WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Fall to Buffalo, Lose Division 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.480 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:05.800 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.959 What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.120 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.560 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody? I am your host, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 Travis Wingfield. On today's show, the Dolphins lose a heartbreaker. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.239 It is a twenty one to fourteen. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.479 Loss to the Buffalo Bills that gives the Bills the 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.840 AFC East Crown. Miami now the sixth seed, will play 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.040 the Kansas City Chiefs on the road next week in 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.120 the opening round of the playoffs. We'll do the five takeaways, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.559 the game story here from head coach Mike McDaniel. All 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.320 of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.199 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:50.160 Miami Dolphins. This is the point of the episode where 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.080 I typically would do a monologue of some sort, telling 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.960 you about the feelings, the context, and you know, I 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.880 spent a lot of time in this role, in this 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.800 position trying to fight narratives that I think are unfair 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.120 or entirely misguided or lacking context, or whatever the reason 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.040 may be just trying to educate on why certain takes 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.280 or certain thoughts or certain beliefs just to me. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:11.319 Are missing the mark. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.960 And I'm not going to do that on this episode 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.080 because you know, McDaniel acknowledged it in his postgame press 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:21.760 conference that it's not necessarily you know, it's it's it's 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.080 something that it is what it is until you change it. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.480 Right in terms of the narrative about the Dolphins against 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.240 the top teams in the league one and five this year, 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.840 against teams with a winning record and the offensive you 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.920 know regression back to the points points per game and 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.800 their yardage and all the stats to go into how 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.199 the Dolphins have performed in the biggest games this year. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.000 They have a chance to write that ship next week. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:43.800 Once again, I talked about it from the Cowboys game. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.399 The Dolphins would have you know, four games essentially the 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.040 three and then into the playoffs, assuming they want a 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.520 game to get into the playoffs to right that wrong. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.360 And they still have another chance to do that. But 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.520 the offseason this year could be that potential storyline if 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.080 you don't get it fixed. And that's going to be 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.919 a lot different than last year. Right when we felt 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.120 like injuries, which is the case this year as well, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.640 but injuries to the quarterback position were what robbed this 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.600 team of potential good run deep into the postseason and 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.800 now this year. If things don't get corrected next week, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.320 that could be what you deal with for the next 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.560 seven months after the fact. But that is a future podcast. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.120 We're gonna get into this game, Get in and out 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.080 real quick. Here's some audio. Do the game story? Do 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.160 five real quick takeaways from the dolphins twenty one to 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.840 fourteen loss at home. Here to the Buffalo Bills to 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:31.919 fall so seven into a home this season, to fall 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.280 to eleven and six on the year, and despite a 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.760 better divisional record than the Buffalo Bills in the AFC 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.320 East or no right, they're both for four and two. 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:42.160 I'm sorry about that. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.160 But the Bills do get to sweep there, which gives 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.120 them the tiebreaker and the second seed in the playoffs. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.440 They get to host the Pittsburgh Sealers next week, and 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.400 the Dolphins now have to travel to KC on Saturday night. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.160 So pretty good showing early on from Miami. I mean, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.200 even into the fourth quarter, they had a seventy five 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.799 percent winning probability according to the Yahoo sports app here 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.000 that I'm looking at, But it got out of hand 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.640 pretty quickly there, and the Bills, you know, were dominant 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.320 in the stat sheet, and that's kind of you know, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.280 the Dolphins played a game that you thought they had 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.679 to to find a way to win. They running the 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.640 ball successful successfully in the first half, they were getting 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.400 the takeaways, they were getting the red zone stops, they 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.920 were executing the red zone themselves, and then it just 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.679 kind of went the other direction in the second half, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.520 mostly the fourth quarter there. But your stats, Buffalo had 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.280 ten more first downs twenty six to sixteen, thanks in 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.560 large part to thirty eight minutes of time possession compared 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.840 to twenty one fifty three for the Miami Dolphins. The 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.640 Dolphins had they were sacked just one time the Bills. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.800 The Dolphins got to Josh Allen three times for sacks, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.560 they turned them over three times. He had two picks 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.880 in the fumble. Miami had their own two turnovers as 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.360 well to a tongue of by Lowa interceptions. The Bills 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.200 out gained Miami four seventy three to two seventy five, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.200 so nearly two hundred and more yards then Miami. They 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.800 were nine for fifteen on third downs compared to Miami's 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.600 four for ten. They threw for three forty five compared 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.320 to Miami's one sixty seven, and had one twenty eight 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.160 on the ground pared to Miami's one o eight, but 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.520 seventy seven total plays compared to forty eight. That's kind 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.720 of the same script the game followed last year down 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.040 here in Miami when the Dolphins beat the Bills in 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.000 Week number three. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.600 But this one doesn't go the same way. Twenty one 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:13.840 to fourteen, Buffalo wins it. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.279 Let's go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.560 on next steps after a tough loss. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.040 Yeah, it's a new season. We have to as hard 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.039 as it is. That's part of the reason why you 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.520 have so much joy in the game is when when 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.240 you're you come out the right side, it's there's nothing 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:39.720 like it. And then the polar opposite, when you let 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:46.200 opportunities go by the wayside, it's it just completely absorbs you. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.600 So we don't have time to sulk or feel. You know, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.640 this is this is what happens in football. It's a 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.880 against a very good team. You know, our team really 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.440 really wanted it bad, but wanting you still got to 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:08.720 do the things in football too to come out victorious. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:15.440 We didn't, So I've I'm very confident that our our 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:21.760 players and coaches will uh turn their attention full bore 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.920 two to our our to Kansas City, because that's all 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:32.640 we can do, and that this is a uh this 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:40.960 is a feeling that uh I can't console or or 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.680 fix it with the team. It hurts it should we 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.839 we lost the game that we think we're capable of winning. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:55.799 Hats off to the Buffalo Bills for coming uh coming 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.520 in here and and winning the game. But yeah, we'll 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.400 focus immediately on Kansas City because that's that's the only 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.560 way that you can really get through something like this. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.240 Yeah, He's definitely right about the highs and lows of 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.680 this sport in this league. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.400 Man, I'm driving over here from the stadium thinking about 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.800 the way I felt on Christmas Eve driving over to 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.880 the postgame show or the recap podcast for the Cowboys. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.040 Compared to this, I always say like, my job isn't 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.400 actually work, But on games like this, this is when 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.040 the work actually happened. Let's go ahead and get through 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.080 the whole game script here and start with the Dolphins 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.960 opening drive which ended in a pick five plays nineteen yards, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.760 you get an explosive play out the gate to devon 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:36.960 a Chan for sixteen yards where he breaks a tackle 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.279 and shows you great contact balance and you're thinking, Okay, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.640 this could be how this game goes the entire time. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.640 Then you get a third and seven situation after the 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.359 same play loses three yards, and then you get a 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.040 completion to get you back into manageable third down situation. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.800 But then TWA takes a deep shot and Tyreek had 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.240 a step on Christian Benford and the ball was a 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.440 little bit back on the backside behind Tyreek, and that 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.600 allowed benfor I think, to make some a really good 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.080 play and recover on the football and go pick it off, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.200 and then the Bills get the ball back. And you know, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.800 I complain for years now that it seems like Buffalo 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.040 always finds a way to get a significant lead in 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.400 the game against Miami early on, especially you know seven 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.360 zero out the gate, gold drive, the opening drive down 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.240 into the end zone. But not in this one, even 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.120 though it looked like a twelve plays seventy nine yard 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.560 drive that ends in a pick, I thought that Buffalo 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.160 was doing good job on this drive. And this is 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.440 why these games tend to be so lopsided for Buffalo 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.520 in terms of how many plays they run to Miami 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.600 is they just hit these short gains and run the 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.240 football and find a way to sustain their third down, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.480 you know, sustain their drives. A third down execution nine 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.480 for fifteen on the day, and in this first drive, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.120 I thought they were doing a good job of just 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.920 taking the short stuff. You know, Miami's in the too 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.880 high shell quite frequently. We saw some Javon Holland roll 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.320 down and play slot corner, which would then have Brandon 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.480 Jones in a deep position. With Deshaun Elliott, you'd see 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.080 Jones roll down and kind of play a quasi linebacker role. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.160 So lots of variation there, and the Bills were finding 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.680 success and just kind of, you know, staying on schedule. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.920 But with all the confusion of the different looks, Miami 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.720 did a good job of getting to Allen and forcing 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.760 mistakes on those long drives, which is what you want 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.320 to do because you have to take away that guy's 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.960 ability to make the big splash play because he's so 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.400 damn gifted at doing that. But then you have to 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.400 capitalize when he puts the ball in your hands because 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.840 he is a very high variance quarterback right and so 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.120 down in a gold line situation, they had a first 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.360 down run stuff a really good coverage rap by Kater 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.800 Kohu kind of dealing with a mesh concept and a 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.240 shallow cross that he didn't get rubbed on makes the 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.040 play for the breakup, and then they thrown all out 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.200 blitz and Allen makes a bad decision in a bad 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.520 throw and puts the ball in Eli Apples's hands so 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.160 they don't think the football right back. And then they 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.000 go back and they punt the ball after a good 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.679 drive that helped flip the field six play fifty one 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.200 yard drive where they got kray Craft on a slant 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.040 tyreek for a deep curl and you're thinking, once again, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.840 seventeen nineteen yards. You go to Devon a Chan for 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.480 eleven on that same flip, and Seth made a good 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.600 comment where he said that eight chan makes Seth Levett, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.719 my co host on the postgame show. He made a 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.480 comment about how these six yard runs for most guys 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.640 can become eleven yard runs with Devon a Chan because 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.600 of the speed he has where he just outruns guys 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.680 and you have a bad angle on him. So it 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.000 looks like Miami early in the game, after a couple 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.960 of picks by either quarterback is gonna put this ball 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.720 in the paint. Things bogged down. You get a short 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.480 run of throwaway, then a miss on an outroude of 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.280 the Tyreek and he caught up but didn't get the 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.400 feet down punt the ball back. You get another Josh 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.720 Allen pick six play, fifty four yard drive. He missed 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.040 Stefan Diggs in the one play where I thought he 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.400 really beat Jalen Ramsey down the field would have been 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.079 an eighty nine yard touchdown, but he threw it way 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:25.920 too far from him. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:26.880 But then they did get. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.200 An explosive play on a little screen pass where I 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.640 thought Miami got too sucked in taking underneath the little 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.280 block on the perimeter the safety roll down. I think 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.280 it was Brandon Jones in the play went down underneath 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.480 the block and that opened up the outside lane and 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.760 the receiver Khalil Shaker was able to get up the perimeter, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.080 you know, outrun David long outrun I think it was 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.640 to Shawn Elliott at that point before finally being usher 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.440 out of bounds. But then you come right back and 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.720 it's long and Elliott on a run stuff it's Christian 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.320 Wilkins on a pressure that forces an incomplete pass. And 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.440 then you get another play where they try to do 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.680 a quarterback draw and Christian Wilkins comes off of his 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.760 block and gets Josh Allen to the and it's looking 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.560 like Wilkins is going to make back to back plays. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.920 Then they go for it on fourth down, and once 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.240 again the Dolphins front did a good job of kind 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.160 of hemming Allen into the pocket. And I talked about 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.240 this with Seth again in the press box during the game, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.040 like he was getting out of the pocket, but they 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.080 were hemming him into where he couldn't wrap around that 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.240 outside contained and attack the line to either run or throw, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.960 which put him in a throw situations. And Mimi got 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.000 lots of good stops and a good success right early 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.480 on in the game by doing that. And on the 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.000 fourth down, play man Andrew van Ginkel re routed Stefan 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.360 Diggs and put him on the turf and it kind 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.800 of sent the whole play out of whack. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.200 So just team effort. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:35.880 He throws a prayer up into the end zone to 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.200 Shawn Elliott, picks it off and the Dolphins take over 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.160 again for back to back picks, and they go down 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.360 the field and score eighty yard drive eleven plays where 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.920 it's consistent run game. It's Tedrick Wilson for nine yards. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.560 It's Braxon Barrios picking up a first down. They were 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.280 second and sixteen behind the chains, and Tua throws a 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.680 third and fourteen dart for twenty three yards of tyreek 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.040 between four Bills defenders, just cruising. Then Jeff Wilson gets 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.240 rolling with big chunks of yards, then two runs for 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.880 a first down Nike bootleg, and then Devon Achan just 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.240 puts everybody in a buying with an outside run with 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.480 a great cut to find the end zone. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.160 And it's midway through the second quarter. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.560 Seven toahan Dolphins, big boy drive, their healthy offensive line, 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.560 well you know, relatively speaking, healthy offensive line, pushing the 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.920 Bills back, getting some mix of running pass game, big 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.320 plays like. It was looking good at that point, and 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.760 it looked good for further, even though the Bills took 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.560 the next drive seven plays, seventy five yards with a 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.280 couple of explosive plays, including a perfect throw from Josh 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.680 Allen to Stefan Diggs for thirty six yards over Eli Apple, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.400 who was in great position to make a play in 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.480 the ball with the ball was just perfectly thrown. We've 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.920 talked about in this podcast lots with this offense, right, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.600 perfect balls typically cannot be defended, and that was the 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.960 case here. They get a first down stop and then 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.800 the second down play from second and goal from you know, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.040 closer to the ten yard line than the goal line. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.760 You get a ball bat at the line of scrimmage 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.400 that could be third and goal from the seven or 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.040 eight yard line, but instead it falls down right into 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.160 Trent Sherfield's hands in the back of the end zone 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.520 for one of the luckiest touchdowns you'll ever see. But 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.360 I won't, you know, complain about that because I thought 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.840 Miami over when you look at the game script and 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.240 the stats, they were kind of fortunate to the score 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.760 was that close, just based upon the yards and whatnot. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.520 So they take it in the field score touchdown. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.600 But then Miami bounces right back and scores a touchdown 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.280 of their own, a nine play, seventy five yard drive 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.000 towards the end of the half. And it's this team 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.800 that has done this all year long to score before 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.800 the half, Like it was really impressive looking you got 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.760 another situation where they ran the ball for nine yards. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.200 Then two of finds durham smythe on a little option 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.120 route where he looks at the slide and throws the 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.400 glance on the middle for a first down. You're thinking, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.640 all right, this is rolling again. And then we got 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.600 a huge moment in the game, and I tweeted about it. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.240 I put in my notes a third and three from 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.880 the plus thirty six two minute warning, Buffalo had all 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:38.719 three timeouts. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.320 Tie game. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.839 They get the stop there, maybe you kick a field goal, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.400 or maybe they get a four. They go for a 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.880 fourth down, they get a stop there. You're playing tie 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.840 game with them having the ball and the ball to 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.040 start the second half. That was an important spot to 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.280 kind of get the last shot, and they did more 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.240 than that because Tua threw one of his best throws 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.200 of the day, a twenty four yard pass on a 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.400 corner route just Hedrick Wilson that could not have been 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.880 laid out there more perfect. A couple of plays later, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.800 Tyreek catches a little Texas route screen type of pass 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.280 for a nine yards down to the three yard line 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.000 to put him in third and one and then two. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.880 It throws a strike on a speed out to Tyreek 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.240 Hill for the touchdown, and it's fourteen to seven with 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.480 under two minutes to play in the half, like you're 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.640 in a great spot, right, But then the Bills come 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.400 down and they might score a touchdown of their own 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.400 because they get a ten play seventy three yard drive 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.520 where Allen extended a couple of plays, got a first 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.040 down on a scramble, and then with twenty one seconds 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:27.840 to go with the plus twenty three, they had a 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.920 drop pass in the end zone and then Mini played 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.160 this kind of off coverage akin to the Charger game 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.360 last year, kind of protecting the end zone, and the 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.560 Bills took and easy thirteen yards and got out of bounds. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.680 So they're at the ten yard line with eleven seconds 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.719 and Allan throws the ball into the field, which is 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.560 the biggest no no quarterback can make, and he got 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.280 punished for it because Jerome Baker comes from nowhere to 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.040 make a great stick on the uh shoot who was 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.080 Ty Johnson was the pass catcher on that play gets 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:56.880 shut down at the one yard line, a kin to 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.480 the nineteen ninety nine Super Bowl between the Titans and 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.800 Rams when Cavan Dyson was a yard short in that one, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.560 he and Eli Apples your own Baker Apple team up 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.400 for that big stop there. Mimmi takes a fourteen to 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.720 seven lead into the locker room and like, how much 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.400 more momentum can you get? Right? And then you get 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.720 even more because Buffalo comes out and runs an eight 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.000 play nineteen yard drive where Andrew Van Ginkle gets injured 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.360 and has to come out of the game and is 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.240 ruled out almost immediately, and you know you're already down 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.000 chubbs and fill up, and you're thinking this is not 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.680 a good spot to be in. But then you get 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.040 a play from Melvin Ingram to get a sack and 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.800 get Josh Allen to the ground, and so Mimi's gonna 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.240 get the football back with a touchdown lead. The offense 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.680 is role and the run games working, but that's when 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.560 things fell apart offensively. The Dolphins go three and out, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.520 three plays, nine yards, a screen, a little slide pass 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.120 to Julian Hill, then Braxon Burrios is like a half 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.440 a yard short of a first down. Really good tackle 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.280 there by Dan Jackson. So Mimi goes three and out 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.520 with three passes. Buffalo gets the football back. Josh Allen 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.760 fumbles the ball back to the Miami Dolphins. This is again, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.920 this is where I thought the game was really gonna 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.400 go in the Miami Dolphins direction. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.360 Fourteen plays, forty nine yards. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.880 They got a good play by Cameron Good again talking 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.480 about next man up. You get Van Ginkle goes down, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.680 Melvin gets the sack, camera Good makes a play for 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.280 a one yard run. Then Melvin Ingram draws a hold, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.960 but then Josh Allen negates that because he gets a 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.760 crazy scramble for thirteen yards and then gets a conversion 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.680 to Dalton King Kid. They Dolphin send another all out blitz. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.640 He does a fadeaway shot that gets in there for 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.320 a first down, just finding ways to kind of mix 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.720 and match against this really good quarterback. And then they 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.080 get a third and thirteen play in field goal range 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.000 and Christian Wilkins disarms the right guard completely, swim move 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.880 right past him, wraps Josh Allen up punches the ball out. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:31.920 Makes the play of the. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.680 Night at that point, and you get a takeaway very 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.640 late in the third quarter to get the football back 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.160 up by touchdown, potentially a kill drive opportunity right go 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.120 put him away right here. I thought that was an 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.560 awesome chance, and what happens a four play, one yard drive. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.280 And this is where I thought the turning point of 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.800 the game was. In fact, let's go ahead and take 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.640 our first break right there. I'll come back and tell 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.440 you about that turning point on the other side. Draft 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.920 Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by 0:15:55.000 --> 0:16:01.000 Auto Nation. First play of this drive, after the Christian 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.200 Wilkins strip, sack and recovery, the trifecta, as it were, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.240 a sack, strip and recovery, Dolphins go fifteen yards to 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:08.960 Tyreek Hill to start that drive, but then they go 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.600 false start. But then on second and fifteen or first 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.280 and fifteen rather, Tua throws a shot over the middle, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.040 and McDaniel mentions this in his postgame press conference that 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.720 he thought we had a miss, a drop and just 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.640 basically a gaggle of errors that caused the offense to 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.600 bog down in that second half. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.480 And that was kind of the start up right there. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.240 And I thought, if they give Tyreek that catch, they 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.600 overturned it after looking at the replay, and again that 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.160 ball should have been much higher. He should have ran 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.040 through that catch and had a first down. But either way, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.360 if you catch it for fourteen yards right there, it's 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.600 second one at midfield. Instead it becomes second and fifteen. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.640 Then you get an offensive blindside block like OPI combination 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.640 foul and alec Ingold that winds up making a second 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.760 and thirty. Then you have to kind of concede the drive, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.080 a run a past Derm Smith, pump the ball away 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.960 and you're still okay, right, And I even leaned over 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.880 to Seth when the pump was in the air and said, oh, 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.400 he's gonna catch this thing. He backs up to the 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.000 four yard line and Justin Bethel and Cameron Good are 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.320 down there and we missed the initial tackle and Cam 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.840 Good takes the block that winds up, you know, making 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.280 creating injury that would have him leave the game on 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.240 a cart. And that's when the game turned, because he 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.480 takes it ninety six yards for a touchdown ties it 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.960 up at fourteen and even still Miami has a chance 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.240