Speaker 1: Fires touch stop by Waddle stocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami Tike Pro Tike window. They had to get
Speaker 1: that touchdown on that play. They get it. What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield,
Speaker 1: and as I am here to do every single day,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: Not today's show. That's five, count them, five wins in
Speaker 1: a row. Four your Miami Dolphins for the second strade season.
Speaker 1: A fifth. Thanks when when win win win in a
Speaker 1: row to get Miami to seventeen six in the post
Speaker 1: Halloween portion of the schedule in the Brian Flores era,
Speaker 1: they are cooking. They are red hot with their fifth
Speaker 1: trade victory all the way into the bye week here
Speaker 1: into the stretch run of the season. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that, the five takeaways from my nine victory over
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. We'll talk about who shine the brightest,
Speaker 1: and we'll play a segment from the fifth quarter post
Speaker 1: game show on w q A M with myself Seth
Speaker 1: and o J from the post game show from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here with the tip of the cap to
Speaker 1: Coach Flores, who all week long made sure the message
Speaker 1: was about focusing on the New York Giants, about the
Speaker 1: people that they have on the sideline who, regardless of
Speaker 1: their record, can compete at the highest level. That's what
Speaker 1: the National Football League is all about. And we talked
Speaker 1: about this on the post game show as Seth, O
Speaker 1: J and I broke down Brian Flores media after the game,
Speaker 1: and we all could not have agreed more how good
Speaker 1: that was leading into the game and now with a
Speaker 1: bye week for coach to be very complementary of his
Speaker 1: own guys after this victory. But talking about the benefit
Speaker 1: of the late by a whole bunch more. You should
Speaker 1: go check out right now on the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: But back to the point, and you are all I
Speaker 1: assume lifelong fans of the NFL or at least close
Speaker 1: to it, right And if you're not and you're new,
Speaker 1: welcome in. We're gonna pretty much help you understand the
Speaker 1: game better on this podcast or try to as we
Speaker 1: go into the nitty gritty here on Drivetime with Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: presented by Auto Nation, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network.
Speaker 1: But for the long time fans this you know this
Speaker 1: is the NFL games are usually pretty tightly contested, and
Speaker 1: I think it was important for Flow to maintain that
Speaker 1: message not just with his team, but with the way
Speaker 1: he portrayed it to the media throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the week when he met with us, because and O
Speaker 1: J said that it can be worse. But I raised
Speaker 1: the point about how it's not just the negative outside
Speaker 1: noise that can be, for lack of a better term, poisonous,
Speaker 1: but the positive press clippings can be even worse than
Speaker 1: the bad ones. And it goes back, of course, that
Speaker 1: rat poison comment by Nick Saban. He famously muttered that
Speaker 1: a few years back, talking about how some of that
Speaker 1: praise for players can be like rat poison when it
Speaker 1: gets in and they start thinking highly of themselves and
Speaker 1: maybe maybe become complacent with how they've played. That's not
Speaker 1: how you progress, that's not how you win in this league.
Speaker 1: That's why you have a turn the page Tuesday type
Speaker 1: of deal where you get onto the next and focus
Speaker 1: on the next, and we saw that play out in
Speaker 1: this game. This was a tightly contested game for sixty
Speaker 1: minutes all the way to the finish. And that's who
Speaker 1: the Giants have been for really the entire season. Their
Speaker 1: defeats this year eight points, eleven points, three points, a
Speaker 1: four point blowout, followed by twenty seven point blow out
Speaker 1: mid season, but then a win and then a three
Speaker 1: point lost to the high powered Kansas City Chiefs. They've
Speaker 1: been competitive, so to think you're gonna roll into a
Speaker 1: game and just win doesn't work like that. We saw
Speaker 1: it play out. Nineteen first downs to sixteen first downs.
Speaker 1: The Giants were six of sixteen on third down, Miami
Speaker 1: was six of fifteen. Two hundred and ninety seven total
Speaker 1: yards from Miami to to fifty for the Giants, but
Speaker 1: Miami found the plays when they had to as a
Speaker 1: fifth straight win, up to six and seven heading into
Speaker 1: the bye week, and the Jets come to town in
Speaker 1: Week four. Team after the bye week, enjoy it kicked
Speaker 1: the feed up for one week here and take a
Speaker 1: Sunday off. It's been a fun month plus let's keep
Speaker 1: it rolling. But first, the five takeaways and take away
Speaker 1: number one. The defense does it again. It started by
Speaker 1: playing more sort of this bend but don't break approach
Speaker 1: a good I thought overall comprehensive plan to play that
Speaker 1: way with the Giants being down so many weapons on offense,
Speaker 1: and you heard coach Florence talking about the names they
Speaker 1: have on that offense between Barkley and Gala Day and
Speaker 1: Cadarius Tony and Sterling Shepherd and Evan Ingram and Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph Davante Booker. They have so many players on that offense.
Speaker 1: And to come into the game without Cadarius Tony, without
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd, we saw lots of two high safety looks.
Speaker 1: We saw Nick Needham out there at times in that
Speaker 1: kind of deep safety role. Why Eric Rowe and some
Speaker 1: of the three safety looks rolled around down by the
Speaker 1: box and did what he does so well. But they
Speaker 1: didn't allow a single touchdown in this game. And in fact,
Speaker 1: they allowed just to field goal in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then this in the second half field goal three
Speaker 1: and out, three and out, punt three and out field
Speaker 1: goal off of a short drive after a fifty two
Speaker 1: yard Jason Sanders missed field goal put them at the
Speaker 1: minus forty two where you're really a couple of first
Speaker 1: downs away from a field goal, and then that field
Speaker 1: goal at the end of the game that was missed
Speaker 1: to keep the Giants off the board their eleven point
Speaker 1: uh margin, and the Dolphins go into victory formation. That
Speaker 1: will play when your defense performs like that. And we
Speaker 1: know about the ball hawks in the secondary, they're well
Speaker 1: documented at this point. But did you know that Miami
Speaker 1: entered this game as the tenth ranked run defense in
Speaker 1: the National Football League in terms of yards per game?
Speaker 1: Just nine more yards today for the Giants, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that was late in this game. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: just wins so many of those rundowns. In fact, they
Speaker 1: are the best first down run defense rather in terms
Speaker 1: of yards per play in the National Football League, at
Speaker 1: least they were entering the game. I cannot imagine that
Speaker 1: change because how about some of the first down plays
Speaker 1: we saw here from the Miami Dolphins defense on Sunday
Speaker 1: in their victory over the visiting New York Giants. Let's
Speaker 1: do the first three quarters, since that last drive was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different game at that point,
Speaker 1: as you have a two score lead late in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, the approach changes, if not just slightly so.
Speaker 1: The first down plays three yards, three yards, ten yards,
Speaker 1: two yards, interception minus one yard incomplete incomplete, incomplete, eleven
Speaker 1: yards no gain, twenty three yards incomplete incomplete. That's four
Speaker 1: team plays. That's fifty one yards. I mean, yeah, the
Speaker 1: twenty three yard or kind of affected my point a
Speaker 1: little bit, but even still, that's three point six yards
Speaker 1: per play on first down. And before the twenty three
Speaker 1: yard or it was twenty eight yards on eleven plays,
Speaker 1: which is just two point five five yards per play.
Speaker 1: And with the way this defense flies around on third
Speaker 1: and long, boy, you love to see them get set
Speaker 1: up and teet up on first down like they've been
Speaker 1: doing throughout the course of this five game winning streak.
Speaker 1: Over the five game winning streak that helps you get
Speaker 1: to this nine points, ten points, seventeen points, ten points,
Speaker 1: nine points. That is eleven points per game, fifty five
Speaker 1: points over a five game stretch. And again, didn't allow
Speaker 1: a single touchdown in this game. The individuals Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: six career interception in his career game. That's the fastest
Speaker 1: in the National Football League since nine like it was
Speaker 1: last week. Andrew Van Gigel made five total tackles in
Speaker 1: the game, but it felt like fifteen. He was setting
Speaker 1: that hard edge. In fact, he got my game ball
Speaker 1: on the post game show on five sixty with Seth
Speaker 1: and o J because it felt like he was making
Speaker 1: a play every series the past defense on third down
Speaker 1: instead of a fourth and short for the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: setting that hard edge, getting on the upfilled shoulder of
Speaker 1: that either tight end or tackle or the tight end
Speaker 1: h bat coming across the other side of the formation,
Speaker 1: getting off those blocks and making big plays. And I
Speaker 1: think the reason it felt that way was because the
Speaker 1: five tackles seemed to be crucial, not just at the
Speaker 1: time of the game the down distance, but with the
Speaker 1: elements around him. Like there was a play where Gink
Speaker 1: comes off a block and it looks like Barkley has
Speaker 1: a pretty strong c gap to bust through that thing,
Speaker 1: and we know what he can do with the football
Speaker 1: in his hands, but Gink, all he does is shed
Speaker 1: the block and get in there for a tackle around
Speaker 1: the shoestrings of Sae Kwon Barkley and save a potentially
Speaker 1: long gain for the gifted running back. Seeler and Wilkins
Speaker 1: all over the field all game long, all season long.
Speaker 1: Ray Kwon Davis, same story. Adam Butler that sack, He
Speaker 1: almost felt that thing up in the press box. Jeroe
Speaker 1: Baker and Land and Roberts both playing good ball. Baker
Speaker 1: was some pressure, Roberts encourage. Damn Near had himself a
Speaker 1: pick in this game. Had some good run defense as well.
Speaker 1: I thought Eric Rowe looked to be the twenty one
Speaker 1: year old version of himself. He was fast in this game,
Speaker 1: flying all over the football field, plenty of key tackles,
Speaker 1: especially at the point, playing up around the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage in that role that he plays so often. Nick
Speaker 1: Needham chipping in from multiple roles. What a selfless team
Speaker 1: player he is. Byron Jones, kind of finding a rhythm
Speaker 1: after or a bit of a tough start there on.
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay who had a couple of nice catches early on,
Speaker 1: but nothing late. And how about Jalen Phillips. Actually, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and kick off takeaway number two with this?
Speaker 1: How about them rookies? My goodness? Actually, first, why don't
Speaker 1: we go ahead? And hear from coach Flores, who was
Speaker 1: asked post game about the idea of the rookie Wall
Speaker 1: and how he felt his rookies from this past draft
Speaker 1: class responded to the you know, the idea that the
Speaker 1: college football season technically ended on Saturday, pre bowl season, right,
Speaker 1: so their regular seasons are finished except for Army maybe
Speaker 1: one of the best games on the history of the
Speaker 1: planet in terms of football. How did he feel that Jalen, Jalen,
Speaker 1: Javon Liam and of course Hunter Long, the fifth draft
Speaker 1: pick playing currently for the Miami Dolphins, how they respond
Speaker 1: to this possible rookie wall idea. Here's coach, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't really talk about it too much. I
Speaker 1: just we need those guys to, um, you know, play
Speaker 1: for us, and we'll play well. So I think thankfully
Speaker 1: they get this week to you know, rest up. Heal up. Mmm.
Speaker 1: I think all three of those excuse me, four of
Speaker 1: those guys and really five of those guys including Hunter,
Speaker 1: and we had some others trail as well. So I
Speaker 1: mean this is you know, these guys, they work hard,
Speaker 1: it's important to them. They um, they they they're all sponges.
Speaker 1: I mean we said this really the entire year. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a long season. You know, it's hard to you know,
Speaker 1: to to to gage that and to know, you know,
Speaker 1: how their bodies are feeling. But it looks like they
Speaker 1: got energy, they got juice either there and you know
Speaker 1: they got the right uh, the right approach, which leads
Speaker 1: me to believe that you know, they're ready to go,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna need them to be ready to go.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the same things that you know we saw
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. I just I mean, I continue
Speaker 1: to say this. It's you know, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: process there, and then um, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people look at the production and I think that that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's the kind of final analysis of a player.
Speaker 1: But I think he's he's you know, I haven't watched
Speaker 1: the film, but I know there's some other games that
Speaker 1: based on some things that I saw already that um,
Speaker 1: he did better in some instances and some other things
Speaker 1: and some other games. You know, we had some production today.
Speaker 1: Um we need that. And he's doing a good job.
Speaker 1: He's doing a very good job. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that were doing a good job that aren't
Speaker 1: getting you know, you know the stats and the flash stats,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we got a lot of guys
Speaker 1: playing well. And he certainly one. That last follow up
Speaker 1: question there was about Jalen Phillips, but of course coach
Speaker 1: passed the praise to his entire class and really his
Speaker 1: entire team, as they have earned that praise over this
Speaker 1: five game winning streak. But back to the rookies here
Speaker 1: real quick, and we'll go ahead and start with Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 1: I mean, set the Miami Dolphins rookie sack record on
Speaker 1: Sunday for this eight and a half sacks on the season.
Speaker 1: My goodness, he's playing really well. And you watch the
Speaker 1: way they use him in multiple capacities as a stunter,
Speaker 1: as a kind of twister on those stunts, to help
Speaker 1: set picks for manual og ball off the edge, to
Speaker 1: loop inside, to be a true pass rusher off the edge,
Speaker 1: to kind of work against the left tackle, to work
Speaker 1: against chips, to work against backs coming up and trying
Speaker 1: to support in past protection. I mean, the way you
Speaker 1: can really see this, the way people impact games is
Speaker 1: by how the opposition treats them. I mean, you're getting
Speaker 1: double teams and chips on jan Phillips. That takes a
Speaker 1: lot of attention towards him and gives other guys opportunities
Speaker 1: and that's how this entire operation works, and coach Flow
Speaker 1: mentioned the process there. That's how they want to play it.
Speaker 1: They want to give multiple people opportunities to make plays
Speaker 1: because of the entire team capacity of how they built
Speaker 1: this defense, how they built this team, and Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: fits right into that mold. Of course, he's a fantastic
Speaker 1: pass rusher right now with the eight and a half
Speaker 1: sacks I think it's five or six games in a
Speaker 1: row now with with a sack for the young man.
Speaker 1: So he is coming on strong here at the right time.
Speaker 1: Over this win streak. He's been a big part of
Speaker 1: that now, so too has that rookie receiver Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: Eighties six catches in his rookie season at also is
Speaker 1: a Miami Dolphins rookie franchise record. Jervis Landry had eighty
Speaker 1: four back and he broke the record on a catch
Speaker 1: where he was injured. He goes down, comes off the
Speaker 1: field and he's kind of walking over and then he
Speaker 1: starts to jog off the field and as the fans
Speaker 1: see that, they start chanting whoa, who oh, And that
Speaker 1: was my favorite moments of the entire game. He's hyping
Speaker 1: the crowd up, pumping the arm up, and then he
Speaker 1: runs back onto the field helmet in hand to an ovation.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen it yet, go check out
Speaker 1: two h and Waddles Fox interview with chriss A Thompson
Speaker 1: that was on the pregame show on Sunday morning or
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. Check that off you have not seen so
Speaker 1: because the chemistry there between those two guys has really
Speaker 1: come on to play here. I mean there's he's just
Speaker 1: he's getting after it right now. He's making tough catches.
Speaker 1: As he's loosening up and gets back into the game,
Speaker 1: You're thinking, what a tough, competitive type of dude. I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked about the the attention that Jalen Phillips commands.
Speaker 1: They had a safety over the top on Waddle almost
Speaker 1: the entire game. It's crazy the amount intention he was
Speaker 1: commanding in that game. He still finds a way to
Speaker 1: create space and eat up yardage underneath. If teams want
Speaker 1: to go man and getting a foot race with him,
Speaker 1: try it. We saw it last week. That's what happened
Speaker 1: against the Panthers in that game. Defenses they've got to
Speaker 1: be so scheduled incut routes, because when the protection is
Speaker 1: there and the ball is perfect, look out your one
Speaker 1: flip tackle away from the big play that kind of
Speaker 1: can change the game. He's doing it all right now.
Speaker 1: He's just twenty five yards shy of Chris Chambers as
Speaker 1: rookie receiving record at three yards to go, and there's
Speaker 1: four games to go. How about the other draft pick here,
Speaker 1: highly drafted for the Miami Dolphins, Javon Holland. He had
Speaker 1: another great pass breakup, and this one was on a
Speaker 1: very clean and well struck, targeted hit where he puts
Speaker 1: his shoulder into the kind of back area of the
Speaker 1: receiver and that separates his hands causes the football to
Speaker 1: fall harmlessly incomplete on a third down. Get off the field.
Speaker 1: He has another pressure on a third down where he
Speaker 1: gets hands in the face and then doesn't put the
Speaker 1: hands on the head of quarterback Mike Glennan, puts the
Speaker 1: hit on his mid set action, forcing errant throw. Get
Speaker 1: off the field. And then that great pass break up
Speaker 1: down there on the end zone with Xavier Howard where
Speaker 1: it looked like Javon might come down with his third
Speaker 1: pick of the season. He didn't, but he had to
Speaker 1: pass breakup. He is as involved as anybody on this
Speaker 1: team right now. Liam Eichenberg, I can't give you much
Speaker 1: of a take on the offensive line after watching the game.
Speaker 1: I need the AL twenty two to do that. But
Speaker 1: he played well and Hunter Long gets his first catch
Speaker 1: of the career for for that rookie tad and at
Speaker 1: a Boston college with the rookie class man. They're doing
Speaker 1: it to records today on the same day in week
Speaker 1: number thirteen, game number thirteen for franchise rookie records, so impressive.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number three. It's two a time, fourth quarters to
Speaker 1: a time. Giants were you know, in the course of
Speaker 1: this game, I thought playing similar to what the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense did before the pressure kind of got cranked up,
Speaker 1: playing more off and a little bit safer and giving
Speaker 1: attention to Jalen Waddle, and he was doing a good
Speaker 1: job taken with the defense gave him. He was five
Speaker 1: in that first half. No mistakes. That's two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row, had a fumble lost or a turnover, an
Speaker 1: interception whatever, from from to a tongue by loa, just
Speaker 1: playing patient, not making the mistake, taking with the defense plays,
Speaker 1: what where what the defense is giving you, especially when
Speaker 1: your defense on the other side is playing well, to
Speaker 1: know how to you know. The term game manager is
Speaker 1: looked upon negatively, but I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: most important aspects of playing the position, is managing the
Speaker 1: game and understanding the situation of the game. And Brian
Speaker 1: Flores talks about that and to have mentioned it postgame
Speaker 1: about how they play a very specific situational type of
Speaker 1: football where they want to be aware of all situations
Speaker 1: at all time. And I really thought you saw that
Speaker 1: throughout the course of this game, especially early on, where
Speaker 1: there was not really many opportunities for the Giants to
Speaker 1: create negative plays because the Dolphins had a plan and
Speaker 1: an approach where the ball came out quick, where they
Speaker 1: ran the ball in certain down distances, where they converted
Speaker 1: some of those third downs. And it wasn't the prettiest
Speaker 1: half of football offensively from Miami, but eventually they got
Speaker 1: things going there on that second or that last drive
Speaker 1: of the half where they go fourteen plays to kind
Speaker 1: of start off the middle eight minutes of the game.
Speaker 1: We talked about that, right the last four minutes of
Speaker 1: the first half, the first four minutes of the second half,
Speaker 1: and on a four team play eighty nine yard drive
Speaker 1: that choose up almost four minutes of clock and leaves
Speaker 1: the Giants with just twenty six seconds. On the other end,
Speaker 1: when the Dolphins, we're gonna get the football in the
Speaker 1: third quarter and New York goes down neils in the
Speaker 1: football after that touchdown drive, so you give yourself back
Speaker 1: to back possessions, and on that four team play drive
Speaker 1: to a goes eleven for twelve for seventy six yards
Speaker 1: and the touchdown throw to mac Hollins. Talk about finding
Speaker 1: a rhythm. He's over in that first half. He would
Speaker 1: not finish that way. Just missed that record by only
Speaker 1: I think it was six percentage points in this game,
Speaker 1: as he was like seventy three point five percent, so
Speaker 1: six and a half percentage points from becoming the first
Speaker 1: quarterback ever to complete eight percent or more of his
Speaker 1: passes in three straight games. It did not quite happen.
Speaker 1: He does have a chance to become the first quarterback
Speaker 1: to do it four times, or rather tie to be
Speaker 1: the first quarterback to do it four times in the
Speaker 1: NFL with or more completion. He did it in the
Speaker 1: Atlanta game earlier as well, But anyway, that kind of
Speaker 1: slow approach of the game that that good drive to
Speaker 1: to to end the first half. We saw it kind
Speaker 1: of fall off there in the third quarter. Just was
Speaker 1: not a very characteristic third quarter operation from the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 1: Some drop throws I thought two was off the market
Speaker 1: a couple of times. There was a pass on third
Speaker 1: down to Wattle where he had some space out wide.
Speaker 1: He threw it high, probably should have been more outside
Speaker 1: to run him to the sideline, and the marker he
Speaker 1: has to go up for the catch makes it, but
Speaker 1: he's just short of the sticks. Kasikian Waddle both had drops.
Speaker 1: Wilson had himself a drop in that in that quarter
Speaker 1: as well. So the offense just a little bit kind
Speaker 1: of stuck in the mud. But back to Tua and
Speaker 1: that's where the title of the takeaway starts. In that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, after all that adversity, he kind of faced
Speaker 1: and overcame and we're still in a tight contested ball
Speaker 1: games by the fact that the defense is playing so well.
Speaker 1: But once again in the fourth quarter, seven of nine
Speaker 1: eight nine passing yards and touchdown pass to help close
Speaker 1: out the Giants. To boost the fact that he is
Speaker 1: the highest rated fourth quarter passer in the national Football
Speaker 1: League since n in the game's most critical quarter. It's
Speaker 1: so impressive what he's able to do in those clutch moments.
Speaker 1: It's kind of who he was back in college. He's
Speaker 1: been showing a little bit of that here in the
Speaker 1: NFL as well, and he did it again today in
Speaker 1: the dolphins fifth straight victory. And I thought his two
Speaker 1: best throws of the entire game came on that field
Speaker 1: goal drive that put the game just about out of reach.
Speaker 1: They're very late, a third and six backed up at
Speaker 1: their own twenty nine yard line. If you punt the
Speaker 1: ball there, you give the Giants four minutes, all their
Speaker 1: time outs, and the entire playbook to work with to
Speaker 1: put together a game tying drive. Nope, Miami converts seventeen
Speaker 1: or rather sixteen yards to DeVante Parker. Then three plays later,
Speaker 1: now you've made them spend some time out so here
Speaker 1: in better shape, but still with three one left and
Speaker 1: third and four around midfield, a seventeen yard passed an
Speaker 1: absolute dime where he layers that thing over the top
Speaker 1: of the underneath coverage and a great, great catch on
Speaker 1: a precision pass for for Ghasicki to block out the
Speaker 1: defender to make that big play. What a time, and
Speaker 1: at what a time that was for the Dolphins quarterback
Speaker 1: and offense. I thought, again, he started off a little
Speaker 1: bit slow and was a little bit more off than usual.
Speaker 1: All but that goes back to this point to be
Speaker 1: a tadbit air quote off and complete thirty of forty
Speaker 1: one passes for two d forty four and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and no turnovers. And they one of four point one
Speaker 1: passer rating. Yeah, that'll play. And now through seventeen career games,
Speaker 1: which coach was quick to point out, is a full season,
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty one completions on five hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five pass attempts. That's sixty seven point four percent completion,
Speaker 1: three thousand, seven hundred fifty nine yards. That's six point
Speaker 1: seven yards per pass, twenty nine total touchdowns and twelve turnovers.
Speaker 1: That's twenty three touchdowns, eleven interceptions, one point five passer
Speaker 1: rating through the first seventeen games of his career. Not bad,
Speaker 1: keep it rolling to a keep it going. Take away
Speaker 1: Number four two got his vante back five catches on
Speaker 1: five targets. That's great, sixty two yards that's also great,
Speaker 1: over twelve yards per catch, and two was asked post
Speaker 1: game about what it was like to have Davante Parker
Speaker 1: back into the fold for the offense. It was really
Speaker 1: good to have Bonte back. Davonte adds another vertical stretch
Speaker 1: for us offensively, and you know he makes he makes
Speaker 1: tough catches when when you need him too, So you
Speaker 1: really glad to have him back. Very short and brief
Speaker 1: there from the Miami quarterback. But the vertical stretch element
Speaker 1: he talks about there, that's a big deal. Because we
Speaker 1: talked about the help that you want to roll coverage
Speaker 1: over to Waddle, Well, that's probably gonna give you a
Speaker 1: one on one opportunity to the boundary to Davanta Parker,
Speaker 1: who's one of the best contested catch players in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And you know, on those particular throws
Speaker 1: and we saw on that third and six conversion there
Speaker 1: late in the game. Doesn't always have to be right
Speaker 1: in terms of pass pro in terms of the accuracy
Speaker 1: of the football. He can kind of be a guy
Speaker 1: that makes the play like wipes out the relevancy of
Speaker 1: the rest of the play. He can be the one
Speaker 1: that makes the play for you on those particular looks.
Speaker 1: That's very valuable to an offense. I think he compliments
Speaker 1: the RPO game exceptionally well because he's so good on
Speaker 1: those slants and in cut routes where he can kind
Speaker 1: of use his frame and long arms to shield away
Speaker 1: the defender, and he's so precise on those inbreaking routes,
Speaker 1: and just to flat out have a playmaker down the
Speaker 1: football field like a DeVante Parker like to have mentioned
Speaker 1: there in the vertical stretch game, that's very big. I
Speaker 1: mean the contestant catches. He's been among the best since
Speaker 1: nineteen from Pro Football Focus. He might have been knocked
Speaker 1: down a spa or two after missing some games this year,
Speaker 1: but he's still right up there. He's a huge boost
Speaker 1: of this offense when he's in there. Good to see
Speaker 1: him get a cranking Now he and the team get
Speaker 1: a week off to get ready for the New York Jets. Finally,
Speaker 1: Number takeaway number five, Number five takeaway number five Special
Speaker 1: teams Michael Pollardi a career high sixty five yard punt
Speaker 1: average forty eight point five yards per kick field flippers Man.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal in this game when the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense was not quite cranking at full capacity to
Speaker 1: be able to turn the field around that was big
Speaker 1: for special teams. Jason Sanders had a miss, but when
Speaker 1: Miami had a chance to go out by two scores,
Speaker 1: he got it big time kicked there from Jason Sanders.
Speaker 1: Mac Hollins continues to be so impressive as a gunner
Speaker 1: and no monogamy to play his butt off on special teams.
Speaker 1: You love to see it. And then watch Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: on punt return. If you wanna go back and watch
Speaker 1: the game, get a look at ninety four and the
Speaker 1: way he plays special teams. I think you're gonna like
Speaker 1: to what you see on that tape again. Some notes here,
Speaker 1: finish up here. Good to see Hunter long to make
Speaker 1: his first career catch. Thought Savon Achmed swed some juice
Speaker 1: as the runner there and Isaiah Ford and macollins with touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You love to see that. Those guys work so hard
Speaker 1: and put in so much time. You'd love to see
Speaker 1: it pay off for them and to produce big time
Speaker 1: here and a win for the Miami Dolphins. Will break
Speaker 1: down more on the offensive line in other areas of
Speaker 1: this game on the All Podcast tomorrow, so don't forget
Speaker 1: to check that out. Stay tuned for some postgame show
Speaker 1: work here with myself, Seth and o J. After the
Speaker 1: outro bye week coming up, we'll have some different content
Speaker 1: ideas for you guys. Same schedule as usual today and
Speaker 1: Tuesday and probably Wednesday, but look out for some different
Speaker 1: content coming your way the end of the week and
Speaker 1: the front end of next week. And also, you Hurricanes
Speaker 1: fans out there, you got us, you got the Coogs
Speaker 1: in the bull game El Paso, New Year's Day, New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, I can't remember, but it's a good little
Speaker 1: warm up there to the college football playoff with Georgia
Speaker 1: and Michigan here at the Orange Bowl. That's a bit
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that one. And then Bama and Cincinnati
Speaker 1: gets into the College Football Playoff. The Group of five
Speaker 1: team makes it in for the College Football Playoff for
Speaker 1: the first time. You love to see it. What a
Speaker 1: great weekend of sports, great weekend of football. Go Heat,
Speaker 1: go Dolphins, go all South Florida sports. And how about
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Speaker 1: Time fits up Caroline, Daddy's coming home, Stay to the
Speaker 1: post game show stuff come up next time. It's that
Speaker 1: time's howesome game balls we don't bring all right? That
Speaker 1: was a great job when we got hi from everybody. Offense,
Speaker 1: big drive defense, They're gonna stop again, maybe a direction
Speaker 1: We're gonna get better. We're gonna play without proper though,
Speaker 1: you're going to play without profets aren't got to get
Speaker 1: ready to go call it. Mostly it's time to percent
Speaker 1: today's game balls with Travis Sethon O. J oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's game ball time. Let's go ahead and throw it
Speaker 1: to our resident wide receiver O J McDuffie, who has
Speaker 1: another Where might Jews go with this one receiver as
Speaker 1: his game ball? Maybe maybe possibly your soccer that I'm
Speaker 1: going why receiver, man, call you kid me, welcome home,
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Davante Parker, My game ball goes my man.
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker once went out to today five targets, five receptions,
Speaker 1: all for first downs, two of them on third down.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Big Seth for that that information. Man, and
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker is a different now. We talked about we
Speaker 1: heard two of talk about it. What what he does
Speaker 1: for the offense giving those guys an opportunity out there,
Speaker 1: and defense have to respect that one on one tide
Speaker 1: for him. And he didn't come up any bigger than
Speaker 1: what he did in the fourth quarter for US man
Speaker 1: and making big plays for us. So, of course, a
Speaker 1: wide receiver every single week that they could I give
Speaker 1: every single week. I give the wide receivers the game ball.
Speaker 1: But this week is my man. I can go. I
Speaker 1: go other places from my wide receiver. But DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: welcome back in the game man. Great job with anybuddy. Well,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go wide receiver every week, I guess
Speaker 1: I'll go defensive end, you know. And and I like
Speaker 1: the music so much last week, I'm gonna rewind that
Speaker 1: play it back, d J preach. Jalen Phillips is gonna
Speaker 1: get it. And look, Jalen played a good game. We
Speaker 1: heard coach Florida's talk about it. Two sacks today and
Speaker 1: he breaks a record that was originally set fifty two
Speaker 1: years ago. Fifty two years ago, ninety sixty nine, Bill
Speaker 1: Stanford has eight sacks as a rookie. Eight and a
Speaker 1: half sacks for Janalen Phillips. I want to hear about
Speaker 1: a seventeen game season. Guys, you know why he did
Speaker 1: it in thirteen games. That was a fourteen game season
Speaker 1: back then. He did it in thirteen games. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much too, So I can count on the thirteen.
Speaker 1: So and here's another thing, you know you want to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: well it's a fifty two year old record. Brett breck
Speaker 1: eys and just just tweet it if you're not following him.
Speaker 1: You gotta follow this man. But he went to the
Speaker 1: Allia Sports Bureau to look it up. Jalen Phillips is
Speaker 1: the first NFL rookie since Julius Peppers in two thousand
Speaker 1: two to record at least six sacks in a three
Speaker 1: game span. Think about that six sacks three game span.
Speaker 1: That's worth the second game. Ball in my he's fired up,
Speaker 1: all right, he's fired up a little bit. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go on the defense as well for my game. Ball
Speaker 1: on Andrew van Ginkel, And this might have been something
Speaker 1: of a kind of a collection of the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, because he bawled out once again. He's a
Speaker 1: balling out over this five game winning streaks, setting strong edges.
Speaker 1: You watch him get on that upfield shoulder of a
Speaker 1: tackle and cut that outside running game down. That's where
Speaker 1: sa Kwon Barkley wanted to go. The speed off the
Speaker 1: edge and the past brush game quarterback hits, disrupting the
Speaker 1: timing of the passing game. He's getting off blocks and
Speaker 1: making key tackles. There was a Barkley run where he
Speaker 1: had daylight and beats, the block comes off, it makes
Speaker 1: the stop right there right in the gap on one
Speaker 1: of the toughest backs in the entire business to cut
Speaker 1: that thing down for no gain. His numbers, like Coach
Speaker 1: Flores said, not necessarily gonna blow you away. But the
Speaker 1: production as far as what he did was their five
Speaker 1: toll tackles a pass defense on third down. He ends
Speaker 1: up with a pair of quarterback hits. But again, those
Speaker 1: stats do not quite tell the whole story. One guy
Speaker 1: who the numbers do tell a story on the new
Speaker 1: record holder for receptions by Dolphins rookie. You know the name.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be our fourth collective game. Ball here, wattle
Speaker 1: with it, baby, while waiting, while waiting, Yeah, solo d
Speaker 1: in the house. Lottle catches nine balls on eleven targets
Speaker 1: for ninety yards. He came back into the game after
Speaker 1: sustaining an injury. He leaves the field to wa Who chance.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite party the entire game. Personally, eighties
Speaker 1: six receptions here in his rookies. He's in juiced through
Speaker 1: thirteen games. Up next seth Chris Chambers has the yards record.
Speaker 1: He's right in the crosshairs. I think it's eight eighty
Speaker 1: three for Chambers. Yeah, anything through whatever it was, he
Speaker 1: needed a dwive and they got ninety today. So Chris
Speaker 1: I know again he said, hey in the sixteen game season.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable rookie season by Chris Chambers. He's coming after you.
Speaker 1: He's coming after you. Shot the solo. If you guys
Speaker 1: haven't seen the tweets or the videos of Seth and
Speaker 1: o J performing live with solo D at the MetLife takeover,
Speaker 1: you are missing out. Looks like a nineties rap album
Speaker 1: cover with those guys out there doing their thing. Jalen
Speaker 1: has eight hundred forty nine yards in this season. I'll
Speaker 1: ahead you guys, how much fun is winning. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. The man. You know, we we played,
Speaker 1: We sat here in our studio seven weeks in the
Speaker 1: row and the misery. You know, we were from hot
Speaker 1: garbage that we're wilding with it man, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Let's talk about where we have come, man,
Speaker 1: and we've got a long way to go. But man,
Speaker 1: we having fun. They're having fun. Man. This is what
Speaker 1: we expected from this team. Man, and so man Waddle
Speaker 1: with it him. Man, that's a great Travis Rate car
Speaker 1: right there. Man. We can all appreciate what Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: is doing right now. As a rookie, but as a player,
Speaker 1: he didn't look like a rookie. Like now, it looks
Speaker 1: like that go to guy. When we need a big play,
Speaker 1: a big catch, who do we go to? We go
Speaker 1: to Jayleen wattle Man. It's so much fun. And then
Speaker 1: when you got the complimentary football that coach Florida has
Speaker 1: just talked about on defense teams is playing well, then
Speaker 1: you bring back Davante Parker. This is what we expect
Speaker 1: from the state from the beginning. Now we're starting to
Speaker 1: get it one game at a time. Except for mane
Speaker 1: game of the time. I think me and Travis roll
Speaker 1: the role right here, we're talking about man, you're ready ready,
Speaker 1: we are not well, we gotta buy weeks. We can
Speaker 1: even put that off for a little bit here. But
Speaker 1: I just want to make a couple of mentions here.
Speaker 1: This isn't a game ball, but just some more players
Speaker 1: than I thought. Se there comes the twelve game ball.
Speaker 1: How about we haven't mentioned the fact that Xavian Howard
Speaker 1: had another pick today. That's his fourth of the season
Speaker 1: to force funnels two phone recoveries. The guy is he's
Speaker 1: unbelievable the way he does this twenty six career picks
Speaker 1: through sixty eight career games. He's the fastest to get
Speaker 1: to that. My near sception since we talked about the
Speaker 1: rookie Javon Holland three series with three third down plays
Speaker 1: in this game, you have to find out where he
Speaker 1: is every single snap, and then upfront, juice, how about
Speaker 1: some of these guys. Seeler I thought was good again.
Speaker 1: Wilkins had a big run stop later in that game.
Speaker 1: And Adam Butler that big sachie out of Mike Lennon.
Speaker 1: I think I heard that from the press box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was nice, man, And you know what,
Speaker 1: I was watching that sack and he got there. I
Speaker 1: think we had a little t or et game going.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of attention was paid to James
Speaker 1: David Phillips on that play. And Butler got in there man,
Speaker 1: and was clean. It was. It was so nice. We
Speaker 1: have to be we need to clean up on a
Speaker 1: couple of sacks. I saw a couple of sacks we had,
Speaker 1: but our defenses, man, they're they're flying around and while
Speaker 1: I've got a quick chance, man, I mean I have
Speaker 1: to have to give a shout out. I have to
Speaker 1: because I know Tom Garfinkel did it already. Bik shot
Speaker 1: out to our grounds crew man, you see the field.
Speaker 1: I heard about it from Travis bro. The field was
Speaker 1: unbelievable man, and a good friend of mine, Ricky Man,
Speaker 1: he's on that grounds crew man. The field looks sick.
Speaker 1: The stripes of the colors, that everything about the bro
Speaker 1: it was unbelievable. The way. That's the best field out
Speaker 1: think I've seen. Man. When you have a nice field
Speaker 1: out there, you gotta go out there and perform, man.
Speaker 1: So top to bottom Dolphins organization, it was a It
Speaker 1: was a home run today, you know the way everything was.
Speaker 1: Jeth you said it too. The fans showed up early.
Speaker 1: They were in the stands early, big burning carry did
Speaker 1: the let's go Dolphins today. They went out there and
Speaker 1: they played well. The field looked outstanding. You get a win,
Speaker 1: everybody goes home happy man. So great stuff right there, Bro,