Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
Speaker 2: Now, let me check your pulse if you're not.
Speaker 3: What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 3: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team,
Speaker 3: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield. On today's show, the Dolphins lose a heartbreaker.
Speaker 1: It is a twenty one to fourteen.
Speaker 3: Loss to the Buffalo Bills that gives the Bills the
Speaker 3: AFC East Crown. Miami now the sixth seed, will play
Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs on the road next week in
Speaker 3: the opening round of the playoffs. We'll do the five takeaways,
Speaker 3: the game story here from head coach Mike McDaniel. All
Speaker 3: of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 3: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. This is the point of the episode where
Speaker 3: I typically would do a monologue of some sort, telling
Speaker 3: you about the feelings, the context, and you know, I
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time in this role, in this
Speaker 3: position trying to fight narratives that I think are unfair
Speaker 3: or entirely misguided or lacking context, or whatever the reason
Speaker 3: may be just trying to educate on why certain takes
Speaker 3: or certain thoughts or certain beliefs just to me.
Speaker 1: Are missing the mark.
Speaker 3: And I'm not going to do that on this episode
Speaker 3: because you know, McDaniel acknowledged it in his postgame press
Speaker 3: conference that it's not necessarily you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: something that it is what it is until you change it.
Speaker 3: Right in terms of the narrative about the Dolphins against
Speaker 3: the top teams in the league one and five this year,
Speaker 3: against teams with a winning record and the offensive you
Speaker 3: know regression back to the points points per game and
Speaker 3: their yardage and all the stats to go into how
Speaker 3: the Dolphins have performed in the biggest games this year.
Speaker 3: They have a chance to write that ship next week.
Speaker 3: Once again, I talked about it from the Cowboys game.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins would have you know, four games essentially the
Speaker 3: three and then into the playoffs, assuming they want a
Speaker 3: game to get into the playoffs to right that wrong.
Speaker 3: And they still have another chance to do that. But
Speaker 3: the offseason this year could be that potential storyline if
Speaker 3: you don't get it fixed. And that's going to be
Speaker 3: a lot different than last year. Right when we felt
Speaker 3: like injuries, which is the case this year as well,
Speaker 3: but injuries to the quarterback position were what robbed this
Speaker 3: team of potential good run deep into the postseason and
Speaker 3: now this year. If things don't get corrected next week,
Speaker 3: that could be what you deal with for the next
Speaker 3: seven months after the fact. But that is a future podcast.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get into this game, Get in and out
Speaker 3: real quick. Here's some audio. Do the game story? Do
Speaker 3: five real quick takeaways from the dolphins twenty one to
Speaker 3: fourteen loss at home. Here to the Buffalo Bills to
Speaker 3: fall so seven into a home this season, to fall
Speaker 3: to eleven and six on the year, and despite a
Speaker 3: better divisional record than the Buffalo Bills in the AFC
Speaker 3: East or no right, they're both for four and two.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3: But the Bills do get to sweep there, which gives
Speaker 3: them the tiebreaker and the second seed in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: They get to host the Pittsburgh Sealers next week, and
Speaker 3: the Dolphins now have to travel to KC on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: So pretty good showing early on from Miami. I mean,
Speaker 3: even into the fourth quarter, they had a seventy five
Speaker 3: percent winning probability according to the Yahoo sports app here
Speaker 3: that I'm looking at, But it got out of hand
Speaker 3: pretty quickly there, and the Bills, you know, were dominant
Speaker 3: in the stat sheet, and that's kind of you know,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins played a game that you thought they had
Speaker 3: to to find a way to win. They running the
Speaker 3: ball successful successfully in the first half, they were getting
Speaker 3: the takeaways, they were getting the red zone stops, they
Speaker 3: were executing the red zone themselves, and then it just
Speaker 3: kind of went the other direction in the second half,
Speaker 3: mostly the fourth quarter there. But your stats, Buffalo had
Speaker 3: ten more first downs twenty six to sixteen, thanks in
Speaker 3: large part to thirty eight minutes of time possession compared
Speaker 3: to twenty one fifty three for the Miami Dolphins. The
Speaker 3: Dolphins had they were sacked just one time the Bills.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins got to Josh Allen three times for sacks,
Speaker 3: they turned them over three times. He had two picks
Speaker 3: in the fumble. Miami had their own two turnovers as
Speaker 3: well to a tongue of by Lowa interceptions. The Bills
Speaker 3: out gained Miami four seventy three to two seventy five,
Speaker 3: so nearly two hundred and more yards then Miami. They
Speaker 3: were nine for fifteen on third downs compared to Miami's
Speaker 3: four for ten. They threw for three forty five compared
Speaker 3: to Miami's one sixty seven, and had one twenty eight
Speaker 3: on the ground pared to Miami's one o eight, but
Speaker 3: seventy seven total plays compared to forty eight. That's kind
Speaker 3: of the same script the game followed last year down
Speaker 3: here in Miami when the Dolphins beat the Bills in
Speaker 3: Week number three.
Speaker 1: But this one doesn't go the same way. Twenty one
Speaker 1: to fourteen, Buffalo wins it.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel
Speaker 3: on next steps after a tough loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a new season. We have to as hard
Speaker 2: as it is. That's part of the reason why you
Speaker 2: have so much joy in the game is when when
Speaker 2: you're you come out the right side, it's there's nothing
Speaker 2: like it. And then the polar opposite, when you let
Speaker 2: opportunities go by the wayside, it's it just completely absorbs you.
Speaker 2: So we don't have time to sulk or feel. You know,
Speaker 2: this is this is what happens in football. It's a
Speaker 2: against a very good team. You know, our team really
Speaker 2: really wanted it bad, but wanting you still got to
Speaker 2: do the things in football too to come out victorious.
Speaker 2: We didn't, So I've I'm very confident that our our
Speaker 2: players and coaches will uh turn their attention full bore
Speaker 2: two to our our to Kansas City, because that's all
Speaker 2: we can do, and that this is a uh this
Speaker 2: is a feeling that uh I can't console or or
Speaker 2: fix it with the team. It hurts it should we
Speaker 2: we lost the game that we think we're capable of winning.
Speaker 2: Hats off to the Buffalo Bills for coming uh coming
Speaker 2: in here and and winning the game. But yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: focus immediately on Kansas City because that's that's the only
Speaker 2: way that you can really get through something like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's definitely right about the highs and lows of
Speaker 1: this sport in this league.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm driving over here from the stadium thinking about
Speaker 3: the way I felt on Christmas Eve driving over to
Speaker 3: the postgame show or the recap podcast for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Compared to this, I always say like, my job isn't
Speaker 3: actually work, But on games like this, this is when
Speaker 3: the work actually happened. Let's go ahead and get through
Speaker 3: the whole game script here and start with the Dolphins
Speaker 3: opening drive which ended in a pick five plays nineteen yards,
Speaker 3: you get an explosive play out the gate to devon
Speaker 3: a Chan for sixteen yards where he breaks a tackle
Speaker 3: and shows you great contact balance and you're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 3: this could be how this game goes the entire time.
Speaker 3: Then you get a third and seven situation after the
Speaker 3: same play loses three yards, and then you get a
Speaker 3: completion to get you back into manageable third down situation.
Speaker 3: But then TWA takes a deep shot and Tyreek had
Speaker 3: a step on Christian Benford and the ball was a
Speaker 3: little bit back on the backside behind Tyreek, and that
Speaker 3: allowed benfor I think, to make some a really good
Speaker 3: play and recover on the football and go pick it off,
Speaker 3: and then the Bills get the ball back. And you know,
Speaker 3: I complain for years now that it seems like Buffalo
Speaker 3: always finds a way to get a significant lead in
Speaker 3: the game against Miami early on, especially you know seven
Speaker 3: zero out the gate, gold drive, the opening drive down
Speaker 3: into the end zone. But not in this one, even
Speaker 3: though it looked like a twelve plays seventy nine yard
Speaker 3: drive that ends in a pick, I thought that Buffalo
Speaker 3: was doing good job on this drive. And this is
Speaker 3: why these games tend to be so lopsided for Buffalo
Speaker 3: in terms of how many plays they run to Miami
Speaker 3: is they just hit these short gains and run the
Speaker 3: football and find a way to sustain their third down,
Speaker 3: you know, sustain their drives. A third down execution nine
Speaker 3: for fifteen on the day, and in this first drive,
Speaker 3: I thought they were doing a good job of just
Speaker 3: taking the short stuff. You know, Miami's in the too
Speaker 3: high shell quite frequently. We saw some Javon Holland roll
Speaker 3: down and play slot corner, which would then have Brandon
Speaker 3: Jones in a deep position. With Deshaun Elliott, you'd see
Speaker 3: Jones roll down and kind of play a quasi linebacker role.
Speaker 3: So lots of variation there, and the Bills were finding
Speaker 3: success and just kind of, you know, staying on schedule.
Speaker 3: But with all the confusion of the different looks, Miami
Speaker 3: did a good job of getting to Allen and forcing
Speaker 3: mistakes on those long drives, which is what you want
Speaker 3: to do because you have to take away that guy's
Speaker 3: ability to make the big splash play because he's so
Speaker 3: damn gifted at doing that. But then you have to
Speaker 3: capitalize when he puts the ball in your hands because
Speaker 3: he is a very high variance quarterback right and so
Speaker 3: down in a gold line situation, they had a first
Speaker 3: down run stuff a really good coverage rap by Kater
Speaker 3: Kohu kind of dealing with a mesh concept and a
Speaker 3: shallow cross that he didn't get rubbed on makes the
Speaker 3: play for the breakup, and then they thrown all out
Speaker 3: blitz and Allen makes a bad decision in a bad
Speaker 3: throw and puts the ball in Eli Apples's hands so
Speaker 3: they don't think the football right back. And then they
Speaker 3: go back and they punt the ball after a good
Speaker 3: drive that helped flip the field six play fifty one
Speaker 3: yard drive where they got kray Craft on a slant
Speaker 3: tyreek for a deep curl and you're thinking, once again,
Speaker 3: seventeen nineteen yards. You go to Devon a Chan for
Speaker 3: eleven on that same flip, and Seth made a good
Speaker 3: comment where he said that eight chan makes Seth Levett,
Speaker 3: my co host on the postgame show. He made a
Speaker 3: comment about how these six yard runs for most guys
Speaker 3: can become eleven yard runs with Devon a Chan because
Speaker 3: of the speed he has where he just outruns guys
Speaker 3: and you have a bad angle on him. So it
Speaker 3: looks like Miami early in the game, after a couple
Speaker 3: of picks by either quarterback is gonna put this ball
Speaker 3: in the paint. Things bogged down. You get a short
Speaker 3: run of throwaway, then a miss on an outroude of
Speaker 3: the Tyreek and he caught up but didn't get the
Speaker 3: feet down punt the ball back. You get another Josh
Speaker 3: Allen pick six play, fifty four yard drive. He missed
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs in the one play where I thought he
Speaker 3: really beat Jalen Ramsey down the field would have been
Speaker 3: an eighty nine yard touchdown, but he threw it way
Speaker 3: too far from him.
Speaker 1: But then they did get.
Speaker 3: An explosive play on a little screen pass where I
Speaker 3: thought Miami got too sucked in taking underneath the little
Speaker 3: block on the perimeter the safety roll down. I think
Speaker 3: it was Brandon Jones in the play went down underneath
Speaker 3: the block and that opened up the outside lane and
Speaker 3: the receiver Khalil Shaker was able to get up the perimeter,
Speaker 3: you know, outrun David long outrun I think it was
Speaker 3: to Shawn Elliott at that point before finally being usher
Speaker 3: out of bounds. But then you come right back and
Speaker 3: it's long and Elliott on a run stuff it's Christian
Speaker 3: Wilkins on a pressure that forces an incomplete pass. And
Speaker 3: then you get another play where they try to do
Speaker 3: a quarterback draw and Christian Wilkins comes off of his
Speaker 3: block and gets Josh Allen to the and it's looking
Speaker 3: like Wilkins is going to make back to back plays.
Speaker 3: Then they go for it on fourth down, and once
Speaker 3: again the Dolphins front did a good job of kind
Speaker 3: of hemming Allen into the pocket. And I talked about
Speaker 3: this with Seth again in the press box during the game,
Speaker 3: like he was getting out of the pocket, but they
Speaker 3: were hemming him into where he couldn't wrap around that
Speaker 3: outside contained and attack the line to either run or throw,
Speaker 3: which put him in a throw situations. And Mimi got
Speaker 3: lots of good stops and a good success right early
Speaker 3: on in the game by doing that. And on the
Speaker 3: fourth down, play man Andrew van Ginkel re routed Stefan
Speaker 3: Diggs and put him on the turf and it kind
Speaker 3: of sent the whole play out of whack.
Speaker 1: So just team effort.
Speaker 3: He throws a prayer up into the end zone to
Speaker 3: Shawn Elliott, picks it off and the Dolphins take over
Speaker 3: again for back to back picks, and they go down
Speaker 3: the field and score eighty yard drive eleven plays where
Speaker 3: it's consistent run game. It's Tedrick Wilson for nine yards.
Speaker 3: It's Braxon Barrios picking up a first down. They were
Speaker 3: second and sixteen behind the chains, and Tua throws a
Speaker 3: third and fourteen dart for twenty three yards of tyreek
Speaker 3: between four Bills defenders, just cruising. Then Jeff Wilson gets
Speaker 3: rolling with big chunks of yards, then two runs for
Speaker 3: a first down Nike bootleg, and then Devon Achan just
Speaker 3: puts everybody in a buying with an outside run with
Speaker 3: a great cut to find the end zone.
Speaker 1: And it's midway through the second quarter.
Speaker 3: Seven toahan Dolphins, big boy drive, their healthy offensive line,
Speaker 3: well you know, relatively speaking, healthy offensive line, pushing the
Speaker 3: Bills back, getting some mix of running pass game, big
Speaker 3: plays like. It was looking good at that point, and
Speaker 3: it looked good for further, even though the Bills took
Speaker 3: the next drive seven plays, seventy five yards with a
Speaker 3: couple of explosive plays, including a perfect throw from Josh
Speaker 3: Allen to Stefan Diggs for thirty six yards over Eli Apple,
Speaker 3: who was in great position to make a play in
Speaker 3: the ball with the ball was just perfectly thrown. We've
Speaker 3: talked about in this podcast lots with this offense, right,
Speaker 3: perfect balls typically cannot be defended, and that was the
Speaker 3: case here. They get a first down stop and then
Speaker 3: the second down play from second and goal from you know,
Speaker 3: closer to the ten yard line than the goal line.
Speaker 3: You get a ball bat at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 3: that could be third and goal from the seven or
Speaker 3: eight yard line, but instead it falls down right into
Speaker 3: Trent Sherfield's hands in the back of the end zone
Speaker 3: for one of the luckiest touchdowns you'll ever see. But
Speaker 3: I won't, you know, complain about that because I thought
Speaker 3: Miami over when you look at the game script and
Speaker 3: the stats, they were kind of fortunate to the score
Speaker 3: was that close, just based upon the yards and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So they take it in the field score touchdown.
Speaker 3: But then Miami bounces right back and scores a touchdown
Speaker 3: of their own, a nine play, seventy five yard drive
Speaker 3: towards the end of the half. And it's this team
Speaker 3: that has done this all year long to score before
Speaker 3: the half, Like it was really impressive looking you got
Speaker 3: another situation where they ran the ball for nine yards.
Speaker 3: Then two of finds durham smythe on a little option
Speaker 3: route where he looks at the slide and throws the
Speaker 3: glance on the middle for a first down. You're thinking,
Speaker 3: all right, this is rolling again. And then we got
Speaker 3: a huge moment in the game, and I tweeted about it.
Speaker 3: I put in my notes a third and three from
Speaker 3: the plus thirty six two minute warning, Buffalo had all
Speaker 3: three timeouts.
Speaker 1: Tie game.
Speaker 3: They get the stop there, maybe you kick a field goal,
Speaker 3: or maybe they get a four. They go for a
Speaker 3: fourth down, they get a stop there. You're playing tie
Speaker 3: game with them having the ball and the ball to
Speaker 3: start the second half. That was an important spot to
Speaker 3: kind of get the last shot, and they did more
Speaker 3: than that because Tua threw one of his best throws
Speaker 3: of the day, a twenty four yard pass on a
Speaker 3: corner route just Hedrick Wilson that could not have been
Speaker 3: laid out there more perfect. A couple of plays later,
Speaker 3: Tyreek catches a little Texas route screen type of pass
Speaker 3: for a nine yards down to the three yard line
Speaker 3: to put him in third and one and then two.
Speaker 3: It throws a strike on a speed out to Tyreek
Speaker 3: Hill for the touchdown, and it's fourteen to seven with
Speaker 3: under two minutes to play in the half, like you're
Speaker 3: in a great spot, right, But then the Bills come
Speaker 3: down and they might score a touchdown of their own
Speaker 3: because they get a ten play seventy three yard drive
Speaker 3: where Allen extended a couple of plays, got a first
Speaker 3: down on a scramble, and then with twenty one seconds
Speaker 3: to go with the plus twenty three, they had a
Speaker 3: drop pass in the end zone and then Mini played
Speaker 3: this kind of off coverage akin to the Charger game
Speaker 3: last year, kind of protecting the end zone, and the
Speaker 3: Bills took and easy thirteen yards and got out of bounds.
Speaker 3: So they're at the ten yard line with eleven seconds
Speaker 3: and Allan throws the ball into the field, which is
Speaker 3: the biggest no no quarterback can make, and he got
Speaker 3: punished for it because Jerome Baker comes from nowhere to
Speaker 3: make a great stick on the uh shoot who was
Speaker 3: Ty Johnson was the pass catcher on that play gets
Speaker 3: shut down at the one yard line, a kin to
Speaker 3: the nineteen ninety nine Super Bowl between the Titans and
Speaker 3: Rams when Cavan Dyson was a yard short in that one,
Speaker 3: he and Eli Apples your own Baker Apple team up
Speaker 3: for that big stop there. Mimmi takes a fourteen to
Speaker 3: seven lead into the locker room and like, how much
Speaker 3: more momentum can you get? Right? And then you get
Speaker 3: even more because Buffalo comes out and runs an eight
Speaker 3: play nineteen yard drive where Andrew Van Ginkle gets injured
Speaker 3: and has to come out of the game and is
Speaker 3: ruled out almost immediately, and you know you're already down
Speaker 3: chubbs and fill up, and you're thinking this is not
Speaker 3: a good spot to be in. But then you get
Speaker 3: a play from Melvin Ingram to get a sack and
Speaker 3: get Josh Allen to the ground, and so Mimi's gonna
Speaker 3: get the football back with a touchdown lead. The offense
Speaker 3: is role and the run games working, but that's when
Speaker 3: things fell apart offensively. The Dolphins go three and out,
Speaker 3: three plays, nine yards, a screen, a little slide pass
Speaker 3: to Julian Hill, then Braxon Burrios is like a half
Speaker 3: a yard short of a first down. Really good tackle
Speaker 3: there by Dan Jackson. So Mimi goes three and out
Speaker 3: with three passes. Buffalo gets the football back. Josh Allen
Speaker 3: fumbles the ball back to the Miami Dolphins. This is again,
Speaker 3: this is where I thought the game was really gonna
Speaker 3: go in the Miami Dolphins direction.
Speaker 1: Fourteen plays, forty nine yards.
Speaker 3: They got a good play by Cameron Good again talking
Speaker 3: about next man up. You get Van Ginkle goes down,
Speaker 3: Melvin gets the sack, camera Good makes a play for
Speaker 3: a one yard run. Then Melvin Ingram draws a hold,
Speaker 3: but then Josh Allen negates that because he gets a
Speaker 3: crazy scramble for thirteen yards and then gets a conversion
Speaker 3: to Dalton King Kid. They Dolphin send another all out blitz.
Speaker 3: He does a fadeaway shot that gets in there for
Speaker 3: a first down, just finding ways to kind of mix
Speaker 3: and match against this really good quarterback. And then they
Speaker 3: get a third and thirteen play in field goal range
Speaker 3: and Christian Wilkins disarms the right guard completely, swim move
Speaker 3: right past him, wraps Josh Allen up punches the ball out.
Speaker 1: Makes the play of the.
Speaker 3: Night at that point, and you get a takeaway very
Speaker 3: late in the third quarter to get the football back
Speaker 3: up by touchdown, potentially a kill drive opportunity right go
Speaker 3: put him away right here. I thought that was an
Speaker 3: awesome chance, and what happens a four play, one yard drive.
Speaker 3: And this is where I thought the turning point of
Speaker 3: the game was. In fact, let's go ahead and take
Speaker 3: our first break right there. I'll come back and tell
Speaker 3: you about that turning point on the other side. Draft
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Speaker 3: Auto Nation. First play of this drive, after the Christian
Speaker 3: Wilkins strip, sack and recovery, the trifecta, as it were,
Speaker 3: a sack, strip and recovery, Dolphins go fifteen yards to
Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill to start that drive, but then they go
Speaker 3: false start. But then on second and fifteen or first
Speaker 3: and fifteen rather, Tua throws a shot over the middle,
Speaker 3: and McDaniel mentions this in his postgame press conference that
Speaker 3: he thought we had a miss, a drop and just
Speaker 3: basically a gaggle of errors that caused the offense to
Speaker 3: bog down in that second half.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of the start up right there.
Speaker 3: And I thought, if they give Tyreek that catch, they
Speaker 3: overturned it after looking at the replay, and again that
Speaker 3: ball should have been much higher. He should have ran
Speaker 3: through that catch and had a first down. But either way,
Speaker 3: if you catch it for fourteen yards right there, it's
Speaker 3: second one at midfield. Instead it becomes second and fifteen.
Speaker 3: Then you get an offensive blindside block like OPI combination
Speaker 3: foul and alec Ingold that winds up making a second
Speaker 3: and thirty. Then you have to kind of concede the drive,
Speaker 3: a run a past Derm Smith, pump the ball away
Speaker 3: and you're still okay, right, And I even leaned over
Speaker 3: to Seth when the pump was in the air and said, oh,
Speaker 3: he's gonna catch this thing. He backs up to the
Speaker 3: four yard line and Justin Bethel and Cameron Good are
Speaker 3: down there and we missed the initial tackle and Cam
Speaker 3: Good takes the block that winds up, you know, making
Speaker 3: creating injury that would have him leave the game on
Speaker 3: a cart. And that's when the game turned, because he
Speaker 3: takes it ninety six yards for a touchdown ties it
Speaker 3: up at fourteen and even still Miami has a chance
Speaker 3: to go down and you know, do something offensively to
Speaker 3: win the game back, right, But it didn't happen that way.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 3: Start here with coach McDaniel, who talked about the pump
Speaker 3: return touchdown the Bills had for ninety six yards to
Speaker 3: tie the game up in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was unfortunate. It looked like we
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to pin him back and you know,
Speaker 2: I'll have to look at the tape again, but we
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to pin him back and it turned
Speaker 2: you know, the beginning of the fourth quarter. It Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a huge momentum swing that hurt us that,
Speaker 2: you know, the defense had done such a good job
Speaker 2: keeping them from scoring points. Points were at a premium
Speaker 2: at that point in the game, so it was a
Speaker 2: it was a gut punch for sure. I feel like
Speaker 2: they're the I feel like we had I would be
Speaker 2: I don't know the exact player that had a shot
Speaker 2: at the very beginning of the play, but that was
Speaker 2: probably our best shot. And then it looked like they
Speaker 2: they won the the matchup game after that, so big
Speaker 2: point in the game that we're gonna look closely at.
Speaker 3: I just really thought that was I mean that the
Speaker 3: Tyreek play man like they just convert that. You probably
Speaker 3: have two more first downs before you are in field
Speaker 3: goal range, and you could take a ten point lead
Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter, and you don't you know, it's
Speaker 3: they start to drive a twenty five yard lineupposed to
Speaker 3: a pump returned touchdown because you kick out of the
Speaker 3: back of the end zone. So such a critical moment.
Speaker 3: That's how these games go this time of year. You
Speaker 3: can look at one play and usually point to that
Speaker 3: and say that that's where things turn. But that's where
Speaker 3: things kind of you know.
Speaker 1: Could have been put away. That's how I felt this
Speaker 1: game win.
Speaker 3: So Mimi gets the ball back fourteen to fourteen early
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, three plays one yard, a negative one yard run,
Speaker 3: a two yard run, and then third nine a pass
Speaker 3: breakup on a throw us Hedrick Wilson that looked like
Speaker 3: it was open, but good play by the defender to
Speaker 3: get his hand in there and knock that thing down,
Speaker 3: and then time for the defense to rise up right
Speaker 3: and it just continued to go the wrong way for
Speaker 3: the Dolphins the rest of the night. Bill's good down
Speaker 3: the field eight plays, seventy four yards and it was a.
Speaker 1: They got again. Like we talked about the.
Speaker 3: Edge injuries, losing Vangeinkle, losing Cameron Good, they started throwing
Speaker 3: these wheel routes on like Melvin Ingram. Like Melvin Ingram
Speaker 3: is a great player, has had a great career, but
Speaker 3: if you get Dalton King kid running a wheel route
Speaker 3: on an outside linebacker like Melvin Ingram, that's a matchup.
Speaker 3: The offense tries to Foster and you know mel had
Speaker 3: a great game, but that play, it's a tough spot.
Speaker 1: To be in and he got Bea up the sideline
Speaker 1: for that big chunk.
Speaker 3: They get another big play to Khalil Shakur on the
Speaker 3: other side of the field, and then they get a
Speaker 3: touchdown to Dawson Knox to make it twenty one to fourteen,
Speaker 3: and once again, offense has a chance to go down
Speaker 3: and rescue the game, right, Go go put in the
Speaker 3: end zone, go put in the paint, get us back
Speaker 3: in a tie game here, and maybe we take this
Speaker 3: thing into overtime or maybe go win the game at
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 1: But that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: Because you go three plays two yards, punt the ball
Speaker 3: back away, and we had a drop a third and
Speaker 3: eight play to Tyreek Hill where two I had him
Speaker 3: down the middle of the field, hit him in the
Speaker 3: brad basket, drops it, punt the ball away and the
Speaker 3: Bills get the football back.
Speaker 1: With six minutes to go.
Speaker 3: And you've seen this movie before, right, we know that
Speaker 3: this offense can milk the clock out and run you dry.
Speaker 3: They did it last year in the game up in
Speaker 3: Buffalo in the second game of the regular season last year,
Speaker 3: where they had like a ten minute drive that basically
Speaker 3: put Miami in a position to not get the football
Speaker 3: back at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Could a field goal win the game.
Speaker 3: But the defense response They did get a fourth down
Speaker 3: conversion that you thought ended it, but then they got
Speaker 3: stops on first and second down, and then they go
Speaker 3: for a third down throw that puts them at fourth
Speaker 3: and one once again, and once again the Dolphins get
Speaker 3: their nose in there and make a big stop and
Speaker 3: get the ball back to the offense on the right
Speaker 3: side of the two minute warning with no timeouts, but
Speaker 3: still you've got time to drive the field, and they
Speaker 3: get a couple of plays, get a couple of first downs,
Speaker 3: move it into midfield, and then two a man. We
Speaker 3: had this throw to Tyreek Hill where they called defensive
Speaker 3: passinger facet and it got so first down at the
Speaker 3: plus forty with a minute seventeen to play, I think
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: But he dropped the ball and like he was wide open.
Speaker 3: With nothing but green grass, and it very minimum probably
Speaker 3: has another ten to fifteen twenty maybe thirty yards after
Speaker 3: that catch and into the end zone, but it's a drop.
Speaker 3: You get a first down for it, and then the
Speaker 3: very next play we try to throw it into double
Speaker 3: coverage to Chase Claypool, who I thought kind of got
Speaker 3: a little bit wide on that route and kind of
Speaker 3: rounded it rather than breaking it off. And a bad
Speaker 3: decision to throw that ball on that spot. Just rough
Speaker 3: all around man. So let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 3: coach McDaniel on the adjustments the Bills defense made in
Speaker 3: this game to get those critical stops because Miami had
Speaker 3: just eight rushing yards in the second half and a
Speaker 3: bunch of drives that went three and out, four and
Speaker 3: out and ultimately no points scored.
Speaker 2: You know, it didn't necessarily surprise me. They changed, They
Speaker 2: played a little some more single safety to stop the run,
Speaker 2: which we were kind of anticipating, and then you know,
Speaker 2: it was just herky jerky when you have some We
Speaker 2: had two different penalty we had and then we just
Speaker 2: had misfires. There was an incompletion that was uh, you know,
Speaker 2: that was a throw issue. There was a drop there.
Speaker 2: You know, it seemed like, you know, take a turn
Speaker 2: each drive we weren't able to you know, really get
Speaker 2: the momentum of the drive going, you know, which is
Speaker 2: what happens when you know myself as a play caller,
Speaker 2: decides to pass anticipating that we have an advantageous look.
Speaker 2: You think at this point in the season, you have
Speaker 2: to trust a lot of things, and you know it
Speaker 2: it didn't work out, so that you know that it
Speaker 2: goes really to the whole group because you know, I
Speaker 2: the we were running the ball, well, they they changed
Speaker 2: their box count and which wasn't It wasn't like they
Speaker 2: changed defenses. They just called more you know, eight man fronts,
Speaker 2: and you have to be able to you know, adjust
Speaker 2: with the defense and make plays in all phases. And
Speaker 2: we were unable to do that tonight.
Speaker 3: Just brutal man Like I keep thinking about and we
Speaker 3: did in the post game show as well, thinking about
Speaker 3: what direction to take the show, what to talk about,
Speaker 3: and I have so many thoughts about like long term
Speaker 3: or even like off season thoughts.
Speaker 1: But this is not the time or place to do
Speaker 1: that because we have.
Speaker 3: Another game next week against the Kansasity Chiefs playoff game.
Speaker 3: Like let's go end the playoff windrow right, that's on
Speaker 3: the table for you next week in Kansas City on
Speaker 3: the table four and the third segment.
Speaker 1: Of this podcast are the five takeaways. What do that really? Quickly?
Speaker 3: Here a couple more sound bites from head coach Mike
Speaker 3: McDaniel as well. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Final segment
Speaker 3: here and I had five takeaways that we're exciting about.
Speaker 3: Two US third down prowess, about the defensive game plan,
Speaker 3: the mixing up of coverages and rushes to get Josh
Speaker 3: Allen off of his spot and turn them over, and
Speaker 3: all these fun takeaways, but we had to redo those
Speaker 3: because the game got away in the second half. And
Speaker 3: the first takeaway is that special teams seems to have
Speaker 3: these big plays that cost us in these losses, but
Speaker 3: primarily at this stage of the season, you just can't
Speaker 3: allow that unit to flip the game the way it
Speaker 3: does in a ninety six yard punt return in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter when you're up by touchdown. Talk about flipping
Speaker 3: the game. That changes the entire complexion of the game
Speaker 3: of your approach at that point, like the defense had
Speaker 3: a great plan, maybe they could have continued that for
Speaker 3: one more series and gotten the big takeaway or a
Speaker 3: big three and out and get the ball back to
Speaker 3: the offense. Maybe they find their rhythm now with a lead,
Speaker 3: get the running game going like it just is such
Speaker 3: a critical thing to have happened in a critical spot,
Speaker 3: and we had it happened last week against the Ravens
Speaker 3: in a fifteen point game. A big kick return kind
Speaker 3: of puts the wind all the way out of the
Speaker 3: sales at that point. We've had, you know, kick returns
Speaker 3: for touchdowns earlier in the season as well, just special
Speaker 3: teams airs and a bite in the biggest spot here
Speaker 3: in this one to tie the game in the fourth court.
Speaker 1: That's my first takeaway.
Speaker 3: My second takeaway was that turning point I kind of
Speaker 3: harped on already, but the miss from two to Tyreek
Speaker 3: that really seemed to be the turning point of the game.
Speaker 3: I thought Tua's throw was way too low and if
Speaker 3: you threw it up higher, Tyry Kraie catches that with
Speaker 3: his feet, you know, under him and on the move,
Speaker 3: and a bigger game comes at very minimum at least
Speaker 3: make the play.
Speaker 1: We can't have that happen.
Speaker 3: And it goes from second one to second and fifteen
Speaker 3: and the next series was the three and out. After
Speaker 3: that the Bills got the pump return on for the touchdown,
Speaker 3: So turning point in the game, critical moments. Little errors
Speaker 3: can kind of add up, right, and we had a
Speaker 3: bunch of penalties offensively as well. So just a tough one,
Speaker 3: tough pill swallow. Third, takeaway the injuries because we do
Speaker 3: have another game next week, but now you're we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens to Van Ginkle. It looks like Cam Good
Speaker 3: might not be back for you know, till next season,
Speaker 3: because that was a pretty serious looking injury. But if
Speaker 3: you're down Van Ginkle, that means your top three edged
Speaker 3: sack guys, your top three edge run defenders are all
Speaker 3: going to be out. Manuel Ogbad, Melvin Ingram still up,
Speaker 3: but I think like you probably have to find some
Speaker 3: more bodies to play that position because that spot that
Speaker 3: has just been absolutely you know, devastated going back just
Speaker 3: six weeks now the Black Friday, we had all these guys.
Speaker 3: Now they're all down, so hopefully Van Giagle can go,
Speaker 3: but we'll see what happens with him later in the week.
Speaker 3: But injuries just critical and killer and brutal for this team.
Speaker 3: In the month of December. My fourth takeaway the offensive
Speaker 3: woes in the second half, and the offensive woes that
Speaker 3: have followed the same script all year long in these
Speaker 3: big spots, right, I mean, three and out, four and out,
Speaker 3: three and out, three and out pick to end the game,
Speaker 3: a drop from your star receiver and a bad throw
Speaker 3: bay decision from your quarterback. It's just it's been that
Speaker 3: theme all year long. And like they match the Ravens
Speaker 3: drive for driving the first half last week and then
Speaker 3: they fall apart in second half this week. You know,
Speaker 3: the offense is good in the first half and then
Speaker 3: falls apart in the second half. You go back to
Speaker 3: the first Buffalo game, same script as the Baltimore game.
Speaker 3: Drive up and down the field for a couple of
Speaker 3: series in the second quarter, and then you can't find
Speaker 3: any offensive success in the second half of the game.
Speaker 3: Like it's it's been a theme for this team, and
Speaker 3: it happened again in the biggest spot here and on
Speaker 3: one series in the third quarter, you know, three and out,
Speaker 3: he ran one play in the next series, so you've
Speaker 3: got four plays in the third quarter, and again that
Speaker 3: missed from two of the drop from Tyreek. After Buffalo
Speaker 3: went up twenty one, to fourteen. I just making these
Speaker 3: critical plays. You were making them all on the first half,
Speaker 3: those big third downs right, big time third down conversions.
Speaker 1: Then they just stopped.
Speaker 3: And that was again kind of the theme of the
Speaker 3: year for this team in terms of, you know, eleven
Speaker 3: and six is a very good record, very good season,
Speaker 3: but like, man, what could have been?
Speaker 1: What more could have been?
Speaker 3: Because eleven and six, all it got you was the
Speaker 3: sixth seed in the playoffs and you were you know,
Speaker 3: the number for the division was one a while back
Speaker 3: ago when the Titans game, it's clinched. If you get
Speaker 3: one more Bills loss, it's clinched. But that's not how
Speaker 3: what happened, and you wind up with the division as
Speaker 3: a result. Here, so let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 3: coach McDaniel on the idea of going one and five
Speaker 3: against teams of winning records this year.
Speaker 1: Here is the head coach of your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a funk. I think it's reality.
Speaker 2: Like the you know said time and time again. I
Speaker 2: get out in front of narratives because you know that
Speaker 2: they're going to exist because it's reactionary. So it when
Speaker 2: if you lose to two good teams down the stretch.
Speaker 2: You leave yourself vulnerable for people to say that you
Speaker 2: can't be good teams, which will be the case until
Speaker 2: you do. So it's you know, I what my opinion
Speaker 2: on winning football games against you know, records that aren't
Speaker 2: above five hundred. It's irrelevant that that narrative will occur
Speaker 2: until you until you do things to change it. So
Speaker 2: you know, I don't get very mad at it or anything.
Speaker 2: I just let them know that that's coming. And so
Speaker 2: when they hear it, they're like, of course, because that's
Speaker 2: what it will be until you do something about it,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Fifth takeaway is that you have your wild card schedule
Speaker 3: out and we already know who we're playing and when
Speaker 3: we're playing. I'm sure you guys know us by now.
Speaker 3: But Kansas City at Arrowhead on Saturday night at eight
Speaker 3: o'clock for a primetime kickoff Tyreek.
Speaker 1: He does make his return.
Speaker 3: To the Arrowhead after the game that was supposed to
Speaker 3: be at Arrowhead wound up being in Germany this year,
Speaker 3: so he will make his return back to the Chiefs
Speaker 3: on a short week. It's going to be nine degrees
Speaker 3: give or take in Kansas City. The cold front coming
Speaker 3: across the entire nation, except for South Forward, of course,
Speaker 3: which won't make fridgid tempers across the nation, but negative
Speaker 3: or nine degrees rather inkse is the projected forecast against
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the defending Super Bowl champions,
Speaker 3: who are essentially coming off a bye week because they
Speaker 3: played almost nobody in their meaningless game against the Chargers today,
Speaker 3: and you're on a short week, so tough, tough road,
Speaker 3: tough game coming up, and you gotta find a way
Speaker 3: to get that victory because ultimately the season can still
Speaker 3: be a success, right if you get a playoff win
Speaker 3: and he race a big drought and then you get
Speaker 3: back to Baltimore, most likely to win that game.
Speaker 1: So that's down the road.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hear from coach on what he
Speaker 3: expects here this week and rematching a team they saw
Speaker 3: back in November.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know the Kansas City Chiefs play
Speaker 2: their style of defense. I think they're I think there
Speaker 2: will be a fair amounts. But things change during the season.
Speaker 2: Different players come in, there's injuries, there's evolution to what
Speaker 2: you're doing, so there's it's it's not like it's ever
Speaker 2: the exact same thing when you play someone in the
Speaker 2: middle of the season and you play them in the postseason.
Speaker 2: It's the same starting point, but both teams are going
Speaker 2: to be, you know, competing to get get a playoff win,
Speaker 2: so that usually and there's usually some belt and whistles
Speaker 2: attached to the game plan or to scheme and game plans,
Speaker 2: so you gotta be ready for a lot.
Speaker 1: That's the podcast, guys, tough one.
Speaker 3: I know we're all hurting tonight after this one, and
Speaker 3: probably stay off social media if you can for a
Speaker 3: few days. In the meantime, we'll come back on the
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Speaker 3: on Wednesday and previ be the Chiefs game. So that's
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