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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we've made it to the middle
Speaker 1: of another week. We've made it to the turn the
Speaker 1: page day. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and
Speaker 1: quarterback to a tong of Byloa. We'll look around the
Speaker 1: web and see what folks are saying and do our
Speaker 1: regular Wednesday thing with the five big picture items I
Speaker 1: think about this football team from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast.
Speaker 1: Always loved this episode of the pod. Taking a big
Speaker 1: picture step back look at the team and the perspective
Speaker 1: of offense, defense, special teams in the collection of the
Speaker 1: entire team nine weeks into the season now, and we
Speaker 1: do that with five things I think. And the first
Speaker 1: thing I think on this Wednesday, November the nine is
Speaker 1: that the offense is point production is catching up to
Speaker 1: what the yards they've gained all year would suggest they have.
Speaker 1: And let me go ahead and put my Brian win
Speaker 1: Horse hat on here. Why is that? First? The reason
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to this was because just two
Speaker 1: weeks ago after the Steelers game, you know where we
Speaker 1: went up and down the field but managed just six
Speaker 1: team points on a day where it felt like the
Speaker 1: offense was really clicking but just gotten his own way
Speaker 1: a couple of times. I wanted to look back at
Speaker 1: the last two games here for this Dolphins offense, and
Speaker 1: if you look at the red zone conversion percentage, nine
Speaker 1: drives seven touchdowns at seventy seven point eight percent conversion
Speaker 1: rate in the red zone, it is difficult to beat
Speaker 1: teams for the opposition's sake. When you're allowing touchdowns seven
Speaker 1: out of nine drives into the red zone, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna win many games doing that, and also on third
Speaker 1: down for the Dolphins, thirteen of twenty two on third
Speaker 1: downs in those two games. That's just a smidge below.
Speaker 1: So two very very efficient numbers and two of the
Speaker 1: most critical areas you're gonna see in terms of a
Speaker 1: box score, in terms of a stat count for a
Speaker 1: football game and a football team. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins point production and really just general offensive production
Speaker 1: has caught up to what that yards per play metric
Speaker 1: would suggest that we talked about a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago here on the podcast. They are tenth in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Right now in points per game at twenty three point seven,
Speaker 1: they are second in the NFL. How does that field
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans? You have these second best passing game right
Speaker 1: now in terms of yards per game, and I would
Speaker 1: argue it could be probably better than that. You know,
Speaker 1: if a certain player was here every single week at
Speaker 1: two nine three point six yards per game, second best
Speaker 1: passing attack in the NFL by that metric, rushing eighty
Speaker 1: six point nine yards per game is NFL. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that here in a second third down. We talked
Speaker 1: about being sixty percent the last two weeks on the
Speaker 1: season forty one point three percent, tied for four Also
Speaker 1: going to get back to that stat here in a second.
Speaker 1: On the year in the red zone six nice That
Speaker 1: is six the best in the NFL, and they're six
Speaker 1: point three yards per play our second, so think about that.
Speaker 1: Yards per play is one of the most important stats
Speaker 1: in football. Second points their tenth red zone they are six,
Speaker 1: and third down they're tied for fourteenth, which I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why that's gonna get even better here in just
Speaker 1: a second. But the running part of that stands out
Speaker 1: a bit right the third downs too, obviously, which I
Speaker 1: thought was strange given two US records heading pace on
Speaker 1: third down pass this year, but also only one team
Speaker 1: who has played nine games. Most teams in the league
Speaker 1: have played eight games right now. We're one of the
Speaker 1: few teams that haven't had their by yet, but most
Speaker 1: teams have played nine games, and only one team that
Speaker 1: has played nine games has ran fewer plays on third
Speaker 1: down than us. The Falcons have a hundred third down plays,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have one d four and no team has
Speaker 1: more yards per play first downs or a higher passer
Speaker 1: rating this year than the Miami Dolphins. So we're getting
Speaker 1: to third down at one of the lowest rates, but
Speaker 1: then executing them at one of the most efficient rates
Speaker 1: in these last few games. Uh. As far as third
Speaker 1: downs per game, the Dolphins have eleven point five five
Speaker 1: That's tied with Buffalo, who have the fewest third down
Speaker 1: attempts this season. From a volume standpoints, the Dolphins on
Speaker 1: a per game basis have faced the second fewest third
Speaker 1: downs in the National Football League or tied for it.
Speaker 1: That's why you look at fourteenth in the league and say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're scoring points because they are as explosive as anybody
Speaker 1: on the early downs and then they're highly efficient on
Speaker 1: the money down. Not to mention the big plays were
Speaker 1: on third down. You know, third and six, thirty nine
Speaker 1: yards of Tyreek Hill. A third down you throw a
Speaker 1: twenty nine yard touchdown pass to Jaalen Waddle. It's been
Speaker 1: that way all year long. Third and twenty two you
Speaker 1: get forty five yards to Waddle to basically beat Buffalo.
Speaker 1: As for the running aspect of that, I think it's
Speaker 1: a kin to what we talked about with the yards
Speaker 1: per play and how it tends to play out that
Speaker 1: the points will catch up to the stat but more
Speaker 1: so the eye test of just saying, hey, this looks
Speaker 1: like more than a twenty one point per game offense,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. So from average yards per rush last four games,
Speaker 1: and this removes victory formation kneel downs at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. I did not go back and look
Speaker 1: at halftime, but I think there might be a couple
Speaker 1: in there. But it's pretty pretty Uh, it plays out
Speaker 1: pretty much the same. So the last six game rushing totals,
Speaker 1: where you subtract seven kneel downs for negative seven yards
Speaker 1: for seventy seven, twenty six for one oh seven, seven
Speaker 1: for one eleven, seventy three, six for one thirty seven
Speaker 1: and eighty five. So for total, that's one and thirty
Speaker 1: seven rushes for five hundred and ninety seven yards, which
Speaker 1: is four point four yards per carry. So I think
Speaker 1: you're getting plenty out of the run games, since you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of a slow start to the season in
Speaker 1: that category. But even still those first three games, you know,
Speaker 1: and going back to the number of third downs that
Speaker 1: we haven't had this year. In two of those games,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore and the Buffalo game, you're chasing points really
Speaker 1: all the way until to the fourth quarter, and for Baltimore,
Speaker 1: up until the last play of the game, really and
Speaker 1: we did get some success back in that Week one
Speaker 1: game over the Patriots with fourth quarter running the football,
Speaker 1: and I want to hammer home the point that it's
Speaker 1: really providing a great balance and compliment to the passing game.
Speaker 1: The ability to get to four point four yards a
Speaker 1: clip is more than adequate enough in terms of capitalizing
Speaker 1: on what this defense does best, which is makes a
Speaker 1: lot of the variety of the playbook look the exact
Speaker 1: same like it's like again back to my baseball references,
Speaker 1: Felix Hernandez was the best right handed pitcher in the
Speaker 1: league for like ten years because his nine four mile
Speaker 1: and our fastball looked identical to is eighty five mile changeup,
Speaker 1: and that nine mile hour difference in speed was impossible
Speaker 1: for hitters to gauge, especially when the changeup just fell
Speaker 1: off the plate, so that it was the same idea. Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run this play from this formation, and this
Speaker 1: play from this formation one is a run. One of
Speaker 1: the past one capitalized on this conflict defender. The next
Speaker 1: one will take him and put him in a different
Speaker 1: position of conflict. It creates some hesitation and that second
Speaker 1: level and exploits any motor come of a false step
Speaker 1: that you might take. And I mean, just look at
Speaker 1: the flow of these games. They haven't exactly been, you know,
Speaker 1: again conducive to a run heavy attack. When you need
Speaker 1: thirty points to win a game, you tend to see
Speaker 1: the rush attempts go down a little bit. And that's
Speaker 1: been the case in four of these six games. You
Speaker 1: needed thirty points to beat the Bengals, you needed more
Speaker 1: than forty points to beat the Jets, You needed thirty
Speaker 1: points to beat Detroit and Chicago, so kind of harkens
Speaker 1: back to that. And then I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and look at the stat that I'm sure everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to hear here, uh with and without tah so with
Speaker 1: doah again, this is a fun element where my hypothesis
Speaker 1: did not play out the way I thought it would,
Speaker 1: but eventually got to a different point that helped carry
Speaker 1: the point in general. But with two A in the
Speaker 1: red zone, one drives fifteen touchdowns at seventy one point
Speaker 1: four percent touchdown conversion rate in the red zone, fifteen
Speaker 1: of fifty six drives got to the red zone. That's
Speaker 1: twenty eight percent of your drives under two A without
Speaker 1: too ah eight drives five touchdowns. That's a sixty two
Speaker 1: percent red zone conversion rate, so just a nine point
Speaker 1: four or nine point six drop off their percentage points
Speaker 1: and red zone execution without TAH. And then also it
Speaker 1: drives getting too the red zone eight of thirty seven
Speaker 1: twenty one point six percent, so only again less than
Speaker 1: seven percent drop off there. So my hypothesis was that
Speaker 1: the red zone execution and getting to the red zone
Speaker 1: is gonna be a lot higher. It's not, but here's
Speaker 1: where it is. How about third downs with two a
Speaker 1: thirty three at sixty nine, that's forty seven point eight
Speaker 1: percent without to a ten of thirty five percent, So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the rub. And then your points per game with
Speaker 1: two point seven without to a six team point five.
Speaker 1: Pretty big deal there. My second thing that I think,
Speaker 1: how about a round of applause for Mike McDaniel, Frank Smith,
Speaker 1: and Matt Applebaum and really anyone that has any involvement
Speaker 1: in the running game coordination, uh that puts puts their
Speaker 1: part into the game plan, which I'm sure includes Eric
Speaker 1: Sudsville as well, and in different offensive staff members that
Speaker 1: I did not include here, but those three guys, you know,
Speaker 1: run game coordinator, offensive coordinator, uh, and obviously what Mike
Speaker 1: has done, and then your offensive line coach. We did
Speaker 1: the film review portion on the podcast every Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: you guys hear my excitement about the run game in general,
Speaker 1: the design of the offense in general, I should say,
Speaker 1: and I would hate being a linebacker preparing for this
Speaker 1: offense because there's just so much going on. Again mentioned
Speaker 1: it in the first takeaway, so many false keys and
Speaker 1: things that are designed to get you taking false steps
Speaker 1: and if you get it wrong, you then are flat
Speaker 1: footed against somebody like alec Ingold who's coming downhill ready
Speaker 1: to put a hit right in your chops. And in fact,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and I'm gonna lift this from the around
Speaker 1: the Web portion I was going to do later on
Speaker 1: he did calling Cowherd on Monday. I know, shame on
Speaker 1: me for watching that show, but I'm not gonna promote
Speaker 1: it on social. He said that when he was in
Speaker 1: New Orleans every week, they would have two or three
Speaker 1: other offenses around the NFL that they would study and
Speaker 1: try to get ideas from. He said on the show
Speaker 1: that if he were still coaching right now, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: would be on that list of teams to cut up
Speaker 1: every single week, regardless if they're your opponent or not.
Speaker 1: They want to get an idea for what other offenses
Speaker 1: do for creativity and things to take away from them.
Speaker 1: He said the Dolphins would be in that list for
Speaker 1: him as a head coach, and obviously Sean Payton is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest offensive minds this league has ever seen,
Speaker 1: so pretty high praise and we don't have to deep
Speaker 1: dive this, but a lot of it for me starts
Speaker 1: with alec Ingold, who does just so much in all
Speaker 1: aspects of the game. Hill align in a nasty split, which,
Speaker 1: as you know by now if you're a fan of
Speaker 1: the podcast, means you're in tight to the formation, up
Speaker 1: against the tackle tight end area close to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then chip the edge from that spot. He'll come
Speaker 1: across the formation and split flow action and get that
Speaker 1: last chance block before two it gets hit to afford
Speaker 1: him the extra you know, three tenths of a second
Speaker 1: to deliver one of the strikes that he's thrown all year.
Speaker 1: He'll lead you know, a running back on the outside
Speaker 1: toss or in the screen game and the swing game.
Speaker 1: He just does so much and you look at the
Speaker 1: offensive line. There were so many reps where the use
Speaker 1: of the running game, and this ties into thing I
Speaker 1: think number one where the function of play action the
Speaker 1: full line slide. You've already just essentially men, you factured
Speaker 1: a pocket for twa where he can turn his back
Speaker 1: to the defense on play action, get to his drop,
Speaker 1: get his head back around and has room to survey,
Speaker 1: process hitch up and there's nobody even close to him.
Speaker 1: It has to be so comforting as a quarterback to
Speaker 1: know you have those reps baked into the game plan.
Speaker 1: I think it all ties together with the run game
Speaker 1: working off the past game and vice versa, and with
Speaker 1: alec Ingold being a big part of that takes us
Speaker 1: into our third thing. I think here on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: heading into week number ten, is speaking of alec Ingold.
Speaker 1: This team has stars everywhere, but we are winning and
Speaker 1: find margins think to some slightly unsung heroes we mentioned.
Speaker 1: Ingold just does so much for the offense. Trent Sherfield,
Speaker 1: you know, he's only he's only had one target this
Speaker 1: year that he didn't catch. I think it's fourteen out
Speaker 1: of fifteen. I mentioned those swings and tosses on outside
Speaker 1: runs watch Trent Sherfield bust his ass to not just
Speaker 1: get wide of the defensive formation and like, you know,
Speaker 1: be a guy that gets in the way. He gets
Speaker 1: out wide, puts his foot in the ground and then
Speaker 1: changes his momentum and leverage going back against the flow
Speaker 1: of the play to make sure he doesn't just get
Speaker 1: in the way but lays an effective seal block. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things to watch each and every
Speaker 1: week here on the Draft Time podcast. Uh Duke Riley
Speaker 1: Special Teams tackles his speed to the perimeter, his ability
Speaker 1: to spy quarterbacks, He's playing well in coverage, and he
Speaker 1: can give you the occasional rush to the rest of
Speaker 1: our guys are primarily here on this list. Special Teams
Speaker 1: contributors Andrew Van Ginkla twenty five yard scoop and score
Speaker 1: last week a franchise record off the punt block. He
Speaker 1: makes a couple of plays on teams every week, it seems.
Speaker 1: And then his efficiency on defense has been really good too.
Speaker 1: Not as many snaps this year, but as he's working
Speaker 1: back from the app end deck to me from the
Speaker 1: end of camp, he's given you a lot of good
Speaker 1: quality reps on defense as well, justin Bethel, what he
Speaker 1: did in a pinch at corn Her when we were
Speaker 1: so thin cannot be overstated. I'm not sure we win
Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh game without the effort that he gave on
Speaker 1: defense that day. And then he seems to have a
Speaker 1: big special teams play every week, either making a tackle
Speaker 1: or downing a punt inside the ten yard line. And
Speaker 1: on that topic, Thomas more Stead has just been aces.
Speaker 1: We never really punt from in our own end, and
Speaker 1: that's a credit to the offense for not having many
Speaker 1: three and OUs. But he does hit forty five point
Speaker 1: two percent of his punts down inside the twenty yard line.
Speaker 1: That is the sixth best rate in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: his six team point one percent pinned inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line rate is eighth best in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Unsung heroes is my third thing I
Speaker 1: think this week, let's take our first break and come
Speaker 1: back and do the things I think four through five.
Speaker 1: That's next, and will also look around the web. Coming
Speaker 1: up here on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Wednesday here
Speaker 1: on Brown's Week nine game in the books. We are
Speaker 1: halfway home this week to game. Number ten goes by
Speaker 1: faster every year, doesn't it. Thing I think number four
Speaker 1: is I cannot remember the last time we had this many,
Speaker 1: you know, air quotes, players and the trenches producing at
Speaker 1: this level. An update on espns, run block, UH, run block,
Speaker 1: run stop win rate, pass rush and pass block win rates.
Speaker 1: I wrote that down in a way that I thought
Speaker 1: made sense in my head, but I read it back
Speaker 1: and it doesn't make any sense. But basically, run, run defense,
Speaker 1: and pass defense in the trenches. So on the individual
Speaker 1: portion among defensive ends and outside linebackers, Bradley Chubb is
Speaker 1: third with his twenty seven percent pressure rate as far
Speaker 1: as the run defense goes to that position group, Dyalen
Speaker 1: Phillips is tied for seventh at run stop win rate.
Speaker 1: At defensive tackle, Christian Wilkins is sixth and pass rush
Speaker 1: at six and he's also second and run stop win
Speaker 1: rate at forty percent. On the offensive line to Ron
Speaker 1: Armsteads tied for tenth at pass block win rate among
Speaker 1: all tackles. Among the offensive guards and run block win
Speaker 1: win rate, Rob hunt is tied for eight at nine percent.
Speaker 1: As far as centers go, Connor Williams and run block
Speaker 1: win rate is tied for fourth at seventy four percent,
Speaker 1: so Chubb, Phillips, Wilkins, Tehron, Rob and Connor. And then
Speaker 1: also I know that Zach Seeler is right on the
Speaker 1: fringe of that. Uh. In terms of run stop win
Speaker 1: rate as a team, pass rush win rate sixth at
Speaker 1: forty percent and seventh and run stop win rate at
Speaker 1: thirty two percent. Offensively, I think it's twenty one and
Speaker 1: twenty seven, so uh yeah, it's been better on on
Speaker 1: the defensive side in terms of pressures and run stops
Speaker 1: from a team perspective than it has been on the
Speaker 1: offensive side. The fifth thing I think are the fifth
Speaker 1: big picture takeaway is that I just wanted to give
Speaker 1: you further to a perspective and has worked on third
Speaker 1: down just looking at some two of stuff because we've
Speaker 1: not seen a run like this with the quarterback position
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins since I mean, that's basically what it
Speaker 1: goes back to. I thought this was really cool as well,
Speaker 1: Seek Parrott on Twitter. Chris Kaufman did the research here
Speaker 1: to is twenty one of twenty five with two hundred
Speaker 1: two passing yards, two touchdowns and no picks when targeting
Speaker 1: wide receivers not named Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle, it's
Speaker 1: a one twenty seven passer rating. It's better and better
Speaker 1: than his rating with those guys. To is also forty
Speaker 1: two of sixty three for three hundred and fifty eight
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns and no picks. When he's throwing
Speaker 1: two backs and tight ends. That's a passer rating of
Speaker 1: one or two point five and throwing too players not
Speaker 1: just wide receivers, players other than ten and seventeen a
Speaker 1: one eleven point four passer rating. Pretty incredible on third
Speaker 1: down this year, how about forty two of fifty seven,
Speaker 1: it's a seventy three point seven percent clip for six
Speaker 1: hundred and one yards. That's ten point five yards per pass,
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns, and a one hundred and seven forty seven
Speaker 1: passer rating for two uh on twenty yard throws this year,
Speaker 1: sixty four point three percent completion with a one seven
Speaker 1: teen point six passer rating. That's first and second in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And he has eighteen completions of twenty or
Speaker 1: more yards, which is the most in the NFL, which
Speaker 1: is so funny because last year he was from an
Speaker 1: efficiency standpoint one of the most accurate downfield deep ball throwers.
Speaker 1: But everybody had to say, but not Bylesage. Well, now
Speaker 1: he leads a league in that stat so shut up. Uh.
Speaker 1: Did you know the last time a Dolphins quarterback led
Speaker 1: the league in passer rating was four? That's wild to
Speaker 1: me to doing it through nine games eight more to go,
Speaker 1: of course, But did you also know that the only
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with a higher passer rating for a season then
Speaker 1: two was one fifteen point nine was Aaron Rodgers, Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill in twenty nineteen, Matt Ryan in twenty sixteen, Nick
Speaker 1: foles In, Aaron Rodgerslen Tom Brady in two thousand seven,
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning in two thousand four. That is one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five six seven, the eighth best single season passer rating
Speaker 1: of all time at this stage. And of those names,
Speaker 1: two guys didn't play the entire year, which too will
Speaker 1: not have played the entire year having missed those two
Speaker 1: and a half games, But Tannehill and foals In didn't
Speaker 1: play the whole year. With the other guys the Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning, they
Speaker 1: all won the m v P just think about that unreal.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and look around the web here real quick.
Speaker 1: I moved the Sean Payton on Calherd segment up to
Speaker 1: the big picture thoughts. I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: read this from Peter King's week nine Football Morning in America.
Speaker 1: So this segment that I do on Wednesdays is something
Speaker 1: of a cheap rip off of Peter King's weekly column
Speaker 1: and a fun fact. At a sports marketing class back
Speaker 1: in my sophomore year of high school, that was basically
Speaker 1: all the athletes at the school and our favorite teacher
Speaker 1: doing cool projects that were related to sports, Like one was,
Speaker 1: you know, we drafted a fancy baseball leagan. Then you
Speaker 1: had to actually like run the baseball team from the
Speaker 1: tickets and concessions and promotions and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: And one time he showed us, for some reason, know
Speaker 1: why the Longest Yard the Adam Sandler remake during class,
Speaker 1: and when they panned the press box in one of
Speaker 1: the scenes, the teacher, Mr Judy offered extra credit points
Speaker 1: if anybody could name the sports writer who had the
Speaker 1: one line in the movie which was not bad crew
Speaker 1: not bad, and it was Peter King, And I got
Speaker 1: those extra credit points because he was my favorite writer.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm telling you about that. Because in
Speaker 1: his five Things he Thinks this week, he mentioned the
Speaker 1: trade deadline and gave us this blurb. Since spring, Miami
Speaker 1: general manager Chris Greer has traded six first round picks,
Speaker 1: traded away four or yeah, traded away four, and used
Speaker 1: first rounders to either draft or acquire Jalen Waddle, Tyree Hill,
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb. That's one heck of a job, but
Speaker 1: Miami signing Chub twenty six to a multi year deal
Speaker 1: gives Miami another piece to its defensive front. What I
Speaker 1: also like for the Dolphins is despite being docked one
Speaker 1: first round draft pick, Chris Greer retains three picks in
Speaker 1: the top three rounds of the draft, a second and
Speaker 1: two thirds. Well done, Chris Greer. King also gave Phillips
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips his Special Teams Player of the Week award
Speaker 1: after blocking that punt, one of just four blocks punts
Speaker 1: in the NFL this season. He also shouts out Andrew
Speaker 1: van Ginkol in the blurb. I'm not gonna play it here,
Speaker 1: but Brian Baldinger had three breakdowns of our game two
Speaker 1: on the offense one of the pump block. Really cool
Speaker 1: stuff where he breaks down the offense with Tyreek, Jalen
Speaker 1: and Tua and then of course Phillips and Van Ginkel
Speaker 1: on the pump block. A couple more things here. How
Speaker 1: about some midseason power rankings. NFL dot Com has US
Speaker 1: at twelve, but that guy is a die hard Jets
Speaker 1: fan who has the Jets ahead of us from which
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but that's what we're doing. ESPN
Speaker 1: has US at sixth, CBS Sports has US at sixth,
Speaker 1: YAH who has US at seventh, and Pro Football Talk
Speaker 1: has US at ninth. I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: do this before our last break. Mid season awards for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. My m v P is two A TABLOA.
Speaker 1: My Offensive Player of the Year is Tyreek Hill. My
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year is Jalen Phillips. My Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year is kat Cohu, My comeback player is
Speaker 1: where he moster, and my coach of the Year on
Speaker 1: the staff is West Welker. Receiver's room is getting done.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, this team right now has two first
Speaker 1: team All Pros halfway through the year, Connor Williams and
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. In my opinion, they have uh three second
Speaker 1: team All Pro and go talk to a wall about
Speaker 1: one of these guys in here, to Ron Armstead, Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: and to a Tungo by Low. I would take Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts as the QB one on in terms of for
Speaker 1: all Pro teams, and I would say two was the
Speaker 1: second team quarterback the way the years going so far
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl, I would put Phillips, Wilkins, and
Speaker 1: Holland and of course the other guys ahead of that.
Speaker 1: So that would give you one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight Pro Bowlers. And we'll also see where Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: winds up. If you're going off the Denver stuff. He's
Speaker 1: easily a Pro Bowler and maybe arguably in the All
Speaker 1: Pro teams as well, So I would give you nine total.
Speaker 1: It could be a fun year for the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. Are they playing it this year? I
Speaker 1: can't remember. As for the league, my m v P
Speaker 1: is Jalen Hurts, and then to I'll probably go Hurts first,
Speaker 1: just because the rushing element of the game that he adds.
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year is Tyreek Hill. Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year for me is Micah Parsons. My offensive
Speaker 1: rookie is Damian Pierce. The defensive rookie is Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 1: Come back is tough. I want to get with the gino,
Speaker 1: but I think if you're not, you know, Gina didn't
Speaker 1: have an injuries, I'm gonna give it to Sa Kwon
Speaker 1: bar Lee. And then my coach of the Year is
Speaker 1: Robert Salah. He edged out Nick Sirianni after that win
Speaker 1: over the Buffalo Bills. And my executive of the Year
Speaker 1: would be Chris Career. So there you go. That is
Speaker 1: segment number two. Here we're gonna come back on the
Speaker 1: other side of the break, and here from Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: and two a toungo by Loa in their Wednesday media availability.
Speaker 1: That's Next Draftime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. Alright, so I lied in the
Speaker 1: previous segments saying we're gonna have to a tongue of
Speaker 1: by Loa audio. It's gonna be a late press conference
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Wanted to get the podcast out to you
Speaker 1: guys as fast as we possibly could, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: have just head coach Mike McDaniel's Wednesday news conference. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about two was on the Thursday preview show. But
Speaker 1: if you want to see the entirety of two A
Speaker 1: Tongue by Loas press conference, go ahead and head over
Speaker 1: to the team YouTube channel and you can find it
Speaker 1: in its entirety up there. Let's go ahead and stop
Speaker 1: by Mike McDaniels. Wednesday news conference. He was asked about
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and basically gave us the same update we've
Speaker 1: been getting all year long. But he did say that
Speaker 1: they are not bowing out of the possibility that he
Speaker 1: could return this season. I want to first play these
Speaker 1: couple of clips for you about Tyreek Hill. Coach was
Speaker 1: asked about an on field moment and an off field
Speaker 1: moment where they realized this offseason, this dude's different. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and play him in succession for you here,
Speaker 1: but I really want to focus on the recall of coach.
Speaker 1: I remember the name Leonard Hankerson because I am obsessed
Speaker 1: with football and that's all I do all day long.
Speaker 1: But did you remember that name? Did you know about
Speaker 1: a two thousand thirteen route that he ran that was
Speaker 1: against the specific San Diego Chargers that coaches talking about
Speaker 1: here this recall is incredible. And then also the response
Speaker 1: that Tyreek had two coaches kind of ribbing of his
Speaker 1: top speed in terms of the GPS tracking at practice,
Speaker 1: about Keion Crossing and Berylan Sanders having the better times
Speaker 1: over Tyreek in the first part of O T A S.
Speaker 1: And how Tyreek responded to that. I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and play it for you guys here because it
Speaker 1: blew me away. This is awesome stuff here from coach
Speaker 1: about Tyreek Hills on field moment and off field moment
Speaker 1: where they realized this dude is different. You know, there
Speaker 1: was Okay, I got it. There's a particular route UM
Speaker 1: that you know, I think we we came up with
Speaker 1: um in two thousand thirteen trivia fact is Leonard Hankerson
Speaker 1: against the charters. UM. That's a deeper, outbreaking route that
Speaker 1: UM not all that many people can run because the
Speaker 1: timing of the play and to push it that deep, UM,
Speaker 1: you don't always have protection for it. So but running
Speaker 1: that kind of UM kind of got steam and ran
Speaker 1: at the most and we had Julio Jones Um who
Speaker 1: was unbelievable at the route and then seeing tyreeke in
Speaker 1: I think it was probably O T A four if
Speaker 1: my training camp installed schedules correct in my brain. UM
Speaker 1: when he ran that, UM, I just had a lot
Speaker 1: of deliberate reps at viewing that ran at an exceptional
Speaker 1: um uh uh speed, depth, intent, and it was like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to be around Andre Johnson, his prime UM,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and his prime Josh Gordon. UM, you know
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson, UH leading league and receiving all these great
Speaker 1: great players, and he is different and we we knew
Speaker 1: then UM in O t A s that, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a this is a different deal in the off
Speaker 1: field part. UM. The first time I took the trust
Speaker 1: fall and called him out in a team meeting, I think, UM,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't a call. I guess I shouldn't really
Speaker 1: say call out because it's not. It's more UM and
Speaker 1: tea meetings. I think it's very important to UH state
Speaker 1: the facts, and the facts are what's on tape. So
Speaker 1: anything that's on tape we should be able to discuss openly.
Speaker 1: And there was something that he didn't do. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what it was, but I vividly remember his response
Speaker 1: that day. Um uh was corrected and then so I
Speaker 1: kind of made note of that. Two days later, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was at the beginning of team meetings
Speaker 1: and training camp, were showing, um, the fastest GPS is
Speaker 1: of the practice the previous day, Um, and there was
Speaker 1: he was. He was fifth that day, and so I
Speaker 1: made a big deal about. I went over the top
Speaker 1: and said something like, dude, congratulations, even working hard, this
Speaker 1: is great achievement. Um. And then once I think Keian
Speaker 1: Crossing was the fastest that day, so I just was like, no,
Speaker 1: actually it was Brian Sanders at the time, um, whoever
Speaker 1: it was. I was like, man, you're the fastest guy
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins. This is awesome. This is from the
Speaker 1: whole team. And uh. Then that practice, he um he
Speaker 1: ran the fastest ever recorded in practice here or that
Speaker 1: I've seen. It was like something absurd like eight or
Speaker 1: something like So it's like, okay, yeah, you're different. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that on the field, off the field, UM, it's
Speaker 1: not a happenstance that he's able to have success. I mean,
Speaker 1: how cool was that? Wa man Coach's answer was awesome.
Speaker 1: Up next, he was asked a question that I asked
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and he kind of gave
Speaker 1: us more in depth on it here, and the part
Speaker 1: that I liked about the most was referencing certain coaches
Speaker 1: and their expertise is in this area, particularly Frank Smith,
Speaker 1: who if you guys listened to the Thursday or I
Speaker 1: should say, the Friday edition of Draft Time, we pump
Speaker 1: out these incredible q and as every week with Josh Bowyer,
Speaker 1: Frank Smith, the entire coaching staff. But Frank Smith is
Speaker 1: new this year, so I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: know him before this year. But I just love hearing
Speaker 1: him talk, so hearing coach talk about his experience. And
Speaker 1: also how about the fact that I wrote this podcast
Speaker 1: script before we had coach on Wednesday, and that reference
Speaker 1: I had earlier about the running game with Frank Smith,
Speaker 1: Matt Applebaum, and the entire coaching staff with Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: how they've kind of cultivated this successful group upfront. Pretty
Speaker 1: cool to have it carry over with the question that
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask in the press conference on the
Speaker 1: same day, here's coach talking about the growth along the
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's the it's the least appealing, most real
Speaker 1: answer that exists, and it's like the down to the
Speaker 1: bones deliberate work and intent on UM defensive specific techniques
Speaker 1: and how we execute our fundamentals and details. Um. Uh
Speaker 1: it's one of my UM, you know favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the whole coaching staff is that. Uh. The offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Frank Smith has deep um O line coaching roots. It
Speaker 1: was a center himself, UM and I think he's spearhearted spirit,
Speaker 1: spearheaded that charge and really led in a moment that UM.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's a young group that was a
Speaker 1: little uncertain of themselves. UM that along with applebamb and
Speaker 1: um lem and my person. You know, it's there's no
Speaker 1: quick and easy way to have success in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. That's why I liked the game so much.
Speaker 1: It's because when you see success um or improvement, I
Speaker 1: should say more than anything, UM, you people are too talented,
Speaker 1: people work too hard. There's there's no shortcut around it.
Speaker 1: It is just they they're wedding after practice for you know,
Speaker 1: practice ends. UM. I try to give the players a
Speaker 1: nice a schedule that they can get out of the building. UM.
Speaker 1: But the linemen don't aren't afforded that because they are
Speaker 1: out there working UM after practice and uh it's to
Speaker 1: all their credit. UM. Collectively. Um, and then you know,
Speaker 1: every everybody else getting used to it. You're starting to
Speaker 1: see the skill position players be a little more productive
Speaker 1: in their areas. The running backs, UM, running in space better.
Speaker 1: It's a trickle down effect that they can really dictate.
Speaker 1: Got a really good Q and A from coach regarding
Speaker 1: Joe Woods, Brown's defensive coordinator. We're gonna say that for
Speaker 1: tomorrow's podcast on the game preview. Hey my computer booted up.
Speaker 1: But this last one here from Coach was asked about
Speaker 1: the small details between winning and losing close games, as
Speaker 1: the Browns have struggled in that department and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are five and one and one score games this season.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach on the fine margins and how the Browns
Speaker 1: are not to be taken lightly because they are a
Speaker 1: team that is rallying together and will give you a
Speaker 1: tough football game each and every Sunday. The you know it,
Speaker 1: that's the part of football that you don't necessarily You're
Speaker 1: you're hitting on the part that isn't necessarily on the
Speaker 1: stat sheet, which is which is the cool part. Um.
Speaker 1: There's you find that teams kind of um kind of
Speaker 1: snowballs for teams where you can be in tight games
Speaker 1: consecutively and um, you can find yourself with the same
Speaker 1: result until you get yourself out of it either way. UM.
Speaker 1: But that I think being involved in those games gives
Speaker 1: you a competitive advantage moving forward when you're able to
Speaker 1: get when you're able to learn from them. So teams
Speaker 1: that are learning from them, whether it's high low or
Speaker 1: whatever during at the end of the season, they end
Speaker 1: up winning more than they lose of those In my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think those because it's hard. You want you do all.
Speaker 1: I mean, just think about it. You're we're starting on
Speaker 1: coaches start on Monday, UM, players coming on Wednesday. We're
Speaker 1: grinding on this one objective all week has all sorts
Speaker 1: of variables countless number of variables. Um, that you're learning,
Speaker 1: that you're trying to master. H Then you go to
Speaker 1: this huge build up of this competitive game that everyone
Speaker 1: is watching and being able to critique. And then just finality,
Speaker 1: one final result when teams aren't of the right mindset
Speaker 1: they want to point fingers or you learn how to
Speaker 1: not point fingers. That's something that UM, I've been on
Speaker 1: teams that it happens a ton um just by the tape,
Speaker 1: you know. I wouldn't dare to speak on the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: It looks like it doesn't look like they're doing that
Speaker 1: at all, So it looks like they're in the process
Speaker 1: of the same process a lot of teams are. We
Speaker 1: are where Okay, it's a close game, It's okay. I
Speaker 1: don't the finality of that whole work week. You don't
Speaker 1: need to think about that. Just worry about your individual
Speaker 1: job and collectively, the more people that do that end
Speaker 1: up finding a way because, um, the biggest mistake is
Speaker 1: when people get in in tight situations, tight games, and
Speaker 1: they start thinking that they need to do it themselves.
Speaker 1: And um, that's something that you have to learn through
Speaker 1: trial and error. UM, and something hopefully, UM we have
Speaker 1: learned from in our close games. But that doesn't guarantee anything.
Speaker 1: We could very well um buck the trend this week,
Speaker 1: UM hopefully eat injinxis each week. I enjoy these press
Speaker 1: conferences more and more again. Check out to a tongue
Speaker 1: of by Lois press conference on the YouTube channel. By
Speaker 1: the time you hear this podcast, he might have already spoken.
Speaker 1: If not, it's coming up around three or three thirty
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday afternoon. All right, that's my time today.
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