WEBVTT - Week to Week League Deep Dive and Coordinators Detail Struggles 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:13.080 That's your looking down field, cutsdown, Miami Quarters Run. What's up? 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.759 Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:22.200 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.720 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield, 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.480 and as always, I am here to bring you your 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.760 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.360 it's a deep Dive Wednesday, and we're kind of diving 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.640 into a waterless swimming pool, but we're gonna do it anyways. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.960 I'm gonna explore some expectations versus actual results. We'll hear 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.680 from the coordinators as they spoke to the media on Monday, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.240 and we'll play another SoundBite from the post game show 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.159 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:58.080 This is the Drivetime Podcast, Dophins. You guys ever has 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.960 with soup? You know, I never was a soup guy, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.400 and then I got to Miami and the stuff here 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.600 is fire. And it's it's interesting that you get to 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.280 Miami and all of a sudden you're interested in the 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.920 hottest type of food that there is. But I think 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.119 it's partly because the office is here are pretty cold 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.720 to kind of offset the heat outside. But man, I 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.920 got into the different types of soup, starting with a 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:22.480 chicken dumpling soup, and I'm like, I'm thirty four. I 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.840 think I turned thirty four this month. I just discovered dumplings, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.600 Like dumplings are an elite food if you ask me, 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.960 and especially in these different turkey or chicken soups. My goodness, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.119 it me soup guy at this point. But enough of that. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:37.680 I had to mention that because that's what we had 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.360 for lunch today and it was very, very good. And 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.320 I just cannot stop messing with all the soup around here. 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.320 And this is typically our deep dive podcast, but we'll 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.360 call it a shallow dive today and talk about things 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.480 like soup. I became curious about the week to week 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:57.040 league mentality and extrapolating that over year to year and 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.240 even multiple year to multiple year. And I'm not sure 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.360 if this was subconscious of me or just two things 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.880 that found each other in my brain or whatever, because 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.960 with this job, I'm basically always working because my brain 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:15.359 is always thinking about different ideas or concepts or research 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.960 ideas to explore on the podcast or on Miami Dolphins 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.640 dot com. But there was a thread by Chris Coffin. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.519 You guys know who he is on Twitter at c 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.440 K Parrot does a bunch of great Dolphins content. He 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.560 had a great threat on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, Actually, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:30.840 why don't we go ahead and pulled up here. I'm 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.760 gonna pull this thing up real quick, pause the podcast 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.160 and come right back. And no time went by there 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.240 because it's a podcast. But I found the thread, and 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.359 in this threat he details the fluid nature of the 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.880 sport and of this league. And I think it's more 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.520 so the NFL than college, but for the sport in general, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.919 things can definitely change. Look at or dron at l 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.280 s U and that's about where the deep dive today starts. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.799 And you've heard me complain about this a lot, right, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.119 And I think complain is the right word, because even 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.560 I'm sick of it at this point. But the point 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.120 does remain that we tend to come to these grand 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.720 conclusions based on one or two events. It can be 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.600 a play or a drive or a quarter, and usually 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.639 it's a game, but sometimes it can be whittled down 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.640 to those very small events. An example, I talked about 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.880 this in draft season, how I really liked Waddle and 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.120 Smith way more than the rest of the receiver class. Right, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.120 and then Jamar Chase has about as difficult of a 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.120 camp and summer as one player can possibly endure. Reports 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.920 about him talking about the difference between the stripes on 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.640 the college ball versus the all brown NFL ball, talking 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.840 about him dropping multiple passes in practice then walking to 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.240 the other end of the field with his head and 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.480 a towel like it sounded dire before he even played 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.120 his first game. Now we're five games in and he 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.440 has Randy Moss types of production in terms of first 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.720 five games of his career. So the point is that 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.040 things are fluid week to week most of the time, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.520 but way more so year to year. So to see 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.280 case thread here, And this is back on September twenty nine, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.760 so it's a couple of weeks old. And I want 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.840 to start Dolphins related first, and not about the quarterback, 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.160 because he did go to a defensive end and he says, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.240 remember when Jason Taylor was a hot young pass rusher 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.320 who had been exposed the book had been written on him. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.160 Chris writes that the way to negate j t S 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.400 skill or production was to be physical and body him. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.920 Then second year he's a nine sack player, you're number four. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.600 He's an All Pro. By year ten, he's the defensive 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.560 player of the leader in the NFL. And I won't 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.320 go through this whole thing, but that's the gist of it. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.400 And just for you know, Posterity Drew Brees early on 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.720 while they drafted Philip Rivers. After his first three years there, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.039 he goes to New Orleans and basically rewrites the history 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.680 of the Saints franchise. C K mentions Josh Freeman's ten 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.800 rookie season compared to fellow classmate and banged up rookie 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.760 Matthew Stafford. What happened to Josh Streaman after that? And 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.400 mass Stafford now? He mentions r G threeeve rookie season 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.960 compared to Andrew Luck or even Russell Wilson and Ryan 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.359 Tannehill to that degree. He mentions Baker and Dak and 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.279 the ups and downs they've had. Blake Bortles in season 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.880 with forty passing yards or total yards rather and thirty 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.560 seven touchdowns. Talks about Cam Newton going from being a 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.599 player who was lighting college football up, but you cannot 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.839 draft that guy in the first round. Then he winds 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.799 up being the first pick of the draft to number 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.159 two league MVP after being the number one overall pick. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.960 Very few things in this league are linear. I mean, shoot, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.080 remember when people are writing off Aaron Rodgers a couple 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.000 of years ago, even week one this season, remember how 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.640 Tom Brady was. And I really want to emphasize the 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:39.280 air quotes done after nineteen Yeah. And look, if this 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.880 sounds like some plea to tell you to be patient 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.640 or to be okay with losing now because it might 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.479 change next week, that's not my intent here, I promise. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.560 I don't want to blow that smoke in your guy's direction. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.039 I'm just tired of trying to do that. And my 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.359 intent here is to show you that the evidence you 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.760 have now can be instructive, but it's hardly a definitive 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.440 actor of future success and future results. And that's just 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.200 with regards to the quarterback position and the expansion into 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.640 the other thoughts are ideals. I wanted to look at 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:15.920 teams in this way, entire operations, and this is entirely 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.400 opinion based. How can it not be because we don't 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:23.200 have defined media darlings each season, but a consensus grows, 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.960 and that's how expectations begin to develop. A team you 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.000 talked about through the course of spring, after a good 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.960 draft and into summer and O T A s. Then 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.720 they put it on the training camp practice field and 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.000 you get all the tweets and reports about that, and 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.560 expectations develop over the course of the off season. And 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.479 I don't think the Dolphins were that specific team this year. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.719 I think it was probably the Chargers, maybe the forty Niners, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.360 maybe the Rams, though the Patriots in there too as 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.159 a team that everyone thought was gonna make a huge jump, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:49.800 and they still might. I mean, that's not it's part 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.760 of the argument. Two of those teams are off to 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.919 a hot start, the other two not so much. But 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.279 the point here is something I mentioned on yesterday's podcast 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.000 that there was a budding consensus that's Dolphins team was 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.320 on the rise and someone to be reckoned with with 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.200 great coaching, a great defense, and a quarterback who could 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.160 have sent to that next level as long as he 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.160 had the offensive line production protection around him because he 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.440 now has all the weapons to work with. That was 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.400 the idea, right And so I wanted to go back 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.000 and look at some of the previous teams that were 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:21.280 kind of defined that way by local and social media 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.800 and especially the fan base. I think, you know, just 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.960 being on Dolphins Twitter all the time, I think there 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.000 was a lot of excitement going into this year about 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.720 this Dolphins team. But what about the Cardinals? I think 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.360 were that team and they started off hot, they were 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.360 I think a was it a five and two football 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.640 team before the Dolphins beat them in like Week ate 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.600 last year, and people bought all the way in on 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.560 that Cardinals team, and that includes me because I'm such 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.640 a big Kyler Murray fan. Then they stumbled down the 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.680 stretch and finish the season eight and eight, and all 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.280 you hear all off season is Cliff Kingsbury's Texas Tech record. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.640 He had Patrick Mahomes and he still couldn't have a 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.880 five hundred record there at Texas Tech. It's all you 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.360 saw in Cardinals Twitter all summer long. Now they're five 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.559 and oh the only unbeaten team in the National Football League, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.040 and that might change, but right now it's what they are. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.160 What about a team that found its footing in last year? 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.480 It was a Cleveland Browns team one year after they 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.080 had big expectations in twenty nine team because they acquire 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.160 Odell Beckham Jr. Sheldon Richardson, Olivier Vernon, Kareem Hunt. I 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.680 think there was another big one that too, But I 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.000 forget they go six and ten after a two and 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.880 six start, no less, then they go eleven and five 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.400 and your number two after expectations, and now they're three 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.880 and two. But that's what a tough loss in an 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.080 incredible game against the Chargers, and even tougher loss against 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.520 the you know, reigning a f C champions twice over 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.720 three times over in the Kansas City Chiefs two times, yeah, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.320 the last two times. Every year you go back, there 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.640 are examples of this factor in losing your quarterback was 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.480 a sixty four minutes into the season this year, I'm 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.360 just gonna need some more games, some bigger sample size 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.920 before I opened up the evaluation mode and start playing 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.360 around with the mock draft simulators like it's October. Man. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.760 I can't. We just did all. I can't get back 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.800 into that. I want to see more evidence and not 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.120 put work into something that will certainly change over the 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.720 next twelve weeks. So again, just to really drive this 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.440 point home, this does not mean it will automatically turn 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.880 around from Miami. But the point is that hope is 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.120 not all lost. It never is in this game, because 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.200 you're only as good as the day of work you've 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.040 just put in. So let's get back to work, shall we. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.480 And speaking of getting back to work, we had Coordinator 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.079 Media on Monday, and I want to cover that here briefly. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.800 Then we'll play a postgame show segment and get out 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.240 of here for a short Wednesday podcast. Tomorrow we have 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.720 the preview podcast coming up, the in depth, deep dive 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.400 look at the Jacksonville Jaguars in a game that hopefully 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.240 Miami can get back into the winner circle in and 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.559 I want to play the sound bites for the comments 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.760 I found most interesting at Coordinator Media on Monday. And 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.240 let's start with George Godzy COOC starting with him talking 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.640 about pre snap process, and if you recall the mail 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.600 bag a couple of weeks ago, I talked about all 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.240 the things there are to check pre snap as just 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.760 an observer, someone trying to get good notes for a podcast. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.959 So I wanted to play this from coach Godzi because 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.840 for those guys, especially someone that watches the entire offense, 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.600 not just a position coach, it's tenfold let's go ahead 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.880 and go to George Godzi. Um, you know, there's a 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.199 there's a lot of things that you know, I feel 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.040 like I see before the before the snap. So as 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:23.359 much as as you know, I can communicate to those guys, um, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.839 you know, especially from upstairs, I think will help them. Um, 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.320 whether it's just breaking the huddle communication offensively, defensively, whether 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.120 our line right. Um. So I think that that streamlined 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:39.599 things a lot. Um. Yeah, and uh, I kind of 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.480 leave it to that. Some pretty interesting comments there from 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.559 coach Godzy about being upstairs and being able to communicate 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.520 that with this quarterback as well as streamline they process there. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.800 And leaving that at that. Another hot topic is the 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.800 offensive line. Why don't we go ahead and hear from 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.120 coach Godzi on his evaluation of the Dolphins offensive line, 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.480 which of course we saw re shuffled offensive line for 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.839 this Week five game in Tampa Bay. Coach gods He 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.360 was asked about how he feels Liam and Austin did 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.400 in those positions and how the Dolphins feel about that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.800 offensive line going forward. Yeah. I think that that there 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.400 are some plays that that you know, we're really impressive, honestly, 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.240 and then some that we'd like to, you know, get corrected. UM. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.920 I think Austin's kind of working his way through some things. Uh. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.040 And for you know, within a week he made some 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.280 pretty big steps there. Um. Liam is just going to 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.960 continue to get better. UM and Uh, hopefully that group 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:41.440 can maintain some consistency and some um cohesiveness we've had, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.160 whether it's that position that that group or the receiver 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.960 group kind of been some plug and play with some 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.240 different players. And the more cohesive and consistent we can 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.400 be with the same people out there, the better off 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.800 will be. And you hear a coach talk there about 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.520 continuity and hopefully that cohesion can be a thing to 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.720 develop over the final where's the twelve third team weeks 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.120 of this football season? I love to see the same 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.679 offensive line combination play going forward. Hopefully they can get 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.360 to a place where they feel comfortable about that. Hopefully 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:09.920 we also get to a place where you feel comfortable. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.640 Abou getting too a tungul By Lowa back under center 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.959 on the field, coach was asked about what toa can 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.160 build on from what he did before he was injured 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.120 to go ahead and continue the success he saw in 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.360 that first game through training camp to the summer. I 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.600 don't want to play two sound bites here from coach Godzi, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.040 one about that, but also one about what they have 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.280 to see from two to feel comfortable to play him 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.880 on Sunday in the game against Jacksonville. Let's play the 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.600 first part here from coach Gotzi. You know it was 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.560 it was basically, you know, we go and play the 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.720 New England game and we had some I said, a 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.040 couple of couple of plays or a couple of plays 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.600 within the series that we'd like to have back. But overall, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.800 as far as leading the group, you know, it was 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.240 pretty consistently done. Um, and you know that was starting 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.120 to build some relationships with you know, each position, and 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.520 so you know, whenever there's a lapse of time like that, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.600 it's kind of I want to say restarting. But you know, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.840 we're getting back on the field now. There's a little 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.959 bit of an injury deal, so um, it's getting back 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.240 that confidence that really you develop all training camp. So 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.199 for for two of it will be getting back on 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.640 out there on the field, being decisive, um, you know, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.440 getting back that silent alarm and and really getting back 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.880 to you know where he was he was building off 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.720 from training camp, um, you know, and and kind of 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.320 taking it from there. Found that answer very interesting because 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.320 we talked all summer long about how good of a 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.800 camp to a did have and week one is so 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.600 wonky and so awkward, and look at the Buffalo Bills 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.480 was into the Pittsburgh Steelers back in week one. You 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.760 just there's not a lot that could be taken away 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.160 long term from week number one. And hopefully what you 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.600 get back here as Too comes back and gets cranking 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.120 is he develops and builds upon that stuff we saw 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.280 in the training camp portion of this season, this year, 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.320 this calendar year. And if he does that, well, then 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.520 I feel pretty goo about going forward into the season. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.040 And beyond that, let's go ahead and finish up here 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.240 with coach Gudzia with what they have to see from 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.160 Too in order to feel comfortable playing him in a 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.600 game on Sunday against Jacksonville. That's a unique week to Amar, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.280 you know, with us traveling and and uh and and 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.080 getting ready here for the you know, the London it's 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.480 called itinerary. So but you know, whenever there's an injury 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.200 at any position obviously or looking to see you know, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.960 what happens. You know, on a hit or you know, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.960 get get tackled, whether it's another position or not. So 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.560 you know, maybe won't be able to find those things 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.080 out honestly till till game time. But as far as 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.960 certain throws, making sure you know, he's able to rip 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:46.640 a ball out to the sideline if he asked to, 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:52.120 you know, show some touch over some linebackers avoid movements 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.320 in the pocket. Those are obviously things that are gonna 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.200 happen throughout the game that you'd like to get a 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.160 look at and practice and hopefully they come up him 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.720 a um, you know, just and whether it's the play 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.000 that develops a defensive linement that kind of gets an 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.560 edge on an offensive linement, you'd like to see those 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.600 movements take place. It's a little bit different when there 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.560 are no movements, which is kind of what's going on 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.680 right now. Um, just to make sure that you actually 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:21.280 have the functionality to execute that when that happens. So, um, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.720 it's always a touchy thing with all injuries, but obviously 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.440 when he has a ball in his hand, still be 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.280 making those movements. And um, you know, we'll take a 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.640 day by this week and see if we can kind 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.960 of arrive at a place that we feel comfortable with 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.480 before for the game, and if you guys are following 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.960 me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL, I'll be out there 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.480 getting you updates on practice on Wednesday, let you know 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.320 about the status of QB one as well as what 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.480 coach says on this press conference. Dad, you probably already 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.160 happened or we'll be happening here soon, depending on when 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.520 you hear the podcast. We'll have you updated on that 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.360 on my timeline, on the podcast and everywhere in between. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.120 We cover this team inside and out. Speaking of that, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.200 let's go ahead and move ard here to Josh Boyer, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.960 who discussed rub routes and man coverage and the difficulty 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.840 of defending those types of looks with that type of 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.200 look I thought it was a very intriguing insight offered 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.160 here from coach Boyer, and he was specifically asked about 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.160 linebackers roles in that man coverage and crossing routes, but 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.400 he went further and and talked more about it because 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:20.880 there's more than just a couple of players in the 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.760 field that deal with that. So let's go to coach 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:27.080 Boyer on man coverage versus rub routes. Well, it depends 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.600 like if you're sometimes you pure man coverage, like those 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.480 guys could have particular coverage as well, like we we 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.600 don't always have somebody free. Uh sometimes um, you know 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.520 they are free, and you know they'll force one crosser, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.000 you know, to go in a different direction. But if 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.720 you've got multiple crossers, then obviously you can't get all 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:51.520 of them in that situation. And again, um, you know 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.640 that there's you know, different coverages, different things that you 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.080 can do to those crossers, and you know, and then 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.680 there's different ways you can handle man too, So there's 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.040 a lot of variables that go into that. So um, 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.600 you know, again, obviously I've got to do a better 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.359 job putting our players in position to defend those. So 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.760 there's coach talking about those rub routes and man coverage. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.760 I want to finish up here with Boyer with his 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.560 comment about you know, I talked to Rashad Butler and 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.240 playing about playing on a team that started nine and 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.000 one and one that started oh and five, and he 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.240 talked about how it's never as good or as bad 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.640 as you might think it is, and the fan reaction 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.159 after a bad performance is going to be who do 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.240 you have to replace? Like, who's the blame on that 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.119 you can replace that guy with a free agent or 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.679 a draft pick, or a new high or whatever the 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.959 case may be. That's generally the thought that fans have, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.119 and I get it. It's therapeutic and it helps you 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.240 maybe cope with the difficulties of losing because in this 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.800 game and as a sports fan, winning is so great 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.000 because losing sucks so bad, and when you do lose, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.359 I get it. We all want solutions and resolution. We 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.199 want it now. We want to know it's gonna be 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.720 better next week and going forward. But the truth is, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.119 the real growth and turnaround almost always occurs from within, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.399 which is why I want to play this SoundBite here 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.639 from Josh Boyer when he was asked about his earlier 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.120 comment about maybe changing some things up. What does that mean? 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.960 Let's listen in. Well, you know, I think again, all 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.680 of our guys, you know that you see out there 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.400 on the field, we feel comfortable with. So I think, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.840 you know, it's it's a matter of you know, finding 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.959 fine tuning better, whether it's schemes or you know, whatever 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.040 it may be, or different calls in different situations, you know, 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.040 to put the players in better position. Like ultimately, that's 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.840 what we're trying to do. And I would just say 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.440 for me that that that's where it starts. The term 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.840 fine tuning was the point of emphasis. They're gott to 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.000 fine tune this thing because your results are not going 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.680 to come from outside help. You have to get it 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.119 fixed internally. And that's what the Dolphins have to The 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.399 challenge they're facing right now is to find ways to 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.040 get this thing right at internally here with his Miami 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.560 Dolphins team and coaching staff. And finally we hear from 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.680 coach Crossman, who had a good Q and A about 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.480 the direction of the kickoff part of the game and 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.600 the direct and it's trending. But he talked about how 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.000 the numbers skew towards touchbacks this time a year, but 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.040 as the year goes along, the typically will be more 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.400 kickoffs that are in play. I thought that was very 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.400 intriguing because he also talked about whether being a contributing 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.320 factor to that point about more kickoffs, almost like home 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.600 runs and baseball. There's your baseball reference there. Uh, that's 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.360 one of my friends on Twitter mentioned that I talked 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.159 a lot about baseball and he has no clue. But 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.720 in the summer months and baseball, the ball flies further 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.159 and home run numbers go up. Something similar to what 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.639 Coach Croftsman said here about kickoffs. Again, just interesting commentary 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.560 and insight to me. Let's go ahead and hear from 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.399 coach on Jalen Waddle as a punt returner and the 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.680 limited opportunities he had on Sunday in that game. Well, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.119 I think you know he is. You know his history, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.120 very very gifted player history in their turn game, both 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:53.400