WEBVTT - Dolphins Bills Week 8 Recap 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:13.920 Looking down touchdown, Miami un What's up, Dolph Fans, and 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.479 welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:22.480 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. I don't 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.000 got to ask you how it's going, but I am 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.640 your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to bring you 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.400 your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.360 it's a seventh straight loss for the good guys. Tough, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.879 tough times. Indeed we'll get through it. Here on the 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.479 recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast with some quotes from 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.760 Brian Flora's postgame My five takeaways, including the mistakes that 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.760 got us here, the defense playing good but not for 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.960 long enough, the special teams struggling to find their form, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.879 and everything in between. From the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:52.920 --> 0:01:00.240 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcasts. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.280 Dolphins dropped another game. It seems like a long long 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.360 time ago that they were want to know coming off 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.920 a road victory in New England. Seven straight losses and 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.440 the fourth straight after three games where the Dolphins lost. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.160 On the final play, they take Buffalo to the break 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.480 tied three apiece, had a chance to take a lead 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.040 a few times there, and mistakes continue to plague them, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.560 but they really hung in there in this game that 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.840 not many folks gave him much of a chance in, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.320 and that was encouraging for a while. But then it 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.600 kind of hit that point where things began to unravel, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.280 as they seemingly have pretty much each of the last 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.920 seven weeks here, and we lost the thread from there. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.039 But then the offense goes on to score some points 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.000 and the defense has a chance to get off and 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.680 get the football back to them after a great decision 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.040 to go for two points, which we'll talk about here later. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.840 This game, to me was such a microcosm of the 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.640 season in so many ways for this football team. You 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.760 can't get complimentary football from more than some brief stretches. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.760 The offense goes and scores, defense has chances to get 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.040 off the field and just kicks themselves enough to where 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.360 they can't do it. Buffalo goes down and gets points 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.560 of their own. You play well for seemingly, you know, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.880 for big stretches through the first half of the game. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.120 Basically seemed like nine of ten plays we're going in 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.480 the Dolphins direction. But you still find yourself tied barely 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.560 up three nothing in that first quarter or in some 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.840 cases behind on the scoreboard, where you've done the same 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.400 thing in previous games, and in this game tied at 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.680 three three a half time after kind of shooting your 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.640 best shot, and I'm not having their best half with 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.240 that quarterback, with that offense on that sideline. If you're 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.440 up three three after that, it's not gonna be good 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.400 at sleeping giant awoke in this game. The mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.560 correctable mistakes, as we heard from head coach Brian Flores, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.760 And that's the most frustrating part. I talked to my 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.799 co host in the w w q A M five 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.360 sixty post game show Seth Levitt after we left the 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.920 post game show on Sunday night the station, I should say, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.760 and I just told him this, this roster, it's not 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.400 it's not as bad as the plays would indicate or 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.320 the results would indicate. It's a there's a lot of 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.280 good talent on this football team. This coaching staff has 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.960 previously show own you their metal in many ways, and 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.919 so that's what makes it so frustrating me is this team, again, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.400 I don't know how much just subscribe to that you 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.679 are what your record says you are, but in the NFL, really, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.720 at the end of the day, you are. And I 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.679 just I don't see this team as a one and 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.720 seven football team. And that's what really kills me because 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.280 these little mistakes, these untimely false start penel's not that's 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.400 ever a good time to have a fall star penalty, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.799 failure to capitalize on Josh Allen throwing when he's in 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.000 the grasp and not getting a takeaway there. It's a big, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.720 big opportunity to get one that we talked about in 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.600 the Titans game last week. He had one of those 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.960 that got a big takeaway. Talked about it at nauseam 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.800 with two last week, throwing a takeaway of his own 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.040 when he was in the grasp, not making tackles, and me, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.040 you have chances to get off the field missing field goals. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.240 That's the most frustrating part to me is these these 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.640 little things that continue to occur every single week. And 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.720 that's where he won games previously, in those slim margins 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.200 and find ways to beat good football teams by playing 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.480 better and more dis upon football than them in the tough, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.360 most important stages of the game. The complete opposite has 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.080 happened here in one and then finally the first and 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.720 fourth quarter offensively once again best moments for the offense. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.320 Second and third quarter an absolute valley as far as 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.600 production there the third quarter just no offensive production once 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.000 where from Miami. So same same story, different week, it 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.680 seems like. And you know we're talking about Brian floor 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.200 is there. I thought he had another really good postgame 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.400 press conference where he addressed many things as he does 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.520 every week. But the might get sicky play that snapped 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.359 off of his leg where he runs across the quarterback 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.520 at the moment of the snap and causes a miss 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.200 a failure failed exchange. Geez, easy enough for me to say, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.640 causes a failed exchange and the Buffalo Bills take over 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.480 it there when you had at least three points, are 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.520 an opportunity for three points if not seven, right before 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.000 the half and getting the football out of the break 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.000 in the third quarter to really drive home one of 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.960 our keys of the game this week. When the middle 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.560 eight minutes Miami did good to get the football back 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.200 and have scoring position. Did well to get the football 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.560 back and scoring position and drive down late and then 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.480 get the football to start the third quarter, and it 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.760 just was executed about as poorly as you can be, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.320 turned over in a key area on a on a 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.760 bad pre snap alignment and snap and then just three 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.360 and now on the third quarter to start that thing 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:02.919 off where you have a chance to really keep the 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.120 Buffalo Bill's offense on the sideline for like thirty forty 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.160 minutes of real time and pile up double digit points 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.919 in the process. None of that happens, and it turns 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.960 into being a fifteen point loss at the end of 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.200 the day. So he talked about that. Brian Flores did, 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.560 the failure of communication, the fact that you know, he 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.880 busted his butt down the sideline for a possible time 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.120 out on that call, then opted not too right at 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.080 the last moment. Something else talked about in the post 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.440 game show that was coming off a time out so 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.520 Waddle can't get lined up over there, and this is 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.080 kind of getting into the first takeaway, but just the 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.320 mistakes that continue to happen to us. Spoke about it too. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.560 He said it was a bad operation. Bad football has 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.479 to get better. And I always go back to this 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.000 Bruce arians quote about how it takes about eight weeks 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.919 or so to really get comfortable in a new system, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.280 a new offense, and of course case by case, right, 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.240 that's how this league works, that's how that's how life 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.360 mostly works. But you know, Bruce has won a lot 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.720 of games in this league, so he's not a bad 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.840 guy to quote. He talks about how it takes about 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.080 eight weeks to get familiar with the system. But here 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.159 we are in week eight and not only are these 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.280 issues persisting, they're seemingly increasing and these you know O 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.240 J talked about this in the postgame show as well. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.800 How the play call is. The first part is your alignment, 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.520 the second part is a shift or emotion or a 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.480 key or read, and the third part is the actual 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.480 play itself. And to not get the first part down, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.040 how can you expect to execute anything else when you're 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.480 not correctly lined up? So something we talked about a 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.479 while back in the podcast, something the coaches and players 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.479 have addressed here for us this week, and that makes 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.200 it tough, tough to live, tough to win. I should say, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.560 make your living when you're executing that way and that 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.560 way and coming up short in that area so often, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.080 so it's frustrating. I talked to the postgame show about 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.680 how you know, how a little joy the game of 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.040 football has brought this season for so many reasons, and 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.039 you know it's tough. I get it. I am you, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:47.560 I am one of you, guys. I'm a big fan 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.040 of this team. So hanging their Dolphins fans, keep those 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.240 chins up, and because that's all you can do right now, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.120 is too is set after the game. All you can 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.160 do is keep going a few more notes here from 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.359 the Brian Floors postgame press commerce before we get to 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.919 my five takeaways. I want to I've been on he 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.760 talked about after the game. He didn't come to the 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.600 podium for about an hour after the game, which is 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.240 pretty rare, especially in my time here covering the team, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.360 and he he talked about that so that he sat 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.000 by himself, let the players go out of the locker room, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.040 and the gravity of the losing street kind of weighing 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.680 on him. That that part, you know, as someone that 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.560 sympathizes with humans, that killed me. Because this is a 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.720 great man who is a good football coach, and it 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.480 just kills me to hear him speak out on that. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.720 And it's not just the fans that losing impacts guys, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.720 that these guys all wear it and it's hard on 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.680 them too, harder, you know, should be harder, and it 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.400 is much harder for those guys who have their you know, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.200 their livelihoods, and they're just once you put your, you know, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.600 hundred hours of work in every week into something to 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.280 not get the results, I can't imagine that it's got 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:44.560 to be very difficult on them. So I can. I 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.320 can feel the gravity of Brian Brian flores his voice 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.440 when he talks about that. And then finally to wrap 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.000 it up here, he he did mention that Preston Williams 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.520 did not travel for disciplinary reasons to this game, and 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.320 then he will be back with the team after the fact. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.160 So there you have it. There's some of the the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.440 presser notes after the game that I thought were interesting. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.280 Let's go ahead and dive into the takeaways here. I 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.000 touched on this quite a bit early, but the five 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.440 takeaway start off with number one. It's just too many 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.120 mistakes and it's the story of the season. And you 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.440 can point to so many areas of so many different 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.280 games where you can say, man, if that just goes 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.480 a little bit differently, maybe maybe, but you know, ifs 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.440 and butts and candy and nuts or something like that, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.200 first two drives of the game, We're moving the football 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.320 very effectively. Passing game, running game is cranking. Myles Gasking 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.040 picking up seven four five yard chunks, which is great 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.160 for this offense. Right. We talked about being a second 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.680 mid to get the third short to convert on second 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.120 and mid. It's to be able to use the first 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.120 down plays after you convert a first down on the 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.840 ground to go back to the air and get your 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.400 chunk plays like it was being very effective opening up 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.000 the middle part of the field for two to find 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.760 Avante Parker on somebody those in breaking routes, you know, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.920 Jalen Waddle making some catches, get the football to his backs. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.240 Everyone kind of getting involved there. But then you have 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.240 some moments false starts, a drop pass, a blown protection 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.040 and assignment, then you missed the thirty six yard field goal. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:08.240 I mean, really good teams do that, and I think 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.120 the Chiefs last year were a great example of that 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.200 where they I heard a stat where the Chiefs had 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.760 like not covered, but like four spreads in the last 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.280 eight teen games, and that was because to me, they 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.640 weren't playing up to their ability. They would have these 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.560 just mistakes and mistakes and mistakes, and then finally they 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.040 would have a quarter where Patrick Mahomes and the Boys 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.679 would turn it on for points, and that was too 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.480 much for you to overcome because you can't keep over 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.280 that kind of firepower. We saw the Bills in this game. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.480 They had some mistakes. The Dolphins certainly were a credit 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.240 to their performance to Coslos mistakes. But what happens eventually 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.400 they get into the third quarter, fourth quarter and they 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.280 get on a roll that you just can't hold down 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.600 those good teams for sixty minutes. But for a team 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.760 like Miami who's struggling to find their way pretty much 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.520 in all three phases, let's let's be real about that. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.240 To have those mistakes, you just there's no possible way 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.520 you can win football games without formula. It's not going 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.080 to happen. So until they can clean up the mistakes 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.319 and just get aligned and get their field goal protection 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.199 to their field goal kicking or whatever the case may 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:07.760 be on the field goals, three weeks in a row. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.440 They missed three kicks all of last year, that includes 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.800 extra points. To get all that figured out, you're gonna 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.679 have to do it if you're gonna win a football game. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.680 I don't care how many explosive plays or good moments, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.160 are good stretches, or whatever the case may be. You're 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.440 not gonna win football games if you continuously make those 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.600 errors that are small margins but collectively and cumulatively add 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.440 up to this grand total where you basically are giving 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.040 the opposition more opportunities than what they deserve. And in 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.600 this league, the players, the coaches, the teams are too 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.520 good to consistently make those mistakes, especially the Buffalo Bills. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.120 But back to the mistakes. So the first two drives, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.200 a false start, drop past sack, missfield goal. The final 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.560 drive of the first half, you're driving. You convert on 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.800 third and six, but you legal shift. You literally could 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.120 have kept Buffalo offense off the field for for like 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.240 forty five minutes at that point with a double dip. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.240 But then you get bailed out by a defensive penalty 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.880 that gets you to drive going again. So you're still 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.199 back on track to do that, and then you kind 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.200 of play it a little bit conservatively. I understand the 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.120 the idea behind picking up a first down on second 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.080 and two with thirty nine seconds to play, and Buffalo 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:12.960 had no time outs at this point either, but you 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.080 can obviously get the first down and basically ensure last shot, right, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.160 But man, against that team against Buffalo, I want touchdowns 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.800 and sort of run the ball in second and two 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.120 with it was like forty three seconds of the snap. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.839 Fifteen yard penalty puts them down first and ten of 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.200 the seventeen yard line, but it seemed like you were 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:30.720 kind of playing for a field goal at that point 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.920 to run the football there with two timeouts and still 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.120 needed thirty three yards to find the end zone. Luckily 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.680 they do get the fifteen yard penalty, but then write 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.360 down a few plays later Waddle can't get lined up. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.640 And how often does it happen where guys are running 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.600 around pre snap and you see big Mike Kasiki kind 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.720 of directing traffic. Hey, you're over there, now, you gotta 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.240 go back over there and motion back across happens very frequently. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.040 And they talked about a postgame about the miscommunication of 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.439 the personnel groupings and how different groupings caused or call 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.200 for different guys lapp in different spots and whatever the case, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.360 maybe the operation has just not been good enough because 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.800 there's been too much misalignment here. And in this case, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.880 you know, Waddle is trying to get set while Kaziki 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.000 has to go back in motion across the formation, and 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.240 the snap comes off too early as the play clock 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.280 winds down, hits him in the high and winds up 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.840 being a fumble and the Bill is gonna take away. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.760 And what a momentum killer that was at that point 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.079 of the game. So you're already halfway into the game, 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:24.560 tons of tons of mistakes occurring, and then to compound matters, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.000 the luck is just outrageous. Like I don't think Miami's 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.800 bad luck away from winning games necessarily Excuse me, but 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:38.160 there's been three instances of either muffpunts or reviewed muffpunts 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.040 over the last three games. Two of them weren't called. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.760 One was actually didn't touch the guy. The Jacksonville ball 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.840 hit his finger. You can see his finger move, just 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.400 like it did in the Green Bay Arizona game the 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.320 other night on Thursday Night Football. You can see the 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.200 finger kick up when the ball came up, and of 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.400 course Brian Flores challenged that and didn't get the win 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.520 on the challenge. The one last week hits right inside 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.640 the pump, returners inside foot and I don't know how 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.280 it misses him, but it does that's that's like the 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.440 bounce of the football, bad luck. And then the one 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:08.199 today And I don't understand this rule. Instead of a 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.320 potential recovery and the end zone for a touchdown, it 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.480 goes into the end zone after the fair or not 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.280 the fair catch. But the punt was muffed at the 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.800 eight yard line, goes back into the end zone for 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.440 a touchback because the Buffalo Bills recover it. Not a safety, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.160 a touch back. So he gains twelve yards because he 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.200 muffed the punt. And again you call it by the 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.960 rule book, but to me the rule book, it seems 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.840 weird that you would gain twelve yards when you made 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.880 a mistake. That that part bothered me. Um just some 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.560 some further notes here. Why is alignment such an issue? 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.440 I'm not really sure why the case. Maybe eleven first 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.600 downs to five first downs in the first half of Miami, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.839 what an advantage that they had there, And then at 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.200 some point the third quarter was nine to zero for Buffalo. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.920 I didn't see the final account. I think it was 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.120 sixteen too. How you guys like me checking stats live 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.440 on a podcast here sixteen first downs first down, So 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.640 after eleven to five, Miami got five more first downs 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.920 and Buffalo got nineteen. Are it's not a good winning formula. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.400 Buffalo six for thirteen on third downs, Miami four for 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.959 fourteen on third down. So that's a big issue that 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.760 the swing of the game. They're total penalty yardage nine 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.440 for fifty eight from Miami. I mean, that's the nine penalties. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.840 How uncharacteristic is that it's obviously not the big personal 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.480 fouls and the big defensive pass interferences. There was a 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.960 big defensive pass interference. We'll talk about that here in 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.480 just one second. But getting behind the chains on second 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.600 and fifteen, whatever the case may be, for the offense 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.280 to go all offsides and a false start, it's tough 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.160 to overcome that. And they seem to be putting themselves 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.200 in those situations way too frequently. And you know, bottom 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.640 bottom third of the league right now. And penalties, yard 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.720 penalties and yardage assessed against them just not who this 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.240 team was previously. That's tough to overcome that, and they're 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.120 finding that out the hard way. And again miss fielgil 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.120 once again from thirty six yard for Jason Sanders really 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.320 had a character for him. Takeaway number two defense. I 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.520 wrote this down that they were one for seven on 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.200 third downs. At one point they were seven drives into 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.760 the game and only had three points. But the middle 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.640 of the third quarter, I wrote, I don't even care 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.400 what happens the rest of the way, because Buffalo was 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.800 at a hundred and twenty yards and one for seven 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.040 on third down at this point into the game in 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.120 the third quarter, And if I told you were going 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.880 to get that kind of production, you'd say, Miami not 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.280 only has a chance to win, they probably will because 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.040 three points on seven drives. The league average is a 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.240 little bit over two points per drive, so every drive 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.760 should equate to about two points. So for seven drives 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.680 to equate to three points, that's you're in phenomenal shape. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.400 It's not rocket science to tell you that. You know that, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.320 But at that point, to be in that position and 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.880 to not close it out, I don't know, like you 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.040 you have to close the game out and play sixty minutes. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.640 But the offense also has that responsibility to go ahead 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.120 and make sure that you're rewarded and can maybe get 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.360 more one dimensional in the later parts of the game 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.240 because of your reward for playing such strong defense. So again, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.440 the complementary football aspect has not been good all year. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.840 But defensively, Miami's had two big stretches now against this 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:56.520 quarterback who previously has just thrashed the Dolphins, and two 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.520 massive stretches of play where he just couldn't really execute 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.520 their offense. You know, batted passes, the line scream and 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.680 Gemmanuel had about a thousand of those today. Failed running 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.600 place TFLs, mine's in the backfield, frequently, good coverage in 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.040 the back end, pass breakups. It was all there. It 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:11.520 was all there for the taking for the offense, and 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.000 they just couldn't quite execute it. But defensively, I wrote 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.960 down Josh Allen Javan Holland continues to do his thing. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.240 On the very first drive of the game, pressures Josh 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.120 Allen forces him to throw it away on third down 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.240 after he made a fill and a run stick on 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.320 second down. He has been hitting dudes all season long 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.320 in his rookie year, having a tremendous rookie season. Emmanuel 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.560 about rushing the quarterback, forcing him not just to move 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.200 off of his spot, but the Dolphins sting with their 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.520 gap integrity and their rush integrity and not building on 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.480 their lanes. I thought it was very good for the 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.320 first part of this game, marrying up the coverage with 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.080 the pass rush. It was very good in this game, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.400 the blitzing opportunities. And then there was a point in 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.360 the third quarter, I think it was third and fourteen. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.440 You've been getting pressure all day, your game has been 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.480 working all day. Your linebackers have been coming in all 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.880 day with pressure, whether it was Duke Riley or Brandon 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.680 Scarlett or even a landing Roberts rushing the quarterback. Jalen Phillips, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.840 you know, Manuel about the guys in the defensive line 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.920 will talk about and then third and fourteen and you 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.960 kind of call off, You kind of call the dogs off, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.600 and Josh Allen winds up with all data throw and 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.000 from that point forward he converted a third and fourteen. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.679 From that point forward, he he was barely under durest 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.240 the rest of the game. So there was something that 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.240 clicked in that third quarter for the Bills, or that 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.760 went off the rails for the Dolphins. Where this defense 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.800 that we grew in love last year, grew a new 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.040 to love last year, finds themselves back in the same position, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.000 playing aggressive football, some covers zero, some different games up 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.159 front to create pressure and good covers on the back end. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.080 That timed up well with that squatting on those short routes, 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:39.920 and then it just kind of went away. We saw 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.800 on the touchdown to just Stefon Digs where xaviing Howard's 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.359 playing way off, you know when you're gonna send the 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:47.720