Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 3: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 3: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 3: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield And on today's show, a tough loss, a
Speaker 3: Dolphins fall twenty one to fourteen in Germany at the
Speaker 3: hands of the defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs. Will
Speaker 3: break it down with an opening little monologue I put
Speaker 3: together for you guys. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 3: quarterback to a tongue of Baila. We'll do the five
Speaker 3: big picture takeaways and of course take you through the
Speaker 3: gameplay by play here from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 3: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time
Speaker 3: Podcast Miami Dolphins. So a Dolphins fan of a certain
Speaker 3: age can appreciate how challenging that entire game was. From
Speaker 3: starting off shooting yourself in the foot, fall behind by
Speaker 3: a touchdown in the opening drive, not responding to that
Speaker 3: drive for a few drives, giving up another touchdown late
Speaker 3: in the half, and then a offense that looks like
Speaker 3: it's found as spark and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: something goes wrong from your very best player. He puts
Speaker 3: the ball on the turf, they pick it up, they
Speaker 3: lateral it, ran it back for a touchdown to make
Speaker 3: it twenty one nothing at the halftime break, and you're
Speaker 3: thinking to yourself, here we go again, Dolphins in a
Speaker 3: big game. We're never gonna hear the end of this.
Speaker 3: And I hate it. I hate it here. I hate
Speaker 3: being a fan of any team in sports because it
Speaker 3: seems like it always ends in misery. Right after I
Speaker 3: had just shared the Gray Cody story talking about enjoying
Speaker 3: this beautiful dream the Miami Dolphins are on this year,
Speaker 3: that happens, and you're thinking to yourself, Travis, how can
Speaker 3: I possibly stand that? From my mind, it seems like
Speaker 3: every time we have a big challenge, a big game
Speaker 3: against a big time team, we do this. And then
Speaker 3: the Dolphins respond and they show you the resolve and
Speaker 3: they bounce back and they show some bite and they
Speaker 3: show you why they are a team that has everybody
Speaker 3: talking about them weeks into the NFL season. But a
Speaker 3: Dolphins fan of a certain age knows how these movies
Speaker 3: typically end, at least they have in the past. Right.
Speaker 3: A buddy of mine from back home texted me, I
Speaker 3: think it was it twenty one to seven, and said, like, hey,
Speaker 3: they're coming back. They might have a chance. And I said,
Speaker 3: you know, if I know this team like I know
Speaker 3: this team, and again, it's not fair to do that
Speaker 3: for this team because twenty eleven or two thousand and six,
Speaker 3: two thousand and two, none of those teams have any
Speaker 3: impact on the twenty twenty three Miami Dolphins. But I
Speaker 3: told him, you know, maybe a little bit of a
Speaker 3: sad Dolphins fan. I said, they're gonna come back, They're
Speaker 3: gonna have a chance, and they'll come up just short.
Speaker 3: And that's what happened. And those ones can sometimes be
Speaker 3: the toughest games to deal with. Now, look, why is
Speaker 3: it so tough today? What are you feeling like? I
Speaker 3: feel like your stomach just got ripped out. I'm curious
Speaker 3: how Dolphins fans feel. I think I'm kind of alone
Speaker 3: in that a lot of people I've talked to you
Speaker 3: don't feel that way. But let me tell you why
Speaker 3: I feel that way, because the narrative stuff, I don't
Speaker 3: really care. You know, that makes my useless Twitter scrolling
Speaker 3: at night a little bit worse. But that's on me, right,
Speaker 3: I allow myself to be affected by that. None of
Speaker 3: that matters. None of the power ranking stuff matters. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's fun to be on top of those and to
Speaker 3: share the tweets that people praising us and talking about
Speaker 3: how great we are. And look at this next team
Speaker 3: in the National Football League, hard knocks. All the kids
Speaker 3: are dressing up as the head coach and everybody wants
Speaker 3: to be the Miami Dolphins. That's all fun, And maybe
Speaker 3: that's partially to blame for the way you feel after
Speaker 3: a loss like that is the absence of those endorphin
Speaker 3: releases you get from all of those experiences of winning
Speaker 3: a big game like this, or just in general, the
Speaker 3: reaction of winning on social media and what we do
Speaker 3: now in twenty twenty three in the National Football League,
Speaker 3: and we overdramatize every single play, every single game, every
Speaker 3: single result. But where I get real down is the
Speaker 3: actual missed opportunity the Dolphins had today. They had them,
Speaker 3: they had those guys, guys, they were the better team,
Speaker 3: and they just could not capitalize. And that's what I'm
Speaker 3: reminding myself here today that they're close, and you don't
Speaker 3: want to hear that they're close because they haven't broken
Speaker 3: through yet in one of these games. I've been the
Speaker 3: first one to say that sometimes it takes taking your
Speaker 3: lumps before you break through, and then when you do, gosh,
Speaker 3: it's got to be glorious. The famous Steve Young after
Speaker 3: his Super Bowl win, get this gorilla off my back.
Speaker 3: They said he couldn't win the big one he finally did.
Speaker 3: Or Peyton Manning finally exercising the demons in New England,
Speaker 3: or I guess it wasn't Indianapolis, but in four playoff
Speaker 3: losses you know before the two thousand and sixth season,
Speaker 3: to those Patriots teams are Bill Belichick and Tom Brady
Speaker 3: where they're every single year to raise their trophy and
Speaker 3: put an end to the Peyton Manning in Indianapolis Colt
Speaker 3: season that year. But gush, these lumps. They hurt, man
Speaker 3: a god, they hurt specifically when you're the better team.
Speaker 3: So maybe they'll be better off for this. Maybe they'll
Speaker 3: be eleven to three come Christmas Eve when the Cowboys
Speaker 3: come to town, and the narrative will still be they
Speaker 3: can't beat good teams. Maybe that's the blessing. Maybe it
Speaker 3: allows for a really damn good football team here in
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins, and that's what they have, a damn
Speaker 3: good football team to carry the nobody believed in US
Speaker 3: badge down the stretch. Maybe it's a good thing. They'll
Speaker 3: have their chance to exercise their own demons. Hell, I
Speaker 3: think those last three games of the year are essentially
Speaker 3: playoff games because they are teams that are good enough
Speaker 3: to be in the playoffs and teams that I believe Dallas, Baltimore,
Speaker 3: and Buffalo are all going to have double digit wins
Speaker 3: by the time you face them at the end of
Speaker 3: the year. That's for another day, but that's kind of
Speaker 3: a playoff stretch before the playoffs and the next time
Speaker 3: you'll have a chance to prove that you are one
Speaker 3: of these teams. And I don't what does't even mean
Speaker 3: to prove who you are? To like, the standings will
Speaker 3: prove who you are at the end of the day, right,
Speaker 3: So I can stomach the talk, the noise, that's all
Speaker 3: that is. It's all talk. What really gets me, though,
Speaker 3: is the standings. Because you had a chance today you
Speaker 3: were the better team and you still lost a game
Speaker 3: that you were better in and it hurts, It really hurts.
Speaker 3: Let it hurt. I get it. If you're my age,
Speaker 3: you know what it's like to root for this team
Speaker 3: with everything you've got. And I kept saying to Seth
Speaker 3: and OJ in the radio station, Damn man, how the
Speaker 3: hell am I going to handle a devastating playoff loss
Speaker 3: or a Super Bowl loss?
Speaker 1: One day?
Speaker 3: This is how I feel about a November fifth game.
Speaker 3: And that's how it feels today, Like a playoff loss.
Speaker 3: It feels like you were eliminated, but you know what,
Speaker 3: you weren't. And that's the beautiful thing. There is a tomorrow.
Speaker 3: This team is going to come out of the bye
Speaker 3: week healthy and ready to go on a run. But
Speaker 3: it's okay to let it hurt for today it should,
Speaker 3: but we'll be back. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 3: head coach Mike McDaniel on the narrative and what it means,
Speaker 3: and you know, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 1: The overall mental fortitude of the collection of individuals, their
Speaker 1: commitment to this season and this organization and this team,
Speaker 1: and they show me every day.
Speaker 2: This is something that.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we're all very aware and we
Speaker 1: knew going into the game that you know, if we're
Speaker 1: gonna lose, what the narrative of would be and that's
Speaker 1: fair like you you I should we shouldn't feel entitled
Speaker 1: to uh high opinions uh from from the masses, and
Speaker 1: you know, we have to earn that confidence and we
Speaker 1: have to earn.
Speaker 2: You know, every it.
Speaker 1: It also gives me a ton of confidence because I
Speaker 1: know that NFL games, each and every one of them,
Speaker 1: is tough.
Speaker 2: I think people undervalue poor records. You have to. It
Speaker 2: is hard to.
Speaker 1: Win in this league, and so to win in any
Speaker 1: in any right against any opponent is something not to
Speaker 1: take for granted. And uh, as long as you continue
Speaker 1: to get better, ultimately that narrative will subside.
Speaker 2: But that's on us collectively, from.
Speaker 1: Coaches and players alike, to you know, if you want
Speaker 1: the narrative to change, change the narrative.
Speaker 3: I really kind of feel like Coach and I had
Speaker 3: the same thing there in terms of, yeah, it exists,
Speaker 3: it's out there, but if you want to change it,
Speaker 3: you have to go change it. But ultimately the result
Speaker 3: of this team and what this team is built on,
Speaker 3: I think will ultimately make them better. From this, let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and hear from Tua on a missed opportunity
Speaker 3: in Frankfurt on Sunday morning.
Speaker 4: And you know, we think, man, if we would have
Speaker 4: made this play, or if we would have made if
Speaker 4: I would have made this throw, and that that's a
Speaker 4: part of the game.
Speaker 2: It's a game of inches.
Speaker 4: And all we can continue to do is work, you know,
Speaker 4: and not lose sight of where we want to go
Speaker 4: as a team. We got to continue to stick together
Speaker 4: and not deviate from that, regardless of what everyone outside
Speaker 4: is saying. And we just got to put our head
Speaker 4: down and keep going.
Speaker 3: And the funny thing is, like you think about those
Speaker 3: individual plays that ultimately maybe cost you the game. I
Speaker 3: remember thinking back to, like, you know, some of those
Speaker 3: like Joey Harrington losses in Buffalo for instance, or whatever
Speaker 3: it might have been. Like these teams that were seven
Speaker 3: and seven trying to give themselves a chance to be
Speaker 3: alive in week seventeen to go win a game and
Speaker 3: make the playoffs and then ultimately probably get destroyed by
Speaker 3: the aforementioned Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. But this is different, Like,
Speaker 3: we're upset because we lost a chance to earn the
Speaker 3: number one seed heading into week number ten, which what
Speaker 3: does that mean right? Like McDaniel could probably give me
Speaker 3: a pep talk right here, like mission accomplished, Travis. We
Speaker 3: didn't accomplish anything. We were the one seed at week eight?
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Who cares? And he's right? So
Speaker 3: we move on. We live to find another day. Let's
Speaker 3: do the stats real quick before we get into the
Speaker 3: story of the game and the five takeaways from this game.
Speaker 3: It was rough early on for the Miami Dolphins. You
Speaker 3: guys saw how it played out. The offense could not
Speaker 3: get much going and as a result, they wound up
Speaker 3: actually usurping the Chiefs in most categories. Twenty first downs
Speaker 3: to sixteen, the Dolphins were three for twelve to Kansas
Speaker 3: City's three for ten. Miami, of course oh for one
Speaker 3: on fourth downs that was the big play late in
Speaker 3: the game. There but two hundred and ninety two yards
Speaker 3: to two sixty seven. You out passed them, You out
Speaker 3: rushed them. Yeah, out total snapped him fifty eight to
Speaker 3: fifty six. Both teams had one giveaway. The Dolphins took
Speaker 3: three sacks, the Chiefs took two sacks. The penalties Miami
Speaker 3: had six for forty five, Kansas City six, nine for
Speaker 3: sixty nine. And you out possessed them. So it was there,
Speaker 3: man like, the game was right there to a twenty
Speaker 3: one for thirty four one hundred and ninety three yards,
Speaker 3: when the last time he here for under two hundred
Speaker 3: in a full game, one touchdown and a eighty seven
Speaker 3: passer rating, Mahomes was twenty for thirty one to eighty
Speaker 3: five and two touchdowns. I bet you if you would
Speaker 3: have told someone that both these quarterbacks gonna throw for
Speaker 3: under two hundred yards, you would have told them you
Speaker 3: were crazy. But that's what happened in this game. So
Speaker 3: the Chiefs take the opening kickoff drive and march it
Speaker 3: down right down the field, executing ball fakes and misdirections
Speaker 3: and motions. It looked like us on offense for a while.
Speaker 3: They got chunk plays and the mesh rail concept that
Speaker 3: we run. Noah Gray gets loose on a corner route
Speaker 3: and it looks like they're gonna have great spacing and
Speaker 3: throw all over the field and they get a touchdown
Speaker 3: on the board. It comes off the board because he
Speaker 3: didn't make the catch. And then they throw a screen
Speaker 3: pass that goes right behind a blitz and that goes
Speaker 3: in for a touchdown on second and that screen pass
Speaker 3: would be a key throughout the game. We'll come back
Speaker 3: to that. But you're thinking to yourself right away, like
Speaker 3: here we go. Defense is gonna struggle against an elite quarterback,
Speaker 3: and that didn't happen. We'll get back to that here
Speaker 3: and just second, Dolphins get the football back and it's
Speaker 3: a positive start. They get a fifteen yard shot from
Speaker 3: two to waddle into a trio of defenders. But then
Speaker 3: you take a time out on a key third down
Speaker 3: a false start, and it's like same stuff, right, like
Speaker 3: these procedural operation issues that plague You put you behind
Speaker 3: the chains and you wind up not converting. After they
Speaker 3: actually come off size make a third and nine and
Speaker 3: they blitzed to it and get a free runner and
Speaker 3: get him down in the backfield. So Steves Bagnolo had
Speaker 3: a great game plan, had a great pressure package and
Speaker 3: impacted the Dolphins when it had to the most. The
Speaker 3: chief get the ball back and you're thinking, if they
Speaker 3: go score, here, here we go. But it didn't happen
Speaker 3: that way. The Chiefs punt after a really good three
Speaker 3: plays from Jalen Phillips to force an incompletion off of pressure,
Speaker 3: they get Andrew Van ginkle deconstruction for a beat on
Speaker 3: a beating a block on a second down play, and
Speaker 3: then third and ten they get in on the whole
Speaker 3: again and he has to throw the football away, so
Speaker 3: a quick punt Dolphins get it right back, but they
Speaker 3: punt it back themselves. After we had a shot down
Speaker 3: the field from Tua to Tyreek that looked like it
Speaker 3: was gonna be a big game, tight window, one of
Speaker 3: those vintage Tua throws into the bucket, but Tyreek just
Speaker 3: cannot make the catch off the fingertips. We then miss
Speaker 3: a block off the edge, looked like claype want a
Speaker 3: chance to make a big time seal, but Raheem can
Speaker 3: only get one edge one yard off the edge and
Speaker 3: it creates this third and long on second down to ten.
Speaker 3: Early down running failures were a big key in this
Speaker 3: game Miami. On those first three possessions they went punt, punt, punt.
Speaker 3: They had three first down runs that resulted in one
Speaker 3: or zero yards and it put them behind the chains.
Speaker 3: But then you got the the shovel pass inside that
Speaker 3: looked like Savon could have broken free and made made
Speaker 3: some haste, but he gets tripped up at the last
Speaker 3: second and gets cut down short, you punt the football back,
Speaker 3: and that was after Miami had a first down at
Speaker 3: the twenty five yard line to Jalen Waddle for a
Speaker 3: nice catch and throw and catch from two to to Wattle,
Speaker 3: but an illegal shift which quite frankly, we pause. Everybody
Speaker 3: was set at the snap, but I'm not going to
Speaker 3: complain about a phishating today in this one. So they
Speaker 3: shoot themselves in the foot, cost themselves point with points.
Speaker 3: With that, the Chiefs get it back and you get
Speaker 3: another punt right back after really good coverage marrying up
Speaker 3: with good pass rush up front. I thought Xavi and
Speaker 3: Howard had one of his best games of the season
Speaker 3: of the last couple of seasons. He was sticky in
Speaker 3: coverage downfield, so too was Ramsey. I thought Holland and
Speaker 3: Elliott played really good back in coverage. Thought cater Coo,
Speaker 3: who had a good game on one of these plays.
Speaker 3: On this drive, David Long forces Mahomes off the spot
Speaker 3: and Jalen Phillips could say cleanup sack, which is no game,
Speaker 3: but it was a cleanup sack after a good blitz
Speaker 3: from Long. Then you get a dominant rep from Zach
Speaker 3: Seeler for a quarterback hit and then ex good coverage downfield,
Speaker 3: no separation, Boom, quick quick stop there and the Dolphins
Speaker 3: get it back, but they punt it back after a
Speaker 3: couple of drops again, so they'll just continue to make
Speaker 3: errors that put themselves behind the chains and ultimately take
Speaker 3: the offense off the field. The Chiefs go out another
Speaker 3: three and out because Christian Wilkins blows through the offensive
Speaker 3: line and gets a seven yard loss on a tackle
Speaker 3: for loss in a fly sweep. Great play there. You
Speaker 3: get a great coverage from exaving Howard once again to
Speaker 3: force third and seventeen, and then you get pressure that
Speaker 3: forces the check down and here comes cater coohu for
Speaker 3: an open field tackle. Defense is humming. All three levels
Speaker 3: are acting in perfect synchronicity and playing good football. Dolphins
Speaker 3: get it back. Okay, now the offense surely will go
Speaker 3: down and answer, right, didn't happen? They do a shot
Speaker 3: play to Walla goes incomplete, where it looks like you
Speaker 3: kind of lost the ball in that weird roof over
Speaker 3: there you get a weird broken play where two of
Speaker 3: gets hit for grounding. But I thought that Raheem was
Speaker 3: in the territ like in the area because you saw
Speaker 3: to a he knew where he had to go with
Speaker 3: pressure right like you saw him immediately get to that
Speaker 3: sideline throw to Raheem after the initial pressure broke down.
Speaker 3: His first red wasn't there, but he throws it like
Speaker 3: just eight yards behind Raheem when he was trying to
Speaker 3: get it over there, and they call grounding third and twenty.
Speaker 3: You have to punt the ball back anyways, and then
Speaker 3: talk about a critical play man. There's a third and
Speaker 3: five on the next drive after Rakwan Davis made back
Speaker 3: to back good plays to create a third and five
Speaker 3: from their own ten yard line, and Rashi Rice makes
Speaker 3: a diving catch at the chains off his body and
Speaker 3: that would extend a drive where instead of punting from
Speaker 3: their own end zone up by seven, the Chiefs then
Speaker 3: march a ninety five yard thirteen play drive to make
Speaker 3: it fourteen zero. They converted third and shorts and the
Speaker 3: drive that created the opportunity to go score that drive.
Speaker 3: So at that point, you know fourteen to nothing, you
Speaker 3: have a chance to double dip at the end of
Speaker 3: the half. In the beginning of the second half, but
Speaker 3: Miami looks like they're gonna do that because they get
Speaker 3: Boom two big plays, a nine yard run, a slant
Speaker 3: to wall for fifteen, a shot the Tyreek for nineteen.
Speaker 3: Looks like the Dolphins offense, we know, right, But then
Speaker 3: they throw a screen pass after a positive first down
Speaker 3: gain to durham Smyth where Tyreek Hill catches it and
Speaker 3: as he's trying to put the ball away, they wedge it.
Speaker 3: They knock it from his grasp down to like his hips,
Speaker 3: and he kind of has it pinned against his you know,
Speaker 3: his belt almost while he's moving backwards. So to me,
Speaker 3: one of two things is true. Either Ford progress is
Speaker 3: stopped or he never caught the football. I kind of
Speaker 3: think that both things were true. They didn't see it
Speaker 3: that way. They rule a fumble return for a touchdown, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, they pitched it back and that kept
Speaker 3: the play alive. And I thought Miami could do in
Speaker 3: a bad job of running to the football in that
Speaker 3: spot to get that tackle. They don't. They run it
Speaker 3: back twenty one to nothing, and Twitter's a buzz. Right,
Speaker 3: everything is chaos. The Dolphins are complete pretenders at this point.
Speaker 3: They can't hang on the field with these good teams.
Speaker 3: Good night, Dolphins, Right, That's not how it went let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and take our first breakrate there, come back
Speaker 3: on the other side and pick it back up with
Speaker 3: the second half story of the game and the five takeaways.
Speaker 3: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by Auto Nation. Second half story of the game,
Speaker 3: second segment here of the Sunday Recap pod. Dolphins fall
Speaker 3: twenty one to fourteen in Frankfurt to the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 3: and the Dolphins get the football back twenty one to nothing.
Speaker 3: It's just not looking good. And then they go out
Speaker 3: and they execute a big play on first down and
Speaker 3: it turns into a holding call that turns a fifteen
Speaker 3: yard run from Raheem most Are off the edge into
Speaker 3: second and seventeen and that produces a three and out.
Speaker 3: And you're just thinking yourself, at what point are they
Speaker 3: gonna get a break or not make a huge mistake
Speaker 3: in a key spot. And that answer would come very
Speaker 3: quickly because the Dolphins put it back to the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: You get a Christian Wilkins stop, a miscommunication pass and
Speaker 3: then a scramble where Mahomes has to try to get
Speaker 3: eighteen yards on the ground. The Dolphins do not allow
Speaker 3: that and get the football right back to the offense,
Speaker 3: and then we get the Miami offense we've known to
Speaker 3: you know, come to know and love this season right
Speaker 3: down the field for a touchdown. You get two passes
Speaker 3: to Wilson and Smyth and a Wilson run that produces
Speaker 3: a couple of first downs a critical third and two.
Speaker 3: You hook up to Durham Smythe for four yards to
Speaker 3: convert the first third down of the game. They were
Speaker 3: zero for six at that point. And then to a
Speaker 3: I love the throw to Cedric Wilson for the touchdown
Speaker 3: because number one, he's kind of running to the corner
Speaker 3: of the end zone and the defensive back is walling
Speaker 3: off the back pylon, but he has inside access for
Speaker 3: a throw to Cedric, and he knows that one McDuffie
Speaker 3: is like kind of kind of stumbling a little bit,
Speaker 3: and Cedric just to be in great shape to go
Speaker 3: make a play on the football. So Tua throws it
Speaker 3: high and inside and Cedric goes up and gets his
Speaker 3: mossing version right. He goes up and post a rises
Speaker 3: a defensive back for his second Dolphins touchdown in as
Speaker 3: many weeks. Good to see him come on here primetime said,
Speaker 3: as Tua says, the team calls him in that locker room,
Speaker 3: so a big player to get the Dolphins out of
Speaker 3: a hole. It's twenty one to seven. Two of goes
Speaker 3: six for six for sixty four yards on the drive
Speaker 3: and the touchdown, and then you're thinking to yourself, just
Speaker 3: give me a stop. Oj kept saying, get the ball
Speaker 3: back in the third quarter. There's four minutes left. Get
Speaker 3: it back in the third quarter. Give yourself a chance
Speaker 3: to score early fourth quarter, and then maybe we can
Speaker 3: make a run at this thing in the fourth and
Speaker 3: the Dolphins do you one better because Xavi and Howard
Speaker 3: comes up on a short throw and cuts it down
Speaker 3: for no gain. Bradley Chubb gets his hand on a
Speaker 3: screen pass, which was the most effective play for the
Speaker 3: Chiefs in this game, running the ball inside to Isaiah
Speaker 3: Bachecko and quick hitters from Patrick Mahomes. Think about that.
Speaker 3: That's if you can force offenses to do that to
Speaker 3: have success, you're probably doing something right. So Bradley Chubb
Speaker 3: swats the screen down and then after the offensive holding call,
Speaker 3: it's third and twenty and Bradley Chubb, like he's done
Speaker 3: all year long, wins a pass rush. He meets Jalen
Speaker 3: Phillips at the quarterback. Chubb knocks the ball out, Sealer
Speaker 3: sees the ball on the ground, has a great effort
Speaker 3: to jump on it and recover it. Great work from Chubb, Seeler, Wilkins.
Speaker 3: Those guys had awesome games. Jalen Phillips did, Andrew Van
Speaker 3: Ginkol did. The entire defense played their butts off. They
Speaker 3: give it back to Miami, and of course holding on
Speaker 3: first down creates first and twenty. Then we miss Tyreek
Speaker 3: and this is where, like I thought, Tua's accuracy kind
Speaker 3: of wasn't what we're used to for the rest of
Speaker 3: the game, even though they scored more points the rest
Speaker 3: of the way, but I thought that some of his
Speaker 3: throws were just a little bit off from where they
Speaker 3: usually were. And that started on a first and twenty
Speaker 3: ball to Tyreek where he's open on that deep dagger
Speaker 3: right the inbreaking route about eighteen yards down the field.
Speaker 3: We've hit it for a million yards this year, and
Speaker 3: the ball's a little bit high and behind. Then we
Speaker 3: take a time out on third down. Like it's just
Speaker 3: these wasted timeouts they add up. I'm not saying it's wasted,
Speaker 3: but you don't you know get in the play call
Speaker 3: in there would have done wonders to say that time out.
Speaker 3: Then on third and twenty, Chris Jones pushes Austin Jackson
Speaker 3: to the ground, gets a roughing call and that gives
Speaker 3: the Dolphins nude life. Then they swing it out to
Speaker 3: Raheem Moster on a toss play on the next play,
Speaker 3: and he gets a great block, an absolutely phenomenal block
Speaker 3: from alec Ingold, and he has great vision and a
Speaker 3: good cut to put his foot in the ground. Bang
Speaker 3: it back inside and get in there for six twenty
Speaker 3: one to fourteen and it's not even the fourth quarrea.
Speaker 3: And then the defense says, okay, we'll do you one better.
Speaker 3: We'll get the ball right back. They get a couple
Speaker 3: of first downs, but then they get another great play
Speaker 3: from Bradley Chubb to break up a pass into the flat.
Speaker 3: Then they get a run stuff. Then third and nine
Speaker 3: they try a deep shot. Miami's pressure gets in but
Speaker 3: Mahomes makes kind of a off platform throw and it's
Speaker 3: a good throw down the field, but there's cater Coo
Speaker 3: who great coverage to break it up. Dolphins defense is humming.
Speaker 3: Dolphins get the ball back on offense, and you're thinking
Speaker 3: to yourself, they're gonna go do this thing, aren't they.
Speaker 3: Two runs by Raheem for thirteen yards, then he fumbles,
Speaker 3: and good on Chase Claypool. That was gonna be my
Speaker 3: play before the play. Had this game gone the other
Speaker 3: way was Claypool diving on that loose ball that Raheem
Speaker 3: put on the carpet. You get a second down complation
Speaker 3: to Ingole that sets up a third and four and
Speaker 3: Rob Jones gets hurt and I'm thinking about you, Rob,
Speaker 3: Rob Jones is one of the best people you ever
Speaker 3: meet in this world. Man thinking about him and his injury.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he'll be okay. But Liam Meikenberg comes in for
Speaker 3: his first rep one on one against Chris Jones, and
Speaker 3: he like he holds up, He doesn't enough to give
Speaker 3: two a Tyreek for a great timing throw to the
Speaker 3: perimeter to move the chains. Watal for thirteen, Tyreek and
Speaker 3: around for four Raheem for one, third and five. Critical
Speaker 3: third and five play here, and this is what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about with Tua. He hits the pass to Tyreek
Speaker 3: for eight in a first down, but I thought Tyreek
Speaker 3: had some room to run. But the balls a little
Speaker 3: bit on the back hip, and like watching other quarterbacks
Speaker 3: college or pro, it makes me appreciate how damn perfect
Speaker 3: Tua is ninety nine percent of the time with his
Speaker 3: location and timing. Because most of the time the ball's
Speaker 3: right on that face mask upfield, they can turn into
Speaker 3: a play. I just thought there was a couple that
Speaker 3: were a little bit behind. We'll watch the tape tomorrow
Speaker 3: and get you guys more of a breakdown on that.
Speaker 3: But I thought there was some chances to make bigger
Speaker 3: plays than we had. This was one of them. It
Speaker 3: did move the chains, but then we go a toss
Speaker 3: outside to Akmed, he loses six. We take a sack,
Speaker 3: third and two, twenty six incomplete. Just like these critical
Speaker 3: moments of the game that were in your hands to
Speaker 3: make these big shifts just didn't quite go your way.
Speaker 3: And then it's like, well, the Chiefs need two first
Speaker 3: downs to end the game. They're probably gonna get it.
Speaker 3: They throw a screen to Kelsey for six yards. Great, right,
Speaker 3: They're already ahead of the chains. But then Pacheco runs
Speaker 3: for three and then third and one. They dial up
Speaker 3: a pass and Miami plasters every single option on the
Speaker 3: little boot roll the quick flat route, the little slide
Speaker 3: route they want to run, the little hookup route. They
Speaker 3: plaster Kelsey with double coverage, just great, great Dolphins defense
Speaker 3: to get the football back, and then Miami takes it
Speaker 3: with two twenty eight two timeouts. You need seventy five yards.
Speaker 3: I assume you go for two, although you out played
Speaker 3: them in the second half by a lot by like triple,
Speaker 3: so maybe you'd go to overtime. Who knows. I'd be
Speaker 3: curious to hear what Mike says about what they were
Speaker 3: thinking there after a potential touchdown because Raheem Moster goes
Speaker 3: for twenty six yards with key blocks from Connor Williams
Speaker 3: for a nineteen yard rounth left side, a key block
Speaker 3: from Tron Armstead. But then things get wonky and the
Speaker 3: Dolphins open up this series and empty when you had
Speaker 3: one seventeen to play at the plus thirty one yard line,
Speaker 3: two timeouts, the full menu is open that you go empty,
Speaker 3: incomplete pass, incomplete pass, and then it looks like Cedric
Speaker 3: Wilson's opened down the field, but to what throws it? Shorten.
Speaker 3: This is a part that's gonna annoy me about. You know,
Speaker 3: he's talk about narratives and what's on social media, Like
Speaker 3: Tua can throw the ball twenty five yards, so like
Speaker 3: stop saying that he missed an underthrow. It was a miscommunication, man, Like,
Speaker 3: let's go ahead and hear from Tua in fact on
Speaker 3: that third down miss.
Speaker 4: With what happened with me and said that was just miscommunication.
Speaker 4: And you know, in big time moments, those things like
Speaker 4: that can happen. So you know, I I gotta throw
Speaker 4: a better ball. You know, it was just miscommunication there.
Speaker 4: And then with with the last play of the game.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm always gonna blame myself. I I you know.
Speaker 2: I got to catch the ball.
Speaker 4: So whether that's getting in a in a better position
Speaker 4: to catch it or whatever it is, can end the
Speaker 4: game like that when we have an opportunity like that
Speaker 4: against a really good team.
Speaker 3: And he's right, you can't. And I just want to
Speaker 3: reiterate the point that, like Tua was trying to throw
Speaker 3: a comeback, Cedric ran a takeoff, like just please get
Speaker 3: lost with the like your takes that you want to
Speaker 3: get out there, you know. So what happened was, you know,
Speaker 3: Cedric was the one to the field, the white side
Speaker 3: of the field, and it's third and ten. The Dolphins
Speaker 3: need a first down to keep this game going, and
Speaker 3: Cedric runs like a double move to the back pile
Speaker 3: on a takeoff, and Tua throws a timing short comeback
Speaker 3: route that we've seen him hit time and time again
Speaker 3: to Tyreek Hill. I've never seen him hit to Jalen
Speaker 3: Wall or Cedric Wilson or anybody else in the receiving corps.
Speaker 3: But he tries this this throw and it was there.
Speaker 3: It's where it needed to be. But Cedric takes off
Speaker 3: and runs down the field. It goes incomplete. Let's go ahead,
Speaker 3: and hear from Mike McDaniel on that critical play third
Speaker 3: down incomplete pass at Heeddrick Wilson.
Speaker 1: If I know my personnel, well two is probably standing
Speaker 1: up here since he gets to talk before me and
Speaker 1: saying this, that and the other about it's on him.
Speaker 2: It was, It wasn't.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a lot that falls on squarely on
Speaker 1: my shoulders that they were, you know, doing something that
Speaker 1: we had talked about, and the miscommunication is something that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen if you know, I put them in the
Speaker 1: appropriate situation during the week, so.
Speaker 2: You know there was a uh too. It didn't have
Speaker 2: time to observe.
Speaker 1: He uh he he signaled kind of a one route
Speaker 1: and that has a conversion and cedric interpreted as another thing.
Speaker 1: And that's just things that when you're working together as
Speaker 1: a football team, you know, and you have the right
Speaker 1: effort and mentality from all your players that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's one hundred percent something that I can control personally,
Speaker 1: So you know that the the it I was very
Speaker 1: very proud of, how of the resolve of you know,
Speaker 1: I'm very encouraged about the team. And just to be
Speaker 1: in that position on that final drive takes a lot
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, there there was a lot of
Speaker 1: expectations not met, you know, in the first half, and
Speaker 1: for those guys to you know, for the defense to
Speaker 1: shut them out in the second half and only hold
Speaker 1: them and only allow fourteen points, and for us to
Speaker 1: be in that in that in that situation, uh, with
Speaker 1: one minute to go. I think that's the bigger picture
Speaker 1: from the players perspective. And you know, I told told
Speaker 1: the team that you don't have to worry about me
Speaker 1: learning from mistakes. That's it's gonna be hard one hard
Speaker 1: one to digest, but will make it purposeful.
Speaker 3: And I know, you guys by now have seen the
Speaker 3: fourth down play against zero coverage because Wattle had not
Speaker 3: just green grass in front of him, he had the
Speaker 3: entire end zone to work with. In terms of Tua
Speaker 3: laying the ball out there with those you know, perfectly
Speaker 3: projected deep shots that kind of hang up in the
Speaker 3: air to give his receiver a chance to run to space.
Speaker 3: If he catches the snap, it's a touchdown. I'm like,
Speaker 3: there's no doubt in my mind, but the snap is
Speaker 3: just off his frame. Tua cannot handle it. Tua took
Speaker 3: the blame for that. I think the snap was good
Speaker 3: enough to make a catch, but maybe against that look
Speaker 3: against zero, you know, you're hot, like they sent like
Speaker 3: the entire house. It was seven guys coming and four
Speaker 3: guys dropping one on one coverage. And here's Tuoa actually
Speaker 3: on that play because like we said, he had a
Speaker 3: chance to make a big play there to potentially really
Speaker 3: kind of stake his his flag in the NFL in
Speaker 3: terms of a big semeture moment there, but it didn't
Speaker 3: go that way. Here's two on the fourth down, this
Speaker 3: snap and sack that ends the game.
Speaker 4: Ultimately, they played zero, so we we had routes for
Speaker 4: it was really one on ones on everyone, so it's
Speaker 4: really your best matchup.
Speaker 3: That's how you look at that. What a bummer, dude,
Speaker 3: we had that one. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 3: last break right there. Come back into the five takeaways,
Speaker 3: we'll hear more from McDaniel and two. That's next Draft
Speaker 3: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 3: Auto Nation. You've relived the game, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: do the five takeaways here. Number one, just the self
Speaker 3: inflicted wounds in big games. At some point they have
Speaker 3: to learn from it. At some point they have to
Speaker 3: improve upon it and use it to their advantage to
Speaker 3: not make those mistakes. Play a clean football game, because
Speaker 3: I think that if this team plays a clean game
Speaker 3: in a big game, they're gonna get you that big
Speaker 3: win and you're gonna feel great about it. When's that
Speaker 3: going to be, I'm not sure, but I hope it's
Speaker 3: the next one that we play. But the timeout on
Speaker 3: the first drive on third and nine, the illegal shift
Speaker 3: that wipes out what would have been a first down
Speaker 3: at the twenty five yard line. Instead it's third and fifteen.
Speaker 3: We run that shovel where it looks like Savan has
Speaker 3: one tackle to slip. We can't we punt the football back.
Speaker 3: That illegal shift cost you points. The penalty I thought
Speaker 3: was questionable, but it cost you points. Tyreek's drop on
Speaker 3: second nine from the minus forty one would have put
Speaker 3: you at the plus thirty yard line. That's more of
Speaker 3: a physical air than a mental self inflicted wound. But
Speaker 3: you punt two plays later. You fumble at the end
Speaker 3: of the first half, a ten point swing, maybe a
Speaker 3: fourteen point swing at that point in the game opening drive,
Speaker 3: the third half of the half three and out thanks
Speaker 3: to a hole that wipes out a first down run.
Speaker 3: You get a hold immediately after the Bradley Chubb force
Speaker 3: fumble recovery that you overcame, but still a self inflicted
Speaker 3: error there, and then two of misses that third down
Speaker 3: throw to Centric Wilson. The miscommunication just can't have those
Speaker 3: in critical spots. It seems to be the team's I
Speaker 3: don't want to say calling car but it's what happens
Speaker 3: frequently in those big spots in these big games, going
Speaker 3: back to you know, last season, the big games, the
Speaker 3: playoff game last year, Buffalo Philadelphia, this game, it just
Speaker 3: it sucks to see the defense allows the opening drive touchdown,
Speaker 3: and then you wind up going punt punt punt offense
Speaker 3: after two tops on the defense like some better complmentary
Speaker 3: football and self inflicted womens that prevents you from having
Speaker 3: that complementary football. What I I think put you in
Speaker 3: the winner circle today. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 3: two on self inflicted errors.
Speaker 4: We were trying to get things going, couldn't get things going,
Speaker 4: whether we were you know, shooting ourselves in the foot
Speaker 4: of there's miscommunication with a run play, or there's a
Speaker 4: flag for.
Speaker 2: This or that.
Speaker 4: But you know, the the game's not played in two quarters,
Speaker 4: is played in four quarters, and so we knew we
Speaker 4: had the second half to try to come back and
Speaker 4: make a run at it, you know, but it's it's
Speaker 4: always tough if you go against a team like that,
Speaker 4: and you know, those guys know a thing or two
Speaker 4: about big games.
Speaker 3: He's certainly right they do. Takeaway Number two is I
Speaker 3: think this defense is for real, guys, and I talked
Speaker 3: about it. That's where a lot of my hype came
Speaker 3: from this week in terms of how I was telling
Speaker 3: you guys on Twitter and on the podcast how excited
Speaker 3: I was for this game. That we get a pair
Speaker 3: what I think is the best offense in the NFL,
Speaker 3: which I'm willing to hear debate now, because this team
Speaker 3: has to prove they can you know, produce against the
Speaker 3: top level defense before we can give them that moniker
Speaker 3: even though they are at number one and most categories still,
Speaker 3: but man, the defense, Like going into the season, you know,
Speaker 3: people thought that maybe the Dolphins offense last year was
Speaker 3: you know, fluky, and I'm using air quotes, but everyone
Speaker 3: had faith in this defense because of the coverage, because
Speaker 3: of the rush, because of the three levels. They had
Speaker 3: good players all three levels, and they were deep, and
Speaker 3: then injuries bit into that. But today they had the
Speaker 3: starting defense out there, and what do they do besides
Speaker 3: hold Kansas City to fourteen points and on their final
Speaker 3: eight drives just seven points a lot. On those final
Speaker 3: eight drives after the opening drive pressure without blitzing four
Speaker 3: man rushes, they can kick Jilen Phillips inside to the
Speaker 3: three technique and he can rush at guard, and you
Speaker 3: can send Chubb off the edge and Van Ginkle off
Speaker 3: the other edge and Christian Wilkins inside and you can
Speaker 3: win with your pass rush with excellent coverage downfield, from
Speaker 3: Ramsey being one of the best. Did he even get
Speaker 3: a target in this game? Xaviing Howard, I thought played
Speaker 3: his best game of the season. He looks fantastic in that,
Speaker 3: you know, opposite Jilen Ramsey role. I thought cater Co
Speaker 3: who got better, and I just I think that's the
Speaker 3: impact of Jilian Ramsey, man, Like you're gonna have every
Speaker 3: cornerback spot gets better because you have Ramsey. You had
Speaker 3: Holland and Elliott back out there communicating, the back end
Speaker 3: looking really well. The run defense was great. Baker and
Speaker 3: Long were fitting runs really well, except for a few
Speaker 3: Pacheco runs that got loose, but they were blitzing and
Speaker 3: getting in there and making their impact. Felt this defense
Speaker 3: man the stop at the end giving the ball back
Speaker 3: to the offense twice. All the defense was fantastic in
Speaker 3: this one. Let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel how
Speaker 3: proud he was and the plan, the takeaway Travis Kelsey
Speaker 3: who had just three catches in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought that they had a good plan.
Speaker 2: I was very very proud. I was very very proud.
Speaker 1: Just we we approached the game as a team ready
Speaker 1: for you know, the Super Bowl champions and understanding that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to be that they were gonna.
Speaker 2: Have some success.
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing is I didn't want to see
Speaker 1: people waiver and wow did we get tested with that? So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the biggest thing is we uh
Speaker 1: we didn't let the first drive knowing that historically, ah,
Speaker 1: you know, the Kansas City Chiefs let you know, led
Speaker 1: by Andy Reid, have always been very very good at
Speaker 1: presenting new problems and new issues, specifically in the openers.
Speaker 1: And so when you just handling that storm, I mean
Speaker 1: to have you know, seven points given up by the
Speaker 1: defense after that first drive.
Speaker 2: That that's the bit. That's the huge.
Speaker 1: Thing that you know, I'm really really encouraged by by
Speaker 1: our mental fortitude because I know you knows as the
Speaker 1: season progresses, these these games get bigger and bigger, so
Speaker 1: you have to be able to uh sustain things, or
Speaker 1: you have to be able to survive situations where you're
Speaker 1: gonna get presented with new problems in game and adjust.
Speaker 2: And I thought we did a great job with that.
Speaker 1: And I thought we were very competitive in re routes.
Speaker 1: I thought we played team defense as I would expect,
Speaker 1: and guys when they were at the point of attack
Speaker 1: with Travis. They they were executing their fundamentals and technique.
Speaker 2: So that will.
Speaker 1: Always be our calling card in all three phases, and
Speaker 1: it's something that I look forward to continue to improve
Speaker 1: on in the bye week for the second half of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 3: So I think that defense is only going to get better.
Speaker 3: I think the offense is going to learn from this
Speaker 3: first half of the season. Having a bye week to
Speaker 3: go back and kind of self scout. I'm excited about
Speaker 3: what's to come for this team in the second half
Speaker 3: of the season. Take Away number three, you have to
Speaker 3: learn how to win these games. The Chiefs just made
Speaker 3: critical plays. The Rashi Rice catch I talked about that's
Speaker 3: a critical play that changes the game. You're not punting
Speaker 3: out of your end zone. You're now marching ninety five
Speaker 3: yards for a touchdown. The Tyreek drop on the second
Speaker 3: downplay that I talked about earlier or second nine, that
Speaker 3: would have been, you know, twenty five yards in field position,
Speaker 3: and the difference between being in field goal range and
Speaker 3: punting two plays later. The fumble there to give the
Speaker 3: ball back and then to not tackle them again to
Speaker 3: the ground. Just these critical moments, the third and fourth
Speaker 3: down at the very end of the game, critical moments
Speaker 3: where the game has decided. Miami comes up large in
Speaker 3: these in the games they win, which is fitting. I
Speaker 3: guess that kind of fits the whole point there. But
Speaker 3: the games they've lost against teams that have been there, right,
Speaker 3: Buffalo has been deep into the playoffs, Kansas City has
Speaker 3: gone to the super Bowl and won, the Eagles went
Speaker 3: to the super Bowl last year. Those teams have found
Speaker 3: a way to just beat us in these critical spots,
Speaker 3: and Miami has to find a way. They have to
Speaker 3: find a way to be better in these key spots
Speaker 3: in these big games against these big time teams. That
Speaker 3: the fourth takeaway, The narrative is the narrative until you
Speaker 3: prove otherwise. I did a whole thing about it. I
Speaker 3: don't care. But like McDaniel said at his press early
Speaker 3: in the week, either the narrative is going to be
Speaker 3: We're going to the super Bowl after this game, or
Speaker 3: we just cannot beat good teams and we should just
Speaker 3: fold up shop and not play anymore. Right, I added
Speaker 3: the last part there, But those are the two potential
Speaker 3: outcomes from this game. Well, it's gonna be two weeks
Speaker 3: of not fun content of thinking about how the plays
Speaker 3: you had that didn't go your way all the way
Speaker 3: through the bye week, and that leads us into our
Speaker 3: final takeaway. Number five is that I say all the
Speaker 3: time on the show here guys, everything is still out
Speaker 3: in front of this football team. I think that makes
Speaker 3: it an uphill climb to get the one seed, which gosh,
Speaker 3: I would have liked our chances to go all the
Speaker 3: way if you have home playoff games at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 3: and that's still a possibility. I shouldn't talk so definitively,
Speaker 3: but I think it's a really tough, you know, hill
Speaker 3: to overclimb. You have a two game deficit now to
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, and who knows if they lose two games
Speaker 3: the rest of the year. But the division is still
Speaker 3: very much in play. It all is, and you're still
Speaker 3: in prime position to go out and top the Bills
Speaker 3: and the Jets and win this division. But you know,
Speaker 3: a week off, a bunch of home games, the Raiders,
Speaker 3: the Jets, the Commanders, the Titans, and the Jets. Again.
Speaker 3: You know, I like our team and against most teams,
Speaker 3: I like our team a lot against those five teams.
Speaker 3: Last year we began eight and three. We all felt
Speaker 3: like we were a super Bowl team and then things
Speaker 3: went sideways. Now I mentioned these games because does anybody
Speaker 3: expect even after today's game, even after the Philly game,
Speaker 3: does anybody expect anything less than five and zero during
Speaker 3: that run? I mean, you have to play the games,
Speaker 3: you have to go execute. Injuries happen, things can change.
Speaker 3: But at this moment, you look at that and you
Speaker 3: think you could be eleven and three. But even then,
Speaker 3: still would anybody consider the Dolphins the favorites to win
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl at that point? I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think we should care. It doesn't matter. But
Speaker 3: that's how the outside will view you even if you
Speaker 3: are eleven and three and you've earned that. But you
Speaker 3: know what you'd earn at eleven three is being eleven
Speaker 3: and three and being in a top of your division
Speaker 3: and being in a position to finish the season with
Speaker 3: one of the best records in the league, which puts
Speaker 3: you in position to make a run in January. And
Speaker 3: like I said, that all exists out in front of you.
Speaker 3: It sucks, it hurts. Embrace the suck, embrace the hurt,
Speaker 3: embrace the pain, and try to get on with your life.
Speaker 3: Go play with your kids, It's a tough loss to swallow,
Speaker 3: a tough pill to swallow, but this Dolphins team will
Speaker 3: be back. Count on that. That's my time. You all.
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