Speaker 1: Two fires touch stop waddle stocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami tight pro tip window. They had to get
Speaker 1: that touchdown on that play. They give it. What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolph Fans and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and as always I am here for one
Speaker 1: more week to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. We cut this thing down to three shows
Speaker 1: a week in the off season except for in the
Speaker 1: busy peak times. But on today's show, it's a deep
Speaker 1: dive Wednesday. We're gonna compare the numbers between wins and
Speaker 1: losses this year, and a couple of very interesting data
Speaker 1: points between the two that I was curious to find
Speaker 1: out about, plus the thin margin for air in this game.
Speaker 1: We heard from the whole gamut of assistant coaches on
Speaker 1: Tuesday as well. We're gonna play the highlights from those
Speaker 1: media availabilities from somewhere in South Florida. This is the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast. I'll go ahead and start the podcast
Speaker 1: here with the assistant coaches media sessions from Tuesday. It
Speaker 1: was a long one. Getting all these guys on zoom
Speaker 1: takes longer than it does on the in person meetings.
Speaker 1: We get through it, and we talked to them one
Speaker 1: on one with these good questions, and there was all
Speaker 1: kinds of good stuff today. If you have not done so,
Speaker 1: all the coordinators will be up on YouTube, not the
Speaker 1: assistant coaches. They'll have sound for some of those guys
Speaker 1: for you here on this podcast. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: pick it up with coach George Godsey, Dolphins co O
Speaker 1: C and tight ends coach, who was asked about the
Speaker 1: idea of being more aggressive in the downfield passing game
Speaker 1: and if the Dolphins had more experience on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: if they could have done that more throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. Here's coach Godsy on just that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's where most of them passing game starts.
Speaker 1: As protection. So, um, whether it's matt Hip that we
Speaker 1: can do better on or you know, it's it's executing
Speaker 1: our our job as a protector, whether it's back alignment
Speaker 1: or tight end, that group's gotta gotta give the quarterback
Speaker 1: enough time for the receivers to get open too. And
Speaker 1: and uh, if we're having to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of our hands because we're getting pressured then uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we can't get the ball downfield. So a lot of
Speaker 1: that plays into how the game is being played and
Speaker 1: how the matchups end up being. You know, we had
Speaker 1: some guys in there moving around a little bit. Liam's
Speaker 1: learning and improving each game. Austin is going inside. You know,
Speaker 1: We've had some rotation going on at center right side.
Speaker 1: Seemed to be pretty consistent as far as health wise.
Speaker 1: So all those variables take uh take place into calling
Speaker 1: a play and um, you know, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure we give our guys the best opportunity to execute
Speaker 1: that play. So uh protection, depth of route, uh, pattern
Speaker 1: options for the quarterback of all that goes into any
Speaker 1: like all our play design as thorough as he always
Speaker 1: is there with coach George Gods, it's go ahead and
Speaker 1: go back to coach real quick. I asked him a
Speaker 1: question about personnel usage this season, because we talked all
Speaker 1: offseason long, right about how this Dolphins receiving corps was
Speaker 1: super deep, and obviously you lose one of the top
Speaker 1: key guys you're banking on, Will Fuller early in the season.
Speaker 1: Davante Parker misses a few games. You're at without Jillian
Speaker 1: Waddle for one game. Preston Williams up and down throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season, Isaiah Ford comes back, Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson has a kind of fluctuating role. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the depth seems like it's not what we expected back
Speaker 1: in training camp, and again, injuries and attrition has a
Speaker 1: way of having that happen. But here's coach Gotzi on
Speaker 1: the utilization of so much twelve personnel, which led the
Speaker 1: league by a substantial number this season. With two tight
Speaker 1: ends on the field, you know, starting the season and
Speaker 1: Alie Tennis. Is probably a lot of variables that have
Speaker 1: come up, whether it's injuries or UM, especially in receiver position. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, in and out of the lineup. Obviously would
Speaker 1: have some some injuries there too that people have played.
Speaker 1: So those guys, like I said, have been a healthy
Speaker 1: group for the most part, and they're able to do
Speaker 1: multiple things. Are able to block, They're able to block
Speaker 1: in line, they're able to detached if we need to UM,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's pretty reliable group from an assignment standpoint.
Speaker 1: So as much as we can use those guys, would
Speaker 1: like to every time we do these, I always learned
Speaker 1: something And so just thinking about having these guys every
Speaker 1: single week here to talk to you on the podcast
Speaker 1: is so beneficial to the basically what I want to
Speaker 1: do here, and that's to educate football fans to be
Speaker 1: smarter football fans, especially when it comes to this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. And I'll miss not having those guys every week.
Speaker 1: There's they're so informative. And here's coach Eric Studiensville Dolphins
Speaker 1: co O C and running backs coach talking about the
Speaker 1: pass or rather the run blocking execution of the offensive
Speaker 1: line if he felt it's been good enough in recent
Speaker 1: weeks in this season, and coach, there's more to it
Speaker 1: than just the offensive line that goes into your running game. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't necessarily think it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's not one unit that that's responsible for. There's
Speaker 1: different runs that runs hit in different places, There's different schemes.
Speaker 1: So you know, if we're running a toss play outside,
Speaker 1: that may be a different emphasis on who's the point
Speaker 1: of attack blocking then if you're running a dive play inside.
Speaker 1: So to to put the responsibility on on five guys
Speaker 1: and say that they're the only ones that affect you know,
Speaker 1: what happens in the run game. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. That's not what we do and that's not
Speaker 1: that's not the beauty of this game. The beauty of
Speaker 1: this game is it takes eleven people to be coordinated
Speaker 1: to have success on one play at a time. That's
Speaker 1: that's why you play this game. That's why you get
Speaker 1: involved in it because it's the team concept that's important
Speaker 1: to you. So it's all of us involved in that, coaches,
Speaker 1: from the from the diagram and the creation of the
Speaker 1: plays and the teaching of what we're doing to all
Speaker 1: the way down to the players of the execution. But
Speaker 1: it's not it doesn't rely strictly on one person um
Speaker 1: for the execution, the success or the production. It's it's
Speaker 1: the group better. Very informative there from Coach again love
Speaker 1: hearing what these guys have to say and to us.
Speaker 1: Spoke about that and his postgame presser on Sunday about
Speaker 1: how when you have eleven guys doing a job, if
Speaker 1: one person screws up, it can send the entire play
Speaker 1: kind of put and you hear Coach does feel echoing
Speaker 1: that message and that sentiment there with the question about
Speaker 1: the run blocking this season from the Dolphins offensive line,
Speaker 1: how to get the run game going in general, Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and spend this thing forward and pick it
Speaker 1: up here with quarterbacks coach Charlie Fry, who was asked
Speaker 1: about the growth of to a tongue of Byloa in
Speaker 1: his first or rather his second season here as a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin, his first under the tutelage of quarterbacks coach
Speaker 1: Charlie Fry. Yeah, I think, you know, he's they're showing
Speaker 1: that he's shown growth in in you know, the way
Speaker 1: he's played this year. I think as a young quarterback,
Speaker 1: the more reps you get, the more experience that you get,
Speaker 1: the more you're gonna be able to take from that
Speaker 1: the learning moments and the things that happened within that game.
Speaker 1: You know, we go over those corrections the next day
Speaker 1: and meetings, and then you try to apply it to
Speaker 1: the for the next week's game, and then you get
Speaker 1: into the you know, the overall picture of the growth
Speaker 1: and development more in the off season, um and then
Speaker 1: try and try and take some steps that way. But
Speaker 1: right now, it's it's the things that happened in the
Speaker 1: Tennessee game, the corrections that we make in trying to
Speaker 1: apply those going into this last week against New England.
Speaker 1: And you heard coach talk there about how right now
Speaker 1: it is about the Titans game. And so there was
Speaker 1: a follow up question about ball security and how to
Speaker 1: it can approve in that regard, and just looking at
Speaker 1: some of the numbers here for two of the season,
Speaker 1: the interception percentage has jumped by a full percentage point
Speaker 1: from last season, from one point seven up to two
Speaker 1: point seven per cent. And then we've also seen a
Speaker 1: lot more fumbles. Last year just one fumble for Toungo
Speaker 1: by Loa in ten games played. But this year in
Speaker 1: twelve games, nine fumbles, nine times he's put the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's just a little bit too many
Speaker 1: turnover worthy plays or turnover opportunities, I should say for
Speaker 1: the opposing defense. So Coach Fry was asked about ball
Speaker 1: security and how to it can get better in that regard.
Speaker 1: I thought his answer here was really good about the
Speaker 1: mental aspect of all security. I think um obviously a
Speaker 1: focus of you know, when the pocket breaks down and
Speaker 1: and and you you have to move, sometimes the initial
Speaker 1: reaction is to separate your hands. You know, obviously you're
Speaker 1: getting the ball into a running position instead of a
Speaker 1: passing position, and usually that's that's where most of the
Speaker 1: fumbles happen, is that initial break the hands UM. So
Speaker 1: obviously you drill that. But the problem is when you
Speaker 1: drill that, there's there's you don't have that element of
Speaker 1: life contact, you know, that lot the element of man,
Speaker 1: this guy's coming to hurt me, this guy is coming
Speaker 1: to tackle me. So a lot of it is training
Speaker 1: your mind um more so than than any any type
Speaker 1: of drill of when there's contact, when when you feel
Speaker 1: that coming of really putting your body in between the
Speaker 1: ball and the defender um and and it's more of
Speaker 1: a mental thing. And obviously you're gonna drill it. You
Speaker 1: try and drill everything that's going to happen in the game.
Speaker 1: But being able to take the drill to the practice
Speaker 1: to the game is a lot of the mental side.
Speaker 1: Interesting stuff there from a guy who's played and inclement weather,
Speaker 1: he came. He was with the Seahawks there for a
Speaker 1: little bit, so he knows about bad what rainy footballs
Speaker 1: and wind and and all the stuff. And ball security
Speaker 1: of course, a big part of that position let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and spend this thing forward to the special teams
Speaker 1: and coordinator Danny Crossman, who was asked about if the
Speaker 1: Dolphins lived up to his standards so far this season
Speaker 1: on special teams obviously not, you know, and we be
Speaker 1: quite honest, we've never met my standards. But you know,
Speaker 1: obviously this year even even a little bit more so
Speaker 1: of not being where we need to be. Well, the
Speaker 1: list is as long as it as it always is.
Speaker 1: We need to be better and everything we need to coach,
Speaker 1: I need to coach it better. We need to executed better.
Speaker 1: When we have opportunities, we need to be able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of those opportunities. Um, a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: to work on. That second portion was a fall up
Speaker 1: question about what specifically is on his list for things
Speaker 1: they have to improve that you heard it. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go to the defensive side of the football
Speaker 1: here with DC Josh Boyer, who was asked about the
Speaker 1: run defense and how they had issues on Sunday with
Speaker 1: the Titans who rolled up a hundred yards on the ground.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, some of it, uh you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it could be a little bit scheme related
Speaker 1: where where we're trying to create negative plays. Uh. Some
Speaker 1: of it is uh, you know, them staying ahead of
Speaker 1: the change and you know, staying on track and um,
Speaker 1: you know, not being able to really get him into
Speaker 1: situations where they need to throw the ball and um,
Speaker 1: you know. And then some of it, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know as scheme issues. Uh, and then some of
Speaker 1: it is you know, just fundamentals and techniques and um
Speaker 1: you know. Um, so those are the things like I
Speaker 1: said that you know, when you review the film, you
Speaker 1: try to correct all those and then you get ready
Speaker 1: to play. Uh. Uh. You know New England who's a
Speaker 1: very good run offense. Um, And they can throw the ball.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of things. They're very multiple, they're
Speaker 1: very well coached. They got very good players. They've got
Speaker 1: a very good offensive line, very similar to the team
Speaker 1: that we saw last week. Um. Uh, their receivers all
Speaker 1: blocked well, they all play hard, their physical, tough team.
Speaker 1: They're gonna play for sixty minutes. So again, I mean,
Speaker 1: we have a big challenge in front of us this week.
Speaker 1: So um, that's kind of really where our focus is
Speaker 1: really found. Coaches comment there about scheme things and trying
Speaker 1: to create negative plays and the running game was interesting. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we talked about one of the keys of the game
Speaker 1: was getting the Titans into those long down distances to
Speaker 1: get those free hitters, to get those blitz opportunities. Just
Speaker 1: didn't happen frequently enough in this game. We talked about
Speaker 1: that in the All twoint to review about how Miami
Speaker 1: the Titans game plan allowed them, or the execution of
Speaker 1: their plan allowed them to get to the part of
Speaker 1: the game plan where they could really kind of minimize
Speaker 1: those rush options and get into the different types of
Speaker 1: conflict like the bootlegs and the rolls and the quarterback runs,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff that's fun for your offense, not
Speaker 1: so much we have to defend it. Now. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pick us up here with Dolphins linebackers coach
Speaker 1: Anthon Campinelli, and you know, I think one of the
Speaker 1: things I might want to look at this summer is
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's just charting his play because of how many
Speaker 1: different plays he made. Spots are different spots he made
Speaker 1: plays from kind of a switch from full time MIC
Speaker 1: linebackers are more off the edge, and that Baltimore game,
Speaker 1: which of course coincided with Miami's defensive resurgence in the
Speaker 1: second half of the season. Coach Camp was asked about
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's ability to play multiple spots with selflessness to
Speaker 1: do that and what he does or what it is
Speaker 1: about Jerome Baker that makes him able to get better
Speaker 1: every game and every season. I think he's done a
Speaker 1: really good job. You know, He's been called upon to
Speaker 1: do a bunch of different things and he's uh, he's
Speaker 1: excelled in a lot of ways. Um. I think he's
Speaker 1: continually improved over the course of the season, whether it
Speaker 1: be in the run game, UM, you know, pass coverage
Speaker 1: and pass rush. Um. So I think, uh, I think
Speaker 1: people recognize that about him. I certainly do. UM, just
Speaker 1: in terms of just being around somebody every day, incredibly coachable,
Speaker 1: humble personality, and I think it's guys like that usually
Speaker 1: continue to get better. That's a really fun quote to
Speaker 1: end that on there, talking about Jerome Baker. From the
Speaker 1: second level of defense, we move up to the front
Speaker 1: portion and you guys heard me raving about Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: game on Sunday on the Tuesday Recap podcast, and I
Speaker 1: just can't get enough of what this guy can do
Speaker 1: in terms of the physicality, the quickness, stack and shed
Speaker 1: the eyes, the eye discipline, the ability to backdoor play
Speaker 1: on the front side, just so many things he can
Speaker 1: do that really increases Miami's versatility, which we know is
Speaker 1: a key in this defense and on this team. And
Speaker 1: I think it also allows him to do what he
Speaker 1: did on Sunday and play over of the snaps for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defense. Here's Coach Clark, Dolphins d line coach
Speaker 1: on Christian Wilkins. Yeah. I think, you know, credit credit
Speaker 1: to Christian. His versatility and how he's developed there has
Speaker 1: definitely helped helped us as a defense. And you know,
Speaker 1: he can't feel multiple roles, and I would say his
Speaker 1: willingness to do whatever role has asked to him is
Speaker 1: what's awesome. You know, it's it's not um you know,
Speaker 1: he never second guesses anything we're asking him to do.
Speaker 1: He goes full speed and he has a real focus
Speaker 1: on the technique and fundamentals. I think that's where he's
Speaker 1: made his biggest strides and uh, you know, hopefully, uh
Speaker 1: you know, we can have a good one with him
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Glad you mentioned the technique and fundamentals because
Speaker 1: that one player where I talked about how he locked
Speaker 1: out of the guard and then tossed him back to
Speaker 1: the direction. You just saw everything that you see on
Speaker 1: those bags all August long in the training camp, and
Speaker 1: the sweat and the blood, sweat and tears they put
Speaker 1: out there on that practice field. You see that translate
Speaker 1: onto the game day field. That's always a good feeling
Speaker 1: for a player to have that kind of come to
Speaker 1: fruition without the course of the season, especially now in
Speaker 1: your number three for Christian Wilkins. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break and come back and finish up
Speaker 1: with two more coaches media and the quotes from Gerald
Speaker 1: Alexander and Charles Burke's then we'll have a deep dive
Speaker 1: after that as well. Drivetime Podcast Wednesday edition. Keep it
Speaker 1: locked right here. Let's pick it back up with Gerald
Speaker 1: Alexander on this coach's availability Wednesday edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. Who was asked? I asked him actually about
Speaker 1: how you, as a guy who's played in the league
Speaker 1: and also coached in the league, on if this week,
Speaker 1: when you're eliminated from posteas and contention, if you can
Speaker 1: learn anything about your team and your roster and the
Speaker 1: way guys prepare, and if the way guys work in
Speaker 1: a week that has an atmosphere or disappointment from Sunday
Speaker 1: that carries over if it reveals anything about your team
Speaker 1: and the character those guys have wanted to ask you.
Speaker 1: Because of his experience as a player and coach, here's coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think in regardless of the circumstances, when you look
Speaker 1: at just the opportunity that it is to work and
Speaker 1: play in the NFL, you can never take any of
Speaker 1: these weeks for granted. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: work that gets put in, you know for the seventeen
Speaker 1: you know, guaranteed opportunities that we have to go out
Speaker 1: there on the field together and incompete. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it reveals character about an individual, um, you know,
Speaker 1: how don't put that. I don't put a lot of
Speaker 1: stock into that. I think that every game, UM definitely, Uh,
Speaker 1: you learn from it and exposes you know, really anybody
Speaker 1: you know, strengths, weaknesses and things like that. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just another opportunity for us to do
Speaker 1: this together. Unfortunately we didn't do wanted to do this season, um,
Speaker 1: but we have one more opportunity to go out there
Speaker 1: together because we know at this point Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's definite ality. I gotta love that answer. That's why
Speaker 1: I asked him that questions. I would get a good
Speaker 1: one there from g A and that's yeah, I completely
Speaker 1: understand that mentality. In that mindset, you can't preach the
Speaker 1: one day of time mentality and then have a different
Speaker 1: week carry more weight than another week earlier or later
Speaker 1: in the season. Let's go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with Charles Burks, who was asked about the elements of
Speaker 1: Noah egg banogenis game that makes him believe he can
Speaker 1: transition at some point his career to a full time
Speaker 1: player and have success in this league. Here's Charles Burke's
Speaker 1: on noahgo, Well, this is an athletic ability. You know,
Speaker 1: think he he definitely has tools to be successful in
Speaker 1: the league, but there's a lot more to that. Not
Speaker 1: saying that he doesn't have those other things, but it's
Speaker 1: just not necessarily an athletic skill. There's are a lot
Speaker 1: of athletic guys that have came in the NFL at
Speaker 1: that particular position, but there there's more that goes into it. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's not just necessarily being a really good athlete, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the preparation. Um, it's the instincts, it's you know,
Speaker 1: the film, it's all of that encompassing that can really
Speaker 1: change a game and take it to a high level.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the end of our assistant
Speaker 1: coaches media availability. I believe we'll get the coordinators next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and then there will be a rap on talking to
Speaker 1: those guys for quite some time once the season comes
Speaker 1: to a conclusion. But I wanted to go back here
Speaker 1: now to something Coach Gods he said off the top
Speaker 1: about making plays to move the football, which then can
Speaker 1: help you produce points and ultimately score more than the
Speaker 1: opposition does. And when he said how we've done it
Speaker 1: half the time and the other half the time we
Speaker 1: have not, it kind of got me thinking about what
Speaker 1: kind of deep dive I wanted to do. And so
Speaker 1: I became curious about differences between the eight wins and
Speaker 1: the eight losses. And then I've got to thinking, what
Speaker 1: were the things that I specifically remember about those games,
Speaker 1: Things that I can look at besides numbers that I
Speaker 1: can find on Pro Football Reference or NFL True Media
Speaker 1: or the Jesus site, g S I S site, Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus or what have you. As far as what
Speaker 1: your resources are next gen. I use that one a
Speaker 1: lot too, something like how many made in missfield goals
Speaker 1: do we have compared to our opponent and the wins
Speaker 1: and losses? Then also how did teams beat us and
Speaker 1: how did they fail to do so? So I thought,
Speaker 1: let's look at blitz rate for instance. That will be
Speaker 1: one I can chart real quick, So this will be
Speaker 1: a short segment, but I wanted to compare some things
Speaker 1: that stood out over the eight game sample size of
Speaker 1: victories and the sample size and defeats. And we can
Speaker 1: do this again come the off season with much more
Speaker 1: time put into it, much more data and charting. That
Speaker 1: goes into that one of my fair things to do
Speaker 1: with football is to chart things, and they always teach
Speaker 1: you something, whether or not your hypothesis or the opposite
Speaker 1: or something in between. You always learn something when you
Speaker 1: do these deep dive projects. Let's go ahead and jump
Speaker 1: right into that, but first, real quick, these words back
Speaker 1: here on the Drive Time podcast, and we are taking
Speaker 1: a look at the difference and a few statistical categories
Speaker 1: between Miami's eight wins and eight losses and trying to
Speaker 1: find out what worked and did not work in the
Speaker 1: winds and the losses, and we start here with four
Speaker 1: stats I was curious to look at, and we could
Speaker 1: pull up rushing and passing and very basic counting stats,
Speaker 1: which I did here also for a few of these ones.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to look at things that you have
Speaker 1: to kind of go back and peek through the game
Speaker 1: books to find out exactly what happened. And there's two
Speaker 1: stats in here that kind of qualified for that, and
Speaker 1: too that don't, but one of almost field goals, and
Speaker 1: I became very curious about that, and that was the
Speaker 1: biggest find for me as far as my hypoth us
Speaker 1: has went in terms of difference in how wins and
Speaker 1: losses were formulated this year by this Dolphins team. And
Speaker 1: in victories, the Dolphins were thirteen for fifteen on field goals,
Speaker 1: which is eighty one point three percent. Check that, thirteen
Speaker 1: for sixteen for eighty one point three percent. The opposing
Speaker 1: kickers were fifteen for nineteen in the victories. That's seventy
Speaker 1: eight point nine percent, so nearly a wash. But when
Speaker 1: you get to the eight losses, Miami was eight for
Speaker 1: fourteen this year on field goals at fifty seven point
Speaker 1: one percent, and the opposition was fifteen for sixteen ninety
Speaker 1: three point eight percent, so eight for fourteen compared to
Speaker 1: fifteen for sixteen. And I think it's the craziest part
Speaker 1: about that as far as the field goals go, is
Speaker 1: that all three of the Dolphins buzzer beating losses came
Speaker 1: on buzzer beater field goals, and in each of those games,
Speaker 1: Miami missed a field goal and the opposing kickers went
Speaker 1: three for three, so nine for nine in total. Those
Speaker 1: small margins, and that's what it comes down to in
Speaker 1: this league, and so that was the biggest one for me.
Speaker 1: But from the victories, the offense on third down was
Speaker 1: forty six for one ten that's forty one point eight percent.
Speaker 1: And then in the losses the Dolphins were forty two
Speaker 1: for one oh eight, so thirty eight point nine percent.
Speaker 1: Just a few percentage bumps point bump there from the
Speaker 1: victories and the losses, and of course different quarterbacks played
Speaker 1: in those games as well, which obviously has an impact
Speaker 1: on those numbers. And then in the penalties per game
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, in the victories, there was forty six
Speaker 1: penalties for three hundred and sixty yards. That was five
Speaker 1: point seven five penalties per game for forty five yards
Speaker 1: per game, and then in the losses it was fifty
Speaker 1: four penalties for four hundred and thirty two yards. That's
Speaker 1: six point seven five penalties for fifty four yards a game,
Speaker 1: so one more penalty for nine yards in the losses
Speaker 1: than in the victories. On blitzes versus how many dropbacks
Speaker 1: there were for the Dolphins offense, they were blitzed eighty
Speaker 1: eight times compared to two eight total dropbacks. That was
Speaker 1: thirty point six percent of the time in their victories.
Speaker 1: When the Dolphins lost, opposing teams blitzed us eighty six
Speaker 1: times out of three eight dropbacks. That's a twenty two
Speaker 1: point six percent blitz right, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: blitz number when Jacobe Brissette was in this game, we're
Speaker 1: in the game, We're way way down. So that was
Speaker 1: a huge fluctuation there as well. But I found that
Speaker 1: to be a little bit interesting as far as the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense goes. Now, as far as the defense goes,
Speaker 1: compared to wins versus losses, the biggest differentiator you see
Speaker 1: here is obviously the third down defense, and of course
Speaker 1: the third down defense got much better over the course
Speaker 1: of that seven game winning streak. In the Dolphins eight
Speaker 1: victories this season, thirty nine third down conversions on a
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen attempts that's thirty three point three percent.
Speaker 1: In the losses, fifty three for one or seven that's
Speaker 1: forty nine point five percent and a sixteen point two
Speaker 1: percent increase in third downs allowed. The blitzing numbers, I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of you wanted to hear that. One
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty six blitzes on three nineteen dropbacks in
Speaker 1: the victories, that's a forty eight point nine percent blitz rate.
Speaker 1: When the opposing quarterback went back to pass. In the losses,
Speaker 1: it was one thirty four out of three eleven, so
Speaker 1: forty one point eight percent, a seven point one percent
Speaker 1: decrease and the losses in blitzing the quarterback. But again,
Speaker 1: those numbers can be skewed a little bit because of
Speaker 1: the way the game unfolds in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: late game situations. It's all situational, so I don't know
Speaker 1: that one really tells us all that much, but I
Speaker 1: was curious to find out the difference there, So that
Speaker 1: was really the key one that I looked at, and
Speaker 1: the field goal numbers. I mean that was the outrageous
Speaker 1: one to me was how field goal successes and failures,
Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't want to call it luck.
Speaker 1: I think the opposing team missing field goals a lot
Speaker 1: of times can come down to luck. But last year
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were thirty for thirty three and field goal
Speaker 1: percentage had the first team All Pro this year actually
Speaker 1: had the lowest field goal percentage of any team in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. We talk about fine margins. That's
Speaker 1: a good area to look at for how the record
Speaker 1: swung from ten wins to eight and possibly nine wins
Speaker 1: if the Dolphins can find a victory on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Patriots. But again, small margin's big difference. Some others
Speaker 1: here with some miscellaneous stats and information. The turnover differential
Speaker 1: and the victories was plus four. They had two games
Speaker 1: they won with more than one turnover, the Houston game
Speaker 1: when they had four or rather five turnovers, and the
Speaker 1: Jets game they had three turnovers. There was two games
Speaker 1: without a turnover they won, and they won four games
Speaker 1: with one turnover exactly, but plus four in the victories
Speaker 1: in the losses, negative seven in the take in the
Speaker 1: turnover differential department sixteen takeaways and the wins seven takeaways.
Speaker 1: In the losses, the point differential I thought was gonna
Speaker 1: go a different direction that I remembered back to the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers game and the Bills game and the Titans game,
Speaker 1: and that through this entire equation out of whack. But
Speaker 1: the Dolphins points for in their victories one four. That's
Speaker 1: twenty three points per game, and their wins as far
Speaker 1: as points allowed just ninety eight points twelve and a
Speaker 1: quarter points per game. In the eight victories, that's a
Speaker 1: plus eighty six differential. In the losses, they scored a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four point sixty points fewer. That's fifteen
Speaker 1: point five points per game. And those losses in the
Speaker 1: points allowed category two hundred and fifty one. So what
Speaker 1: is that a hundred and fifty three points more allowed
Speaker 1: in the eight losses compared to the eight wins. That's
Speaker 1: thirty one point four points per game. That's say two
Speaker 1: and a half times increase there if my math is right,
Speaker 1: which probably isn't. In terms of points allowed per game,
Speaker 1: that's a minus one seven point differential in the losses,
Speaker 1: so plus eighty six and the eight wins minus one
Speaker 1: seven in the eight losses. Last thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: explore here was the wins at the buzzer at the
Speaker 1: hands of the Dolphins and what exactly happened in those games.
Speaker 1: My point here is again the razor thin margins in
Speaker 1: this league, and you could do this in a few
Speaker 1: of our wins as well, where you find four five
Speaker 1: plays in those games that could have gone the other way,
Speaker 1: really only to me in the Patriots game. Otherwise the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were pretty much clear winners and a lot of
Speaker 1: those other contests. But we start off here with there's
Speaker 1: three games Vegas, Jacksonville, Atlanta, and we start here with Vegas.
Speaker 1: First off, Derek Carr played so damn well in that game,
Speaker 1: and just to that point, I you know, I wasn't
Speaker 1: a huge fan of his game early on in his career,
Speaker 1: but he sure as hell has won me over what
Speaker 1: a terrific player he has become in his NFL career.
Speaker 1: But in this game, he hit maybe his best throw
Speaker 1: of the season on that thirty two yard pass to
Speaker 1: Brian Edwards under pressure in a tight window, and that
Speaker 1: was on second and ten. If you don't get that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Miami has a chance for one
Speaker 1: of their blitz packages or creative calls on third and
Speaker 1: tend to get off the field, but instead they convert
Speaker 1: and kick a field goal. And then the Dolphins drive
Speaker 1: back into field goal range and had a shot play
Speaker 1: into the end zone on first down to Will Fuller,
Speaker 1: and we've seen that call made before, we've seen it
Speaker 1: not made before. It doesn't get called. The Dolphins cannot
Speaker 1: hit either of the next two passes and then convert
Speaker 1: on fifty yard field goal from Jason Sanders. And then
Speaker 1: the Raiders again from car to Edwards on a second
Speaker 1: and fifteen for thirty five yards, and that time was
Speaker 1: backed up too, with under three minutes to play. You
Speaker 1: get off the field there, you get the football back
Speaker 1: with either a chance to win or if you don't,
Speaker 1: succeed to tie the football game. But because they hit
Speaker 1: that Peyton Barber, one more run and they're back into
Speaker 1: field goal ranch and they hit it at the buzzer
Speaker 1: and again three for three for Daniel Carlson d that game,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins had a missed field goal at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half in that game. For the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville game played pretty good on defense, especially when you
Speaker 1: consider the fact that Both xaviing Howard and Byron Jones
Speaker 1: were down in that game, but Jacksonville kicker Matthew Right
Speaker 1: went three for three in that game and hit from
Speaker 1: fifty four and fifty three yards in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: He's four for six this year from fifty plus, so
Speaker 1: two for two in the Dolphins game, two for four Otherwise.
Speaker 1: He didn't hit two fifty plus yards in any other
Speaker 1: game this year. To his credit, he has seventeen for
Speaker 1: twenty and it looks like he's gonna have a long
Speaker 1: term solution there at the kicking possession in Jacksonville, but
Speaker 1: he entered that game over one kicking in his career
Speaker 1: and the Jags had gone a full year without a
Speaker 1: made field goal. Just a weird nugget from that game
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars were able to hit big field goals
Speaker 1: late in that football game, which was the difference ultimately
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta Falcons game. That was the second and
Speaker 1: the last time the Falcons offense hit thirty points in
Speaker 1: a game this season, their second highest yardage output and
Speaker 1: their third highest passing output of the season against this
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. That really transformed a week or two after
Speaker 1: this and the way it ended with Miami having two
Speaker 1: touchdown drives and offense, a defensive takeaway and a forced
Speaker 1: punt in there. Then they come back after all that
Speaker 1: in Miami gets a lead with two twenty seven to
Speaker 1: play in the game, and they complete an incredible catch
Speaker 1: up the perimeter to rookie tight end Kyle Pitch for
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards, a phenomenal catch by a hell of
Speaker 1: a player, and that was after he already hit for
Speaker 1: twenty three yards. So he piles up in quick succession
Speaker 1: fifty one yards of offense on two plays, and the
Speaker 1: Falcons were able to run for a first down on
Speaker 1: three plays, where if the Dolphins gonna stop on any
Speaker 1: of those, they're gonna have about a minute and some
Speaker 1: change to try to navigate the field on the other
Speaker 1: side and get a game winning field goal from two
Speaker 1: and the offense, which in that fourth quarter they were
Speaker 1: moving the ball just fine, but the Falcons run for
Speaker 1: a first down, exhaust the time ouse and clock and
Speaker 1: any chance of answering, and they kick it to go
Speaker 1: ahead and win that football game. So all three of
Speaker 1: those games, Miami's missing a field goal and the opposition
Speaker 1: goes three for three nine for nine in total. Those
Speaker 1: small margins there they are. I just think those three
Speaker 1: games and clearly evident by the buzzer beating ending, but
Speaker 1: the way they played out, they show you that the
Speaker 1: margin between wins and losses, the margin between Week seventeen
Speaker 1: elimination and fighting for division championships and high seating in
Speaker 1: the postseason, can come down to a play or a moment.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what you look back on each
Speaker 1: of the last two seasons as you are just one
Speaker 1: or two win shy of getting into the postseason tournament.
Speaker 1: Now there are plenty more things, but that's a two
Speaker 1: day project I did to look into, you know what,
Speaker 1: where the difference is in the victories and losses. You
Speaker 1: can look at personnel groupings, ran route concepts, different types
Speaker 1: of blitz packages and games and stunts and things of
Speaker 1: that nature. That's all for the offseason. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to give you guys a sample taste of that on
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