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Speaker 1: out of this Tay. Drive Time with Travis Winfield begins.
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Speaker 1: Dolphans and welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I think I know the answer
Speaker 1: to that question. I am your host, Travis Winkfield, and
Speaker 1: on today show, the Dolphins go out and they get
Speaker 1: it done. That's right. It's a twenty one to nineteen
Speaker 1: win over the visiting Buffalo Bills, the first time in
Speaker 1: eight tries the Dolphins beat the Buffalo Bills. It's our
Speaker 1: eighth straight win here at hard Rock Stadium. Check your pulse,
Speaker 1: you might be fired. Up. But if you're like me,
Speaker 1: well you probably need an oxygen mask after that game.
Speaker 1: Who and some smelling salts because that was a crazy one.
Speaker 1: Will do the five takeaways from that game. We'll examine
Speaker 1: the key moments. We'll talk about the play before the play,
Speaker 1: the teaching tape as well. We'll hear from the winning coach,
Speaker 1: and oh man, that quarterback will hear from him as well,
Speaker 1: and much much more from the Baptist Health studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Where do we even begin? And what a game? Man,
Speaker 1: what a football game? Watching that thing? I just kept saying,
Speaker 1: and Big Seth was too. These are two really really
Speaker 1: good football teams. Man. We'll see those guys again in December.
Speaker 1: But this one was one that when things got late,
Speaker 1: you began to feel like, man, we have to find
Speaker 1: a way to get this going, to get this victory.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened. Like real talk, we were
Speaker 1: over in the radio booth that we do the post
Speaker 1: game show from on that final series of plays and
Speaker 1: on the bill's penultimate drive, and when we got the
Speaker 1: fourth down stop, we all celebrated like the game was over.
Speaker 1: But it was not, obviously, and actually, if you look
Speaker 1: at the win probability stats, even after the holding call
Speaker 1: on Emmanuel Ogba and what a game he had, By
Speaker 1: the way, the Buffalo Bills win probability and that last
Speaker 1: part of that drive before the clock right now on
Speaker 1: them was seventy eight point four percent according to my
Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports app. So they were really driving to kick
Speaker 1: that game winning field goal and break our hearts for
Speaker 1: one loss didn't happen. The Dolphins played such disciplined defense.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that and one of the takeaways here
Speaker 1: in just one second, but the Dolphins just kept coming
Speaker 1: back and coming back and making place, and that box
Speaker 1: score was an absolutely wild one. Let's actually go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to it before we get to the five
Speaker 1: takeaways here on the Sunday night Flagship Recap edition of
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. The Bills have thirty one first downs,
Speaker 1: Miami has fifteen. The Bills are eleven for eighteen on
Speaker 1: third down Miami three for eight. Buffalo also converted two
Speaker 1: of their three fourth down attempts. Buffalo had four hundred
Speaker 1: nineties seven total yards, Miami had two twelve Buffalo three
Speaker 1: two through the air, one fifteen on the ground, Miami
Speaker 1: one seventy one through the air and forty one on
Speaker 1: the ground. But here's where it gets you. Ninety total
Speaker 1: plays for Buffalo to just thirty nine for Miami. That's
Speaker 1: a crazy, absolutely crazy disparity and plays ran. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: had no turnovers, so two of the three games this
Speaker 1: year haven't turned the football over. The Bills have the
Speaker 1: one on the strips by Javon holland the Dolphins also
Speaker 1: get four sacks of Josh Allen. The Dolphins quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: sacked just twice one for two, one for Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins have four penalties for twenty yards Buffalo
Speaker 1: seven for fifty two. And Buffalo possessed the ball for
Speaker 1: over forty minutes forty minutes and forty seconds compared to
Speaker 1: Miami's nineteen twenty of time of possession in this game. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a game. Takeaway Number one is that this team
Speaker 1: we already know about the talent they have on offense
Speaker 1: and defense, but how about the resolve and the makeup
Speaker 1: of this football team. Let's start this segment by hearing
Speaker 1: from head coach Mike McDaniel on just that the resolve
Speaker 1: of this Dolphins football team. Again, people take me away
Speaker 1: too literal. I don't like these these shock endings, but UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just really really happy for the team
Speaker 1: because this is this much I do know. UM, teams
Speaker 1: win football games, and if you're going to have UM
Speaker 1: success over the long haul, you have to have confidence
Speaker 1: that you know, whoever, whatever phase can win a football
Speaker 1: game for you can go ahead and do that. UM.
Speaker 1: And it takes the collection. Every play is almost equally
Speaker 1: as important as the next. So to see UM guys
Speaker 1: persevere UM in a tough situation in a game that
Speaker 1: they took very serious. UM. I knew that we're going
Speaker 1: to get our best effort from everybody. UM. And then
Speaker 1: to be able to finish the game UM with two
Speaker 1: unbelievable efforts by the by the defense. UM. I I
Speaker 1: think I couldn't have written a better script UM for
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. UM. It's a it's an
Speaker 1: exciting day for the team. UM, and we're you know,
Speaker 1: we've had three opportunities and we've you know, we've won
Speaker 1: those three. So UM that's also strong and perspective for us,
Speaker 1: because UH, three wins doesn't do anything. At the end
Speaker 1: of the season, you need a couple more than that. So, um,
Speaker 1: but right now, very proud of the guys. We've got
Speaker 1: a short week, so um we can enjoy it for
Speaker 1: um maybe a maybe a half hour and then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's on to the next like it's time
Speaker 1: possessions yards, first down. So you guys were underdogs and
Speaker 1: all that today. Can you talk about what you learned
Speaker 1: about the team, especially at the end of the game
Speaker 1: when they had the punt situation? Would you would you
Speaker 1: learn about the way they held their heads high and
Speaker 1: we're able to overcome that. Yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we have a lot of team. It was. I learned
Speaker 1: a lot about the resolve. You don't know until you
Speaker 1: have it happened, and um, you know the the team
Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence in the offense last week. UM.
Speaker 1: So when you know you worry that when um, when
Speaker 1: push comes to shove and you're trying to finish the game,
Speaker 1: you know that you can if you get a first down,
Speaker 1: the game's over and you can't get a yard, you
Speaker 1: worry about the team's resolve. Um, you know, but I
Speaker 1: I see much better than I hear. I was hoping
Speaker 1: but UM to see the way they came back with
Speaker 1: confidence and played attacking football. Um, I learned, uh what
Speaker 1: I would hope to learn. You never know until you're
Speaker 1: in those situations. But it was I was very happy
Speaker 1: with with the entire team and how they how they
Speaker 1: pressed forward, because even even special teams, you know, we
Speaker 1: have an unfortunate situation. We're trying to get some yards
Speaker 1: at the end of the game too to at least
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, punt the ball um from our own
Speaker 1: back end line and you know we have something that
Speaker 1: that doesn't totally go our way, but we don't win
Speaker 1: that game, um if we don't completely flip flip the
Speaker 1: field um on a punt previous and that half. So
Speaker 1: UM there it's a It's a great, great experience for guys.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that they were able to um come out
Speaker 1: with the win because they definitely did everything in their
Speaker 1: power to get that done. So they you have head
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel on just how proud he is and
Speaker 1: the resolve of this football team. And when the game started,
Speaker 1: I thought, look, here's some mistakes. I'm either gonna have
Speaker 1: to mention how they were the difference in a loss
Speaker 1: or positively, I'm going to get to use them to
Speaker 1: prove this team's resolve. And the ladder is exactly what happened,
Speaker 1: because early in this game, you get a personal foul
Speaker 1: on a third downlod Xavian Howard to extend to drive.
Speaker 1: We lose a guy in coverage on a fourth down
Speaker 1: play that winds up a touchdown down inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line. There's a false start to begin the game
Speaker 1: for the offense. On the very next play, we drop
Speaker 1: a pass on fairs and fifteen that looked like at
Speaker 1: least a twenty yard completion. We then get beaten pass
Speaker 1: pro and TWA gets hit on his arm on a
Speaker 1: second and two and can't complete that and why eventually
Speaker 1: have to punt after a third down failed failed conversion
Speaker 1: as well, But then you had the bounce back like
Speaker 1: two individual plays after that punt by Jerome Baker and
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler to fit for Baker and to shut a
Speaker 1: block for Seiler to make one yard stops to set
Speaker 1: up a pressure look where Javon Holland gets home for
Speaker 1: a strip sack the first forced fumble of his career,
Speaker 1: and Melvin ingram Anny on the spot once again scoops
Speaker 1: that thing up, puts the Dolphins in scoring range. In
Speaker 1: a few plays later, Chase Edmonds is into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Then you get another Buffalo touchdown, and Miami comes right
Speaker 1: back nine plays eighty three yards, five minutes and fourteen
Speaker 1: seconds for a touchdown of their own. And then you
Speaker 1: also had some moments in the game that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say were mistakes, but chances and opportunities to really take
Speaker 1: the game and put it in the back pocket. As
Speaker 1: a dub Exaviing Howard had a chance for a big
Speaker 1: pick there right at the end of the first half
Speaker 1: that just goes off the top of or just he
Speaker 1: just barely missed up like an inch Javon Holland nearly
Speaker 1: got when late in the game that could have potentially
Speaker 1: sealed the game. The very next play, Jalen Phillips almost
Speaker 1: makes an insane play to get one of his own.
Speaker 1: And just how fitting is it that I said one
Speaker 1: of the keys in this game coming in was getting
Speaker 1: the football away from this dude, Because despite all the
Speaker 1: greatness of Josh Allen, and he's probably the best player
Speaker 1: in the league right now, there are some moments where
Speaker 1: the ball will be put in an opportunity for you
Speaker 1: to make a play on it, and we saw a
Speaker 1: few time hims in this game. That's how other teams
Speaker 1: have stopped with the Buffalo Bills. It's how you thought
Speaker 1: Miami had to do it, But they did it in
Speaker 1: another way. They just went out and stopped him and
Speaker 1: really control the scoreboard for sixty minutes. But despite all
Speaker 1: of that, and this goes back to the original point,
Speaker 1: nobody's ever played a perfect game, and they did have
Speaker 1: the opportunities to turn them over and just didn't get them.
Speaker 1: But we did get him on one of them. More
Speaker 1: on that just a moment. Still, despite all of those that,
Speaker 1: Dolphins just continued to battle and battle and make plays
Speaker 1: like when you don't make that big game changing play,
Speaker 1: and it must be so easy for the mind to
Speaker 1: go somewhere else and say, ah, we had it, that
Speaker 1: was our chance, and then they wind up getting the
Speaker 1: points behind you. It just didn't happen that way. And
Speaker 1: after those two picks that Dolphins potentially could have had
Speaker 1: with Holland and with Jalen Phillips, these were the next
Speaker 1: plays following that sequence, and it was an absolutely crazy one.
Speaker 1: So after the hauland pass breakup, you get a nerror
Speaker 1: pick and pass breakup from Jalen Phillips. Then you get
Speaker 1: Josh Allen rushing up the middle for eight yards where
Speaker 1: he broke contained once again, got off of the pressure
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins and move the chains. Then you get
Speaker 1: a past for nine yards down to the six yard
Speaker 1: line that puts the Dolphins or the Bills in second
Speaker 1: and one from the six yard line. They get four
Speaker 1: yards in the ensuing play, then first and goal from
Speaker 1: the two yard line, and you have to be thinking,
Speaker 1: as Dolphins fan, right, you have to be thinking, well,
Speaker 1: there's two thirty six left. We have one time out.
Speaker 1: At least we'll have time to go down and either
Speaker 1: kick a game tying Phil Gore or maybe, like last week,
Speaker 1: go win it with the game winning touchdown. But the
Speaker 1: defense said, not so fast, my friend. One yard rush
Speaker 1: where you land in Robertson. A whole gang of Dolphins
Speaker 1: really just piled that play up and made the stop
Speaker 1: right there at the goal line. And you're thinking, well, okay,
Speaker 1: well there's another two minute warnings, maybe lose some time there,
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna find a way in. Still the defense
Speaker 1: is thinking, man, not this defense, not on the goal
Speaker 1: line in short yardage. We know about this defense. In
Speaker 1: short yardage, Josh Allen rushes to the right, one yard
Speaker 1: loss o Landon Roberts again, Miami time out. All right, well,
Speaker 1: now our time outs are going by the way right,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna stop third and goal. Josh Allen in
Speaker 1: complete passed down the middle, x almost picks this one off.
Speaker 1: Then fourth and goal, we get a pressure look and
Speaker 1: it forces Alan to throw off his back foot. The
Speaker 1: past comes up short, and you think in the game's over,
Speaker 1: but it's not. The Dolphins lose the yard on first
Speaker 1: and tent from their own two two rushes up the
Speaker 1: middle and lost what coach McDaniel says was about a
Speaker 1: quarter of a yard on that play, So they are
Speaker 1: backed up as far as they possibly can be. Then
Speaker 1: you get incomplete pass to Raheem Moster, and then we
Speaker 1: punt the ball off our own guy for a safety.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, the field goal wins
Speaker 1: it and more Stead bangs a seventy four yard punt
Speaker 1: down the field on the on the safety kickoff punt,
Speaker 1: whatever that's called. And the Bills, I mean, they start
Speaker 1: doing what they do man second and ten, Plague gets
Speaker 1: eighteen yards to Gabe Davis. Then they go incomplete pass,
Speaker 1: then they go pass to Jamison crowded for nine yards.
Speaker 1: Then they get a pass for seven yards, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the balls at the forty three and
Speaker 1: you're thinking, man, Tyler Bass has a sixty yard leg.
Speaker 1: It's gonna come down to a field goal. Then Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba will get to him in a minute, wins a
Speaker 1: pass rush and forces a hold and backs him up
Speaker 1: ten yards, and then you eventually get the set getting
Speaker 1: twenty completion to Isaiah mackenzie, and the Dolphins discipline will
Speaker 1: come back to that as well, allows them to tackle
Speaker 1: him and bounce. Just an absolutely insane sequence. We'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break right there and come
Speaker 1: back with the other four takeaways. The first one. This
Speaker 1: Dolphins team continues under Mike McDaniel to show their resolve
Speaker 1: Takeaways two through five. That's next Drive Time podcast. Your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, picking
Speaker 1: it back up with takeaway number two. And I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to do this with the number two and two's name,
Speaker 1: but takeaway number two is just, to a man, what
Speaker 1: a performance by the quarterback. They get the ball back
Speaker 1: late in the first half in a tie game, and
Speaker 1: it's third and long and two. It gets a free runner,
Speaker 1: spins out of that and fires a strike to Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle to move the chains. We had fifteen because of
Speaker 1: a late hit, and it's a lower back injury that
Speaker 1: was actually a re aggravation of an earlier injury. Went
Speaker 1: to a snuck the ball and got dinged up in
Speaker 1: the bottom of the aisle and we actually, you know,
Speaker 1: I was keeping an eye on him on the in
Speaker 1: the press box and he was limping around the sideline
Speaker 1: a little bit. I said, Seth Man too, looks a
Speaker 1: little bit shaken up over there. I did not like
Speaker 1: the way that looks. But he's tough as nails. He
Speaker 1: comes back and and gets in there. Then he aggravates
Speaker 1: it on that late hit, and you could just hear
Speaker 1: the energy level in the building just kind of lower,
Speaker 1: Like you could hear the fight song after the go
Speaker 1: ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter, they actually cut the
Speaker 1: music and let the fans sing it acapella, and man,
Speaker 1: that was a thing of beauty. It was so loud
Speaker 1: and there. But back to the halftime part, you just
Speaker 1: kind of felt the energy come out of the building,
Speaker 1: people are like, let's go get some hot dogs and
Speaker 1: see if our quarterback is ready to go for the
Speaker 1: second half. And the offense was really getting it going
Speaker 1: right there, and coming off the game last week, people
Speaker 1: were buzzing thinking there could be an explosive play here,
Speaker 1: they can score quickly or have a go ahead drive.
Speaker 1: And he comes out and it stalls. Then he comes
Speaker 1: back out for the second half pumping the crowd up,
Speaker 1: and man, that got everybody going. And after that he
Speaker 1: finished five of seven with a hundred yards. That was
Speaker 1: all he had in the second half, just seven pass attempts,
Speaker 1: but boy did he make the most of them. The
Speaker 1: rip to River Cracraft the touchdown throw. By the way,
Speaker 1: all Cravecraft does catch touchdowns, two catches two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his Dolphins career, and he's thrown with such pristine accuracy,
Speaker 1: the keyhole accuracy that we've heard about for so long
Speaker 1: right now just sticks it right between a trio of
Speaker 1: Bill's defenders for a big, big time touchdown throw. What
Speaker 1: a play one. Then there was a play where he
Speaker 1: does that subtle little shift in the pocket we talked
Speaker 1: about this week to kind of slide away from some
Speaker 1: pressure step up and throw it the to Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: for a first down. Then there's a play later in
Speaker 1: the game with really good footwork and ball handling on
Speaker 1: an r P O pop It comes out of the
Speaker 1: break with a twenty two yard shot the Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: Later on, I just thought he continued, even on just
Speaker 1: eighteen pass attempts to show you the growth and the
Speaker 1: skill set that he offers this Dolphin's football team, this
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense, and why he was the number five pick
Speaker 1: in the draft, and why he is now sixteen and
Speaker 1: eight as a Dolphins starting quarterback. And of course, his
Speaker 1: most impressive play of the day, that forty five yards
Speaker 1: shot on third and twenty two to Jalen Waddle. What
Speaker 1: a rip, What a moment. The Dolphins win probability jumped
Speaker 1: eight percent on that play. Doesn't seem like much, but
Speaker 1: it actually is a huge moment. I'm sure that's gonna
Speaker 1: help his QBR E p A. All those fun stats
Speaker 1: will cover on the Tuesday podcast. Let's actually go ahead
Speaker 1: and hear from two one now on that forty five
Speaker 1: yard bomb. Followed up after that by coach McDaniel talking
Speaker 1: about the exact same player Mike caud called a play
Speaker 1: that he thought would work. Um, and if we got
Speaker 1: a certain look, we wanted to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: And so they looked like they ran a quarters coverage
Speaker 1: and they played really deep. So I try to hold
Speaker 1: the boundary or the field safety, Uh to tyreek side.
Speaker 1: UH try to hold him. And then I came back
Speaker 1: to Wattle. Um, you know, trusting that Water would beat
Speaker 1: this guy, which he did. And now Coach McDaniel, no,
Speaker 1: I think it. Um, that's one that's a big play
Speaker 1: that I think too will always remember that a lot
Speaker 1: of his teammates will because he was battling through and
Speaker 1: it's that's really hard, especially with how how he throws.
Speaker 1: He uses such great base and balance that he uses
Speaker 1: his whole core to throw and U Um, he had
Speaker 1: to be on time and on rhythm. He saw the
Speaker 1: covers the right way. He attempted to move the field
Speaker 1: safety as best he could. But I think it it
Speaker 1: goes to show how um important it is to him,
Speaker 1: how gutsy he is, how tough he is UM and
Speaker 1: when when uh he can he can sense when big
Speaker 1: moments are on the line. And you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: very happy that him and Waddle came up with the
Speaker 1: play um to to get us in into scoring position
Speaker 1: that that Chase Automa Um ultimately ended up getting the
Speaker 1: score on. So um that was a that was a
Speaker 1: big one that I think we'll all remember for sure.
Speaker 1: We always talk about how coach teaches us things on
Speaker 1: this podcast, and just talking about the mechanics and how
Speaker 1: to kind of uses his core to generate zip and
Speaker 1: velocity and and the way he throws the football. It's
Speaker 1: it's really interesting stuff that I hear him talk about
Speaker 1: that it makes you appreciate even more the performance today
Speaker 1: to a tung of violo. I'm just getting text and
Speaker 1: stuff right now from like random people. My my wife's
Speaker 1: grandma just text me congrats Travis on the big win.
Speaker 1: I have never once heard from her after a Dolphins victory.
Speaker 1: So good stuff. Everyone's having good vibes around this football
Speaker 1: team right now. And takeaway number three is the defensive
Speaker 1: adjustments combined with the pass rush getting things going. And
Speaker 1: I thought there was three elements of this game that
Speaker 1: Miami adjusted to beautifully because Buffalo and Ken Dorsey I thought,
Speaker 1: had a great plan and a great you know attack
Speaker 1: to go after this Dolphins defense and what it does
Speaker 1: so well and there was three things that really sted
Speaker 1: out to me. Number One, they kept running that little
Speaker 1: slip screen. I'm not sure if that's what you call it,
Speaker 1: but it's what it feels like. It is where Singletary
Speaker 1: would go up into the a gap and bluff a
Speaker 1: block on like the most inside pressure, and then he
Speaker 1: would just kind of flip around show the quarterback his numbers,
Speaker 1: and Allen would dump it to him. And it was
Speaker 1: going for eight, nine, twelve yards a time, and it
Speaker 1: was like, Man, if they're gonna do this all game
Speaker 1: long and we can't adjust to it, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to stop. Like they can not take the deep
Speaker 1: shots that we're taking away from them and just do
Speaker 1: this and it will work for them. But we adjusted
Speaker 1: and we started kind of sending someone at that running
Speaker 1: back to go physically hit him because in that five
Speaker 1: yard range you can make that contact and put a
Speaker 1: guy on the turf. Did that a few times and
Speaker 1: stopped that outlet from Josh Allen, and that helped the
Speaker 1: pressure continue to get after Josh Allen. After that fact,
Speaker 1: they had some a lot of quick screens in this game,
Speaker 1: even against free rushers, where Alan would go up over
Speaker 1: the top or drop that arm, angle down by the
Speaker 1: hip and throw it like a shortstop and get it around. Guys.
Speaker 1: They had the quick screen game, the cover zero beaters.
Speaker 1: They were really effective with early on. But again Miami adjusted,
Speaker 1: and you find that spot you have to fill. You
Speaker 1: find that spot you have to replace when someone goes
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. And it just continuously, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that he played so well like the m v P
Speaker 1: candidate that he is, you continuously made Alan make play
Speaker 1: after play after playing. By the end of it, those
Speaker 1: four plays in the goal line they were out of
Speaker 1: place to make, so like it was a huge deal
Speaker 1: to make those plays when you did out there for
Speaker 1: ninety snaps and to hold them to what they did
Speaker 1: to nine team points. Despite the fact that Alan threw
Speaker 1: for four hundred yards, it was on sixty three attempts,
Speaker 1: And so that tells me, with some quick math, that's
Speaker 1: only six point three yards per pass attempt. That is
Speaker 1: not a good figure in two. So don't let the
Speaker 1: four hundred yards fool you. Six point three yards per
Speaker 1: pass any defense any day is going to take that number.
Speaker 1: And then I also thought thought the way they fit
Speaker 1: the run and set very hard edges against that screen game,
Speaker 1: but also against some of the jet sweep action in
Speaker 1: their outside runs was another really good adjustment. So Josh Boyer,
Speaker 1: we gave him the game ball on the post game
Speaker 1: show in Week one. Tough game in Week two for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defense, but in this one, man, they brought
Speaker 1: the stuff and continue to show you this team has
Speaker 1: multiple ways that they can win football game and again
Speaker 1: on the field for nine plays and what has been,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the worst Week three or late September
Speaker 1: weather in terms of the heat humidity we've that I've
Speaker 1: had since my since I've been down here for three years,
Speaker 1: it's been it was so so hot today, and so
Speaker 1: to go out there and play that that many plays
Speaker 1: in that weather, you know. I asked Christian Wilkins a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago about conditioning and play accounts for the
Speaker 1: first game, and he said, like, our big focus for
Speaker 1: us as being one of, if not the best conditioned
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. And I think the play disparity
Speaker 1: today showed you that that's not just talk. Nine plays
Speaker 1: and they were still bringing it right to the very end.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see the pressure numbers in this game.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Wilkins and all those guys, because Alan had
Speaker 1: to make so many plays again showing you kind of
Speaker 1: that superhero status that he's earned up there in Buffalo
Speaker 1: from all those fans and national media alike, because he
Speaker 1: had to make so many plays just to get them
Speaker 1: to nine team points in this game with all the
Speaker 1: opportunities they had with the Dolphins offense, you know, not
Speaker 1: having the most success they've had today, and so many
Speaker 1: guys just brought it man Javon Holland you know the
Speaker 1: past rush that he had where you it looked Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones showed pressure off one edge and the Bills picked
Speaker 1: that up because who's been the guy that's been making
Speaker 1: You know, Javon gets in there too, but Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: has kind of been the past rush maestro among that
Speaker 1: safety group, not just for this team but the entire
Speaker 1: National Football League. So go take care of that guy.
Speaker 1: We've seen the angles he takes the quarterbacks. We've seen
Speaker 1: him get the ball out and put it on turf
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins scoop it and score it just two
Speaker 1: weeks ago in the same building. So you go ahead
Speaker 1: and throw the tight end over there and he blocks
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, but it frees up Javon Holland, who comes
Speaker 1: down as a pass rusher, gets the big hit on
Speaker 1: Alan knocks that ball free gets the Dolphins the football
Speaker 1: at the six yard line. He finishes with ten tackles,
Speaker 1: nine of those were solo, one and a half sacks,
Speaker 1: two passes, defense, and a forced fumble. Emmanuel Ogba talking
Speaker 1: about that final pass rush on the last drive to
Speaker 1: cause the hold man. He was consistently winning his one
Speaker 1: on one matchups. I can't wait to watch his tape
Speaker 1: and see the pressure numbers. Will do that on the
Speaker 1: Tuesday podcast. But he continued to just get those long
Speaker 1: heavy those long arms and heavy hands into guys and
Speaker 1: was really controlling the point throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: game with that pass rush. Really good stuff from Ogba.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips had some good pass rushes to bent that
Speaker 1: edge a lot. Melvin Ingram is so so good man coverage, rush,
Speaker 1: run game. He does so much and you just don't
Speaker 1: really get him fooled. You know. That's I guess what
Speaker 1: ten years, ten years of experience will do for you.
Speaker 1: He was just so solid out there off the edge
Speaker 1: and in coverage it as a rusher or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. Andrew van Ginkl made some plays. Good to
Speaker 1: see him back out there getting some more work coming
Speaker 1: off the appendix surgery. He had a play where he
Speaker 1: looped into the A gap and got a pressure on
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and then Jerome baker Man. How about a
Speaker 1: half sack and third team combined tackles. Just I can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch this table. I say it fifteen more times.
Speaker 1: But lots of guys made plays in this game. Great
Speaker 1: signs going forward for that defense to have a kind
Speaker 1: of bounce back day after Week two where the offense
Speaker 1: was kind of the one that you know, helped the
Speaker 1: Dolphins get to the winner circle more so than the defense.
Speaker 1: Today's script is flipped a little bit complementary football. This
Speaker 1: team continues to show multiple ways to win games. The
Speaker 1: number four takeaway is the red zone and trench play
Speaker 1: that we got in this game. First of all, you
Speaker 1: know a key to this Buffalo offense, make them kick
Speaker 1: field goals. Man, They did that. They got a missfield goal,
Speaker 1: they go back down and get a touchdown after that
Speaker 1: drive on the missfield goal, and just the execution of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the red zone. The two chase Edmund's
Speaker 1: touchdown runs Robert Hunt and Connor Williams on either of
Speaker 1: those plays, both had huge blocks where they just cleared massive,
Speaker 1: massive lanes. It was walk in service for Edmonds on
Speaker 1: both of those scores. Huge to be able to run
Speaker 1: the ball in that spot. As you saw late in
Speaker 1: the game with Buffalo's offense against our defense and then
Speaker 1: to the trench play. Von Miller had one past defense
Speaker 1: today and no tackles. I don't have pressure numbers yet.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he had a couple, but didn't really hear
Speaker 1: his name a whole lot because Tron Armstead played on
Speaker 1: that left side where he rushed off most of the time.
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead's very, very very good at his job. We
Speaker 1: saw it once again in this game. Battling with the
Speaker 1: toe injury as well. Great stuff from Tea Stead, great
Speaker 1: stuff from the entire offensive line. Dealing with more injuries.
Speaker 1: We had Rob Hunt leave the field for a play
Speaker 1: and Rob Jones come into the game. We had Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt go to right tackle while Greg Little was dealing
Speaker 1: with a hand injury. So just great stuff from the
Speaker 1: from these guys up front. What a game, and finally
Speaker 1: takeaway number five as quick before our last break, Wattle
Speaker 1: Wattle Wattle back to back one yard games is the
Speaker 1: first time by a Dolphins receiver since twenty nine team
Speaker 1: and the play of the day it was that forty
Speaker 1: five yard or of course the play where to whield
Speaker 1: and through to him as he the last play before
Speaker 1: too had to leave with the back injury. He sees
Speaker 1: to get away from that free runner and just comes
Speaker 1: back to him like screaming back to him like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm right here. I got seventeen for you, like throw
Speaker 1: me the ball and it winds up being a first
Speaker 1: down conversion. But I think above all, and this is
Speaker 1: something Seth and Juice love to harp on the post
Speaker 1: game show. Is his competitiveness. It's on display on a
Speaker 1: hundred at all times. There was a clip last week
Speaker 1: where he comes over to the sideline after another big
Speaker 1: play and you know everyone's don with cramps and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and the trainer comes up, like you want some water.
Speaker 1: He's just like dead, focus on the play, like no,
Speaker 1: I'm in here. I'm in the game right now, you know,
Speaker 1: don't I don't need water? Like just the way he's wired, man,
Speaker 1: it makes these players like Tyreek and Jalen super super special.
Speaker 1: And you know, to have mentioned the attention that Tyreek
Speaker 1: got on the big play. That's kind of the grand
Speaker 1: takeaway here is that Jalen Waddle, you know, the six
Speaker 1: pick in the draft last year, stepping up and becoming
Speaker 1: the kind of player that you hope the number six
Speaker 1: pick in the draft can be and the kind of
Speaker 1: player that he looks like he's gonna be. You know,
Speaker 1: he's two yards short right now. Stefon digs atop the
Speaker 1: leaderboard UH at the current time of taping this, and
Speaker 1: for him to become that guy while you have Tyreek,
Speaker 1: you know, as coach McDaniel said last week, like you've
Speaker 1: got two of those guys, it's gonna be really tough
Speaker 1: to stop. So Waddles hepping up in a big way.
Speaker 1: It's gonna have such a big impact on how teams
Speaker 1: have to defend this offense. You can't just take away
Speaker 1: Tyreek because Waddles there, and there's plenty of other guys
Speaker 1: that can make plays as well, but Waddle today back
Speaker 1: to back one dred yard games. Let's take our second
Speaker 1: break here and come back and finish up with a
Speaker 1: few notes that I didn't get to in the five takeaways.
Speaker 1: Will also do the UH effort play the teaching tape
Speaker 1: as well as the play before the play. That's next
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: on the Sunday night Monday morning, depending on when you
Speaker 1: hear this podcast recap edition of the Drivetime Podcast. River
Speaker 1: Craigcraft two touchdowns and two catches. You know that saves
Speaker 1: a cop. We're fan like myself after a rough rough
Speaker 1: Saturday from being very upset this weekend. The offensive line
Speaker 1: battling attrition again. Just great job and how well coached
Speaker 1: those guys are up front to be able to move
Speaker 1: positions and make plays in a pinch like that Kator
Speaker 1: Co who made some plays, Keion Cross and had a
Speaker 1: big pass break up in the end zone. Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: continues to make plays. Christian Wilkins is an absolute monster.
Speaker 1: What a beast he is up front man, We are
Speaker 1: so lucky to have him. And then xaviing Howard Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs had seven for seventy four. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: much of that was on X again. There will be
Speaker 1: a Tuesday podcast number for you guys, but he was
Speaker 1: averaging just under one forty four yards per game coming
Speaker 1: in and for seventy four yards like the plays the
Speaker 1: X made on the Football Critical Moments, nearly jumped on
Speaker 1: for a pick. Really good stuff. I'll find the rest
Speaker 1: of what I missed on the Tuesday podcast. How about
Speaker 1: the play before the play this week? There's two of
Speaker 1: them for me, and I probably could have more, but
Speaker 1: I decided pretty early in the game because it was
Speaker 1: such a big play in the game. Is Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: fitting the run and sticking his face and the fan
Speaker 1: for a stop on first and ten, And then Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler there's a really well blocked play right after that
Speaker 1: on second and nine, and Seeler just gets off of
Speaker 1: his block and makes a tackle where I think that
Speaker 1: Singletary might have had some room to run for maybe
Speaker 1: a first down or even more. But instead of that,
Speaker 1: it's third and eight, you're down seven zero, and then
Speaker 1: you get Javon Hollands up on the lame of scrimmage
Speaker 1: making that big play. So those two plays before the play,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker and Zack Healer big time stuff from those guys.
Speaker 1: And the teaching tape. How many times have we talked
Speaker 1: about Christian Wilkins retracing plays and the relentless effort that
Speaker 1: he he gives just all at all times. It's always
Speaker 1: on display. And with Dawson knock that he put on
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, that's the effort that the kind of rewards
Speaker 1: you get from the effort that he put forth on
Speaker 1: those plays. Excellent, excellent job for Christian Wilkins, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: that play is what this segment is for, to appreciate
Speaker 1: stuff of that nature. I wrote this before the game,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to do it if we won, and
Speaker 1: we won, so I was thinking about this. Just three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty nine days ago, we saw the prized
Speaker 1: possession of the Dolphins rebuild that began in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: leave the field on the cart. Fractured ribs would keep
Speaker 1: to a tongue of by Lowell on the sideline, while
Speaker 1: Miami's offense sputtered in his absence en route to four
Speaker 1: consecutive losses. As the defeats mounted, so did the whispers
Speaker 1: of the potential end and a change at the quarterback
Speaker 1: position in Miami. But today the hero emerged on the
Speaker 1: book end of the Bill's visits to hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: and he wears the number one on his chest. Not
Speaker 1: only did tongue of by Low, tongue by Loa get
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to a three and oh mark, they topped
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and are now on top of the
Speaker 1: a f C East entering October for the first time
Speaker 1: since the same season Miami last beat the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: Now you know about the crazy game that happened out there.
Speaker 1: I won't recap all of that, but the quarterback controversy
Speaker 1: seems to have ended quite some time ago, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins uncovered emphatically their solution to the issue at a
Speaker 1: position for better than two decades at this point, and
Speaker 1: hopefully the book end of that timeline is as exciting
Speaker 1: as the Dolphins were exercising the demon today that was
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. A return to potential post season play
Speaker 1: with a three and o record and wins over the
Speaker 1: conference most prominent fixtures. Dolphins fans are dreaming of resetting
Speaker 1: the counter that began back in two thousand after Lamar
Speaker 1: Smith's run to beat the Colts in the wild card
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. Now, we won't get too far
Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves, but with this football team, it has
Speaker 1: to have you thinking about that, and when you have
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Number one out there, it has to
Speaker 1: have you really thinking that's a strong possibility. I do
Speaker 1: not have a postgame show segment for you guys, if
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, it was all a blur and I
Speaker 1: don't have the audio to comb through. But I will
Speaker 1: post the podcast on the show for you guys on
Speaker 1: Monday morning. Will also have the film review for you
Speaker 1: guys out on Tuesday again for the twentieth time. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch that one until next time. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be my time. You all. Please be sure to subscribe
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