speaker 2: drive and Waddle damn near caught a deflection off of
Speaker 2: the one of those pass breakups. So they kick a
Speaker 2: field goal there, go up twenty four to nothing the Patriots,
Speaker 2: and the half with a nil down there at the
Speaker 2: end of the half, So let's go ahead and take
Speaker 2: our first break. Come back on the other side to
Speaker 2: the second half and the five takeaways, and I have
Speaker 2: a bunch more soundbites for you guys from coach and
Speaker 2: Tua and Chop. That's all next Draft Time Podcast, Your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield brought to you Bye Auto Nation. Before
Speaker 2: we get to the second half game script here, I
Speaker 2: want to just hear some sound from Tula because I
Speaker 2: thought this was very instructive about the team's mindset and
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks approach to things. Because just because you have
Speaker 2: one half of dominant, you know, put them away football,
Speaker 2: which you kind of did in the first half of
Speaker 2: this game. There's a higher expectation for both this player
Speaker 2: and this team, especially if they want to get to
Speaker 2: where they want to go to and That's what Tua
Speaker 2: talks about here with how happy he was with the
Speaker 2: performance and then going into the game on Thursday against
Speaker 2: the Packers. Let's go ahead and hear from the quarterback
Speaker 2: before we do the second half games.
Speaker 4: You know, it's always great to win, it's always great
Speaker 4: to enjoy the win. But there are some things second
Speaker 4: half wise that we knew we could have capitalized on
Speaker 4: that we didn't, Things that we said we wanted to
Speaker 4: do coming out in the second half that we didn't,
Speaker 4: and you know, those can be frustrating, but I would say,
Speaker 4: you know, it's we're still below the five hundred threshold
Speaker 4: and it's a long way to where we want to
Speaker 4: get to. So we'll enjoy this win, but you know this,
Speaker 4: this next one is going to be big for us,
Speaker 4: and we're excited to go down there to Green Bay
Speaker 4: and you know, show everybody on primetime a wee can do.
Speaker 2: And it began with the Dolphins having the football to
Speaker 2: kick off that second half with a three play, four
Speaker 2: yard drive where they tried to run the little glance
Speaker 2: off of the fake swing that wasn't there. But I
Speaker 2: liked how Tua and we'll get to this as well
Speaker 2: as Tua Man. They just have like options and then
Speaker 2: like options for when the options on available, like they
Speaker 2: run this. They want to hit the glance down the
Speaker 2: middle of the field. It's not there. And the reason
Speaker 2: they can pull guys away from the attention of that
Speaker 2: part of the field is this little flat route that
Speaker 2: you can run. But because they, you know, give more
Speaker 2: attention to the glance route, the flat route is there.
Speaker 2: And he did that and they got a compleation. They
Speaker 2: got a nice gain. But then Christian Barmore Saximon third
Speaker 2: down and they get their second Jake Bailey punt in
Speaker 2: the last nine quarters. After having some very highly efficient
Speaker 2: offensive football, the Patriots get it back and they have
Speaker 2: a ten play twenty seven yard drive that ends in
Speaker 2: a punt where they brought Javon Hall and the Dolphins
Speaker 2: off the edge. Him and Ogball both forced May to
Speaker 2: bubble all the way around this particular formation, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, Drake make him play man. He's got some
Speaker 2: real skill to his game. But on this one, and
Speaker 2: this was constant about the course of the game, he
Speaker 2: had to like flee and take you know, five eight
Speaker 2: yards backwards just to get himself in position to have
Speaker 2: a chance to attack the line of scrimmage, and the
Speaker 2: Dolphins were doing all this different stuff with their linebackers,
Speaker 2: their safeties, their corners and blitzing, and I'd love the
Speaker 2: game plan. But he found a way to get four
Speaker 2: yards there, and they move the chains eventually on the
Speaker 2: hands of the face penalty of the Dolphins, first penalty
Speaker 2: of the entire game at that point, and then they
Speaker 2: get a first down hold the Bodito Jones draws with
Speaker 2: his pass rush really coming alive the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: They get a third and ten where May extends and
Speaker 2: creates and finds Kendrick Bourn for eleven yards. But then
Speaker 2: Quentin Bell gets a big pass rush win and forces
Speaker 2: a throwaway after another Patriots penalty, and then third and seventeen,
Speaker 2: they tried a double pass and the Dolphins had discipline
Speaker 2: to match the downfield shot, the throwbacks shot. Everything on
Speaker 2: that play was covered by Miami, and they have to
Speaker 2: punt the ball after having the ball for five minutes
Speaker 2: and ten plays. Not where you want to be. Miami
Speaker 2: gets it back though, and they punt it themselves, and
Speaker 2: it was kind of the Jalen Wright show in that
Speaker 2: third quarter. He had a nice explosive run, ripping through
Speaker 2: two arm tackles and picking up twelve yards to get
Speaker 2: the Dolphins off the shadow of their own goalpost. And
Speaker 2: then they had the fake toss cross to Tyreek Hill
Speaker 2: where he gets eleven yards going across the linebacker's face,
Speaker 2: where the ball is out before he's even clear the linebacker.
Speaker 2: Just more vintage Dolphins stuff. Looks awesome. They get a
Speaker 2: DPI on Kyle Dugger on john Y Smith. Then they
Speaker 2: lose three yards on a swing route Raheem Moster, they
Speaker 2: pick up eight yards to Julian Hill, and then third
Speaker 2: and five was maybe my favorite throw of the entire day,
Speaker 2: where he runs this takeoff this slot fade from a
Speaker 2: bunch set and the ball was right there and he
Speaker 2: lays out and it's like right in his hands. It
Speaker 2: looks like it they'd be a vintage like Odell Beckham.
Speaker 2: Nice catch with a perfect throw from Tua, maybe his
Speaker 2: maybe his Dolphins, you know, welcome to Miami moment in
Speaker 2: a way, and he just can't secure the catch as
Speaker 2: he goes to the ground. I'm sure that he'll he'll
Speaker 2: have that one next time. But what a throw from
Speaker 2: two of that was, even on an incomplete pass, so
Speaker 2: they punt it back and then the Patriots fumble it
Speaker 2: back to Miami with Zach Seeler bull rushing his man
Speaker 2: running right through him, and then he pokes the ball
Speaker 2: three free while holding Drake May up to ensure that
Speaker 2: he doesn't lose track of May as he's this elusive,
Speaker 2: slippery strong quarterback. It's his four sack of the year.
Speaker 2: He forces the fumble, Jordan Brooks picks it up and
Speaker 2: runs it back to the twenty five yard line and
Speaker 2: the Dolphins paid off two plays later, twenty five yard drive,
Speaker 2: forty two second drive where two throws the glance to
Speaker 2: Wattle where he threads the needle and then Waddle puts
Speaker 2: his shoulder down and runs into the end zone through
Speaker 2: a defender and does a great dance. It's not the Wattle.
Speaker 2: I kind of missed the Wattle personally, but this was
Speaker 2: not the Wattle. But it goes for a touchdown and
Speaker 2: it is thirty one nothing Dolphins. But the Patriots answer
Speaker 2: back and they get themselves a touchdown with some good
Speaker 2: plays from Ramsey on to four Strake May backwards. Jordan
Speaker 2: Brooks had to run stuff to create a third and nine,
Speaker 2: but Hunter Henry converts that on the sixteen yard play,
Speaker 2: and then Chopp has this huge hit on May where
Speaker 2: I thought May might not get back up where he
Speaker 2: kind of, you know, build Goldberg speared him. But on
Speaker 2: that next play on a fourth and fifteen, I think
Speaker 2: it was Austin Hooper gets turned free as it looks
Speaker 2: like two defenders in the backfield for the Dolphins like
Speaker 2: Chase the same route, and Austin Hooper uncovers and May
Speaker 2: throws this ball across his body down the field, just
Speaker 2: enough strength to get to the receiver and he crosses
Speaker 2: the goal line for the Patriots first touchdown and a
Speaker 2: thirty one seven lead for Miami. Miami gets it back
Speaker 2: and it's three and out again. Patrick Paul checks into
Speaker 2: the game for toront Armstead. We still had Jalen Wright
Speaker 2: in there for Davon Hchan. You kind of feel like
Speaker 2: maybe they're going to start pulling some guys out of
Speaker 2: the game as this game gets out of reach with
Speaker 2: a short week next week against the Packers on the road.
Speaker 2: But then we get a four yard run and then
Speaker 2: back to back in completions and that's it. But then
Speaker 2: the Patriots turn it back over on downs and You're like, okay,
Speaker 2: now we can do that where Chopp gets a PBu
Speaker 2: falling back into coverage a fourth down DPI on cam
Speaker 2: Smith extends the drive, but we get another fourth and
Speaker 2: down and four and Javon Holland has fantastic coverage from
Speaker 2: a halfield safety look to undercut this corner route to
Speaker 2: Hunter Henry force the incompletion. Miami takes it back and
Speaker 2: Scalar Thompson checks into the game, but then he and
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright have an exchange issue as the ball bounces backwards.
Speaker 2: Christian Gonzalez scoops it up and Skyler had a chance
Speaker 2: to make a tackle and I thought he was gonna
Speaker 2: get him down. He gave it a great effort, but
Speaker 2: Gonzalez breaks the tackle because well, quarterbacks literally don't practice
Speaker 2: tackling since like high school before. That so makes sense.
Speaker 2: But it's a three play four yard drive and ends
Speaker 2: in a sixty two yard Christian Gonzalez scoop and score,
Speaker 2: so Miami leads thirty one to fifteen after a successful
Speaker 2: two point conversion, and then it's a five play eight
Speaker 2: yard drive that takes three and a half minutes off
Speaker 2: the clock. As Tua had some screens and some successful
Speaker 2: run game with Davon ah Chan back in the game.
Speaker 2: But then Tua took a pretty hard hit from Christian
Speaker 2: barr More on a third down sack, but it did
Speaker 2: take the clock under six point thirty before they punt
Speaker 2: it back. And then Tyrrel Dotson Welcome to Miami. He
Speaker 2: gets a pick on Drake May when some more pressure
Speaker 2: gets in to flex the ball up into the air,
Speaker 2: he snags with one hand Dolphins football and the Dolphins
Speaker 2: would take a six play twenty one yard drive, some
Speaker 2: more screen and run game action to kick a fifty
Speaker 2: plus yard field goal for Jason Sanders. He is now
Speaker 2: seven for nine on fifty plus yard kicks this year.
Speaker 2: And that's how the game ended. So the Dolphins find
Speaker 2: a big win despite some sloppiness in the second half.
Speaker 2: That you heard two address there off the top. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and hear real quick I mentioned Chop Robinson's work.
Speaker 2: Actually no, let's come back to Chop. I have McDaniel
Speaker 2: audio here on Tua Tongue Bai Lowe. He spoke about
Speaker 2: his quarterback after the game.
Speaker 5: Another game where you know he's he's found a way
Speaker 5: to improve the way that he plays the position throughout
Speaker 5: the game. So in previous years, you know, we've just
Speaker 5: spent a lot of time talking about the most monumental
Speaker 5: thing that you have to overcome as a quarterback is
Speaker 5: playing the position regardless of the ebbs and flows of motion.
Speaker 5: So not changing how you play based upon positive or
Speaker 5: negative results and letting every plays stand on its own.
Speaker 5: And I think, you know, since maybe the Buffalo game on,
Speaker 5: I think he's really taking a step forward in that direction.
Speaker 5: So him him playing at the level that I think
Speaker 5: that he has the last couple of games was a
Speaker 5: feat in it in it of itself, because it's it's
Speaker 5: become more of the norm and not the exception. So
Speaker 5: I think making the plays that he needs to make,
Speaker 5: understanding the progressions and how to get completions, when to
Speaker 5: extend plays. Came in at halftime frustrated that he there's
Speaker 5: too many hands, as he put it, on a couple
Speaker 5: of those red zone ops where he almost turned the
Speaker 5: ball over and was frustrated with himself, but then moved on.
Speaker 5: And that's the key for our team is when you
Speaker 5: have a confident player touching the ball every play that
Speaker 5: is pervious to the emotions of the game. Good or bad.
Speaker 5: As a collective unit, you can be a problem for
Speaker 5: people to defend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just really excited about the growth of this quarterback,
Speaker 2: of this offense, of this head coach, and really where
Speaker 2: it can go from here. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 2: our last break right there, come back and do five takeaways.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited about this segment. I also have more
Speaker 2: sound from coach and from Tua and from Chop. That's
Speaker 2: all next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 2: to you by AutoNation. Five takeaways from a Dolphins thirty
Speaker 2: four fifteen win over the Patriots that was actually thirty
Speaker 2: one to nothing quickly after the second half began. So
Speaker 2: a game that felt like it had kind of gotten
Speaker 2: sideways pretty early on, and the Dolphins do, in fact
Speaker 2: close it out to put themselves right in position to attack.
Speaker 2: As we head into the Packers game in week number thirteen.
Speaker 2: Let's see, the Raiders are currently trilling the Broncos by
Speaker 2: a touchdown, so they have to finally get that ball back.
Speaker 2: So the hope was the Broncos could the Raiders could
Speaker 2: pull the upside in Denver, and Miami could then win
Speaker 2: in Green Bay, which would then put them in the
Speaker 2: seventh seed in the AFC playoffs heading into the week
Speaker 2: to the Sunday action of Week thirteen. But let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and focus on playoff standings down the road. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about this game. Five takeaways. Number one. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna play man and single high, we still have that
Speaker 2: back of tricks John Who's touchdown third down conversion on
Speaker 2: the next drive, both man coverage with single high safeties.
Speaker 2: Waddle has that twenty four yard catch and run against
Speaker 2: the on a dig against that look, Reek had one
Speaker 2: for eleven yards. Wattle had one for seventeen and thirteen
Speaker 2: yards on the next drive. That's what this offense kind
Speaker 2: of originated in because you didn't want to play two
Speaker 2: one zone because he's so meticulous and precise with his accuracy.
Speaker 2: And I never thought we were gonna see this much
Speaker 2: man coverage again. In fact, the last time I thought
Speaker 2: we saw this much man the Chargers ran some two
Speaker 2: man in that Week one game last year. But it
Speaker 2: was really that Lions game in twenty twenty two when
Speaker 2: they kept challenging US and Tua just went nuts in
Speaker 2: that game with Tyreek and Waddle both going nuts, and
Speaker 2: you really haven't seen much of it since then, But
Speaker 2: the Patriots unveiled a bunch of man coverage and the
Speaker 2: Dolphins just went crazy against it. And I wonder if,
Speaker 2: I kind of wonder if our ability to put other
Speaker 2: stuff on tape and be patient and take the short
Speaker 2: stuff and take the run game and take the profit.
Speaker 2: I wonder if becoming one of the league's most efficient
Speaker 2: offenses that way perhaps changed the way teams wanted to
Speaker 2: play us. Then again, after what the Patriots did, maybe
Speaker 2: it won't because Miami was very tough to stop. And
Speaker 2: this one Tua goes twenty nine for forty three hundred
Speaker 2: and seventeen yards, four touchdowns, thirty four points. In the game,
Speaker 2: we've scored twenty seven, twenty seven, twenty three, thirty four
Speaker 2: and thirty four since he came back. I watch a
Speaker 2: guy that you know, you heard McDaniel talk about his
Speaker 2: ability to improve within the game and the emotional maturity
Speaker 2: we've learned. We've seen him, I think, get better against
Speaker 2: cover two against two man, how to use his legs better,
Speaker 2: how to attack offscript better. Then we finally saw a
Speaker 2: team be like, all right, we'll try man coverage against
Speaker 2: this and probably shouldn't do that either, because you know
Speaker 2: he'll spread it around and when after these dudes, like
Speaker 2: the franchise quarterback that he is since he came back
Speaker 2: to is one hundred and thirty pass completions on one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy attempts. That's seventy six point three percent
Speaker 2: for twelve hundred and seventy seven yards. That's seven and
Speaker 2: a half yards per attempt, eleven touchdowns, one pick, and
Speaker 2: that is a passer rating of one sixteen point two.
Speaker 2: It has been sharp, it has been effective against multiple coverages.
Speaker 2: And let's go ahead and hear from Tua after the
Speaker 2: game when he was asked about the Patriots heavy use
Speaker 2: of man coverage.
Speaker 4: You know, honestly, going into the game, have in my
Speaker 4: mind with what they put on film this year, what
Speaker 4: they do, and then you go back and look at
Speaker 4: the rest of the years where they were successful in
Speaker 4: stopping some of our in routes and whatnot. So you
Speaker 4: kind of have in mind, Okay, these are the ways
Speaker 4: they could potentially play us. But then I also still
Speaker 4: have in the back of my mind, you know, be
Speaker 4: ready for two, be ready for two man variations of
Speaker 4: four whatever that looks like. And so you know, preparing wise,
Speaker 4: that's that's sort of how we well, that's sort of
Speaker 4: how I go about my process so that I don't
Speaker 4: get stuck on you know what the progression is, and
Speaker 4: I can progress past their knowing what the coverage is.
Speaker 2: My second takeaway is that the red zone answer you've
Speaker 2: been looking for is Devon ah Chan as a wide receiver.
Speaker 2: And again I cautioned to say, like they needed to
Speaker 2: find solutions to you know, problems because it was number
Speaker 2: one offense in the NFL, but they needed to find
Speaker 2: ways to be better in the red zone, I thought.
Speaker 2: And the answer to that you usually you think, like,
Speaker 2: you know, a big tight end, which John new Smith
Speaker 2: works pretty good, But how about Devon h Chan as
Speaker 2: a pass catcher in the red zone. He caught that
Speaker 2: swing touchdown against the Bills back in week two, He
Speaker 2: caught a Texas route against the Cardinals in Week eight
Speaker 2: for a touchdown. He had the screen touchdown against the
Speaker 2: Bills in the second game, and now he has this
Speaker 2: one on a quick screen to kick off the game.
Speaker 2: It just winds his way through traffic and Aaron Brewer
Speaker 2: comes and destroys another defensive back like he has been
Speaker 2: doing all year long. They also tried that takeoff I
Speaker 2: mentioned to a Chan against the linebacker one on one
Speaker 2: from the twenty five yard line, So like, yeah, John
Speaker 2: new Smith's been a big part of it, and that
Speaker 2: tracks with the stature he provides. But I love that
Speaker 2: a red zone solution is this one hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: pounds back that's been freaking awesome. And I wrote this
Speaker 2: before the second touchdown. They throw a swing route to
Speaker 2: him again with Reek in the backfield alongside Tua, and
Speaker 2: it gives him a walk in touchdown. So that's five
Speaker 2: red zone receiving touchdowns that eight Chan has didn't even
Speaker 2: play in the second half of this game, which is
Speaker 2: a huge benefit. No, he did play, but he came
Speaker 2: in late. It's a huge benefit in a short week
Speaker 2: to rest your belcow back, which he is when you
Speaker 2: put up that four score lead at halftime. So that
Speaker 2: was my second takeaway. My third takeaways the defense bounced
Speaker 2: back in a big way after an up and down
Speaker 2: performance against the Raiders. Right, the Patriots had that good
Speaker 2: drive in the first half, but otherwise it was three
Speaker 2: to three and outs. They had multiple three outs in
Speaker 2: the second half. They put himself behind the sticks and
Speaker 2: I liked how Miami dialed up the pressure on those
Speaker 2: third downs and forced may to some mistakes, forced him
Speaker 2: into some you know, getting off the spot, and he
Speaker 2: created off of some of those plays. But it was
Speaker 2: a good mixture of pressure of sim pressure of single
Speaker 2: high too deep. They even ran, but I thought looked
Speaker 2: like some cover zero, but it would adjust after the
Speaker 2: fact nicely. They really adjusted to that drive where he
Speaker 2: took him down the field with some scrambles and some
Speaker 2: run game, and they went on to force punts on
Speaker 2: five of the next six drives after that, with a
Speaker 2: missed field goal being the other. And that includes four
Speaker 2: to three. Now, so defense, big big game, Seeler Campbell,
Speaker 2: both were awesome again, just really good stuff all around
Speaker 2: all across this defense. My fourth big takeaway it's the
Speaker 2: reinclusion of the Wattle baby. I did the breakdown HQ
Speaker 2: showing you guys that there were balls that could be
Speaker 2: there for Wattle, but Miami's just taking the high percentage stuff. Well.
Speaker 2: Three third down conversions in the first half. He caught
Speaker 2: the six for one to eighteen. In that first half.
Speaker 2: We saw him catch one and get loose running all
Speaker 2: the way across the field. Getting him back to this
Speaker 2: production begs the question if they get that from him,
Speaker 2: if they have Tyreek, if they have John Eu, if
Speaker 2: they have eight Chan, if two was this red hot,
Speaker 2: how the hell do you stop this offense? I don't
Speaker 2: have that answer right now. I mentioned earlier he was
Speaker 2: the first receiver since himself to have one hundred yards
Speaker 2: in the first half and on balance on the entire day.
Speaker 2: He did end. Let's pull him up real quick, Jalen
Speaker 2: Waddle did have eight catches for a buck forty four
Speaker 2: and the touchdown. Let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel
Speaker 2: on While this is a great SoundBite here talking about
Speaker 2: how Waddle state invested when the targets maybe weren't coming
Speaker 2: his way, but it's a testament to how this guy
Speaker 2: prepares works.
Speaker 5: It's one of my favorite things about this game that
Speaker 5: I'll remember is Waddle has been taking his his route,
Speaker 5: running his release work the nuances of the receiver position.
Speaker 5: He's had so much growth over the last month and
Speaker 5: a half while also fielding questions left and right, whether
Speaker 5: it's in the in the media or even at home,
Speaker 5: or like where's the production, where is the production? Where's
Speaker 5: the production? And to get better when the ball isn't
Speaker 5: coming your way, so that you're aptly prepared when the
Speaker 5: ball does. It's everything that I believe in everything that
Speaker 5: it was an earned, earned game for him. He got
Speaker 5: the opportunities, and because his mind has been in the
Speaker 5: right spot where he's been focused on what he can
Speaker 5: control and not all the other noise, he was able
Speaker 5: to really make some big time plays in those moments.
Speaker 5: So I you know, it's something that I don't think
Speaker 5: people uh truly spend the time, uh really putting themselves
Speaker 5: into receivers shoes in the National Football League, especially if
Speaker 5: you're you're one of the better receivers in the league.
Speaker 5: The you have expectations of output that you have no
Speaker 5: A lot of times you have no ability to control.
Speaker 5: So a lot a lot of players get worse from
Speaker 5: situations like that. He's been eager to help the team
Speaker 5: win and he's been doing that. We can weak out
Speaker 5: by plays off the ball or plays when he doesn't
Speaker 5: have the ball, So for him to make some plays
Speaker 5: on the ball, this game was much deserved and and
Speaker 5: we had a lot of teammates that were fired up.
Speaker 2: My fifth takeaway is chop on one drive, he had
Speaker 2: a pressure that forced to throw away. Then the sack
Speaker 2: on third down to end the drive, he gets the
Speaker 2: near strip sack that gets overturned and the arm wasn't
Speaker 2: going forward. It looked like a fumble to me. But
Speaker 2: the point was if he just is he's been dominant,
Speaker 2: he's been pushing guys back, he's been really incorporating a
Speaker 2: secondary move. I was talking to Seth about this. There
Speaker 2: was a play against the run where he fought like
Speaker 2: hell to get on the outside shoulder of the tight
Speaker 2: end and he ended up kind of getting like pushed
Speaker 2: back and almost ran over to a point, but he
Speaker 2: forced the play back inside and then worked back over
Speaker 2: the top of the block to put himself into the
Speaker 2: gap to really help, you know, slow the running back down.
Speaker 2: So he's getting better in that way. I love the
Speaker 2: way he can like set a tackle up to show
Speaker 2: an inside move and then dip back onder the outside
Speaker 2: shoulder and kind of pin him there with the inside
Speaker 2: hand and then use that cornering speed that he has.
Speaker 2: He is coming on now. Man, the pressures, the sacks
Speaker 2: are piling up, the game changing plays. I want to
Speaker 2: go ahead and play a sound by here from Chop Robinson.
Speaker 2: We talked about McDaniel's you know press press audio there
Speaker 2: on Wattle on the work he's done. Here's Chop talking
Speaker 2: about leaning into the presence of Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 3: Mean you feel amazing and just taking taking everything from
Speaker 3: the film room to practice, from prajuice to on the
Speaker 3: field of news.
Speaker 1: It just it's showing.
Speaker 3: Now you're showing me me learning from Chubb, JP, me
Speaker 3: doing extra work with my coach and everything they just
Speaker 3: taking taken from the guys who know the game so
Speaker 3: much or just executing this.
Speaker 2: Big game from Chop. He got Seth Levitt's game ball
Speaker 2: after the fact on the postgame show. We also gave
Speaker 2: it to Tua and Waddle and I also have a
Speaker 2: five B for you guys. The Dolphins had one penalty
Speaker 2: for the first three quarters, and that would be two
Speaker 2: of the last three games the offense went without a penalty.
Speaker 2: They had one for fifteen against the Rams on punt team,
Speaker 2: but Miami had an illegal motion with nine men's to
Speaker 2: play in the game. Now again that said, not the
Speaker 2: cleanest finish to a game. You know, a lot of
Speaker 2: punts of fumble. Six of the backup quarterback in the
Speaker 2: game the sack on two and bar More landed on him,
Speaker 2: I just looked a little bit disjointed. I don't really
Speaker 2: fault the team for taking their foot off the gas
Speaker 2: and essentially killing in the clock, but it wasn't the
Speaker 2: prettiest execution down the stretch. But the penalties and the
Speaker 2: lack of pre snap penalties is really I think helping
Speaker 2: this offense find it stride. So there you go. That's
Speaker 2: the podcast. Welcome back tomorrow and break all, break the
Speaker 2: tape down as I access the all twenty two and
Speaker 2: tell you guys what I think I see from that.
Speaker 2: We'll have a short week this week, so I think
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Speaker 2: the show on Tuesday, the game preview Wednesday, and then
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