Speaker 1: To remove dall In Deep speedwas peast Hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please joy my ad
Speaker 2: hands in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome
Speaker 2: to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: And on today's show, a frustrating loss in Indianapolis, a
Speaker 2: Dolphins fall sixteen to ten after scoring the first ten
Speaker 2: points of the game. The Colts would close it out
Speaker 2: at the final sixteen points of the game, and it
Speaker 2: felt like Miami had four or five critical moments that
Speaker 2: could have gone their way to change the tune of
Speaker 2: the entire game, but it never happened that way as
Speaker 2: the Colts took advantage and win the game.
Speaker 1: We'll do the.
Speaker 2: Script and the stats and the five takeaways and hear
Speaker 2: from coach Mike McDaniel on the Sunday night recap edition
Speaker 2: of the Drift Time podcast from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 2: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time.
Speaker 2: Hoss I mentioned the four or five critical moments off
Speaker 2: the top that kind of seemed like Miami had every
Speaker 2: single chance within those moments to seize this game and
Speaker 2: put themselves in a three to three position after one
Speaker 2: of the more frustrating five or six week runs we've
Speaker 2: seen with this current iteration of the Miami Dolphins, and
Speaker 2: they just couldn't find a way to close out the game,
Speaker 2: and even late had a chance to drive the field
Speaker 2: in the two minute drill and go win the game,
Speaker 2: albeit with one of your four quarterbacks. And he was
Speaker 2: the third quarterback to play for the Dolphins this year,
Speaker 2: and with Huntley getting the spot over to Tim Boyle,
Speaker 2: he essentially was the fourth quarterback option for the Dolphins
Speaker 2: going into the year. So you can't expect that to
Speaker 2: work out in your favor, I don't think. But it
Speaker 2: tells you just how many opportunities there were in this
Speaker 2: game for the Dolphins to find their way into the
Speaker 2: Winter Circle and to undo a lot of the stuff
Speaker 2: that put them behind the eight ball early on this season.
Speaker 2: And just real quick, I gotta mention it because you
Speaker 2: can probably tell I lost my voice a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago and I'm trying to get it back. I
Speaker 2: just did two hours of radio drinking plenty of tea
Speaker 2: with some honey, So bear with me as we get
Speaker 2: through this. Show here both from a perspective of the
Speaker 2: difficult nature of the content we're about to cover and
Speaker 2: another loss or and I should say the host's voice
Speaker 2: being pretty much nonchalant. I don't have a certain register
Speaker 2: that I usually do, so I'm trying to get my
Speaker 2: most radio voice for you guys here as I possibly can.
Speaker 2: But man, I just I'm gonna be thinking about this
Speaker 2: game all week in what an opportunity lost it felt like.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to harp on it in the
Speaker 2: beginning of the show because we'll do what we normally
Speaker 2: do and go over the game script. But it just
Speaker 2: felt like there were so many moments that Miami could
Speaker 2: have seized control and put this game to rest and
Speaker 2: put themselves in prime position. It's about twenty five out
Speaker 2: here in the East Coast. Could have wrapped this podcast
Speaker 2: up and gone to watch the New York Jets hopefully
Speaker 2: lose another football game and made it a great Sunday.
Speaker 2: But it didn't turn out that way, as the Dolphins
Speaker 2: do fall sixteen to ten. Here are the numbers for
Speaker 2: the game. The Dolphins had more first downs eighteen to sixteen.
Speaker 2: They were better on third down. They were six for
Speaker 2: fifteen where the Colts were just four of thirteen. The
Speaker 2: Dolphins had the only failure on fourth down in the game.
Speaker 2: It was the last drive of the game for the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: the Tim Boyle to League Washington shot that went out
Speaker 2: of bounds. Miami out gained Indy three thirty seven to
Speaker 2: two eighty four. They outpassed Indy one forty nine to
Speaker 2: one twenty nine. They out rushed Indy one eighty eight
Speaker 2: to one fifty five. They ran seven more plays sixty
Speaker 2: eight to sixty one. They had three more rush attempts.
Speaker 2: They did have two more turnovers, They were sacked twice
Speaker 2: compared to getting zero sacks, and they did have two
Speaker 2: more penalties, six for fifty yards. But that's a pretty
Speaker 2: good number compared to four for twenty five for the Colts.
Speaker 2: And Miami had the ball for thirty one minutes and
Speaker 2: eleven seconds in this game. And let's just go over
Speaker 2: it from the top, because I think that's the best
Speaker 2: way to do this and not harp on any individual
Speaker 2: things from the top here and just take it as
Speaker 2: it goes in chronological order. So kicked off with a
Speaker 2: couple of three and outs to kick off the game.
Speaker 2: Both teams had the ball for three plays and took
Speaker 2: it for four yards and it was Devon ah Chan
Speaker 2: was the bell cow back once again after he missed
Speaker 2: the most of the Patriots game. We saw jaln Wright
Speaker 2: get some run on the Patriots game and a few
Speaker 2: carries in this one down the stretch, but a Chan
Speaker 2: was back in that main role, wearing the Guardian cap
Speaker 2: two by the way, which I thought was interesting to
Speaker 2: see as he comes back from that concussion he suffered
Speaker 2: last week, and we don't see many guys in the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: He's the first guy to wear a Guardian cap this year.
Speaker 2: I think that he is. But it was the same
Speaker 2: stuff you've been seeing all year long. Those first couple
Speaker 2: of drives defensively and offensively. We saw Kalaius Campbell mack
Speaker 2: a TfL right away, and I just wanted to point
Speaker 2: out how often he plays that four or five technique
Speaker 2: where he's on the tackle or wider in terms of
Speaker 2: his alignment, and how he and Seler and their versatility
Speaker 2: to do that gives this Dolphins front so much flexibility
Speaker 2: with how many guys they're down off the edge right now.
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Ogbah did not play in this game. At one point,
Speaker 2: Chop Robinson had to leave the game with an injury.
Speaker 2: He did return to the game. Obviously, no JP, obviously
Speaker 2: the Shaq Barrett retirement, obviously, no Bradley Chubb, cam good.
Speaker 2: It's really thin out there. But these Dolphins edges, or
Speaker 2: rather defensive tackles, I should say, I really afford the
Speaker 2: Dolphins the opportunity to get more defensive tackles on the
Speaker 2: field and run stuff off of the Seiler and Campbell
Speaker 2: in terms of defensive edge package with what they can
Speaker 2: do there, and I think that you see some of
Speaker 2: the impact in that in the run defense at times,
Speaker 2: because again I continue to harp on this as well,
Speaker 2: I think the run defense has been pretty good this
Speaker 2: year on a play by play basis. It's the explosive
Speaker 2: plays that have gotten them, and that happened in this
Speaker 2: game a couple of times as well. And typically that's
Speaker 2: when you don't have your normal rotation of Seler and
Speaker 2: Campbell with you know previously JP and you know Emmanuel
Speaker 2: Ogba out there as well. So a war of attrition
Speaker 2: for the Dolphins here trying to get through this thing
Speaker 2: from a personnel perspective, But the defense played so good.
Speaker 2: They go three and out to start three and out.
Speaker 2: On the second drive, this was a three play, no
Speaker 2: yard drive for twenty one seconds. I had Jordan Brooks
Speaker 2: finding really good depth in the hook zone all day long,
Speaker 2: getting his depth for his drops there and breaking up
Speaker 2: a pass and damn near picked it off. Cater Cohu
Speaker 2: follows up with a great squad on the top of
Speaker 2: a little hook route and drives down the stem on
Speaker 2: that for a pass breakup. A Tias Bowser pressure turns
Speaker 2: into a shot against Jalen Ramsey in coverage. So you
Speaker 2: had the same guys that were just continuously getting after
Speaker 2: on this defense. It's been Ramsey, it's been Fuller, it's
Speaker 2: been cater Cohu, it's been Seeler, it's been Campbell, it's
Speaker 2: been Brooks, it's been d Long. These guys continue to
Speaker 2: make so many plays and have been really the backbone
Speaker 2: of a damn good defense of the first six games
Speaker 2: of the NFL season, and the Dolphins offense pays it
Speaker 2: off with an eleven play, fifty eight yard drive that
Speaker 2: took almost six minutes off the clock. The drive started
Speaker 2: their own forty two yard line. Eight of those eleven
Speaker 2: players were on the ground. They opened up the play
Speaker 2: action passing game which they keep running that little fake
Speaker 2: toss action and then throw the glance or the slant
Speaker 2: in behind the displaced hook zone linebacker. It looks very
Speaker 2: how do I say this like NFL level, Like it
Speaker 2: looks professional football level. Despite the fact that you're going
Speaker 2: through all these quarterback changes and you're starting to kind
Speaker 2: of get hunting more and more into the flow of things,
Speaker 2: it looked really good. It looked like the script should
Speaker 2: look for a team trying to win a game without
Speaker 2: their starting quarterback, and it looked like it was going
Speaker 2: to happen there for a long stretch of this game.
Speaker 2: To put yourself back in this kind of the driver's seat,
Speaker 2: I mean, not the of the NFL, but of your
Speaker 2: own season. And again it's not to say that that's
Speaker 2: not the case going forward at two and four held
Speaker 2: the Dolphins with the playoffs in twenty sixteen after a
Speaker 2: two and four start I think it was actually one
Speaker 2: in four start that year, and so you can bounce
Speaker 2: back from this, but it just feels like such a
Speaker 2: missed opportunity. As the offense found that early rhythm you had,
Speaker 2: Tea Stead was blowing dudes off the football. Robert Jones
Speaker 2: getting to that second level, getting some critical attachments up there.
Speaker 2: Aaron Brewer, he and Ti said, had the critical blocks
Speaker 2: on that little check screen, the little chip and release
Speaker 2: screen for Jonas Smith after a bad sack on second
Speaker 2: in goal. They get the touchdown on third and goal
Speaker 2: from the ten yard line, and they played such good
Speaker 2: football with Liam Miikeenberg digging out the backside of forced
Speaker 2: defenders and Austin Jackson doing what he does every single week,
Speaker 2: opening up these big lanes, getting serious vertical displacement on
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage and finding ways to attack the
Speaker 2: Colts passing defense with the action you get from the
Speaker 2: overplay off your success in the running game. So that
Speaker 2: eleven play drive was a chan. It was raheem. It
Speaker 2: was some passing game. It was John new Smith just
Speaker 2: looked the part man. They went down the field and
Speaker 2: scored that touchdown seven zip in the first quarter, and
Speaker 2: then the Colts get the ball and maybe we're gonna
Speaker 2: have an offensive shootout at this point. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of silly to say, you know now in hindsight, but
Speaker 2: they go eleven plays, they take it seventy two yards
Speaker 2: and we had some you know, some miss gaps I
Speaker 2: thought in the running game, which was kind of again
Speaker 2: where those plays come from. Where you get one, you know,
Speaker 2: one gap and a half defensive tackle can't get off
Speaker 2: of his block, a linebacker tries to make up for
Speaker 2: it and shoots a gap, and you wind up having
Speaker 2: multiple guys in the same gap. That seems to be
Speaker 2: where the run defensive miss has come from, not so
Speaker 2: much an individual per respective as it does a team
Speaker 2: aspect with the entire collection of guys on those given plays.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, it was pretty good, and
Speaker 2: that drive had that twenty nine yard defense or touchdown
Speaker 2: that would have been a touchdown, I should say, but
Speaker 2: was nullified because of the offsetting fouls on the defensive
Speaker 2: pass interference on Kendall Fuller and the illegal formation. I
Speaker 2: don't know what Kendall did on that play. He kind
Speaker 2: of got pushed over and got flagged for it, and
Speaker 2: that kind of could have been a major turning point
Speaker 2: for the Colts favor in that game. But then you
Speaker 2: get that great Jordan Brooks pass breakup where he gets
Speaker 2: length in the middle of the field and extends to
Speaker 2: break that thing up. And he's been doing that all
Speaker 2: year long, and you're starting to see his Seahawks tape
Speaker 2: that made him so special. I thought, really translate to
Speaker 2: the middle of the Dolphins defense. Then you finally lost
Speaker 2: Kntanon Richard says. He breaks a bunch of tackles off
Speaker 2: of a blitz that got home and ran for the
Speaker 2: first down after he shook off Zach Seeler, which tells
Speaker 2: you how strong this guy is. But they convert, and
Speaker 2: then it goes right back to the Dolphins because on
Speaker 2: the very next play they lose the snap and Zack
Speaker 2: Steeler jumps in and falls in the football and gets
Speaker 2: it right back to Miami me who coming off probably
Speaker 2: their best drive, maybe their second best drive behind the
Speaker 2: Patriots drive a couple weeks ago that won the game
Speaker 2: of the post Tua injury Dolphins we've seen so far
Speaker 2: over the last four games. And you get the ball
Speaker 2: back and you're thinking, hey, go do it again, go
Speaker 2: score some points. And they do get good displacement and
Speaker 2: they drive the Colts off the football once again, but
Speaker 2: we get a low block call on alec Ingold. Then
Speaker 2: we get a little Tyreek Hill jet sweep and he
Speaker 2: comes back with the wattle crackback for six yards and
Speaker 2: then we get Johnny on that fake toss play and
Speaker 2: move the chains and overcome first and sixteen. All right,
Speaker 2: this is the offense that we loved the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. Then a Chan hits it for fifteen yards
Speaker 2: behind blocks, behind Testead and Rob Jones and Aaron Brewer.
Speaker 2: They're just moving guys off the football, and then we
Speaker 2: get kind of behind the chains, a mispass and a
Speaker 2: failed run for just one yard, and then Snoop tries
Speaker 2: to scramble off script, and you know, this is a
Speaker 2: tough offense to get down. I'll talk about this in
Speaker 2: the takeaways later on, but sometimes it felt like there
Speaker 2: were opportunities to kind of stick the foot in the
Speaker 2: ground drives and throws. We'll take a look at the
Speaker 2: tape tomorrow and see if that can happen. But that
Speaker 2: has just been such a missing aspect of this offense.
Speaker 2: Doesn't find what he wants to, scrambles, gets tackled short
Speaker 2: of the sticks, punt the ball back. But I'm okay
Speaker 2: with that because you just flip the feel for thirty
Speaker 2: yards by driving the ball down there, and what do
Speaker 2: you know, you get a Colts three and out three
Speaker 2: play six yard drive where DeShawn Han whacks a pulling
Speaker 2: tackle and knocks him on the ground for a big stop.
Speaker 2: You get a blitz that forces a quick throw, and
Speaker 2: then a third and four and Fuller drives on a
Speaker 2: stick route and makes the play for the pass breakup.
Speaker 2: These guys were all over the receivers all day long,
Speaker 2: driving on those routes and making it tough on Richardson
Speaker 2: and company. And the Dolphins get it right back for
Speaker 2: an eight play, three yard drive that should have been
Speaker 2: way more because you once again first two plays. That
Speaker 2: drive is a nine yard Raheem Moster run that was good.
Speaker 2: That one didn't get negated. But his thirty two yard
Speaker 2: run where I thought they kind of incorrectly flagg Durham
Speaker 2: smythe and it was close. I'll say it's definitely a
Speaker 2: bang bang play, but man I thought that he really
Speaker 2: hooked the defender and let him go at the critical point,
Speaker 2: and the defender didn't ask for the flag, which usually
Speaker 2: guys these days only ask for those flags. It would
Speaker 2: have been first and ten up seven off of a
Speaker 2: touchdown drive off of a three and out with your
Speaker 2: ball at the plus thirty two yard line, but you
Speaker 2: get called for a holding on Durham spythe then it
Speaker 2: comes back and guess what they overcome it. They end
Speaker 2: up getting themselves a first down after Huntley scrambles for
Speaker 2: a first down, and then we get another foul behind
Speaker 2: the chains a face mask that goes for fifteen yards,
Speaker 2: and then you get yourself on a first and twenty four.
Speaker 2: You run for one second and twenty three. You get
Speaker 2: an off side call that gets negated because it's a
Speaker 2: short scramble, and then a third and eighteen pass to
Speaker 2: Obj and he can't hang on to it. Wouldn't have
Speaker 2: enough for the first down anyways. You punt it right
Speaker 2: back to the Colts, and then what do they do
Speaker 2: but punt the ball back to you on a five
Speaker 2: to play fourteen yard drive where Ramsey is blitzing all
Speaker 2: over the quarterback and gets in there one time and
Speaker 2: can't bring him down, gets back into the second time,
Speaker 2: forces the ball will come out of his hands, and
Speaker 2: then they run that quarterback sweep where he runs it
Speaker 2: wide and slips down to the turf and Jordan pull
Speaker 2: your touches him down. Punt the ball right back to
Speaker 2: the Dolphins and they take it nine plays sixty five
Speaker 2: yards for a field goal in two and a half minutes,
Speaker 2: alec Ingold catches the wheel route, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: another one hundred bucks to the SOS Children's Villages of
Speaker 2: South Florida Playground campaign because of his foundation. You go
Speaker 2: a ten yard run to eight chen once again behind Jones,
Speaker 2: Brewer and Jackson all pushing him for three extra yards.
Speaker 2: I love the tenacity of the offensive line at that
Speaker 2: point of the game. They were knocking guys off the
Speaker 2: football and playing with a certain level of spirit and tenacity,
Speaker 2: and it was working. You get a third and three
Speaker 2: one twenty one to play in the half ball and
Speaker 2: the thirty four yard line. Huge play, and once again
Speaker 2: Stoop has to create a little bit finds John who
Speaker 2: for twelve yards moves the change that little release valve.
Speaker 2: I love what he's done for this offense in terms
Speaker 2: of his feel for space and how he can kind
Speaker 2: of expand stuff beyond a team that, like the Colts,
Speaker 2: for instance, the only plays cover one, cover three for
Speaker 2: the most part we talked about on the PREV podcast,
Speaker 2: and this game they were in too high all game long,
Speaker 2: because well, you have to play that way to slow
Speaker 2: down Reek and Waddle, so you kind of could take
Speaker 2: advantage of that space with John Whu he was doing
Speaker 2: plenty of it. And then the third and four call
Speaker 2: to OBJ, they can't get the completion. Kenny Moore makes
Speaker 2: a great play for the pass breakup running out of
Speaker 2: a bunch set there behind Tyreek Hill, but the field
Speaker 2: goals and then that's kind of where things stopped being
Speaker 2: good for the Dolphins. The Colts go a four play
Speaker 2: thirty six yard drive and kick a fifty two yard
Speaker 2: field goal twenty two yards to Alec Pierce gets dropped
Speaker 2: that that would have been a big game for them,
Speaker 2: but then they go thirty three yards right back to
Speaker 2: Michael Pittman and it kind of seemed like they took
Speaker 2: the gas their foot off the gas pedal the Dolphins did,
Speaker 2: and allowed the Colts to get right in a field
Speaker 2: goal range to make a big time field goal before halftime.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins ran the ball twenty five times in the
Speaker 2: first half for one hundred and fifteen yards, consistently displaced
Speaker 2: the Colts defensive line. The play action game was opening
Speaker 2: things up. All that was being effective and working Jonathan
Speaker 2: Smith four for fifty six in a touchdown in the
Speaker 2: first half, and despite the fact that Reeke and Waddle
Speaker 2: combined for no targets and you're still winning a game.
Speaker 2: It felt like it was very comfortably like you're in
Speaker 2: a good spot. But then things just continue to get
Speaker 2: kind of they didn't like get much worse, but they
Speaker 2: just like never got better. If that makes sense. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and put a pennant rate there. Come back
Speaker 2: on the other side. Break down the second half where
Speaker 2: things went wrong for the Dolphins. That's next Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 2: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 2: So it's ten to three, Dolphins have the lead and
Speaker 2: the football. You're feeling pretty good about things where this
Speaker 2: defense is playing, and they take the ball and go
Speaker 2: four plays fifteen yards and punt it right back to
Speaker 2: the Colts. We had a big run for eight chan
Speaker 2: once again to kick things off for eleven yards, and
Speaker 2: then you get yourself a couple of good runs set
Speaker 2: up a third and three, which is again where you
Speaker 2: want to be, and they throw the ball down the
Speaker 2: field to Tyreek Hill in a position where it looks
Speaker 2: like this might be our long breakthrough touchdown for him
Speaker 2: that we finally get. The Dolphins earned this man coverage.
Speaker 2: They were in single high press coverage and you had Wilton,
Speaker 2: the boundary one on one, you had Reek and the
Speaker 2: slot one on one. What more could you ask for?
Speaker 2: The ball is right there, but Tyreek never locates the
Speaker 2: football and never looks back for it. It goes incomplete
Speaker 2: and it fell in a position that I just kind
Speaker 2: of felt like it was gonna be a touchdown if
Speaker 2: he was just looking back for the football. And that again,
Speaker 2: all these little plays, you know, the end of the
Speaker 2: half field goal for the Colts could have cut to
Speaker 2: a two score game. This touchdown that could have been
Speaker 2: could have been touchdown, would have given you a seventeen
Speaker 2: to three lead. These opportunities just continue to slip through
Speaker 2: their fingers. And we're gonna hear from head coach Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel in just one second, and you can hear the
Speaker 2: frustration in his voice, and gosh, like, I think all
Speaker 2: of us feel that way too, because it's all right
Speaker 2: there and if this one, you know, a couple of
Speaker 2: games previously, maybe the Titans, even though it got away late,
Speaker 2: just felt like you had opportunities to win some of
Speaker 2: these games they've they've gone by the board. So you
Speaker 2: dug yourself into an early hole at two and four,
Speaker 2: but that's where it is right now, So you punt
Speaker 2: the ball back to the Colts. They go three and out,
Speaker 2: and once again Ramsey coming down the line scrimmage filling
Speaker 2: the flat for a one yard game where he kind
Speaker 2: of plays off the deeper route and comes up into
Speaker 2: the flat and mixed tackle on the little swing route,
Speaker 2: and then Richardson has a misfire throw, which the Dolphins
Speaker 2: created plenty of those in this game. And then they
Speaker 2: had a fantastic pass rush. And this is where I
Speaker 2: love what Anthony Weaver's done all year long, where he
Speaker 2: runs these two slants that kind of widen the formation
Speaker 2: and you bring the linebacker looping around the other side,
Speaker 2: and it creates this like interior pocket for Richardson and
Speaker 2: step up in two. But it hems off all the
Speaker 2: perimeter stuff where he can get on the edge and
Speaker 2: start dropping shoulders on defensive backs, forces him to run
Speaker 2: through Jordan Brooks and David Long or you know, Jordan
Speaker 2: Poyer and Elijah Campbell or Marcus may and they're consistently
Speaker 2: filling those lanes and running them off and making plays there,
Speaker 2: and they get them right off the field. Dolphins get
Speaker 2: the football right back again with another chance to go
Speaker 2: make it, you know, a two score game, but we
Speaker 2: get a one play drive, a fumble from Raheem Moster,
Speaker 2: the Colts run back to the twenty nine yard line
Speaker 2: and they take it twenty nine yards in the four
Speaker 2: play drive with a twelve yard run from richardson a
Speaker 2: twelve yard run from Doolan, and then they get a
Speaker 2: walk in touchdown where they had three guys in the
Speaker 2: same gap defensively and just kind of misfit that run.
Speaker 2: This is this is the issue with this style of game,
Speaker 2: right and this is why I love the high flying
Speaker 2: offenses that can score thirty points per game. Because your
Speaker 2: inability to execute a lengthy drive or overcome penalties. If
Speaker 2: that's the case, which it has been for the Dolphins'
Speaker 2: last four games, you're just one splash play away like
Speaker 2: that away from letting the opposition who hung around, get
Speaker 2: right back into the game after you kick their butts
Speaker 2: for thirty five minutes. And now it's ten ten. That
Speaker 2: has to be so demoralizing for a team to feel
Speaker 2: like they dominated the entire game, and the numbers at
Speaker 2: the end of the game tell that story too. The
Speaker 2: Dolphins outstat of the Colts in every way of this game.
Speaker 2: Because of two costly fumbles really and then some critical
Speaker 2: mistakes and inflection points, you wind up with the loss
Speaker 2: in two and four instead of three and three and
Speaker 2: feeling really good about yourselfs. So it's ten to ten
Speaker 2: here after this nine minutes to play in the third
Speaker 2: quarter and the Dolphins go negative one yard on the
Speaker 2: next drive where Jalen Wright had a three yard run.
Speaker 2: He checks into the game and then Layatu latu and
Speaker 2: I was I did postgame radio with Jamon bush Rod,
Speaker 2: who filled him for oj McDuffie today, and he was
Speaker 2: talking about Julian Hill on this little wrap block where
Speaker 2: he comes back across the formation in motion, and he
Speaker 2: said that Julian kind of set into his pass set
Speaker 2: where if he just went and got a lot to
Speaker 2: and made, you know, force the issue, he probably could
Speaker 2: have made that block a little bit easier. But he
Speaker 2: sets and then law too beats him inside and it
Speaker 2: creates a sack that turns into a third and a
Speaker 2: mile and then we can't overcome it from there. And
Speaker 2: Huntley gets hit on the play and goes down to
Speaker 2: the locker room, and the offense, you know, really couldn't
Speaker 2: do much from that point forward. So the Colts go
Speaker 2: three and out. On the next drive, we had more
Speaker 2: good contained, a good job of following these quick setup
Speaker 2: throws from Richardson, and you know, our defensive backs were
Speaker 2: squat on these plays. I saw Ramsey, I saw Fuller,
Speaker 2: I saw Cater get past breakups, and Ramsey's butzing the
Speaker 2: edge and doing all he can to keep this team
Speaker 2: in the game. He gets two back to back hits
Speaker 2: on Richard Zim damn near gets the football out once.
Speaker 2: The next time he does get it back, but it's
Speaker 2: just like the cam Ward play in the Hurricanes game
Speaker 2: on Saturday where the arms coming forward and I agree,
Speaker 2: I agree with the call, but gosh, it was so
Speaker 2: close is the cut? You kind of see his fingers
Speaker 2: like pinch the ball the last second, and it scorts
Speaker 2: out there like you can make a case that he
Speaker 2: wasn't really throwing it what he kind of was. So
Speaker 2: it goes back to the Colts and we get that
Speaker 2: stop there. We get the football at the minus forty
Speaker 2: five and I wrote down my notes, they must cash
Speaker 2: in right here midway through the third quarter in a
Speaker 2: tai football game, and they put Jalen right in the game,
Speaker 2: was he do but go for nine and then for
Speaker 2: nineteen yards. He's slipping tackles, he's running through linebackers, he's
Speaker 2: running past defensive backs. Damn near scored on the play.
Speaker 2: And then we get a first and goal with the
Speaker 2: thirteen yard line and we go full back dive and
Speaker 2: alec Ingold fumbles the ball. It's just like, dude, like
Speaker 2: Alec has one career fumble coming into the game. You know,
Speaker 2: it's just like these things. Ah, that makes the sport
Speaker 2: in this game so frustrating. The Dolphins win probability in
Speaker 2: that moment went from sixty down to thirty eight. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, who
Speaker 2: addressed the fumbles from Raheem Moster and alec Ingold after
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, they were tough ones from you know.
Speaker 1: You know what is Raheem had four hundred and four
Speaker 1: hundred plus carries since he's been here with us, you know,
Speaker 1: so that's what's tough about it is, you know, he
Speaker 1: has his fourth fumble out of those four hundred touches.
Speaker 1: The timing of it that was rough, I know, and
Speaker 1: then Alec Engold is a captain because he's one of
Speaker 1: the best players people and and and really a playmaker
Speaker 1: for us a lot of times without the ball and
Speaker 1: with the ball. And I thought that that was unfortunate
Speaker 1: in that situation because you know, I think there was
Speaker 1: an opportunity for him to not be strung out sideways
Speaker 1: and have the ball. Uh go, if we would have
Speaker 1: executed like I anticipated, it would have gone a different spot.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's also it's a game of accountability,
Speaker 1: and you know it like at the same time, they
Speaker 1: know they can't do that, and we you know, I
Speaker 1: had you know, some players from the from the team.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't know where my head was at.
Speaker 1: So they came and made sure that, yeah, that they
Speaker 1: were going to get an opportunity to to that they
Speaker 1: all still believed in them and which I already knew.
Speaker 1: So that's why they continue to get ops. But they
Speaker 1: can't do that. So and then you know, just like
Speaker 1: a game of accountability, like it doesn't matter if you know,
Speaker 1: if if there's good calls, it doesn't matter, like collectively
Speaker 1: as a team, we just have to play smarter football.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. So that starts with me and.
Speaker 2: I cut that clip off because he kind of goes
Speaker 2: into something else there after that answer, and I'll play
Speaker 2: that for you guys here in just a second on
Speaker 2: the podcast. But the Dolphins give it back to the
Speaker 2: Colts right there. But they guess what, They get a
Speaker 2: big three and out, a three play six yard drive.
Speaker 2: They get themselves in a third and fourth situation where
Speaker 2: once again cater Coo who squats on a short route
Speaker 2: and breaks up the pass, and then it's a three
Speaker 2: and out for the Dolphins where they get absolutely nothing
Speaker 2: going with Tim Boyle, and then the Colts kick their
Speaker 2: field goal on eleven play, sixty nine yard drive. They
Speaker 2: got some chunk plays, and that was, to me the
Speaker 2: difference in the game. Besides those key inflection points I
Speaker 2: talked about, was the Colt's ability to hit chunk plays
Speaker 2: in the passing game. Sixteen yards to Donna Mitchell. They
Speaker 2: get thirteen more yards to trace Sermon on that double
Speaker 2: flee flicker or reverse flee flicker play. And then they
Speaker 2: get the Alec Pierce eight yards on mesh against man
Speaker 2: coverage when it's thirty eight from the plus forty three
Speaker 2: could have been a critical play in the game. They're
Speaker 2: gonna stop after Klays Campbell gets in for another massive
Speaker 2: TfL and then Sermon goes for ten yards, and you
Speaker 2: kind of felt like the Colts were wearing down the
Speaker 2: Dolphins defense at this point, which is gonna happen when
Speaker 2: you have that many three, four and five play drives.
Speaker 2: Sermon goes for five, They get themselves in a first
Speaker 2: and goal, and then it's Richardson for four yards, Richardson
Speaker 2: for no yards, and then pressure forces the incomplete pass
Speaker 2: with Jordan Brooks. So the defense once again bows up
Speaker 2: in a big spot and they take a three point lead,
Speaker 2: and you're kind of feeling this point like can the
Speaker 2: Dolphins put the ball in scoring range? It felt not insurmountable,
Speaker 2: but not probable at that point, but they do it.
Speaker 2: The drive starts at the twenty two yard line with
Speaker 2: eight thirty seven to play, John who goes for seventeen
Speaker 2: yards and now Slip Scream Raheem runs for fifteen more yards.
Speaker 2: And those inside runs have been there all year long.
Speaker 2: Durham Smith nice block on that play. Wattle catches his
Speaker 2: first ball to day for eleven yards, and then it's
Speaker 2: third and one of the plus thirty six. We go
Speaker 2: back to that full back dive, Well, it gets stuffed,
Speaker 2: and then we missed from fifty four yards off the
Speaker 2: upright after the snap was pretty high over Jake Billy's head.
Speaker 2: He handles it, pulls it down, but the kick hits
Speaker 2: the upright, and you had some chances on defense to
Speaker 2: get a couple of stops. They eventually would bow up
Speaker 2: to get the stop after the Colts strove into the
Speaker 2: twenty yard line, but they made us exhaust our timeouts.
Speaker 2: They made us exhaust the clock beyond two minute warning,
Speaker 2: and so they kicked the field goal from thirty seven
Speaker 2: yards and Miamis has to go the entire length of
Speaker 2: the field in like a minute and fifty seconds, and
Speaker 2: they just couldn't do it. I mean you could. You
Speaker 2: could tell that it was difficult sledding and once the
Speaker 2: ball got tackled in bounds, it was gonna be tough
Speaker 2: to get from there. They did have a possible deep
Speaker 2: throw from like the thirty three yard line, but it
Speaker 2: was thrown out of bounce on fourth down. And that
Speaker 2: was your game. So difficult game to difficult pill the swallow,
Speaker 2: difficult game to watch, a difficult week to kind of
Speaker 2: bounce back from let's go ahead and take our last
Speaker 2: break right there, come back on the other side. The
Speaker 2: big picture takeaways. I have one more SoundBite from coach.
Speaker 2: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 2: to you by AutoNation, My five big picture takeaways from
Speaker 2: the dolphins sixteen to ten loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 2: Number one, I made this point on the radio show,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to explain to Seth why things
Speaker 2: look so disjointed offensively when it is not to in
Speaker 2: the lineup. And it's this simple, because I saw it
Speaker 2: in the game on Sunday with both Huntley and with
Speaker 2: both Tim Boyle. Is their footwork and their timing is
Speaker 2: just nowhere near commeserate with what you need for this
Speaker 2: offense to function at the level that it does. And
Speaker 2: they've shown no ability to adapt to a different style
Speaker 2: of quarterback. And so Number one is that the offense
Speaker 2: is morally dependent on two a tongue of by Lowe's availability,
Speaker 2: and inherently that is massively flawed because one he has
Speaker 2: a serious injury history and two like, okay, anybody could
Speaker 2: run that right. Anybody could say too, go to your thing,
Speaker 2: and that's it. Like you have to be aild to
Speaker 2: adjust and adapt upon that number one is morally dependent
Speaker 2: upon one quarterback as a flawed approach from the start.
Speaker 2: And what I mean by the footwork is, go watch
Speaker 2: how quick and in rhythm Tua is and how much
Speaker 2: he can speed up his footwork to match where the
Speaker 2: timing of the route is at any particular time. It's
Speaker 2: the most subtle, nuanced part of the position. I find
Speaker 2: so intriguing and a big reason why I think Tua
Speaker 2: is an elite, elite quarterback in this league is that
Speaker 2: he can get to those spots, he can speed things up,
Speaker 2: he can adjust based upon where the routes are, where
Speaker 2: the timing of the coverages for that given play. Tyler
Speaker 2: Huntley doesn't even do like baseline that stuff. He does
Speaker 2: not handle his drop with the timing of the receiver
Speaker 2: routes at all. And there was a play it was
Speaker 2: on the sack before the John Smith touchdown. We scored
Speaker 2: one touch on a game, so it's like, oh the touchdown,
Speaker 2: Here's where it happened. It was while ran a little
Speaker 2: pivot route to the outside where you kind of stem
Speaker 2: inside and you show it a slant and then you
Speaker 2: put your foot in the ground and you pivot back
Speaker 2: to the outside and you throw that ball off the inside,
Speaker 2: leverage to the outside with your timing, and you throw
Speaker 2: it to the pylon and let waddle go get it
Speaker 2: for a touchdown. Tua has done that several times in
Speaker 2: his career. Huntley, his feet are chopping and he's not
Speaker 2: in the right direction, he's not aligned to his target.
Speaker 2: It's just sloppy as hell. And then Tim Boyle gets
Speaker 2: in there and he catches the snap and it's like
Speaker 2: he catches the snap and then one foot drops and
Speaker 2: he's flat footed. So there's no rhythm and footwork and
Speaker 2: how it matches up in the timing of the passing offense.
Speaker 2: And so you are morally dependent upon this quarterback that
Speaker 2: has a severe injury history, and that's why you've gotten
Speaker 2: these results. It's a major red flag in the entire
Speaker 2: program and it has to be answered for. Because two
Speaker 2: is gonna come back next week, probably gonna smoke the
Speaker 2: Cardinals because we have this awesome run game in defense
Speaker 2: and now we get our quarterback back, but it's probably
Speaker 2: too late. So, like number one is that approach coming
Speaker 2: into the year was a disaster to not be able
Speaker 2: to have the backup quarterback that can do it. But
Speaker 2: number two to not be able to adjust. I don't
Speaker 2: care if Tyreek killing you then a while. I see
Speaker 2: double coverage and two high coverage all game long. They
Speaker 2: did it all game long last year and we threw
Speaker 2: d touchdowns through those brackets with Tua. What you can
Speaker 2: do besides that, and Kyle Krabs had a great tweet
Speaker 2: about it, like you can adjust to that, you can
Speaker 2: alter your routes and create spacing and just have those
Speaker 2: guys win on their talent alone. And there's none of
Speaker 2: that at all. So it's frustrating. It's my first takeaway.
Speaker 2: I hate it, but it is what it is. Number
Speaker 2: two is the pre snap penalties and blown assignment calls.
Speaker 2: Continue to plug this offense. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 2: from coach real quick on how distraught he is about
Speaker 2: this whole situation.
Speaker 1: I'm very frustrated because you know, you think you emphasize
Speaker 1: things correctly and then and you think you have certain
Speaker 1: things fixed, and when they're not, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be anybody else's fault but me, like a song, I
Speaker 1: was definitely wrong, you know, and you have to approach
Speaker 1: it that way. And so we have retooled stuff to
Speaker 1: clean up our game with the penalties, and it's still
Speaker 1: killing us. So I don't I need to figure out
Speaker 1: something better, which is what I'll be doing starting the
Speaker 1: second most press conference zones.
Speaker 2: It's not like he's just going home and not looking
Speaker 2: at the stuff like it's what he does all day,
Speaker 2: every day. And I'm sure it is freshrating because as
Speaker 2: freshratings it is for you. He's the one in charge
Speaker 2: of it all, and it keeps on happening. So my
Speaker 2: second thing is the pre snap penalties. It's just it
Speaker 2: really wasn't that bad this game, but it just comes
Speaker 2: up at the most inopportune times. I mean, sixty percent
Speaker 2: of our penalties this year have been pre snapped. How
Speaker 2: the hell does that happen? How does that happen? And
Speaker 2: it so frequently gets us in bad spots, and with
Speaker 2: our current situation at quarterback, we cannot overcome that. I
Speaker 2: know that he's supposed to come back next week, and
Speaker 2: it is really really hard to win in the current formula.
Speaker 2: When you consistently put yourself behind the sticks, you could
Speaker 2: have given to a much better situation to come back to,
Speaker 2: but instead the start of the second quarter, you go
Speaker 2: low blocked in the gates a four yard run and
Speaker 2: it creates a first and sixteen. The next drive, second one,
Speaker 2: Raheem runs for thirty two yards, but a whole backs
Speaker 2: it up and we cannot overcome that. On the next series,
Speaker 2: first and ten, fifteen yard offensive face mass can't overcome that.
Speaker 2: Like then that the third down bunch route to Odell
Speaker 2: Beckham on Kenny Moore, who's their best player on defense
Speaker 2: with the current injuries and one of the best cover
Speaker 2: guys in the league, and we're throwing to option number
Speaker 2: four on cornerback number one. How does that make any sense?
Speaker 2: Or Julian Hill on the kickout block against Yatu Latu,
Speaker 2: Like if he can't do it, if he can't play
Speaker 2: and he's dropping passes, still, what are we doing? It's
Speaker 2: just the process. It's killing me and driving me crazy
Speaker 2: right now. And this, you know, back to the penalties.
Speaker 2: This one was not pre snap and I hated the call,
Speaker 2: but the Durham hold that pulled back the three two
Speaker 2: you Everheem moster run, Like, gosh, dude, it's just time
Speaker 2: and time again, and it's when you have the explosive
Speaker 2: offensive last year. You can overcome that. But this offense
Speaker 2: has been this for three years. I don't expect it
Speaker 2: to go anywhere anytime soon. Number three and I kind
Speaker 2: of touched on this, but getting so damn cute, dude,
Speaker 2: the Beckham play, how about? And normally I hate this
Speaker 2: point because you can point to moments, you know, I
Speaker 2: think results can always kind of be what you look
Speaker 2: at when it comes to play calls and just be like, ah,
Speaker 2: it didn't work, so you suck. But this has happened
Speaker 2: all year long. The Seattle game, you run on the
Speaker 2: ball inside, you go to the outside, tosses that lose
Speaker 2: yards and it ends up killing drives. It happened in
Speaker 2: the Titans game as well. It happened in the Patriots game.
Speaker 2: In this game, you've got Jalen Wright, who, by the way,
Speaker 2: where's the first half touch for Jaalen Wright? He's the
Speaker 2: best running back on the damn team? Is he not?
Speaker 2: I mean, is he not? And he rips off these
Speaker 2: massive runs and we go full back dive on first
Speaker 2: and ten. What is this? Travis Wingfield created character playing
Speaker 2: a full back because my brother took the running back
Speaker 2: position and he gave me mercy carries At the end
Speaker 2: of the game, in nineteen ninety eight's Madden, Like, what
Speaker 2: the hell? I haven't seen that since Mike Alstott was
Speaker 2: playing fullback for the Buccaneers. It just seems like we
Speaker 2: are so frequently in a groove and get ourselves out
Speaker 2: of it by getting way too cute. It drives me nuts.
Speaker 2: Number four, The defense is really good. The defense is
Speaker 2: awesome so far. I saw some tweets about it, complaining
Speaker 2: why what are you talking about? Weaver's marriage of the
Speaker 2: front and the coverage and his ability to blitz and
Speaker 2: send different pressures and bring different guys and confused quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: He's awesome. He's awesome, and he has this versatility that
Speaker 2: we had last year with Ramsey and wouldn't have Fuller
Speaker 2: but Cater and those guys didn't get used in the
Speaker 2: way they're being used now. I love Anthony Weaver. He
Speaker 2: has a serious future in this league as a head coach.
Speaker 2: Number five is what's next? You know two was back
Speaker 2: next week, but is it too late? At two and
Speaker 2: four we had some winnable games we let go by
Speaker 2: the wayside. The rest of the AFC is still kind
Speaker 2: of in shambles. I don't think it's that good. I
Speaker 2: think you can still win ten games and get it,
Speaker 2: maybe nine even. But the thing that has me hanging
Speaker 2: on here is can we marry the run game and
Speaker 2: this offensive line. You know you heard coach Hey that
Speaker 2: forty runs in a game limits your opportunities in the
Speaker 2: passing game. It will shorten the game, obviously, And that's
Speaker 2: why I like throwing the football as much as I do.
Speaker 2: When you have this dynamic offensive firepower, which we will
Speaker 2: in the Cardinals game. Right, it's like the three point Revolution.
Speaker 2: Give me maximum three point shots when I've got Stephan
Speaker 2: Clay and KD. But we can also take advantage here
Speaker 2: and there of Draymond being left alone on the post.
Speaker 2: So I am excited about adding the passing game that
Speaker 2: I think we should have with John U rolling eight
Speaker 2: chan back Jalen Wright. I think we can kind of
Speaker 2: take that with Tua and become the version the team
Speaker 2: we thought we might be back in weeks one and two.
Speaker 2: I think that's ahead. We'll see. I hope. Let's get
Speaker 2: out of here. Those are the five Take meek. That's
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