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Speaker 1: Travis were building on today's show the Dolphins fall in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to fifth team on the Thursday night primetime game.
Speaker 1: Here in week number four, we'll get the five takeaways,
Speaker 1: including some updates on QB one two, a tongue of
Speaker 1: byloa where this game fell by the wayside, and we'll
Speaker 1: do the play before the play teaching tape moment, give
Speaker 1: you some stats and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: all of that in a heck of a lot more
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time podcast. I want to get
Speaker 1: to the takeaways here pretty quickly, but we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and breeze through the stats from the game here real quick.
Speaker 1: Dolphins lose twenty seven to fifteen, the first loss of
Speaker 1: the season four the Miami Dolphins, despite having more first
Speaker 1: downs sixteen than the Bengals. Third down was a key
Speaker 1: area in this game. Miami too for ten, Cincinnati eight
Speaker 1: for fifteen. Both teams o for one on fourth down.
Speaker 1: Miami had three seventy eight to Cincinnati's three seventy one
Speaker 1: total yards. Pretty even in passing, pretty even in rushing
Speaker 1: sixty plays to sixty three plays, Pretty even across the
Speaker 1: board that third down metric and then this metric right here.
Speaker 1: Two turnovers from Miami the two picks and none for
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Kind of the difference in the game. Because
Speaker 1: time of possession also very even. Both teams had six
Speaker 1: penalties forty yards on Miami seventy four yards on the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and one sack for each team. So those are your stats.
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and jump right in, excuse me,
Speaker 1: very early here on Friday morning into the five takeaways
Speaker 1: and number one, where do you start besides the impact
Speaker 1: of losing your quarterback, your leader to a tongue of
Speaker 1: vy lower. We saw the sideline, the entire Dolphins sideline
Speaker 1: come out onto the field after a very scary moment
Speaker 1: there with two down on the field, the stretcher comes out.
Speaker 1: He would leave in an ambulance to the hospital nearby
Speaker 1: there nearby the stadium. But the Dolphins contingency and the
Speaker 1: support and the impact you saw, I think was was
Speaker 1: very telling about how this team and this organization views
Speaker 1: that quarterback and that young man, and how we're all
Speaker 1: obviously pulling for two h for a quick recovery. We
Speaker 1: saw a coach McDaniel walking off with him for a
Speaker 1: few steps when they had the stretcher moving towards the
Speaker 1: tunnel on the field, and he was kind of with
Speaker 1: two of their in that moment, patting him on the
Speaker 1: chest and kind of, you know, giving him some encouraging words.
Speaker 1: And he also mentioned in his postgame press conference, which
Speaker 1: we have some sound bites for you guys. Uh in
Speaker 1: that arena that too, was asking about where coach was
Speaker 1: when he was down on the field, And I think
Speaker 1: that says a lot about the relationship those two guys
Speaker 1: have developed, and like it kind of warms my heart,
Speaker 1: but at the same time kind of breaks my heart
Speaker 1: because you know, watching that game in the green room,
Speaker 1: it's not about us right at all, obviously, but for me,
Speaker 1: Seth and o J, like the mood was gone. It
Speaker 1: didn't really you know, football was kind of an afterthought
Speaker 1: at that point, thinking about you know, that young man
Speaker 1: and the injury he suffered. So that was tough for
Speaker 1: us to overcome. You can't imagine how tough it was
Speaker 1: for the team to overcome. And that's what Tyreek killed
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. Jalen Phillips mentioned it. Phillips had a great
Speaker 1: quote after the game saying, our entire job is compartmentalizing things,
Speaker 1: so we try to go out and do our best
Speaker 1: to do that. After the injury. Tyreek Hill had mentioned
Speaker 1: uh in his some interviews after the game that people
Speaker 1: were asking about Tah throughout the course of the second half,
Speaker 1: which obviously you can't just turn your mind off and
Speaker 1: your empathy for your brother, for your teammate, so that
Speaker 1: obviously was on the forefront of their minds, and Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle also alluded to it several times about how much
Speaker 1: he was sneaking about his brother out there who went
Speaker 1: down in the game with the injury. But the good
Speaker 1: news again, Mike McDaniel confirmed afterwards on his postgame press
Speaker 1: conference that Toa was in fact discharge from the hospital
Speaker 1: and traveled home with the team. That's obviously great news.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from coach on the impact
Speaker 1: of losing the quarterback, losing the character like to a
Speaker 1: tongue by Loa to an injury like that. For me,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I think a lot of people struggles. I
Speaker 1: know me personally, UM, that's you know, if I didn't
Speaker 1: have a job to do for the organization and the
Speaker 1: rest of the players, UM, and I didn't have that that, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know, obligation in in my mind, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would have tapped it. It's not something that um is
Speaker 1: comfortable for anybody, and um it was. It was not
Speaker 1: a situation that you want for any of your players
Speaker 1: or or your team in general. Some scary stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: just glad that that it worked out and man, he
Speaker 1: was making some real nice throws in that first half
Speaker 1: before the injury. So to looking forward to you getting back, man,
Speaker 1: get well soon. Thinking about your number one, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and move to our second takeaway from the game,
Speaker 1: which is the defense to me is looking awfully familiar
Speaker 1: from the ones we've come to know and love here
Speaker 1: the last couple of years for your Miami Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: you obviously can't remove plays from the equation. But after
Speaker 1: that opening drive the Bengals had going down the field,
Speaker 1: what was the third trade game of Dolphins alloted opening
Speaker 1: drive touchdown, So there's something to work on for the defense.
Speaker 1: But the next nine team plays game just sixties six yards.
Speaker 1: Then you had the touchdown drive. You had the big
Speaker 1: pass to Tee Higgins for the touchdown on a third
Speaker 1: down play. That was a crucial, crucial moment in this game.
Speaker 1: So those plays happened. But I think outside of that,
Speaker 1: you had a lot of good stuff, and you put
Speaker 1: a lot of heat on a good quarterback, and you
Speaker 1: held a good receiving corps. You know, says a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays. You know, Boyd got his touchdown or
Speaker 1: his big play. Late Higgins got his big play, but
Speaker 1: outside of those, I thought Miami one rep after rep,
Speaker 1: and I think that maybe the overall title of the
Speaker 1: takeaways that the versatility of this defense at all three
Speaker 1: levels and the multiplicity of it and the ability to
Speaker 1: execute multiple looks in a game, a week to week
Speaker 1: game plan is very evident, and I think we'll take
Speaker 1: this team or has the potential, I should say, to
Speaker 1: take this team a long way because they basically have
Speaker 1: shown you they can play a plan for whatever quarterback,
Speaker 1: whatever offense they face. And sure, Lamar Jackson went crazy.
Speaker 1: He's done that three times this season already. You know
Speaker 1: he's off to an m v P type of start.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen made plenty of play in the game against
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and then in this game against Dolphins,
Speaker 1: had there, in my opinion, a great defensive performance in
Speaker 1: that game, and then in this game for large large
Speaker 1: chunks of the game, holding the Bengals offense back after
Speaker 1: you know, an offense that went crazy last year all
Speaker 1: the way to the super Bowl. But the versatility of
Speaker 1: it is the big takeaway here. And we know about
Speaker 1: the cover zero looks, the blitz is, the Sky's packages,
Speaker 1: the five oh front, all the stuff they do to
Speaker 1: get simulated pressure, to bring it to back out, to
Speaker 1: confuse the quarterback, to change the snap pre snap to
Speaker 1: post snap. The man coverage, we know about all of that.
Speaker 1: We know about Javon Hollins ability to race out of
Speaker 1: the line scrimmage and get back into Cover three, Cover one,
Speaker 1: like whatever the case. Maybe we know about that, but
Speaker 1: you don't often see a lot of two man looks,
Speaker 1: and that's I think what you saw plenty of in
Speaker 1: this game tonight. And the man coverage underneath was so
Speaker 1: so good throughout the course of this game with X,
Speaker 1: with Needum, with Kator Cohu, and it really helps to have,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the two safeties back their drive
Speaker 1: the potential of that package. And just remember it's not
Speaker 1: Cover two necessarily. You mean you can run that, but
Speaker 1: it was a lot of to man where you have
Speaker 1: two high safeties and you're playing man coverage underneath, different
Speaker 1: than Cover two where you have zone underneath. So on top.
Speaker 1: This is a variation of zone and man. So I
Speaker 1: thought there was good looks and that even the big
Speaker 1: place to Tee Higgins where it looks like X maybe
Speaker 1: took like a look back for the ball and he
Speaker 1: was pointing to his eyes like maybe he couldn't see
Speaker 1: the football in the air, but he was right there
Speaker 1: in in phase to make a play on that ball.
Speaker 1: Higgins winds up making the play and it goes very
Speaker 1: long touchdown for the Bengals. But outside of that man,
Speaker 1: they were they were all over these corners. The coverage
Speaker 1: was marrying up with the pass rush very very solidly.
Speaker 1: And I just think, you know, X had the injury late,
Speaker 1: I had to leave the game and and didn't come back.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll see about Byron Jones availability going forward.
Speaker 1: Seems like we've covered uncovered a pretty damn good player
Speaker 1: in kater Cohu. Nick Needum continues to play at a
Speaker 1: high level. Feel pretty good about the depth at that
Speaker 1: position here with ten days off and getting ready for
Speaker 1: week number five and going forward with that secondary and
Speaker 1: all they can do. I mean, you know, Brett Coleman,
Speaker 1: the great YouTuber the film room who does the bootleg
Speaker 1: pod gas and tons of other content for multiple UH
Speaker 1: teams and sources and things of that nature. But he
Speaker 1: had a good threat about Cover two and how it's
Speaker 1: forcing teams to play different than they want to. All
Speaker 1: these easy chunks that teams used to get because of
Speaker 1: you know, one higher or man coverage or man free,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. And now they're getting taken
Speaker 1: away because you have those two high safeties and you
Speaker 1: have to play a more you know, patient style of football,
Speaker 1: and that can increase the likelihood of mistakes. This Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense showed you they can play a really good too
Speaker 1: high safety look in this game, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was very effective for the majority of the game. Again,
Speaker 1: outside of a few plays. It allows them with those
Speaker 1: safeties and to really rotate the way they want to
Speaker 1: and disguise that coverage. They pressed so well up in
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage in this game. They filled gaps
Speaker 1: really well against the blitz and and run fits. I mean,
Speaker 1: what was the Bengals rushing on that and they go
Speaker 1: ahead and pull that number up real quick. I think
Speaker 1: they might have had a couple of decent pops. But
Speaker 1: Joe mix sixty one. That's two point five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow had five for six. Some r G p
Speaker 1: Right had one for nothing. So the Bengals rushing average
Speaker 1: tonight right around two yards per carry. It's pretty good
Speaker 1: defense there from the Miami Dolphins. We even had that
Speaker 1: one uh again, the one that X beat. You had
Speaker 1: the two safeties that were on one side of the field,
Speaker 1: taking away Jamaar Chase and you get your best best
Speaker 1: corner um you know, nex Avian Howard and that one
Speaker 1: on one matchup, Like that's a new look. So just
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer having all kinds of things that he's going
Speaker 1: back to, very confident in this defense to keep this
Speaker 1: thing rolling. I think we saw really this this defense
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks take a step, you know,
Speaker 1: in the direction we expect him too, as far as
Speaker 1: the talent and coaching they have with what we think
Speaker 1: they can possibly be. That's a great sign to see.
Speaker 1: And getting a chance to watch Javon Hall and do
Speaker 1: his thing live on the All twenty two was was
Speaker 1: so cool. We always see we watched the tape every week,
Speaker 1: but on Prime Vision you get a chance to actually
Speaker 1: watch tape live in the game and just seeing him,
Speaker 1: like the play on an outside run the middle of
Speaker 1: the third quarter, the rotation I mentioned earlier, He's in
Speaker 1: the wrong side of the field as far as where
Speaker 1: the run goes. He comes all the way over from
Speaker 1: depth and cuts that thing down for six or seven yards.
Speaker 1: Just such an important player in this defense for not
Speaker 1: just capping deep rouse but cutting down some of those
Speaker 1: running play wins the offense has and taking them from
Speaker 1: long long gains and making them just medium games is
Speaker 1: a big part of his game. How about Eric Rose
Speaker 1: played down in the box talking about the safeties. He
Speaker 1: was all over the place making plays against the run,
Speaker 1: sticking his face and they're again screen passes and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. Nick need Him had a great rep
Speaker 1: on t Higgins on a deep ball where he pinned
Speaker 1: him to the sideline despite the fact that he had
Speaker 1: motion to deal with and to come all the way
Speaker 1: across the formation. That was an impressive play. Kator Co
Speaker 1: who had an awesome pass breakup in this game. So
Speaker 1: the secondary I think just continues to really show you
Speaker 1: what they can do. And then upfront, I mean the
Speaker 1: short yard defense. Every game at this point they make
Speaker 1: something happen, including another fourth down stop to get the
Speaker 1: ball back to the offense. And what a team stop
Speaker 1: that was. Jerome Baker a solid edge, Zach Seeler beats
Speaker 1: a block, Eric Rowe pulls or just you know, fires
Speaker 1: and goes right downhill and gets in there into the backfield.
Speaker 1: You get Javon Holland and Nick need him finishing off
Speaker 1: that player on Joe Burrow scramble to set up a
Speaker 1: fourth down play. Just continue to make big plays. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and break down that goal line stand
Speaker 1: here in just a minute for a later segment. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, the offense at one point in this game,
Speaker 1: after the defense kind of kept rising to the occasion
Speaker 1: getting the football back and and held on three plays
Speaker 1: from the three yard line and in had a fourth
Speaker 1: down stop by Eric Rowe in the second quarter, the
Speaker 1: offense and the second half kind of hit a speed
Speaker 1: bump a little bit. With two three and outs to
Speaker 1: start the half. You get the sixty four yard pass
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Hill down the middle of the field to
Speaker 1: put you in the intoe the five yard line, and
Speaker 1: then you go three and out from there and don't score.
Speaker 1: After getting the ball at the five, you wind up
Speaker 1: getting to the two and don't score from second and
Speaker 1: goal from the two or third and goal from the
Speaker 1: to another three and out and then the interception there.
Speaker 1: So it just kind of became too much, I think
Speaker 1: for the defense at the end of the game. But
Speaker 1: I'm so encouraged what we saw the last four days
Speaker 1: by this Miami Dolphins defense. That's takeaway number two. We'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our first break right here and
Speaker 1: come back and do takeaways three through five. That's next
Speaker 1: on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Auto Nation. Take Away number three here
Speaker 1: on a Dolphins fifteen Bengals twenty seven Week four loss
Speaker 1: at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals, we're taking a
Speaker 1: look at the five takeaways from the game here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast, and take away number three is just
Speaker 1: too many mistakes to beat a good football team. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start here with head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: who I thought had a phenomenal answer about the mistakes
Speaker 1: made that eventually cost Miami this football game. UM. When
Speaker 1: you lose games too very good teams, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: you can always point to that. You know, we we
Speaker 1: lost the turnover battle, and we're kicking field goals as
Speaker 1: opposed to trying to score touchdowns. UM. As on top
Speaker 1: of that, we had some third downs we um, including
Speaker 1: the third and one I think in the fourth quarter third. UM. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's situational football that UM we had been executing. We
Speaker 1: did not UM. Today and that, and you you don't
Speaker 1: get freebees or you don't get passes, and games against
Speaker 1: good teams, you know, so um that the point of
Speaker 1: that is um only. It only means anything if you
Speaker 1: can learn from it, if you can get better from it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm gonna be challenging the guys to do,
Speaker 1: because that's that's what will happen in UH in games
Speaker 1: against good opponents. If you don't don't take advantages of
Speaker 1: those opportunities, they win those situations and you lose, You'll
Speaker 1: lose the game. I mean, that's most games in the
Speaker 1: National Football League right It comes down to how many
Speaker 1: players can you make in the critical moments? And for
Speaker 1: tonight last night, I should say for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: just wasn't their night. The last few weeks, it was
Speaker 1: their time. So that's kind of how you measure a team,
Speaker 1: was their ability to perform in those moments. Wasn't there
Speaker 1: night on Thursday night? And we saw, you know, to
Speaker 1: relitigate it, you know, blocked field goal. That's obviously three
Speaker 1: points that you could have possibly had you missed an
Speaker 1: extra point, there's potentially four points. We dang near blocked
Speaker 1: a point of our own, but it looked like we
Speaker 1: just missed it on a fly by attempt as Elijah
Speaker 1: Campbell came through and dang near got that ball off
Speaker 1: the foot of Kevin Huber, but it just misses. Good
Speaker 1: job to not run into the punter on that On
Speaker 1: that plot though, we've seen plenty of good out of
Speaker 1: the special teams, but the punt block or whatever you
Speaker 1: wanna call it last week, the kick return and week
Speaker 1: number two and the ones we just mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: that's like coach said, there are fine margins that can
Speaker 1: cost you football games. Luckily, special teams made some plays
Speaker 1: in response last week with the block field goal of
Speaker 1: their own, and Thomas Morris has a great free kick
Speaker 1: and coverage on that last kickoff of that game or
Speaker 1: or free kick i should say after the safety and
Speaker 1: overcome that stuff for the win was not the case
Speaker 1: last night. Also dropped a touchdown pass on third down
Speaker 1: in the corner of the end zone. That's a four
Speaker 1: point difference right there, and then again couldn't score from
Speaker 1: first and goal from the five yard line, and then
Speaker 1: second and goal from the two and third and goal
Speaker 1: from the two after that. So mistakes against a good
Speaker 1: football team tough to overcome. Takeaway Number four is the
Speaker 1: offensive line and run game. I think the offensive line
Speaker 1: played really well, but I think the run game kind
Speaker 1: of found some magic and some mojo in this game.
Speaker 1: You know, after Raheem Mostart popped that run on the
Speaker 1: eventual Bridgewater interception possession which went for let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and find the ards on that, I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a segment here talking about how this
Speaker 1: Dolphins fat team found another way to win a football game,
Speaker 1: because I expected him to run the ball down the
Speaker 1: field and go get that touchdown and close that on defense.
Speaker 1: Obviously that was not the case, but I mean on
Speaker 1: that particular drive, you start that thing off with the
Speaker 1: twenty five yard ripped from Raheem Moster. Some of those
Speaker 1: inside toss plays they run, man, he just gets gliding
Speaker 1: downhill and once he does that, he's tough to stop
Speaker 1: and give him the head of steam. And the way
Speaker 1: this offensive line opened some lanes for him. I mean
Speaker 1: the rushing in this game from Miami. We we gave
Speaker 1: you the numbers earlier, but it was on a lot
Speaker 1: less carries where he most at fifteen for sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Uh Teddy had the eleven yard scramble, chased just five
Speaker 1: for six and Tyreek one for minus minus one, but
Speaker 1: four point six yards for Raheem Mostert and kind of
Speaker 1: got him cranking a little bit in this game. I
Speaker 1: think that could be another big factor for this team
Speaker 1: in this offense, to just add another l meant of
Speaker 1: something they can go to when they need it, like
Speaker 1: you saw in this game. And then on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: the past protection continues to be just so dang good.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's the scheme creating pockets the play
Speaker 1: action looks, or just flat out executing sliding protection one
Speaker 1: way or the other, hitting double teams, using backs and
Speaker 1: tight ends. I mean, they've had so much time for
Speaker 1: these deep shots to develop or taking. We saw plenty
Speaker 1: of them in this game on Thursday, and a huge
Speaker 1: part of that and a huge credit goes to the
Speaker 1: offensive line for the job they have done. Connor Williams
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. He is through four games. I have really
Speaker 1: enjoying watching him play. We have, you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about it every Tuesday on the All twenty two review,
Speaker 1: but having the twenty two tonight, the space that he
Speaker 1: covers to get off the way he turns out guys
Speaker 1: out of their gaps. He is playing such good football
Speaker 1: right now, and so is to Ron Armstead. Man. I know,
Speaker 1: like the it's an entire collection on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: The group as a whole is getting the job done.
Speaker 1: But those two guys, those two newcomers, those two veterans, man,
Speaker 1: what an impact they've had and how good they are,
Speaker 1: and just the technician aspect of it there get it
Speaker 1: off the smart of the positions. Really good stuff there
Speaker 1: from Toront and Connor Williams. And we'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: give some credit and some love to Greg Little, Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt and Leam, Mike and Burke for what I thought
Speaker 1: was another good job by the offensive line. Really has
Speaker 1: been that way for a few weeks now. To start
Speaker 1: the season off takeaway number five, just something that I noticed,
Speaker 1: and Coach actually addressed it after the game, and that's
Speaker 1: why I kind of wanted to bring it up here.
Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and start with Coach to kick off
Speaker 1: this fifth takeaway. But it was the operational issues that
Speaker 1: have kind of plagued the Dolphins offense a couple of
Speaker 1: times here the last couple of weeks, spending time outs
Speaker 1: early in the half, so that the end of the half,
Speaker 1: you don't really have the time out in those back pocket.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go to the head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: who addressed that after the game. I think that is UM,
Speaker 1: you know something that that you don't want to run
Speaker 1: away from the frustration. I think that the you know,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to experience this in some
Speaker 1: in some part too to really go after all the
Speaker 1: little details that it takes UM to win NFL football games.
Speaker 1: So it's very frustrating. Do you feel, UM, like you
Speaker 1: you wasted an opportunity, UM to play toe to toe
Speaker 1: with a very good team and potentially beat them. But
Speaker 1: that's the point. It's not supposed to be easy. And UM,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're wanting to UM, you know, play
Speaker 1: teams like this on stages like this, you have to
Speaker 1: UM you can't do some of those things. Otherwise, UM,
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna end up on the side of the stick,
Speaker 1: on the short side of the stick. But UM, to me,
Speaker 1: it's incredibly frustrating. UM with good reason, and that's part
Speaker 1: of what we do UM in professional football. And you
Speaker 1: do one or two things with it. You either use
Speaker 1: it to make you make you get better or you
Speaker 1: live with things that you can't change and UM get worse,
Speaker 1: you know. So our plan is is to learn from it,
Speaker 1: um and move forward. Uh you know. And the only
Speaker 1: thing you can do, really to me with losses is
Speaker 1: make them purposeful. And how do you make them purposeful?
Speaker 1: Will you? You have to get you have to be
Speaker 1: better from it than had you won the game. So
Speaker 1: that's the way I'm going to approach it with the
Speaker 1: with the team and UM, so far they haven't done anything,
Speaker 1: but UM answered the bell whenever I asked them. So
Speaker 1: I feel confident that we can get that done. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you heard coach say right there. He feels confident, then
Speaker 1: get it done. And so I obviously feel the same way.
Speaker 1: And they'll get that stuff corrected. But it's a couple
Speaker 1: of games now where the time out is being used
Speaker 1: a little bit too early up against the play clock
Speaker 1: there with the operation getting the calls in. So coach
Speaker 1: mentioned it, thought it was a good thing to bring up.
Speaker 1: They're in close here on our fifth takeaway, last break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about some additional stuff here.
Speaker 1: We'll do the teaching tape of the game and the
Speaker 1: play before the play which is kind of supposed to
Speaker 1: be for wins, but I thought this one was really good. Here.
Speaker 1: We'll do that next here on the Drift Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: closing out the Week four recap podcast, taking a look
Speaker 1: at Dolphins and Bengals and obviously much more on our
Speaker 1: minds than just the football game. To a Tungule Voloa,
Speaker 1: thinking about him and the injury he suffered in the
Speaker 1: game on Thursday night, hoping he's back real soon, getting
Speaker 1: back to, you know, doing what he does best and
Speaker 1: what he loves to do, play in football. And uh,
Speaker 1: if I had a six takeaway here, I think it
Speaker 1: would just be Tyreek Hill ten catches for a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty yards, the concentration on the sixty four yard
Speaker 1: bomb that kind of got the offense of juice. I
Speaker 1: mentioned there was a pretty stagnant period there for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and that was the one play that got them going,
Speaker 1: got them the lead there late in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Dang near stole this game despite all the y'ads going
Speaker 1: against Miami there in the game, which would have been
Speaker 1: obviously huge and would have loved to see it, but
Speaker 1: instead it's not. It's a loss and opportunity, as coach said,
Speaker 1: to uh to be purposeful and to find a way
Speaker 1: to get corrections made and get this team going back
Speaker 1: into the Winter Circle next week against the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: I love the playmaking by Teddy Bridgewater on the scramble.
Speaker 1: O J and Seth were talking about our quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: athletic ability and um, you know, creating space for those
Speaker 1: guys to make moves. Then Tyre not Tyreek, Teddy goes
Speaker 1: out and makes that play and we were just like
Speaker 1: loving it watching that play in the green room at
Speaker 1: the radio stations. That was cool to see. I love
Speaker 1: Trent Sherfield blocking on screens are just blocking in general,
Speaker 1: That dude, such an underrated aspect of of what I
Speaker 1: think is a good football team and a guy that
Speaker 1: has to be a guy you have to have on
Speaker 1: good football teams are players like Trent Scherfield. And then
Speaker 1: I will uncover some more gems on the All twenty
Speaker 1: two review, stuff like you know, the offensive line play
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Christian Wilkins I thought again was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Zac Seeler made some plays. Jalen Phillips I thought was
Speaker 1: really really good talking about the defense and the verse
Speaker 1: of ality. They show man that Jalen Phillips kicking inside
Speaker 1: to that three tech position and rushing and just running
Speaker 1: right by a left guard like he can do so
Speaker 1: many different things for you on that defensive line, the
Speaker 1: outside linebacker position that he typically plays, just plays all
Speaker 1: over the formation and makes tons of plays. Got his
Speaker 1: first sack of the year tonight, and his pass rush
Speaker 1: win rate is actually well above average if we go
Speaker 1: to ESPNS metric, and that just hasn't had a chance
Speaker 1: to finish those sacks yet. But I feel like they're coming.
Speaker 1: As we saw in this game on Thursday night. The
Speaker 1: play before the play, I did have a kater cohu
Speaker 1: and I think it was a Javon Holland tackle to
Speaker 1: slow up Joe Burrow just short of the sticks before
Speaker 1: another stop on third down to force a Bengals field goal.
Speaker 1: But towards the end of the game again another fourth
Speaker 1: down stop for this defense or I should say third
Speaker 1: down to make a make them kick the field goal
Speaker 1: with Jordan's or with a kicker McPherson, the guy that
Speaker 1: was a rookie last year out of Florida. But the
Speaker 1: play before the play was the second down stop with
Speaker 1: a land and Roberts and Christian Wilkins. You see Wilkins
Speaker 1: take on a double team and you see the left
Speaker 1: leg as the right guard push is him and tries
Speaker 1: to get movement on him. You see the left leg
Speaker 1: come off the turf and that means all the way
Speaker 1: all the balances on his right leg and he just
Speaker 1: anchors on that thing and puts that left foot back
Speaker 1: in the ground and holds the point. And that allows
Speaker 1: a land and Roberts, who was absolutely incredible in this
Speaker 1: exact role. Short yardage downhill, go blow up, run play,
Speaker 1: go knock out a blocker, gets your way into the
Speaker 1: running back or to the backfield and meet the running
Speaker 1: back back there. That was some kind of play on
Speaker 1: that second down. Then they did it again on third
Speaker 1: down two to get the field goal team out there.
Speaker 1: So that shortyarde work saving points like that consistently a
Speaker 1: man is going to be a key for this football team.
Speaker 1: They do it every single week. And then my teaching
Speaker 1: tape goes back to Connor Williams the way he fires
Speaker 1: off the snap. It's been a coaching point for Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel and the staff all summer long all off season
Speaker 1: long about firing off the football a key to this offense,
Speaker 1: and Connor Williams embodies that the way he can make
Speaker 1: certain blocks of that center position after snapping the ball.
Speaker 1: It's just not something a lot of guys can do.
Speaker 1: So it's a very valuable aspect to have, you know,
Speaker 1: double the point the play I'm talking about in particular,
Speaker 1: Actually I should say I thought I was just talking
Speaker 1: in general, but my notes here and say, hey, Travis,
Speaker 1: talk about this one play. It was a five yard
Speaker 1: run by Raheem Most where he doubles Rob hunts Man
Speaker 1: and gets movement on him like a solid gap, and
Speaker 1: then climbs to the second level and walls off a
Speaker 1: linebacker and just pushes him right past the pursuit of
Speaker 1: the play when most are cut up off of his
Speaker 1: butt for a nice little five yard chunk there. It's
Speaker 1: really impressive watching him on that wide view. I wish
Speaker 1: every broadcast that did that wide view on every game
Speaker 1: so we can see this stuff all the time. But man,
Speaker 1: he just makes so many big plays and he's such
Speaker 1: a such a unique center to have. He's a really
Speaker 1: valuable asset for this Dolphins offense and this Dolphins football team.
Speaker 1: All Right, guys, that's gonna be my time here tonight,
Speaker 1: Shorter podcast. We're having all twenty two podcasts coming your
Speaker 1: way over the weekend. I'll go ahead and dive into
Speaker 1: the tape. I'm home alone this weekend. We'll not home
Speaker 1: alone with a little girl, and we're gonna be watching
Speaker 1: tape together and getting you guys a podcast out um
Speaker 1: in the meantime, So keep an eye for that. We'll
Speaker 1: have more to cover this game. No post game show
Speaker 1: stuff tonight. I didn't get the audio sent. Plus it
Speaker 1: was a little bit down in the post game show
Speaker 1: from being honest because it's a tough topic to cover
Speaker 1: and with that two MM, we're thinking about you, bro.
Speaker 1: Like the biggest takeaway from this game is we just
Speaker 1: want number one to be okay thinking about two A
Speaker 1: toungo by loa on this night. Football can be a
Speaker 1: tough game sometimes. We've learned that on Thursday night in Cincinnati. Alright,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my time you all. Please be sure
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