WEBVTT - Dolphins Competitive with Defending Champs, Ultimately Fall 33-27 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:14.440 Cut down, Miami quart Water Run, What is up, Dolphans, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.480 and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:22.280 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team door Miami Dolphins, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.279 each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.000 Sunday night slash Monday morning, depending on when you listen 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.159 to this podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.919 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.000 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's not the 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.720 victory Monday podcast we've grown accustomed to over the last 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.159 couple of months. But you're gonna get one tone from 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.880 me today and one tone only, one of encouragement. The 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.720 Dolphins make a lot of big plays in this game, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.320 leave a few out there, and that was just enough 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.760 for the Chiefs to win their twelve game in thirteen 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.680 tries this season. Dolphins fall to eight and five with 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.360 the thirty three seven loss. Will get my five takeaways, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.360 breakdown the individual performances, and welcome John can gem me 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.399 into the podcast as we do on these recap pods. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.760 All of that and more on this Monday, December fourteenth 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:18.920 edition of the Drive Time Podcast. A Dolphins Fans, the 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.000 new year starts now at Auto Nation. Let's skip the 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.160 rest of and get to big New Year's savings on 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:30.319 your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's fours, Toyotas, Honda's Jeeps and more. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.480 Shops safely at the Auto Nation store near you or 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.080 auto nation dot com and save right now. Let's go 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.880 ahead and jump right into the recap podcast here, because 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.560 I'm a little bit fired up, you know, the middle 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.279 part of that game, thirty to ten. I was hoping 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.520 we would get the type of effort we saw at 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.440 the end of the football game to make that one close. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.840 And that's what we got. So it lifted my spirits, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:53.680 lifted my moods. I have plenty to get to here 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.200 on this Monday recap edition. Let's go ahead and start. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.840 Go first with the stats. In this game, Dolphins gain 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.080 three six d nine yards, so the Chiefs four forty six. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.920 Miami was out rushed only eight to nine four passing yards. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.679 Chiefs go three fifty two to Miami's two eighty nine 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.400 third down conversions. This is gonna be a takeaway on 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.320 the podcast. Dolphins were seven for fifteen, Chiefs just five 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.120 out of eleven the takeaways. Miami had the four Chiefs 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.799 had the one. Dolphins had three sacks. Tuga bal Loo 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.480 was sacked four times. Miami goes back down to their 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.680 regular penalty yardage and penalties committed assessed against them three 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.680 for thirty five after last week's eight. The Chiefs commit 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.040 eight foils for fifty six yards and the Dolphins had 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.400 the football for thirty one and a half minutes in 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.080 this game. A couple of the storylines I was keeping 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.440 an eye on heading into this game, where how would 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.320 the Dolphins run the football. We learned on Saturday that 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.880 Miles Gascon would not be available to the team. He, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.240 Matt Brita, and Savan Akhmed all did not play in 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.640 this game. So DeAndre Washington, who was acquired via a 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.040 trade back at the trade deadline, comes in. I was 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.440 curious to see how they ran the football. DeAndrea led 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.960 the team thirteen carries thirty five yards rushing. Tunga by 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.960 Loa had six for twenty four in the game. I 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.760 was also curious about the offensive line. Last week, we 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.640 saw Eric Flowers go out with the ankle injury, leaves 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.799 the field, doesn't practice this week, doesn't play on Sunday. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.400 They kick over Solomon, killing the left guard Jesse Davis 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.200 fills in at right guard. Look, I like giving you 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.080 guys a more responsible research answer here. Something's gonna be 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:21.760 real with you I have. I'll have a much better 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.840 idea once I look at the all twenty two on 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.520 the offensive line. So more on that on Tuesday. What 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.440 do we do to help make up the absence of 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.280 Kyle van noy, any Land and Roberts Both those guys 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.639 missed the game this week, so those are gonna be 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.120 the takeaways. Also, so will these final two things I 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.760 was keeping an eye on. I wanted to pay a 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.320 close attention to the defensive calls. How did they decide 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.960 to maintain or how to contain and defend Patrick Mahomes 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.640 and the red zone and third down because I told 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.840 myself on the preview podcast and convinced myself the Miami 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.360 must win in those areas to win this game. So 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.840 we'll go ahead and visit that. And with that, let's 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.920 go ahead and jump right in to our first takeaway. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.200 And these first two takeaways are gonna get worried here, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.880 but just stay with me. I think we can stop 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.880 pondering whether or not this Dolphins defense is for real. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.840 If we even were at this point, and some will 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.000 say that takeaways are a bit of a flukey stat 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.680 remember today's NFL. This is something I made a point 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.720 I made on the podcast I don't know six weeks ago, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.480 when we're having two takeaways per game like we are 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.080 right now at this stage, I talked about how takeaways 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.560 are keen because the way the league's designed right now, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.480 the way all these athletic dual threat multipurpose quarterbacks with 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.080 the rules geared towards more offensive production, with more defensive 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.320 penalties that are going to be called against. Then then 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.320 the offense in this NFL, you're just not going to 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.560 find a way to consistently come up with ten stops 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.760 a game against a Patrick Mahomes type, against a Russell Wilson, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.560 against what Josh Allen is doing this season. They're not 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.240 flukey though. Turnovers when you generate them and create them 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.279 pretty much in the same way each week, with pressures, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.880 tight coverage on the back end, bad things are going 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.839 to happen to an offense when they are consistently being 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.400 put in those situations and being we was to make 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.599 critical decisions and quick plays against the pressure. This Dolphins 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.000 defense can't create the Chiefs didn't score a point in 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.240 the first quarter. They had just fourteen in the first half. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.160 In total, they turned it over four times and punted 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.080 four times. So you know, I had to go back 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.279 and look at how many times that's happened this year, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.200 with eight combined possessions resulting in no points, no attempt 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.800 at field goal, just a turnover or a punt. They 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.159 punted it five times in a game twice this year 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.880 and four times and two others. They never had more 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.400 than one giveaway in a game this season. In fact, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.960 why don't we go ahead and let coach Flora's tell 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.440 you about the type of team this Chief's offense has, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.680 as they were able to score thirty points in those 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.159 second and third quarters, no points in the first quarters, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.560 just three points in the fourth quarter. Let's go ahead 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.400 and let Coach Flora's talk about what type of team 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.920 this Chief's offense is and how the Dolphins had to 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.560 approach it. You know, they this is an explosive team, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:51.920 and they went on a little bit of a run 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.120 there from the second half. Within the end of the 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:59.719 second quarter, got the ball back, punched it in a return. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.120 I mean, it was just a quick spurt there. And 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.320 that's that's kind of how you know they're want, they're built. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.520 You know they're going round, and they went on one there. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.000 It's called the second in the second quarter. To be 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.640 getting in the third quarter, we had to settle in 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.680 and we collect ourselves, and I thought our guys did 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.040 a good job of that. And you know, I had 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.039 some play with some poison, got ourselves back in the game. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.520 And they'll limit those big plays and we weren't able 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.120 to do that today. Ultimately, that was the difference you 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.280 heard coach talk about the Spurts there. This is the 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.080 same team that scored twenty eight points in a single 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.840 quarter last season. They are those Warriors teams and in 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.560 the NBA with Steph and Clay and k D, they 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.720 can hit fifteen three points in one quarter on you 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.080 and put the game not if not out of reach. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.520 Completely changed the complexion of it. And we kind of 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.720 saw that happen in this game. They go down score 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.520 in the second quarter, they come out of the gates 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.080 with a touchdown to open the third quarter. They come 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.640 right back with the pump return touchdown. And this is 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.239 an offense that there is nobody out there within thirty 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.520 yards of them. For the number two offensive spot in 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.200 the NFL. There are thirty yards, give or take clear 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.200 of Green Bay for yards per game. This offense is potent, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.560 it's dangerous. It's just uniquely built, like coach mentioned there, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.320 and so they're combined turnover slash punts in a game 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.120 goes eight today from the Dolphins six, five, five, five, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.920 five and the four. So they have a whole bunch 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.440 of games where they just score on at least half 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.480 their possessions pretty much. If you want to call an 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.640 average of twelve drives a game, that's about what it 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.280 is in the NFL, give or take. Most teams get 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.720 six drives per half, six at the or twelve in 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.320 the total game, so they're used to scoring on seven 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.840 or eight of those drives. They scored four times today, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.440 five on that field goal there at the end, granted 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.160 the punt return, which I know Flow will be pissed 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.400 as pisses anybody about that. But some perspective here, man, Like, 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.160 we faced the NFL's most prolific offense in the two 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.080 thousand two nineteen season opener. Remember what happened. Then, look 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.000 at where this defense is after just fifteen months after 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.240 that result. I mean it's it's unbelievable. And it's not 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.080 just players, it's the game plan, it's the mixed coverages, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.320 it's different fronts, different personnel that can execute those different 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.760 fronts taking out their best weapons. And this started off well, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.240 but both Kelsey and Hill got going in this game. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.000 A buck eleven for Tyreek Hill and two touchdowns one 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.120 thirty six for Travis Kelsey and a score. Sometimes hall 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.679 of fame level players, which Kelsey is gonna be Tygreek 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.440 Hills on that track. Hall of Fame level players make 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.760 Hall of Fame plays and they have Hall of Fame 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.640 games sometimes in the first quarter, though Tyreek Hill for 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.760 the first twenty three minutes of the game, actually into 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.360 the midway part of the second quarter, before that thirty 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.920 two yard touchdown run, he didn't touch the football. So 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.080 it looks good at the start. And the Dolphins were 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.800 also limiting big plays early in this game and that 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.640 opening start, and again in that fourth quarter, plays of 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.240 two and three and six and one yards and those 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.040 types of things where you don't allow them to eat 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.760 up chunk yards, which again back to their spurts. They 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.360 had the forty four yard touchdown passing to Tyreek hill, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.480 they had twenty five yards and a league pass out 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.719 to Clyde Edwards, a layer in the flat. If you 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.559 can limit the big plays and keep them in those 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.720 that range, and they did have some thirteen six fifteen 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.880 yard plays at that time, but you don't get over 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.280 the top of you. That allows you more plays, more 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.880 opportunities to get in those situations where you create big 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.240 places for yourself. And the Dolphins have just done that 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.400 all season long with the mixed looks and execution, confusing 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.640 the opposing offense, give them a short number of options 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.080 and try to make those options. They have to resolve 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.920 your defensive puzzle the things they struggle with, and with 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.200 Patrick Mahomes it doesn't really struggle with anything. But if 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.600 you can push the protection and not let him break 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.040 that initial surge, then you can force him into some 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.839 of those off platform throws or maybe they get tipped 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.000 because he's a little bit off balance and the ball 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.959 sales a little bit. Those are forced airs. And the 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.120 Dolphins do it every single week, nineteen consecutive games with 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.280 a takeaway, the longest active streak in the NFL. And 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.760 how do they do that again by mixing their looks. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.160 There was a two man look. I saw it early 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.040 in the game. Cover two lookwards zone, single high safety 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.280 back their three safeties on the field, A big nickel 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.040 look where they have to do a switch because they 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.680 run a natural roa up with Travis Kelsey and Tyreek 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.640 Hill and they rub Xavier and Howard and try to 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.160 get Eric Rowan Tyreek Hill. They switched that and handle 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.600 it and cover it up well. There are all kinds 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.400 of different looks as defense runs, all kinds of different 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.040 fronts this defense runs and their ability to execute the 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 scheme that they want to play. We talked about this 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.520 on a podcast lab I think it was two weeks ago, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.160 where Brian Baldinger talked about the vision of the team 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.600 and building the team to a specific vision that you identify. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.960 The rush, contain, slash, big body, defensive vents off either edge, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.760 shack Lawson, Emmanuel Ogba. I talked about this un till 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.880 I was blue in the face all off season long. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.360 They're not gonna rush past their tackle and go up 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.480 behind the quarterback. The worst place to be on a 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.240 football field behind the quarterback because, like we talked about, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.800 the modern day athletic quarterback and move and ship to 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.720 make plays and make you irrelevant back in that spot. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.040 So they play through their man, they play through that power, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.800 the heavy hands, the surge play, the quarterback play, the 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.040 run on the way to the quarterback, and that really 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.160 helped kind of create confusion and create a limited option 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.520 as far as the pucket for Patrick Mahomes in this game, 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.439 and it forced some bad plays and some turnovers. So 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.120 he has two picks in the first quarter of this 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.679 game after entering the game with two picks on the 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.160 entire season. You have to turn those big plays into 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.760 points the Dolphins, and they didn't. They got three points 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.959 off those turnovers early on in this game. But you 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.480 create those situations time in and time out, you're gonna 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.400 win a lot of football games. And we've seen that 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.600 over seven of the last nine weeks now after today's lost. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.679 But a narrow defeat against the defending champs in a game, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.800 or you force four turnovers and force four point punts 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.680 against that quarterback, that head coach, that offensive coordinator, that receiver, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.960 that tight end, I mean, it never ends, it never ends. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.439 And so to see Miami put forth that type of 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.720 effort and that type of production, albeit in a losing effort, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.800 Man this Dolphins defense looks legit. The second takeaway I 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.280 have here and just as I believe are we have 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.040 ourselves a bona fide defense on that side of the football? 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.559 I sure do you think we have ourselves a quarterback? 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.719 And I've always believed that. You guys know what I 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.280 thought about too as a prospect, if you listen to 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.280 me on Drive Time over the summer, or if you 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.040 listen to me on Locked on Dolphins for the past 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.200 three years before that, from the first game he ever 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.080 played as a college prospect, I thought this guy could 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.679 flat out place in football. And speaking of that night 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:13.360 back in Seen, it was national championship after seventeen season, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.959 the lights just never seemed to flash too bright for 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.640 this guy. And I think I think there's something to 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.160 the way a guy is wired that way, and that 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.280 the magnitude of certain moments either do or they just 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.280 don't affect the way a player approaches things. I can 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:29.800 speak from experience on this, and I don't want to 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.240 get too much into myself here, but I played baseball 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.120 and basketball from the time I could walk until through college, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.599 and then later played poker because I just had a 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.800 competitive drive. I had to always be playing when I 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.120 was up against a big hand in poker, when I 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.959 was called to make a big shot, I didn't like 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.120 the way it felt. I got nervous. There are there 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.600 are guys out there that get nervous and guys that don't. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.880 I just don't think that. I think this quarterback is unflappable. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.880 We've heard about it so many times. And to see 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.760 you on an NFL feel when they're down thirty to 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.040 ten and they just keep fighting and just keep calling 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.760 back and getting themselves back into position to make plays 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.120 and to get points and to and to keep grinding 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.240 and keep this game going when you've had to have 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.040 points this season, I've had faith in that quarterback and 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.679 I've been rewarded by that quarterback more times than not. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.719 And the gotta have at moments in the Arizona game 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.760 against the Rams, after those turners putting the ball in 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.240 the end zone, against the Bengals last week, in the 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.800 second half against the Chiefs down late in the game, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.800 had to have back to back touchdown drives. You got 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.280 it both times, and I mean those drives to end 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.319 the game. The Chiefs were just bringing relentless pressure over 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.599 and over again, and so the way to a beat you. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.199 They challenge Lynn Bowden Jr. Malcolm Perry, Adam Shaheen to 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.319 beat that man coverage quickly and dialed up the pressure 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.000 on the quarterback. And this is certainly no shot at 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.719 those guys, not at all. But it's worth acknowledging that 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.040 you today lost DeVante Parker, Jachem Grant and Mike g. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.720 Sicky in a game where the top three leading rushers 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.559 on the team didn't play. As far as running backs 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.480 are concerned, I mean, oh yeah, and Presty Williams is 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.920 down to that's literally your top seven in terms of 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.000 skill per skill player production you have on the roster 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.559 just not available, just not there for you. And we'll 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.360 get to the guys who stepped in shortly. They deserve 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.679 as much credit as too. In the offense, they were 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.800 great at that point of the game as well. But 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.439 to be able to just hit that rhythm, to have 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.599 that trust to make those critical decisions where Steve's bagnolo 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.360 Chiefs d C knows that he has one job. It's 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.680 to make your quarterback uncomfortable because at this stage of 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.800 the game, the run game is just not an option. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.680 And since you can't go to the run game right there, right, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.400 you can't run the ball very much and you're down 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.160 by twenty points in the second half. Now, credit to Miami, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.360 they found some success at points where they could go 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.520 to the run to help move the change, to help 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.960 get drive started. That type of thing as you manage 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.160 the clock in those situations, got to the line quickly 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.640 snapped the ball and kept it going. But you get 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.360 the larger point and the Chiefs are focused on sending 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.760 pressure and trying to put the game away with a 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.120 pick or a fumble, a sack that changes the game. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.520 And he just stood in there and through the football 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.200 to spots patient, didn't flinch against that that type of pressure, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.200 just read the action, found the leverage and deliver the 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.720 ball time and time again. And as I watched from 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.600 up high in the press box, I can't tell you 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.640 how many times. And we'll hear from him. In just 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.120 one second, Me and con gem Me look at each 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.280 other and say that receiver wasn't even even in the 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.760 neighborhood when that ball was thrown, just throwing to a 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.680 totally vacant area, and nobody's out of their break yet. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.800 And by the time the ball gets to the area, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.320 that's when the receiver arrives too. It was it was 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.200 just surging, like the way he attacked that aggressive Chief defense, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.120 And that was on top of the earlier parts of 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.040 the game we saw in other parts of the game 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.640 with the quick twitch we still see inside the pocket 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.720 every week now he's making a play where he evades 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.720 an initial rush, attacks a line of scrimmage and looks 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.320 to uncork one and like the gas Can play last week, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.280 they got thirty five yards and led to that go 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.320 ahead touchdown drive like the shot to mac Hollins, we 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.400 just missed on today. That oft script ability, Well, it's 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.880 gonna pay off over time. It just will. And he 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.800 continues to get you your offense into situations like that 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.280 when sometimes the defensive play call wins, and sometimes it's 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.320 up to quarterbacks and your best players to go out 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.360 and make plays and to beat the call of the defense. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.080 And I thought we saw a lot of that today 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.360 when when things broke down, when the pressure got too hot, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.400 he just stayed calm and found a way to get 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.360 around that. Those two traits, that anticipation and the ability 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.240 to win both within and with outside of the structure 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.600 to execute whichever game plan you want to ask of 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.160 him the no huddle up tempo, hurry up, we gotta go, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.160 or more of a conservative plan to chew up the 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.600 clock and support a strong defensive effort and special team's effort. Man, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.400 I just like what we have because even among some 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.640 of the rookie mistakes you might see on weekend, week 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.240 out basis or today, and in fact, why don't we 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:35.760 go ahead and just turn it over to two right 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.840 here and let him talk about how it feels to 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.240 come up short in this game and some of the 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.040 mistakes that he thinks they could have cleaned up and 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.480 had a better, better day of execution on the offensive 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.600 side of the football and ultimately found a way to 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.040 win the game. Here, it's a lot to come up short. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.880 Like I said, you know what we want to do 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:54.440 is we want to win the ball game. At the 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.160 end of the game, we want to score one more 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.440 point than the opposing team, which we obviously didn't, but 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.600 I think the defense gave us many opportunities, not just 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.440 in the third quarter so I'm in the fourth quarter 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:10.359 as well, but offensively we didn't. We didn't execute the 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.119 way we we should have. And I think, well, not 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.920 not that I think I know, a lot of that 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.560 falls down on me with the leadership with these guys 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.600 in the third quarter, Um, you know, not taking what 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.840 the defense is giving me, just pretty much playing rookie mistakes, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.600 and you know you can't do that against the super 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.840 Bowl caliber team like like the Chiefs. So a lot 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.320 of the execution really started from me, And I think 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.200 our guys played their butts off offensively on the on 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.240 the old line, they played their butts off, the receivers 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:45.320 played their butts off. It was really just me executing 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.359 with the guys. So there's two us take on the 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.480 way the game went. Taking full accountability for the loss 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.840 at the end of the day, and that's you know 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.560 what you're starting, what you're starting quarterback should do. That's 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.880 how he should lead by example. But you heard him 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.160 talk a little bit there about taking what the defense 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.280 gives you. An what's funny about that was there was 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.280 a point in the third quarter when the offense began 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.560 to get cranking where he surveyed some options and the 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.520 Chiefs are kind of playing off. We talked about maybe 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.919 being a little bit less aggressive with the scoreboard more 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.120 in your favor, and they kind of reacted that way 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.359 and to it just went through the read, or at 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:16.680 least I thought he did. He stood there for a 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.320 while and progressed. He saw his head moving around and 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.280 just took the little short pass of the running back 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.040