Speaker 1: Cut down, Miami quart Water Run, What is up, Dolphans,
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Speaker 1: Sunday night slash Monday morning, depending on when you listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
Speaker 1: I am here to bring you your daily dose of
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's not the
Speaker 1: victory Monday podcast we've grown accustomed to over the last
Speaker 1: couple of months. But you're gonna get one tone from
Speaker 1: me today and one tone only, one of encouragement. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins make a lot of big plays in this game,
Speaker 1: leave a few out there, and that was just enough
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs to win their twelve game in thirteen
Speaker 1: tries this season. Dolphins fall to eight and five with
Speaker 1: the thirty three seven loss. Will get my five takeaways,
Speaker 1: breakdown the individual performances, and welcome John can gem me
Speaker 1: into the podcast as we do on these recap pods.
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Speaker 1: ahead and jump right into the recap podcast here, because
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit fired up, you know, the middle
Speaker 1: part of that game, thirty to ten. I was hoping
Speaker 1: we would get the type of effort we saw at
Speaker 1: the end of the football game to make that one close.
Speaker 1: And that's what we got. So it lifted my spirits,
Speaker 1: lifted my moods. I have plenty to get to here
Speaker 1: on this Monday recap edition. Let's go ahead and start.
Speaker 1: Go first with the stats. In this game, Dolphins gain
Speaker 1: three six d nine yards, so the Chiefs four forty six.
Speaker 1: Miami was out rushed only eight to nine four passing yards.
Speaker 1: Chiefs go three fifty two to Miami's two eighty nine
Speaker 1: third down conversions. This is gonna be a takeaway on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Dolphins were seven for fifteen, Chiefs just five
Speaker 1: out of eleven the takeaways. Miami had the four Chiefs
Speaker 1: had the one. Dolphins had three sacks. Tuga bal Loo
Speaker 1: was sacked four times. Miami goes back down to their
Speaker 1: regular penalty yardage and penalties committed assessed against them three
Speaker 1: for thirty five after last week's eight. The Chiefs commit
Speaker 1: eight foils for fifty six yards and the Dolphins had
Speaker 1: the football for thirty one and a half minutes in
Speaker 1: this game. A couple of the storylines I was keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on heading into this game, where how would
Speaker 1: the Dolphins run the football. We learned on Saturday that
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon would not be available to the team. He,
Speaker 1: Matt Brita, and Savan Akhmed all did not play in
Speaker 1: this game. So DeAndre Washington, who was acquired via a
Speaker 1: trade back at the trade deadline, comes in. I was
Speaker 1: curious to see how they ran the football. DeAndrea led
Speaker 1: the team thirteen carries thirty five yards rushing. Tunga by
Speaker 1: Loa had six for twenty four in the game. I
Speaker 1: was also curious about the offensive line. Last week, we
Speaker 1: saw Eric Flowers go out with the ankle injury, leaves
Speaker 1: the field, doesn't practice this week, doesn't play on Sunday.
Speaker 1: They kick over Solomon, killing the left guard Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: fills in at right guard. Look, I like giving you
Speaker 1: guys a more responsible research answer here. Something's gonna be
Speaker 1: real with you I have. I'll have a much better
Speaker 1: idea once I look at the all twenty two on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. So more on that on Tuesday. What
Speaker 1: do we do to help make up the absence of
Speaker 1: Kyle van noy, any Land and Roberts Both those guys
Speaker 1: missed the game this week, so those are gonna be
Speaker 1: the takeaways. Also, so will these final two things I
Speaker 1: was keeping an eye on. I wanted to pay a
Speaker 1: close attention to the defensive calls. How did they decide
Speaker 1: to maintain or how to contain and defend Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and the red zone and third down because I told
Speaker 1: myself on the preview podcast and convinced myself the Miami
Speaker 1: must win in those areas to win this game. So
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and visit that. And with that, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and jump right in to our first takeaway.
Speaker 1: And these first two takeaways are gonna get worried here,
Speaker 1: but just stay with me. I think we can stop
Speaker 1: pondering whether or not this Dolphins defense is for real.
Speaker 1: If we even were at this point, and some will
Speaker 1: say that takeaways are a bit of a flukey stat
Speaker 1: remember today's NFL. This is something I made a point
Speaker 1: I made on the podcast I don't know six weeks ago,
Speaker 1: when we're having two takeaways per game like we are
Speaker 1: right now at this stage, I talked about how takeaways
Speaker 1: are keen because the way the league's designed right now,
Speaker 1: the way all these athletic dual threat multipurpose quarterbacks with
Speaker 1: the rules geared towards more offensive production, with more defensive
Speaker 1: penalties that are going to be called against. Then then
Speaker 1: the offense in this NFL, you're just not going to
Speaker 1: find a way to consistently come up with ten stops
Speaker 1: a game against a Patrick Mahomes type, against a Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: against what Josh Allen is doing this season. They're not
Speaker 1: flukey though. Turnovers when you generate them and create them
Speaker 1: pretty much in the same way each week, with pressures,
Speaker 1: tight coverage on the back end, bad things are going
Speaker 1: to happen to an offense when they are consistently being
Speaker 1: put in those situations and being we was to make
Speaker 1: critical decisions and quick plays against the pressure. This Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense can't create the Chiefs didn't score a point in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. They had just fourteen in the first half.
Speaker 1: In total, they turned it over four times and punted
Speaker 1: four times. So you know, I had to go back
Speaker 1: and look at how many times that's happened this year,
Speaker 1: with eight combined possessions resulting in no points, no attempt
Speaker 1: at field goal, just a turnover or a punt. They
Speaker 1: punted it five times in a game twice this year
Speaker 1: and four times and two others. They never had more
Speaker 1: than one giveaway in a game this season. In fact,
Speaker 1: why don't we go ahead and let coach Flora's tell
Speaker 1: you about the type of team this Chief's offense has,
Speaker 1: as they were able to score thirty points in those
Speaker 1: second and third quarters, no points in the first quarters,
Speaker 1: just three points in the fourth quarter. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and let Coach Flora's talk about what type of team
Speaker 1: this Chief's offense is and how the Dolphins had to
Speaker 1: approach it. You know, they this is an explosive team,
Speaker 1: and they went on a little bit of a run
Speaker 1: there from the second half. Within the end of the
Speaker 1: second quarter, got the ball back, punched it in a return.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a quick spurt there. And
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how you know they're want, they're built.
Speaker 1: You know they're going round, and they went on one there.
Speaker 1: It's called the second in the second quarter. To be
Speaker 1: getting in the third quarter, we had to settle in
Speaker 1: and we collect ourselves, and I thought our guys did
Speaker 1: a good job of that. And you know, I had
Speaker 1: some play with some poison, got ourselves back in the game.
Speaker 1: And they'll limit those big plays and we weren't able
Speaker 1: to do that today. Ultimately, that was the difference you
Speaker 1: heard coach talk about the Spurts there. This is the
Speaker 1: same team that scored twenty eight points in a single
Speaker 1: quarter last season. They are those Warriors teams and in
Speaker 1: the NBA with Steph and Clay and k D, they
Speaker 1: can hit fifteen three points in one quarter on you
Speaker 1: and put the game not if not out of reach.
Speaker 1: Completely changed the complexion of it. And we kind of
Speaker 1: saw that happen in this game. They go down score
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, they come out of the gates
Speaker 1: with a touchdown to open the third quarter. They come
Speaker 1: right back with the pump return touchdown. And this is
Speaker 1: an offense that there is nobody out there within thirty
Speaker 1: yards of them. For the number two offensive spot in
Speaker 1: the NFL. There are thirty yards, give or take clear
Speaker 1: of Green Bay for yards per game. This offense is potent,
Speaker 1: it's dangerous. It's just uniquely built, like coach mentioned there,
Speaker 1: and so they're combined turnover slash punts in a game
Speaker 1: goes eight today from the Dolphins six, five, five, five,
Speaker 1: five and the four. So they have a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of games where they just score on at least half
Speaker 1: their possessions pretty much. If you want to call an
Speaker 1: average of twelve drives a game, that's about what it
Speaker 1: is in the NFL, give or take. Most teams get
Speaker 1: six drives per half, six at the or twelve in
Speaker 1: the total game, so they're used to scoring on seven
Speaker 1: or eight of those drives. They scored four times today,
Speaker 1: five on that field goal there at the end, granted
Speaker 1: the punt return, which I know Flow will be pissed
Speaker 1: as pisses anybody about that. But some perspective here, man, Like,
Speaker 1: we faced the NFL's most prolific offense in the two
Speaker 1: thousand two nineteen season opener. Remember what happened. Then, look
Speaker 1: at where this defense is after just fifteen months after
Speaker 1: that result. I mean it's it's unbelievable. And it's not
Speaker 1: just players, it's the game plan, it's the mixed coverages,
Speaker 1: it's different fronts, different personnel that can execute those different
Speaker 1: fronts taking out their best weapons. And this started off well,
Speaker 1: but both Kelsey and Hill got going in this game.
Speaker 1: A buck eleven for Tyreek Hill and two touchdowns one
Speaker 1: thirty six for Travis Kelsey and a score. Sometimes hall
Speaker 1: of fame level players, which Kelsey is gonna be Tygreek
Speaker 1: Hills on that track. Hall of Fame level players make
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame plays and they have Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: games sometimes in the first quarter, though Tyreek Hill for
Speaker 1: the first twenty three minutes of the game, actually into
Speaker 1: the midway part of the second quarter, before that thirty
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown run, he didn't touch the football. So
Speaker 1: it looks good at the start. And the Dolphins were
Speaker 1: also limiting big plays early in this game and that
Speaker 1: opening start, and again in that fourth quarter, plays of
Speaker 1: two and three and six and one yards and those
Speaker 1: types of things where you don't allow them to eat
Speaker 1: up chunk yards, which again back to their spurts. They
Speaker 1: had the forty four yard touchdown passing to Tyreek hill,
Speaker 1: they had twenty five yards and a league pass out
Speaker 1: to Clyde Edwards, a layer in the flat. If you
Speaker 1: can limit the big plays and keep them in those
Speaker 1: that range, and they did have some thirteen six fifteen
Speaker 1: yard plays at that time, but you don't get over
Speaker 1: the top of you. That allows you more plays, more
Speaker 1: opportunities to get in those situations where you create big
Speaker 1: places for yourself. And the Dolphins have just done that
Speaker 1: all season long with the mixed looks and execution, confusing
Speaker 1: the opposing offense, give them a short number of options
Speaker 1: and try to make those options. They have to resolve
Speaker 1: your defensive puzzle the things they struggle with, and with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes it doesn't really struggle with anything. But if
Speaker 1: you can push the protection and not let him break
Speaker 1: that initial surge, then you can force him into some
Speaker 1: of those off platform throws or maybe they get tipped
Speaker 1: because he's a little bit off balance and the ball
Speaker 1: sales a little bit. Those are forced airs. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins do it every single week, nineteen consecutive games with
Speaker 1: a takeaway, the longest active streak in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: how do they do that again by mixing their looks.
Speaker 1: There was a two man look. I saw it early
Speaker 1: in the game. Cover two lookwards zone, single high safety
Speaker 1: back their three safeties on the field, A big nickel
Speaker 1: look where they have to do a switch because they
Speaker 1: run a natural roa up with Travis Kelsey and Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill and they rub Xavier and Howard and try to
Speaker 1: get Eric Rowan Tyreek Hill. They switched that and handle
Speaker 1: it and cover it up well. There are all kinds
Speaker 1: of different looks as defense runs, all kinds of different
Speaker 1: fronts this defense runs and their ability to execute the
Speaker 1: scheme that they want to play. We talked about this
Speaker 1: on a podcast lab I think it was two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: where Brian Baldinger talked about the vision of the team
Speaker 1: and building the team to a specific vision that you identify.
Speaker 1: The rush, contain, slash, big body, defensive vents off either edge,
Speaker 1: shack Lawson, Emmanuel Ogba. I talked about this un till
Speaker 1: I was blue in the face all off season long.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna rush past their tackle and go up
Speaker 1: behind the quarterback. The worst place to be on a
Speaker 1: football field behind the quarterback because, like we talked about,
Speaker 1: the modern day athletic quarterback and move and ship to
Speaker 1: make plays and make you irrelevant back in that spot.
Speaker 1: So they play through their man, they play through that power,
Speaker 1: the heavy hands, the surge play, the quarterback play, the
Speaker 1: run on the way to the quarterback, and that really
Speaker 1: helped kind of create confusion and create a limited option
Speaker 1: as far as the pucket for Patrick Mahomes in this game,
Speaker 1: and it forced some bad plays and some turnovers. So
Speaker 1: he has two picks in the first quarter of this
Speaker 1: game after entering the game with two picks on the
Speaker 1: entire season. You have to turn those big plays into
Speaker 1: points the Dolphins, and they didn't. They got three points
Speaker 1: off those turnovers early on in this game. But you
Speaker 1: create those situations time in and time out, you're gonna
Speaker 1: win a lot of football games. And we've seen that
Speaker 1: over seven of the last nine weeks now after today's lost.
Speaker 1: But a narrow defeat against the defending champs in a game,
Speaker 1: or you force four turnovers and force four point punts
Speaker 1: against that quarterback, that head coach, that offensive coordinator, that receiver,
Speaker 1: that tight end, I mean, it never ends, it never ends.
Speaker 1: And so to see Miami put forth that type of
Speaker 1: effort and that type of production, albeit in a losing effort,
Speaker 1: Man this Dolphins defense looks legit. The second takeaway I
Speaker 1: have here and just as I believe are we have
Speaker 1: ourselves a bona fide defense on that side of the football?
Speaker 1: I sure do you think we have ourselves a quarterback?
Speaker 1: And I've always believed that. You guys know what I
Speaker 1: thought about too as a prospect, if you listen to
Speaker 1: me on Drive Time over the summer, or if you
Speaker 1: listen to me on Locked on Dolphins for the past
Speaker 1: three years before that, from the first game he ever
Speaker 1: played as a college prospect, I thought this guy could
Speaker 1: flat out place in football. And speaking of that night
Speaker 1: back in Seen, it was national championship after seventeen season,
Speaker 1: the lights just never seemed to flash too bright for
Speaker 1: this guy. And I think I think there's something to
Speaker 1: the way a guy is wired that way, and that
Speaker 1: the magnitude of certain moments either do or they just
Speaker 1: don't affect the way a player approaches things. I can
Speaker 1: speak from experience on this, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: get too much into myself here, but I played baseball
Speaker 1: and basketball from the time I could walk until through college,
Speaker 1: and then later played poker because I just had a
Speaker 1: competitive drive. I had to always be playing when I
Speaker 1: was up against a big hand in poker, when I
Speaker 1: was called to make a big shot, I didn't like
Speaker 1: the way it felt. I got nervous. There are there
Speaker 1: are guys out there that get nervous and guys that don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that. I think this quarterback is unflappable.
Speaker 1: We've heard about it so many times. And to see
Speaker 1: you on an NFL feel when they're down thirty to
Speaker 1: ten and they just keep fighting and just keep calling
Speaker 1: back and getting themselves back into position to make plays
Speaker 1: and to get points and to and to keep grinding
Speaker 1: and keep this game going when you've had to have
Speaker 1: points this season, I've had faith in that quarterback and
Speaker 1: I've been rewarded by that quarterback more times than not.
Speaker 1: And the gotta have at moments in the Arizona game
Speaker 1: against the Rams, after those turners putting the ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone, against the Bengals last week, in the
Speaker 1: second half against the Chiefs down late in the game,
Speaker 1: had to have back to back touchdown drives. You got
Speaker 1: it both times, and I mean those drives to end
Speaker 1: the game. The Chiefs were just bringing relentless pressure over
Speaker 1: and over again, and so the way to a beat you.
Speaker 1: They challenge Lynn Bowden Jr. Malcolm Perry, Adam Shaheen to
Speaker 1: beat that man coverage quickly and dialed up the pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. And this is certainly no shot at
Speaker 1: those guys, not at all. But it's worth acknowledging that
Speaker 1: you today lost DeVante Parker, Jachem Grant and Mike g.
Speaker 1: Sicky in a game where the top three leading rushers
Speaker 1: on the team didn't play. As far as running backs
Speaker 1: are concerned, I mean, oh yeah, and Presty Williams is
Speaker 1: down to that's literally your top seven in terms of
Speaker 1: skill per skill player production you have on the roster
Speaker 1: just not available, just not there for you. And we'll
Speaker 1: get to the guys who stepped in shortly. They deserve
Speaker 1: as much credit as too. In the offense, they were
Speaker 1: great at that point of the game as well. But
Speaker 1: to be able to just hit that rhythm, to have
Speaker 1: that trust to make those critical decisions where Steve's bagnolo
Speaker 1: Chiefs d C knows that he has one job. It's
Speaker 1: to make your quarterback uncomfortable because at this stage of
Speaker 1: the game, the run game is just not an option.
Speaker 1: And since you can't go to the run game right there, right,
Speaker 1: you can't run the ball very much and you're down
Speaker 1: by twenty points in the second half. Now, credit to Miami,
Speaker 1: they found some success at points where they could go
Speaker 1: to the run to help move the change, to help
Speaker 1: get drive started. That type of thing as you manage
Speaker 1: the clock in those situations, got to the line quickly
Speaker 1: snapped the ball and kept it going. But you get
Speaker 1: the larger point and the Chiefs are focused on sending
Speaker 1: pressure and trying to put the game away with a
Speaker 1: pick or a fumble, a sack that changes the game.
Speaker 1: And he just stood in there and through the football
Speaker 1: to spots patient, didn't flinch against that that type of pressure,
Speaker 1: just read the action, found the leverage and deliver the
Speaker 1: ball time and time again. And as I watched from
Speaker 1: up high in the press box, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many times. And we'll hear from him. In just
Speaker 1: one second, Me and con gem Me look at each
Speaker 1: other and say that receiver wasn't even even in the
Speaker 1: neighborhood when that ball was thrown, just throwing to a
Speaker 1: totally vacant area, and nobody's out of their break yet.
Speaker 1: And by the time the ball gets to the area,
Speaker 1: that's when the receiver arrives too. It was it was
Speaker 1: just surging, like the way he attacked that aggressive Chief defense,
Speaker 1: And that was on top of the earlier parts of
Speaker 1: the game we saw in other parts of the game
Speaker 1: with the quick twitch we still see inside the pocket
Speaker 1: every week now he's making a play where he evades
Speaker 1: an initial rush, attacks a line of scrimmage and looks
Speaker 1: to uncork one and like the gas Can play last week,
Speaker 1: they got thirty five yards and led to that go
Speaker 1: ahead touchdown drive like the shot to mac Hollins, we
Speaker 1: just missed on today. That oft script ability, Well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna pay off over time. It just will. And he
Speaker 1: continues to get you your offense into situations like that
Speaker 1: when sometimes the defensive play call wins, and sometimes it's
Speaker 1: up to quarterbacks and your best players to go out
Speaker 1: and make plays and to beat the call of the defense.
Speaker 1: And I thought we saw a lot of that today
Speaker 1: when when things broke down, when the pressure got too hot,
Speaker 1: he just stayed calm and found a way to get
Speaker 1: around that. Those two traits, that anticipation and the ability
Speaker 1: to win both within and with outside of the structure
Speaker 1: to execute whichever game plan you want to ask of
Speaker 1: him the no huddle up tempo, hurry up, we gotta go,
Speaker 1: or more of a conservative plan to chew up the
Speaker 1: clock and support a strong defensive effort and special team's effort. Man,
Speaker 1: I just like what we have because even among some
Speaker 1: of the rookie mistakes you might see on weekend, week
Speaker 1: out basis or today, and in fact, why don't we
Speaker 1: go ahead and just turn it over to two right
Speaker 1: here and let him talk about how it feels to
Speaker 1: come up short in this game and some of the
Speaker 1: mistakes that he thinks they could have cleaned up and
Speaker 1: had a better, better day of execution on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football and ultimately found a way to
Speaker 1: win the game. Here, it's a lot to come up short.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you know what we want to do
Speaker 1: is we want to win the ball game. At the
Speaker 1: end of the game, we want to score one more
Speaker 1: point than the opposing team, which we obviously didn't, but
Speaker 1: I think the defense gave us many opportunities, not just
Speaker 1: in the third quarter so I'm in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: as well, but offensively we didn't. We didn't execute the
Speaker 1: way we we should have. And I think, well, not
Speaker 1: not that I think I know, a lot of that
Speaker 1: falls down on me with the leadership with these guys
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, Um, you know, not taking what
Speaker 1: the defense is giving me, just pretty much playing rookie mistakes,
Speaker 1: and you know you can't do that against the super
Speaker 1: Bowl caliber team like like the Chiefs. So a lot
Speaker 1: of the execution really started from me, And I think
Speaker 1: our guys played their butts off offensively on the on
Speaker 1: the old line, they played their butts off, the receivers
Speaker 1: played their butts off. It was really just me executing
Speaker 1: with the guys. So there's two us take on the
Speaker 1: way the game went. Taking full accountability for the loss
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and that's you know
Speaker 1: what you're starting, what you're starting quarterback should do. That's
Speaker 1: how he should lead by example. But you heard him
Speaker 1: talk a little bit there about taking what the defense
Speaker 1: gives you. An what's funny about that was there was
Speaker 1: a point in the third quarter when the offense began
Speaker 1: to get cranking where he surveyed some options and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are kind of playing off. We talked about maybe
Speaker 1: being a little bit less aggressive with the scoreboard more
Speaker 1: in your favor, and they kind of reacted that way
Speaker 1: and to it just went through the read, or at
Speaker 1: least I thought he did. He stood there for a
Speaker 1: while and progressed. He saw his head moving around and
Speaker 1: just took the little short pass of the running back
Speaker 1: and picked up nine ten yards to get them into
Speaker 1: a third and one compared to a you know, possible
Speaker 1: third and tent situation. So to learn about that on
Speaker 1: the fly, to apply it, and to go out and
Speaker 1: make a couple of drives happened there. That was awesome.
Speaker 1: Even with those mistakes that he talks about, those are
Speaker 1: gonna come with more experience. You're gonna get those corrected
Speaker 1: over time. But those aforementioned traits, maybe those are either
Speaker 1: there or they're not, and they're there with this guy.
Speaker 1: The third takeaway is the key third downs and red
Speaker 1: zone statistics I was talking about all week long. Miami
Speaker 1: winds up two for three in the red zone scoring
Speaker 1: touchdowns and seven for fifteen on third downs, and that
Speaker 1: got us back into the game. But I thought they
Speaker 1: had to do better to win the game. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day. There was a very opening series
Speaker 1: of the game, third and nine to a drills one
Speaker 1: between two defenders and Jachim just can't quite come up
Speaker 1: with it there. That would have been a first down
Speaker 1: if they execute that play as an offense. They then
Speaker 1: from there have that awesome drive where two agoes and
Speaker 1: complete three out of four converts two third down plays,
Speaker 1: a touchdown to Mike Gasicki thought that was a great
Speaker 1: touchdown pass from two to Gasicki, the awareness to find
Speaker 1: him once he got off that block and showed his
Speaker 1: numbers with the quarterback. But then the Dolphins after that
Speaker 1: go back to a little bit more struggles on third down.
Speaker 1: There's a third and six on the plus thirteen. The
Speaker 1: throw to the corner of the ins into Davante Parker
Speaker 1: thought he might have had a chance to come down
Speaker 1: with that. We just can't quite finish that play. Another
Speaker 1: opportunity to not even not even extend to drive there,
Speaker 1: but to put you know, four more points on the board.
Speaker 1: If we can punch that in, then we have a
Speaker 1: failed third and seven. The pass that got intercepted the
Speaker 1: first in the career of tongue La now nine touchdown
Speaker 1: passes compared to one interception in his career. But I
Speaker 1: thought that was a chance where Joachim was on top
Speaker 1: of the defender, the balls a little bit under thrown,
Speaker 1: he tries to come back to make a play on it.
Speaker 1: Maybe we try to get a personal dp I there,
Speaker 1: Maybe try to get a catch, maybe get a bigger
Speaker 1: play over the top. I just thought those three plays,
Speaker 1: those three third downs, those are the plays that if
Speaker 1: you can make them, if you can swing them and
Speaker 1: you can get the takeaways and play that strong defense
Speaker 1: on Patrick Mahomes, you can beat the Chiefs. It can
Speaker 1: be done. But if you don't make those plays, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot more difficult to overcome that. And
Speaker 1: we learned that in this game. So I thought those
Speaker 1: few third down key conversions, although being seven for fifteen
Speaker 1: at the end of the day was just enough to
Speaker 1: the difference for the Chiefs in this game to win
Speaker 1: the game, the number four takeaway the next man up
Speaker 1: mentality will go through these quick here. Both linebackers he
Speaker 1: Landed Roberts and Kyle van Noy are such big losses
Speaker 1: because we know how much they mean to this defense
Speaker 1: and how good they are as players. But what do
Speaker 1: you get right away in this game? Andrew Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: goes to the ground, gets cut blocked, pops up and
Speaker 1: deflects a pass into the air that gets picked off
Speaker 1: by Byron Jones, the first of his career as a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin. Congratsed on that, Byron. But you get a
Speaker 1: big play from Van Ginkle. Jerome Baker gets a thirty
Speaker 1: yards sack. We'll talk more about him here in just
Speaker 1: one second to pretty much end a drive and not
Speaker 1: just end the drive. A thirty yards sack. That's basically
Speaker 1: a turnover because you're flipping the field. Giraffe sic Lee
Speaker 1: on that play. So two linebackers in the wake of missing.
Speaker 1: Two linebackers come out and make big plays right away.
Speaker 1: The wide receivers go out. Lynn Bowden has a career day.
Speaker 1: Mac Hollins has a career day. What can you say
Speaker 1: about those guys? I mean, Boden was shifting in space
Speaker 1: and making plays and making guys miss and catching a
Speaker 1: variety of types of passes. They tried to have him
Speaker 1: throw the ball a couple of times. I was excited
Speaker 1: to see what came out of that. Mac Hollins makes
Speaker 1: a couple of catches, make some guys miss in the
Speaker 1: open field in addition to his work on punt team.
Speaker 1: So this team, fifty three deep man, we have guys
Speaker 1: that make plays, who can make excuses about who's out there,
Speaker 1: who's not out there, But those guys made plays off
Speaker 1: the bench today that was really cool to see. And
Speaker 1: guys that filled in for other guys that are not
Speaker 1: off the bench, but just guys that had to have
Speaker 1: their rep count turned up a little bit more made
Speaker 1: plays as well. And the fifth takeaway talked about Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker just seeing his value really popping off on a
Speaker 1: weekly basis. His ability to spy, to rush, to cover,
Speaker 1: to do multiple things. He's been creating opportunities for other
Speaker 1: players all season long, and so today to see him
Speaker 1: get the splash play the two and a half sacks
Speaker 1: like give me men in the big thirty yard loss
Speaker 1: on that sack, his second down inten sack created a
Speaker 1: third and fifteen which then put the Chiefs into a
Speaker 1: punting situation. His sack with Christian Wilkins, the half sack
Speaker 1: later in the game was on third down. Big plays
Speaker 1: for this guy, and you just the way he can
Speaker 1: disrupt the opposing offense without making those splash plays, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm so glad that he made them today,
Speaker 1: So he gets some appreciation. His ability to take those
Speaker 1: tight angles in the A gap when he mugs up
Speaker 1: there to show pressure, to show Blitz looks to force
Speaker 1: the running back to come into the middle of the
Speaker 1: formation and take the immediate pressure right. That's that's principal
Speaker 1: number one for past protection and a running back. Get
Speaker 1: the inside first, work outside, because the most immediate pressure inside.
Speaker 1: He forces those backs by beating the guards and centers
Speaker 1: inside with a quick move to quickly get in there
Speaker 1: and change the past protection to slide help away and
Speaker 1: create more chances for augball and loss and and Seeler
Speaker 1: and Wilkins off the edge and the sack just showcased
Speaker 1: his athletic ability, his true angling speed, change in direction,
Speaker 1: and then to finish the play by getting Mahomes with
Speaker 1: the ground again thirty yard loss, basically a turnover. The
Speaker 1: second one on the open field has to throttle things down,
Speaker 1: stay in a passing lane, but then close on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: What a special trade to have an ability to affect
Speaker 1: both the past and the possible pass rush on the
Speaker 1: same play. I'm just so glad to see him step
Speaker 1: up and make a couple of big plays in this game,
Speaker 1: because I thought that he's been making a big impact
Speaker 1: on the defense but not showing that necessarily in the
Speaker 1: box score with the big splash place. So I'm super
Speaker 1: happy to see his value show up in the box
Speaker 1: score in this game. On the topic of value, a
Speaker 1: guy that barely ever we've see in the box score
Speaker 1: because he's back there just running off routes and making
Speaker 1: open field tackles is Bobby McCain. I think you you
Speaker 1: leave this game with even more appreciation for what he brings.
Speaker 1: He leaves the game after the first play of the
Speaker 1: third quarter and the Chiefs literally go up top the
Speaker 1: next play forty four yards to Tyreek Hill and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: When he left the field the first time to go
Speaker 1: to the blue medical tent. The chief score thirty two
Speaker 1: yard touchdown with Bobby McCain or with Tyreek Hill running
Speaker 1: through the secondary and gets into the touchdown there. So
Speaker 1: I think you really appreciate what he does, what he
Speaker 1: brings to this football team. So those are the takeaways.
Speaker 1: A few more individual notes here on this Monday recap
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast network presented by Auto Nation. One of the throws
Speaker 1: I love looking at with two a tongue of Byla
Speaker 1: is when you have zone coverage to either side of
Speaker 1: the field where a cornerback is parked in a certain
Speaker 1: area and either falls back or drives based upon the
Speaker 1: route combo. And a lot of times you'll see a
Speaker 1: corner route go over the top and a flat route
Speaker 1: underneath to put that defender in some conflict. And we
Speaker 1: talked about this. We had dan Orlovsky's video last week
Speaker 1: on the top News article where he shows you to
Speaker 1: us ability to influence the defenders with body position and
Speaker 1: not just the eyes, but the position of your fakes
Speaker 1: and the way you set up your hips and your feet,
Speaker 1: and the way you drive the ball to certain areas
Speaker 1: of the field or show motion like you're gonna throw
Speaker 1: the ball to that part of the field. I thought
Speaker 1: he did so well on that area again today some
Speaker 1: of those layer throws over the top of that underneath
Speaker 1: defender into that corner part of the field. Really good accuracy,
Speaker 1: touch and timing on those. I just want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and add that note in there. Thought. DeAndre Washington
Speaker 1: had a couple of nice runs. The third and one
Speaker 1: where he leapt over the pile was a really just
Speaker 1: smart and instinctive run. Had a nice seven yard game
Speaker 1: early in the game as well, he he shows a
Speaker 1: little bit of flash, a little bit of juice out
Speaker 1: there that I think can add some value to this
Speaker 1: backfield even when people get back, hopefully at the receiver position.
Speaker 1: Pretty incredible what this offense was able to get done
Speaker 1: when they were down so many guys at this position
Speaker 1: with Lynn Bowen and Mac Hollins. Jokim before he left
Speaker 1: the game had another twelve yard carry on a fly sweep.
Speaker 1: I wrote that in the notes because he had two
Speaker 1: twenty plus runs or I guess receptions on plays like
Speaker 1: that last week. That's a cool feature of the offense
Speaker 1: at tight end. Gisicky man, this guy he got hurt
Speaker 1: in the game and left with the shoulder injury. But
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll see you with the stats on
Speaker 1: him next week. But he just continues to make plays
Speaker 1: and his ability to flash. The numbers on that touchdown reception,
Speaker 1: the first one he's blocking and two of finds him
Speaker 1: as he just kind of comes off that block to
Speaker 1: not get like spook or drop the football there, catch it,
Speaker 1: get up field, getting the end zone. Solid work there
Speaker 1: from Ghisicky, as we expect pretty much every single week
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. I just continue to be marveled
Speaker 1: at ray Kwon Davis's strength, the ability to stack and
Speaker 1: work down for a run stop to get knocked back.
Speaker 1: He had a great and one tackle was on Edwards Hilira.
Speaker 1: I think it was where he basically one arm tackle
Speaker 1: him to the ground. That was impressive to watch. I
Speaker 1: love the way shack loss and retraces and works to
Speaker 1: find the football on screens or swing routes out in
Speaker 1: the flat. We saw him have that coverage play on
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen last week. This guy just his motor never
Speaker 1: stops and he's he loves it. He gets after it,
Speaker 1: plays the way you wanted to, and Agba continues to
Speaker 1: find that content. Just constant pocket push collapse that part
Speaker 1: of the of the tackle, and then if he tries
Speaker 1: to break outside or inside, he has the arms and
Speaker 1: the hands and the strength to be able to come
Speaker 1: off those blocks and make play without a few times
Speaker 1: in this game, talked about Van Giggle's tip on the interception,
Speaker 1: big time play there after getting cut blocked Baker with
Speaker 1: just a great pursuit, angles and speed and finishing plays.
Speaker 1: Love that about his game. Byron Jones gets his first
Speaker 1: pick of the Dolphin and a forced fumble two takeaways
Speaker 1: out of your prime free agent signed there at the
Speaker 1: cornerback spots. A great job by Byron Jones. McCain continues
Speaker 1: to tackle really well in the open field. Eric Rod
Speaker 1: gets himself an interception. Brandon Jones. I had a note
Speaker 1: on him beating a right tackle Mike Remors. He beats
Speaker 1: him for a block for a tackle in the backfield.
Speaker 1: To get around that block from an offensive tackle, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: I had Nick need him in great shape on a
Speaker 1: coverage route on a Baker sack on Tyreek Hill one
Speaker 1: on one out of the slot. So some wins individually
Speaker 1: all around, and then exaviing Howard. Of course, how can
Speaker 1: we go the entire podcast and not talk about that
Speaker 1: ridiculous interception one handed, the classic Odell type catch that
Speaker 1: we usually see receivers make. He gets one of those,
Speaker 1: and he is now one interception away from matching the
Speaker 1: franchise record for ten interceptions by Dick Westmoreland. I'll repeat
Speaker 1: that Dick Westmoreland had ten interceptions in nineteen sixties seven,
Speaker 1: exaving Howard one pick away from time at two from
Speaker 1: topping the all time franchise mark. So he gets another
Speaker 1: one as he does pretty much every single week. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up this podcast by welcoming on
Speaker 1: my guest, John con Jemmy of the Audible Podcast. Watched
Speaker 1: the game with him on Sundays right next to him.
Speaker 1: Always great to get his take. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: welcome and John can Jemmy and joining me as he
Speaker 1: does every Sunday night to recap the Dolphins action for
Speaker 1: the day. Is the host of the Audible podcast here
Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. John Conjemmy, John, how
Speaker 1: you doing this evening, sir? I'm doing okay. Even though
Speaker 1: the Dolphins came up a little bit short. I was
Speaker 1: encouraged the way they played, the way they started the game,
Speaker 1: and the way they actoutely grinded till the till the
Speaker 1: very end. So it was it was disappointing, but but
Speaker 1: encouraging in the same breath. I have to make a
Speaker 1: note of this for the audience out there. And this
Speaker 1: is also revealing to you, John, because John called. I
Speaker 1: called John and he came onto the podcast. We didn't
Speaker 1: we didn't brief this whole thing. I opened the podcast
Speaker 1: John by saying, my in tone, this entire show is
Speaker 1: going to be one of encouragement. So the fact that
Speaker 1: you use that word makes me so happy because I
Speaker 1: just wanted to get your general takeaway here with I mean,
Speaker 1: this podcast feels like we want If you didn't hear
Speaker 1: me talk about the score in the open, I talked
Speaker 1: very glowingly of this team. I just see a team
Speaker 1: that's on the right track, don't you I do. I
Speaker 1: see a team that that is competitive each and every week,
Speaker 1: and I see a team that doesn't want to do
Speaker 1: lose or like to lose. Um. I just think that
Speaker 1: Brian Flores has done an excellent job and changing the
Speaker 1: mindset and the expectation of this team, and it's headed
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And you know, you have to
Speaker 1: find ways to win games like this at home, I
Speaker 1: think in the future, even though you might be outgunned
Speaker 1: or outmanned when you look at offense, defense and special teams,
Speaker 1: because things had to fall into place for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to have a chance. But I think more of the
Speaker 1: mental and physical aspects of the game that are starting
Speaker 1: to catch up with some of the teams that are
Speaker 1: elite in this in the NFL, and I think the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are closing the gap on where they started and
Speaker 1: where they are right now, seven team combined points in
Speaker 1: the losses to Kansas City, Seattle, and Buffalo. We'll go
Speaker 1: we'll get another crack at Buffalo here in week sevent.
Speaker 1: Team coming up. But competing with these teams like was
Speaker 1: not the case not that long ago. So good to see.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the press conference, you mentioned that the
Speaker 1: fact that these guys there's an expectation to win. I
Speaker 1: think we saw that in the postgame pressers. Everybody was
Speaker 1: pretty pretty down after the game. So that was, I
Speaker 1: guess good to see in that sense that they expect
Speaker 1: to win these types of games. So, John, with that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get to your first takeaway from
Speaker 1: Chiefs thirty three Dolphins. I thought the game started perfectly.
Speaker 1: Uh that That's really the way I saw it, because
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. In order for the Dolphins to win, they
Speaker 1: were gonna have to win in the turnover margin. They
Speaker 1: were going to have to find a way to to
Speaker 1: rattle the k C offense and Patrick Mahomes in that
Speaker 1: passing game, and they did that right from the start.
Speaker 1: When you get Byron Jones his first interception in a
Speaker 1: Dolphin uniform, right out right out of the gate in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, you don't cash in, you missed a
Speaker 1: field goal, but it's set the tone. It really set
Speaker 1: the tone for the game. So I thought the game
Speaker 1: started just the way the Dolphins wanted to. They end
Speaker 1: up getting a second interception with Eric Rowe getting a
Speaker 1: tip pass um you go down and you you cash in,
Speaker 1: and you feel like, wow, it's ten nothing. This is
Speaker 1: the perfect storm for the way the Dolphins had to
Speaker 1: have its script to go for to get get something
Speaker 1: in the wind column. So I thought the games started perfectly.
Speaker 1: Didn't end the way we wanted to, but in order
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins to to hang in and throw trade
Speaker 1: punch for punch, and had to start that way, and
Speaker 1: it did. And that has to give you faith in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins coaching staffs ability to put together a game
Speaker 1: plan and find a way to make Mahomes uncomfortable early,
Speaker 1: to find points early in the game and get off
Speaker 1: of that ten zero start. John your second takeaway, I
Speaker 1: thought Kansas City had way too many explosive plays and
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm saying this with it with an offense
Speaker 1: that is known for their explosive plays, but I think
Speaker 1: that it was just with ease. It looked like when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins didn't get there, when they didn't get home
Speaker 1: with the blitz or the normal pass rush. It just
Speaker 1: looked like there was a lot of green grass for Travis,
Speaker 1: Kelsey and and Hill and the rest of the cast
Speaker 1: of characters. The running game, that the checkdowns, that there
Speaker 1: was a lot of explosive plays that I counted very quickly,
Speaker 1: uh close to fifteen sixteen plays that Kansas City had
Speaker 1: that where either thirteen yards or more. And that that
Speaker 1: includes you know, the thirty two yards for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: forty five yard or for a touchdown, a sixty seven
Speaker 1: yard punt return for a touchdown, and also Travis. The
Speaker 1: way they scored it was quick drives. It was two
Speaker 1: minutes and four seconds with four plays. It might have
Speaker 1: been nine plays, but only two minutes and fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: These were the This is a lethal bunch that Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs are, and they're so dangerous, and with a
Speaker 1: quarterback that has thrown multiple interceptions in a game and
Speaker 1: hadn't happened in a long time. But for him not
Speaker 1: to bat an iron and not not to flinch and
Speaker 1: come right back and attack an aggressive Miami defense, I
Speaker 1: just thought there was way too many explosive places for
Speaker 1: as well as the defense played there was they made
Speaker 1: it easy for Kansas City and that middle part them
Speaker 1: the meaty part of the game, and that's that's really
Speaker 1: where the game turned. Like you mentioned, because we talked
Speaker 1: about the thirty unanswered points they had at that stage,
Speaker 1: I was tracking the play distance as well, because my
Speaker 1: thought was the longer you keep these guys in the field,
Speaker 1: the more of a chance you have a field goal
Speaker 1: or possibly to takeaway. And we did see two takeaways
Speaker 1: down deep in their own territory. So the Dolphins followed
Speaker 1: that script for a little bit, got away from it
Speaker 1: there in the middle, kind of ratchet back up there
Speaker 1: at the end, John, I believe your third takeaway has
Speaker 1: us at the end of the game. Maybe. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: kept grinding, you know, the team kept kept plugging away,
Speaker 1: kept you know, staying after what they were coached to
Speaker 1: do and what they've probably done all their careers, because
Speaker 1: I think we have that mindset, those types of players
Speaker 1: on this roster. So they just kept grinding. You know,
Speaker 1: it was eight to ten, you know, then it's thirty
Speaker 1: to ten after the safety, but you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of blink and you know, I leave where I sit
Speaker 1: next to you. At some point early in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: I get up to the perch and I'm feel lot better.
Speaker 1: You know, Wilkins gets a sack and you find points exaving.
Speaker 1: Howard gets an interception, uh Kausiki gets Hauls in a
Speaker 1: huge pass over Thornhill, and it's you know, thirty seventeen
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are scoring again with a QB sneaks.
Speaker 1: So they found ways to keep grinding to keep Kansas
Speaker 1: City on edge to say, these guys won't go away.
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna hopefully hold true for the
Speaker 1: remaining games on the schedule, because next week is a
Speaker 1: is a must if the Dolphins are going to continue
Speaker 1: to save playoffs in the same sentence as Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and that starts next week, like you mentioned, at home
Speaker 1: against the England Patriots, the penultimate game at the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders, and the finale up in Buffalo, up in
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, where I'm sure we're not gonna have to
Speaker 1: worry about going to this year, John, But in the future,
Speaker 1: January trips to Buffalo maybe not our favorite avenue. Those
Speaker 1: are tough. Not this year, not this year. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: look forward to in the future. That means we're playing
Speaker 1: good ball. That means we're a spot where we want
Speaker 1: to be. John con Jimmy, the host of the out
Speaker 1: Of podcast. John, I appreciate your time is always on
Speaker 1: the Sunday nights. We'll see you next week for the
Speaker 1: home finale. My friend sounds great, Travis, and so away
Speaker 1: he goes. You heard him mention it on the pod.
Speaker 1: Here just three games left in this Dolphins season. We'll
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