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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, it's Pivot Day Day, Turn the
Speaker 1: Page Day. We are taking a look at the five
Speaker 1: things I think from a big picture team perspective. Plus,
Speaker 1: in honor of Jets Week, my own personal favorite Dolphins rivalry,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about my five favorite Dolphins and Jets moments,
Speaker 1: will share a cool story from Mike McDaniels presser. This
Speaker 1: week on Robert Salah and we're moving the pis component
Speaker 1: of the show to Wednesdays, so we'll make week five
Speaker 1: picks today as well. From the Baptist Health Studios inside
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Speaker 1: Glad to be back with you all here kind of
Speaker 1: a flow back into the regular schedule. We like to
Speaker 1: peek behind the curtain here on the podcast, and to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, primetime games always make for a
Speaker 1: very very long night. The game wraps up around eleven
Speaker 1: if you're lucky, myself, Juice and Big Seth go on
Speaker 1: for two hours. And actually this week I remember very
Speaker 1: distinctly because I was, you know, the preseason game started
Speaker 1: at seven and seven thirty eight fifteen start. I was
Speaker 1: a little bit worried about what time I might be
Speaker 1: done that night, so I looked at the clock even
Speaker 1: two as the time we started, because I knew that
Speaker 1: in two hours after that I would be done at
Speaker 1: one two. Then it's either to the studio if we're
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium, or back to my home office
Speaker 1: slash studio to tape the podcast. And I always say
Speaker 1: I'm not going to plan it out, just talk about it.
Speaker 1: Get it done and send it off. But then I
Speaker 1: just think the show is way better when I plant
Speaker 1: it out, So I wind up doing that, and by
Speaker 1: the time I tape it is three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: And then here's a question I have for you, guys.
Speaker 1: Are you able to just go to bed right after
Speaker 1: you get done with your work? I personally need to
Speaker 1: wind down. Usually it's over an hour, but at least
Speaker 1: an hour to wind down before the night comes to
Speaker 1: an end. So all of that is to say, the
Speaker 1: weekend was an absolute blur, But buddy, it does not
Speaker 1: stop there. I described this as some of my friends
Speaker 1: in the press room, soft A Dean and Marcella, Louis
Speaker 1: Jock and some of the guys that you know I
Speaker 1: talked every single day. On Monday after Coach McDaniel had
Speaker 1: mentioned it was his daughter's birthday over last weekend, and
Speaker 1: many of them, as you well know, know that I
Speaker 1: also have a two year old daughter, with the second
Speaker 1: one on the way, and my wife flew home for
Speaker 1: her baby shower with her family this past weekend. So
Speaker 1: I was on dad duty from Friday night at five
Speaker 1: thirty two that's when the flight left, until Monday night.
Speaker 1: At five twenty I knew exactly the times of those
Speaker 1: flights because we were on a Jack Bowery style countdown.
Speaker 1: And parenthood's the craziest thing but also like the biggest
Speaker 1: microcosm and all of life. I've mentioned on the podcast
Speaker 1: so many times before my philosophy on life, the yin
Speaker 1: and yang of life. If something can be that good,
Speaker 1: then it can be equally that bad. And positively, nothing
Speaker 1: is more rewarding than being a father, and it makes
Speaker 1: other thing things seem so much less important. Now that said,
Speaker 1: it's also the most challenging thing you'll ever undertake. Fits right,
Speaker 1: So after exactly seventy one two hours did the math,
Speaker 1: I was feeling like Jimmy Butler at the scores table
Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals. But we are back. We are
Speaker 1: revitalized and ready for a fun Wednesday show, starting with
Speaker 1: our in weekly segment five Things. I think was bumped
Speaker 1: last week because of the short week, but it's back
Speaker 1: here for week five. Almost said week four. We'll dive
Speaker 1: briefly into the five big picture things. And this is
Speaker 1: one of my probably favorite because you know you've hit
Speaker 1: one of the checkpoints in the season. I know it's
Speaker 1: no longer the exact quarter poll. But if I had
Speaker 1: a nickel for every time I heard an analysis over
Speaker 1: the last twenty five years that teams would break the
Speaker 1: schedule down into four quarters, you try to go three
Speaker 1: and one and every quarter. If you do that, you're
Speaker 1: twelve and four. Well, you know mathematics. Well, I'd have
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of nickels if I did that. So
Speaker 1: these are my five things I think from the quarter
Speaker 1: pool the first quarter of the season, even though it's
Speaker 1: not exactly a quarter anymore, heading into the second quarter
Speaker 1: of the season, five big picture items. Five things I think.
Speaker 1: Number one is this team has potential to win in
Speaker 1: any given way on any given Sunday. It rhymes, but
Speaker 1: it's also true, which is awesome because that's how the
Speaker 1: good teams in this league are constructed. You know, all
Speaker 1: offseason long, I was so encouraged by the depth of
Speaker 1: this roster. We've seen that come into play with shuffling
Speaker 1: guys on the offensive line, getting production from young guys
Speaker 1: in the cornerback position. Uh, linebackers kind of had some
Speaker 1: changes here and there. The edge position has been a
Speaker 1: big rotation. The offensive skill guys you're seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: elevation of Jalen Waddle getting more and more work down
Speaker 1: the field, but guys like Craig Craft and Sherefield and
Speaker 1: behind him, and you still have more options that really,
Speaker 1: you know, Cedric Wilson, Mike GASICKI, Chased Chase Edmonds and
Speaker 1: Raheem Moster are proven guys in this league that haven't
Speaker 1: gotten to that level yet either. So I'm encouraged by
Speaker 1: the fact that they have depth all up and down
Speaker 1: the roster. The defense, you know, has been solid and efficient.
Speaker 1: Offense with big plays, you know, week one, and then
Speaker 1: in Week two you have the offensive onslaught, then back
Speaker 1: to a masterful defensive showing in Week three against the Bills,
Speaker 1: and then I talked about this in the Friday recap
Speaker 1: pod how it felt like Miami was kind of going
Speaker 1: to take that game back with the ground game. Ult
Speaker 1: ultimately did not, but it felt like that was how
Speaker 1: they were going to get back after a big Raheem
Speaker 1: Mostart run on the eventual interception drive. And I think
Speaker 1: as we go along, you know, as this team continues
Speaker 1: to get better, we'll just see more of that, you know,
Speaker 1: potentially getting Byron Jones back here sometime in the near future.
Speaker 1: Potentially we'll see I don't know the timetable on that,
Speaker 1: but hopefully it's it's not too far off, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully the quarterback as well. And then obviously, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: like we mentioned across the offensive line, Austin Jackson, the
Speaker 1: players that are out there and and getting more and
Speaker 1: more work. Hopefully it continues to build and we see
Speaker 1: this team get better as the year goes along. Number
Speaker 1: two things that I think is that it's a great
Speaker 1: start to the season through a very tough slate, and
Speaker 1: how that gives the Dolphins an opportunity to you know,
Speaker 1: continue this strong season. Look at the I know this
Speaker 1: doesn't really you know, track, I suppose, but if you
Speaker 1: look at last year's records of teams, and Dolphins have
Speaker 1: played the Patriots for a playoff team attend win team
Speaker 1: a year ago. I've mentioned this a million times. Ravens
Speaker 1: were eight and three and the one seed in the
Speaker 1: a f C before injuries began to mount and kind
Speaker 1: of took their toll on that team. And then Buffalo
Speaker 1: we all know what Buffalo can do is in my opinion,
Speaker 1: still the best team in the National Football League. I
Speaker 1: really wish Baltimore it held on late in that game.
Speaker 1: But they're rolling right now still. And then the Bengals
Speaker 1: playing the Super Bowl last year. You know, everyone's saying
Speaker 1: they're back after a couple of wins over teams that
Speaker 1: had their qb ones injured. Now, so we'll see about that,
Speaker 1: but obviously they were a Super Bowl team a year ago.
Speaker 1: It's a tough road to start off with, especially when
Speaker 1: the ladder they're the one that you lost, was a
Speaker 1: short week playing on the road. It's never easy to
Speaker 1: do that. And you know, if you go off of
Speaker 1: the records from last season, it's the second strongest schedule
Speaker 1: to start the season in the NFL, and if you
Speaker 1: go off PFF's projected win totals right now, which you know,
Speaker 1: who knows what that actually is, but I mean, it
Speaker 1: holds up because you look at the schedule and it
Speaker 1: makes the most sense. But the Dolphins have the fourth
Speaker 1: easiest remaining schedule over the final thirteen games of the season.
Speaker 1: But we're not looking back. All of this is to
Speaker 1: look at what lies ahead. Starting three and one gives
Speaker 1: you a chance to keep it rolling into that second quarter,
Speaker 1: but nothing further than the Jets this week obviously, and
Speaker 1: four and one. If the Dolphins get this dub would
Speaker 1: be the franchise's best start since two thousand three. Let's
Speaker 1: go get it, baby, come on, should be when we
Speaker 1: go get Let's go take care of business on the road.
Speaker 1: Number three, how about the last three draft classes here
Speaker 1: in Miami, I mean judging and draft class. You know, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's always said to be done three years after it happens.
Speaker 1: And we are there with the twenty nineteen class. We're
Speaker 1: getting there with twenty and this third season. Now for
Speaker 1: all those guys, then, frankly, I don't think you need
Speaker 1: three years one Because Jalen Waddles fIF in the NFL
Speaker 1: and receiving has made big play after big play. He's
Speaker 1: changed the complexion of like three of these games so far,
Speaker 1: three of the four games. Uh, the touchdown against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: you know, from ten nothing to seventeen nothing a halftime
Speaker 1: is obviously massive. The hundred and sixty yards yards versus Baltimore,
Speaker 1: that fifty seven yard reception where he just went how
Speaker 1: many yards was it? I don't know, the long, long
Speaker 1: one where he ran like a million miles across the field. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the game winning touchdown, how about that, I'll do two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in that game in the forty five yard to
Speaker 1: play against the Buffalo Bills. Want to find jill and
Speaker 1: Waddle was remember all the conversation about the Dolphins what
Speaker 1: they should have done that year. I think getting an
Speaker 1: extra first round pick and getting in my none in
Speaker 1: my opinion, the best receiver, the best skill player in
Speaker 1: that draft class, I think that was the right move.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips got his first sack of the season, but
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, that stat doesn't do his work
Speaker 1: justice so far. He's drawing lots of attention, drawing double teams,
Speaker 1: applying pressure, playing the run, and his possessional flexibility. He
Speaker 1: got his sack from a four technique Like this is
Speaker 1: a guy listen as a linebacker, but he's playing, you know,
Speaker 1: off the edge. He's condensing down to a more true
Speaker 1: defensive tackle position. Jalen or not Jailan Phillips, Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Zach s Heeeler play that position. Do you realize
Speaker 1: how how rare that is for a guy to be
Speaker 1: able to play that spot but also play off the
Speaker 1: edge like he does. It's not normal. And then Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: I don't think I have to talk much about him.
Speaker 1: We rave about his game in every single film pod
Speaker 1: our film review podcast because he just does so much
Speaker 1: and cover so much ground and make plays outside of
Speaker 1: his responsibility with them and given a defensive call. Then
Speaker 1: back to funny I mean to I mean looking like
Speaker 1: the real deal this year. Austin Jackson looked good this
Speaker 1: camp and in his first game before the injury. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Big Rob Hunt looks like one of the best right
Speaker 1: guards in football in my opinion. Ray Kwon Davis is
Speaker 1: a very solid defensive tackle, nose tackle type. And then
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones. You know how many pairings are better than
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones and Javona Holland right now, there's not many,
Speaker 1: if any. Uh, the twenty nineteen you've got Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Andrew Van Ginkle in a year where you know,
Speaker 1: draft picks wasn't it was. That was kind of the
Speaker 1: depletion year. It was kind of moving assets into the future.
Speaker 1: So even with limited resources in the draft, he still
Speaker 1: come away with a you know, fantastic defensive tackle, a
Speaker 1: good edge presence. You'd have Michael Dieter for deaf on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and then obviously Miles Gaston here as
Speaker 1: well from that draft class. So drafting has been pretty good,
Speaker 1: Man been pretty good. Number four takeaway defense, Defensive continuity
Speaker 1: is paying gividends. The flexibility of this defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the UH. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what day it was the last podcast that came out.
Speaker 1: How many guys can play so many spots that allows
Speaker 1: them to be game plan specific. But just the the
Speaker 1: ability to disguise average where you show one look and
Speaker 1: you bell out the last second. You know, Javon Holland
Speaker 1: and Jerome Bakers speed allowing them to basically go from
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage threats to post safety or you know,
Speaker 1: twenty yard deep hook Tampa to drop for Jerome Baker.
Speaker 1: It just helps you have, you know, so many different
Speaker 1: game plans. You can roll out so many different ways
Speaker 1: to disguise quarterbacks. And you know, I have this this
Speaker 1: big thing, this big take about how essentially the best
Speaker 1: defenses in the league right now are the defenses that
Speaker 1: have played the lesser offenses. That's why, like Miami's ranks
Speaker 1: are not gonna be good because no one's gonna stop
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and at various points as well.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and that Bengals offense. No one's gonna stop them,
Speaker 1: like for a whole game consistently. They might happen a
Speaker 1: couple of times, but those teams are gonna put up points,
Speaker 1: in stats and yards every single week. And and that's
Speaker 1: how this deep, this you know league is built. That's
Speaker 1: why I was so into the game plan idea against
Speaker 1: the Bills of making them dink and dunk and do
Speaker 1: something that makes them uncomfortable and then you just kind
Speaker 1: of hope they make mistakes, and they did in that game.
Speaker 1: So that's why I like, you know, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: the defensive rankings are gonna jumble up all the time.
Speaker 1: When you get to a run of really good offenses,
Speaker 1: your defense takes a big step back in terms of
Speaker 1: their ranking statistically. And so we've seen this Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: played pretty well through you know, the top two m
Speaker 1: v P candidates right now, probably in Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts probably in that conversation as well, but two
Speaker 1: of the top three m VP candidates, and then last
Speaker 1: year's you know, the guy that everyone fell in love with,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, played a game as well, and then Matt
Speaker 1: mac Jones in the first game for the Patriots. So
Speaker 1: it's been you know, three really really good quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: another pretty solid quarterback, and the Dolphins are hanging in
Speaker 1: there defensively. And then you get a stretch against you know,
Speaker 1: a second year quarterback this week Kirk Cousins obviously has
Speaker 1: a bunch of experience. After that, then a rookie in
Speaker 1: week number seven Jared Goff and the lines who are
Speaker 1: on fire right now. Then another second year quarterback in
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, then a second year quarterback in Davis Mills
Speaker 1: and Jacobe So you see what I'm saying, Like, I
Speaker 1: think the defense will will really kind of take off
Speaker 1: in the stretch, and that continuity plays a big part
Speaker 1: of that. It helps you have a damn good defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator like Josh Boyer. It helps when your front is
Speaker 1: deep and flexible, like we talked about in the previous
Speaker 1: segment there with Holland and and um jeez, Holland and
Speaker 1: Baker and what they can help you do. I guess
Speaker 1: that was the same segment. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: again Javon Holland and Brandon Jones coming into their own
Speaker 1: together such instinctive players who seem to know what they're
Speaker 1: processing instantly. That's kind of your book end of this
Speaker 1: takeaways that those two guys, their maturation is allowing you
Speaker 1: to be so creative and flexible on that back end.
Speaker 1: And eventually it's gonna start confusing quarterbacks and it's gonna
Speaker 1: lead to a bunch of takeaways any given week. Now,
Speaker 1: I think it's coming. My guess is this week, but
Speaker 1: I think it's coming very soon, a pile of takeaways
Speaker 1: in a football game, takeaway or a big picture thing.
Speaker 1: I think number five is they're still room to grow,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of borrowing coach McDaniel's steam here about
Speaker 1: how if you're on the journey you want to be on,
Speaker 1: then each game you play will be the worst one,
Speaker 1: the next worst one in line. You should get better
Speaker 1: each week and with you know, the nice start, still
Speaker 1: plenty of things you can work on to get better
Speaker 1: than the three and one football team you are right now.
Speaker 1: You know, coaches address that about getting the running game
Speaker 1: going a little bit more one or two blocks away
Speaker 1: on some plays from some big, big plays out the gate.
Speaker 1: Special teams has had you know, a rough couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: I expect them to get back on track offensively, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a fewer drops or penalties or things that kind
Speaker 1: of bog things down offensively, because they've been pretty good
Speaker 1: for the most part offensively with their their E p
Speaker 1: A and there. Maybe it's just getting more cracks at
Speaker 1: the apple because their efficiency numbers are fantastic right now.
Speaker 1: But just fully buying in on coaches thought that there
Speaker 1: are are about the improvement and think it's heading in
Speaker 1: that right direction. Was still room to grow despite a
Speaker 1: very good three in one star and again Sunday a
Speaker 1: chance to make it four and one for the first
Speaker 1: time since two thousand three. I was a sophomore in
Speaker 1: high school. Let's go, man, come on. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: we'll talk some Mariners here a little bit. Last time
Speaker 1: I watched them play a playoff game, I was in
Speaker 1: the sixth grade. So sixth grade. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I forgot, I don't know. I'm like thirty five. We'll
Speaker 1: do some of that stuff next. That's all part of
Speaker 1: the podcast coming your way. A second list coming your
Speaker 1: way here next my top five Dolphins Jets memories. That's
Speaker 1: next Drivetime podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. It's a day of lists here on
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, and I want to cover my
Speaker 1: five personal favorite Dolphins and Jets memories. But first I
Speaker 1: want to play this sound from the story that Coach
Speaker 1: McDaniel said it his Monday press conference telling us about
Speaker 1: his former co worker and new division rival head coach
Speaker 1: Robert Sala of the New York Jets, and I just
Speaker 1: thought it was really good. He was asked if he
Speaker 1: could share a memory of story or something in general
Speaker 1: about coach Sala and their time together. Here's Coach McDaniel. Well,
Speaker 1: he was a squatter um when he first got the
Speaker 1: job in Houston, which was hilarious. Um So, I came
Speaker 1: with Gary kubiak Um and Troy Calhoun really from the Broncos,
Speaker 1: and we uh in Houston. What was in Reliance Stadium.
Speaker 1: We had like a office that uh you know, there's
Speaker 1: one guy in there when I got there. It was
Speaker 1: Robert Sala and he hadn't been terminated. He was, um,
Speaker 1: I think working with Dom Caper's um before. He hadn't
Speaker 1: been terminated. I think he had like two more weeks
Speaker 1: of pay or something. Um. So he did an excellent
Speaker 1: job of just forcing his hand and getting face time
Speaker 1: with the head coach. Sat in there all week. I
Speaker 1: think I got there like on a Tuesday, and he
Speaker 1: just sat in across from me in this awkward room like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: you got a job. No, I'm not really trying to
Speaker 1: see Gary Kubiak. And he just waited there until I
Speaker 1: think like Friday barged in and told him, Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd really want to work for you. Um. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of those those stop gaps at the
Speaker 1: beginning of Robert Seal's career. Um, always a sponge, always
Speaker 1: unbelievably smart. He would he would always blow my mind
Speaker 1: because our like we'd have a problem with our printer
Speaker 1: and we're trying to print video or excel or something,
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't call it t he would just like
Speaker 1: open up this manual and figure out how to how
Speaker 1: to figure this stuff out. Um. So he's always always
Speaker 1: super smart, but had some hiccups in his career, which
Speaker 1: I really really respect because he just he just really
Speaker 1: stayed true to himself, kept pressing. Finally, UM was a
Speaker 1: little more fortunate when he was with Seattle and as
Speaker 1: an assistant there. Um and then UM, you know, but
Speaker 1: he's he's never been given anything, just like he wasn't
Speaker 1: given the job UM with Gary Kubiak in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. UM, I think when he went to San
Speaker 1: Francisco in two thousand and seventeen, it was under um
Speaker 1: the it was under the impression he would be the
Speaker 1: linebackers coach and he asked to interview for the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator spot. Long story short, he hasn't been given anything,
Speaker 1: and every time he's been given anop, he's taking advantage
Speaker 1: of it. So UM, very very close with him as
Speaker 1: a human being. UM, really respect him as a as
Speaker 1: a man, UM, But from a professional standpoint, he's lived
Speaker 1: the whole mantra of of you you don't define me,
Speaker 1: I define me. And he's pushed through and really, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the better defensive coaches and head
Speaker 1: coaches have ever been around it. Sure seems like most
Speaker 1: successful people have a story similar to that, like resilience
Speaker 1: and that never quit attitude. Uh, that's kind of how
Speaker 1: I wind up in this position. And you know, talking
Speaker 1: to my former boss Jason Jenkins, that the great Jason Jenkins,
Speaker 1: you know, just knocking on his story every day. So
Speaker 1: an emails getting ahold of him saying, hey, I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm still here, so I gotta be that way if
Speaker 1: you want to find success, I think, and that's that's
Speaker 1: cool to hear that story from coach McDaniel and obviously
Speaker 1: rising to the top of the coaching ranks. Is you know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the most impressive jobs to hold out
Speaker 1: there because it's thirty two of those guys and thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands and hundreds of thousands of people doing this
Speaker 1: hoping to get to that position at some stage of
Speaker 1: their career. Let's go ahead and get to Jets Week
Speaker 1: and my five favorite memories. And I emphasized my favorite
Speaker 1: memories because I realized that AJDA is probably number one
Speaker 1: for a massive, massive chunk of the fan base. We'll
Speaker 1: see about the listeners on this podcast. I don't know
Speaker 1: the demographic in terms of, you know, those two generations.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably good, a good split. But I
Speaker 1: wasn't alive back then, so I'm going to you I'm
Speaker 1: not going to use that fake out because I wasn't
Speaker 1: there for it. So we start here with number five,
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Primetime Football in the Meadowlands. Matt Moore goes
Speaker 1: nanners or gets hit puts it out top racing stars,
Speaker 1: Who's got it? Stills touchdowns Dolphins fifty two yards. It's
Speaker 1: more hangs in against the plits. Remember that game going
Speaker 1: into it, how tough it was dealing with the fact
Speaker 1: that Ryan Tannehill was finally hitting a certain level of
Speaker 1: play in his career, and then the a c L
Speaker 1: had just happened six days prior to that, as the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were rolling with wins in seven of eight games
Speaker 1: to put themselves in position for a December run to
Speaker 1: the postseason. The Dolphins. He did two out of three
Speaker 1: against a four win Jets team and a six win
Speaker 1: Bills team, both on the road, and if you don't
Speaker 1: remember this one, it didn't start well though it did end.
Speaker 1: It was really on ice by the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, after the Jets were up seven nothing and
Speaker 1: driving behind Bryce Petty, and being a Saturday night in
Speaker 1: the holiday season, my buddy was having an ugly sweater
Speaker 1: party after the fact, so my wife and I drove
Speaker 1: about forty five minutes to my brother's house, who was
Speaker 1: neighbors with said buddy, to watch the game. Both Dolphins fans,
Speaker 1: both wives converted into Dolphins fans, and my brother is
Speaker 1: that ultra pessimistic fan who when the opposition of scores
Speaker 1: on the opening drive the game is over. I hope
Speaker 1: you're listening, Ryan, but as they're driving, you can't help
Speaker 1: but wonder if Matt Moore's got the juice to get
Speaker 1: going to overcome a to score deficit. But that's when
Speaker 1: Cameron Wake gets the only pick of his NFL career,
Speaker 1: and from there it was on. We get a touchdown
Speaker 1: to Dan Simms, missed the extra point to make at
Speaker 1: seven six. Then Kenny Steeles gets deep on a bus
Speaker 1: for a fifty two yard touchdown. The Jets kick a
Speaker 1: late field goal and it's a three point game going
Speaker 1: to the break. On the Jets first possession of the
Speaker 1: second half, fan favorite Walt Akin scoops a blocked punt
Speaker 1: and takes it back for six. Then Dion Sims scores
Speaker 1: again with six and a half to play in the third,
Speaker 1: and then Jarvis Landry has that sixty six yard catching
Speaker 1: run where even that four or five speed ran away
Speaker 1: from the Jets secondary that day, four six speed maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was a pretty funny looking catch
Speaker 1: and run, but it worked, and we do the play
Speaker 1: before the play segment on the Sunday recap shows this
Speaker 1: was the game before the game, the one before that
Speaker 1: Buffalo victory at the Buzzer in overtime, the j g
Speaker 1: I E run What a game and what a fun year?
Speaker 1: Will come back to that j j I run here
Speaker 1: in just a second. The number four play on my
Speaker 1: top five personal favorite Jet memories, Ted Gain gets loose
Speaker 1: twice side step in the top of its still going
Speaker 1: look out at least one block, one block, and he's
Speaker 1: gone checks this time hundred yards. On a day where
Speaker 1: the offense could do nothing, we called upon star return
Speaker 1: man Ted Gain to make something happen, and boy did he.
Speaker 1: Book Ending a Jason Taylor defensive touchdown, Ted Gain piles
Speaker 1: up two hundred and one yards one hundred and one
Speaker 1: on one on back to back kickoff returns for touchdowns
Speaker 1: and fourteen points in a wild third quarter where the
Speaker 1: Jets score sixteen but Miami's twenty one puts him on top,
Speaker 1: and then Joey Haynos puts the game away later with
Speaker 1: a five yard touchdown pass from Chad Henny as the
Speaker 1: Dolphins get to three and four in an up and
Speaker 1: down season and swept the Jets. The Jeets the Jets,
Speaker 1: but that was something I'm not sure you'll ever see again.
Speaker 1: To kickoff returns for a touchdown in the same game,
Speaker 1: I feel even more confident saying you won't see a
Speaker 1: team score three non offensive touchdowns in a single quarter
Speaker 1: for a long, long time, probably ever again. That was
Speaker 1: the second Jets game that year. Number three on our list.
Speaker 1: Here is the first Jets game of the season. Gain
Speaker 1: gets loose again, this time as a wide receiver loft
Speaker 1: year of the fourth quarter Dolphins Trail Live three where
Speaker 1: I actual play getting back control and I detected why
Speaker 1: Keith field work in dopen here's that big way you've
Speaker 1: been playing before? Oh right, my emmy, how about fact was? Wow?
Speaker 1: Cat did he put that right on the money to
Speaker 1: Teddin who ran by everybody in the stadium. So I
Speaker 1: did not know I had Jim Mandish on that call.
Speaker 1: So that's freaking awesome to hear. Two thousand nine, Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football, Orange Jerseys, just three weeks after our number
Speaker 1: four moments the Dolphins at one in three, or before
Speaker 1: our number four moment at one and three after a
Speaker 1: tough start, needing a win to get back in the
Speaker 1: mix in the worst way, and this wasn't as much
Speaker 1: about Ted Gin as it was the entire team, although
Speaker 1: he became a mini Jet killer there for a couple
Speaker 1: of years to kickoff returns a deep shot over arguably
Speaker 1: the best cornerback we've ever seen in Durrell Reevus. And
Speaker 1: I know all of you know how this goes, but
Speaker 1: we wanted Chad Henny to be the answer so bad, right.
Speaker 1: That's how it is. We have a young quarterback and
Speaker 1: we were dying for him to take that next step,
Speaker 1: and on this night it really really felt like he had.
Speaker 1: Hen He spun one yard, two touchdown game with no
Speaker 1: turnovers and a one thirty point four rating. Ronnie Brown
Speaker 1: scores on the opening drive and third and goal from
Speaker 1: the two with ten seconds to go in the game
Speaker 1: to cap off a third team play seventy yard game
Speaker 1: winning drive that left the Jets with just three seconds
Speaker 1: to score touchdown they could not. Dolphins win head into
Speaker 1: the bye week at two and three, and of course,
Speaker 1: would sweep the Jets just two games later. We're going
Speaker 1: further back for my second favorite Dolphins and Jets memory.
Speaker 1: Bye Bye Ricky, Bye Bye Streaky look to the forty Ticks.
Speaker 1: Another at tackle Ferry goes bye bye, bye bye Withey
Speaker 1: bye bye Street. Up to five s left and the
Speaker 1: byas Dolphins have just I believe have put away to
Speaker 1: New York Jets put a fifty three yard run by
Speaker 1: Wicky Williams touchdown. We got music with that one too.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins enter Sunday with a four game one streak
Speaker 1: over the Jets, winners of eight of the last nine
Speaker 1: in this particular rivalry. But back in the late nineties
Speaker 1: and into the early two thousand's, the Jets had our number,
Speaker 1: including that Monday night miracle game at the Metal Lands,
Speaker 1: with eight straight wins in the series from to oh one.
Speaker 1: Then we unveil a new weapon and superstar running back
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams, who ran for over one hundred yards in
Speaker 1: his first three games, including a one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one yard hundred seventy four yard from scrimmage Day, and
Speaker 1: a fifty three yard touchdown run with five minutes to
Speaker 1: go to make it twenty three to three, And as
Speaker 1: you heard the play or the radio voice there in
Speaker 1: his opinion, puts away the Jets, and of course that
Speaker 1: legend area Bye bye Ricky Bye bye streak radio call
Speaker 1: that O two season man, I still to this day
Speaker 1: feels so shortened by the outcome of that year. So
Speaker 1: much talent, Brock Maryon, Sam Madison, Pats Sir Tan with
Speaker 1: Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas, and obviously Ricky Williams in
Speaker 1: the backfield, Chris Chambers, Randy McMichael. That was a good team,
Speaker 1: but the broken thumb after a big win in Denver
Speaker 1: to get to five and one and you lose the
Speaker 1: next three, including one to the stinking Jets. But that day,
Speaker 1: that streat breastbuster, the pronounced arrival of Ricky Williams and
Speaker 1: the famous photo of him stiff arming Del Roberts, a
Speaker 1: photo that I had commissioned in my favorite piece of
Speaker 1: r I've ever owned, him putting the stiff farm on
Speaker 1: Roberts on that day. Number one should be no surprise
Speaker 1: to anybody. The Dolphins win the division in an improbable season,
Speaker 1: featuring the biggest turnaround in NFL history. Or quickly back
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, and that's the second interception
Speaker 1: of the game. Put the upack pret so for the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Week seventeen, two thousand eight, Dolphins take
Speaker 1: the discarded Jets quarterback from that August into the meadow
Speaker 1: Lands and win the game the division on the final
Speaker 1: day of the season, just three days after Christmas, and
Speaker 1: I remember this one like it was yesterday. I remember
Speaker 1: celebrating Christmas with my mom and brother and just thinking
Speaker 1: day I'm looking forward to. I'm counting down to the
Speaker 1: Jets game. I had to look some things up for
Speaker 1: the other games, not this one. It's ingrained in my memory.
Speaker 1: They strike first to Lavernias Cole seven nothing. We get
Speaker 1: back with that guy again, that many Jet killer, Ted
Speaker 1: Gain on a catch where he squeezes the nose of
Speaker 1: the football. I know you guys when I'm talking about
Speaker 1: he barely hung onto it for a twenty something you
Speaker 1: are touchdown from Chad Pennington. Then right after that, Philip
Speaker 1: Merling stabs a Brett Farve pass and rumbles back for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. The Jets kick a field goal fourteen nine
Speaker 1: at half. They score on their opening drive and get
Speaker 1: the two pain seventeen to fourteen. But not so fast.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful pass to the flag to Anthony Fasano
Speaker 1: to bring Miami back to a seventeen lead. Then Dan
Speaker 1: Carpenter puts a long field goal through the put Tony
Speaker 1: Sperrano's fist bumped through the skies there in Jersey, right
Speaker 1: before Andre Goodman picks off Brett Farve on their penultimate
Speaker 1: drive and the division title celebration is on after Lousaka
Speaker 1: Polite gets stopped on third and one on that second
Speaker 1: to last drive for the first time all season, and
Speaker 1: then Pennington sneaks it for a first down, and by
Speaker 1: the time we end up putting the ball back to
Speaker 1: the Jets, they have seventeen seconds and ninety nine yards
Speaker 1: to go. They could not what a day that was,
Speaker 1: especially again in hindsight with the pickoff there of Brett
Speaker 1: Farve and Chad Pennington taking being cut by the Jets
Speaker 1: into the meadowlands and winning that game against the guy
Speaker 1: that we now know to be pretty freaking terrible. So
Speaker 1: how cool is that, even in hindsight, that win gets better.
Speaker 1: Those are my five moments. Number five, excuse me, was
Speaker 1: Primetime went over the Jets. Number four Ted gains to
Speaker 1: kickoff return touchdowns. Number three the Dolphins beat the Jets
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football in two thousand nine. Number two
Speaker 1: Bye Bye Ricky, Bye bye streak. And number one Dolphins
Speaker 1: beat the Jets in week seventeen to capture the greatest
Speaker 1: turnaround from one win to eleven wins in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Let's take our last break here on the Drivetime Podcast
Speaker 1: and come back and make our Week five picks. That's next,
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, rolling along here, we are making a bit
Speaker 1: of a schedule change going forward. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: make the picks. I just wanted to spread the love
Speaker 1: on the show here. The Friday show goes a little
Speaker 1: bit too long for me. Let's go ahead and put
Speaker 1: one of the segments, probably the shortest one, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of, I don't know, moot point at this point.
Speaker 1: Let's move that to the Wednesday show. It's the Week
Speaker 1: five picks. We are eleven and five last week. Pretty
Speaker 1: solid week, although after doing the math, twelve and four
Speaker 1: is where you want to be to hit the goal
Speaker 1: that I said this year, So we still got to
Speaker 1: get some work done to get back to that point.
Speaker 1: Thirty four and twenty one. That doesn't seem right. Forty
Speaker 1: and twenty one, hang on, you know how I always
Speaker 1: say I suck at math. I put thirty four The
Speaker 1: members supposed to be forty two. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to add one and one one. Uh no, yeah for
Speaker 1: one and one? All right? Should I cut this now?
Speaker 1: I'll keep it in. I'm taking the Broncos over the
Speaker 1: Colts on Thursday night. I'm just taking the home team there.
Speaker 1: Both those teams have struggled offensively. I think eventually the
Speaker 1: Broncos will get going with the Colts. I think on
Speaker 1: Thursday this week that Broncos getta done at home. Give
Speaker 1: me the Packers in London over the Giants. Think that
Speaker 1: both those teams are three and one. I think one
Speaker 1: is absolutely for real. We'll see about the other. Dolphins
Speaker 1: over the Jets. I'm taking the Dolphins to win that
Speaker 1: one on the road. Give me the Bills over the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Give me the Chargers over the Browns. Going out East,
Speaker 1: I'll take the Vikings over the Bears. I'll take the Lions.
Speaker 1: I think the lines are gonna get it right here
Speaker 1: sooner or later. Over if it's Brian Hoyer or Bailey
Speaker 1: Zappy in New England, give me the Lions either way.
Speaker 1: I'll take the Saints over the Seahawks at home to
Speaker 1: get their second win of the season after a tough
Speaker 1: loss in London. Give me the Titans to keep it
Speaker 1: going their third straight win over Washington, Jacksonville over Houston.
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick Atlanta over Tampa, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that will happen. Give me the Bucks over the Falcons,
Speaker 1: the Niners over the Panthers on a short equal going
Speaker 1: out east could be tough, but Niners, I think kind
Speaker 1: of showed you what they're capable of in that game.
Speaker 1: On Monday, I'll give them their third win of the season.
Speaker 1: Rams over the Cowboys. I shouldn't do this, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put it out there. Cardinals over the Eagles. I
Speaker 1: don't know why, I'm just gonna I'm gonna put it
Speaker 1: out there, Baltimore over the Bengals, and the Chiefs over
Speaker 1: the Raiders on Monday Night football. So you know, I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you guys since this happened, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to close the podcast here. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: book end to my entire theme today about my Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 1: What a season it was, man, And I know a
Speaker 1: few you turn the show off right now, but just
Speaker 1: stay with me here because I'm getting to a point
Speaker 1: and I think you can all appreciate this coming into
Speaker 1: the season, expectations for the Mariners were super super high.
Speaker 1: They had this young team they've been drafting and building,
Speaker 1: and they finally replenished a farm system that had been
Speaker 1: barren for like a decade and a half, and it's
Speaker 1: why they were so bad and sixties seventy win seasons
Speaker 1: for literally twenty years in a row, like they were
Speaker 1: in the hunt maybe two or three of those twenty
Speaker 1: one years that they hadn't made the playoff, and they
Speaker 1: had replenished the farm so much and had this upstart
Speaker 1: rookie Julio Rodriguez who people didn't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: make the roster on opening day. I did, because he's
Speaker 1: obviously a phenomenal player, but like there was some speculation
Speaker 1: he might start the year in the minors. He didn't.
Speaker 1: He made the team. He's Rookie of the Year. He
Speaker 1: probably should be a top ten m VP candidate. So
Speaker 1: that was kind of the focal point of this young
Speaker 1: nucleus they had put together, and pundits were starting to say,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll win the AL west over Houston, which was
Speaker 1: way too optimistic. I mean, they finished seventeen games clear
Speaker 1: of us, or they will at the time. You know,
Speaker 1: the season ends on today, but still the expectation for
Speaker 1: many was the twenty one year playoff drought was gonna
Speaker 1: come to an end. And they had a winning April,
Speaker 1: and then May happened and they lost eighteen twenty three games,
Speaker 1: going ten games under five hundred before something you know,
Speaker 1: before same old Mariners was pulled back out of our
Speaker 1: potential vocabulary because it was wrong. They ran a lot
Speaker 1: fourteen straight wins and climbed into one of the wild
Speaker 1: card spots and never relinquished it. They held at the
Speaker 1: entire second half of the season. September got rough there
Speaker 1: for a little bit and one of the crazy statue'll
Speaker 1: ever getting baseballs. They were the only wild card contender.
Speaker 1: I think it was teams within five games of the
Speaker 1: wild card who had a winning record against teams over
Speaker 1: five hundred, but also the only team with a losing
Speaker 1: record against teams who were sub five hundred. And those
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, that's all it was. They played
Speaker 1: teams that were twenty games out. The Royals, the Tigers,
Speaker 1: the A's, the Angels, the Rangers. September call ups in
Speaker 1: full force, like the seasons over for those teams they're
Speaker 1: getting ready for the the off season as far as
Speaker 1: baseball goes. But the Manners stumbled and the Orioles did too,
Speaker 1: which suddenly cut the Manners magic number down to one,
Speaker 1: and they had a chance on Friday night to win
Speaker 1: the game and put punch their ticket to the postseason
Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty one years. Their postseason
Speaker 1: drought was legally able to drink. And so I was
Speaker 1: fast asleep early on Saturday morning, because remember we were
Speaker 1: team two hours of sleep heading into that busy Friday,
Speaker 1: which was a long day. So the nine forty pm
Speaker 1: Eastern start time was just not going to produce a
Speaker 1: conclusion that I could remain awake four And what a moment.
Speaker 1: I woke up to my buddy Noah. You've certainly heard
Speaker 1: his name here on the podcast The Spaces on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He bombards my phone with all these different radio calls,
Speaker 1: TV calls. Someone even made an edit using the Moneyball score.
Speaker 1: You know I'm talking about you know, even just typing
Speaker 1: this gives me goosebumps thinking about it. But you die
Speaker 1: hard Moneyball fans, And I'm talking about when Brad Pitt
Speaker 1: is back in the clubhouse getting his workout on or
Speaker 1: whatever he did during games or still does. Billy Bean. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when Scott hadd Aberg hits the walk off home run
Speaker 1: to clinch the longest winning streak in American League history,
Speaker 1: they used that score. When called cal Rawley makes contact
Speaker 1: with the baseball, you hear the crack off the bat.
Speaker 1: The whole thing goes silent. Then the triumphant music starts
Speaker 1: when the ball ricochets off the hit. It here cafe
Speaker 1: high above the right field seats, and man, where are
Speaker 1: all these goosebumps coming from? Today? That gets me fired
Speaker 1: up talking about it's such a cool moment. You know,
Speaker 1: you literally cannot play Dave Neehouse's call of the n
Speaker 1: American League Division Series walk off Edgar Martinez double without
Speaker 1: getting the hair on my arm. Just stand up. This
Speaker 1: one has the same effect because Dave Simms and Mike
Speaker 1: Blowers have been calling so many September games for this
Speaker 1: ball club the last fifteen twenty years that didn't matter,
Speaker 1: and they got their chance to call one that really mattered.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to play it for you guys here
Speaker 1: because it got me excited. It got me thinking about
Speaker 1: the nostalgia of all those Jets moments and It got
Speaker 1: me thinking about the potential of a future moment like
Speaker 1: this with the Miami Dolphins. Here's Dave Sims and Mike
Speaker 1: Blowers from Roots Sports. When the Mayor's clinched their playoff
Speaker 1: berth one week ago, a lot of anxious folks out
Speaker 1: here at the ball park three two to cow. But
Speaker 1: picture my Silvatore slider ended up the window there of
Speaker 1: course right of the year, that's right, the party is
Speaker 1: going on. Congratulations to the Mariners. A long seed to
Speaker 1: gets paid up with a trip to the postseason is
Speaker 1: beautiful Mariners prints. The car pitch hit home run by
Speaker 1: Cattle Rawley, and it's been so bick for this club
Speaker 1: in the second half. Two els and a home run
Speaker 1: to send them to the postseason three to pins. It
Speaker 1: didn't get amen, brother, That little laugh there at the
Speaker 1: end is so out of character from Mike Blowers just
Speaker 1: tells you about how much that meant to him. A
Speaker 1: guy that played for the marriage for a long time,
Speaker 1: and like I mentioned, it's been calling games for even
Speaker 1: longer and he finally gets to have a moment like that.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about it and bringing it back
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins. I was wondering what moments previously have
Speaker 1: done that for you, you know, kind of plays with
Speaker 1: the Jets memories here. Andre Goodman picking off that Brett
Speaker 1: Farve pass, you know, is one of my top ones.
Speaker 1: I think weirdly, the Miami Miracle does that even though
Speaker 1: it's not attached to any type of advancement or playoff
Speaker 1: win or anything like that. Like j GIU run to
Speaker 1: get into field goal range and that Week six team
Speaker 1: Buffalo game I mentioned earlier that radio call does it.
Speaker 1: I want to hear from you which moments like that
Speaker 1: in Dolphins history give you instant goose bumps anytime you
Speaker 1: hear it a certain call or coverage from that game.
Speaker 1: And that's a good place to call it a podcast.
Speaker 1: No preview, I should say the preview show is coming
Speaker 1: your way tomorrow. I'm stoked for this week's opponent perspective.
Speaker 1: He used to cover the Dolphins, now he's on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of the rivalry. Antoine Staley will be my
Speaker 1: guest on the Friday show. So busy week coming your
Speaker 1: way here on the Drivetime podcast. In the meantime, it's
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