Speaker 1: To un remove Darlan Deep Speedways past Hellas. From the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my ad hands
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, things have not gone the way
Speaker 1: we had hoped, or planned or thought they would here
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. They fall to the Titans at
Speaker 1: home thirty one to twelve, to fall to one and three.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the stats, We'll go over the game
Speaker 1: script and do the five takeaways from this one. From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. As you were very
Speaker 1: abundantly aware of by now, the Dolphins statistically came up
Speaker 1: short in this one and looked just rough the entire
Speaker 1: night doing it. Let's go ahead and cover some of
Speaker 1: the stats in the thirty one to twelve loss to
Speaker 1: the Titans. As the Dolphins convert just thirteen first downs
Speaker 1: compared to Tennessee's sixteen, they go two for twelve on
Speaker 1: third down. That's one week after going one for twelve
Speaker 1: on third down, so progress. The Titans were also just
Speaker 1: two for twelve on third down. In fact, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense has now held opposing offenses to just twenty three
Speaker 1: percent conversions on third down. That is best in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Crazy right. The Dolphins did pick up
Speaker 1: another fourth down in this game, third first in a while.
Speaker 1: They went one for three, which improves their mark on
Speaker 1: the year to two for fourteen on fourth down. The
Speaker 1: Titans were one for one. Dolphins gained just one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty four yards. In fact, through the first three
Speaker 1: and a half quarters had less than one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: In this game, they got seventy eight through the air
Speaker 1: one oh six on the ground on fifty four plays.
Speaker 1: The Titans got one oh two through the air and
Speaker 1: one forty two on the ground on sixty two of
Speaker 1: their own plays. The Dolphins and Titans both had one turnover.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins took two sacks, They got Will Levis or
Speaker 1: rather Mason Rudolph to the ground once, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: again with double digit penalties ten for ninety eight. Tough
Speaker 1: to win football games when you play that undisciplined up
Speaker 1: and down for multiple weeks in a row. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go through this game script, as ugly as
Speaker 1: it was. It began with an Emmanual Ogba interception dropping
Speaker 1: back into coverage, and I started off with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive line kicking the Titans offensive lines, but which I
Speaker 1: thought would be the case all night long. Zachs either
Speaker 1: had a couple of wins, a retrace and a double team.
Speaker 1: That drive did get extended on a Jaln Phillips low
Speaker 1: hit on the quarterback after he literally chucked the right
Speaker 1: tackle both cleats off the ground and then fell into
Speaker 1: the quarterback's lap, and that got him a fifteen yard penalty.
Speaker 1: JP also exited the game with a knee injury and
Speaker 1: did not return. He looked very frustrated. So on top
Speaker 1: of a tough result, one of your top guys goes
Speaker 1: down for what didn't look like a great injury. We
Speaker 1: should know more as time goes along. Mike McDaniel did
Speaker 1: not have an update for us after the game. That
Speaker 1: was a seven play, twenty eight yard drive. They converted
Speaker 1: a second and seventeen to DeAndre Hopkins who was all
Speaker 1: alone in the hook zone, which is an issue that
Speaker 1: I don't really know how to parse it out, because
Speaker 1: you know, zone coverage is what zone coverage is, but
Speaker 1: it seems like the one bugaboo I've kind of had
Speaker 1: with this defense instead of on top of, you know,
Speaker 1: the big running plays, because I think by and large
Speaker 1: the run defense has been good. It's the big running
Speaker 1: plays that have gotten them. Is these easy hook zone
Speaker 1: throws that seem to be easily convertible, especially a second
Speaker 1: and seventeen to DeAndre Hopkins to kick this game off.
Speaker 1: But then because of what this defense can do with
Speaker 1: sim pressures and peeling different guys back into the hook zone,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogbah finds himself right in front of a Will
Speaker 1: Levis pass and he catches it with his well, his
Speaker 1: junk and then his knees and then his ankles and
Speaker 1: eventually hangs onto the football and gets a takeaway. And
Speaker 1: Miami comes out and goes screaming down the field on
Speaker 1: their own right. Three plays, goes to Waddle to Tyreek
Speaker 1: and then to eight Chan for a couple of first downs,
Speaker 1: and it looks like, all right, here we go. This
Speaker 1: is the offense we thought we had all year long.
Speaker 1: And I was excited about the first rep from Huntley,
Speaker 1: a little pivot off the pistol action the fake toss
Speaker 1: to the right, He spins back and fires that fifteen
Speaker 1: yard or so glanced route to waddle the pop pass
Speaker 1: to Tyreek for a big game. Then a Chen has
Speaker 1: a positive carry play The hits right, but then it
Speaker 1: stalls because Huntley's backwards pass is dropped by Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: He doesn't chase half of the football the Titans do.
Speaker 1: They recover it. Luckily, the rest blow it dead because
Speaker 1: it would have been a touchdown six the other way,
Speaker 1: a fumble sixthy the way I should say if they
Speaker 1: had let that play a play out. They don't, but
Speaker 1: they get the football back and the Titans go three
Speaker 1: and out. Three plays nine yards two to twenty two
Speaker 1: off the play clock or the game clock, I should say.
Speaker 1: And Anthony Walker gets the start in this game and
Speaker 1: made his presence fel I thought pretty routinely with some
Speaker 1: big collisions. Now I'll watch the tape and get a
Speaker 1: better feel for what the defense did on the hole
Speaker 1: in this game. But I thought he had some good
Speaker 1: b gap to big gap run defense, which is kind
Speaker 1: of what I thought he was as a player coming here.
Speaker 1: Storm Duck gets off of a block and makes a
Speaker 1: stop on a screen pass for a no gain, and
Speaker 1: then Will Levis's scramble just does not get enough yards
Speaker 1: after great effort from the entire Dolphins defense. But really
Speaker 1: Kalais Campbell who runs him into this bubble off the
Speaker 1: side of the line of scrimmage and he cannot find
Speaker 1: the first down marker and also injured his shoulder on
Speaker 1: that play, and Mason Rudolph eventually took over and Rudolph
Speaker 1: threw for like eighty seven yards in the game. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins go three and out after that three plays minus
Speaker 1: four yards. We run one for short, then throw one
Speaker 1: to Tyree to set up a third medium. Then we
Speaker 1: turn the free edge rusher for a sack, which I
Speaker 1: gotta get on this because I keep seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: I love. I think Simon Clancy is a very bright person,
Speaker 1: a very good football mind, but he keeps on harp
Speaker 1: on Austin Jackson, and particularly on that play. Brother, that
Speaker 1: was not Austin Jackson's fault on that play. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to tell you right there, because that
Speaker 1: was a scan inside. The number one rule in pass
Speaker 1: protection is pick up the interior rushes first and leave
Speaker 1: the outside to be the one that comes free. If
Speaker 1: you have to let one, which if you're five man
Speaker 1: pass protection, which they were on that play because Jalen Wright,
Speaker 1: unless he got the assignment wrong, he just ran a route,
Speaker 1: did not show any interest in staying in pass protection.
Speaker 1: And if you're five on six, the guy you let
Speaker 1: come free is the widest person out. That's what happened.
Speaker 1: Huntley did not throw the ball on one hitch timing,
Speaker 1: took a sack. That's how it goes. It is not
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson who took the entire responsibility, which is what
Speaker 1: he's supposed to do. And he kept saying the RD
Speaker 1: and key will not go up against running back and
Speaker 1: pass protection. No, but you can turn the outside guy
Speaker 1: free in any protection schemes. That's a pretty one to
Speaker 1: one basic thing that we talk about there. So I
Speaker 1: just pushed back on that sentiment hard. Either way, who
Speaker 1: cares because they the results the same Titans get a
Speaker 1: fifty three yard field goal on their next drive, a
Speaker 1: riveting nine play twenty one yard drive where Rudolph came
Speaker 1: in for Levis Oguba, had a stack and shed TfL
Speaker 1: He sipped through the split flow kickout and got down
Speaker 1: on the tackle for a loss. But then they convert
Speaker 1: a third down, give up the hook zone beyond the six.
Speaker 1: Once again, Klas Campbell blows through for a sheds of
Speaker 1: block and makes a TfL and then a chunk play
Speaker 1: on second long. We've just had this like the issues
Speaker 1: I've had so far this year is there has not
Speaker 1: been a lot of juice off the edge, and like
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips going down does not help that. Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 1: has had some up and down showings, but by and large,
Speaker 1: like not gonna blow by guys as a one on
Speaker 1: one pass rusher at this stage of his career, and
Speaker 1: Chop Robinson had a rough start to his career. So
Speaker 1: it's just been not great at a position where you
Speaker 1: lost Shaq Barrett, Bradley Chubb should be coming back pretty soon,
Speaker 1: I hope. And of course watching Andrew Van Ginkle star
Speaker 1: in Minnesota makes it tough as well, but just a
Speaker 1: tough group off the edge. I think you've kind of
Speaker 1: struggled to get your true four man pass rush home
Speaker 1: with that, and that's been the one real knock I've
Speaker 1: had on the defense outside of the explosive plays in
Speaker 1: the run game here and there. But that's the one
Speaker 1: thing that I think consistently shows up on tape that
Speaker 1: has not been good enough. And then Seeler makes a
Speaker 1: big play to say a huge game. It's this massive
Speaker 1: gap opens up, but he makes the play, and then
Speaker 1: storm Duck beats a block and gets a tackle on
Speaker 1: a third and six screenplay. They kick the field goal,
Speaker 1: and despite all this mess offensively, it's only three notth
Speaker 1: and Dolph or Titans until Miami goes back to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over on downs four plays twenty three yards.
Speaker 1: You get a fifteen yard roughiing call and Ard and
Speaker 1: Key on their side of the ball, and then the
Speaker 1: first I love the sequence where it's first two plays
Speaker 1: was an inside zone run then a gap run. Cool.
Speaker 1: I like that give me more variety in the running
Speaker 1: game in terms of your scheme than its quarterback power.
Speaker 1: And that sets up a fourth and one and then
Speaker 1: they go jet sweep to Tyreek and it gets strung
Speaker 1: out for a loss. I love the sequence until that
Speaker 1: fourth down play. But then it's also like we ran
Speaker 1: the full back dive the last seven times and that
Speaker 1: didn't work. So it's just been this slog that seems
Speaker 1: to be no matter what they do, what they go to,
Speaker 1: it burns you time and time again, and turnovers on
Speaker 1: downs and midfield. It's putting your defense at a disadvantage,
Speaker 1: especially a defense does on the field all the time,
Speaker 1: because the offense cannot do anything. It's impossible. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were one for eleven at that point on fourth
Speaker 1: downs and short fields continue to leave for points for
Speaker 1: the opposition. Here it leads to a Titans fifty two
Speaker 1: yard field goal after a nineteen yard drive that covers
Speaker 1: seven plays, four straight runs, two first downs. That kind
Speaker 1: of gashing you there a little bit. Then they get
Speaker 1: hit for their own holding call that brings all the
Speaker 1: way back and then we get a great play in
Speaker 1: coverage from I think it was Jordan Brooks that made
Speaker 1: the play to break up a pass on third down
Speaker 1: to force the field goal. They go up six to nothing.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins get their own field goal on a ten
Speaker 1: play forty four yard drive and it starts with a
Speaker 1: lugerious sneed taunting call. Then Jalen Wright gets an eight
Speaker 1: yard run with a full head of steam off a
Speaker 1: Julian Hill block off the right edge. Okay, here we
Speaker 1: go again. That's the offense. We know we're cranking off
Speaker 1: the edge in the running game. The ball goes into
Speaker 1: plus territory, two plays, stall out for a third and
Speaker 1: ten play, and then Huntley runs for eleven and a
Speaker 1: first down. So we're cooking with gas at this point.
Speaker 1: Then the Titans bring pressure off the right edge, the
Speaker 1: big gap opens up in that man coverage look, and
Speaker 1: he can exploit that for a first down run. That's
Speaker 1: where you get excited about his game. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: that was pretty much it. He threw deep to Tyrek
Speaker 1: and double coverage, and he required Cheeta to break the
Speaker 1: pass up. Just keep us alive for a field goal opportunity.
Speaker 1: And then third and six from the plus thirty yard line,
Speaker 1: you throw a speed out short of the sticks to
Speaker 1: waddle and then kick the field goal. Understand that that's
Speaker 1: what happened. Titans lead six to three at that point.
Speaker 1: Titans go four plays twenty four yards and punt the
Speaker 1: ball back to the Dolphins defense after Jalen Phillips rejects
Speaker 1: a pass back in the face of Will Levis, and
Speaker 1: you're thinking, okay, down by three, two minutes to go
Speaker 1: in the half, you might have a chance here to
Speaker 1: go tie the game, maybe take a lead. Instead, it's
Speaker 1: a three play, six yard drive and one where Tyreek
Speaker 1: was opened for an eighty what was an eighty seven
Speaker 1: yard touchdown, but Huntly threw it like three miles behind him.
Speaker 1: He had stacked Lugarious sneed for like a two yard
Speaker 1: separation down the field. You gotta hit those in the
Speaker 1: game like this. Then a quarterback draw into the line
Speaker 1: on third and ten and it goes on second ten.
Speaker 1: Then an eight chance screen for eight yards, and you
Speaker 1: punt the ball right back to the Titans, who go
Speaker 1: four plays nineteen yards and they throw a shot right
Speaker 1: in off of Storm Duck for fifteen yards from Nuke Hopkins,
Speaker 1: and then a second down, some pressure on second down
Speaker 1: from Seeler and JP forces a throwaway. And then third
Speaker 1: and six you get a stop on the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: from a Jordan Brooks coverage play, and then kalay Is
Speaker 1: Campbell blocks the punt, and then Duke Riley. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell happened here. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he's thinking. He tried to jump on the football in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field after it was blocked, and
Speaker 1: the Titans damn near got the ball back, but luckily
Speaker 1: the Titans touched it first, and then the Dolphins go
Speaker 1: right back to another three and out, and you're thinking, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that was our second chance to get points, and now
Speaker 1: we didn't do that. So let's give it back to
Speaker 1: the Titans after a thirty yard Jake Bailey punt, which
Speaker 1: seems like every time we need a big punt there
Speaker 1: it goes off the side of the foot out of bounds.
Speaker 1: And this was after we had snapped a ball through
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley's legs and we had I legal ships going on,
Speaker 1: just an absolute tire fire out there. Titans get the
Speaker 1: ball back and then throw one right over Cater Kohu
Speaker 1: for twenty six yards, who continues to just kind of
Speaker 1: react off the top of the route, which is on
Speaker 1: a good way to play defensive back, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: get you beat. It's gonna get a bunch of big yards.
Speaker 1: It happens here, and all of a sudden, after all
Speaker 1: of this, it's nine to three Titans at halftime. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our first break, comeback on the
Speaker 1: other side and do the second half of the game.
Speaker 1: We'll do the five to ten was at the end, get
Speaker 1: the hell out of here and call it a night
Speaker 1: for you guys. Here. Drift time podcast your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Nine to three halftime score.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's not a lot of confidence being inspired
Speaker 1: across Dolphins fandom or even maybe the locker room at
Speaker 1: this point, even though the Dolphins get the football with
Speaker 1: a chance to go take the ball down the field
Speaker 1: and take a lead with a touchdown drive, but instead
Speaker 1: it's a three play, one yard drive. We finally get
Speaker 1: an in breaker that looks good and Waddle drops it,
Speaker 1: and then third nine, nobody's open protection seems to get confused.
Speaker 1: Huntley gets hit as he throws and it's incomplete and
Speaker 1: back to the same old Titans take their next possession
Speaker 1: and go three and out three plays minus three yards.
Speaker 1: What a fun football game, right, Kaloys Campbell splits a
Speaker 1: double team and then shows this whole tackle for a
Speaker 1: couple of plays to create a third and five situation.
Speaker 1: And then I loved the sim pressure look where they
Speaker 1: brought Jordan Brooks off the b gap and then Javon
Speaker 1: Holland kind of like green dogged it right behind him
Speaker 1: and came a little bit delayed on a blitz and
Speaker 1: the guard went to pick up Holland and that freed
Speaker 1: up Brooks who put a hit on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: finished for the sack. And then you get a big
Speaker 1: Brax and Buriers return and what do you do? You
Speaker 1: go five plays, ten yards and you kick a fifty
Speaker 1: six yard field goal. Defensive holding to kick off that
Speaker 1: drive put you at the plus forty one yard line.
Speaker 1: Then it was a four yard loss to eight Chan
Speaker 1: a three yard run for Tyreek and then quarterback power
Speaker 1: on third and eleven, Titans league nine to six. Then
Speaker 1: the Titans go down the field for a touchdown and
Speaker 1: that was pretty much the end of it. Where on
Speaker 1: third down Kohu just seemed to lost track of where
Speaker 1: he was and gets flagged for a DPI. Again, he
Speaker 1: does it every time every coverge snap they throw to him,
Speaker 1: he's facing the wrong way or pushing the guy and
Speaker 1: it's just can't play that way. And then to make
Speaker 1: matters worse, JP gets hurt, throws his helmet off in frustration.
Speaker 1: Looks like he might miss some time after that one,
Speaker 1: just based upon his reaction, and then Tony Pollard breaks one.
Speaker 1: They run right at Chop Robinson. After JP comes out
Speaker 1: of the field, it comes off the field. You get
Speaker 1: bad angles from the cornerback in safety. He's out of
Speaker 1: the gate for forty one yards storm duck chase. I
Speaker 1: thought Javon Holland kind of wpped it around the front
Speaker 1: side as well, and then they go for six on
Speaker 1: the wild cart on the wildcap and Zach Seeler closes
Speaker 1: down the mesh point and this is you know, he
Speaker 1: played so good this game, in the last game, and
Speaker 1: really his entire career has been a great player. But
Speaker 1: this play kind of confused me because they run the
Speaker 1: mesh point and the motion's going away from from Sealer,
Speaker 1: and the running back that could pull it would maybe
Speaker 1: go up to the right, I can see that, but
Speaker 1: he like the main gap that he could threaten was
Speaker 1: the B gap up inside, and Sealer like closes down
Speaker 1: the mesh point on the outside and it creates this
Speaker 1: easy angle cut in for Paullard to just go off
Speaker 1: of the inside shoulder and take it right into this
Speaker 1: wide open B gap where the pursuit wasn't there because
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what they were, you
Speaker 1: know what spirits were like at that point, he cuts
Speaker 1: it up touchdown. Titans go up by ten, and that
Speaker 1: was like way too much to overcome right three plays
Speaker 1: minus seven yards. In the next drive, we fake a toss,
Speaker 1: look for the n break, it's covered up, and then
Speaker 1: Patrick Paul loses the edge and Sebastian Joseph Day obliterates
Speaker 1: him for a sack loss of ten. That's the end
Speaker 1: of the drive. Titans get it back and go six plays,
Speaker 1: eleven yard yards and kick a field goal over fifty
Speaker 1: one yards that makes it nineteen to six. It was
Speaker 1: a couple of two to ten yard runs from Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard that put them in position for that, but then
Speaker 1: Jialen Ramsey had a TfL. They made a stop on
Speaker 1: third and eleven to create that field goal. Still down
Speaker 1: by two touchdowns, have a chance to get back in it,
Speaker 1: but then it's four plays, eight yards, turnover on downs,
Speaker 1: three plays, get nine, then fourth and one and Devon a.
Speaker 1: Chan has been great this year, right, but the decision
Speaker 1: making and the gaps and the ability to hit it
Speaker 1: up in between the tackles just hasn't been there in
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. And I know OJ McDuffie's
Speaker 1: getting pretty fired up about how guys are trying to
Speaker 1: go wide and run things around the outside to pick
Speaker 1: up an extra yard where if you put your nose
Speaker 1: down and get an extra three or four yards that
Speaker 1: could be more beneficial. I thought that showed up here.
Speaker 1: In fact, there was a still shot of Huntley pointing
Speaker 1: to the gap that he should have taken it. He
Speaker 1: didn't go that way. Turnover on downs leads to another
Speaker 1: twenty seven yard drive that leads to a field goal
Speaker 1: for the Titans twenty two to six. The Dolphins get
Speaker 1: it back and score a touchdown. Yeah, they even had
Speaker 1: ilegal shifts like three times in the drive that they overcame,
Speaker 1: so that was cool to I guess. And then they
Speaker 1: scrambled in for a touchdown for Tyler Huntley to make
Speaker 1: it twenty two to twelve. And then I went to
Speaker 1: the radio booth and the final score was thirty one
Speaker 1: to twelve. But I don't you know, there was the
Speaker 1: safety that I didn't even see that I didn't see
Speaker 1: that happen. There was the the free kick punt on
Speaker 1: side kick thing that was not legally done, and the
Speaker 1: Titans ended up paying that off of a touchdown of
Speaker 1: their own. They become It becomes the first game they
Speaker 1: scored thirty plus points in for the Titans since the
Speaker 1: last time they played us in twenty twenty one, so
Speaker 1: that's a fun little bookend on that. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break. I'm not gonna play any soundbites.
Speaker 1: I I don't care right now. Let's just keep rolling
Speaker 1: and get the heck out of here. The five takeaways
Speaker 1: next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield round to
Speaker 1: you by AutoNation. Five takeaways here. I think generally a
Speaker 1: blanket over the top of this just to say the
Speaker 1: offense has been an absolute problem through the first four games.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is. They had seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards on offense and three points in the first half,
Speaker 1: and everything just feels like it's impossibly challenging to accomplish.
Speaker 1: They had just three yards in the third quarter. So
Speaker 1: I guess rather than doing a blanket basis, I'll just
Speaker 1: separate some of these. But I mean, lifeless on offense.
Speaker 1: That's the top takeaway here. We did the stats already.
Speaker 1: On the season. We have forty five points in four games.
Speaker 1: I mean, we scored seventy in a game last year
Speaker 1: in Week two, we scored thirty six in Week one,
Speaker 1: thirty one in Week five, forty two in Week six,
Speaker 1: thirty one in Week eight forty five and week you
Speaker 1: know thirty four, and Week twelve forty five and Week
Speaker 1: thirteen thirty and Week fifty like those days are gone.
Speaker 1: Brother through three corps. We had eighty four yards in
Speaker 1: the game, which brought us to a one thousand and
Speaker 1: forty on the season. That's two hundred and sixty yards
Speaker 1: per year last year. In our first four games, we
Speaker 1: went five thirty six, three eighty nine, seven to twenty six,
Speaker 1: three ninety three and four posterity five twenty four and
Speaker 1: four to twenty four in the next two games. It's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. I think about how much can change
Speaker 1: in just a short amount of time, and really the
Speaker 1: personnel the only difference there. Yeah, you're down Raheem Moster.
Speaker 1: I know Ron Arms is not out there, but it's
Speaker 1: really kind of the quarterback position right because Reek, Waddle
Speaker 1: and eight Chan are all out there, three the top
Speaker 1: playmakers in the entire game. You have a different offensive
Speaker 1: line on the interior. But you know, even with those changes,
Speaker 1: I never would have told you we'd see games like
Speaker 1: this in this offense, a bottom and three offense and
Speaker 1: points and yards, it's tough to swallow. It's tough to
Speaker 1: go backwards this way, but here we are. My number
Speaker 1: one takeaway is the turnover on downs problem needs to
Speaker 1: get resolved, whether you convert those or just stop doing them.
Speaker 1: Because you're one for ten on fourth down coming into
Speaker 1: the game you filed, and another one that led to
Speaker 1: points for Tennessee. You failed two more later on. Our
Speaker 1: total turnover on downs is now up to twelve on
Speaker 1: the season, or no eleven failures. Three of those were
Speaker 1: in the second half of the Bills game when it
Speaker 1: was already twenty one point deficit. So I forgive those,
Speaker 1: but you've given them twenty seven points on four games.
Speaker 1: A touchdown per game off of turnovers on down and
Speaker 1: the yarde of those scoring drives has been a fifty
Speaker 1: five yard touchdown, a forty nine yard touchdown. This is
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is the fifty five The forty nine yard touchdown
Speaker 1: was the first play at James cook In that drive
Speaker 1: and gets Buffalo and the Seahawks last week after you
Speaker 1: failed to punch it in, they went ninety eight yards.
Speaker 1: On the other side. We keep seeing the defense like
Speaker 1: play pretty well for you know, three quarters, and then
Speaker 1: they just kind of buckle at the end, because that's
Speaker 1: what that's what happens in this league. You saw it
Speaker 1: to the Jets all year. Last year, they had gave
Speaker 1: up a nineteen yard field goal drive and a twenty
Speaker 1: seven yard field goal drives. Like hard to win games
Speaker 1: when you're gifting points like that, and they do it
Speaker 1: every single time they go for a fourth down except
Speaker 1: for one, right, Like it's happened every time we did
Speaker 1: kick a forty two yard field goal? What after getting
Speaker 1: just four on third and six and it was fourth
Speaker 1: and two in scoring range, Like that's where I didn't
Speaker 1: get that one, because if you're gonna throw it short
Speaker 1: of the sticks, then you should probably go for right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Second takeaway, the protection looked like it
Speaker 1: was playing with the quarterback that just got here. Huntley
Speaker 1: took that immediate sack with Austin Jackson. I don't want to,
Speaker 1: you know, go any further into Ocieity broke it down
Speaker 1: for you guys. But those are the kind of things
Speaker 1: that are gonna happen with a new quarterback, Like he
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily know where his hot is, where his slides
Speaker 1: are where, Uh, how to you know how to get
Speaker 1: the ball into that replacement position for that blitz you
Speaker 1: see a lot of these top quarterbacks play against the blitz,
Speaker 1: and like I always say, when you're watching a game,
Speaker 1: because for some reason, football games are broadcast in this
Speaker 1: in the snap shot where you only see like the
Speaker 1: second level the defense and into the offensive backfield, and
Speaker 1: then when they snap the ball, they zoom in further
Speaker 1: for some reason and don't show you half of the
Speaker 1: play that's going on down the field. When a quarterback
Speaker 1: like catch rock and throw or catch one hitch timing,
Speaker 1: stets up and throws like, it's usually the completion, right,
Speaker 1: if they have that conviction in their red, it's usually
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's when they hitch and double clutch
Speaker 1: and run around they make mistakes. And when you see
Speaker 1: a quarterback do that, it's it feels like obviously easy
Speaker 1: when you're watching that happen, but it's not. It's like
Speaker 1: part of the pre snap chess match. Those guys play.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think Tua is so damn good
Speaker 1: at this game. It's why I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think Josh Allen, I don't think Patrick Mahomes. I
Speaker 1: don't think any of these quarterbacks are good players without
Speaker 1: having that fundamental core of their game it's the most
Speaker 1: important part. It's why Kurt Warrant tweeted about this after
Speaker 1: the games on Sunday, like, weird, how Andy Dalton and
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco in this game full of elite athletes can
Speaker 1: go out there and ball out. And He's right. It's
Speaker 1: because the most important thing is playing from the pocket.
Speaker 1: And for a guy like Huntley, who I was excited
Speaker 1: about the scramble ability, about the added run game element,
Speaker 1: and I still am because it's very early. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not excited about it. Let's get that out of
Speaker 1: the way. I'm not excited about seeing anything right now.
Speaker 1: This team does because they have to kind of earn
Speaker 1: that trust back. But it is an added element that
Speaker 1: he offers to the offense and what you take in
Speaker 1: the interim as he learns the offense. This intricate, heavy
Speaker 1: worded verbiage offense is that you might not get what
Speaker 1: you want from an actual offensive passing game, structure, execution standpoint,
Speaker 1: something you have to deal with. So there was a
Speaker 1: similar play in the second half that started that way
Speaker 1: as well, just not seeing the hot and that costs
Speaker 1: you a big shot across the bow because when you
Speaker 1: have six rushers against five protectors or seven against six.
Speaker 1: You can't block them all. The quarterback has to find
Speaker 1: that one, and I thought we saw that play out
Speaker 1: in the game here on Monday night Tuesday morning. Now
Speaker 1: number three is just the freaking operation, dude. The fundamentals.
Speaker 1: I mean the three illegal shifts in the one drive,
Speaker 1: ten penalties for ninety eight yards. We had a snap
Speaker 1: that rolled through the quarterback's legs at one point, and
Speaker 1: that was an legal shift on that play. I mean
Speaker 1: the Reek drop and fumble and then to not go
Speaker 1: after it. There was a deep shot that he didn't
Speaker 1: get connected on later in the game and he walked
Speaker 1: off the field. Was actually on the field for that
Speaker 1: pun Day punted away whoever it was. I think a
Speaker 1: long Bailey punt, like I don't know, just the energy
Speaker 1: in the body language was bad. Waddle has that drop
Speaker 1: on the drive started letting the ball get right into
Speaker 1: his body. The Duke Riley play just like wow, dude,
Speaker 1: you know wow. The fourth takeaway is I believe the
Speaker 1: run defense just kind of got worn down. And I
Speaker 1: can't say that I blame them because it's tough to
Speaker 1: defend every two minutes when you can't get a first
Speaker 1: down on offense. We've seen this in the past. We
Speaker 1: saw what Jacobe Brissett back in twenty twenty one, like,
Speaker 1: it was the same thing. The defense played fine, but
Speaker 1: the offense continue and you just put them behind the
Speaker 1: eight ball. They had fourteen runs the Titans did on
Speaker 1: their first five drives that gained three yards or less.
Speaker 1: So even if they averaged three yards on those plays,
Speaker 1: which they didn't, that would be what twenty eight times fourteen.
Speaker 1: I'm no a mathematician, that's oh, shoot, forty two yards
Speaker 1: on fourteen runs, like, that's a winning formula. That's not
Speaker 1: successful offense. And a lot of those were losses and
Speaker 1: no gains too, so it's more like fourteen for like
Speaker 1: twenty five yards. Really, that's a lot of plays you're
Speaker 1: throwing in the trash. As an offense, they were doing
Speaker 1: just fine, but man, you keep flooding the dam, eventually
Speaker 1: it'll break. They were at one hundred and thirty rushing
Speaker 1: yards when it became a three score game, so they
Speaker 1: did get theirs late, but some of those ted twelve
Speaker 1: yard pops. That forty yard pop by Pollard came towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game, and I thought that was
Speaker 1: you can put that on the offense. That's how I
Speaker 1: feel about that. Takeaway Number five is the third straight
Speaker 1: installment of we are in trouble. I said this after
Speaker 1: the Week two game, and that was before the two injury.
Speaker 1: I once did this job in twenty twenty one with
Speaker 1: a seven game losing streak, A one and seventeen. We've
Speaker 1: seen this team go one in fifteen some seventeen years ago.
Speaker 1: We saw this team strip this thing down to the
Speaker 1: studs in twenty nineteen to play some horrendous football that season.
Speaker 1: Remember those first two games against the Ravens and Patriots
Speaker 1: that year, we went through a run where the offense,
Speaker 1: if an aptitude, hit what I thought was all time
Speaker 1: lows in twenty seventeen with Jay Cutler and Adam Gays
Speaker 1: and that offense, but fellas I suspect, we were in
Speaker 1: trouble after the Buffalo game. And I am not sure
Speaker 1: right now that you can point to a game where
Speaker 1: you feel good about it going in now that will
Speaker 1: probably change. It's a long season. It always does. Maybe
Speaker 1: it doesn't, and so maybe it finally does go. How
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen was supposed to go, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: really don't know. I can tell you this, I just
Speaker 1: can't invest emotion into it. At this point. Your stars
Speaker 1: aren't showing up. There seems to be zero urgency. Where's
Speaker 1: the dog mentality we talked about all offseason? And get
Speaker 1: these important players and they can bring that in just
Speaker 1: all these things I thought we saw with this team.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to go zero for freaking twelve
Speaker 1: on productions of this team. I'll strikeout four times. Put
Speaker 1: the golden sombrero on me. Dog feels like it's getting
Speaker 1: close to start overtime. That's all it is, we baby,
Speaker 1: So there you go. I cover it all. I don't
Speaker 1: blame you if you don't want to go on that
Speaker 1: journey with me, but hell I'm here. I'll do it.
Speaker 1: So come along if you want to. If not, that's
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