WEBVTT - Week 8 Recap - 5 Takeaways from Dolphins 31-27 Win Over the Lions 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.399 is Drive Time with Travis Wheatfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:16.720 a looking wine open touchdop, clerk kill, unbelievable, just blue 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.360 fire for a second time to know where he was 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.639 going right away? Hit is that there? Man? I want 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.880 to help you soon up on his bay wattle, waddle 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.400 to a shotgun, back to throw, looking steps up, fires, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.159 totop again, It's waddle. It's six touchdown pass out of 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:40.120 this day. Drive Time with Travis Winfield begins. Now let 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:46.479 me check your pulse. If not firm, what is up? Dolphins? 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.880 And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:55.080 Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.520 it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.640 on today's show, a sun Day night recap show, we've 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.440 reached the almost midway point of the season and it's 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:14.440 a fifth Miami Dolphins victory when win win win, win win, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:21.000 saying that, Mommy, that's right, A second straight win, a 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.400 fifth on the season, the second fourteen point comeback on 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.880 the road this season. We're gonna recap all of that. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.960 A busy show with audio from Mike McDaniel to a 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.840 tungle by low A Tyreek Hill, the five Takeaways, Crazy Stats, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.360 and a segment with the game balls from the post 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.440 game show on five six w q A M with Me, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.000 Seth and O J. McDuffie from the Baptist Health Studios 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.679 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:52.680 Time Podcast. What a football game it was. This is 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.080 not going your way early, a lot of self inflicted 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.560 errors with the Miami Dolphins, but it gets corrected and 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.720 your Miami Dolphins play arguably their most complementary half of 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.880 football all season long, and it produces a big win 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.639 on the road to get to five and three. In fact, 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.359 the last time Miami was five and three through eight 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.639 games was well, it was, And I double checked on 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.400 that because at first I thought, wow, it's wait a minute, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.959 let me check the most recent seasons. That's right after 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.440 staring one in three in two thousand and twenty, Dolphins 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.079 won a few games in a row to get to 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.880 six and three. I believe it was before the loss 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.600 in Denver, but either way, it's a nice spot to 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.919 be in after the first two quarters of the season. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.320 The five and three start is the best start by 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.679 a Dolphins rookie head coach since Dave Wanstead went six 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.440 and two back in two thousand. Let's go ahead and 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.960 get some stats and some really cool records and numbers. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.760 Now for an offense that found it's stride on Sunday 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.679 and the thirty one win over the Detroit Lions. I 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.000 have a ton of audio I want to play on 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.280 this podcast as well. I'll do my best to keep 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.600 the episode from getting way too long, but no promises, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.880 because there was so much good stuff from coach McDaniel, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.440 from QB one from Cheetah. But how about the accomplishments 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.280 of those two, the latter two as well as the penguin. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.040 By the way, I mentioned the second road win after 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.160 trailing by fourteen points. The last time the Dolphins did 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.519 that was nineteen nine six. For Twah, it's the first 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.760 time a Dolphins quarterback has thrown for three hundred and 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.919 fifty plus yards, three plus passing touchdowns, zero interceptions while 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.760 completing at least eight of his passes. I'm not sure 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.200 if you guys knew this, but we had a really 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.040 good quarterback here for seventeen years once as outrageous production. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.920 Only quarterback to ever do in team history. For Tyreeke 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.040 and Jalen, they broke the record for most receiving yards 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.240 by a pair of teammates through the first eight games 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.720 of a season. They are combined right now at sixteen 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.880 hundred and eighty eight receiving yards. Out of this world. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.240 Tyreek had a hundred forty two receiving yards in the 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.600 first half. That was the most by a Dolphins players 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.600 since at least two thousand The next closes was Patrick 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.280 cob Back in two thousand eight with one thirty three. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.880 He also went over Tyreek a hundred de receiving yards. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.760 It's the fourth time this year, which ties Mark Dooper's 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.000 club record set in that Big Time illustrious four season. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.720 He Hill and Waddle have gone over a hundred yards 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.120 in the three and three of the same games this 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.640 year Baltimore, Minnesota, and now Detroit. Defensively, it's the second 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.080 straight week that Miami held an opposing offense off the 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.960 scoreboard in the second half. The last time that happened 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.040 and wins over the Jets and Bengals in December of 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.600 that season. The sixties seven yards by the Lions in 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.520 the second half was their lowest output in a second 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.440 half second half since twenty nineteen, So Miami checked all 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.480 the boxes that second half. They found the end zone 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.159 on offense, they got the stops on defense, they found 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.320 the plays on special teams. Let's go ahead and give 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.280 you the game stats, as we do weekly here on 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.480 the Sunday Night Recap podcast. Twenty seven first downs for 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.360 your Miami Dolphins, twenty two for the Lions. The Dolphins 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.760 are eight of twelve on third downs. The lines were 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.640 four of nine. Miami converted their loan fourth down attempt 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.640 the first drive of the game. The Lions went one 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.159 for two on four thounds, including the essentially game ceiling 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.360 drive there at the end, before Miami got into victory 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.520 formation after getting a couple of first downs of their own. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.920 On the other side, the Dolphins post four hundred and 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.159 seventy six yards of offense to Detroit's three three three 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.800 sixty nine of Miami's came through the air one oh 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.640 seven on the ground. For the lines, it was three 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.000 eleven and eighty two. Miami did out snap Detroit sixty 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.880 four to fifty seven. The Dolphins had one turnover. The 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.479 Lions did not have any turnovers. Miami took two sacks 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.600 and had one sack on Jared Goff of their own. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.880 Seven penalties for fifty five yards four the Miami Dolphins 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.160 and six for thirty for the Lions. The Dolphins possessed 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.680 football for thirty four minutes and twenty two seconds. We 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.760 have a lot more stats to get to, which we 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.679 will do that here in the takeaways, starting with takeaway 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.279 number one, and that's the takeaway number one. How good 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.200 was two a tongue of Byaloa on this day? I mean, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.160 there are several examples of all the stuff that you 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.040 look at on tape that made you'll fall in love 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.760 with the prospect back when he was in college. The 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.800 ability to manipulate the spot and the drop point to 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.960 create advantageous throwing lanes for himself. The accuracy pushing the 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.080 ball into tight windows, throwing away from leverage, moving the 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.119 defense with his eyes, his feet, the body position, the hips, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.760 all of that stuff. So the throw on the back 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.600 shoulder to Waddle, it was in the third quarter where 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.920 Waddle runs like a little glance or slant route and 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.280 he puts the ball away from the linebacker, but also 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.000 at the same time settles Waddle into a gap so 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.960 he doesn't run into a hit from the safety. It 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.600 was just perfect, perfect location. How about the throw to 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.320 Waddle in the end zone where he just threw that 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.600 thing through a trio of defenders and there's Jalen Waddle 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.680 there for the catch on the touchdown. The later pass 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.080 on the fade, the slot fade to Waddle, I mean 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.920 that thing. It kept Wattle in such stride that he 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.640 scored from twenty eight yards in the twenties something in 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.960 the twenties, I'll look it up real quick, but on 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.520 that plane he could have scored from pretty much yards 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.480 because of how perfectly located that football was. Twenty nine 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.000 yard touchdown past to Waddle. But because that ball was 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.960 on top of the defensive back who Waddle I mean, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:05.800 got the best of him right away on that play. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.680 But because the ball was where it was, it was 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.480 so not easy but way easier for Waddle to make 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.280 the run under I didn't have to contest with coming 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.080 back to the football contest over a lion's defender's hand. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.680 Just a perfect location on that slot fade, and that's 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.480 where you want catch the ball one hitch, throw it 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:21.960 up to the corner of the end zone and let 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.960 your speed receiver go and get it the throw where 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.880 Tyreek is all alone and to uncorks it for forty 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.240 was it forty two yards on the play with a 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.600 stellar contested catch from Tyreek Hill, just to see him 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.480 down there. No, you have the man coverage so you 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.680 can throw him back away from the defense. Really good 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.880 location on that one. Conversions on third down all day long, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.200 third and fourteen, third and six, the way he replaced 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.960 the blizz with the football once again on a third 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.920 and six conversion to Jalen Waddle. There was an example 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.920 where he threw a little slant route to Tyreek Hill 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:51.960 where he looked off to the flat and you saw 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.239 the defense flow that way, and then he quickly whips 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:55.880 back to the middle and throws the ball back into 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.160 the middle of the field for a big completion. Just 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.080 continuously hit big rows all game long, including a touchdown 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.440 pass to Mike Gasicki and a third down throw to 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.520 Tyreek Killed that really impressed head coach Mike McDaniel. The 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:14.200 touchdown to Mike gasecki um because that was the first 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:20.240 time we've ever hit that route on that concept and 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.560 you rarely ever see it, and it's something that was 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:31.120 number four in the progression that he progressed through very quickly. UM. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:39.120 There was the first long throw on third down, UM 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.280 to Tyreeke, you know where he's knows that we're going 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:49.320 to be hot there in zero UM, and he buys 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.959 as much time as he can in the pocket and 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.600 then throws UM a ball that's not easy to throw 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:01.320 to a really fast guy. UM. And that and stood out. UM. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.800 He had a lot of plays that was very very 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.600 happy with UM. That was a game that we all 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.679 know he's capable of UM, but it was his UM. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.480 He was relentless during the game, was worrying about the 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:22.239 right stuff. I didn't see him press and make forced decisions. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.559 He took what was there UM and protected the ball 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.959 while being aggressive. That last comment there certainly speaks to 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.560 two stats we talked about with the three fifty plus 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.880 passing yards three touchdown snow picks. To be aggressive but 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.319 also protect the football. You're gonna be tough to beat. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.880 When you can do that to a did that on 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.520 this day, on a day where, by the way, he 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.840 completes nine of ten passes on third downs, we converted 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.160 eight of those. Of his eleven attempts on third down, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.920 one being a sixteen or eighteen yards scramble, I should say, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.000 but on third down eight conversions, nine of ten passing 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.040 one thirty nine yards, two touchdown passes and eighteen yards 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.920 scramble and averaged eight point nine yards to go on 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.520 those third down attempts. So that is getting the job done, big, big, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.600 big time. Let's go ahead and hear from QB one 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.960 on what he thought made the team successful in offense. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.640 I think Mike did a great job calling calling place today. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.920 He put us in a really good position to get 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.360 yards after catch on on plays trying to move move 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.160 the spot for the defenders, um d lineman too, you know, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.400 getting back there. And I think for as much as 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.800 we passed with what maybe two sacks that that we had, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.000 I mean, that's that's a really good job up front. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.480 I think, Um, you know a lot of things uh 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:45.079 married with with you know, routes, action passes with within 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.199 the run game. So you know, I think we we 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.319 felt really comfortable, Um, you know after moving the ball 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.120 the first first series, you know, second series, started feeling 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.000 really comfortable, you know, just going with with the game plan. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.360 So he finishes this day of thirty six an eighty 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.319 two passing yards, three touchdowns, doesn't turn the ball over, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.080 no dropped picks either, and had a one thirty eight 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.920 point seven passer rating on the season to one thirty 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.440 of one eight six. That's seventy completion for one thousand, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.800 six hundred seventy eight yards. That's nine point oh two 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.199 yards per pass attempt, twelve touchdowns, three interceptions, and a 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.800 one twelve point seven passer rating. Gosh darn. Let's go 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.560 ahead and take our first break here and come back 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.079 with takeaways two through five that's coming your way next. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.880 On the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:44.280 you by Auto Nation Sunday night recap potentially Monday morning, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.000 depending on when you get to this podcast, either during 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.360 the Packers and Bill's game at some point or on 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.120 your Monday morning commute. We appreciate you checking us out 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.640 for your first Dolphins listen of the day here on 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.800 the Drivetime Podcast, takeaway number two from Miami's thirty one 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.040 to twenty seven victory on the road in Detroit is, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.680 if takeaway number one is about number one, the number 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.560 two is about number ten and seventeen. It's a lot 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.839 of numbers, but a cheetah and a Penguin. How good 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.839 are these guys for Jalen. It started early on that 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.040 fourth down conversion on the opening drive, which when that 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.079 when they got to that fourth and short after Tyreek 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.160 had the great play before the play on the screen 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:19.880 to get I think it was ten yards on third 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.560 and fourteen. I'm like, you're going for this right here 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.079 because you're in in the kind of no man's land 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.600 part of the field, can't really punt. I only want 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.080 to kick a field goal. And they go to one 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.000 of the most reliable, surehanded guys in Jelyn Waddle, and 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.120 on that play, I was so impressed with just the 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.120 application of skills to put himself in position to make 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:39.719 that play. And this is what this is what both 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.800 of these guys do time and time again that you 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.680 don't see when you're just watching the game on TV. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.200 If you want to go back and watch the tape 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:46.880 and break it down, you'll see it because they are 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.080 two of the very best at this in the game. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.120 With running their routes at every level of the route. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.520 Number one the release, it's so hard to get jams 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.120 and these guys, especially with all the motions, the bunches, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.840 the stacks and the fact that they're really dang good 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.559 in the release package. He just it's tough to get 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.000 hands on him. And then the way he attacked this 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.440 particular play inside leverage means the cornerback is walling off 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.000 inside route, so he is ready to cut you off 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.079 on the inside and then break across your face to 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.319 make a play on the outside. And Jalen's running a 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.959 speed out, which is a five yard out route, and 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.680 so that's a tough leverage to run that route against. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.160 And what does Jalen do But he releases to put 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.640 that cornerback back on his heels, so he's like protecting 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.440 against that inside leverage, basically being threatened that he might 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.720 get turned around to run that inside part of the field. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.760 Then the way Jalen puts his right foot in the 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.959 ground and leans into the top of the route, it 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.599 just really keeps that defender on his hills, not on 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.880 his toes, because then when he snaps the route off 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.000 at the top of the stem, he is then working 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.840 from a position of defense opposed to an attacking position, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.000 and that allows him to create all that separation at 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.160 the top of the route. Really text book stuff there 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.400 from Jalen Waddle. The slot fade where he wins immediately 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.160 and if you don't get hands on him on that 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.320 look against man coverage without any safety help. We talked 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.439 about the man cover just lines defense was gonna play 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.800 in this game and the podcast on Thursday right one 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.880 of the more man heavy defenses in the NFL per 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.199 NFL True Media. We saw it on that play no 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.120 safety help. Jalen Waddle one on one against your slot cornerback, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.280 I like Waddle against anybody in the NFL. On that 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.920 he wins immediately, stacks Hi gets on top and never 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.320 had a chance from their perfect throw, big catch twenty 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.760 nine yard touchdown play. How about the catch off his 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.880 frame on the one ball that I would probably say 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.880 to maybe didn't throw his his best or perfectly like 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.280 he was for most of this game. Wattle has a 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.680 catch hide away off his frame. All he does is 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.920 go up and secures it, pulls it back into his body, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.120 makes a big time catch to move the chains once again. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.080 Electric electric stuff. And speaking of electricity, how about the 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.640 Cheetah man. I love watching him play with o J 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.720 McDuffie because o J is just. I've never seen o 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.840 J so at a loss for words about a player 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.600 and obviously a receiver that O J loves to to 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.800 evaluate and talk about. Just the way Tyreek competes and 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.400 makes you know, every one of them seemingly on the 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.760 contested catches, he pulled them all down like it doesn't matter. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.360 He's just gonna catch everything. The fear he strikes in 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.560 the defense, how many of those open shots you know 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.440 in the intermediate middle portion of the field is just 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.200 Tyreek pushing up with lightning fast speed runs the defensive 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.000 back or the safety or whoever might be off of 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.240 their landmark and then just shows his numbers back to 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.720 the quarterback for four or five six yards of separation 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.720 twelve eighteen yards off the football. I've never seen anything 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.400 like it. It's awesome to watch. The way he attacks 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.480 everything is so special. Coach had mentioned in this summer 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.640 that Tyreek raises the standard of the entire football team 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.680 by the way he goes about things, which is why 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.240 I loved it when Tyreek was asked after the game 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.160 about this game and what was the first thing to 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.200 talk about some corrections they can make. Yeah, where I 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.000 feel like we can be light years better, you know, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.880 and and stars with me, you know, being the leader 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.200 of this you know, young receiver group, you know, preaching 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.160 to the guys that we gotta get in out of 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.080 the hottle faster. You know, we gotta do the smaller 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.840 things right. You know, we all want to make players, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.560 we all want to you know, be in the spotlight, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.640 you know, but we gotta we gotta make sure that 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.960 we do you know, the small things by get not 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.200 getting out of getting out of the hotel, you know, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.120 making sure that we're said so too. It can go 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.800 through all of his reads. So once we get it, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.600 get like get that clear, you know, we start working 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.320 on all those small things, I feel like we will 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.600 be exactly where we want to be. Let's go back 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.320 to coach to hear what he had to say about 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.440 Tyreek and Jalen and the team effort involved to get 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:34.120 them their production. A lot goes into their production. They 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.280 work their tail off. They know how much they mean 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.680 to this team. But it's also a collection of individuals 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.440 um working with them, um to. You know, every person 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.760 on our team knows that they can score on every touch. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.800 So the stuff that we have to do up front, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.680 some of the stuff that the other eligibles have to do, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.520 UM it is a full commitment for their success because 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.760 they are so dangerous with the ball in their hands. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.119 It's something we try to play to UM but as 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.240 a full commitment by all players on the offense. And 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.080 you know, they get excited when their stats are high 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.040 because they know how much they have contributed to that UM. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.399 And we had a bunch of you know, key plays 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:28.200 from Mikeasecki, Trent Sherfield, UM, you know Raheem mostert Um 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:34.480 and then you know the play that to A had 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.440 today that that's a if we can get that every week, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.399 that's a winning formula. That's that is tough to stop. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.679 Tyreek finishes the game with twelve catches on fourteen targets 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.879 for a buck eight eight and Wattle finishes eight catches 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.639 on nine targets for one oh six and two touchdowns. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.920 So combined, twenty three pass targets twenty catches that's absurd, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:01.159 and and two d and ninety four yards that is 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.560 in two touchdowns. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait to see 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.879 what they do next. Takeaway number three, how good was 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.280 the defense in that second half? We'll watch the tape 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.159 and give you a more in depth breakdown on the 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.800 Tuesday Draft Time podcast. But my goodness, sixty seven yards, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.240 no points, and they were so close so many times 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.720 to getting to Jared Goff. They did get the one sack. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.520 It was a big one. We were so close to 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.919 getting to it before the ball came out. Phillips og 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.239 ball a couple of times right in there that right 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.560 or left Paul right around the football. I kept thinking, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.240 we're gonna get a trip sack. I was telling Seth 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.440 and o j all day, it's coming, it's comming, it's coming. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.840 It never did, but they kept getting the stops, and 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.800 you know it didn't. They stood their ground. That's all 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.200 that mattered. Made key stops and key moments. Zack Seeler 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.399 was absolutely on one in this game. They just couldn't 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.960 block him for large large periods of this game. He 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.920 batted passes, got that sack, stacked up the runs in 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.160 that game. Very very impressive. I mentioned being so close. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.720 Phillips just felt like he was an inch away so often. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.359 His motor, his retrace on screens and run plays and 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.480 run defense in general. The way he can fight inside 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.000 of a guy, get back outside once they bubble, the 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.960 back does around his outside just he can defend multiple 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.159 gaps from that position, which is so valuable to have 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.000 on that edge position when he's not condensing inside and 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.080 playing the multiple roles that he does, so he's very, very, 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.800 very valuable. How about kator Co who's tackling and just 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.520 overall effort, He's he's really good player man, pretty good 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.040 in coverage, but I thought his tackling was exceptional in 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.000 this game once again, and they mix it up for 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.480 each opponent. We saw a handful of one safety looks. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.840 I'll be curious to get a closer look at this tape, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.920 but they certainly know how to play the right hand 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.920 to get to the winner circle. Great job of adjusting 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.040 and tightening up in the second half. Let's go ahead 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:41.960 and hear what head coach Mike McDaniel had to say 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.399 about the second half effort of his defense. There's subtle 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:50.920 adjustments and there's also UM guys making plays. Uh the 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.520 pass rush cut. Uh. The pass rush got involved a 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.160 little bit more in the second half. Um, we got 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.560 some stops, but really it's a you know, it's one 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.320 of those things where if you get guys to keep playing, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:11.640 you can you can survive and uh a barrage of jabs. Um, 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.600 you know, to the chin. Uh, keep your keep your 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.760 head down and just keep chopping wood. Um and eventually, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.560 you know, our our style of play will come out. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:27.120 So UM, there's there was some adjustments, yes, but more 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.280 than anything, Uh, you know, we have a lot of 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.760 prideful guys on that side of the ball, um, players 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:39.400 and coaches included, and um, they they projected their frustration 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.399 in the appropriate manner. Well Man Coach's answer was awesome. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.040