WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Comeback Comes Up Short in 21-14 Loss to Chiefs 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.560 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:05.840 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.559 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.880 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.799 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.599 Travis Wingfield And on today's show, a tough loss, a 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.120 Dolphins fall twenty one to fourteen in Germany at the 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.720 hands of the defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs. Will 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.720 break it down with an opening little monologue I put 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.440 together for you guys. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.600 quarterback to a tongue of Baila. We'll do the five 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.600 big picture takeaways and of course take you through the 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.080 gameplay by play here from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.879 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:52.320 Podcast Miami Dolphins. So a Dolphins fan of a certain 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.480 age can appreciate how challenging that entire game was. From 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.800 starting off shooting yourself in the foot, fall behind by 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.040 a touchdown in the opening drive, not responding to that 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.160 drive for a few drives, giving up another touchdown late 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.560 in the half, and then a offense that looks like 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.680 it's found as spark and then all of a sudden, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.920 something goes wrong from your very best player. He puts 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.640 the ball on the turf, they pick it up, they 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.120 lateral it, ran it back for a touchdown to make 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.200 it twenty one nothing at the halftime break, and you're 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.920 thinking to yourself, here we go again, Dolphins in a 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.679 big game. We're never gonna hear the end of this. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.600 And I hate it. I hate it here. I hate 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.240 being a fan of any team in sports because it 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.679 seems like it always ends in misery. Right after I 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.120 had just shared the Gray Cody story talking about enjoying 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.800 this beautiful dream the Miami Dolphins are on this year, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.440 that happens, and you're thinking to yourself, Travis, how can 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.440 I possibly stand that? From my mind, it seems like 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.440 every time we have a big challenge, a big game 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.760 against a big time team, we do this. And then 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.680 the Dolphins respond and they show you the resolve and 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.560 they bounce back and they show some bite and they 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.120 show you why they are a team that has everybody 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.640 talking about them weeks into the NFL season. But a 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.800 Dolphins fan of a certain age knows how these movies 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.560 typically end, at least they have in the past. Right. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.520 A buddy of mine from back home texted me, I 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.280 think it was it twenty one to seven, and said, like, hey, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.280 they're coming back. They might have a chance. And I said, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.320 you know, if I know this team like I know 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.520 this team, and again, it's not fair to do that 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:27.760 for this team because twenty eleven or two thousand and six, 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.880 two thousand and two, none of those teams have any 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.360 impact on the twenty twenty three Miami Dolphins. But I 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.280 told him, you know, maybe a little bit of a 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.640 sad Dolphins fan. I said, they're gonna come back, They're 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.520 gonna have a chance, and they'll come up just short. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.400 And that's what happened. And those ones can sometimes be 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.359 the toughest games to deal with. Now, look, why is 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.680 it so tough today? What are you feeling like? I 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.120 feel like your stomach just got ripped out. I'm curious 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.840 how Dolphins fans feel. I think I'm kind of alone 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.120 in that a lot of people I've talked to you 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.000 don't feel that way. But let me tell you why 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.160 I feel that way, because the narrative stuff, I don't 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.560 really care. You know, that makes my useless Twitter scrolling 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.680 at night a little bit worse. But that's on me, right, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.680 I allow myself to be affected by that. None of 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.560 that matters. None of the power ranking stuff matters. Yeah, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.960 it's fun to be on top of those and to 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.760 share the tweets that people praising us and talking about 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.000 how great we are. And look at this next team 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.440 in the National Football League, hard knocks. All the kids 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.399 are dressing up as the head coach and everybody wants 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.600 to be the Miami Dolphins. That's all fun, And maybe 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.360 that's partially to blame for the way you feel after 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.520 a loss like that is the absence of those endorphin 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.000 releases you get from all of those experiences of winning 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.080 a big game like this, or just in general, the 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.720 reaction of winning on social media and what we do 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.160 now in twenty twenty three in the National Football League, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.880 and we overdramatize every single play, every single game, every 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.120 single result. But where I get real down is the 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.360 actual missed opportunity the Dolphins had today. They had them, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.360 they had those guys, guys, they were the better team, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.800 and they just could not capitalize. And that's what I'm 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.680 reminding myself here today that they're close, and you don't 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.520 want to hear that they're close because they haven't broken 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.840 through yet in one of these games. I've been the 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.160 first one to say that sometimes it takes taking your 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.040 lumps before you break through, and then when you do, gosh, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.559 it's got to be glorious. The famous Steve Young after 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.240 his Super Bowl win, get this gorilla off my back. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.200 They said he couldn't win the big one he finally did. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.760 Or Peyton Manning finally exercising the demons in New England, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.279 or I guess it wasn't Indianapolis, but in four playoff 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.960 losses you know before the two thousand and sixth season, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.559 to those Patriots teams are Bill Belichick and Tom Brady 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.920 where they're every single year to raise their trophy and 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.480 put an end to the Peyton Manning in Indianapolis Colt 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.080 season that year. But gush, these lumps. They hurt, man 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.320 a god, they hurt specifically when you're the better team. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.279 So maybe they'll be better off for this. Maybe they'll 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.960 be eleven to three come Christmas Eve when the Cowboys 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.240 come to town, and the narrative will still be they 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.000 can't beat good teams. Maybe that's the blessing. Maybe it 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.200 allows for a really damn good football team here in 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.240 the Miami Dolphins, and that's what they have, a damn 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.560 good football team to carry the nobody believed in US 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.839 badge down the stretch. Maybe it's a good thing. They'll 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.240 have their chance to exercise their own demons. Hell, I 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.040 think those last three games of the year are essentially 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.240 playoff games because they are teams that are good enough 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.320 to be in the playoffs and teams that I believe Dallas, Baltimore, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.279 and Buffalo are all going to have double digit wins 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:25.480 by the time you face them at the end of 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.120 the year. That's for another day, but that's kind of 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.279 a playoff stretch before the playoffs and the next time 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.400 you'll have a chance to prove that you are one 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:35.920 of these teams. And I don't what does't even mean 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.400 to prove who you are? To like, the standings will 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:39.960 prove who you are at the end of the day, right, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.520 So I can stomach the talk, the noise, that's all 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.120 that is. It's all talk. What really gets me, though, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.200 is the standings. Because you had a chance today you 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.599 were the better team and you still lost a game 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.200 that you were better in and it hurts, It really hurts. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.679 Let it hurt. I get it. If you're my age, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.600 you know what it's like to root for this team 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.480 with everything you've got. And I kept saying to Seth 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.240 and OJ in the radio station, Damn man, how the 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.960 hell am I going to handle a devastating playoff loss 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.000 or a Super Bowl loss? 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:08.400 One day? 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.599 This is how I feel about a November fifth game. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.480 And that's how it feels today, Like a playoff loss. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.560 It feels like you were eliminated, but you know what, 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.440 you weren't. And that's the beautiful thing. There is a tomorrow. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.920 This team is going to come out of the bye 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.320 week healthy and ready to go on a run. But 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.800 it's okay to let it hurt for today it should, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.440 but we'll be back. Let's go ahead and hear from 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.559 head coach Mike McDaniel on the narrative and what it means, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.720 and you know, how do you feel about it? 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:40.040 The overall mental fortitude of the collection of individuals, their 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:45.120 commitment to this season and this organization and this team, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:46.880 and they show me every day. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.200 This is something that. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.400 You know, I think we're all very aware and we 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.440 knew going into the game that you know, if we're 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.240 gonna lose, what the narrative of would be and that's 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:07.560 fair like you you I should we shouldn't feel entitled 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:15.160 to uh high opinions uh from from the masses, and 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.880 you know, we have to earn that confidence and we 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:18.720 have to earn. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.160 You know, every it. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.080 It also gives me a ton of confidence because I 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:29.640 know that NFL games, each and every one of them, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:31.119 is tough. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:36.960 I think people undervalue poor records. You have to. It 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:37.560 is hard to. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.320 Win in this league, and so to win in any 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.000 in any right against any opponent is something not to 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.040 take for granted. And uh, as long as you continue 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.680 to get better, ultimately that narrative will subside. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.560 But that's on us collectively, from. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.240 Coaches and players alike, to you know, if you want 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.920 the narrative to change, change the narrative. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.440 I really kind of feel like Coach and I had 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.080 the same thing there in terms of, yeah, it exists, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:09.960 it's out there, but if you want to change it, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.640 you have to go change it. But ultimately the result 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.880 of this team and what this team is built on, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.240 I think will ultimately make them better. From this, let's 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.560 go ahead and hear from Tua on a missed opportunity 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.600 in Frankfurt on Sunday morning. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.160 And you know, we think, man, if we would have 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.720 made this play, or if we would have made if 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.840 I would have made this throw, and that that's a 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.520 part of the game. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:30.840 It's a game of inches. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:37.440 And all we can continue to do is work, you know, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.720 and not lose sight of where we want to go 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.640 as a team. We got to continue to stick together 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.559 and not deviate from that, regardless of what everyone outside 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.480 is saying. And we just got to put our head 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:47.600 down and keep going. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.080 And the funny thing is, like you think about those 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.439 individual plays that ultimately maybe cost you the game. I 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.480 remember thinking back to, like, you know, some of those 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.560 like Joey Harrington losses in Buffalo for instance, or whatever 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.839 it might have been. Like these teams that were seven 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.600 and seven trying to give themselves a chance to be 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.720 alive in week seventeen to go win a game and 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.400 make the playoffs and then ultimately probably get destroyed by 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.200 the aforementioned Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. But this is different, Like, 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.840 we're upset because we lost a chance to earn the 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.160 number one seed heading into week number ten, which what 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.840 does that mean right? Like McDaniel could probably give me 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.640 a pep talk right here, like mission accomplished, Travis. We 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.640 didn't accomplish anything. We were the one seed at week eight? 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.720 What does that mean? Who cares? And he's right? So 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.240 we move on. We live to find another day. Let's 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.480 do the stats real quick before we get into the 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.199 story of the game and the five takeaways from this game. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.040 It was rough early on for the Miami Dolphins. You 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:40.920 guys saw how it played out. The offense could not 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.640 get much going and as a result, they wound up 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.959 actually usurping the Chiefs in most categories. Twenty first downs 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.520 to sixteen, the Dolphins were three for twelve to Kansas 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.200 City's three for ten. Miami, of course oh for one 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.120 on fourth downs that was the big play late in 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.760 the game. There but two hundred and ninety two yards 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.959 to two sixty seven. You out passed them, You out 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.480 rushed them. Yeah, out total snapped him fifty eight to 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.000 fifty six. Both teams had one giveaway. The Dolphins took 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.920 three sacks, the Chiefs took two sacks. The penalties Miami 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.360 had six for forty five, Kansas City six, nine for 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.240 sixty nine. And you out possessed them. So it was there, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.199 man like, the game was right there to a twenty 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.440 one for thirty four one hundred and ninety three yards, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.360 when the last time he here for under two hundred 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.600 in a full game, one touchdown and a eighty seven 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.319 passer rating, Mahomes was twenty for thirty one to eighty 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.320 five and two touchdowns. I bet you if you would 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.280 have told someone that both these quarterbacks gonna throw for 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.199 under two hundred yards, you would have told them you 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.559 were crazy. But that's what happened in this game. So 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.960 the Chiefs take the opening kickoff drive and march it 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.560 down right down the field, executing ball fakes and misdirections 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.000 and motions. It looked like us on offense for a while. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.080 They got chunk plays and the mesh rail concept that 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.480 we run. Noah Gray gets loose on a corner route 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.120 and it looks like they're gonna have great spacing and 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.280 throw all over the field and they get a touchdown 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:54.840 on the board. It comes off the board because he 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.280 didn't make the catch. And then they throw a screen 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.680 pass that goes right behind a blitz and that goes 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.400 in for a touchdown on second and that screen pass 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.400 would be a key throughout the game. We'll come back 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.800 to that. But you're thinking to yourself right away, like 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.199 here we go. Defense is gonna struggle against an elite quarterback, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.199 and that didn't happen. We'll get back to that here 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.400 and just second, Dolphins get the football back and it's 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.040 a positive start. They get a fifteen yard shot from 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.840 two to waddle into a trio of defenders. But then 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.600 you take a time out on a key third down 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.760 a false start, and it's like same stuff, right, like 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.720 these procedural operation issues that plague You put you behind 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.480 the chains and you wind up not converting. After they 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.600 actually come off size make a third and nine and 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.320 they blitzed to it and get a free runner and 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.080 get him down in the backfield. So Steves Bagnolo had 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.440 a great game plan, had a great pressure package and 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.600 impacted the Dolphins when it had to the most. The 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.280 chief get the ball back and you're thinking, if they 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.320 go score, here, here we go. But it didn't happen 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.480 that way. The Chiefs punt after a really good three 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.760 plays from Jalen Phillips to force an incompletion off of pressure, 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.120 they get Andrew Van ginkle deconstruction for a beat on 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.600 a beating a block on a second down play, and 0:11:58.600 --> 0:11:59.959 then third and ten they get in on the whole 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.640 again and he has to throw the football away, so 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.160 a quick punt Dolphins get it right back, but they 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.640 punt it back themselves. After we had a shot down 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.360 the field from Tua to Tyreek that looked like it 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.079 was gonna be a big game, tight window, one of 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.960 those vintage Tua throws into the bucket, but Tyreek just 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.760 cannot make the catch off the fingertips. We then miss 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.679 a block off the edge, looked like claype want a 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.160 chance to make a big time seal, but Raheem can 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.199 only get one edge one yard off the edge and 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.320 it creates this third and long on second down to ten. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.720 Early down running failures were a big key in this 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.800 game Miami. On those first three possessions they went punt, punt, punt. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.960 They had three first down runs that resulted in one 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.320 or zero yards and it put them behind the chains. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.800 But then you got the the shovel pass inside that 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.480 looked like Savon could have broken free and made made 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.680 some haste, but he gets tripped up at the last 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.080 second and gets cut down short, you punt the football back, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.240 and that was after Miami had a first down at 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.920 the twenty five yard line to Jalen Waddle for a 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.320 nice catch and throw and catch from two to to Wattle, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.080 but an illegal shift which quite frankly, we pause. Everybody 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.959 was set at the snap, but I'm not going to 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.440 complain about a phishating today in this one. So they 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.400 shoot themselves in the foot, cost themselves point with points. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.240 With that, the Chiefs get it back and you get 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.719 another punt right back after really good coverage marrying up 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.360 with good pass rush up front. I thought Xavi and 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.440 Howard had one of his best games of the season 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.280 of the last couple of seasons. He was sticky in 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.480 coverage downfield, so too was Ramsey. I thought Holland and 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.199 Elliott played really good back in coverage. Thought cater Coo, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.360 who had a good game on one of these plays. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.120 On this drive, David Long forces Mahomes off the spot 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.440 and Jalen Phillips could say cleanup sack, which is no game, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.360 but it was a cleanup sack after a good blitz 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.679 from Long. Then you get a dominant rep from Zach 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.880 Seeler for a quarterback hit and then ex good coverage downfield, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.360 no separation, Boom, quick quick stop there and the Dolphins 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.960 get it back, but they punt it back after a 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.040 couple of drops again, so they'll just continue to make 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.880 errors that put themselves behind the chains and ultimately take 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.680 the offense off the field. The Chiefs go out another 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.720 three and out because Christian Wilkins blows through the offensive 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.199 line and gets a seven yard loss on a tackle 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.720 for loss in a fly sweep. Great play there. You 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.560 get a great coverage from exaving Howard once again to 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.040 force third and seventeen, and then you get pressure that 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.559 forces the check down and here comes cater coohu for 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.800 an open field tackle. Defense is humming. All three levels 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.040 are acting in perfect synchronicity and playing good football. Dolphins 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.440 get it back. Okay, now the offense surely will go 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.720 down and answer, right, didn't happen? They do a shot 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.600 play to Walla goes incomplete, where it looks like you 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.480 kind of lost the ball in that weird roof over 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.760 there you get a weird broken play where two of 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.200 gets hit for grounding. But I thought that Raheem was 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.200 in the territ like in the area because you saw 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.320 to a he knew where he had to go with 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.000 pressure right like you saw him immediately get to that 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.560 sideline throw to Raheem after the initial pressure broke down. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.800 His first red wasn't there, but he throws it like 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.880 just eight yards behind Raheem when he was trying to 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.080 get it over there, and they call grounding third and twenty. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.320 You have to punt the ball back anyways, and then 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.360 talk about a critical play man. There's a third and 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.800 five on the next drive after Rakwan Davis made back 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.760 to back good plays to create a third and five 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.640 from their own ten yard line, and Rashi Rice makes 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.400 a diving catch at the chains off his body and 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.120 that would extend a drive where instead of punting from 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.520 their own end zone up by seven, the Chiefs then 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.440 march a ninety five yard thirteen play drive to make 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.440 it fourteen zero. They converted third and shorts and the 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.000 drive that created the opportunity to go score that drive. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.880 So at that point, you know fourteen to nothing, you 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.160 have a chance to double dip at the end of 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:25.840 the half. In the beginning of the second half, but 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.800 Miami looks like they're gonna do that because they get 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.960 Boom two big plays, a nine yard run, a slant 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.520 to wall for fifteen, a shot the Tyreek for nineteen. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.240 Looks like the Dolphins offense, we know, right, But then 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.960 they throw a screen pass after a positive first down 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.080 gain to durham Smyth where Tyreek Hill catches it and 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.400 as he's trying to put the ball away, they wedge it. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.680 They knock it from his grasp down to like his hips, 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.120 and he kind of has it pinned against his you know, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.040 his belt almost while he's moving backwards. So to me, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.760 one of two things is true. Either Ford progress is 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.800 stopped or he never caught the football. I kind of 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.760 think that both things were true. They didn't see it 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.160 that way. They rule a fumble return for a touchdown, which, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.000 by the way, they pitched it back and that kept 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 the play alive. And I thought Miami could do in 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.240 a bad job of running to the football in that 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.600 spot to get that tackle. They don't. They run it 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.240 back twenty one to nothing, and Twitter's a buzz. Right, 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.440 everything is chaos. The Dolphins are complete pretenders at this point. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.040 They can't hang on the field with these good teams. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.760 Good night, Dolphins, Right, That's not how it went let's 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.560 go ahead and take our first breakrate there, come back 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.000 on the other side and pick it back up with 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.680 the second half story of the game and the five takeaways. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.840 That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:40.720 to you by Auto Nation. Second half story of the game, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.360 second segment here of the Sunday Recap pod. Dolphins fall 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.200 twenty one to fourteen in Frankfurt to the Kansas City Chiefs, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.840 and the Dolphins get the football back twenty one to nothing. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.360 It's just not looking good. And then they go out 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.520 and they execute a big play on first down and 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.080 it turns into a holding call that turns a fifteen 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.480 yard run from Raheem most Are off the edge into 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.000 second and seventeen and that produces a three and out. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.600 And you're just thinking yourself, at what point are they 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.719 gonna get a break or not make a huge mistake 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.560 in a key spot. And that answer would come very 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.480 quickly because the Dolphins put it back to the Chiefs. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.240 You get a Christian Wilkins stop, a miscommunication pass and 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.240 then a scramble where Mahomes has to try to get 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.800 eighteen yards on the ground. The Dolphins do not allow 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.840 that and get the football right back to the offense, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.960 and then we get the Miami offense we've known to 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.440 you know, come to know and love this season right 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.040 down the field for a touchdown. You get two passes 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.199 to Wilson and Smyth and a Wilson run that produces 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.400 a couple of first downs a critical third and two. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.280 You hook up to Durham Smythe for four yards to 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.199 convert the first third down of the game. They were 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.280 zero for six at that point. And then to a 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.280 I love the throw to Cedric Wilson for the touchdown 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.000 because number one, he's kind of running to the corner 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.320 of the end zone and the defensive back is walling 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.960 off the back pylon, but he has inside access for 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.440 a throw to Cedric, and he knows that one McDuffie 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.760 is like kind of kind of stumbling a little bit, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.479 and Cedric just to be in great shape to go 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.720 make a play on the football. So Tua throws it 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.439 high and inside and Cedric goes up and gets his 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.720 mossing version right. He goes up and post a rises 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.399 a defensive back for his second Dolphins touchdown in as 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.440 many weeks. Good to see him come on here primetime said, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.080