WEBVTT - Drive Time - Dolphins-49ers Week 5 Preview 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:08.000 Practice Alps Patrick touchdown. What a win for this Miami 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:13.680 Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.840 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:22.520 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.200 every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday. I 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.800 am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.239 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.760 on today's show, Week five is officially here the Bears 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.560 and Bucks tonight, and that means we are previewing yet 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.760 another Dolphins football game. I don't know about you, guys, 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.879 My mood always starts to improve on Thursdays in the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.760 fall during football season. You just cannot beat it. We'll 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.440 break down Sunday's matchup in Santa Clara. We're gonna hear 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.000 from coach Flora's and a few Dolphins players and get 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.280 you the latest injury report here from Davy. All of 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.360 that and more on this Thursday, October the eighth edition 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:06.039 of the Drivetime Podcast. Support for drive Time comes from 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.880 Auto Nation. There are so many reasons to drive pink, 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.880 but for Auto Nation, there's only one to finish the 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.119 fight against cancer. In fact, Auto Nation has helped raise 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.600 over twenty five million dollars to drive out Cancer. To 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.000 join the fight, visit the Auto Nation store near you 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.240 or drive pink dot com. We have a new list 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.320 of injury report updates here on this Thursday edition of 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.280 the Drive Time podcast. But first, as we talked about 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.240 on the show yesterday, the forty Niners and all West 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.720 Coast teams don't put their injury reports out until later 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.319 in the evening, and so with the podcast publishing before 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.280 Drive Time Karon the Mimmi Dolphins podcast Network, we want 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.360 to go back to previous day and update you on 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.480 what the forty listed on Wednesday. They have eleven players 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.360 on their injury report for Wednesday. Limited participants are Jimmy Garoppolo, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.720 Dre Greenlaw, Raheem Moster, a Killer Weatherspoon, and wide receivers 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.560 Trent Taylor and Dante Pettis. Players who did not practice 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.680 are ezekiel A Saw, Jimmy Ward, Jwan Williams, Dante Johnson, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.240 and Emmanuel Moseley. And Shanahan did start off his Wednesday 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.800 presser by saying that both ezekiel A Saw and Kawan Williams, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.160 one of the niners top corners, and their defense event 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.760 who replaced both Nick Bosa and d Ford outside, who 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.040 are both on injury reserve. He added that both on 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.720 Saw and Williams will go to the injured reserve along 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.280 with Solomon Thomas and Nick Bosa and d Ford. This 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.400 this team, it's amazing they're still two and two because 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.079 they've been so banged up and they're playing so well 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.680 despite the fact that they're going deep into the lineup. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.000 Will cover more of that later on the podcast. Also 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.680 on the Dolphins Thursday injury report, we had one new addition. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.240 Malcolm Perry has an illness and he did not practice 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.880 on Thursday after not being listed on Wednesday. Both Durham 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.280 Smith and Austin Jackson did not practice again for the 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.839 second straight day. The three players that practice in full 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.200 on Wednesday, we're out there again full on Thursday, Clayton Federalum, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.000 Cavan Fraser, and Xavien Howard. And then we have some 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.600 upgrades Byron Jones and Solomonckinley went from limited practice participants 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.560 as well as DeVante Parker. They were all full on Thursday, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.800 and then Shack Lawson, who did not practice on Wednesday, 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.600 was out there for a limited capacity on Thursday. So 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.800 some good trending there on the Dolphins injury front. Great 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.799 to see Shack Lawson back out there, and really good 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.880 to see Byron Jones practicing in a full capacity after 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.400 missing two games for the Dolphins. And so now that 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.600 we are all caught up there on the injuries, let's 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.920 go ahead and spend this thing forward to Brian Flores 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.440 is Thursday morning media availability, and we start here with 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.320 a reference to a player who made a few big 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.480 plays in the game on Sunday and has been one 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.880 of the more durable, reliable, dependable receivers on this offense, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.600 as coach Floors will say here in Isaiah Ford. He 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.720 also goes on to talk about tight end Durham Smith 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.840 in this sound bite. Well, Isaiah, he's like you said, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:47.840 he's smart. Um, he knows multiple positions, UM, where where 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.400 he's where he's supposed to be. Really, you know, the 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:56.800 majority of the time, he's dependable, he's accountable. UM. And 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.600 he's gotten open and made some plays and some critical situations. UM. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.640 So I mean I think he's earned earned playing time 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.800 for sure, And I think that would be the kind 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.640 of the key term he's earned the playing time. Um, 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.720 We're not giving it to anybody. UM. As far as 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:18.279 Durham again, you saw him on the injury report yesterday. Um, look, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.160 he's working hard to get back. He's already made you know, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.960 significant amount of improvement over these last three day, three 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.920 four days. So we'll just you know, take a day 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.240 by day. I don't want to put a timetable on it, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.400 but um, you know, he's he's definitely working to get back. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.920 I mean this could be, um, you know, hopefully as 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.960 soon as possible. Up next, we'll go to the other 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.640 side of the football and talk about Dolphins defender Eric Rowe, 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.680 who plays multiple positions. He was coach was asked to 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.200 defend the role or the possession that he plays. But again, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.719 he's just a player on defense that has multiple roles. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.720 I mean, I think it depends on the call or 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.360 if I call this the linebackers got him, I called 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.840 this the strong safety has got him. I called this 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.160 us um, you know, maybe a corner's gut. And that 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.719 portion was in reference to who might cover the tight 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.960 end on a given play. Here he is back again 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:14.240 to Eric Eric Row. As far as clarifying you know 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:19.200 what Eric Row or he plays multiple positions, he's very versatile. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.440 So on one snapp you can play linebacker, and on 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.320 another snap you can play from safety. On another snap 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.680 you can play corner. So uh no, I don't call 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.600 it a rover. But maybe in someone else's defense they 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.320 do call it a rover. But I don't, you know. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.680 I think on one snap it's you know, even a 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.719 strong safety and you're a backer, and another snap, I 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.840 mean you can call it rover. Feel free And Coach 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.760 finishes that right there with a big smile and a laugh. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.520 Not gonna call Eric Roe rover on his defense. He 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.800 has his own terms and his own terminology for what 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.320 he calls on that side of the football and in 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.120 his program. So moving on here. On yesterday's podcast, I 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.680 teased about the release of the Eric Flowers piece coming 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.920 out on Miami Dolphins dot com. We'll have that for 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.160 you guys. If it's up already, it will be up 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.160 at sometime soon tonight. On this Thursday here, I asked 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.080 Coach Flores about his performance so far, Eric Flowers's performance 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.320 through the first four games, and his leadership for that 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.520 young offensive line up front. They Coach, we ask you 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.000 a lot about the rookie offensive lineman and there's been 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.040 some big strides made, you know from this point last 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.480 year as far as sacks allowed in past protection. I 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.400 wanted to ask you because back in training camp we 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.640 would see Eric Flowers come out with his bands and 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.240 his harnesses and work with the young guys after practice. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.120 Just want to ask you, in your estimation, what is 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.360 Eric Flowers meant both from a production standpoint and a 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.440 leadership standpoint getting those young guys brought along. I mean, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.040 I think he's played well. Um, you know through the 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.640 first four games of the season. Um, he's brought leadership 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:52.920 since really uh he's been here. Um, he loves to play. Um. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:57.000 I noticed his energy on the field really every week. UM, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.120 you guys probably don't see that, but you know there's 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.120 a big catcher, a big run. Uh. He's really the 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.440 first guy down there celebrating where his teammates and I 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.720 think you know that that energy is infectious and that's 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:12.880 something I've highlighted um in team meetings already. So UM, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.680 you know, I expect him to continue playing the way 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.120 he's playing, giving us the leadership that he's given given us, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.800 and um, you know, helping those those those young offensive 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.840 alignement get acclimated. To playing in the National Football League 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.680 and you know, just kind of bringing overall leadership and uh, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.840 you know, good play to our team, oh coach. I have, 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.240 in fact seen the Eric Flower celebration rundown, pick guys up, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.360 clap his hands. I referred to on the All twenty 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.160 two podcast earlier in the week on a run where 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.239 he got hit with a holding call, and I talked 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.520 about the the way that play kind of developed. It 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.680 looked like Ted Carriss kind of blocked the man that 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.240 was already engaged there with Eric Flowers, and it almost 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.800 shifted Flowers his hands to the outside of the chess 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.560 plate there of the player and got the hands in 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.840 a position where the official might see that and say 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.040 that looks like a hold to me, I'm gonna go 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.800 ahead and throw a flag on that particular play. Flowers 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.920 he didn't think he had a holding because he ran 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.680 downfield and scooped up Miles Gaskin and get a bunch 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.560 of applause and an excited celebration about the big run 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.440 they just issued because the run kind of came off 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.920 his back on that gap on that place. So I 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.760 love seeing that from Eric Flowers. I've seen that from 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.000 Solomon Kinley. You heard, coach, that are confirmed that for 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.480 us regarding flowers and showing it to the players and 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.640 meetings as teaching tape. This is how you want to be. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.640 This is how you want to act on the field. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.480 This is how important should be to you out there 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.440 on the football field. Up next, coach was asked about 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.480 his team's run defense and where there might be an 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.920 area that he thinks is most improved so far through 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.200 the first four weeks of the season. I mean, look, 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:42.200 it can always be better, but I think it may've 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:49.000 I think there's better communication. I think there's better overall technique. UM. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.560 So again it's it's been better, but I think it 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.000 could it could be better than it it has been. UM. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.959 But I mean that the improvement is because the players 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.079 to put more, uh put time into it and worked 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.480 at it, and there's been some improvement that We've got 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.760 a great, great, great challenge in our own game this 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:14.360 week against UM Kyle's you know run offense, good backs, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.719 good you know, good offensive line, UH tight ends with 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.640 block and then just schematically, these guys do a good 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.280 job creating angles and um putting themselves in good position 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:32.120 to so to rattle off big runs. This will be 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.079 a big, big challenge for us, and that's something that 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.400 I have done plenty of in the past under Shannahan. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.440 We're gonna talk about that here coming up in the 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.760 game game preview rather up next here for Coach Flores, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.720 Miles Gaskin went from a player who was largely inactive 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.120 for most of the year last year, got an increase 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.040 in workload at the end of the season, but also 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.520 got injured in that Bengals game and could not finish 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.440 the season up in New England. But now here he 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.679 is getting upwards oft snaps per games so far through 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.719 the first four of this season. Here's coach Floors on 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.040 how ask And earned that role and earned the right 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.960 to get so many carries and so many reps as 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.839 the Dolphin's running back. Well, I think you saw a 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:12.000 lot of improvement a year ago from you know, training 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:16.920 camp too, you know, being inactive and you know it's 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.839 called the first half of last season. He um. You know, 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.440 you could just see me when he was inactive. He 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.079 was in the hero on his off days and training, 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.599 you know, he and Patrick lab you know, kind of 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.080 training on their own. I'd walk into the bubble and 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.000 they'd be in the coffer in the corner with bands 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:39.479 and just kind of just just trying to get better. So, UM, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.719 he spent a lot of time with Eric. I think 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.320 Eric has done a great job with him as far 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.800 as UM, you know, getting the mental mental side of 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.960 the game down. And then UM, you know, he took 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.000 this pass off season and really really trained, UM and 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.840 got his body fit for or um you know, and 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.000 uh an NFL season after having been through one. You know, 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.480 he felt like he had made some change and he 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.240 made him UM. Then he goes come to training camp 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.760 and he was, you know, very consistent throughout training camp. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.959 So I would say that's kind of been the and 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.560 that's the history behind it. Um, all those things happened. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.040 I think that that was happening with a lot of 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.160 different players. And UM, Ultimately, you get in the game 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.560 if you're productive and getting more opportunities, which which has 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.640 been the case for him. And we'll go ahead and 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.000 finish up here with coach on the final question for 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.960 the Thursday morning press conference about Kyle Shanahan seeing his 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.000 offense in the past and if he's dusting off his 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.400 old notes and old defensive playbooks here this week against 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.160 Shanahan and the four Niners offense, you always kind of 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.480 you know, go back, you know, back in the time 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:49.120 and look at some things that you've done in the past. Um. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.240 But you know, Kyle is very innovative. He's always looking for, uh, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:59.359 you know, something new to gain an edge offensively. UM. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:06.280 So again, you know, because it's you know, it's a 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.400 new it's it's every years a new team. We've got 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.840 different players, So you can't just grab what you did, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.720 you know a few years ago and try to you know, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.719 recreate that. You know, you may not have. Um, you 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.280 have different players, So what happened, what worked against or 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.120 didn't work you know with you know in years past, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.880 you may want to do something totally different because the 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.720 skill sets different. UM. And Coyle is the exact same way. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.680 He's got different players, so he's going to play to 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.319 the strength of of his players defensively. You know, we've 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.120 got to do the exact same thing. So I think, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:48.199 you know, overall, you know, there's some things that are um, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.000 you know, I don't calm standard, but there's some things 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:57.000 that are the core of his offense that he's probably 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.600 gonna run some form or fashion. How he gets to 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.200 it mean, there's guesses, there's mine because it's you know, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.480 it's a lot of uh, don't want to call it. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:08.840 You know, there's a lot of shifts, there's a lot 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.560 of emotions, there's a lot of missiles, there's a lot 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.359 of let's call a gadget tree to get to a formation. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.160 You really don't know that he's getting to the old 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.679 formation until you really look at it, um you know, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.120 hopefully on on the tablet, you know, within the game. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.719 So look, this is gonna be a tough challenge from 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:32.000 that standpoint. He's a very good coordinator. We're gonna have 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.079 to do a good job defensively with our technique or fundamentals, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.160 our communication. Very excited to see that matchup on Sunday, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.440 a battle of two very smart minds, one offensively, one defensively. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.559 There with Kyle Shanahan and Brian Flores. And with that, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.559 let's go ahead and jump into the week five Dolphins 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.120 at fort preview up on Miami Dolphins dot com. Our 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.600 first late kickoff of the season on his Sunday. It's 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.200 gonna be a four or five kickoff on Sunday, October 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.360 the eleventh, one of three Dolphins two and to at 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.880 Levice ad M temperature calls for seventy four degrees partly 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.200 cloudy sixteen mile and our wins there on the Thursday 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.839 weather report in Santa Clara, and in these introduction parts 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.000 of the pieces up on Miami Dolphins dot com. I 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.520 always like to take a look at some of the 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.520 similarities of the two teams and the programs in the past, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.080 and kind of where they are in their particular I 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.480 guess portion of the way they build their program we 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.680 know by now Brian Flores in year two. Kyle Shanahan 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.320 is coming into This is his fourth season here with 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.720 the Niners. The first two they won six games, and 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.320 they won five games, and then they won thirteen games 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.480 and went to the Super Bowl. And I talked about 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.360 in the article about how success ultimately, of course is 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.000 judged on the scoreboard and in the wind column. But 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.120 I always love the phrase process over results, because process 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.120 is usually the best way to determine future outcomes. And 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.680 I always thought that for Shanahan and John Lynch there 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.320 in San Francisco, they had a pretty clear vision for 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.040 what they wanted to build with the innovation and patients 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.440 you heard there of Brian Flora's talking about him being 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.760 one of the most innovative play callers and always trying 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.240 to find end a way to get into those old 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.600 formations about dressing up in a way that you don't 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.320 know about it until either the play is going or 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.040 after the fact on the tablet on the sidelines one 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.960 of the best elements of his offense. And I remember 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.960 watching the Divisional round playoff game last year. One of 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.160 my best friends is a Vikings fan. He was really 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.000 jazzed up for that Niners and Vikings game last year, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.480 which wound up being a pretty a pretty not great 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.600 event for the two of us watching that game on 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.240 Saturday because the Vikings got Grand Rough shot over and 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.200 he was not thrilled. But in that game, Chris Collinsworth 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.240 and Al Michaels, they kept talking over and over again 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.680 about how much I cand either is for the defense 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.000 to look at with all that motion and shifting so 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.720 many jet sweet motions across the formation, which of course 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.880 can get a linebacker to take one false step, and 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.280 then if you displace that linebacker by a half step, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.320 that can then create a passing lane in the middle. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.600 You can hand the ball off from misdirection and get 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.400 them out leveraged and out angled, as coach Flores talked 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.800 about in the Running Game two. So you have to 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.880 really be like you said, as your rules, your fundamentals, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.560 and on your keys defensively to not take a false 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.480 step and get yourself in a position where you get 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.760 walled off by an offensive lineman or you create a 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.240 passing window that way. But back to the topic at 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.560 hand here. The fourty Niners did start off that first 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.480 season under Shanahan and Lynch oh and nine, but since 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.280 then they acquired Jimmy Garoppolo and they are twenty four 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.040 and seven in his starts, They've wanted to Vision title. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.400 They've had a third teen win season, and they went 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.600 to a Super Bowl with a double digit lead on 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.200 Patrick Mahomes and that explosive Chief's offense obviously didn't end 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.080 the way they wanted it to, but it tells you 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.320 about where they are in terms of that program. And 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.400 you're number four here with Kyle Shanahan to go into 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.680 a Super Bowl and have a commanding lead in that 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.360 game and a chance to possibly put a Lombardi in 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.240 your trophy case. But the patients, the belief in the plan. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.240 I love the way They built that team because they 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.200 knew what Shanahan wants to do, wants to be a 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.680 heavy run team that works off that run action. They 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.680 went out and signed a full back to a big contract, 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.280 the biggest full back contracts in the NFL, and he 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.400 plays plenty. They loaded up the running back position and 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.880 got themselves plenty of guys that can filter through that 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.400 outside zone scheme and really not miss a beat when 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.360 you go to the next guy and just continuously have 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.680 fresh legs. Whether it was Raheem Moster, whether it's our 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.399 own Matt Brita, whether it was Tevin Coleman. They just 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.359 had bodies and guys that can get the job done 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.000 in that running game. So replaceable that way, and we're 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.600 kind of seeing that this year so far with the 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.680 injuries and the way they've been able to replace those 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.680 players and get production and win two games and blowout 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.720 fashion when they're down. I mean, they were down games 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.360 without Nick Bosa, without d four, without George Kittle, without 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.959 Jimmy Garoppolo, you know, some of their biggest names on 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.480 that roster, and they're out there winning games thirty six 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.760 to nine. I guess it's it's wild that they were 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.240 able to accomplish that. On Sunday, they'll welcome end us. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.879 The Miami Dolphins, obviously a young team who's on a 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.159 mission of our own to make these daily strides. And 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.880 you're number two first and second year players. The rosters 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.879 made up of of plenty of those guys. Trying to 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.359 get that daily improvement and getting these guys brought along 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.159 throughout the course of the season and developing players throughout 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.199 the course of the season. We know by now the 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.720 early season schedule here for your Miami Dolphins has been difficult. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.120 No one's gonna batten eye at that eleven and five 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.560 record for the opponents so far. For the Dolphins through 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.760 the first three games, through the first four games rather 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.920 of the season with a point differential of just minus three. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.360 And again going back to the Niners in their year 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.760 two under Kyle Shanahan, they started off that season one 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.520 and three with a negative eight team point differential and 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.040 they played three playoff teams in that stretch as well, 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.439 so kind of some similarities there. And for the Dolphins, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.000 it's all about closing games in the fourth quarter. This 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.080 team has been close. They've had a lead or been 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.119 within one score of the opponent in the fourth quarter 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.880 in all four contests so far, and again the Niners 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.960 are five hundred despite a mounting injured reserve list and 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.359 a handful of players on this week's report. Again, you 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.719 can refer to that injury report up on Miami Dolphins 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.440 dot Com on Top News on our morning Blitz article 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.880 will have that update for you guys as soon as 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.400 it becomes available. We've also talked about which quarterback might 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.240 play in the game. Shanahan's kept that to himself obviously 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.960 as they try to evaluate. He did say on Wednesday 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.679 that it will be Garoppolo if he's healthy. If it's not, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.000 then he's not going to tell us who it is. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.680 Between Mullins and C. J. Bethord, but all these guys 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.680 have experience. Between Mullins and Bethard, both guys have ten 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.119 career starts under them. We saw both them play on 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.440 Sunday night a little bit. Muland struggled in that game 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.280 on Sunday against the Eagles. Bethard came in with you know, 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.760 to score deficit late in the fourth quarter and was 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.639 able to move the football down the field. So you 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.920 can see both those guys have had production in this 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.240 league in the past and the took Dolphins coaches and 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.360 players have talked about preparing for all three of those 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.720 quarterbacks to be ready in case someone does get on 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.960 the field that maybe you wouldn't prepare for. Otherwise you 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.840 have be prepared for all three quarterbacks. And really the 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.160 basis of this team you heard coach Florence talk about, 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.639 it is built upon bowling teams up front, Robert Salas defense. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.640 We talked about Chris Kusareck on yesterday's podcast, the one 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.919 gap penetrating upfield style of defense. They like to play 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.760 on the offensive side, that outside zone scheme, that stretch 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.520 zone scheme that gets the running backs out on the edge. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.000 Last year they had the second ranked rushing offense, and 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.239