Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are going to welcome in the great Kyle Krabs.
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about the weekend that is for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins as well as the Chiefs and Broncos preview,
Speaker 1: and we'll also talk about the week in college football,
Speaker 1: not weekend, the week in college football as we break
Speaker 1: down the three big games today Ohio State and Oregon,
Speaker 1: Arizona State and Texas and Georgia Notre Dame. I'll also
Speaker 1: talk about the most annoying points of this season and
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins were basically within arm's reach of thirteen
Speaker 1: and three. Stay with me on that one. We'll also
Speaker 1: take a look at the free agents pending as soon
Speaker 1: as the game ends on Sunday, provided as the last
Speaker 1: game of the year from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome into the Baptist Hell Studios for another edition of
Speaker 1: Dolphins HQ Extra as we're breaking down the snaries with
Speaker 1: Dolphins to find their way into the playoffs for a
Speaker 1: third consecutive year, what has to happen. Dolphins beat the Jets.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, the Chiefs beat the Broncos, and that's all
Speaker 1: it takes to get a nineteenth week for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and to help us sort all of this out.
Speaker 1: He joins us on the Draft Time podcast each week
Speaker 1: during the NFL season, and now he's here with us
Speaker 1: on Dolphins HQ Extra Kyle Crabs Kyle, it's a big
Speaker 1: week in the households of those with little ones. Were
Speaker 1: you like the Miami Dolphins this week?
Speaker 3: Kyle?
Speaker 4: Did you go want to know over the holiday weekend?
Speaker 4: My kids definitely went want to know over the weekend
Speaker 4: for sure. The holidays stretch amidst football season is is
Speaker 4: zero to one for sleep, but lots of fun experiences.
Speaker 4: We did Disney on Ice on Friday as an extension
Speaker 4: of the holidays, so we get the whole work up
Speaker 4: this past week and it was great.
Speaker 3: The kids had a great thought.
Speaker 1: We are Disney on Ice regulars down here at the
Speaker 1: Emerald Bank Arena where the Florida Panthers play. We go
Speaker 1: there quite often for those for those fun little moments
Speaker 1: for the kids. They dress up in the Encanto costume,
Speaker 1: the Elsa costume, it is a great time for all
Speaker 1: all parties involved. But thanks to that win, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are in position to win and get a little bit
Speaker 1: of help to punch their ticket back to the postseason
Speaker 1: for a third consecutive year, And no matter what happens
Speaker 1: in Denver, a win would mark the fifth consecutive winning
Speaker 1: season for the Miami Dolphins. Kyle, before we get into
Speaker 1: the game, what does finishing seven and two after a
Speaker 1: two and six start prove for this football team? Regardless
Speaker 1: of whether enough it's or whether or not it's enough
Speaker 1: to get back into the dance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's a lot of pride that can
Speaker 4: be found in that, and I know everybody is very
Speaker 4: eager for this franchise to kind of take the next
Speaker 4: step that everybody feels like they're very capable of doing.
Speaker 3: But to be able to.
Speaker 4: Whether the storm through something like that and come out
Speaker 4: the other side and still be able to win more
Speaker 4: games than you've lost, I's that's not nothing. And that's
Speaker 4: something that I think the Dolphins of kind of that
Speaker 4: stretch between Coach Shula and Coach Johnson and the early
Speaker 4: years of Dave Wonstad until kind of recent history, has
Speaker 4: still been a missing piece of what the annual expectation
Speaker 4: is for the Dolphins and for them to find a
Speaker 4: way if they're able to finish this, come all the
Speaker 4: way back have a winning season. I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot of pride to be found in that, regardless of
Speaker 4: what happens, endeavor.
Speaker 1: Something to build off going into twenty twenty five. And again,
Speaker 1: if they do go down to eight and don't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's the record where you can look back
Speaker 1: at several games like there's one play in multiple games
Speaker 1: that if it just goes the other way, you probably
Speaker 1: are dancing in January.
Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get into this game though, and
Speaker 1: we'll do it twofold here, Kyle, for Dolphins and Jets.
Speaker 1: Let's preview it from the perspective that you will have
Speaker 1: to a tongue Iiloa and then it will be Snoop
Speaker 1: Huntley starting at quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Le's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start with Tua. What do you think of
Speaker 1: this game? If two was back for the Dolphins against
Speaker 1: the Jets on Sunday.
Speaker 4: So we're doing the Mike McDaniel thing and doing two
Speaker 4: game plans for the same game. Is that we have
Speaker 4: to it's okay, uh if to of plays, I know
Speaker 4: he was pretty Mike Big Daniel was pretty optimistic earlier
Speaker 4: in the week about Jalen Waddle and his availability as
Speaker 4: well and getting the whole bevy of compliments of weapons back.
Speaker 4: I think you would expect to see an efficient passing offense.
Speaker 4: I think maybe that gives you a little bit more
Speaker 4: room to have a counter punch with the run game.
Speaker 4: I think when we're getting too snoop and we talk
Speaker 4: about what the offense look like against Cleveland, they played
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage a little bit tighter than I
Speaker 4: think the Dolphins have seen a lot of the season
Speaker 4: where I think that's maybe the biggest difference will not
Speaker 4: be the execution of Miami's offense, and stylistically too, with
Speaker 4: how in rhythm he is and how quickly he sees
Speaker 4: things obviously sets up a lot of plays to be
Speaker 4: successful right off the jump. But I think maybe that
Speaker 4: gives you a little bit more run to be room
Speaker 4: to be a little bit more balanced and be able
Speaker 4: to run the ball a little bit more effectively. Where
Speaker 4: a team like the Browns, they got up and took
Speaker 4: their chances with some one on ones on the outside
Speaker 4: and Snoop was really opportunistic with those, and but it
Speaker 4: changed structurally what you saw defensively, and I think that
Speaker 4: kind of dictated how you had to call a game.
Speaker 1: I thought Tyreek probably saw a lot of those coverages
Speaker 1: and was happy to see what he got in that
Speaker 1: game for the first time all year, getting plenty of
Speaker 1: of you know, one guy to beat type of looks
Speaker 1: where he's got outside leverage and just run an end
Speaker 1: breaker with no safety help. He must have he must
Speaker 1: have felt pretty free in that game getting all that
Speaker 1: access that he got and some pretty clear defined throws
Speaker 1: there for Snoop Puntley. So when we played the Jets
Speaker 1: last time, I was pretty convinced they were gonna play
Speaker 1: this press coverage and try to reroute the last scrimmage.
Speaker 1: But they played off and Tua kind of went to
Speaker 1: work playing the you know the short underneath game and
Speaker 1: was very efficient in that game and had a big
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime to get us back in that game.
Speaker 1: Do you think the Jets will play it similarly depending
Speaker 1: on who the quarterback is, with how they do their
Speaker 1: coverage this week. Uh, I wouldn't be surprised if it's
Speaker 1: more based off off the passer, where if you get
Speaker 1: if you get to a tongue of a looa, I
Speaker 1: would expect maybe maybe they do take their chances with
Speaker 1: their corner and play some more main coverage. Whereas if
Speaker 1: you get Snoop with his ability to use his legs,
Speaker 1: maybe you play more zone and maybe it's you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's the interesting dynamic for the Jets to
Speaker 1: have to decide how they want to play this game, because,
Speaker 1: as you alluded to, when the Browns suddenly you got
Speaker 1: you get a chance to play one on one outside
Speaker 1: the numbers and Tyreek Hill it's not a coincidence he
Speaker 1: goes nine for nine on targets and receptions. So I
Speaker 1: think there's a game that the Jets are going to
Speaker 1: have to decide how they want to play it defensively
Speaker 1: based off of who they get and if it gives
Speaker 1: them the best chance to win, and you get to
Speaker 1: if the timing is not quite as crisp, if it's
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley versus two, it just because that's to his
Speaker 1: superpower and what he does as a player, do you
Speaker 1: play more zone and give yourself maybe a chance to
Speaker 1: break on some more footballs This can player two if
Speaker 1: it's too you want to disrupt the timing by playing
Speaker 1: man and then try to get home with the pass rush.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was so encouraged about what we saw in the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday for multiple reasons. But like you just
Speaker 1: talked about, it could open up the way defenses play you.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious what you learned from that game to
Speaker 1: possibly inform you for your game plan if it is
Speaker 1: in fact Snoop on Sunday. But also kind of a
Speaker 1: follow up to that before I even have you answer
Speaker 1: that question, Kyle, is what did Snoop prove to you
Speaker 1: not just about his Week eighteen availability and production ability,
Speaker 1: but about a long term possible solution at the backup
Speaker 1: quarterback position.
Speaker 4: I think it was a great declaration of himself as hey,
Speaker 4: when I'm not learning on the fly as we go,
Speaker 4: this is what it can look like. And it looked
Speaker 4: much more like what I thought my expectations were for
Speaker 4: Snoop Pumpley because I scouted him coming out of college,
Speaker 4: so I knew what kind of player he was, and
Speaker 4: obviously he had had modest success and good success as
Speaker 4: a backup quarterback in Baltimore. And I think it's more
Speaker 4: of a testament to time on task and familiarity and
Speaker 4: the depth of this offense. And I think Miami did
Speaker 4: did do some things even when Snoop was out there
Speaker 4: against Cleveland where getting up to the line of scrimmage a
Speaker 4: little bit faster. It looked like they went silent count
Speaker 4: a few times, and maybe not all of the bells
Speaker 4: and whistles that I think we were hoping for when
Speaker 4: we found out we were going to have to play
Speaker 4: some games without two of this season. I think you
Speaker 4: saw some of that. So I think maybe this was
Speaker 4: as much Snoop pouring into the Dolphins as the Dolphins
Speaker 4: pouring into Snoop and kind of meeting each other in
Speaker 4: the middle. And that's what it kind of felt like
Speaker 4: for me coming out of this performance. With how they
Speaker 4: played against Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I think it's impressive when you consider the fact that
Speaker 1: these two quarterbacks have very different playing styles and they
Speaker 1: were able to adjust to that here. Like you mentioned
Speaker 1: on the fly, it wasn't back in you know, September,
Speaker 1: he just arrived and you can't possibly know the offense
Speaker 1: at that point. So to see him taking those two
Speaker 1: months and you know, get value from those two months
Speaker 1: down where he wasn't playing.
Speaker 2: Was really cool to see. And Kyle, we're going to
Speaker 2: do an h Q first here.
Speaker 1: We're going to preview a game that does not feature
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. If the Dolphins take care of business,
Speaker 1: a simultaneous kickoff from the Chiefs and the Broncos would
Speaker 1: decide Miami's Week nineteen fate first off, just man, like,
Speaker 1: you couldn't ask for a better team to need a
Speaker 1: win from right. The only problem is they've got the
Speaker 1: one seed locked up, so we'll see who plays for
Speaker 1: the chief and Chiefs and there's a lot of noise
Speaker 1: about what their approach will be in this game, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound great from a Dolphins perspective. But I
Speaker 1: also caution the listeners because you only can elevate two
Speaker 1: practice squad players per game. You dress forty eight guys
Speaker 1: on game day, So it's not like they're gonna be
Speaker 1: calling out their local ups and saying, hey, can you
Speaker 1: get some drivers down here to play Mike linebacker for us?
Speaker 1: These are gonna be NFL players out there playing against
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. Am I crazy for thinking this is
Speaker 1: not a slam dunk win for a Broncos team?
Speaker 2: Off of two straight losses. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I think Kansas City's gonna get a chance to get
Speaker 4: some young guys in the Patrick Mahomes wouldn't expect to
Speaker 4: se him, would he expect see Travis Kelsey, wouldn't expect
Speaker 4: see Chris Jones. But the rest this group, Like if
Speaker 4: you told me that the offensive line at least started
Speaker 4: the game, I wouldn't be surprised. They can run the ball.
Speaker 4: Carson Wentz is an experienced player. I know they've got
Speaker 4: a young quarterback on the practice squad in Chris Olakun
Speaker 4: who sounds like he may be in play to get
Speaker 4: some playing.
Speaker 3: Time as well.
Speaker 4: But if you told me that Carson Wentz played well
Speaker 4: with Andy Reid calling plays, it would not surprise me.
Speaker 4: And there's Denver. It's got a lot of pressure on them,
Speaker 4: having lost the last two. They have an extensive postseason
Speaker 4: drought of their own. And I don't think Dolphins fans
Speaker 4: need to be reminded anything more about a win and
Speaker 4: in scenario against backups than twenty twenty Week seventeen, when
Speaker 4: the Bills put fifty six points on you and you
Speaker 4: had to win that game to make the playoffs and
Speaker 4: you got sent home.
Speaker 1: It's possible. It happens. It happens all the time across
Speaker 1: the league. I think twenty thirteen the Dolphins had to
Speaker 1: win it into situation against the Jets and it wasn't
Speaker 1: back ups. But they didn't perform in that game, either
Speaker 1: in a costume at birth of the or a trip
Speaker 1: to the playoffs with that loss in that spot as well.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and then to your point, like the Broncos also,
Speaker 1: you know, not for nothing, just played a game on
Speaker 1: last Saturday where they were probably thinking three or four
Speaker 1: times in that game, all right, we have week eighteen off.
Speaker 1: We just won this game and it didn't go that way.
Speaker 1: It's like a possible hangover spot, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And we there's every year things you don't expect happen.
Speaker 4: Case in point, just last week with the Giants beating
Speaker 4: the Colts and Drew Locke played like the best EPA
Speaker 4: per drop back game of the last five years of
Speaker 4: any quarterback going against the Colts with a team that
Speaker 4: had the number one pick coming into the game, and
Speaker 4: you know, knowing the coaching that Kansas City has, knowing
Speaker 4: that Denver is a young team with a lot of
Speaker 4: young players that has the pressure.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be very interesting on Sunday.
Speaker 4: I'm I can to see, hear and guaranteed that the
Speaker 4: Broncos are gonna lose or that the Dolphins are gonna win.
Speaker 4: But the NFL has to be just over the moon
Speaker 4: with the drama that they're getting down the stretch because
Speaker 4: it's exactly what they want for a Week eight team.
Speaker 1: And part of me wonders, like, hey, k c if
Speaker 1: the Bengals went on Saturday and you kind of montor
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in Jets game, you might say, hey, we
Speaker 1: could win this game and we could send the Bengals
Speaker 1: to Buffalo to knock out the Bills, possibly in the
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You just never know what could happen.
Speaker 1: And also Carson Wentz watching Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and Gino Smith may be like, hey, I'm that next
Speaker 1: redemption art quarterback and hopefully it starts this Sunday. That's
Speaker 1: going to do it for Dolphins. HQ Extra with Kyle
Speaker 1: Krabbs my guests today the host of the Lockdown Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast at Kyle Crabs on social and the NFL or
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft lead for the thirty third team. We're
Speaker 1: going to take a quick break, comeback on the other
Speaker 1: side and talk some college for the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: which you can find Kyle there on Wednesday. That's next
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. All right, Kyle, we saw Penn State
Speaker 1: Boise State last night. There are three games today. I
Speaker 1: was hoping to just kind of pick your brain here
Speaker 1: a little bit and be very specific about how I
Speaker 1: do this. I want to get players from these three games,
Speaker 1: Arizona State and Texas, Ohio State, Oregon for the Rose
Speaker 1: Bowl Notre Dame Georgia. I know you've got your big
Speaker 1: board working here in full in early January as it were.
Speaker 1: What do you think about guys on your top one
Speaker 1: hundred board in those games that make sense for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and give me some college takes here, mcdug.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of different routes that I could
Speaker 4: choose to go here, including some guys that might not play,
Speaker 4: but we know that.
Speaker 3: Are going to be in this draft class.
Speaker 4: Where Ohio State offensive tackle Josh Simmons is a transfer
Speaker 4: from San Diego State and he was recruited as a
Speaker 4: guard and has played tackle, and he's played on the
Speaker 4: right side of the plane, and he's played on the
Speaker 4: left side of the line. And if there's one thing
Speaker 4: we know about this offensive system and in these coaches,
Speaker 4: they love some positional versatility along the offensive line. They
Speaker 4: love guys they could play multiple spots. And you've even
Speaker 4: seen that with Patrick Paul who came in as a
Speaker 4: career left tackle and got some cross training and opportunities
Speaker 4: at right tackle already this season. This a very high
Speaker 4: ceiling player. He is very, very good in pass protection.
Speaker 4: He is very athletic. He is coming off of a
Speaker 4: or he's injured his ACL and missed the second half
Speaker 4: of the season, which he ironically injured in the first
Speaker 4: game against Oregon.
Speaker 3: But he's already declared for the draft.
Speaker 4: So that is if you want to go back and
Speaker 4: watch some tape and get ready for the game or
Speaker 4: after the game and learn more about what you see
Speaker 4: and who flashes, find an excuse to watch some Josh
Speaker 4: Simmons as it pertains to Ohio State. I also really
Speaker 4: like tylerck Williams. Their their defensive tackle Miami with Khalais
Speaker 4: Campbell is an expiring contract they had a lot of
Speaker 4: young guys that were in competition for spots there for them.
Speaker 4: I think he's another player who's in my top one
Speaker 4: hundred that, if he told me, is a Day two
Speaker 4: draft selection, a really good point of attack type of defender.
Speaker 4: I think he would make a lot of sense for Miami.
Speaker 4: If I look over at the other side on that
Speaker 4: game for top one hundred players, my favorite Oregon Duck
Speaker 4: is Josh Connery, their left tackle.
Speaker 3: I think he's.
Speaker 4: Another guard tackle flex type of player. Miami has some
Speaker 4: flux on those spots with expiring contracts, and Tron Armstead
Speaker 4: is obviously a long tenured VET, and Mike McDaniel alluded
Speaker 4: to just this past week he's gonna have to go
Speaker 4: through his process this offseason and decide what he wants
Speaker 4: to do moving forward. But Tess Johnson, who I know,
Speaker 4: you've texted me a few times about this dude's lighting
Speaker 4: in the model, and he is very much a Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel brand player. When you consider how explosive he is
Speaker 4: with the ball in his hands, his natural playmaking ability,
Speaker 4: I think he's a very low hanging fruit type of player.
Speaker 4: With Miami looking at potentially League Washington and Tyreek Hill
Speaker 4: and jay Len Wattoll.
Speaker 3: Those guys under contract.
Speaker 4: Obviously, they weren't afraid some undersized players when they drafted
Speaker 4: two smaller wide receivers in the twenty twenty four draft.
Speaker 4: But Tes Johnson, if you get to a certain point
Speaker 4: in the draft and he's there, I think that's a
Speaker 4: tailor made type of fit for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I was telling you about like maybe
Speaker 1: this is the time to get similar size in the
Speaker 1: receiver's room that I'm like, Hey, Kyle, what about Tes
Speaker 1: Johnson one hundred and sixty pounds receiver from Oregon. I
Speaker 1: have a type I certainly do when it comes to
Speaker 1: that position, and I just love guys that can turn
Speaker 1: you know, eight yard completions in the touchdowns. Tell me
Speaker 1: about the safeties in this Notre Dame Georgia game, Kyle,
Speaker 1: because I like both those guys very very much. I
Speaker 1: think they might both be first round picks if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for the position, you know, devaluation of that spot.
Speaker 1: But tell me about the Notre Dame in Georgia safeties
Speaker 1: if you can, real quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Malachi Starks can play all over the place
Speaker 4: for Georgia. You can play in the nickel, he can
Speaker 4: play deep half, he could play high post, he could
Speaker 4: play the second level, and he plays man to man
Speaker 4: coverage as well and has really good ball skills. He
Speaker 4: could go back the season opener this year and the
Speaker 4: season opener of his friend Bishman season. I believe he
Speaker 4: has two like incredible high point acrobatic catches at the
Speaker 4: catch point on shots down the field playing man coverage
Speaker 4: that are really a testament to what he can do
Speaker 4: when the ball is in the air. But as good
Speaker 4: as his ball skills are as they do not compare
Speaker 4: to Xavier Watts from Notre Dame, who is a former
Speaker 4: wide receiver who converted to play safety, and he won
Speaker 4: the Negersky for the best defender in college football in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. He's got twelve interceptions in counting over
Speaker 4: the last two seasons. He tackles, he can run well,
Speaker 4: but he is more of the traditional free safety playing
Speaker 4: in the deep half. So there's not a lot of
Speaker 4: limitations with both of those guys. But as you said,
Speaker 4: it's just a position that typically has to wait a
Speaker 4: little bit longer to hear their names called, regardless of
Speaker 4: the merits and I'll tell you both of those guys
Speaker 4: for me are our top twenty players on my board
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that rank.
Speaker 1: And there was a play in the Indiana game where
Speaker 1: Xavier Watts came down and like squeezed the edge of
Speaker 1: the last scrimmage and made this really good tackle on
Speaker 1: a sea gap run away from him. Like if he
Speaker 1: can do that and play in the post the way
Speaker 1: he does, yes, Like to your point, top twenty player
Speaker 1: all day long, host of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast and
Speaker 1: Lockdown NFL Scouting podcast with fellow friend of the show
Speaker 1: Joe Marino. Touchdown Miami substack and the draft lead for
Speaker 1: the thirty third team at Kyle Krabs on Social Kyle,
Speaker 1: you have said it all here in the Baptist Hill Studios.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time, and enjoy what is a
Speaker 1: glorious week of football. My friend, you two draws and
Speaker 1: away he goes one more break right there, come back
Speaker 1: on the other side. I went through the three games
Speaker 1: that I felt Miami should have won this year that
Speaker 1: they did not win this year, and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the most annoying moments from those games. I'll also take
Speaker 1: a look at the pending free agents come the end
Speaker 1: of the season. That's all next Draft Time podcast your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autnation.
Speaker 2: So I was contemplating what.
Speaker 1: To do for the show today because we have obviously
Speaker 1: a holiday that does anybody care about this holiday that
Speaker 1: listens to the show? I mean, it's like, if it's
Speaker 1: a day off work, that's great, but we're not like,
Speaker 1: we're not like watching the ball drop.
Speaker 2: We're not going out and partying, right.
Speaker 1: We all, most of us here, I think, are of
Speaker 1: a certain age, have a certain level of responsibility at home.
Speaker 1: I haven't even stayed up to midnight on New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve in probably four or five years. If I'm being
Speaker 1: honest and saw us thinking do we not do a show?
Speaker 1: Do we do a show? You're probably watching college football
Speaker 1: all day? Maybe I'll bump the Thursday preview back and
Speaker 1: give this some more time to breathe.
Speaker 2: Either way, I wasn't sure what to do.
Speaker 1: But I'm landed on this decision because I do want
Speaker 1: to save a lot of the roster construction stuff for
Speaker 1: later on, because let's be honest, there's a good chance
Speaker 1: even if the Dolphins win this game Sunday, which I
Speaker 1: think they will that it will be the last game
Speaker 1: of the season. And what a horribly, terribly, annoying, terrible season.
Speaker 1: It was, right, just annoyingly terrible. That's how I view
Speaker 1: this entire year. This weekend was the one weekend that
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we got all the breaks we needed
Speaker 1: and we won a game like it was the first
Speaker 1: time all year that it was like, Okay, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the football gods do acknowledge the Dolphins and our fan
Speaker 1: base and our struggling and our pain and suffering over
Speaker 1: the last twenty five years.
Speaker 2: But because of that, I have an idea that spawned.
Speaker 1: From that, and let's do this the most annoying moments
Speaker 1: that we can point to as the reasons we did
Speaker 1: not make the playoffs. If we don't make it on
Speaker 1: Sunday now to go blanket over the top of this,
Speaker 1: it's funny to say this about a twenty four to
Speaker 1: three game and a thirty one to twelve game, but
Speaker 1: if we have TUA in the Seattle and Tennessee game,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind those are both wins.
Speaker 1: You can push back on that, and I actually would
Speaker 1: be more receptive to that than these next three games.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about here.
Speaker 1: Even if there are blowouts, I just think that the
Speaker 1: way those games played out, the way the score was
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, if we have competent quarterback play,
Speaker 1: we win both of those games because you did not
Speaker 1: get that on the other side of the ball, and
Speaker 1: our defense balled out in both those games until it
Speaker 1: got ugly late in those contests. Now, had Jalen Polk's
Speaker 1: toe drag been successful in New England, that would have
Speaker 1: been up there as an annoying moment as well. But
Speaker 1: we'd also be playing a pointless game this weekend if
Speaker 1: you had lost that game, So this whole segment would
Speaker 1: even exist. But it starts here in week six, and
Speaker 1: there were a few in the Colts game, ready ten
Speaker 1: to three up in the third quarter, eleven forty eight
Speaker 1: to play first down at the minus thirty eight. Raheem
Speaker 1: Moster loses a fumble in a game that felt like
Speaker 1: having a touchdown lead was going to be enough enough
Speaker 1: of a cushion to win that game. We lose a fumble,
Speaker 1: the Colts cash it in four plays later. They were
Speaker 1: dead in the water on offense until that short field
Speaker 1: and it was four plays twenty eight yards that got
Speaker 1: them in the end zone after that fumble recovery and
Speaker 1: then after two punts. I had forgotten that he got
Speaker 1: hurt this early in the game. I thought it was
Speaker 1: later for some reason. But Tyler Huntley gets hurt, and
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, like he was missing everything that
Speaker 1: day despite PFF giving him like the third best passion
Speaker 1: grade of the year for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hey, if you're gonna grade games, answer me this. They
Speaker 1: don't use. They don't use all twenty two to grade
Speaker 1: the games. How the hell are you great a quarterback
Speaker 1: when you came to see the freaking safety's in the field?
Speaker 2: I digress.
Speaker 1: We take the ball back with six and a half
Speaker 1: minutes to play in the game from our own forty
Speaker 1: five yard line and go Jalen Wright on four consecutive
Speaker 1: runs and take a or this is in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: I should say, six and a half minutes in the
Speaker 1: third quarter on our own forty five four consecutive Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright runs and then a John hu Smith catch on
Speaker 1: third and eight from Tim Boyle for twelve yards to
Speaker 1: give us a first and ten at the thirteen yard
Speaker 1: line with three h seven to play in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and alec Ingold gets a first down carry and loses
Speaker 1: a fumble. The Colts kick a field goal, go up
Speaker 1: thirteen to ten. We get it back and drive to
Speaker 1: the nd thirty six for a third and one with
Speaker 1: six minutes to play, and this time it's Ingold again,
Speaker 1: but he's stuffed no yards and then Sanders has made
Speaker 1: twenty six field goals since this one, but he misses
Speaker 1: a fifty four yard er indoors go figure that's the one, right,
Speaker 1: even without Tuo, That's the game that we definitely should
Speaker 1: have won. There were so many moments a bad operation
Speaker 1: on the other side. I believe Richardson got benched, if
Speaker 1: not the next week, the week after that, that's a
Speaker 1: team that you should have beat, like even with Tyler Huntley.
Speaker 1: And of course if we had him back here for
Speaker 1: all of camp, maybe it's a different story. And that
Speaker 1: goes back to the idea of not taking care of
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback position. But there was also more to
Speaker 1: that than you realize, because there's some massaging in terms
Speaker 1: of how the quarterback room was constructed with QB one
Speaker 1: and how they want to make sure that he's comfortable,
Speaker 1: which is a whole other can of worms. But on
Speaker 1: top of all that, they should have won that football game,
Speaker 1: no matter if it was Tim Boyle. If we just
Speaker 1: carry the football and don't lose fumbles, we win that game.
Speaker 1: But it gets worse next week because we do get
Speaker 1: our guy back, and we get three hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: yards of offense and we score twenty seven points and
Speaker 1: it's a twenty to ten lead. The Dolphins have moved
Speaker 1: the ball throughout the course of this game. There's six
Speaker 1: forty eight to play in the third quarter in a
Speaker 1: ten point ball game. Cardinals have a third and six
Speaker 1: at their own thirty four yard line. Kyler Murray rolls
Speaker 1: to his left, which, by the way, he had a
Speaker 1: career day on this day, like in terms of the
Speaker 1: wow throws that he made, and watch him against the
Speaker 1: Rams on Saturday.
Speaker 2: He was butt cheeks, booty cheeks. He's been bad for
Speaker 2: like eight weeks. Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, we get him on his best peak of
Speaker 1: the entire year. Twenty to ten, six forty eight third quarter,
Speaker 1: third and six minus thirty four yard line. Murray rolls
Speaker 1: to his left, throws it back across his body across
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, and it is a punt
Speaker 1: return interception for Jordan Poyer. Just put your hands out
Speaker 1: the kid in sandlot like freaking Smalls and Benny the
Speaker 1: Jack Rodriguez is gonna put the ball in your glove.
Speaker 1: But for some reason he leaves his feet, looks like
Speaker 1: a malfunctioning transformer trying to go back into a car,
Speaker 1: and tries to one hand stab this thing while he's
Speaker 1: like suspended in the air vertically on a ball moving
Speaker 1: away from him. Drops it and there was nothing but
Speaker 1: Javon Holland in front of him for a cruise in
Speaker 1: maybe even a high five on the way pick six
Speaker 1: fifty yard touchdown that would have made it a twenty
Speaker 1: seven to ten game with just over twenty minutes to
Speaker 1: play in the game.
Speaker 2: I think if you get that play, that game goes differently.
Speaker 1: Instead, they punt it back to us, Aaron Brewer rifles
Speaker 1: a snap past to his head that makes it twenty
Speaker 1: to twelve.
Speaker 2: And trust me, that was on the center.
Speaker 1: They talked about it on a micd up session and
Speaker 1: I've heard that and it was agreed upon that it
Speaker 1: was Aaron Brewer's fault.
Speaker 2: But who gives a crap?
Speaker 1: At this point, the Cardinals go get a touchdown but
Speaker 1: fail on the two pointers, so you're up twenty twenty
Speaker 1: to eighteen still, and then the offense does their job
Speaker 1: and answers with a long touchdown drive to make it
Speaker 1: twenty seven to eighteen, a nine point game, two score game,
Speaker 1: and with.
Speaker 2: A two score lead.
Speaker 1: On the first play of the next drive, Kalaias Campbell
Speaker 1: forces a fumble on Kyler. Murray swats the ball back
Speaker 1: into his face and it bounces right back to him.
Speaker 1: And not only does he have to not have to
Speaker 1: fall on the ball and take a nine yard loss,
Speaker 1: which is what you would have gotten, he's able to
Speaker 1: pick it up and throw it away. That game is
Speaker 1: probably over if we get that fund recovery. At worst,
Speaker 1: it's second in nineteen, but instead a second and ten,
Speaker 1: and with twelve minutes to play, Kyler throws a pass
Speaker 1: that scrapes the roof of hard Rock Stadium on third
Speaker 1: and four.
Speaker 2: With the free runner on him.
Speaker 1: In one second, Marvin Harrison makes an insane adjustment catch
Speaker 1: that has to get overturned by the replay officials to
Speaker 1: move the chains. Two chances to get the ball back
Speaker 1: to the offense. With a two score lead, they eventually
Speaker 1: score and make it twenty seven twenty five. We drive
Speaker 1: into plus territory after a nails throw on third and
Speaker 1: twelve from TWOA to John new Smith with six fifty
Speaker 1: one to go, but then we run for no game,
Speaker 1: a one yard pass that doesn't go anywhere obviously one yard,
Speaker 1: and then a screenplay that gets blown up and we
Speaker 1: punt the ball back to the eleven yard line.
Speaker 2: Five minutes left. They need just a field goal.
Speaker 1: They overcome first and twenty because cam Smith cannot find
Speaker 1: the football. We get a third and four in field
Speaker 1: goal range. We have two timeouts left with a minute
Speaker 1: forty to play, so plenty of time for this offense
Speaker 1: to go march forty yards and kick a game winning
Speaker 1: field goal, but Jordan Poyer misses another tackle and they
Speaker 1: convert and kill the clock and win the game. Buffalo
Speaker 1: next game up ten to six with the ball in
Speaker 1: Bill's territory and Raheem Moster in the second half fumbles
Speaker 1: back to the Buffalo Bills. They take it down the
Speaker 1: field and score and missed the pat so it's twelve
Speaker 1: to ten. We kick a field goal to make it
Speaker 1: thirteen to twelve. In the third quarter, Buffalo scores and
Speaker 1: gets their two point conversion goes up twenty to thirteen.
Speaker 2: We score to tie it.
Speaker 1: They score twenty seven twenty, We tie it again twenty
Speaker 1: seven all. Then we have them and third and fourteen
Speaker 1: with under two minutes to play. Chops first career sack
Speaker 1: puts them back behind the sticks. We have two timeouts left,
Speaker 1: and he jumps off sides and makes it third and nine.
Speaker 1: Still a good opportunity to get off field. We get pressure.
Speaker 1: Allan throws a prayer that's well covered by Campsmith.
Speaker 2: This time.
Speaker 1: We defend it well, but Jordan Poyer, for no reason
Speaker 1: at all, launches his body into the head of Keon
Speaker 1: Coleman draws the flag. If that play goes incomplete, the
Speaker 1: Bills are punting from their own thirty one. We have
Speaker 1: two timeouts and an offense that has scored seventeen points
Speaker 1: in the last three drives, with a minute forty to
Speaker 1: play in the game. Oh and then they kick a
Speaker 1: sixty one yard field goal with five seconds left. If
Speaker 1: he misses that and there's five seconds in the clock,
Speaker 1: we have a chance to throw quick, call a timeout
Speaker 1: and try a sixty yard or maybe even less of
Speaker 1: our own.
Speaker 2: But it's good and we lose.
Speaker 1: So like Look, I'm not saying we're as good as
Speaker 1: the Vikings or teams of that ILK by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. I think the Dolphins would be lucky
Speaker 1: as hell to have gotten all those breaks, because that's
Speaker 1: how this league goes. But this is a team that
Speaker 1: has won. The Vikings are a team that won nine
Speaker 1: of their ten to one score games this year. And
Speaker 1: if you just make one play in each of those games,
Speaker 1: and again if two wises up and he has to
Speaker 1: take blame for the play style that has put him
Speaker 1: in this position once again down the stretch. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're literally talking about a very realistic scenario where this
Speaker 1: team is ten to one going into Green Bay.
Speaker 2: You'll lose that.
Speaker 1: In the Houston game, you beat San Francisco and Cleveland,
Speaker 1: you're thirteen to three. Like, Travis, you are crazy, right,
Speaker 1: because that's how this league works. Again, you are what
Speaker 1: your record says you are. But I'm telling you, like,
Speaker 1: those are all moments that.
Speaker 2: You just fed up. If you just didn't f up,
Speaker 2: you could have won those games.
Speaker 1: If tu A doesen't f up against the Bills, you
Speaker 1: could have beaten Seattle in Tennessee. That's all it takes
Speaker 1: to go from thirteen to three to eight and eight.
Speaker 2: That's all it is. That's how this league works.
Speaker 1: And then the last point I'll make here, and I
Speaker 1: still continue to see this and I don't know how
Speaker 1: the hell we're on this still, but you cannot blame
Speaker 1: the offensive line for two injuries because it's been scrambles
Speaker 1: after the fact every single time he's gotten hurt. So
Speaker 1: stop with that nonsense. I want to finish with this
Speaker 1: one last thing. I was thinking about not doing this.
Speaker 1: Do I do a full segment and break it down.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do it rapid fire, and we'll break
Speaker 1: it down on the show next week. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of free agents the Dolphins have going into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five offseason, which could be as soon as three
Speaker 1: days away, right, four days away. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: list them and tell you what I would do, and
Speaker 1: we'll explain it next week.
Speaker 2: Sound good.
Speaker 1: So here's the free agents that I am bringing back.
Speaker 1: And most these guys are going to be one maybe
Speaker 1: two year deals. Tyrel Dodson, Leam Mikenberg. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: explain it, right. I just like his firsatility across every position.
Speaker 1: He is my like seventh or eighth offensive lineman. I
Speaker 1: feel like that one requires explanation for you guys, because
Speaker 1: I understand why you wouldn't want him back. Kalaias Campbell,
Speaker 1: if he's willing, please come back. But Nito Jones, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Winn for more depth purposes, Elijah Campbell, DeShawn Hand, Tyler Huntley,
Speaker 1: Tyas Bowser, d s. Gridge, Quentin Bell, Keon Smith remember
Speaker 1: him he went down in training camp, Cam Good, cater
Speaker 1: Coo who's a big one for me, probably the biggest
Speaker 1: one on this entire list, Grant Dubo's and Cam Brown
Speaker 1: who also got hurt back in training camp, My Walk
Speaker 1: and or retires, Emmanuel Ogbaugh, Duke Riley, Kendall Lamb because
Speaker 1: of retirement, Javon Holland, Big Time, Braxon Burrios, Rob Jones,
Speaker 1: Saran Neil, Jeff Wilson, Anthony Walker, River Cracraft strictly because
Speaker 1: of the injuries, the long Snamperm McQuaid, Matthew Dickerson, Jack Stole, Jackson, Carmen,
Speaker 1: Anthony Schwartz, and Eric Azukama. I'm gonna go in depth
Speaker 1: on the thinking on all of that next week. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, you guys enjoy college football, will come back
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