Speaker 1: Looking down touchdown, Miami un What's up, Dolph Fans, and
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Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to bring you
Speaker 1: your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show,
Speaker 1: it's a seventh straight loss for the good guys. Tough,
Speaker 1: tough times. Indeed we'll get through it. Here on the
Speaker 1: recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast with some quotes from
Speaker 1: Brian Flora's postgame My five takeaways, including the mistakes that
Speaker 1: got us here, the defense playing good but not for
Speaker 1: long enough, the special teams struggling to find their form,
Speaker 1: and everything in between. From the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcasts.
Speaker 1: Dolphins dropped another game. It seems like a long long
Speaker 1: time ago that they were want to know coming off
Speaker 1: a road victory in New England. Seven straight losses and
Speaker 1: the fourth straight after three games where the Dolphins lost.
Speaker 1: On the final play, they take Buffalo to the break
Speaker 1: tied three apiece, had a chance to take a lead
Speaker 1: a few times there, and mistakes continue to plague them,
Speaker 1: but they really hung in there in this game that
Speaker 1: not many folks gave him much of a chance in,
Speaker 1: and that was encouraging for a while. But then it
Speaker 1: kind of hit that point where things began to unravel,
Speaker 1: as they seemingly have pretty much each of the last
Speaker 1: seven weeks here, and we lost the thread from there.
Speaker 1: But then the offense goes on to score some points
Speaker 1: and the defense has a chance to get off and
Speaker 1: get the football back to them after a great decision
Speaker 1: to go for two points, which we'll talk about here later.
Speaker 1: This game, to me was such a microcosm of the
Speaker 1: season in so many ways for this football team. You
Speaker 1: can't get complimentary football from more than some brief stretches.
Speaker 1: The offense goes and scores, defense has chances to get
Speaker 1: off the field and just kicks themselves enough to where
Speaker 1: they can't do it. Buffalo goes down and gets points
Speaker 1: of their own. You play well for seemingly, you know,
Speaker 1: for big stretches through the first half of the game.
Speaker 1: Basically seemed like nine of ten plays we're going in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins direction. But you still find yourself tied barely
Speaker 1: up three nothing in that first quarter or in some
Speaker 1: cases behind on the scoreboard, where you've done the same
Speaker 1: thing in previous games, and in this game tied at
Speaker 1: three three a half time after kind of shooting your
Speaker 1: best shot, and I'm not having their best half with
Speaker 1: that quarterback, with that offense on that sideline. If you're
Speaker 1: up three three after that, it's not gonna be good
Speaker 1: at sleeping giant awoke in this game. The mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, mistakes,
Speaker 1: correctable mistakes, as we heard from head coach Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: And that's the most frustrating part. I talked to my
Speaker 1: co host in the w w q A M five
Speaker 1: sixty post game show Seth Levitt after we left the
Speaker 1: post game show on Sunday night the station, I should say,
Speaker 1: and I just told him this, this roster, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not as bad as the plays would indicate or
Speaker 1: the results would indicate. It's a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good talent on this football team. This coaching staff has
Speaker 1: previously show own you their metal in many ways, and
Speaker 1: so that's what makes it so frustrating me is this team, again,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much just subscribe to that you
Speaker 1: are what your record says you are, but in the NFL, really,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you are. And I
Speaker 1: just I don't see this team as a one and
Speaker 1: seven football team. And that's what really kills me because
Speaker 1: these little mistakes, these untimely false start penel's not that's
Speaker 1: ever a good time to have a fall star penalty,
Speaker 1: failure to capitalize on Josh Allen throwing when he's in
Speaker 1: the grasp and not getting a takeaway there. It's a big,
Speaker 1: big opportunity to get one that we talked about in
Speaker 1: the Titans game last week. He had one of those
Speaker 1: that got a big takeaway. Talked about it at nauseam
Speaker 1: with two last week, throwing a takeaway of his own
Speaker 1: when he was in the grasp, not making tackles, and me,
Speaker 1: you have chances to get off the field missing field goals.
Speaker 1: That's the most frustrating part to me is these these
Speaker 1: little things that continue to occur every single week. And
Speaker 1: that's where he won games previously, in those slim margins
Speaker 1: and find ways to beat good football teams by playing
Speaker 1: better and more dis upon football than them in the tough,
Speaker 1: most important stages of the game. The complete opposite has
Speaker 1: happened here in one and then finally the first and
Speaker 1: fourth quarter offensively once again best moments for the offense.
Speaker 1: Second and third quarter an absolute valley as far as
Speaker 1: production there the third quarter just no offensive production once
Speaker 1: where from Miami. So same same story, different week, it
Speaker 1: seems like. And you know we're talking about Brian floor
Speaker 1: is there. I thought he had another really good postgame
Speaker 1: press conference where he addressed many things as he does
Speaker 1: every week. But the might get sicky play that snapped
Speaker 1: off of his leg where he runs across the quarterback
Speaker 1: at the moment of the snap and causes a miss
Speaker 1: a failure failed exchange. Geez, easy enough for me to say,
Speaker 1: causes a failed exchange and the Buffalo Bills take over
Speaker 1: it there when you had at least three points, are
Speaker 1: an opportunity for three points if not seven, right before
Speaker 1: the half and getting the football out of the break
Speaker 1: in the third quarter to really drive home one of
Speaker 1: our keys of the game this week. When the middle
Speaker 1: eight minutes Miami did good to get the football back
Speaker 1: and have scoring position. Did well to get the football
Speaker 1: back and scoring position and drive down late and then
Speaker 1: get the football to start the third quarter, and it
Speaker 1: just was executed about as poorly as you can be,
Speaker 1: turned over in a key area on a on a
Speaker 1: bad pre snap alignment and snap and then just three
Speaker 1: and now on the third quarter to start that thing
Speaker 1: off where you have a chance to really keep the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's offense on the sideline for like thirty forty
Speaker 1: minutes of real time and pile up double digit points
Speaker 1: in the process. None of that happens, and it turns
Speaker 1: into being a fifteen point loss at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. So he talked about that. Brian Flores did,
Speaker 1: the failure of communication, the fact that you know, he
Speaker 1: busted his butt down the sideline for a possible time
Speaker 1: out on that call, then opted not too right at
Speaker 1: the last moment. Something else talked about in the post
Speaker 1: game show that was coming off a time out so
Speaker 1: Waddle can't get lined up over there, and this is
Speaker 1: kind of getting into the first takeaway, but just the
Speaker 1: mistakes that continue to happen to us. Spoke about it too.
Speaker 1: He said it was a bad operation. Bad football has
Speaker 1: to get better. And I always go back to this
Speaker 1: Bruce arians quote about how it takes about eight weeks
Speaker 1: or so to really get comfortable in a new system,
Speaker 1: a new offense, and of course case by case, right,
Speaker 1: that's how this league works, that's how that's how life
Speaker 1: mostly works. But you know, Bruce has won a lot
Speaker 1: of games in this league, so he's not a bad
Speaker 1: guy to quote. He talks about how it takes about
Speaker 1: eight weeks to get familiar with the system. But here
Speaker 1: we are in week eight and not only are these
Speaker 1: issues persisting, they're seemingly increasing and these you know O
Speaker 1: J talked about this in the postgame show as well.
Speaker 1: How the play call is. The first part is your alignment,
Speaker 1: the second part is a shift or emotion or a
Speaker 1: key or read, and the third part is the actual
Speaker 1: play itself. And to not get the first part down,
Speaker 1: how can you expect to execute anything else when you're
Speaker 1: not correctly lined up? So something we talked about a
Speaker 1: while back in the podcast, something the coaches and players
Speaker 1: have addressed here for us this week, and that makes
Speaker 1: it tough, tough to live, tough to win. I should say,
Speaker 1: make your living when you're executing that way and that
Speaker 1: way and coming up short in that area so often,
Speaker 1: so it's frustrating. I talked to the postgame show about
Speaker 1: how you know, how a little joy the game of
Speaker 1: football has brought this season for so many reasons, and
Speaker 1: you know it's tough. I get it. I am you,
Speaker 1: I am one of you, guys. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of this team. So hanging their Dolphins fans, keep those
Speaker 1: chins up, and because that's all you can do right now,
Speaker 1: is too is set after the game. All you can
Speaker 1: do is keep going a few more notes here from
Speaker 1: the Brian Floors postgame press commerce before we get to
Speaker 1: my five takeaways. I want to I've been on he
Speaker 1: talked about after the game. He didn't come to the
Speaker 1: podium for about an hour after the game, which is
Speaker 1: pretty rare, especially in my time here covering the team,
Speaker 1: and he he talked about that so that he sat
Speaker 1: by himself, let the players go out of the locker room,
Speaker 1: and the gravity of the losing street kind of weighing
Speaker 1: on him. That that part, you know, as someone that
Speaker 1: sympathizes with humans, that killed me. Because this is a
Speaker 1: great man who is a good football coach, and it
Speaker 1: just kills me to hear him speak out on that.
Speaker 1: And it's not just the fans that losing impacts guys,
Speaker 1: that these guys all wear it and it's hard on
Speaker 1: them too, harder, you know, should be harder, and it
Speaker 1: is much harder for those guys who have their you know,
Speaker 1: their livelihoods, and they're just once you put your, you know,
Speaker 1: hundred hours of work in every week into something to
Speaker 1: not get the results, I can't imagine that it's got
Speaker 1: to be very difficult on them. So I can. I
Speaker 1: can feel the gravity of Brian Brian flores his voice
Speaker 1: when he talks about that. And then finally to wrap
Speaker 1: it up here, he he did mention that Preston Williams
Speaker 1: did not travel for disciplinary reasons to this game, and
Speaker 1: then he will be back with the team after the fact.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. There's some of the the
Speaker 1: presser notes after the game that I thought were interesting.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and dive into the takeaways here. I
Speaker 1: touched on this quite a bit early, but the five
Speaker 1: takeaway start off with number one. It's just too many
Speaker 1: mistakes and it's the story of the season. And you
Speaker 1: can point to so many areas of so many different
Speaker 1: games where you can say, man, if that just goes
Speaker 1: a little bit differently, maybe maybe, but you know, ifs
Speaker 1: and butts and candy and nuts or something like that,
Speaker 1: first two drives of the game, We're moving the football
Speaker 1: very effectively. Passing game, running game is cranking. Myles Gasking
Speaker 1: picking up seven four five yard chunks, which is great
Speaker 1: for this offense. Right. We talked about being a second
Speaker 1: mid to get the third short to convert on second
Speaker 1: and mid. It's to be able to use the first
Speaker 1: down plays after you convert a first down on the
Speaker 1: ground to go back to the air and get your
Speaker 1: chunk plays like it was being very effective opening up
Speaker 1: the middle part of the field for two to find
Speaker 1: Avante Parker on somebody those in breaking routes, you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle making some catches, get the football to his backs.
Speaker 1: Everyone kind of getting involved there. But then you have
Speaker 1: some moments false starts, a drop pass, a blown protection
Speaker 1: and assignment, then you missed the thirty six yard field goal.
Speaker 1: I mean, really good teams do that, and I think
Speaker 1: the Chiefs last year were a great example of that
Speaker 1: where they I heard a stat where the Chiefs had
Speaker 1: like not covered, but like four spreads in the last
Speaker 1: eight teen games, and that was because to me, they
Speaker 1: weren't playing up to their ability. They would have these
Speaker 1: just mistakes and mistakes and mistakes, and then finally they
Speaker 1: would have a quarter where Patrick Mahomes and the Boys
Speaker 1: would turn it on for points, and that was too
Speaker 1: much for you to overcome because you can't keep over
Speaker 1: that kind of firepower. We saw the Bills in this game.
Speaker 1: They had some mistakes. The Dolphins certainly were a credit
Speaker 1: to their performance to Coslos mistakes. But what happens eventually
Speaker 1: they get into the third quarter, fourth quarter and they
Speaker 1: get on a roll that you just can't hold down
Speaker 1: those good teams for sixty minutes. But for a team
Speaker 1: like Miami who's struggling to find their way pretty much
Speaker 1: in all three phases, let's let's be real about that.
Speaker 1: To have those mistakes, you just there's no possible way
Speaker 1: you can win football games without formula. It's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. So until they can clean up the mistakes
Speaker 1: and just get aligned and get their field goal protection
Speaker 1: to their field goal kicking or whatever the case may
Speaker 1: be on the field goals, three weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: They missed three kicks all of last year, that includes
Speaker 1: extra points. To get all that figured out, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do it if you're gonna win a football game.
Speaker 1: I don't care how many explosive plays or good moments,
Speaker 1: are good stretches, or whatever the case may be. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna win football games if you continuously make those
Speaker 1: errors that are small margins but collectively and cumulatively add
Speaker 1: up to this grand total where you basically are giving
Speaker 1: the opposition more opportunities than what they deserve. And in
Speaker 1: this league, the players, the coaches, the teams are too
Speaker 1: good to consistently make those mistakes, especially the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: But back to the mistakes. So the first two drives,
Speaker 1: a false start, drop past sack, missfield goal. The final
Speaker 1: drive of the first half, you're driving. You convert on
Speaker 1: third and six, but you legal shift. You literally could
Speaker 1: have kept Buffalo offense off the field for for like
Speaker 1: forty five minutes at that point with a double dip.
Speaker 1: But then you get bailed out by a defensive penalty
Speaker 1: that gets you to drive going again. So you're still
Speaker 1: back on track to do that, and then you kind
Speaker 1: of play it a little bit conservatively. I understand the
Speaker 1: the idea behind picking up a first down on second
Speaker 1: and two with thirty nine seconds to play, and Buffalo
Speaker 1: had no time outs at this point either, but you
Speaker 1: can obviously get the first down and basically ensure last shot, right,
Speaker 1: But man, against that team against Buffalo, I want touchdowns
Speaker 1: and sort of run the ball in second and two
Speaker 1: with it was like forty three seconds of the snap.
Speaker 1: Fifteen yard penalty puts them down first and ten of
Speaker 1: the seventeen yard line, but it seemed like you were
Speaker 1: kind of playing for a field goal at that point
Speaker 1: to run the football there with two timeouts and still
Speaker 1: needed thirty three yards to find the end zone. Luckily
Speaker 1: they do get the fifteen yard penalty, but then write
Speaker 1: down a few plays later Waddle can't get lined up.
Speaker 1: And how often does it happen where guys are running
Speaker 1: around pre snap and you see big Mike Kasiki kind
Speaker 1: of directing traffic. Hey, you're over there, now, you gotta
Speaker 1: go back over there and motion back across happens very frequently.
Speaker 1: And they talked about a postgame about the miscommunication of
Speaker 1: the personnel groupings and how different groupings caused or call
Speaker 1: for different guys lapp in different spots and whatever the case,
Speaker 1: maybe the operation has just not been good enough because
Speaker 1: there's been too much misalignment here. And in this case,
Speaker 1: you know, Waddle is trying to get set while Kaziki
Speaker 1: has to go back in motion across the formation, and
Speaker 1: the snap comes off too early as the play clock
Speaker 1: winds down, hits him in the high and winds up
Speaker 1: being a fumble and the Bill is gonna take away.
Speaker 1: And what a momentum killer that was at that point
Speaker 1: of the game. So you're already halfway into the game,
Speaker 1: tons of tons of mistakes occurring, and then to compound matters,
Speaker 1: the luck is just outrageous. Like I don't think Miami's
Speaker 1: bad luck away from winning games necessarily Excuse me, but
Speaker 1: there's been three instances of either muffpunts or reviewed muffpunts
Speaker 1: over the last three games. Two of them weren't called.
Speaker 1: One was actually didn't touch the guy. The Jacksonville ball
Speaker 1: hit his finger. You can see his finger move, just
Speaker 1: like it did in the Green Bay Arizona game the
Speaker 1: other night on Thursday Night Football. You can see the
Speaker 1: finger kick up when the ball came up, and of
Speaker 1: course Brian Flores challenged that and didn't get the win
Speaker 1: on the challenge. The one last week hits right inside
Speaker 1: the pump, returners inside foot and I don't know how
Speaker 1: it misses him, but it does that's that's like the
Speaker 1: bounce of the football, bad luck. And then the one
Speaker 1: today And I don't understand this rule. Instead of a
Speaker 1: potential recovery and the end zone for a touchdown, it
Speaker 1: goes into the end zone after the fair or not
Speaker 1: the fair catch. But the punt was muffed at the
Speaker 1: eight yard line, goes back into the end zone for
Speaker 1: a touchback because the Buffalo Bills recover it. Not a safety,
Speaker 1: a touch back. So he gains twelve yards because he
Speaker 1: muffed the punt. And again you call it by the
Speaker 1: rule book, but to me the rule book, it seems
Speaker 1: weird that you would gain twelve yards when you made
Speaker 1: a mistake. That that part bothered me. Um just some
Speaker 1: some further notes here. Why is alignment such an issue?
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure why the case. Maybe eleven first
Speaker 1: downs to five first downs in the first half of Miami,
Speaker 1: what an advantage that they had there, And then at
Speaker 1: some point the third quarter was nine to zero for Buffalo.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the final account. I think it was
Speaker 1: sixteen too. How you guys like me checking stats live
Speaker 1: on a podcast here sixteen first downs first down, So
Speaker 1: after eleven to five, Miami got five more first downs
Speaker 1: and Buffalo got nineteen. Are it's not a good winning formula.
Speaker 1: Buffalo six for thirteen on third downs, Miami four for
Speaker 1: fourteen on third down. So that's a big issue that
Speaker 1: the swing of the game. They're total penalty yardage nine
Speaker 1: for fifty eight from Miami. I mean, that's the nine penalties.
Speaker 1: How uncharacteristic is that it's obviously not the big personal
Speaker 1: fouls and the big defensive pass interferences. There was a
Speaker 1: big defensive pass interference. We'll talk about that here in
Speaker 1: just one second. But getting behind the chains on second
Speaker 1: and fifteen, whatever the case may be, for the offense
Speaker 1: to go all offsides and a false start, it's tough
Speaker 1: to overcome that. And they seem to be putting themselves
Speaker 1: in those situations way too frequently. And you know, bottom
Speaker 1: bottom third of the league right now. And penalties, yard
Speaker 1: penalties and yardage assessed against them just not who this
Speaker 1: team was previously. That's tough to overcome that, and they're
Speaker 1: finding that out the hard way. And again miss fielgil
Speaker 1: once again from thirty six yard for Jason Sanders really
Speaker 1: had a character for him. Takeaway number two defense. I
Speaker 1: wrote this down that they were one for seven on
Speaker 1: third downs. At one point they were seven drives into
Speaker 1: the game and only had three points. But the middle
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, I wrote, I don't even care
Speaker 1: what happens the rest of the way, because Buffalo was
Speaker 1: at a hundred and twenty yards and one for seven
Speaker 1: on third down at this point into the game in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, And if I told you were going
Speaker 1: to get that kind of production, you'd say, Miami not
Speaker 1: only has a chance to win, they probably will because
Speaker 1: three points on seven drives. The league average is a
Speaker 1: little bit over two points per drive, so every drive
Speaker 1: should equate to about two points. So for seven drives
Speaker 1: to equate to three points, that's you're in phenomenal shape.
Speaker 1: It's not rocket science to tell you that. You know that,
Speaker 1: But at that point, to be in that position and
Speaker 1: to not close it out, I don't know, like you
Speaker 1: you have to close the game out and play sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: But the offense also has that responsibility to go ahead
Speaker 1: and make sure that you're rewarded and can maybe get
Speaker 1: more one dimensional in the later parts of the game
Speaker 1: because of your reward for playing such strong defense. So again,
Speaker 1: the complementary football aspect has not been good all year.
Speaker 1: But defensively, Miami's had two big stretches now against this
Speaker 1: quarterback who previously has just thrashed the Dolphins, and two
Speaker 1: massive stretches of play where he just couldn't really execute
Speaker 1: their offense. You know, batted passes, the line scream and
Speaker 1: Gemmanuel had about a thousand of those today. Failed running
Speaker 1: place TFLs, mine's in the backfield, frequently, good coverage in
Speaker 1: the back end, pass breakups. It was all there. It
Speaker 1: was all there for the taking for the offense, and
Speaker 1: they just couldn't quite execute it. But defensively, I wrote
Speaker 1: down Josh Allen Javan Holland continues to do his thing.
Speaker 1: On the very first drive of the game, pressures Josh
Speaker 1: Allen forces him to throw it away on third down
Speaker 1: after he made a fill and a run stick on
Speaker 1: second down. He has been hitting dudes all season long
Speaker 1: in his rookie year, having a tremendous rookie season. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: about rushing the quarterback, forcing him not just to move
Speaker 1: off of his spot, but the Dolphins sting with their
Speaker 1: gap integrity and their rush integrity and not building on
Speaker 1: their lanes. I thought it was very good for the
Speaker 1: first part of this game, marrying up the coverage with
Speaker 1: the pass rush. It was very good in this game,
Speaker 1: the blitzing opportunities. And then there was a point in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, I think it was third and fourteen.
Speaker 1: You've been getting pressure all day, your game has been
Speaker 1: working all day. Your linebackers have been coming in all
Speaker 1: day with pressure, whether it was Duke Riley or Brandon
Speaker 1: Scarlett or even a landing Roberts rushing the quarterback. Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: you know, Manuel about the guys in the defensive line
Speaker 1: will talk about and then third and fourteen and you
Speaker 1: kind of call off, You kind of call the dogs off,
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen winds up with all data throw and
Speaker 1: from that point forward he converted a third and fourteen.
Speaker 1: From that point forward, he he was barely under durest
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. So there was something that
Speaker 1: clicked in that third quarter for the Bills, or that
Speaker 1: went off the rails for the Dolphins. Where this defense
Speaker 1: that we grew in love last year, grew a new
Speaker 1: to love last year, finds themselves back in the same position,
Speaker 1: playing aggressive football, some covers zero, some different games up
Speaker 1: front to create pressure and good covers on the back end.
Speaker 1: That timed up well with that squatting on those short routes,
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of went away. We saw
Speaker 1: on the touchdown to just Stefon Digs where xaviing Howard's
Speaker 1: playing way off, you know when you're gonna send the
Speaker 1: pressure and you have to get the ball out quick.
Speaker 1: Allen made a great throw and that to kind of
Speaker 1: fade away from it and put the ball on a spot.
Speaker 1: But to me, I want x up there, you know,
Speaker 1: getting getting Digs his face and challenging him. So things
Speaker 1: seem to turn that third quarter. But defensively on the whole,
Speaker 1: you know Ogba I talked about him, Holland I thought
Speaker 1: ray Kwon Davis was a load in this game. Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins I thought was very good, as he has been
Speaker 1: all season long. Zack Seeler was there for a third
Speaker 1: and one stop like he just that's kind of his game,
Speaker 1: like third and short defense. Zax either so hard to
Speaker 1: get pushed on in those moments I thought we saw
Speaker 1: again in this one. And then Adam Butler to the
Speaker 1: entire Dolphins four guys I talked about all training camp
Speaker 1: long up on the interior front, they were all very good.
Speaker 1: In this game, and Buffalo winds up with only a
Speaker 1: hundred and two rushing yards on the game. How many
Speaker 1: carries was that, Travis, I'll give you an answer. Well,
Speaker 1: it was twenty three carries, so it's about four yards
Speaker 1: per rush. But you consider Josh Allen's thirty four yard run,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the big part of that equation. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: they won essentially most of the running downs in this game,
Speaker 1: playing very good run defense while while holding Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and the explosive passing attack kind of in check. They
Speaker 1: wind up going to Cole Beasley, which I'm okay getting
Speaker 1: beat by Cole Beasley because obviously your attention goes to
Speaker 1: Sefon digs five catches for forty yards. Gabe Davis is
Speaker 1: a big time player for them. Now four catches twenty
Speaker 1: nine yards. Emmanuel Sanders had no catches on four targets.
Speaker 1: They took away all those top options. Then Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: winds up with ten for one ten and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: ten for one ten, no touchdowns, but that's a guy
Speaker 1: that I would challenge Buffalo beat with. So good good plan,
Speaker 1: good scheme, good defense there for about two and a
Speaker 1: half quarters and then things kind of seemed to just
Speaker 1: kind of go in the wrong direction. But in that
Speaker 1: you know, in that frame of mind, Jerome Baker misses
Speaker 1: his first career game. I thought Duke Riley played really well.
Speaker 1: I thought Brandon Scarlett had himself a heck of a
Speaker 1: game as well. Off the edge, So both those guys
Speaker 1: played pretty well. I think Van Ginkla had a rough go.
Speaker 1: I think Roberts had a rough go as well, but
Speaker 1: those guys played well. The interior front played well. I
Speaker 1: have the coverage throughout the first two and a half
Speaker 1: course was sterling for Sanders to have no catches on
Speaker 1: four targets. Byron Jones had a phenomenal pass breakup that
Speaker 1: saved a touchdown, basically on a ball that was behind
Speaker 1: his head and he reached back and made a great
Speaker 1: play on it. Nick Needham had one in on crossing
Speaker 1: route as well, but I wrote that before his game
Speaker 1: kind of you know, cold Beasley started winning that match
Speaker 1: up a little bit and then just tackling on the screens.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins were so efficient tackling on greens outside and
Speaker 1: keeping the Buffalo Bills in those extensions of the running game,
Speaker 1: you know, at bay and forced into the third longs,
Speaker 1: which resulted in a lot of third down stops for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defense. Again one for seven to start, and
Speaker 1: then you see how Buffalo kind of picked it up
Speaker 1: at the end to go six for thirteen, So basically
Speaker 1: every third down after that they converted. But on the whole,
Speaker 1: I think this was the best, one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive performances on the entire year. I would even say
Speaker 1: almost better than the New England game, just because of
Speaker 1: the position they put the offense and for the first
Speaker 1: basically three quarters of the game, and really, you know,
Speaker 1: the two games combined against Buffalo this year is the
Speaker 1: best the Dolphins have ever done on Josh Allen. But
Speaker 1: even still mistakes Landon Roberts misses Josh Allen on a
Speaker 1: third and one running play where the Dolphins, by the way,
Speaker 1: had him strung out. A few times he had the
Speaker 1: big run, but otherwise he was pretty much strung out
Speaker 1: against the running game or as in the running game,
Speaker 1: and Roberts had him dead to rights right on the
Speaker 1: forty yard line on a third and one play. Could
Speaker 1: have met TfL put yourself in position for a fourth
Speaker 1: and four, And this is when the game was still
Speaker 1: three to three and you missed the tackle and he
Speaker 1: goes for a first down. A few plays later, third
Speaker 1: down again in field goal range, but still six or
Speaker 1: three is a great spot to be and Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: and a zero pressure with guys covered up all over
Speaker 1: the place, and the pressure gets home and Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: is the balls in the air, just goes and tackles
Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney. Just can't have that. Like these mistakes plague you.
Speaker 1: They kill you. You can make nine good plays and
Speaker 1: one mistake will kill you. And that just seems to
Speaker 1: be what's happening here for the Dolphins. Takeaway number three.
Speaker 1: You know, just a short one here, but play to
Speaker 1: play more to win, especially now that you're one and seven.
Speaker 1: Just some more aggression, please, because third and two on
Speaker 1: the fringe of field goal range, and we run right
Speaker 1: into a wall. And that's something you can kind of
Speaker 1: I think it goes. I don't know who who's responsible for,
Speaker 1: but whether it's the coach, the call, the check of
Speaker 1: the last granch for two, a tongue of byloa. There's
Speaker 1: an eleven man box right there on third and two.
Speaker 1: You cannot run. You just can't run that ball because
Speaker 1: you're the running game is hat on a hat, right,
Speaker 1: and so if they have more guys than you can block,
Speaker 1: you're asking for trouble. So to run that football and
Speaker 1: third and two, I just didn't like that, and then
Speaker 1: the running play on the final drive before the Mike
Speaker 1: Kasecki fumble. I just think when you're playing a team
Speaker 1: like that, you have to try to put touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the board, and not doing so it is a good
Speaker 1: way to lose the game. Playing not to lose. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a couple of curious calls in that
Speaker 1: regard for the Dolphins in this game. Number four Jason Sanders,
Speaker 1: I mean, more mrs this year than all of last year.
Speaker 1: Can bind. That's just it's tough to see because that
Speaker 1: was a guy that was so reliable. I joked about
Speaker 1: it in training camp that he hits every single kick,
Speaker 1: and that was true. I never really saw him miss
Speaker 1: and so to come out and lose that weapon, or
Speaker 1: not lose it, but to have it be not consistent
Speaker 1: this year where he's you know, in these last two
Speaker 1: games you lose on the final play of the game.
Speaker 1: To not have those missfield goals kills you. And this one,
Speaker 1: I think it kind of dictated the end of the
Speaker 1: game in a big way too. You know, you get
Speaker 1: a lead in that third quarter, maybe Miami can drive
Speaker 1: late in the game with a chance to you know,
Speaker 1: to come back and win that game because they have
Speaker 1: those extra three points. But just a kicking game this
Speaker 1: year has just been bad. It's it's a big, it's
Speaker 1: a big swinging the wrong direction and hopefully it gets
Speaker 1: going back in the right direction here quickly. And then
Speaker 1: number five is just a general takeaway from the game.
Speaker 1: The team going forward is the Dolphins. Inability to consistently
Speaker 1: stretch the field makes life on them so tough offensively
Speaker 1: because the ball comes out quickly. But if you want
Speaker 1: to push the ball, you need guys that can create
Speaker 1: space downfield and get separation, get off the line, you
Speaker 1: need pass protection to hold up. And you know, as
Speaker 1: much as I love to his game, he's not the
Speaker 1: hugest arm in the NFL. So all those things, to
Speaker 1: me kind of collectively come together to force you play
Speaker 1: to play in this really tight space at all times.
Speaker 1: And that's a tough way to make. Hey, man like
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to force the defense off the
Speaker 1: line a little bit. And Buffalo just squatted all day
Speaker 1: long and early on they were having success on those
Speaker 1: first window throws, second window throws, just having to kind
Speaker 1: of pick his spots and manage the defense that way
Speaker 1: and find those holes in the coverage. And he did
Speaker 1: a great job, and the running game played into that.
Speaker 1: But eventually you have to get vertical, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: just for whatever reason, can't find a way to get done.
Speaker 1: I think it's a collection of all those things that
Speaker 1: causes them to not be able to get vertical. But
Speaker 1: you know, the last two weeks, Miami had big explosive
Speaker 1: plays offensively and had a bunch of production offense to
Speaker 1: Lee and I saw Dan ps, the defensive coordinator of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, did a press conference. I think it
Speaker 1: was last week, it might have been before that, but
Speaker 1: he was asked about why they don't show more exotic
Speaker 1: looks and bring more blitzes and pressure the quarterback with
Speaker 1: more blitzes, and he basically said, what happened when I
Speaker 1: brought the pressure on this play, we didn't get home.
Speaker 1: And what happens when you have more guys that they
Speaker 1: can block, it means you have less guys to cover
Speaker 1: on the back end. So he said, we weren't getting
Speaker 1: home on these pressure looks, and so I'm basically just
Speaker 1: not getting pressure while putting my defensive backs at a disadvantage.
Speaker 1: So I decided to kind of scale things back and
Speaker 1: go less complicated, less complex and complicated, and play that way.
Speaker 1: He adjusted to it, and so I heard him talk
Speaker 1: about that made me think about Jacksonville and Atlanta not having,
Speaker 1: you know, pass rushes that have accumulated a bunch of
Speaker 1: pressures in the sacks this year. And then Miami runs
Speaker 1: into a team that we saw back in a week
Speaker 1: two who has done that with true four man rushes,
Speaker 1: with their blitz package game, and I just think that
Speaker 1: when you run into a defense that can do these
Speaker 1: things that Buffalo can and be so versatile, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough on you when you can't get vertical, because
Speaker 1: if you can't hold up and pass pro when they
Speaker 1: bring those pressures and those blitzers, you have no chance
Speaker 1: of getting vertical, and eventually you become predictable and you
Speaker 1: have to play in a tight box. That was takeaway
Speaker 1: number five. The inability to consistently stretch the field makes
Speaker 1: life on the offense very difficult. Takeaway four Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: just more misses this year. Than all last year canbind
Speaker 1: just a cavalcade of bad things happening this season. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number three gotta play to win. Takeaway number two, the
Speaker 1: defense finally has a big day, but then it kind
Speaker 1: of fizzles at the end. And take away number one
Speaker 1: just way, way too many mistakes consistently weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: Some players we talked about in the previous part of
Speaker 1: the show. Here some defensive players I thought played well.
Speaker 1: I thought Brandon Jones continues to show good work down
Speaker 1: around the box, rushing the quarterback, playing screens on the outside.
Speaker 1: Big fan of his game of what he brings. I
Speaker 1: mentioned brand Scarlett, thought he had his best game of
Speaker 1: the year, best game as in Miami Dolphin. Eric Rowe
Speaker 1: had some good coverage reps on tight end Tommy Sweeney
Speaker 1: as well, I thought. I thought Byron Jones was really
Speaker 1: good exabing Howard had some really good moments as well
Speaker 1: in this contest. A big pass break up in the
Speaker 1: end zone mentioned, Wilkins mentioned, Butler mentioned, Seiler mentioned Rae
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis. A bunch of good but not enough good
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins team. And then offensively, I thought DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker was really good until of course that final drop
Speaker 1: you had at the end, but Parker winds up leading
Speaker 1: the team eight catches for eighty five yards on eleven targets,
Speaker 1: Kasiki three forty eight, Waddle four, Gaskin three for nineteen
Speaker 1: and then after that one catch for Laird, one catch
Speaker 1: for Shaheen, and one catch for Savon Akmed. Real quick
Speaker 1: before you go to the post game show. Here, the
Speaker 1: two point conversion call at the end of the touchdown
Speaker 1: drive was my favorite call of the season for this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team because here's what the analytics tell you. Fifty
Speaker 1: or two point conversions are about a little bit more
Speaker 1: on the offensive advantage. Actually, it's about fifty two in
Speaker 1: favor of the offense. So if you know you have
Speaker 1: to score two touchdowns to win the game, if you
Speaker 1: go for two twice, math tells you you'll get it once, right,
Speaker 1: That's kind of how the math works there. And if
Speaker 1: you get it the first time around, well, great news.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go for two again. And when
Speaker 1: you kick the p A T on the game tying
Speaker 1: touchdown drive, you're gonna win the game. So I love
Speaker 1: that call. Great analytics call there for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Go after that two point conversion and convert it as well,
Speaker 1: and then also want to make a mention that the
Speaker 1: pass from two to Mike Gasicki on fourth and six
Speaker 1: to extend that drive and really extend the game at
Speaker 1: that point, to get out of pressure, step up through
Speaker 1: the pocket, throw a lofting pass right over the top
Speaker 1: of the underneath coverage. Great play there from TWA and
Speaker 1: Gisicky to make that conversion so that you have it.
Speaker 1: Those are my takeaways. That's my podcast. We're gonna play
Speaker 1: a segment from the postgame show here on the other
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Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. Here is the first
Speaker 1: segment from Sunday's postgame show. Well, what's up, Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: welcome to the fifth Quarter Show on the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: Radio Network. The Miami Dolphins Podcast Network is all here,
Speaker 1: Seth levitt O, Jim mcduffee, DJ Priest from The Fish
Speaker 1: Taker here with us, yours, Julie, Travis Winfle from the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast and guys. Another tight game, even competitive
Speaker 1: through about three quarters there, but it's a seventh straight
Speaker 1: loss and juice. Right before you got here, Seth said
Speaker 1: something that I think is kind of a microcosm of
Speaker 1: this team this year. This team is just not good
Speaker 1: enough to make these kind of mistakes, to be this bad,
Speaker 1: he said, And I know there's one mistake that continues
Speaker 1: to pop up for you. This team shows weekend and
Speaker 1: week out eight weeks into the season. That's really have
Speaker 1: been eating out you juice. Yes, as a professional football team,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you this, a team that spends
Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours per day in the facility
Speaker 1: getting ready for a game. The misalignments and guys be
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of damn field not knowing what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be, causing penalties, causing fumbles is inexcusable.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I didn't. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: come in here like I was a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: like I rate. But you know, when you're in a game,
Speaker 1: in a battle against the number one team in your division,
Speaker 1: you've got opportunities to make plays. You cannot be excuse
Speaker 1: my friends stupid because that's where we were today. Stupid,
Speaker 1: and it's ridiculous for guys to not line up the
Speaker 1: correct way. You know, I was watching but on TV
Speaker 1: and they were saying, well, Ghasicki had the motion penalty
Speaker 1: on the first one that wasn't on the Ghasicky that
Speaker 1: was on Waddle been on the wrong side. Gasicki tell
Speaker 1: me to get on the other side, and waddles still
Speaker 1: in motion. When Gasicki has to go on motion so
Speaker 1: we got two guys in motion. We had the first
Speaker 1: downplay the layard that would have worked out for us,
Speaker 1: and then we look at it again, Gasiki telling the
Speaker 1: waddle again you're on the wrong side, so waddles on
Speaker 1: the wrong side there again, Kasiki has to go on motion.
Speaker 1: Then we have the fumble. So miss a linement. Not
Speaker 1: know when we're supposed to line up. That's the easiest thing.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing that's called. The first thing in
Speaker 1: the huddle that's called is the lineman set up where
Speaker 1: we're at all right? So it's all right or lightning
Speaker 1: left or whatever it is, it's right away. Then the
Speaker 1: motion comes in. Then the play call comes in. So
Speaker 1: how the hell are we not able to do those
Speaker 1: simple things when it comes to call on the play?
Speaker 1: So how's that on juice that you tell me? Because
Speaker 1: honestly me, who you tell me? It's on the players
Speaker 1: when it comes to when the player comes in, the
Speaker 1: first thing that's that comes in is how are we
Speaker 1: going to line up trips? Right? The first thing they say,
Speaker 1: and they're clearly working on it all year. I mean,
Speaker 1: every press conference that coach Flores has, everyone's in three
Speaker 1: years starts with alignment, assignment, it's the first word out
Speaker 1: of his mouth. Correct, So it's got to be stressed
Speaker 1: in practice. Here's the thing I'm saying, no to those
Speaker 1: You think about that now and within practice. How many
Speaker 1: times they redoing this? How many times are they saying,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, we we called bingo with the
Speaker 1: high school team I work with Archbishop McCarthy. We're not.
Speaker 1: We're we're on our way up. Get a little plug there,
Speaker 1: We're not with those same times are American heritage, you know,
Speaker 1: Carla gives. But at the same time, though, the first
Speaker 1: thing you do before you run any play is trips right,
Speaker 1: trips left, eighth, right, eight left, you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And then you start these. Then you messing your motion
Speaker 1: laser ze, laser X, laser, X light, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And then you you put your play in for protection
Speaker 1: for you guys, and then you you call the play
Speaker 1: seventies protecting All right, now, all go X stop whatever
Speaker 1: it is. So everything starts off with how are we
Speaker 1: gonna line up first? And the fact that we can't
Speaker 1: even line up first on all offense, that's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: This is wet. It's not even with O t A
Speaker 1: s with preseason, with training camp, and eight weeks into
Speaker 1: the season, we can't even freaking line up. Is amazing
Speaker 1: to me. Soup on that Gasicki player where he runs
Speaker 1: into the snap, and that's where the game basically turned
Speaker 1: from Miami. They have a chance to take at minimum
Speaker 1: a three point lead into the halftime break but wind
Speaker 1: up getting nothing out of it. Where I mean, you
Speaker 1: had a chance to go to the end zone as well,
Speaker 1: so you could have really taken control of this game
Speaker 1: while getting the football back. And one of my personal
Speaker 1: keys of the game was win those middle eight minutes.
Speaker 1: And they've never been in better position to win the
Speaker 1: middle eight minutes this season than they were today, and
Speaker 1: they completely flubbed every step of the way. So on
Speaker 1: that play, juice, because you're you're telling us about how
Speaker 1: Waddle was was misaligned that he was, and we see
Speaker 1: that so often we're Kasicki, hey get over here, you're
Speaker 1: over there, you know, just telling someone someone to go somewhere.
Speaker 1: But on that play, Waddle eventually gets set. So why
Speaker 1: does that come back to being his like on him
Speaker 1: when Gasicki runs into the stuff. I just I'm looking
Speaker 1: for education from you, exactly right, It's a great point
Speaker 1: right here because at that point now we're up against
Speaker 1: the play clock. So now that waddles on the wrong side,
Speaker 1: we still have motion guy, which is Ghasicki has to
Speaker 1: go from right to left on the formation. Has to do.
Speaker 1: He has to that's part of the play. So he
Speaker 1: has to get over there. So let's let's go back
Speaker 1: to the first one first, all right, the first one.
Speaker 1: I can give Kassicki little heat on that one because
Speaker 1: he really if he has to go in motion and
Speaker 1: there's time on the play clock, he needs to let
Speaker 1: waddle get set first because he knows he cannot go
Speaker 1: in motion until waddle is set. So Wildle being on
Speaker 1: the wrong side started off wrong. But once he gets
Speaker 1: to the right correct side, now Kasicki has to sit
Speaker 1: there and watch waddle gets set before he goes into motion.
Speaker 1: And now we had the two guys going at the
Speaker 1: same time, and we had that first down the layer
Speaker 1: that was called back when the second one. Now you
Speaker 1: got wad on the wrong side and Kissicki has to
Speaker 1: go and it's get play clock now between the quarterback
Speaker 1: and center exchange. I don't know how that ball gets
Speaker 1: snapped before he gets to the side he needs to
Speaker 1: get to. So the ball snap when Gisiki is stilling
Speaker 1: the motion office a lineman don't know this man. They
Speaker 1: don't care about what's going on behind them. All they
Speaker 1: know is that the ball asked me snapped. The things
Speaker 1: they gotta worry about on the skill guys not getting set,
Speaker 1: not being on the right side, and the motion became
Speaker 1: a problem, you know, when we went out there with that.
Speaker 1: So so the flag comes out the minute those guys
Speaker 1: moved at the same time, right, So that place already
Speaker 1: killed because no matter what you gained, you've already committed
Speaker 1: a procedural penalty and it goes back five yards. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike is thinking about that in the back
Speaker 1: of his mind when he comes back out for that
Speaker 1: second play and thinks, I gotta get over there, because
Speaker 1: I think the play cock wasn't like two or three
Speaker 1: seconds when they had that ball snap, So he's probably thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta get my butt over the thoughts
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose five yards here. You know what some
Speaker 1: guys could do, Travis, Honestly, when that happens, forget the motion.
Speaker 1: When you see him already in there and you've got
Speaker 1: play clocks situation a lot of times time now it's
Speaker 1: called because you know we're gonna be up against the clock,
Speaker 1: and we when we know we have motions. But Mike
Speaker 1: could actually go to where he's supposed to be, where
Speaker 1: he's gonna end up before the snaps and eliminate the
Speaker 1: motion completely. So if he sees that waddles on the
Speaker 1: wrong side and he goes and sets up, Mike instead
Speaker 1: of doing his motion, just get over there now where
Speaker 1: I gotta be, because I know we're up against the clock,
Speaker 1: three or four seconds left on the on the play clock,
Speaker 1: and then run the plate from there. And so and
Speaker 1: I want to get into more of that because it's
Speaker 1: fascinating to me, and especially that, I mean, you're eight
Speaker 1: weeks into your season and that's happening and and that's
Speaker 1: mind boggling to me. But bigger picture, right, just to
Speaker 1: take a step back and look above at a high level,
Speaker 1: nobody in the universe, in the galaxy expected the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have a chance in this game. And yet on that
Speaker 1: drive they have an opportunity to go up red should
Speaker 1: have been up six or ten, right, you missed the
Speaker 1: thirty six yard earlier. Earlier, you miss one. There you're
Speaker 1: playing against the class of your conference, not to man,
Speaker 1: you know, the class of your division, certainly of the
Speaker 1: conference probably, and and you've got them on their heels.
Speaker 1: You're giving them all they could take and more in
Speaker 1: their house after getting embarrassed in your own house. Thirty
Speaker 1: five nothing. And I say this all the time, guys,
Speaker 1: you cannot miss out in scoring opportunities. You're just not
Speaker 1: good enough to This team does not score enough points
Speaker 1: to just miss thirty six yard field goals to come
Speaker 1: away with nothing when you're on the twelve yard line
Speaker 1: going in. And they were in this game, they had
Speaker 1: control this game, like you were saying, Travis, and yet
Speaker 1: they fall apart, and now it's three to three going
Speaker 1: into a half, and then what happens Then Buffalo shows
Speaker 1: who they are. It's been consistent, not good enough to
Speaker 1: be this bad end of the half, beginning of the
Speaker 1: third quarter has been the worst. And we had the
Speaker 1: best situation we've had all year, going to the end
Speaker 1: of the half with the football with a chance of
Speaker 1: score points should have been probably seven, no less than three,
Speaker 1: and then getting the ball back after that when we
Speaker 1: three o the worst situation. You know, we we we
Speaker 1: took the best scenario and turning into the worst possibilcome
Speaker 1: And that's just that really kind of is what we
Speaker 1: did all year long. And it's heartbreaking to me. Again,
Speaker 1: not that not that anybody drew it up and said, well,
Speaker 1: this is when we're gonna get back on in the
Speaker 1: wind column. This is the game, right, we're gonna right
Speaker 1: the wrongs. But clearly they they came ready to play. Well,
Speaker 1: let me take a step back to defense. Then well,
Speaker 1: I just in general, they came out and they kind
Speaker 1: of had that that fire in their eyes. They did
Speaker 1: not want to be embarrassed. Again. This is what we
Speaker 1: thought we were going to see when they played the
Speaker 1: Bills the first time, because everybody had in mind the
Speaker 1: way that the season had ended previously, and you know,
Speaker 1: six straight losses. It's all right, these guys are ready
Speaker 1: to play. But I don't understand how we're talking. We
Speaker 1: opened up the fifth quarter postgame show talking about misalignment
Speaker 1: in in the week Gate a week this season, and
Speaker 1: you said, it breaks your heart just you know, with
Speaker 1: the way they lose this game. But I think the
Speaker 1: reason it does is because that's the opposite of who
Speaker 1: this team was for two years on their Brian floors,
Speaker 1: they were the least penalized team or one of the
Speaker 1: top couple of the least penalized teams. And they were
Speaker 1: always aligned and had their assignment and we're smart on
Speaker 1: special teams and just found ways to win those hidden margins.
Speaker 1: And now, you know, for the fourth for the fourth
Speaker 1: time this season, really because they lost their last three
Speaker 1: games in the last player of the of the game
Speaker 1: for the fourth time. Really, you feel like they lost
Speaker 1: in the small margins. And that's where I got away
Speaker 1: from them, Juice to your point about coming on that
Speaker 1: position where you might call a time out, I was
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, they probably didn't call a time out
Speaker 1: because they just came off of a time out. They did,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't Miami who called it, so they could
Speaker 1: have come to a time out. But the bigger point
Speaker 1: to me there is that they were coming off a
Speaker 1: time out and they still couldn't get lined up. That
Speaker 1: is that is huge right there, you know, because you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, Buffalo gave us an opportunity to get the
Speaker 1: best situation. So even in that situation, we still come
Speaker 1: out of the break miss aligned, you know, with the
Speaker 1: player I don't even know what. It doesn't even matter
Speaker 1: what the play is, the fact that we can't even
Speaker 1: line up right, which is the most important thing. You know,
Speaker 1: first thing is I keep going back to this. First
Speaker 1: thing you do is alignment. The second thing you do
Speaker 1: is center quarterback exchange. You know, when it comes to
Speaker 1: a play, we can't line up right, so nothing else
Speaker 1: is gonna work out in the long run. Man, And
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bonehead situation for a team. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you're a rookie or a tenure guy
Speaker 1: in the in the league. You spend so much time
Speaker 1: doing these things that it doesn't doesn't matter. Those are
Speaker 1: the simple things. Those are the simple things when it
Speaker 1: comes to playing football. Now you gotta worry about adjustments,
Speaker 1: you know, when when the balls snapped, whether they're doing defensively,
Speaker 1: where's this guy going, where was the coverage going. We
Speaker 1: can't do the first thing, how the hell are we
Speaker 1: gonna do the rest of it? That's that's the question,
Speaker 1: right exactly. That's that's why you are in this position
Speaker 1: where you are. Where towards the bombing the league and
Speaker 1: most statistical categories offensively