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Speaker 4: two Miami Dolphins.
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Speaker 4: I am your host at Travis Wingfield And on today's show,
Speaker 4: the Dolphins get another dub at home. They also put
Speaker 4: a stop to any losing streak. There's no losing streaks
Speaker 4: on the entire year so far. Followed up each loss
Speaker 4: with a emphatic Dolphins victory thirty one seventeen over the
Speaker 4: Patriots to improve to six and two on the season.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you the story of the game, the
Speaker 4: play before the play, the five big picture takeaways. We'll
Speaker 4: also hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and quarterback to
Speaker 4: a Tongue by Loa. But you know when you get
Speaker 4: a victory and you go six and two, you know
Speaker 4: what time it is?
Speaker 2: When when win? When win win, win, win Win.
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Speaker 4: The Draft Time Podcasting dopins. Let's kick off the show
Speaker 4: as we do on Sunday nights, with a stat recap,
Speaker 4: and this one favors the Fins twenty fourth first downs
Speaker 4: to just thirteen first downs for the Patriots. The Dolphins
Speaker 4: were five for fourteen on third down, not great, but
Speaker 4: when you go three for three on four down, that
Speaker 4: makes that look a lot better, especially when the other
Speaker 4: side on defense you hold the Patriots just one for
Speaker 4: nine on third down and one for two on their
Speaker 4: fourth down attempts. Miami outgained New England by over one
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty yards here three ninety two eighteen. Check
Speaker 4: my math on that, three twelve to one forty one
Speaker 4: in the passing department, and then seventy eight to seventy seven.
Speaker 4: They win the rushing battle by a single yard. They
Speaker 4: ran twenty three more plays in New England, so good
Speaker 4: for that defense to play just fifty one snaps before
Speaker 4: boarding a plane going overseas to Germany. And the Dolphins
Speaker 4: do win again after not winning the turnover battle, two
Speaker 4: turn ons for Miami won for the Patriots. The Dolphins
Speaker 4: did sack mac Jones three times too, was dumped just
Speaker 4: twice on the day, and just three penalties for twenty
Speaker 4: five yards this week after last week's ten penalties. The
Speaker 4: Patriots got flagged seven times for forty five yards and
Speaker 4: Miami had the football for just five seconds fewer than
Speaker 4: thirty six minutes in the game, and this game started
Speaker 4: off with a pair of punts for either team. Before
Speaker 4: we get into the story of the game, though, let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and hear from head coach McDaniel, who talked
Speaker 4: about how cool he felt this win was to sweep
Speaker 4: the Patriots for the first time to sweep a team
Speaker 4: and his tenure here in Miami.
Speaker 5: This is a really, really cool win just for the team.
Speaker 5: You know, it's the first time since I've been here
Speaker 5: that we've been able to beat a division opponent.
Speaker 3: Twice.
Speaker 5: There's you get a great litmus test of where you're
Speaker 5: at as a football team when you have a division game,
Speaker 5: and then on top of that, you're going overseas the
Speaker 5: next week, and on top of that you have hard
Speaker 5: knocks the week after that is.
Speaker 3: Leading the league and potential distractions.
Speaker 5: So I knew we were going to find out a
Speaker 5: lot about our team today and that I could care
Speaker 5: less about what their record is. That is a tough
Speaker 5: team to go against, and that they made their plays.
Speaker 5: They made it very difficult. But one hundred percent our
Speaker 5: guys weren't looking at anything but today, which is why
Speaker 5: we we were able to be victorious, because if we
Speaker 5: would have been half hearted into anything we did, we
Speaker 5: would have lost that game for sure. So very proud,
Speaker 5: and the reason why the scores were different was because.
Speaker 3: We uh we.
Speaker 5: Diligently went back to work, didn't waste any time uh
Speaker 5: talking about all sorts of things like why we lost,
Speaker 5: or try to point fingers or you know, call out
Speaker 5: a ref or something like.
Speaker 3: None of that was occurring in our building.
Speaker 5: We went to work and worried about the details and
Speaker 5: fundamentals of our individual jobs and collectively we were satisfied,
Speaker 5: you know, or we're less satisfied with the with the outcome,
Speaker 5: so very happy.
Speaker 4: So it starts with the Patriots punt on their opening drive,
Speaker 4: where you get an immediate win from k or Co
Speaker 4: who doing what he typically does and shuts down screenplays.
Speaker 4: By the way, Cater in that role he played the
Speaker 4: day where he can kind of stiff run the last
Speaker 4: of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: He can come up and play.
Speaker 4: Press and physical and blitz the quarterback and play the
Speaker 4: run game. I like that role for him a lot.
Speaker 4: He was awesome in this game. He cuts the opening
Speaker 4: play down for a four yard loss, and then the
Speaker 4: reason I'm kind of going play by a play here,
Speaker 4: I thought you just got an example of what was
Speaker 4: to come on all three of these plays. The very
Speaker 4: next one, Jalen Phillips bend's inside and wins a two
Speaker 4: gap assignment against the running game to shut that play
Speaker 4: down for a short game. I think it was a
Speaker 4: three yard play where he set the edge and worked
Speaker 4: back over the top and made that stop. And he
Speaker 4: did that all day long along with Bradley Chubb. And
Speaker 4: then Jalen Ramsey peels off of his man on a
Speaker 4: short throw a checkdown after pressure gets into mac Jones's
Speaker 4: face and he peels off and Cubs makes a tackle
Speaker 4: short of the sticks for a three and out immediately,
Speaker 4: and then Miami has a punt of their own after
Speaker 4: a fourth and one conversion on a nice ball from
Speaker 4: two to waddle up the seam where he hit the
Speaker 4: back shoulder on a little glance route. Just throw that
Speaker 4: thing up there. Wattle agets the back shoulder seventeen yard
Speaker 4: game on fourth and one to move the chains, but
Speaker 4: then we couldn't get a couple of blocks that the
Speaker 4: Patriots beat, and you know, hats off to them. We
Speaker 4: talked about in the preview show. This defensive line has
Speaker 4: a bunch of dudes on it that can really out
Speaker 4: physical you, and they did that a couple of plays
Speaker 4: to create a third and eleven. You get Chase Claypool's
Speaker 4: first target there in the game, and it gets kind
Speaker 4: of walled off for a weird looking and completion incomplete
Speaker 4: punt the ball back and we get just nineteen yards
Speaker 4: on the net on the punt because of thirty nine
Speaker 4: yard line. You punt it into the end zone. They
Speaker 4: take over at their own twenty. But then you get
Speaker 4: another Patriots punt right there, because once again phillips a
Speaker 4: play in the running game on a de Mario Douglas
Speaker 4: jet sweep.
Speaker 2: What a good looking player he is.
Speaker 4: For the Patriots, by the way, did the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: Sets the edge makes the tackle, you get a Zach
Speaker 4: Seeler block beat for a tackle, and then third and four,
Speaker 4: Jerome Baker times up a blitz really well, and I
Speaker 4: thought Baker pluat another great game in this one today,
Speaker 4: and it forces the ball out hot and then you
Speaker 4: rally up and tackle where Bradley Chubb made the initial hit,
Speaker 4: but then Brandon Jones had great effort to get over
Speaker 4: there and finish off the stick to put him down
Speaker 4: short of the sticks. And then the Dolphin get the
Speaker 4: ball back and they throw a pick on a play
Speaker 4: that just was a little bit strange. Tua talked about
Speaker 4: it after the game, said that they ran a cool
Speaker 4: concept where they ran double hooks and Tua through the
Speaker 4: ball on the wrong read and winds up getting picked
Speaker 4: off by Kyle Dugger, who makes you're gonna you can
Speaker 4: put him down for four or five plays every time
Speaker 4: we play this team because he's a great player. So
Speaker 4: we turn it over, get the ball back to the
Speaker 4: Patriots and they go down they score a touchdown to
Speaker 4: put Miami in a seven toth in hole. Early they
Speaker 4: get a couple of stops early on that drive, but
Speaker 4: third and four they get man coverage and they beat
Speaker 4: it inside with Kendrick Bourne going up against Justin Bethel
Speaker 4: for a walk in touchdown for twenty four yards.
Speaker 2: But then Miami answers.
Speaker 4: Back as they typically do, forty two yards strike from
Speaker 4: Tua to Tyreeka Tine up at seven to seven, and
Speaker 4: Rob Jones came off the bench to play left guard
Speaker 4: at this at this point of the game for Lester Cotton,
Speaker 4: and I thought he had a really good game at
Speaker 4: left guard.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 4: We'll break down the entire offensive line on tomorrow's podcast.
Speaker 4: But you had, you know, back to old faithful Tua
Speaker 4: to Waddle for nine yards. You get some runs from
Speaker 4: Jeff Wilson behind a great block by alec Ingold, and
Speaker 4: you had Lamb and Wadle having good blocks, and it
Speaker 4: puts you in a position in play territory and that
Speaker 4: kind of goes zone where Miami has been so dang
Speaker 4: good this year, and in fact, Miami's seven completions of
Speaker 4: forty plus yards between tu and Tyreek.
Speaker 2: They have seven of them. Nobody else has.
Speaker 4: More than three in the national football at least in
Speaker 4: the time of this recording, but that could change obviously
Speaker 4: as the game's.
Speaker 2: Play out here.
Speaker 4: But forty two yard touchdown passed a very similar dime
Speaker 4: to the one we saw in Philadelphia where there was
Speaker 4: two men covering the play, and I thought what was
Speaker 4: cool about it was you had a little bit of
Speaker 4: everything in terms of the Dolphins offensive you know, firepower
Speaker 4: to impact the play. McDaniel with the design on the
Speaker 4: little motion across the field, you saw that field safety
Speaker 4: to that part of the field. He crept down and
Speaker 4: kind of put his attention on that sweep action and
Speaker 4: then the cornerback up against Tyreek over there.
Speaker 2: He took two steps forward.
Speaker 4: And the rule is, you know, it's the same as
Speaker 4: playing outfield in baseball, like on the fly ball, first
Speaker 4: STEP's got to be back. He made his first two
Speaker 4: steps up and that was all Cheetah needed to get
Speaker 4: into the end zone to throw its an absolute dime,
Speaker 4: hitches up right on time, throws it into the bucket
Speaker 4: for a long touchdown, quick three and out on defense
Speaker 4: right there. So that's getting the momentum back on Miami's side,
Speaker 4: David Long made a big play. Jalen Ramsey gets his
Speaker 4: first action really in terms of a big play, and
Speaker 4: all he does is come downhill and puts his helmet
Speaker 4: on the football and forces it out and we can't
Speaker 4: quite scoop it up on the sideline to get possession.
Speaker 2: It winds up trickling out of bounds. But what a
Speaker 2: cool play that was.
Speaker 4: And then we get a holding call on that play,
Speaker 4: so it backs the Patriots up. And then Wilkins had
Speaker 4: a great plage shut on a running game a run play.
Speaker 4: Same for Deshaun Elliott, a big playe shout on a
Speaker 4: running play for the Patriots to get that three and
Speaker 4: out and then it gets the ball back and goes
Speaker 4: right back down and scores another touchdown. And that's when
Speaker 4: he started to feel like, Okay, the Dolphins are back here.
Speaker 4: A little bit of a slow start, but now it's
Speaker 4: fourteen to seven. After you get a third and fifteen,
Speaker 4: look that looks like, oh no, the Dolphins are gonna
Speaker 4: have a hard time overcoming this again because the previous
Speaker 4: time they had third and fifteen they threw an interception.
Speaker 4: But you get Tyreek Hill for eleven yards and once
Speaker 4: again you're kind of in that no man's land fourth down,
Speaker 4: and Tua what does he do? Gets off the spot,
Speaker 4: scrambles for a first down, picks it up with his legs,
Speaker 4: moves the chains. Dolphins come right back and get the
Speaker 4: ball back into goal to go situation. And it wasn't
Speaker 4: their best effort down there, not effort, but just I
Speaker 4: guess results because first and goal swinging past to achmed
Speaker 4: and space couldn't make Kyle Duggar once again couldn't make
Speaker 4: him miss. Second goal, throws on the move but kind
Speaker 4: of threw it behind. Tyreek gets broken up. Then there's
Speaker 4: a pass interference call on a third of Tyreek that
Speaker 4: I thought was a little bit over his head, but
Speaker 4: he made a catch later on in the game that
Speaker 4: shows you that you probably should throw that flag because
Speaker 4: he can make all kinds of crazy catches. Then you
Speaker 4: get first and goal, fade pass goes incomplete, and then
Speaker 4: Tua throws the quick slant to Cedric Wilson, who gets
Speaker 4: on the board of his first career Dolphins touchdown, and
Speaker 4: a great route to win inside access to it, puts
Speaker 4: it just far enough out of the defender's reach but
Speaker 4: within Cedric's reach an absolute dot to make that catch.
Speaker 4: He holds on through the contact. Big time touchdown there
Speaker 4: from Miami take a fourteen to seven league with two
Speaker 4: fourth down conversions. There was a fourth and one where
Speaker 4: the Dolphins stood up and threw a quick now route
Speaker 4: to Tyreek. It gets a critical block on the perimeter
Speaker 4: and gets the first down, And I thought, you know,
Speaker 4: Miami's the way they kind of adjusted their game plan
Speaker 4: or what they do. You know, we'll talk about in
Speaker 4: the takeaway segment, but Miami threw a bunch of short
Speaker 4: hot throws in this game the screen game to kind
Speaker 4: of execute and convert some short yard stuff. So they
Speaker 4: found different ways when they had multiple you know, injuries
Speaker 4: that I guess impact the what you can call a game.
Speaker 4: So Miami gets a fourteen to seven lead, and it's
Speaker 4: playing out like all these Patriots games do, right, long drives,
Speaker 4: minimal possessions.
Speaker 2: You have to capitalize in the red zone.
Speaker 4: Miami has two red zone or I guess one red
Speaker 4: zone touchdown at this point. But also we'll get a
Speaker 4: stop on the next drive on the Patriots tripp into
Speaker 4: the red zone because you know, I wrote on my
Speaker 4: notes here that Wilkins and Chubb have really controlled the
Speaker 4: point in the running game, and they were doing a
Speaker 4: good job of creating these third and long situations, and
Speaker 4: you had Gelan Ramsey shutting down a full side of
Speaker 4: the field defensively, and the Patriots success was through, you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of nice runs here and there, but really
Speaker 4: I thought was through getting those backside slants to inside
Speaker 4: access against like you know, whether it was Eli Apple
Speaker 4: or Caate or coh whoever might have been out there,
Speaker 4: they were basically throwing the ball away from Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 4: and that was mostly Devonte Parker. If you haven't had
Speaker 4: a chance to see it, go look at mac Jones's
Speaker 4: spray chart. They did not throw the ball to the
Speaker 4: left side of the offensive formation like at all, because
Speaker 4: the one time they did, all Ramsey does is peel
Speaker 4: off of his man kind of bates mac Jones into this,
Speaker 4: like you know, pump flat, throw the vertical route, try
Speaker 4: to get a touchdown over the top, try to catch
Speaker 4: them sleeping where they drive on that flat route. And
Speaker 4: Ramsey's having none of that. You kind of watch that
Speaker 4: all game long, the way he played back and just
Speaker 4: eyed the quarterback and didn't take the cheese like he
Speaker 4: is such a smart, savvy, sound player. He hangs back there,
Speaker 4: picks it off, takes it back the other way, and
Speaker 4: puts the Dolphins back into plus territory after potentially, you know,
Speaker 4: it could be fourteen to fourteen if he takes the
Speaker 4: cheese and drives in that ball and they throw a
Speaker 4: touchdown pass instead, is fourteen to seven ball and plus
Speaker 4: territory territory a minute fifty to go, a couple of
Speaker 4: timeouts like prime position to go double dip there and
Speaker 4: on the other side of the third quarter break or
Speaker 4: the halftime break in the third quarter, so massive, massive play.
Speaker 4: Coach McDaniel talked about Alan Ramsey on that pick and
Speaker 4: his impact, but not just that, but the overall impact
Speaker 4: he's had on this football team with the way he's
Speaker 4: worked and been around the team for meetings and practices
Speaker 4: despite not being out there.
Speaker 2: It's been special. Let's hear from the Dolphins head coach.
Speaker 3: Well, he totally disappointed me.
Speaker 5: He called that he was going to comeback and have
Speaker 5: a pick six, not a pickfield goal. It's phenomenal, Like
Speaker 5: you want to talk about something that goes above and beyond,
Speaker 5: like you can't manufacture what he brought to our team
Speaker 5: in any other way. His play, but the commitment it
Speaker 5: took to play in that game everybody witnessed firsthand. And
Speaker 5: you want to talk about it, not wanting to let
Speaker 5: someone down as a teammate, there's a that was a
Speaker 5: special thing to be a part of. To watch his
Speaker 5: journey unwavering conviction from uh.
Speaker 3: I think it was July twenty seventh.
Speaker 5: Or twenty eighth, the moment he got hurt with that
Speaker 5: mindset telling his teammates, Hey, just hold it down. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna come back and I'm gonna beat whatever timetable by
Speaker 5: a month. That's that's immediately what his mindset was. And
Speaker 5: we never gave him a timetable. And then he ended
Speaker 5: up telling me last time we played the Patriots during
Speaker 5: the game on the field that he was coming back
Speaker 5: for this game. I shared that with a team this
Speaker 5: last week. It's it's just a really it was awesome
Speaker 5: to be a part of. And I think it speaks
Speaker 5: to the locker room. And you don't do all that
Speaker 5: if you don't, if you you're not yearning to play
Speaker 5: with these people that you just you just started to
Speaker 5: become a teammate with so big part of the reason
Speaker 5: why we won as that collective nature that he epitomized.
Speaker 4: So after the Ramsey pick, and we'll talk more about
Speaker 4: him in a moment, the Dolphins get the ball back
Speaker 4: with one point fifty.
Speaker 2: They take it into field goal range.
Speaker 4: They bog down and kick the field goal, but leave
Speaker 4: the Patriots of twenty six seconds left, and they would
Speaker 4: take a knee to get us to halftime, which is
Speaker 4: where we're going to go right now and take our
Speaker 4: first break in the podcast. Coming up on the other side,
Speaker 4: the second half of the game flow, plus the five takeaways,
Speaker 4: more audio from coach, and two of that's all Next
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Speaker 2: So Miami gets the.
Speaker 4: Football back leading seventeen to seven over the Patriots, and
Speaker 4: I was curious how things might go in the second half.
Speaker 4: Will the Patriots go after Ramsey at all? Will the
Speaker 4: Dolphins be able to get push with being down so
Speaker 4: many critical parts of the offensive line Because Rob Hunt
Speaker 4: exited the game with an injury, Isaiah Win, Toront Armstead,
Speaker 4: and Connor Williams all did not start the game. So
Speaker 4: Austin Jackson, your only opening days ardor remaining on that
Speaker 4: or I should say you're projected opening day starter on
Speaker 4: that offensive line, and Howard Miami can bat those backside slants. Well,
Speaker 4: we got answers to all those questions. They opened the
Speaker 4: game with Lamb, Jones, Eikenberg, Cotton, and Jackson on the
Speaker 4: offensive line, and the first play is about as bad
Speaker 4: as it can be, a failed exchange between Tua and
Speaker 4: Raheem Mostert that goes the Patriots away and they get
Speaker 4: set up shop right in the red zone to start
Speaker 4: the half. But then the Dolphins defense once again holds
Speaker 4: for a field goal to keep it seventeen to ten.
Speaker 4: After Bradley Chubb knives in for another run stop run
Speaker 4: defense had been so good in this game, cater Coohu
Speaker 4: stops another swing pass for just two yards, and then
Speaker 4: third and down and three you get a sack where
Speaker 4: Bradley Chubb was in prime position for taking away the flat,
Speaker 4: the hot the outlet that mac Jones had after good
Speaker 4: coverage all downfield, and that allows Christian Wilkins the extra
Speaker 4: beat to get in for another sack to bring down
Speaker 4: mac Jones on third and three, and they.
Speaker 2: Have to go and kick a field goal.
Speaker 4: So how do you respond Miami, because you know we
Speaker 4: turn the ball over twice here, you scored on the
Speaker 4: last one to respond to it. How will they get
Speaker 4: back from this turnover in a critical spot coming out
Speaker 4: of the halftime break. Well, they go down and put
Speaker 4: together a nine play drive for a touchdown. The previous
Speaker 4: one was a fourteen play drive for a touchdown, So
Speaker 4: Miami really piecing together these long drives to get into
Speaker 4: the end zone. They go with the twenty two yard
Speaker 4: pass to Tyreek Hill, some physical runs from Raheem Mostar
Speaker 4: after the exchange fumble there where he just kind of
Speaker 4: buries his head and picks up extra yards after contact,
Speaker 4: and then Tua throws a pass where I thought was
Speaker 4: really high level to identify Kyle Dugger on a blitz
Speaker 4: and he goes a back shoulder ball up the sideline
Speaker 4: with one on one coverage against Waddle, but he couldn't
Speaker 4: quite squeeze it.
Speaker 2: And then he steps off the spot.
Speaker 4: And throws a dart to Wadle for twenty three yards,
Speaker 4: who goes up high and elevates and makes a big catch.
Speaker 4: And then Chase Claypool I talked about it on Twitter.
Speaker 4: He catches a pass and instead of like, you know,
Speaker 4: running around all the guys. He's out there going the
Speaker 4: Chris Berman sounds, just running through tackles for fifteen yards.
Speaker 4: You get a third and goal from one inch away,
Speaker 4: and Raheem Mostert has a touchdown run right behind a
Speaker 4: key block from alec Ingold. But tyreek Hill also got
Speaker 4: some push into the end zone, and I was pretty
Speaker 4: surprised that Durham didn't score on his catch right before
Speaker 4: that looked like he was easily gonna go in, but
Speaker 4: a great play by the Patriots to cut him down
Speaker 4: and get where he Moster into the en zone for
Speaker 4: his twelfth touchdown of the season. Patriots come back out,
Speaker 4: punt the football, Phillips run stop Deshaun Elliott a tone
Speaker 4: setting hit on Devontae Parker. Hope dvp's Okay, that was
Speaker 4: a pretty pretty good football hit there. Man, that was
Speaker 4: a you hate seeing that. But Deshaun Elliott, man, he's
Speaker 4: playing really really good ball right now. And then Eli
Speaker 4: Apple gets underneath the play and breaks it up for
Speaker 4: a third long stop for the Dolphins defense. Dolphins come
Speaker 4: back out and have a kind of off character drive
Speaker 4: with some incompletions, just some penalties, not.
Speaker 2: Super sharp like we usually are used to with those guys.
Speaker 4: And then you get a ineligible man downfield call on
Speaker 4: a tremendous savon Achman effort to get like fifteen yards
Speaker 4: in this play, but they pick up the flag because
Speaker 4: Lester Cotton was actually in prime position there to make
Speaker 4: that happen. So that helped him shot up from clock
Speaker 4: there at a critical spot, I thought, and there was
Speaker 4: you know, another one of his quick screens Hill on
Speaker 4: third and short to move the chains on this drive,
Speaker 4: which was another good adjustment for Miami to just have
Speaker 4: more answers to if you're gonna play this way while
Speaker 4: we have this answer, you're gonna lay this part vulnerable,
Speaker 4: and Miami just has answers right now.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Then the Patriots get the football back.
Speaker 4: They punted again after a Bradley Chubb sack his fourth
Speaker 4: and three games. You also had a really good effort
Speaker 4: from Cater Kohu on that blitz to force Mac Jones
Speaker 4: off the spot, and then Bradley Chubb's second effort got
Speaker 4: in there for the sack, So good team work all
Speaker 4: around there. On defense, Dolphins go three and out back
Speaker 4: to back drops.
Speaker 2: By Reek and Waddell.
Speaker 4: How rare is that they run for two yards with
Speaker 4: Tua on third and ten, give it back to the Patriots,
Speaker 4: who then march fifteen plays for a touchdown. You're thinking, crap,
Speaker 4: it's twenty four to seventeen again, just like it was
Speaker 4: in Foxborough back in week number two. Are we gonna
Speaker 4: have to wait for a game clinching defensive play once again?
Speaker 4: Hopefully not?
Speaker 2: And the offense said, no.
Speaker 4: You do not, because they go Braxton barrows for five
Speaker 4: yards where Heem moster are for ten yards, Raheem for
Speaker 4: one yard to Pope a second nine And then we
Speaker 4: had about twenty yard pass that was maybe a little
Speaker 4: bit behind Wattle, but he could have caught it, couldn't.
Speaker 2: Squeeze it though.
Speaker 4: And now it's third and nine, critical spot of the game. It's,
Speaker 4: you know, four plus minutes left in the game. If
Speaker 4: you don't convert there, then the Patriot's gonna have a
Speaker 4: chance to get the ball back and go, you know,
Speaker 4: possibly dry for a win, maybe maybe for a tie,
Speaker 4: who knows what it might be. But then Tua throws
Speaker 4: just an absolute seed to Tyreek Hill where just high
Speaker 4: high level football, and the Eagles ran this trap coverage
Speaker 4: last week where you throw the ball to the slot
Speaker 4: inside and your inside corners, you know, playing man, but
Speaker 4: your outside corner jumps off his man and kind of
Speaker 4: traps him inside, and you can get some big hits,
Speaker 4: some big collisions, maybe even a ball in the air
Speaker 4: that gets picked off. And the Patriots ran something similar
Speaker 4: to that, but the Dolphins made an adjustment off of that,
Speaker 4: and Tua just drills this ball before Tyreek has even
Speaker 4: kind of made his break and is trusting the tirek
Speaker 4: will go to the right spot and be in the
Speaker 4: right position between two tightly contested Patriots defenders, puts it
Speaker 4: up high. Tyreek skies up there and makes the play
Speaker 4: just under duress, right on the money, right on time,
Speaker 4: two bracketing defenders. That is like professional football is cool
Speaker 4: to watch live because of how high level skill these
Speaker 4: guys are.
Speaker 2: It doesn't get any better than that man. That is.
Speaker 4: That is like the Patriots don't give that up, like
Speaker 4: they are designed to stop that play no matter who's
Speaker 4: in the field, because our defensive system is so strong
Speaker 4: and so structurally good. But gosh, when you're you know,
Speaker 4: it's like the old saying, like a great hitter can't
Speaker 4: hit a perfect pitch, like just perfect man and then
Speaker 4: they go right back to it. Raheem for Forrest a
Speaker 4: pass to Smythe for six in a big first down.
Speaker 4: Raheem a six yard run to put the Dolphins ahead
Speaker 4: of the chains and open up the playbook, and the
Speaker 4: Patriots go with a zero blitz and it springs for
Speaker 4: a thirty one yard pass from Tua to Waddle for
Speaker 4: a game clinching touchdown, his first one hundred yard game
Speaker 4: of the season. Let's go ahead and hear from Tua
Speaker 4: on that look they got on that play to go
Speaker 4: ahead and put it away with a game clinching drive,
Speaker 4: a game killing drive. Like a quarterback, you know, gets
Speaker 4: all this praise for game winning drives right coming from behind,
Speaker 4: But when you're up by a score and you have
Speaker 4: the and you go score, to me, that's as good
Speaker 4: as a game winning drive. Take the pressure off your defense.
Speaker 4: Tua and Waddell did it, the entire offense did it.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and hear from Tua on that play.
Speaker 1: That that was one of those plays where it was
Speaker 1: just a miscommunication from their defense, and that was basically
Speaker 1: the premier look, even if they did cover it with
Speaker 1: what we wanted for that play.
Speaker 4: And Waddle tweeted after the game. You know the clip
Speaker 4: of the play, you see two defenders go after Tyreek
Speaker 4: because Tua kind of pumps that way. And then you'll
Speaker 4: hear McDaniel later on next play, and this takes an
Speaker 4: extra hitch and then winds up hanging onto the ball
Speaker 4: for a little bit longer than rips to waddle for
Speaker 4: the big, big touchdown there to put the game on ice.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 4: That's the play of the game, the story of the game.
Speaker 4: Miami wins at thirty one to seventeen. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and do our first takeaway here and before we take
Speaker 4: our last break and come back into the other four takeaways,
Speaker 4: and number one takeaway from me in this game is
Speaker 4: the triumphant rides again man like to a six straight
Speaker 4: win as a starter over a Bill Belichick coach team,
Speaker 4: and he entered this one average just one hundred and
Speaker 4: ninety four passing yards per game in those six wins,
Speaker 4: but today three hundred and twenty four yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 4: and that game clinching drive that feature five runs, five passes,
Speaker 4: and on those five passes he goes four for five
Speaker 4: with a game sealing touchdown and fifty one passing yards
Speaker 4: not bad to a not bad at all. And again
Speaker 4: we'll dive into the tape on Monday night. But I
Speaker 4: thought he just played a game the game in a
Speaker 4: way that really speaks to his growth, his maturity, his
Speaker 4: understanding of defense. Let's go ahead and play a sound
Speaker 4: by here from him as he talked about how the
Speaker 4: Dolphins kind of approach their practice week and they'll come
Speaker 4: back on the other side and tell you what I
Speaker 4: think about that, because I think this is a really
Speaker 4: critical piece of the puzzle here for the Dolphins and
Speaker 4: why the offense has been so good in year two
Speaker 4: Andermike McDaniel and could get even better.
Speaker 1: The challenge with the different looks, they're just presenting that
Speaker 1: for themselves.
Speaker 3: For us, we have rules and if.
Speaker 1: It's one high, two high, sometimes we can work this side,
Speaker 1: sometimes we can work that side. If all is sort
Speaker 1: of okay, I'm not too sure where to start, then
Speaker 1: you you stick with your rules.
Speaker 3: All right, it's.
Speaker 1: Probably gonna look like this, probably gonna look like this
Speaker 1: off of these looks, and then you work through your
Speaker 1: progression from there. So I wouldn't say it's always a
Speaker 1: gotcha deal every time, but it is something that we
Speaker 1: have been practicing as far as maybe this isn't you know,
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't.
Speaker 3: The look we're going to get.
Speaker 1: Let's practice looks we're probably not going to get, you know,
Speaker 1: and then we work from there.
Speaker 4: So he was asked there about the Patriots varied looks
Speaker 4: they'll throw at you, because he mentioned in the week
Speaker 4: two game like they would get back to some of
Speaker 4: the stuff they usually do, but they would dress it
Speaker 4: up in different ways and would you know, just kind
Speaker 4: of throw different looks that you hadn't seen on tape
Speaker 4: from them in the past. And to me, I asked
Speaker 4: Juice about this in the post game show, and if
Speaker 4: you guys haven't checked it out yet, go ahead and download
Speaker 4: the postgame show. All tweeted out. We had a great
Speaker 4: conversation today for two hours about this big victory in
Speaker 4: the Dolphins team, about the continuity of the same system
Speaker 4: and how you don't have to worry about Okay, we
Speaker 4: want to install this, you know, for this week or
Speaker 4: even in training camp installed this new action. We I
Speaker 4: have to go ahead and rep this thirty or forty
Speaker 4: times so we become second nature. Let's get our bread
Speaker 4: and butter down, expand the offense from there. No, now
Speaker 4: you're in the second year of your offense, you don't
Speaker 4: have to go watch you know, Niners tape. You can
Speaker 4: watch your own tape to learn on what you did
Speaker 4: and how this offense functions with its personnel.
Speaker 2: But you can then start.
Speaker 4: To do that where you're okay, we know these twenty
Speaker 4: concepts by heart.
Speaker 2: Let's just go ahead and you know, practice something else.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and you know, work backwards as it
Speaker 4: sounds like Miami has.
Speaker 2: Done on these practices.
Speaker 4: This is high level football stuff that is only going
Speaker 4: to benefit a team that shines with their timing and
Speaker 4: their operation, their anticipation of their quarterback. It is a
Speaker 4: great place to be for this Dolphins offense. I'm so
Speaker 4: excited about it that one sound by alone I told
Speaker 4: the guys in the post game, She's like, I'm getting
Speaker 4: emotional about this because we have waited so long for
Speaker 4: a coaching quarterback combination that plays the game at this
Speaker 4: level and is this smart and is able to really compete,
Speaker 4: you know, with these types of you know, big dogs,
Speaker 4: and gosh, we got them, man. And one of my
Speaker 4: big keys for this game was to take with the
Speaker 4: defense gave you into it to touch a great job
Speaker 4: of knowing where the vulnerabilities were and taking what was there.
Speaker 4: We thought this was a game where they'd have to
Speaker 4: run for one hundred and fifty yards. Right, Nope, Tua
Speaker 4: dials up his top two guys for two thirty three
Speaker 4: and two scores. But how about this Smite three for
Speaker 4: twenty eight, Ocmed four for sixteen, Claypool one for fifteen,
Speaker 4: Wilson two for fourteen, Barrios two for eight, Ingle one
Speaker 4: for five, Hill won for four. That's Julian Hill, Cedric
Speaker 4: Wilson won for one. So one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Speaker 4: Ten guys caught passes in this game. Two always says
Speaker 4: he likes to throw to the open guy. I think
Speaker 4: he's getting pretty good at doing that, doing just that.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and keep it rolling here with Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 4: Part two of the Triumvirate most receiving yards in NFL
Speaker 4: history to the first eight games, the long touchdown pass
Speaker 4: and I mentioned that the baseball reference where if you
Speaker 4: don't take your first step backwards, you're going to be
Speaker 4: in trouble on a fly ball over your head. Same
Speaker 4: rules should apply here to Tyreek Hill. That corner took
Speaker 4: one step up and the ball goes right over his head.
Speaker 4: He goes eight for one to twelve and a tug.
Speaker 4: In fact, he and Tua have seven connections of forty
Speaker 4: plus yards this year. Nobody else has more than three.
Speaker 4: Already said that, And if you're bored of the long touchdowns,
Speaker 4: how about a critical contested catch on third and nine
Speaker 4: with the game in the balance to extend a killer drive,
Speaker 4: put it away type of drive. How about drawing defensive
Speaker 4: pass interference, winning one on one in man coverage in
Speaker 4: the low red zone to essentially give your team, you know,
Speaker 4: four cracks at seven points from one yard away.
Speaker 2: The dude's a beast. He's the best, the very very best.
Speaker 4: Like let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel on that
Speaker 4: critical third down conversion of Tua and Tyreek.
Speaker 5: Between Tua and Tyreek, that third down in particular was.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
Speaker 5: We were hot, He had a His timing of that
Speaker 5: route is he sped it up. He went faster than
Speaker 5: you should because they ran zero and for them to
Speaker 5: make that play, those are what big time players do.
Speaker 3: In big time games.
Speaker 5: This was big for us, a home game against a
Speaker 5: division opponent, and you know, it's awesome to be a
Speaker 5: part of those. Both those guys wanted to win the game.
Speaker 5: Kept you know, if there was any sort of time out,
Speaker 5: I think in the second half, a stoppage of play,
Speaker 5: I should say Tyreek was looking at me trying to
Speaker 5: get my eye contact, which I know exactly what that means.
Speaker 3: Tuoh was.
Speaker 5: Locked in, didn't didn't have ebbs and flows up and down.
Speaker 5: He was able to make plays after being frustrated, which
Speaker 5: has been one of the reasons he's had success or
Speaker 5: that much more success this season is he's learned in
Speaker 5: such a short period of time how to be critical
Speaker 5: of yourself but not not handcuff yourself as well well,
Speaker 5: because if you're self lashing for a series or a quarter,
Speaker 5: you're you're not gonna like the results.
Speaker 3: Of your play. So he he's I'm very, very proud of.
Speaker 5: Where he was laser focused, and you know that the
Speaker 5: last touchdown drive was phenomenal. The last touchdown, you know,
Speaker 5: the tyreequ was in jet motion and and they tried
Speaker 5: to go in and out on the fly. Long story short,
Speaker 5: it was zero and Ta hung onto the ball longer
Speaker 5: than he usually does because he saw it all.
Speaker 3: So you have to be.
Speaker 5: Of clear mind in those points of the game to
Speaker 5: make those type of plays. It was a very, very,
Speaker 5: very I mean the it was one of the better
Speaker 5: defensive game plans that I that I've really ever gone against.
Speaker 5: The Patriots that had an unbelievable plan to really, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of try to bottle us in and guys were
Speaker 5: able to make plays in key situations, which was always
Speaker 5: fun to be around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just really really cool to hear. And then
Speaker 4: who else is the best besides Jalen Waddle. We had
Speaker 4: some drops today and as a team otherwise these numbers
Speaker 4: might have been even crazier. But the Penguin goes seven
Speaker 4: for one to twenty one in a touchdown. We were
Speaker 4: getting all these numbers posted without Wattle having one hundred
Speaker 4: yard game to this point of the season. It was
Speaker 4: always coming. He gets it today over a tough New
Speaker 4: England defense. The game clincher that critical twenty two yard
Speaker 4: grab on a third and long play in the third quarter,
Speaker 4: showing off some of the speed go off Jalen. Speaking
Speaker 4: of Jalen, let's go ahead and take our last break.
Speaker 4: Come back right there and do the other four takeaways.
Speaker 4: That's next draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 4: to you by Idoundation. Take Away one in the books
Speaker 4: The Triumvirent of Touah Tyreek and Wattle. Takeaway number two
Speaker 4: is the Jalen Ramsey impact defense is really coming together too.
Speaker 4: Is kind of a holistic approach here, But I watched
Speaker 4: him a lot in this game, and he had the
Speaker 4: field the wide side of the formation. You know that
Speaker 4: there's the boundary in the field. He was covering the
Speaker 4: wide side most of the game in this one, and
Speaker 4: they would put Devonte Parker out there and then go
Speaker 4: three by one to the boundary to the backside, and
Speaker 4: they just wouldn't throw at him. So he's basically shutting
Speaker 4: down the widest part of the entire field most of
Speaker 4: the game. And then they come at him for a
Speaker 4: was it an end around or running play? And all
Speaker 4: he does is puts a hat in the football and
Speaker 4: forces a fumble. They finally go after him, he peels
Speaker 4: off and picks it off, like, how are teams going
Speaker 4: to attack this defense? When X is back there and
Speaker 4: Javon's back there and you have you know, Deshaun Elliott
Speaker 4: and Cater Kohu and Nick Needham's in the full you know,
Speaker 4: going forward, and Brandon Jones and all these guys that
Speaker 4: are just you know, waiting to come back and are
Speaker 4: already out there. It's it's gonna be tough because in
Speaker 4: the past, even when you had, you know, two or
Speaker 4: three good guys, they would go after maybe a rookie
Speaker 4: that was somewhere on the defensive backfield. No, you're gonna
Speaker 4: be lock Stock and Barrel looking ready to go with
Speaker 4: this thing when you get all these guys back. I've
Speaker 4: said this before. I think that he's the Tyreek Hill
Speaker 4: of the defense in terms of the standard the guys
Speaker 4: can follow and the temperature changer. He comes into a
Speaker 4: room and just changes the temperature immediately. In fact, let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and hear from Tua on what he said
Speaker 4: about Jalen Ramsey's debut as a Miami Dolphin and the
Speaker 4: coolest walkout he's ever seen.
Speaker 1: It was. It was awesome to be able to have
Speaker 1: that guy out there. It was one of the coolest
Speaker 1: walkouts I've seen from any Miami Dolphin player since I've
Speaker 1: been here. When he just walked out through the smoke
Speaker 1: and you know, did his deal and the crowd went
Speaker 1: wild and then you know, to top it off, he
Speaker 1: got he got an interception, he you know, he he
Speaker 1: got a forced fumble, all of those things. So the
Speaker 1: hype is real when when it comes to someone like
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey and you know, the defense rallies around each other.
Speaker 3: Those guys have been.
Speaker 1: Playing really well off each other, but having someone like
Speaker 1: him back in the lineup is definitely going to help
Speaker 1: those guys.
Speaker 2: Go and then just the defense as a whole.
Speaker 4: Like I mentioned some of the guys that had big games,
Speaker 4: but you know, I was curious how they would handle
Speaker 4: those backside slanks they were getting.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: The very next one they ran, Eli Apple gets a
Speaker 4: breakup where they had Ezekiel Elliott flexed out for Ramsey
Speaker 4: out wide. So they just responded to all the challenges
Speaker 4: and answers the Patriots through at them in this game.
Speaker 4: And again, I'm not sure if I've seen a pair
Speaker 4: of edges play the run better than what Chubb and
Speaker 4: Phillips did in this game. They were nothing short of
Speaker 4: sensational by setting hard edges but also knifing inside that
Speaker 4: tackle to shut down be gap runs. Fantastic work from
Speaker 4: both those guys.
Speaker 2: I'm very eager to see their.
Speaker 4: Numbers in terms of run stuffs and all the pressures
Speaker 4: and stuff they had in this game. Kevin Durham, my
Speaker 4: good buddy, saw a tweet praising them in the middle
Speaker 4: of the third corp and sending me a text and said,
Speaker 4: Phillips tore off someone's face and use it as a
Speaker 4: Halloween mask on that last run stop. I love that
Speaker 4: reference there. Christian Wilkins, absolute monster. He gets another sack today.
Speaker 4: Deshaun Elliott a total beast cater coo who has himself
Speaker 4: a day. I know I'm missing guys here. We'll cover
Speaker 4: on the All twenty two review podcast tomorrow, but my goodness,
Speaker 4: I just think you saw today how this defense can
Speaker 4: really hum when you have parts back and especially Jalen
Speaker 4: Ramsey number three, winning in critical moments. They converted three
Speaker 4: fourth downs in the first half, two on the touchdown
Speaker 4: drive they made it fourteen to seven, a lead you
Speaker 4: would not relinquish. Third and three in the mid red
Speaker 4: zone after a giveaway, you get good coverage in a
Speaker 4: Christian Wilkins sack, you go two for three scoring touchdowns
Speaker 4: in the red zone. So seventeen points out of twenty
Speaker 4: one possible for three trips there, so you've lost four points.
Speaker 4: The defense holds the Patriots to just two touchdowns on
Speaker 4: four drives and gets a pick out of that, so
Speaker 4: they get seventeen points out of four trips possible twenty
Speaker 4: eight points, so they technically lost eleven. So you kind
Speaker 4: of won the red zone by seven points there, if
Speaker 4: that makes sense. And of course it helps to have
Speaker 4: explosive plays when you can score from outside the red
Speaker 4: zone two. But that was a key area and they
Speaker 4: got it done. Also, that third and nine pass at Tyreek,
Speaker 4: I mean, does not get more critical than that one.
Speaker 2: You don't convert there.
Speaker 4: The Patriots get the ball back with three timeouts and
Speaker 4: have to drive probably the whole field, but have like
Speaker 4: four minutes to do it. If they score, do they
Speaker 4: go for two? Offense made sure we didn't have to
Speaker 4: find out takeway number four. Overcoming injuries, I mean every
Speaker 4: team has, but my goodness, man, we lose Rob hunting
Speaker 4: this one, which he never misses time. Kendall Lamb left
Speaker 4: and returned sort of. Durham smythe you're down four of
Speaker 4: your offensive lineman and one of the backups to the
Speaker 4: backup at that point, so Kendall Lamb, so you're down five. Technically,
Speaker 4: X didn't play Holland didn't play Devon A. Chan's didn't
Speaker 4: come back at some point to Ron Arms as getting closer.
Speaker 4: We didn't see River Craycraft today or Nick Needham. We
Speaker 4: got our first real glimpse at Jeff Wilson for the
Speaker 4: first time today. It's scary to think that this team
Speaker 4: is just now starting to get healthy. Takeaway number five
Speaker 4: is that you showed you can win different types of games.
Speaker 4: It was so key to sustain drives in this game
Speaker 4: because the Patriots were not gonna let you take the
Speaker 4: top off except the one time they did. You get
Speaker 4: drives of fourteen and nine and then ten to close
Speaker 4: it up. And those fourteen and nine play drives were
Speaker 4: both after an int and a lost fumble. That's just critical.
Speaker 4: You ran for just seventy eight yards on twenty six attempts,
Speaker 4: so you better be able to throw the damn football right,
Speaker 4: and they do it three hundred and twenty four yards
Speaker 4: three passing touchdowns, but not just through the air. The
Speaker 4: reason that you want to be able to run the
Speaker 4: balls because they put those birds on a fence back
Speaker 4: there right. Throw to the flats, throw to the short
Speaker 4: intermediate area. Throw the screen ball passes that just force
Speaker 4: defenses to defend every point of grass. We hear OC's
Speaker 4: and play callers say that out all the time. McDaniel
Speaker 4: adheres to it. This offensive staff adheres to it. They
Speaker 4: take what's there. This Dolphins offense, you can play them
Speaker 4: almost any way you want, and they're gonna have answers
Speaker 4: to it on the other side. And then for the
Speaker 4: defense to hold the opposition to one for nine on
Speaker 4: third downs, five point six yards per passing the passing
Speaker 4: game to get a three big sacks as well. They
Speaker 4: ran just nineteen times for seventy seven yards, an offense
Speaker 4: that carved up Buffalo last week. By the way, you
Speaker 4: have so many routes to victory with this Dolphins team.
Speaker 4: And we finish up here with the play before the
Speaker 4: play cater Coo, who has himself a heck of a
Speaker 4: ball game, and no play that I liked more than
Speaker 4: the second and seven play right before Christian Wilkins sack
Speaker 4: on Mac Jones on third and five to force the
Speaker 4: Patriots into a field goal. After they got the ball
Speaker 4: starting off in the red zone to open the third quarter,
Speaker 4: they throw a little swing pass to de Mario Douglas
Speaker 4: and who else is there besides number four Cater Coohu,
Speaker 4: who already shut down two of these earlier in the game.
Speaker 2: First play the game, a four yard loss on the swing.
Speaker 4: Route, and so to cut the guy down here set
Speaker 4: up a third and five situation on a play where
Speaker 4: you want to run this play to get you know,
Speaker 4: five yards to create a third and two so you
Speaker 4: can possibly still run the football. But Cater makes it
Speaker 4: a passing situation with a surehanded tackle and sure enough
Speaker 4: we get home on the sack on third down and
Speaker 4: get off the field. Great job, Cater Kohu, great game,
Speaker 4: great energy today for all the fans that came out,
Speaker 4: especially those of you that came by the postgame show
Speaker 4: the four to kind of hang out with us there
Speaker 4: and have a great time with me and Seth and Juice.
Speaker 4: And you know, I tell those guys this all the time.
Speaker 4: I tend to like two US performances more. After watching
Speaker 4: the tape, I have a flan that it's gonna be
Speaker 4: the case here when I plug this tape on.
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