WEBVTT - Dolphins Patriots Week 1 Recap 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:18.639 Bowl touchdown, Miami un What is up? Dolphans And welcome 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.280 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:27.440 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How the 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.880 hell is it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.880 and as always, each and every day, I am here 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.040 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.720 On today's show, the Jets, the Pats, and the Bills 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.280 all come up short in their openers and that means 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.160 that's right, your Miami Dolphins are all alone in first 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.479 place in the a f C East. We're gonna get 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.519 to my takeaways from the game, the individual efforts that 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.760 stood out to me, and if I have time at 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.400 the end, we'll play a segment or two from the 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.560 post game show with me F and O J. McDuffie. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.679 Did I miss anything else? I don't think we did. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:12.120 Win win, win, win win. Did you think we were 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:21.040 going to play it? If you did? From the Baptist 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.960 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex, this is 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:32.679 a Victory Monday edition of the Drive Time Podcast. What 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.399 more do you want? A divisional road win to start 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.320 the season. Every game is important, but when you can 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.119 get one on the road in the division. That just 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:47.040 the added elements in terms of tiebreakers, conference records, division records, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.240 head to head. How many folks out there had the 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.800 New England Patriots or have the New England Patriots in 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.200 the playoffs as far as their preseason predictions while going 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.400 on the road and taking out a team like that, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.880 that's a big, big victory and a great way to 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.520 start the season, especially when Buffalo lost to the Steelers 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.800 and the Jets lost to the Panthers. So it's one 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.720 and oh from Miami in the a f C East, 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.320 everybody else, oh and one looking up at your Miami Dolphins. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.440 Some of the things I was impressed by with Dolphins 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.200 in this game before we get to the five takeaways 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.120 was their ability to overcome some of the more challenging 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.480 moments that this game presented. If you're like me watching 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.840 this game, I'm certain you had some white knuckle moments 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.280 where maybe you never thought the game was seriously in 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.320 jeopardy or in doubt, or the Dolphins would have a 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.480 chance to lose the game. That's kind of the way 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.480 I felt about it. Because of the nature of even 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.360 though the Patriots held the football for so long and 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.880 converted so many third downs. The lack of explosive plays 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.400 and Miami interns ability to hit those explosive plays always 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.520 made me feel like Miami was more of a threat 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.440 to win the game than the Patriots were, especially when 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.000 you take into account the red zone success, which you 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.120 know as Coach Flores has mentioned this in the past, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.959 like I go back to the Denver game last year 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.520 and reporters were asking questions to Coach Flow about what 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.800 strength the Broncos have, and he was like, well, I 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.480 think a lot of folks are overlooking this team because 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.639 they are good in certain areas, and one of those 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.280 areas was, in fact, the red zone. And Miami executed 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.400 both offensively and defensively beautifully in the red zone today. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.120 So in the most critical elements of the game, who 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.160 rose to the occasion, who made the plays, who made 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.680 the plays to set up the plays that ultimately decided 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.360 the game. Your Miami Dolphins did more times than not 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.560 in this contest. But they had to do it by 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.040 overcoming some difficult moments. And the first one I point 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.600 to is a penalty that was accurately called like the 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.680 letter of the law is that if you hit a 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.320 quarterback low, you're gonna get flagged for it. And that's 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.240 what happened on the land and Roberts third and short 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.120 sack that eventually wound up turning into a touchdown where 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.360 it would have been a field goal attempt otherwise, so 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.840 technically a four point swing. But on that play, the 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.640 Dolphins came back from that. They didn't sulk on that. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.520 They didn't look at the officials and say, well, that 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.240 moment was taken from us, and it wasn't, because that 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.960 was the right call. Even though Roberts with the lean, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.200 the direction, the fact that the fullback kind of blocked 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.960 him into that position where he was going low, the 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.640 Dolphins did not let that defeat them. And I think 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.680 that is a defining characteristic trait of the Miami Dolphins 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.320 underhead coach Brian Floors, and something to be very proud of, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.240 I think, is their resilience in tough moments like that. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.279 How about the fact that they didn't melt down or 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.960 give up. In terms of the drives that were extended 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.560 over and over and over again, the Patriots had three 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.520 drives that were fourteen or more plays and only two 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.279 only one of those rather resulted in a touchdown. The 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.120 other two were field goals. So Miami did a fantastic 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.160 job of staying true to the plan and they might 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.560 have bent a little bit, but they never really broken 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.480 those big moments. And if you go back to the penalty, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.080 if that doesn't get called that way, then it turns 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.800 into three field goal drives and the Patriots only wind 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.320 up with nine points in the game against the stout 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.919 Miami defense, but also offensively, when the Patriot did have 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.440 their moments with their own offense, the Dolphins offense rose 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.560 to the occasion and answered right back. Right after New 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.920 England goes down and takes that ten to seven lead 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.359 in the second quarter, Miami responds and gets points, and 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.560 then comes back on the other end of the second 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.200 half and gets points on that drive to take a 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.919 lead that they would never relinquish. So Miami's ability to 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.880 react and respond the tough moments that the Patriots made 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.320 plays or maybe the elements went against them, that to 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.080 me was encouraging and a sign of this team's mental 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.560 toughness and an ode to the type of people that 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.039 Brian Flores and Chris Career on the staff bring into 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.360 this facility, into this building. Guys that are gonna be tough, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.840 They're gonna rise the occasion and never let the moment 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.039 get too big for them. I thought that was among 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.159 the most encouraging things we saw today out there against 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.920 the Patriots, especially for a team and again, as coach 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.640 Flores has mentioned in the past, like, this is the team, right, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.080 This is the result of all those draft picks and 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.599 all that free agent capital or cap space capital you 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.320 had into one to remake this roster under the vision 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.799 of Chris Career and Brian Flores, And this is the team. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.480 And it's a very young team, and they have shown 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.360 that mental fortitude in big moments, and especially out there 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.040 today in opener to overcome those things that really went 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.640 against them in a few ways. So to me, this 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.120 was a really impressive moment for those young guys to 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.479 rise to the occasion and get a big win in 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.000 a game that really this team. You know, over the 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.359 last twenty or so years, it's a game that this 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.359 team has found ways to lose that particular game, that 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.000 particular outcome tends to go in the opposition's favor with 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.800 regards to the Miami Dolphins, and I just I just 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.680 think it's different when you can overcome all the things 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.279 that went against you and all the challenges and not 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.719 getting too down yourself in that building, in that tough 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.159 place to play with a raucous crowd back for the 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.560 first time since twenty nineteen. Just I can't be more 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.560 impressed by their ability to overcome all the things that 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.960 we're just working against them in that game. Also liked 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.520 the ability to to start the game and open up 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.840 the third quarter with touchdown drives. I mean, that's that's 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.080 where the coaches really tend to make their hey in 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.840 terms of you know, we're gonna do this to start 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.840 and see how they adjust. And for their ability to 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.240 go out there and put together a plan or a 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.680 script both in the first half and coming out of 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.680 the break in the second half that put not just 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.640 points on the board, but touchdowns on the board. How 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.280 big of a deal was that and really the difference 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.160 in the game those two possessions and either one of 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.720 those could be the difference in the game in a 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.840 seventeen to sixteen Miami Dolphins victory. And then Brian Flores 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.640 message after the game also liked this as well, talking 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.440 about how it's good to get a win, but there 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.760 are corrections to be made. And this goes back to 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.880 the part of the team, the young team that loves 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.280 to be here in football is important to them. How 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.040 those guys will be excited to make the corrections they 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.080 have to make and get ready for next week against 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.400 the Buffalo Bills. But that's down the road. We are 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.200 still within the twenty four hour window to really enjoy 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:57.600 this victory. Enjoy your first season opening victory since season. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.240 It's good to be one and oh, it's good to 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.800 be unbeaten. It's good to be at the top of 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.760 the division. Let's go ahead and kick off our five 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.360 takeaways from the game. Takeaway number one, there goes that 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.440 man again, first and tent Patriots from the Dolphins eleven 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.080 Miami seventeen Patriots sixteen with three thirty five left to play. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.360 They actually think, don't They gives the Patriot Harris and 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:26.000 he is who's got it? Alanda Roberts hit him. Dolphins 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.520 say they do, but let's see who. Well, somebody's the 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:35.000 bomb pile with the blue jersey on Jolephins. Who's got it? Yeah? Well, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.440 but don't write wow wow is right. The Dolphins come 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.680 up with a huge takeaway that eventually puts them in 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.680 the winner circle. Xaviing Howard forces the fumble, recovers the fumble. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.960 Big time players in big time games. And X had 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.000 a great quote that Seth Levitt told us about on 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.360 the postgame show, saying that they try to lull me 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.760 to sleep, I try to find the football, and boy 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.719 does he He sure finds the football tent X last year. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.960 You might recall in the Week fifteen game last year 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.280 against the Patriots, on one of the few catches he 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.199 gave up, he forced to fumble on Jacoby Myers that 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.560 gave possession back to the Miami Dolphins. He also had 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.480 a chance of all the recovery for a touchdown in 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.400 that game that, of course, as we know, did not 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.679 go uh. It came off the board because somebody was 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.880 out of bounce when the ball touched them. But in 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.560 this game, Xaviing Howard, once again you never hear from 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.160 him because they just didn't throw the football in his direction. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.880 And you have to imagine that was one of the 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.160 plans for the Patriots, like, hey is pretty good, let's 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.839 go ahead and stay away from that guy. And he 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.640 found a way to make a big play in the 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.959 biggest moment of the game as it looks like the 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.839 Patriots are gonna at least, at the very least put 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.319 three on the board and forced the Dolphins offense to 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.760 have to execute a two minute drive against that defense 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.439 in that building with that crowd noise. But none of 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.760 that had to happen because of Xaviing Howard punching the 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.319 ball out and the Dolphins you heard their Landon Roberts 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.320 on the scene as well a couple of other Miami 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.880 Dolphins on the scene for that big play. But Xaviing 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.199 Howard and again credit here to you know, Chris Year 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.319 in his front office and Brian Flowers and his coaching 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.120 staff are finding a way to get Exaviing Howard back 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.040 in here and make sure that he was happy and 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.360 ready to be on the field week one to make 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.880 a big play that changed the game. So Exaviing Howard 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.599 finding a way to make a big play despite the 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.120 fact that he just was not that involved with how 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.560 the Patriots attacked this defense all game. But when it 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.760 came down to it, the big time player, the big 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.800 time play in the big time game. Takeaway number two. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.800 And I wrote this early on, but I think it's 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.880 still is worth talking about because we talked about this 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.319 throughout the course of the off season with some of 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.199 the additions Miami made, and we saw Jalen Phillips and 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.200 Javon Holland get some action out there today on this 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.360 Miami Dolphins defense. But the ability to be multiple and 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:45.520 get different looks and create pressure in different ways. Like, yeah, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.360 Matt Jones didn't take a lot of sacks today, but 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.240 he was under pressure a lot, and he made some 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.520 good throws to space against receivers kind of running free 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.720 in that short I was gonna say short to intermediate, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.960 but it was largely short throws. I mean, average depth 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.360 of target was very thin for mac Jones. At one 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.520 point deep into the first half, it was barely over 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.600 two yards. I'll have to go back and check on 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.040 that on the Tuesday podcast on the Omissions podcast. But 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.600 they were throwing a lot of stuff short and really 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.040 just taking nickel and dime options and going up and 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.480 down the field that way. And the Miami Dolphins would 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.200 clamp on that offense in the crucial moments on the 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.360 third downs in the red zone and get off the 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.720 field that way. But philosophy wise and performance wise, especially 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.880 early on their ability to create pressure and put Jones 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.840 under some of that dress in multiple ways. And the 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.400 one I'm looking at here is the initial play where 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.920 mac Jones through the football backwards like he got hit 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.720 and turned and tried to throw it to a running 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.800 back next to him because he got hit, the ball 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.440 went backwards and was a huge fumble and a huge loss. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.360 That pretty much, no, not pretty much. It did end 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.720 that first drive for the Miami Dolphins to get that 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.800 victory in that game. A big reason for that was 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.600 that first drive and pushing them out of field goal 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.200 range and getting pressure with whether you're in a four 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.920 man or four down look, getting sending just four guy, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.240 sometimes sending three men on pressure, mixing it up with 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.400 blitz and stunts and twist and having backers come up 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.640 into the a gaps and rush that way, rushing off 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.120 the edge and something blitz is that way cat blitz is. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.360 I mean, the big play that caused the backwards pass 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.320 from Mac Jones was a cat blitz Cat means cornerback 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.240 where Byron Jones comes in and I thought maybe he 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:20.880 would get the credit for the sack on that because 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.960 he was the last one to really hit Jones before 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.400 he went down, but Christian Wilkins was the closest one 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.800 in the neighborhood on a you know, a backwards past 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.320 fumble that goes towards the player who's closest on that. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.520 So Wilkins winds up getting the sack on that play. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.439 But you saw Byron Jones come clear on that. We 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.680 saw Nick need Him come on some blitzes. We saw 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.400 some defensive backs come, some linebackers come. Some guys drop 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.600 out and play that way too. So their ability to 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.559 really get multiple that way, I think speaks well for 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.439 the defense long term and the ability to attack teams 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.480 down the stretch on your schedule. I also liked on 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.960 that particular play that was looking like one of those bootlegs, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.680 and I go back a lot to the Jared Goff 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.360 game last year against the Rams where he would try 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.640 to get some boot action and because of the boot 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.280 action of the outside stretch zone coming back against the 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.199 other side of the formation, you then have the quarterback 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.400 comfortable because the play action in the wide zone fake 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.640 has created false steps for the defense, are giving them 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.280 Ie candy that gives him a clean pocket. But when 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.960 you just blitz off that weak side edge, that's not 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.840 there anymore. It speeds everything up the quarterback on the 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.640 offense wants to do. And I thought they did a 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.240 good job on that, on that particular play and just 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.959 in general to create different looks to get enough defensive 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.480 wins to ultimately win the football game. Take Away number 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:39.280 three ten early third quarter play acting fake rolling, it's 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:50.319 watt touchdown breaks. Me just got outside and got in guys, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:55.240 catching knew exactly where that goal line was. He dove 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.440 for the flag and got it. Joe. I mean, that's 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:03.680 his first NFL Miami Dolphin touchdown and that play. I mean, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.880 first of all, I love when I can tell you, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.040 guys things that I've seen firsthand here at practice and 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.640 training camp that then translate into the game and you 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.800 can say, oh, yeah, yeah, Travis told us about that. Well, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.200 that touchdown catch I thought was indicative of Jalen Waddle's 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.080 competitive toughness and running through an arm tackle or running 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.080 through contact. They're right at the goal line and the 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.760 pylon to find pay dirt, to find the end zone. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.320 And you heard his reaction there. His voice was picked 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.640 up pretty well on that radio call there from Jimmy 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.760 Jimmy Cephalo and Jason Taylor and as well as Joe Rose, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.040 and that was a fantastic call as well as a 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.280 play by Jillian Waddle on that play. But just how 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.520 tough he is and how much grit there is to 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.320 his game For a guy that you know incorrectly gets 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.800 billed as a pound receiver, I mean he is that, 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.200 but a guy that can't make physical, tough plays because 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.680 of that, which is such a misnomer or a misconception 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.480 with how certain guys play the game. Waddle is as 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.560 tough as they come and making those tough, physical catches. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.960 And you also have a chance to see him really 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.920 in his element as far as how they wanted to 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.080 attack this defense and what his speed and the way 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.400 he moves and the ability to get to him quick 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.240 on the screen game, the ability to go deep over 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.880 the top, which we also saw the crossing routes the 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.520 very first play of the game, I mean the very 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.360 first play of the game the Dolphins start. How are 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.440 you feeling about this play when you saw it out 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.480 the gate Miles casket, I'm running back to Au out 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:36.120 of the shotgun. Quick pass pulls it back up there, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.320 He's got Waddle, Waddle on the run, breaking tackles along 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.400 the way for five. I probably dumped at the thirties 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.840 six yard line by Devin mccordy. Welcome to the National 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:51.000 Football League, kid, Right there, Taylor Waddle sixteen yards right 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.080 out of the shoot to a to Waddle big focal 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.200 point of the offense. And this one winds up with 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.240 four catches, sixty one yards and the game winning touchdown. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:00.960 How about that for your first game, number six pick 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.360 in the draft, a game winning touchdown. He did have 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.000 the one drop. Me and Seth and o J had 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.480 a great segment on the postgame show talking about this, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.560 and o J said the ball was a little bit 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.480 outside of his frame, so he's not going to frame 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.640 it as a drop, and Seth was on the other 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.800 side where he said, yeah, that ball probably should be caught, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.760 and o J eventually came around and said, I think 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.080 he probably should have caught it, but let's not say 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.920 it was an out and out drop because it was 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.840 a tough ball to catch. So that's the ball I 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.240 think you'd like to get back for both To as 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.920 well as Waddle. But all things told, you know, Jalen 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.880 Waddle first NFL game, four catches, sixty one yards and 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.400 that game winning touchdown. I just like how you guys 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.040 got a chance to see what I've been seeing here 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.240 in practice and really see how this kid gets it 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.720 done over and over again and make so many plays. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.000 Let's play one more sound clip for you here on Waddle, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.280 the play that started that big drive for the Miami 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.920 Dolphins at the end of the first half. Alex Gasker. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.680 They're running back to him shotgunt trips to the left 0:16:54.360 --> 0:17:04.959 to throw a looking left throw without Wayne Ryland. Wanda 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.000 went up like he was six three to catch that 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.919 football running down the side, and he's got so much speed. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.320 If your cover him, you don't have time to be 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.879 looking back for the ball. What a catch. I mean, 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.960 how many times we talked about those down the middle 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.680 shots where he made a tough catch away from his frame, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.280 diving laying out in traffic, coming back for this football 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.520 in this instance on a nice ball from two to 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.720 kind of take advantage of the fact that defensive back 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.240 was there in good shape but underneath and didn't have 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.320 a chance to really get his head around. Good play 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.800 there by two ah to Waddle for thirty six yards 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.320 to jump start a drive that wound up in points 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.880 from Miami at the end of the first half takeaway 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:45.639 number four, And it's the offensive mixing and sequencing and 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.199 hurry up and just the general call and plan here 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.359 for the Miami Dolphins offense opening up the game with 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.560 an ad R touchdown to start. I mean, what's better 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.720 than that. You can't top you know, that type of 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.080 a drive, that type of production to start a game off. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.680 But I just thought there was a good of personnel. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.880 We saw plenty of receivers in the game, tight ends 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.959 in the game, different running backs in the game. They 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.840 went some tempo and kept the Patriots. You know, you 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.399 get into a certain look, you like that look, go tempo, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.360 keep them on the field. And they only had one 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.840 third down on that opening march where two it was 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.640 four for four with forty nine yards and the touchdown 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.439 rush to cap off that drive. I just thought there 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.719 was plenty of mix and versatility offensively, just as there 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.320 was defensively. And I cannot wait to see where they 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.440 go and really sequence off of those looks, because that's 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.400 what football is, a catalog of plays each and every year, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.360 where you can then build off of that, grow off 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.720 that and give teams different looks based upon what you've 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.040 already shown on tape, and I thought Miami did a 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.000 good job of putting enough on tape this week to 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.080 say to make teams really say, hey, we have to 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.200 be careful for this and and really check off A, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.159 B and C and D on this particular look, and 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.359 then they could do this look and build another E 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.520 F G H. I don't know the alphabet, but you 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.400 get what I'm saying. Plenty of different options off each play. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.080 I thought Miami showed well in that area. And my 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.040 favorite sequence, and this is really the main part of 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.800 the takeaway. That opening drive for sure, but the sequence 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.920 to close out the game when you touched down to 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.600 waddle the Dolphins pushed the ball down the field and 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.600 gained a bunch of yards and and really are chewing 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.240 up chewing up yardage and the clock as well. But 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.280 the sequence on the doorstep of the red zoner once 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.800 they got into the red zone to go wildcap to 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.119 savan Akhmed a nice little tendency breaker based upon what 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.320 you've seen. I mean, there's lots of quick game, there's 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.360 lots of shotgun and r p O and zone read 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.520 and that kind of stuff to then put them a 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.520 formation in the game where most likely going to be 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.320