Speaker 1: That's just your are looking down, flux down, Miami Quaker.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How is it going? Everybody? I don't
Speaker 1: even have to answer that question ask that question either.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Winfeld, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, it's the fourth straight time you'll
Speaker 1: hear this win win, win, win, win win. That's right,
Speaker 1: four straight victories for your Miami Dolphins, and it might
Speaker 1: have been the most impressive of the entire bunch. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about these draft classes of the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: two U to Waddle, the defensive performance on the five Takeaways,
Speaker 1: special teams, everything from this complimentary victory by the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Will talk about the game by the numbers, and we'll
Speaker 1: play a segment as we do weekly from the post
Speaker 1: game show on five sixty with yours truly, Seth Levitt
Speaker 1: and O. J. McDuffie from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead, and soak this one in for a day.
Speaker 1: What do you say, Dolphins? A comprehensive, complementary team victory,
Speaker 1: scoring on teams, sacks and hits and takeaways, and third
Speaker 1: down defense on that side of the football, explosive plays
Speaker 1: and balance on offense. The Dolphins had it all working
Speaker 1: on Sunday in a thirty three ten victory over the
Speaker 1: visiting Carolina Panthers. And I want to go through these
Speaker 1: stats real quick because I think it kind of paints
Speaker 1: a picture for how this game went. The Dolphins had
Speaker 1: twenty two first downs, the Panthers had ten, and three
Speaker 1: of those were on that final drive, So we're two
Speaker 1: of their third down conversions they go for for fourteen
Speaker 1: in the game. Miami goes six for fourteen, the Panthers
Speaker 1: two for three on fourth down, Miami two for two
Speaker 1: on the money down there the fourth down. Three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen total yards from Miami one for Carolina. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have two hundred and four passing games to Caroline's
Speaker 1: one thirty four. Miami rushes for a buck eleven to
Speaker 1: Carolina sixty four seventy two plays to fifty four in
Speaker 1: this game, and the Dolphins turned it over once on
Speaker 1: the fumble, the Panthers turned it over three times. Miami
Speaker 1: also picked up five sacks Carolina had just two in
Speaker 1: the game, and for penalties Miami five for thirty five,
Speaker 1: Carolina seven for sixty one. Time of possession thirty seven
Speaker 1: minutes thirty four seconds to twenty two minutes, twenty two seconds.
Speaker 1: Complete football for your Miami Dolphins. But even then, and
Speaker 1: To have mentioned this in his postgame presser, that there
Speaker 1: are still plays that you can go out there and
Speaker 1: correct and play better, because think about the sack on
Speaker 1: the opening drive to knock the Dolphins from field goal
Speaker 1: range into a punting situation. They later block a punt
Speaker 1: and score on that one, So all things worked out there.
Speaker 1: But the failed snap at the end of the first
Speaker 1: half likely a six point swing there is you're well
Speaker 1: within Jason Sanders range for a mid range field goal,
Speaker 1: the player reverses, the field reverses rather, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Panthers are in field goal range for
Speaker 1: a mid range kick. You miss an extra point that
Speaker 1: hadn't happened in sixty a t tries of Jason Sanders.
Speaker 1: That was the best mark in the NFL at the time.
Speaker 1: Now he did make two field goals and those were big,
Speaker 1: so were his other three extra points. And then the
Speaker 1: weirdest drive line I've ever seen in my life. Ten plays,
Speaker 1: nineteen yards, six minutes and thirty four seconds of game clock,
Speaker 1: and there was three penalties on that drive that basically
Speaker 1: caused Miami to bog down despite the fact that they
Speaker 1: were still having success offensively. I mean, there were even
Speaker 1: more chances to make this a more lopsided game than
Speaker 1: it was. But we are not going to dwell on that. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to our five takeaways here because it's
Speaker 1: a fun podcast. If you cannot hear it in my voice,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit fired up. And if you haven't
Speaker 1: heard the post game show on five sixty w q
Speaker 1: A M yet with myself, Seth and o J, go
Speaker 1: check that out. We had a bunch of fun on
Speaker 1: that show, one of our best to date, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins made it easier because doing a show after a
Speaker 1: game like that, you're gonna have some fun, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some fun here starting with our first of
Speaker 1: five takeaways. First half, dominance sets up this team the
Speaker 1: way they want to play with the lead, and this
Speaker 1: goes back to the offense in general and kind of
Speaker 1: the offensive structure. So it's not a long enough takeaway
Speaker 1: for you. Like we mentioned, you're a mid range field
Speaker 1: goal away from going up seven at half and instead
Speaker 1: it's but then after that Miami goes touchdown field goal,
Speaker 1: field goal, and the defense doesn't allow an inch in
Speaker 1: that second half. Just a dominating performance on all three phases.
Speaker 1: It allows Miami to play more hair on fire with
Speaker 1: the pass rush and play that coverage to pair well
Speaker 1: with it on the back end because the offense is
Speaker 1: having success, the special teams is having success, and it
Speaker 1: allows the defense to play really the brand of football
Speaker 1: they want to play, with the aggressiveness and going and
Speaker 1: attacking and getting the quarterback and playing that tight coverage
Speaker 1: and boy did they so. Also the takeaway refers to
Speaker 1: the offensive game plan here, which I thought was fantastic,
Speaker 1: But just a dominating performance on all three phases. Will
Speaker 1: keep it to the offense and this one because we'll
Speaker 1: talk about defense and teams later on and specifically this
Speaker 1: offensive game plan in the structure. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: also more on the All Pod tomorrow for you guys
Speaker 1: here on drive time because I gotta watch the tape
Speaker 1: to see just how comprehensive it really was. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to do it. But first, early on in this game,
Speaker 1: the quick game the first four plays was a running
Speaker 1: play and three quick throws from Tah that gave the
Speaker 1: pass rush no opportunity to make their big plays. You
Speaker 1: negate those pass rushers, and that's something I talked about
Speaker 1: all off season with how you could construct an offense
Speaker 1: around this quarterback because of the release, because of the footwork,
Speaker 1: because of the ability to get the football out quickly.
Speaker 1: Then it kind of pairs up well with the strength
Speaker 1: of TWA's game, and that in itself can help negate
Speaker 1: the pass rush plans. We saw that in terms of
Speaker 1: how the play calls went early in the game, and
Speaker 1: it was that way all game long. I mean that
Speaker 1: little flat route to Durham Smith coming under the formation
Speaker 1: in motion or kind of pulling off like a split
Speaker 1: zone block, and they just dumped the ball off to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, that play worked over and over and over
Speaker 1: again and seth Levitt during the game next to me
Speaker 1: at one point, I think it was like a one
Speaker 1: or two yard game to Smythe on that play because
Speaker 1: they ran it several times. In the game, he said,
Speaker 1: I think that's a case of going back to the
Speaker 1: well one too many times, and then a few plays
Speaker 1: later they go right back to it. And Smyth has
Speaker 1: a big chunk game set up like a second and
Speaker 1: short on first down, so that worked out for them
Speaker 1: pretty well. He has five catches for three or two
Speaker 1: yards in this game, actually had the second most catches
Speaker 1: among Dolphins receivers, tied with Albert Wilson. We're seeing all
Speaker 1: kinds of motion return, motion, stacks, bunches, things that can
Speaker 1: give to a pre snap indicators, and then once the
Speaker 1: ball is snapped, there are wrinkles on top of wrinkles
Speaker 1: that are continuing to play sequence and develop as the
Speaker 1: year goes along. How about this as well from the backfield,
Speaker 1: and this will lead to another point here as well.
Speaker 1: In the rushing category, Miles gaskin two rushing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the game, Philip Lindsay rushes forty two yards and his
Speaker 1: Dolph debut. They carried the ball respectively between Miles and
Speaker 1: Lindsay sixteen and twelve times. But it wasn't done right there.
Speaker 1: How about a fake quarterback sneak little option flip to
Speaker 1: Savon Akhmed for sixteen yards on fourth and inches. I
Speaker 1: love that call. Fantastic call to take advantage of the
Speaker 1: aggressiveness of the Panthers defense and get the ball out
Speaker 1: on the edge, which they did consistently throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this game. Attack those hair on fire pass rushers
Speaker 1: with the running game. It works that way. How about
Speaker 1: durham smythe motioning and for a pair of quarterback sneak
Speaker 1: snaps they were both successful. That's awesome. And then two
Speaker 1: runs for a big first down late in the games.
Speaker 1: You have rushing contributions, passing game contributions from the entire roster,
Speaker 1: up and down the quarterback, running back, and receiver position,
Speaker 1: tight end, offensive line, whatever the case was. There was
Speaker 1: plenty of guys involved in this performance. So the whole
Speaker 1: damn party was contributing in the running game there And
Speaker 1: to that point, Brian Flores talked about this post game,
Speaker 1: how Philip Lindsay got here on Wednesday night after being
Speaker 1: claimed off waivers by the Houston or from the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans other and he's in the game plan for twelve
Speaker 1: carries and we'll get his snap count tomorrow, but that
Speaker 1: speaks to his preparation and I gotta tell you between
Speaker 1: fresh legs and the juice he has on those wide runs. Guys,
Speaker 1: I just talked about this that pairs beautifully with Miami's
Speaker 1: complex horizontal game and all that shifting in motion and
Speaker 1: crossing and mesh and all the high load they can run.
Speaker 1: And we talked about some of these busts and coverage
Speaker 1: you've seen really just about one per week that Miami
Speaker 1: has taken advantage of over the last month or so,
Speaker 1: and how you can dictate and set the temple or
Speaker 1: set the course for those coverage busts. That's a product
Speaker 1: of the operation. And then when you add Lindsay, like
Speaker 1: when he was rushing for one thousand yards and back
Speaker 1: to back seasons going to a Pro Bowl in Denver
Speaker 1: his first two years in the league, it was a
Speaker 1: lot of wide zone, stretch zone stuff, and it's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal compliment to what you do well. And I want
Speaker 1: to talk about past protection as well, because that's an
Speaker 1: area where Philip Lindsay was exceptional in this game. I thought,
Speaker 1: and how about this quote which was posted by the
Speaker 1: ESPN Beat writer Marcel My Good good buddy over there
Speaker 1: e SPN. He had this or he posted this I
Speaker 1: should say about Philip Lindsay's quote on past protection, and
Speaker 1: he said that doesn't take talent. All it takes is
Speaker 1: a termination and effort and being of the dog mentality
Speaker 1: to say, I'm not gonna let my quarterback get hit. Honestly,
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about in my head. How I
Speaker 1: process things, and I'm a little bit crazy, but how
Speaker 1: I process things is how I'm protecting this man his
Speaker 1: health and everything about him. With an he would go
Speaker 1: on talking about how important it is to protect the
Speaker 1: quarterback and how that's a big part of the position
Speaker 1: and really the game for his for what he does.
Speaker 1: And I love that and he showed it in this game.
Speaker 1: So he comes in and makes a big contribution early.
Speaker 1: Then you are continuing to see more creativity. How about
Speaker 1: two in the gun with Lindsay dotting him in the
Speaker 1: pistol and then wait for it, Preston Williams in a
Speaker 1: single wing. Look. I mean, we're seeing all kinds of
Speaker 1: innovative stuff from this game plan. And I thought that
Speaker 1: that they called it positively brilliantly on Sunday Aggressive dictate
Speaker 1: the terms get the ball out of to his hands,
Speaker 1: take away their strengths, by going against what they do
Speaker 1: well and just getting guys to slow up Burns and Reddick,
Speaker 1: those two pass rushers. They did get one sack, but
Speaker 1: guess what that combo of pass rushers which had I
Speaker 1: think someone tweeted this week that if they were a
Speaker 1: team by themselves, Burns and Reddick, they would bring thirty
Speaker 1: in the National Football League in sacks. They're that good.
Speaker 1: They were averaging one point five eight sacks per game
Speaker 1: coming in and they get just one. And I know
Speaker 1: Burns had at least one tackle for loss. I'll have
Speaker 1: to circle back on that. He had a big sack
Speaker 1: that changed the drive, that basically took a field goal
Speaker 1: chance off the board, and their presence was felt because
Speaker 1: that's what they do. But they didn't wreck the game.
Speaker 1: That's what you have to plan for against the opposition's
Speaker 1: best players. And by the way, Christian McCaffrey ten carries
Speaker 1: for thirt or five yards also didn't wreck the game.
Speaker 1: That's for the next point. But just a good job
Speaker 1: of game planning against the strength of the opposition, both
Speaker 1: offensively in defense, a great job all around by the offense.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are the third team this year to score
Speaker 1: thirty points against the number six ranks scoring defense and
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers only doc and that x blosive Dallas
Speaker 1: offense have done it and Arizona and I would say
Speaker 1: it was Kylie Murray, but it was actually Cult McCoy.
Speaker 1: But he's playing well for the Cardinals too. So those
Speaker 1: are the teams with Miami that I've scored thirty points against.
Speaker 1: This Panthers defense. You know who else did an awesome
Speaker 1: job in this game? Takeaway number two dominant defense baby.
Speaker 1: Oh and let's takeaways. Oh and the sacks and QB hits.
Speaker 1: The Panthers had seventy two yards on their first seven plays,
Speaker 1: and I mean it was sixty four on one play.
Speaker 1: That's an average of ten point three yards per play.
Speaker 1: After that, a hundred and twenty six player yards on
Speaker 1: forty seven plays, that is two point six eight yards
Speaker 1: per play. That'll do. That will do. And you have
Speaker 1: Xavien Howard and Javon Holland. And if you recall, I
Speaker 1: think it was last week, Xavian basically said, our mentality
Speaker 1: is of the balls in the air. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: it or that guy is gonna get it. High praise
Speaker 1: from your veteran all pro cornerback for your rookie safety
Speaker 1: who is now the first safety since twenty our first
Speaker 1: defender rather to have two interceptions in a season since
Speaker 1: Nick need him to the back in nineteen. I love
Speaker 1: that comment. Tho both those guys get picks. It's vintage
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard running a route where he basically runs the
Speaker 1: route for the receiver where he disrupts him at the
Speaker 1: lion scrimmage, disrupts him at the top of the stem,
Speaker 1: and then gets in the catchpoint and basically is the
Speaker 1: receiver at that point undercutting an incut in breaking route
Speaker 1: and he makes the pick for another big play by
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard. Javon Holland on his pick, You've got trips
Speaker 1: to the field and he's in a split high safety
Speaker 1: look where Cam Newton has three options to that portion
Speaker 1: of the field. They run a post and a corner,
Speaker 1: trying to put Holland in conflict. He's not having that.
Speaker 1: He drives in the corner route and makes the big
Speaker 1: play for a pick. Awesome looking rookie for these Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So X and Holland doing their thing. They're also heating
Speaker 1: up the Dolphins defense in the pass rush game which
Speaker 1: actually Nick Needham's interception comes off at Andrew Van ginkle
Speaker 1: pressure and tipped pass, and Van Ginko had an awesome
Speaker 1: game as well. I don't have QB hits yet for you,
Speaker 1: but i'll have it tomorrow. I know it was a lot.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton from ESPN here twenty three point eight percent
Speaker 1: completion rate in the game was the lowest ever by
Speaker 1: a former National Football League m v P fantastic. Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips three sacks. What a great game for the rookie
Speaker 1: a land and Roberts I thought was tremendous. In this game,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins gets a sack, and there's so much that
Speaker 1: he does for other guys to actually on one of
Speaker 1: the Phillips sacks, Wilkins set him up and on a
Speaker 1: sack where Phillips had an opportunity for his fourth of
Speaker 1: the game and fell off the quarterback. Christian Wilkins cleans
Speaker 1: it up because he took on two blockers and cleaned
Speaker 1: out a lean Elaine rather for Jalen Phillips to run through.
Speaker 1: So he kind of got paid off there for his hard,
Speaker 1: dirty work. But he does so much that you don't
Speaker 1: see if you're just box score scouting, He's a fantastic player.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogbad gets a sack, makes it seven straight games
Speaker 1: as well with a line of scrimmage, batted pass a
Speaker 1: past defense. He leads all defensive lineman in the National
Speaker 1: Football League in that category. Talked about Roberts though he
Speaker 1: was fantastic. I thought him and Jerome Baker had a
Speaker 1: fantastic game. Van Ginkel was exceptional off the edge his
Speaker 1: sack or his pressure that he had on Cam new
Speaker 1: And where he hit him on the blindside and kind
Speaker 1: of jarred that ball free for a a fluttering pass there.
Speaker 1: He has an excellent pass rush move where he dips
Speaker 1: under the punch of the Panthers left tackle. He didn't
Speaker 1: even get touched on that thing. He played tremendous in
Speaker 1: this game. I thought Zack Seeler continued his dominance in
Speaker 1: the run and well as well in the pass brush
Speaker 1: game as he applied some pressure there too. I thought
Speaker 1: ray Kwon Davis was tremendous. I think I'm missing something here,
Speaker 1: but this Dolphins defense. Eric Rowe some great tackling in
Speaker 1: this game and a more elevated snap count in the
Speaker 1: replace of the injured Brandon Jones, and on that topic,
Speaker 1: I mean Javon Holland, you know, kind of quarterback in
Speaker 1: the defense from that back end, one of those signal
Speaker 1: caller positions. With a bit of a change in the lineup.
Speaker 1: With no Brandon Jones in this game, he's back there
Speaker 1: communicating things. I didn't see any breakdowns or any coverage bust.
Speaker 1: They were pretty sharp in that regard all game long.
Speaker 1: So for him to be able to do that, to
Speaker 1: play up on the line of scrimmage, to wheel out
Speaker 1: and get back to the middle of the field, to
Speaker 1: cover out in a slot, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: he was on it today. And this Dolphins defensive flexibility,
Speaker 1: I thought you saw that too because Eric Rowe a
Speaker 1: few times lined up in slot coverage, which Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: has done, but he stops right in. Next man up.
Speaker 1: They get the job done. This Dolphins defense right now
Speaker 1: is tracking better over the last four games then they
Speaker 1: did last season when they were a top was a
Speaker 1: six or seven scoring defense, when they were the best
Speaker 1: third down defense and best takeaway defense in the National
Speaker 1: Football League sample size. Absolutely, but that's what you want
Speaker 1: to see, third downs, takeaways, points. They're not allowing anything
Speaker 1: right now. And hopefully they keep that rolling because if
Speaker 1: they do that, they're gonna have a chance to win
Speaker 1: every single game they play. They're heating up as they
Speaker 1: do in this month. Brian Flores post Halloween and his
Speaker 1: career here, sixteen and six, he's ten and three in November.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Carolina's drive chart here, real quick, blocked
Speaker 1: punt which, by the way, it was justin Coleman's fourth
Speaker 1: career touchdown. Great staff there too, interception returns, a fumble return,
Speaker 1: and now a blocked punt return. And let's actually we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and say that, give me a second, I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit hot right now, guys. We'll come back
Speaker 1: to that blocked punt touchdown. That was the Panthers only
Speaker 1: really good drive of the game. Interception, interception, punt, punt, punt,
Speaker 1: field goal after a fumble return took them down into
Speaker 1: field goal range. They run one play, it's a successful
Speaker 1: field goal, punt punt interception downs. So let's take out
Speaker 1: that field goal real quick after the touchdown. Interception, interception, punt, punt, punt,
Speaker 1: punt punt interception downs. That will work. Takeaway number three, walla, walla, walla, wattle, Wattle,
Speaker 1: Wattle and twa. These two guys man against the top
Speaker 1: ranked passing defense in the National Football League. Jailean Wattle
Speaker 1: goes over one hundred yards and the first half. He's
Speaker 1: the first ever Dolphins receiver, or rather the first Dolphins
Speaker 1: receiver to go over a hundred yards in the first
Speaker 1: half of a game since Joachim Grant did it on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve seen up in Kansas City. He's also on
Speaker 1: pace to break both reception and receiving rookie records by
Speaker 1: a Miami Dolphins rookie. His twenty five yard catch to
Speaker 1: kick things off, I thought that was fantastic, where you
Speaker 1: get that big play to kind of start the game,
Speaker 1: set the tone and really make the Panthers aware of
Speaker 1: his speed, his explosiveness and where they want to go
Speaker 1: with the football. Ten targets, nine catches, a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards in this game and they touchdown. Also,
Speaker 1: the play before that, or before thee of the Brian
Speaker 1: bird Strip sack he was he was opened down field,
Speaker 1: but two wouldn't have time to get down there to him,
Speaker 1: so he had a chance for even more yardage. We
Speaker 1: talked about it all the time, but he continues to
Speaker 1: make plays down the field. The touchdown cats was so
Speaker 1: impressive for a speed guy to go in between two defenders,
Speaker 1: ball right between those defenders. He goes up and to
Speaker 1: a trusts him because he makes that catch and he
Speaker 1: does the stick route. I mean, to run a stick
Speaker 1: route against zone coverage in those areas and to know
Speaker 1: you're gonna get hit and secure that football. Fantastic work.
Speaker 1: And the accuracy of that throw, the accuracy of the
Speaker 1: third and six play where they gain eleven yards and
Speaker 1: convert their I mean, waddle got fouled multiple times on
Speaker 1: that route. He's held at the line, he gets held
Speaker 1: again at the top of the route. He still breaks
Speaker 1: it off and still makes a contested catch as the
Speaker 1: balls on the outside shoulder away from danger from Tah.
Speaker 1: That connection is really coming along here. And Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and two A Tongue of Baloo both talked about the
Speaker 1: way this kid prepares, how he's in early, how he
Speaker 1: sets himself up for the production that he has by
Speaker 1: the way he prepares and gets himself ready to play
Speaker 1: all positions on the offense. He's really doing it this
Speaker 1: rookie season. He's having a fantastic rookie year and he
Speaker 1: also came to his postgame media wearing sunglasses. So that's
Speaker 1: about where it looks for him right now. He's bawling,
Speaker 1: So was the guy that throwse accurate passes? How about
Speaker 1: the first sixteen career starts for two a tongue of
Speaker 1: blog and now in the books, you want to hear
Speaker 1: those numbers. I do three hundred and fifty one completions
Speaker 1: on five hundred and twenty four attempts. That's sixty seven
Speaker 1: percent completion for the layman, two thirds three thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards. That's about six point eight yards
Speaker 1: per pass, twenty one touchdowns, eleven picks, a nine point
Speaker 1: five passer rating, and why don't we go ahead and
Speaker 1: sprinkle in six rushing touchdowns to go along with that?
Speaker 1: And a nine and seven record as a starter. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he can continue to build that win lost red, But
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good start for the first sixteen games
Speaker 1: with a player's career. He looks the part. He has
Speaker 1: surpassed a one hundred passer rating and four of his
Speaker 1: last five appearances his first half passer rating in this game,
Speaker 1: when you know it got lopsided there towards the end,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to track the first half when it
Speaker 1: was still close on the scoreboard. Once a one seventeen
Speaker 1: point seven pass a rating, he finishes eighty eight percent
Speaker 1: on the day, a one oh eight point nine passer
Speaker 1: rating in the game against the top ranked passing defense
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And one of the last
Speaker 1: points here on to is that over that span what
Speaker 1: has been added to his game, the longest completions of
Speaker 1: his career continue to pop up. It didn't happen today,
Speaker 1: but just check this out in Buffalo that forty six
Speaker 1: yards passed on fourth short to Mike Kasiki, the longest
Speaker 1: of his career at the time. Then he missed a
Speaker 1: couple of games. Sixty four yards coming off the bench
Speaker 1: against Baltimore of that surpasses his career long. One week
Speaker 1: later sixty five yards to Mac Collins for a touchdown
Speaker 1: that is now his career long. And then today fifty
Speaker 1: seven yard passed to Jalen Waddle. And you talk about
Speaker 1: the fire he exudes on some on that drive. I
Speaker 1: talked about the ten play nineteen yard drive, all those
Speaker 1: penalties he was getting getting on guys for the mistakes
Speaker 1: and the penalties there. And of course he's accountable for
Speaker 1: his own and he'll take blame for things in a
Speaker 1: post game. But to see him out there kind of
Speaker 1: trying to barket guys and get things corrected, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of fire. That's the kind of passion you want
Speaker 1: to see out of your leader, out of your quarterback.
Speaker 1: Thought today was one of the best days in the
Speaker 1: Dolphin's career. Of two tongue by loa to a man,
Speaker 1: that's a takeaway. Him and Waddle are doing the damn thing.
Speaker 1: How about the fourth takeaway here the second quarter. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins average two point five points per game in the
Speaker 1: second quarter coming into this through the first eleven games
Speaker 1: of the season. Fourteen in this half. Could have had
Speaker 1: seventeen there if not for the failed snap and made
Speaker 1: field goal. If they put that away. But pair that
Speaker 1: with the way they've played in quarters one, three, and four.
Speaker 1: If they do that, they can compete with absolutely anybody.
Speaker 1: And finally, fifth takeaway, special teams, Baby, is such a
Speaker 1: big boost to a team when you can score on
Speaker 1: special teams early in the game. And Miami wasted very
Speaker 1: little time doing that with a blocked punt. And let's
Speaker 1: talk about that blocked punt. What a great shift there.
Speaker 1: First of all, Duke Riley is the one that got
Speaker 1: the block, and he comes onto the field late and
Speaker 1: gets into the into the formation, and at the very
Speaker 1: last second, just like last year on the Andrew van
Speaker 1: Ginkl block against the Chargers, you have the jammer out
Speaker 1: on the on the I can't remember what side of
Speaker 1: the formation it was left of the defense and the
Speaker 1: jammers across from the gunner. I don't know what he's called.
Speaker 1: That's what I called him. O J called him something else,
Speaker 1: but whatever, you know what I'm talking about, the guy
Speaker 1: that's supposed to prevent the gunner from getting downfield. At
Speaker 1: the very last second, he shifts and comes in and
Speaker 1: leaves that man on an island, the gunner on an island,
Speaker 1: and he crashes in as a blitzer, and that pulls
Speaker 1: the protector back there away from the interior, and that
Speaker 1: opens a lane for Duke Riley gets the blocked punt justin.
Speaker 1: Coleman catches that and then everybody dog piles and pushes
Speaker 1: Coleman into the end zone from one yard out. So
Speaker 1: you talking about out teams like a team effort. That
Speaker 1: was it right there. Coaching adjustments, special teams, ACE and
Speaker 1: Duke Riley coming clean the adjustment on the jammer, Justin
Speaker 1: Coleman recovering it, the rest of the team pushing him
Speaker 1: in microcosm of the game early on there, and that's
Speaker 1: in a tone that basically was played out the rest
Speaker 1: of this game. So they blocked a punt, they had
Speaker 1: two points into the ten yard line, another at the
Speaker 1: twelve yard line, another into the twenty yard line. So
Speaker 1: four points for polarity, all into the twenty yard line.
Speaker 1: I thought Mac Jones was down there for at least
Speaker 1: three of them, if not all of them. Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: goes three for four on p A t s, two
Speaker 1: for two on field goals. I think it was all
Speaker 1: touchbacks by him as well, because the Dolphins had three
Speaker 1: returns for twenty six yards. Caroline did not have a
Speaker 1: single return in this game. Boom, that's how you do it.
Speaker 1: I want to finish up with a five B takeaway here,
Speaker 1: and this is just kind of an update on the
Speaker 1: topic I've been talking about for a few weeks now
Speaker 1: the last two draft classes. Jalen Waddle a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven receiving yards in this game. If you go
Speaker 1: back to Week six and on, he is PFF's highest
Speaker 1: graded rookie receiver and a top twelve grade receiver in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. After Week six, Jalen Phillips three sacks.
Speaker 1: He's top three among his position mates in quarterback pressures.
Speaker 1: A breakout game for him. He now moves into I
Speaker 1: think it was third or fourth all time among Dolphins
Speaker 1: rookies for sex. He's he's coming up there. Eight is
Speaker 1: the record to see if you can continue to pursue
Speaker 1: that as he has five and a half now. Javon
Speaker 1: Holland gets his second career or second pick of the
Speaker 1: season and career has another big game for the safety
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberger. Reddick had no sas he works off that
Speaker 1: side largely had some nice seals in the running game
Speaker 1: as well. Hunter Long, I heard this on the radio
Speaker 1: broadcast by Jason Taylor, and I thought it was the
Speaker 1: Wattle completion the fifty seven yard play. But I went
Speaker 1: back and looked and it wasn't him. But Philip Lindsay
Speaker 1: had a great pass pro pick up on that play,
Speaker 1: by the way, But Hunter Long, I thought it was
Speaker 1: that play that JT referenced. It wasn't. It was another one.
Speaker 1: I'll circle back to that but he had a big
Speaker 1: block in this game, and he was on the field
Speaker 1: for a pair of Dolphins touchdowns down there in the
Speaker 1: red area. To a tongue of blow back to here's
Speaker 1: a list of quarterbacks who have completed eight percent of
Speaker 1: their passes and back to back games since nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: minimum thirty attempts. Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Kyler Murray to
Speaker 1: a tone of volo one. That's it, as logic says,
Speaker 1: he's balling. He's balling, y'all. Austin Jackson, I can't give
Speaker 1: you anything in this game, specifically without watching the tape. Again,
Speaker 1: I can't track all twenty two guys. I just can't
Speaker 1: do it. But we talked about his growth throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the season. I think we saw more of
Speaker 1: that today. Same deal with no bunogamy. I'll keep I'll
Speaker 1: peep the Special team's tape tomorrow, give you guys a
Speaker 1: better feel for how he's doing. Big Rob Hunt sort
Speaker 1: of the same deal with Austin, but I think he's
Speaker 1: playing his best ball as of late. Ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: was immovable on Sunday. Brandon Jones didn't play, but we
Speaker 1: know about his impact. Big trip sack last week all
Speaker 1: kinds of pressures. Solomon Kiley is you know, he's played
Speaker 1: some games and had some production for this Dolphins offensive line,
Speaker 1: and Blake Ferguson continues to be the long snapper and
Speaker 1: one of the kind of key guy on that special
Speaker 1: teams group. So you guys want to stay tuned for
Speaker 1: a postgame show segment with the great O j McDuffie
Speaker 1: and Seth Levitt. Just real quick, by the way, O
Speaker 1: Jim mcduffee to me, he's my he's my personal goat,
Speaker 1: because this man, he's just the great, greatest guy. He
Speaker 1: invited me to my family over Thanksgiving, went over there
Speaker 1: and watched some football with him, and he was just
Speaker 1: the best host, and the family is so polite. O
Speaker 1: j thank you so much, man. You made our Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: even better than it already was. You're the man, dude.
Speaker 1: I truly love you. Hit you and Seth like you're
Speaker 1: my guys. I love you guys, so thank you for that.
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Speaker 1: there today. Until next time finds up Caroline Daddy is
Speaker 1: coming home. Stay tuned for a segment from the Post
Speaker 1: Gape Show with me Seth no Joy. It's that time again.
Speaker 1: Let's hand out some game balls. We don't break all right.
Speaker 1: That was a great job and we got it from everybody. Offense,
Speaker 1: big drive, defense, They're gonna father again. Don't make you
Speaker 1: a direction. You're gonna get better. We're gonna go without
Speaker 1: prop though, going to play without proff all right, better,
Speaker 1: get ready to go call it on as it's time
Speaker 1: to present today's game balls with Travis Sethan O jays Well.
Speaker 1: I was gonna throw a Tonton teammates here. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and be selfish because the Apple Cup
Speaker 1: streak is over nine years in the running that the
Speaker 1: Washington day Cooters took that wins. I'm taking the game
Speaker 1: ball first off here, and I'm going to the quarterback
Speaker 1: to a tongue by Lowa. A shocker day. The biggest
Speaker 1: shocker of the day is me taking him a hundred
Speaker 1: and eight point nine passer wading against the NFL's top
Speaker 1: ranked passing defense. The sixteen game stats of his career
Speaker 1: now he's starting, he is a sixty seven percent past
Speaker 1: or three hundred fifty one completions and five hundred twenty
Speaker 1: four attempts, three thousand, five hundred and fifteen yards, twenty
Speaker 1: one touchdowns, eleven picks. That's a ninety point five passer writing.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, six rushing touchdown to go
Speaker 1: along with that. So I'm a believer in this kid
Speaker 1: long term. And how about the fact that since he
Speaker 1: came back, guys, well, he's had some time here and there.
Speaker 1: But going back to the Buffalo game, forty six yard
Speaker 1: completion to Mike Sicky for a big gainer, missed a
Speaker 1: little bit of time then sixty four yards against Baltimore
Speaker 1: to Albert Wilson, sixty five yards to Mac Hollands in
Speaker 1: the game against the Jets for a touchdown, and today
Speaker 1: fifty seven yards to Jalen Widdle. The big plays are coming.
Speaker 1: The efficiency is there, the touchdowns. We got rid of
Speaker 1: the wall mistake today, so that was out the door
Speaker 1: as well. Big game for two again, he's turning in
Speaker 1: the right direction. Juice, who's your game ball? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, you wait, hold on, let's see everybody take
Speaker 1: a big guess you're right man, Wattle wattle Man. I
Speaker 1: love his wattle man. I even loved the spike even
Speaker 1: more today when you got a f in the Enzo. Man,
Speaker 1: how about this in a couple of weeks, Man, he's
Speaker 1: got seventeen grabs over two hundred yards and score. But
Speaker 1: big play after big play at the big play, moving
Speaker 1: the chains man waddles. Starting to get it. Man, I
Speaker 1: was watching the game to day and you see him
Speaker 1: all over the place. He's in the slot, he's outside,
Speaker 1: he's inside, he's running the Jets. So he's doing all
Speaker 1: kinds of things. Man, What you do with a playmaker
Speaker 1: like that? So we finally getting what we wanted to
Speaker 1: expected out of our you know, our first round pick,
Speaker 1: our first first round pick this year, and Jaben Waddle Man,
Speaker 1: I just love it, man. I talked about it all
Speaker 1: the time. Man. Nobody wants to get on me about
Speaker 1: you know, all these other guys that we probably could
Speaker 1: have taken if it wasn't for Waddle's injury. Hid been
Speaker 1: the first. We wouldn't have Waddle. If Waddle didn't get hurt,
Speaker 1: we would not have Waddle Man. Can you say, could
Speaker 1: I say thank you for the injury. Let's just go there,
Speaker 1: Let's just you that his production because we've got this
Speaker 1: talk about we've got this guy right here production and
Speaker 1: I am I am all in on number seventeen Daalen
Speaker 1: waddle Man. And I think a lot of people are too. Man.
Speaker 1: So you know, my my my ball, my game ball
Speaker 1: of course goes to the wide out. So he has
Speaker 1: absolutely an open assault on the Dolphins. Or you were
Speaker 1: telling me something, please tell me more about it. Big Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, he had his first hundred yard game
Speaker 1: of the season, but he got those hundred yards in
Speaker 1: the immediately immediately, and so go with this, we have
Speaker 1: to go back to Juice's draft class. The last time
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins player had a hundred yards and a half,
Speaker 1: it was your guy Terry Kirby, who I saw in
Speaker 1: the hallway coming over here. Who was he was kind
Speaker 1: of was double edged short with him. He's happy for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins the way they played. But you know, so
Speaker 1: he got leap frogged with receptions his rookie reception record today.
Speaker 1: So he's now third time, he's in third place. And Wattle,
Speaker 1: you know, Jarvis, Landry, Jalen Waddles coming after you, right,
Speaker 1: he's coming after you there with receptions. But yeah, t
Speaker 1: k was last guy I have a hundred yards receiving
Speaker 1: in a half for the Dolphins as a rookie. Farrell
Speaker 1: Edmonds was the only other one. So that means no
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie receiver, not even the great O J McDuffie
Speaker 1: had got no burn offenses rookie. But Jalen Wattle did
Speaker 1: it today. But you know the four touchdowns, right, so
Speaker 1: he's he's climbing up there, he's chasing I think Jarvis,
Speaker 1: he needs one more to tie Jarvis there for third place,
Speaker 1: and the right he's got the rushing touchdown as well,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna chase down Chris Chambers with
Speaker 1: the yard is as well. You know, I saw Chris
Speaker 1: on on Twitter this week and he said, Hey, I
Speaker 1: did it in the sixteen game season. Well guess what
Speaker 1: chrismas in that seventheen he might just put a little
Speaker 1: cherry on top. So and listen, while we're on the
Speaker 1: topic of the last two draft classes, we heard it
Speaker 1: from Brian Flores in his press conference. I was leaning
Speaker 1: in a different direction, but how could you ignore what
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips was doing out there? Every time you turned around,
Speaker 1: he's knocking the quarterback down. At three sacks today becomes
Speaker 1: uh so A J. Dowe and Mark old Coleman are
Speaker 1: the only other rookies in Dolphins history or three sacks
Speaker 1: in a day. Um. But now he's up to six
Speaker 1: and a half on the season. He moves in the
Speaker 1: fourth place all time already for sacks by the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie. And I don't think he's done either, Definitely.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's always just beginning. He's just starting
Speaker 1: to figure it out. He really is just starting to
Speaker 1: figure it out. You said you're a coach flow talk
Speaker 1: about that man. He's been the guy that's been the
Speaker 1: pit guy. Now he's gonna be the guy that we're
Speaker 1: going to free up a little bit more. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: they need to, they need to get him out there.
Speaker 1: But they all are working so well together and and
Speaker 1: you know, you see him on the right end. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, he's lined up inside of a bar. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean everywhere, they're moving them all around,
Speaker 1: and that's a difference everywhere. These young guys are starting
Speaker 1: to be able to go different places on the field
Speaker 1: and make plays before you have to line them up
Speaker 1: and play it right. You gotta line up here. You
Speaker 1: gota line up here, even waddle, you gotta line up
Speaker 1: here in the slot. And that's it. Now that moving
Speaker 1: him he's outside. The same thing with Jalen Phillips. You
Speaker 1: can put him inside outside and man what And that's
Speaker 1: that's that's being smart guys. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that we talked about with the Dolphins drafting smart
Speaker 1: guys that can play multiple musicians. But these are smart
Speaker 1: guys who are also incredibly athletics, like jumping off the
Speaker 1: charts athletic. So you know, look, you're talking about the
Speaker 1: first pick from last year's draft, the first two first
Speaker 1: round picks from this year's draft. They're getting great production
Speaker 1: and all the noise that people had earlier on the season,
Speaker 1: and I understand where it came from. Now. You can't
Speaker 1: judge your draft class after five games. You can't judge
Speaker 1: your draft class after a season or two. Quite frankly, Bro,
Speaker 1: I sucked as a receiver my first year because I
Speaker 1: didn't know enough. You know, you don't you the game
Speaker 1: is so different. I don't matter if you played the
Speaker 1: U N you played the Alabama or Penn State. You're not.
Speaker 1: You don't know enough because you're playing his grown men
Speaker 1: and you gotta learn so much more. Man. So yeah,
Speaker 1: five games in said, you're right, man, you can't judge
Speaker 1: those guys. But watch now, watch how they start rolling. Bro.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they're gonna be in trying in all
Speaker 1: times in the record books. They're gonna be in the
Speaker 1: record books. Here, they're there, and they're gonna I think
Speaker 1: that they're gonna set some records. Are these hands, man,
Speaker 1: they hate these records being dropping, man, dropping, jump and dropping.
Speaker 1: You know that's why you here, That's why TK was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's part of it. Bro. He was happy though t
Speaker 1: K was happy, and you know, listen, I gotta give
Speaker 1: him a little bit lof not just because if you're
Speaker 1: a draft class, he had all those catches coming out
Speaker 1: of the back ye and you know, potentially with one
Speaker 1: eye if we drafted ball guys. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Terry Kirby. Listen. I think that's great when you get
Speaker 1: to bring up guys from It took that long for
Speaker 1: those records to start to fall, but man, oh man,
Speaker 1: you'd like to see it from the guys that you're drafted.
Speaker 1: So my game ball goes to jail and Phillips. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna throw up to you here because that's not
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. Stef, I don't do that kind
Speaker 1: of you better. I don't care what he did in
Speaker 1: college right now because game ball today, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he's really excited about he might put it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and fish off with the goose. Why not?
Speaker 1: So juwish you were so you know that half of
Speaker 1: listenership doesn't even know what you're talking at. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I know that, and I don't care. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing it because a bit here officially, but
Speaker 1: you know, back to Juice's point about, you know, his
Speaker 1: workday season, I'm not gonna say he sucks, Juice, I don't. Didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't very good. But think about that Bill's game.
Speaker 1: We were all upset about that play where Mike gets
Speaker 1: the snap off of his chest and the fumble, and
Speaker 1: this is because Wildle wasn't lined up right right. And
Speaker 1: now he's thinking about how long ago. That feels like
Speaker 1: five games ago, it feels like a lifetime ago. And
Speaker 1: just to kind of fall up on both your guys
Speaker 1: points here, you know, Jayleen Phillips rushing from the inside,
Speaker 1: rushing from the outside. The games they can run because
Speaker 1: of his versatility. Oh, by the way, the other draft
Speaker 1: pick after that guy, Javon Holland, had a pick today
Speaker 1: as well. I mean the Chris career. Tip your cap
Speaker 1: to him. He's having a hell of a run right now.
Speaker 1: Back to Waddle real quick. You know, Juice, you talked
Speaker 1: about getting him at sixth overall, you got him knowing
Speaker 1: he's a four two guy who had a billion fifty
Speaker 1: plush your touchdowns Alabama, that's right, a billion. But Juice
Speaker 1: thirds down hot contested catches, the holding call that they
Speaker 1: did not call on that third and six where he
Speaker 1: completes for eleven yards a great throw in traffic. There
Speaker 1: he goes up and makes a contested catch. He's so
Speaker 1: sure handed and you saw that on the touchdown too.
Speaker 1: Man Like, that's why he's the six football pick r.
Speaker 1: Because he's not just a fast guy like John Ross
Speaker 1: was a couple of years back. He does everything well
Speaker 1: and that is critical. You look at some of the
Speaker 1: guys that went before him, and there's only one receiver,
Speaker 1: you know, Jamar Chason went ahead of him. How much
Speaker 1: dirty work is he doing? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't watch enough of their games because I don't
Speaker 1: really care to watch any of their games, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, even though he might be on my
Speaker 1: Fantis football team at time. But at the same time, though, man,
Speaker 1: if the more you can do, the better off you
Speaker 1: are as a as a as a football player, we
Speaker 1: only dress dress out, you know what. Many guys have
Speaker 1: to have multiple roles. I mean, he's earning punts, blocking,
Speaker 1: you know, he's catching pass, he's running the ball and
Speaker 1: jet sweeps all kinds of different things. Dude, being that
Speaker 1: multifaceted man, it's impressive, man, And that's the type of
Speaker 1: guy that that that Jalen is. Man, it's so much
Speaker 1: fun to sit out there and watch him and see
Speaker 1: the progression the seem growing weekend week out. Man. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's awesome, man. And like you talk about, big
Speaker 1: props to Chris Greer, you know, because everybody sits there
Speaker 1: and they want to you know, they want to sit
Speaker 1: there and talk about a player or the draft class
Speaker 1: right away. You can't do that. You gotta give him time,
Speaker 1: especially in the first half of the season and in
Speaker 1: this year two with some of these other guys, and
Speaker 1: it's starting to pay out really well. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of work to do. The guys that we're talking about
Speaker 1: right now, they're producing. Man this year and even last
Speaker 1: this year. You know that he is on pace that
Speaker 1: I don't care about that already. I'm already past that.
Speaker 1: I'm already past that. So yeah, get it, you get
Speaker 1: You talked about Jamaar Chase. He's only got about a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty more yards and waddle right now. And
Speaker 1: if you go to Pro Football Focus, they have Wile
Speaker 1: going back to that Bill's game is their highest grade
Speaker 1: rookie receiver and like the tenth group graded receiver overall
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. So he is coming on,
Speaker 1: he is balling. We're gonna talk more about that. We
Speaker 1: have the drive of the game. Still it comes your way.