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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, you know what time?
Speaker 1: It is another victory Monday edition here of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast as the Dolphins win win, win, win. That
Speaker 1: is seven of the last eight. So much to unpack
Speaker 1: from this Dolphins nineteen to seven win win, win win
Speaker 1: as what started off as a slow, kind of uneventful
Speaker 1: game turned into a high wire act as a Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense puts the clamps on the Bengals, not allowing a
Speaker 1: point over the final three quarters and a resurgent up
Speaker 1: tempo attack from the offense leads to the final nine
Speaker 1: team points of the game. Will cover takeaways, individuals, audio
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Speaker 1: Miami today, Hun, we had the Dolphins win this one
Speaker 1: nineteen to seven, and I finally got a chance to
Speaker 1: go back and look at the box score because there
Speaker 1: was a lot going on from quotes and articles and
Speaker 1: writing things up in the let's call it a shift
Speaker 1: in the mindset late in that game that kind of
Speaker 1: set the temple for post game and what coach and
Speaker 1: players were gonna talk about to the media. But what
Speaker 1: kind of got lost in the shuffle there for me
Speaker 1: was the box score. Look at this Dolphins box score.
Speaker 1: We've we've long heard the conversation this year that even
Speaker 1: as the Dolphins are winning games by multiple scores, we've
Speaker 1: heard coach Flores's talk about how I don't really care
Speaker 1: about the stats without the proper context, because they might
Speaker 1: tell you one thing and I think I saw another thing.
Speaker 1: We'll look at the box score for this game from Miami,
Speaker 1: no doubt about who played the better football game. Miami
Speaker 1: four hundred and six yards one hundred ninety six for
Speaker 1: the Bengals. The Dolphins had one hundred ten yards on
Speaker 1: the ground. Cincinnati rushed for only forty yards in the game.
Speaker 1: Dolphins passed for two nine six to the Bengals one
Speaker 1: fifty six. Miami is one for ten on third down,
Speaker 1: so that's got to get better. We know that the
Speaker 1: Bengals were three for twelve, right in line with Miami's
Speaker 1: top third down defense in the National Football League. To
Speaker 1: takeaways from Miami, one for the Bengals on that late
Speaker 1: Miles gascon fumble, six Dolphins sacks the Bengals didn't have any,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins eight penalties for fifty four yards. We
Speaker 1: heard coach talk about that post game. That's not gonna
Speaker 1: that's not gonna do it for Coach Flora's and the
Speaker 1: way he wants this operation run. The Bengal six penalties
Speaker 1: sixty two yards and TP goes to Miami, who had
Speaker 1: thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds of time of possession.
Speaker 1: A couple of the storylines I was keeping my eye on,
Speaker 1: keeping a finger on the pulse of as we got
Speaker 1: closer and closer to kickoff was how the running back
Speaker 1: rotation worked, and it went how I thought it would.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin played the line share of the snaps. We
Speaker 1: did see some Patrick Lard out there at times in
Speaker 1: this game, and Chandler Cox as well in the very
Speaker 1: early going. I don't know how many snaps he played,
Speaker 1: but I did see him on the field early, but
Speaker 1: it was mostly Miles Gaskin out there as he Cox
Speaker 1: the fullback of course, and Laird were the only running
Speaker 1: backs available. Of course I was concerned or not concerned,
Speaker 1: but I was curious to see what To have played
Speaker 1: like in this game because we've heard all the stories.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played since that Denver game. So you know,
Speaker 1: everyone in the week to week league and the kind
Speaker 1: of get your reaction, get your take, gets your final
Speaker 1: conclusion on a player after every single game, reform that
Speaker 1: and propose it as a long term solution. That's how
Speaker 1: it is in this league. So I was curious to
Speaker 1: see how to would bounce back and the second half
Speaker 1: that he played in this game, I think, I hope
Speaker 1: is what folks will remember, and how he was just
Speaker 1: comfortable and throwing on the move and making plays. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more about that here. Just one second, I wanted
Speaker 1: to know how many three an ounces they were gonna get,
Speaker 1: how many turnovers could they force? Could they hold the
Speaker 1: Bengals to ten or fewer first downs? Those were my
Speaker 1: target points and expectations for this Dolphins defense, and they
Speaker 1: came damn close. Two more takeaways that extends the NFL's
Speaker 1: longest active street of eight teen straight games with a
Speaker 1: takeaway they get four or three and ounce in the game,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of punts. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: again in the takeaway segment here. And twelve first downs
Speaker 1: with the Bengals offense, so just a little bit over
Speaker 1: on the end of the game. A couple of first
Speaker 1: downs they're late help the Bengals get over the ten mark.
Speaker 1: But those were what I was looking for, and this
Speaker 1: defense once again did not disappoint. And then the offensive
Speaker 1: line with Robert Hunt started the game instead of in
Speaker 1: place of Jesse Davis at right tackle, with Solomonckinley back
Speaker 1: at right guard. We did see Eric Flowers get hurt
Speaker 1: in this game. More on that in just one second,
Speaker 1: which pushed Dave Us into right guard off the bench
Speaker 1: and Solomon Kindley over the left guard where he played
Speaker 1: at Georgia. So some interesting stuff to look out there.
Speaker 1: We'll get more on the offensive line stuff on the
Speaker 1: All twenty two review. Just an easier time for me
Speaker 1: to have more transparency with that for you guys. First though,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and just address the elephant in the room,
Speaker 1: and here from Coach Flora's he spoke post game about
Speaker 1: the skirmish between the two teams, which saw the Dolphins
Speaker 1: sideline kind of pour onto the field in support of
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant, who was hit late on a kickoff or
Speaker 1: a punt return. I should say for a fair with
Speaker 1: a fair catch for the second time in the game.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and let Coach Flora's take you through
Speaker 1: his perspective of the entire event. Yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: got to do a better job of keeping our pois
Speaker 1: That starts with me. Have that a better job of
Speaker 1: keeping up my boys? Um, you know, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stick off for my players. Um, they're gonna stick up
Speaker 1: for each other. Without getting penalties, without um, you know,
Speaker 1: hurting the team. But we got to do a better
Speaker 1: job keeping keeping our boys, you know, as a team.
Speaker 1: These are I'm just gonna be These are like my kids.
Speaker 1: So the first time, yeah, you know, second time I
Speaker 1: got a little you know said about it. But you know,
Speaker 1: still I got to do a better job. I have
Speaker 1: to and I can't. I can't you do anything to
Speaker 1: hurt the team. My ambution's got the best of me there.
Speaker 1: But again he's you see somebody care about you know,
Speaker 1: you'll get hit like that, you know, twice. And but
Speaker 1: I gotta do a better job. I keep my punking
Speaker 1: ways better. We have to do a better job of
Speaker 1: that as a team. And his greater point remains and
Speaker 1: will remain for Coach Flora's that he just has to
Speaker 1: maintain better composure. And coach was asked this later in
Speaker 1: the press conference about if he felt like he might
Speaker 1: have scored some points with his players, with us, with
Speaker 1: the entire Dolphins operation, and again he'll repeat the fact
Speaker 1: that he has to do a better job and his
Speaker 1: team has to do a better job of keeping their poise.
Speaker 1: But the players talked about it afterwards after the game
Speaker 1: and they all came out and support a coach Flora's
Speaker 1: and talked about the same things Coach said, where if
Speaker 1: they're gonna do something to one of our guys like Jacheems,
Speaker 1: someone you care about, then you're gonna have to react
Speaker 1: in a certain way. And that was kind of the
Speaker 1: general theme of the message afterwards. But also the team,
Speaker 1: of course, has to keep your head on straight. Can't
Speaker 1: have those kind of mistakes play out. And you know
Speaker 1: in a football game that maybe it's closer on the scoreboard,
Speaker 1: So we'll go ahead and leave that and bury that
Speaker 1: right there. You're not coming to show to hear me
Speaker 1: talk about the drama. You want to hear me talk
Speaker 1: about the football game. And that's where we get into
Speaker 1: our very first takeaway here with the first takeaway the
Speaker 1: value of a cornerback that takes the football away paired
Speaker 1: with the pass rush that does what it does to
Speaker 1: close out football games. That's kind of a long winded
Speaker 1: first take here, but I couldn't find out a way
Speaker 1: to focus this thing on one singular area, so I
Speaker 1: had to bring both of them together because I think
Speaker 1: that they both go so perfectly in unison to what
Speaker 1: we talked about on Friday's top news piece. The vision
Speaker 1: of this defense, what coach Flora is with Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: and that defensive staff, what they want this defense to
Speaker 1: look like, to fit what they think they can do
Speaker 1: best schematically. And so you'd hear them talk about making
Speaker 1: the scheme fit the players, which of course is great
Speaker 1: and you should do it. But it's also nice when
Speaker 1: you sign players that have the skill set to operate
Speaker 1: the scheme that you want to run. And that's what
Speaker 1: they did by getting these two lockdown cornerbacks and Xavien
Speaker 1: Howard and Byron Jones. Now, the long touchdown for the Bengals,
Speaker 1: the seventy or two yards today came because of a
Speaker 1: little rub route on a flat a little pick to
Speaker 1: get a first down for Tyler Boyd on a third short,
Speaker 1: but Byron Jones went underneath the rub and that gave
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd a chance to make a move and get
Speaker 1: up field and scored that touchdown. But besides that mistake,
Speaker 1: the defense was lights out throughout the course of this game,
Speaker 1: and the cornerbacks in particular, they continue to get it done.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Brian Baldinger radio spot on that
Speaker 1: Friday Top news piece where he talked about you have
Speaker 1: the stout outside coverage that allows you to get all
Speaker 1: these guys that can rush from different spots and create
Speaker 1: and new different things and line up in different spots
Speaker 1: and stunt and twist, and when pass rush with the
Speaker 1: bull rush, when pass rush with the speed move, do
Speaker 1: counter moves, all these different variety of things. It confuses
Speaker 1: the quarterback. It allows this defense to crank up the
Speaker 1: pressure with the trust and and just security of knowing
Speaker 1: those cornerbacks on the outside. In addition to two safeties
Speaker 1: who should be mentioned in that group as well, Eric
Speaker 1: Roe Bobby McCain are both having fantastic seasons. The vision
Speaker 1: of the defense coming together and as the second scoring
Speaker 1: defense in the league, the top ranked third down defense
Speaker 1: in the league eight teen trade games. In the takeaway
Speaker 1: six sacks in this football game, you see the vision
Speaker 1: pairing up with the talent on the football field and manage.
Speaker 1: Sure has been fun to watch when we go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here with xaviing Howard who he catches it,
Speaker 1: and the press box just goes, yeah, it was ex
Speaker 1: who else would it be. It's it's weird. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to describe it. I think shack Lawson said
Speaker 1: it best when he said he has never seen anybody
Speaker 1: doing what xaviing Howard's doing right now, and with credit
Speaker 1: to trade Avious White over in Buffalo, shack Lawson has
Speaker 1: a certain thought about xaviing Howard best going back in
Speaker 1: the league and down you get one every week, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't never witnessed nothing like that. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: playing with good pointer back and don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I played with a great quarterback last year. Let's see
Speaker 1: a guy to get a pick almost every week. It's incredible, man,
Speaker 1: It's incredible, man. And I'm mad on witness being with
Speaker 1: one of the best going in the league. That is
Speaker 1: twenty interceptions in his last thirty four games. He leads
Speaker 1: the NFL this year with eight. He got twenty picks
Speaker 1: in fifty two career games, which of course that is
Speaker 1: the same amount that he has in the last thirty
Speaker 1: four games. I saw a staff from the great Brett
Speaker 1: Coleman on Twitter the Fame YouTube channel of the Film Room,
Speaker 1: and he talked about Asante Samuel playing for eleven years
Speaker 1: of his NFL career, so a lot longer than x
Speaker 1: so far, but averaging a pick every three games. And
Speaker 1: how absurd that is. Xavian Howard in his career is
Speaker 1: averaging a pick less than every three games, and in
Speaker 1: the last thirty four games it's like every game and
Speaker 1: a half. So he is on an unreal ridiculous pace
Speaker 1: helping this defense out and playing that good man coverage,
Speaker 1: that good tight coverage, staying in the hip pockets of
Speaker 1: the game's best receivers up and down the field. He
Speaker 1: and Byron Jones and Nick need him in the slot
Speaker 1: with those two safeties that pairs up so well with
Speaker 1: his pass rush that went off today, went off with
Speaker 1: six sacks in the game, three for Kyle van Noy,
Speaker 1: two for Shack Lawson, one for Zach Seeler, and Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson talked about I asked him this question post game, like,
Speaker 1: is there something about a guy making a play that
Speaker 1: gets you guys energy level at just another level, like
Speaker 1: beyond ten even. And the reason I want to play
Speaker 1: this audio four years because I think it speaks to
Speaker 1: what this Dolphins team, what they've said they are all
Speaker 1: season long, about how they truly care for one another
Speaker 1: and how they all have a like minded mentality when
Speaker 1: it comes to how to work and how to play.
Speaker 1: Football and how they truly do believe in one another
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins emphasis this offseason on getting the right
Speaker 1: fifty three here in Miami. Listen to Shack Laws and
Speaker 1: talk about the defense. It's the sitement when when you
Speaker 1: see a guy make a play, especially your teammate, and
Speaker 1: you know do at the weekly work hard, work hard
Speaker 1: to make plays for Sunday. I mean, you just feed
Speaker 1: off that and you want to go make a next play,
Speaker 1: and then we just feed off each other. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: people speeding off cow Alma Christian, you know Christians. The
Speaker 1: Christian is the reason why. Like I'm get us going,
Speaker 1: like its energy and joice. I know I'll be part
Speaker 1: of that too. But Christian, it's it's been different since
Speaker 1: we've been having him back then before he was missing.
Speaker 1: You know, the energy level is a lot different having
Speaker 1: that guy. I want to focus on that last part.
Speaker 1: There's a reason I played that Christian Wilkins part because
Speaker 1: this defense. We talked about Shack Laws, and we talked
Speaker 1: about Kyle van Noy, the five sacks between those two guys.
Speaker 1: Today we talked about Emmanuel Ogba, who damn near had
Speaker 1: his ninth sack, but they just overturned it would have
Speaker 1: given Christian a touchdown pass. Talking about Xavien Howard rightfully
Speaker 1: so and all these other players on this defense, Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins continues down in and down out, game in and
Speaker 1: game out, to give penetration, to get knocked back, to
Speaker 1: be disruptive both as a pass rusher and a run defender,
Speaker 1: and he does so much to create chances for other players.
Speaker 1: But it's not just that we talked about the right
Speaker 1: fifty three right well, you heard Shaq talk about it
Speaker 1: right there. Who is the guy on this team, the
Speaker 1: second year player that brings the juice and changes the
Speaker 1: complexion and the overall feeling in that locker room. It's
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins. And he was the first draft pick of
Speaker 1: the Brian Flores and Chris Career regime, the Brian Flores
Speaker 1: Chris Career marriage here in Miami that right now is
Speaker 1: looking so good with the way this defense has come together.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins was the first part they brought in for that,
Speaker 1: and they talked about that extensively when he was draft
Speaker 1: throughout the course of his rookie season into this year.
Speaker 1: You hear it every day in the press conferences and
Speaker 1: in this game the reason I wanted to really harp
Speaker 1: on Christian here he was so it was the same
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkers performance shud get a lot of the time
Speaker 1: that goes unnoticed, just constant penetration, reset the line, scrimmage
Speaker 1: on the inside and creating big gaps in big lanes
Speaker 1: for pass rushers to blitz inside of him for the
Speaker 1: guys in the outside to get those one on one chances.
Speaker 1: He does so much for this defense. And it's not
Speaker 1: just on the football field, it's in the personality. And
Speaker 1: I think you hear that right here in Christians audio
Speaker 1: when somebody asked him about getting that touchdown taking off
Speaker 1: the board when he scooped up the aug bas strip
Speaker 1: sack and they took it off the board after he
Speaker 1: dunked it over the goal post and lost his mind.
Speaker 1: On the same level that he would celebrate with his teammates,
Speaker 1: he got to be the one scoring. This time, he
Speaker 1: loses his mind and has a great celebration, broke out
Speaker 1: all the dances. He's not too thrilled about the fact
Speaker 1: that they overturned it and called it an incomplete pass
Speaker 1: on the field. Here's Christian man daveson haters. That's all
Speaker 1: I got to say. I don't know who I got
Speaker 1: to talk to, but I'm a set. I didn't did
Speaker 1: every dance in the book, every celebration. I was tired
Speaker 1: all of that. And it didn't even count. Marty even
Speaker 1: got it. Took the fine, but it was worse than
Speaker 1: I had a little fun out there. Not too bad.
Speaker 1: It just didn't count. But it does what it didn't.
Speaker 1: Glad We've got to win. So there you go. And
Speaker 1: he finishes off by talking about the most important thing
Speaker 1: on the day, getting to win, the bubbly personality, but
Speaker 1: the switch to know when to flip that thing on.
Speaker 1: I love Christian Wilkins, I love Shack Loss and those
Speaker 1: are too easy guys to to be around, to root
Speaker 1: for and to watch play football, and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: they're on our team. And I just continues this theme here.
Speaker 1: The first takeaway kind of turned into a defensive brave fest.
Speaker 1: Here is Josh Bowyer's unit continues to get the job done.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Van Noy three sacks, all three
Speaker 1: of those sacks coming up lining up inside shack Laws
Speaker 1: and ripping off the edge for both of his sex
Speaker 1: add but in that same spot gets the the hit
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, the non sack, the incomplete pass, Zack
Speaker 1: Seeler on the three technique. It comes from all over,
Speaker 1: It comes and waves, and when you give this team
Speaker 1: a lead back to the first point, man, they sure
Speaker 1: do know how to close out football games. The Bengals
Speaker 1: offense today punt punt, touchdown, three and out, punt, missed
Speaker 1: field goal, three and out, three and out, three and out,
Speaker 1: punt interception. So this Dolphins defense just continues to blow
Speaker 1: you away every single week. Takeaway number two calling the
Speaker 1: game to two a tongue of by lower strengths. I
Speaker 1: love the way chan Gailey got back to some of
Speaker 1: those things in that second half. We're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and hear from coach Flores here about the tempo in
Speaker 1: the second half of the game, making the switch to
Speaker 1: go up tempo and how that can impact the defense
Speaker 1: and how you can also benefit your young quarterback and
Speaker 1: your offense. You think Channing the offensive staff, you know,
Speaker 1: made that adjustment. We uh, I just wanted to pick
Speaker 1: up the pace a little bit, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: it was it was, it was efficient and we got
Speaker 1: some production out of it, so we stayed with it.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, again, that's that's hard to deal
Speaker 1: with defensively. So we were able to make some good throws,
Speaker 1: make some good runs and execute and really keep the
Speaker 1: pressure on. And that's that's that was the thought process
Speaker 1: at halftime, and we gotta we gotta accomplished. I gotta
Speaker 1: say there's no one way to skin account. I never
Speaker 1: believe there's one blueprint in the National Football League. But
Speaker 1: I sure do like having my defensive minded coach helping
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback because of things like that, the idea that
Speaker 1: he knows what's hard on his defense, so he wants
Speaker 1: to call things for his offense that puts the opposing
Speaker 1: defense in a bind. And I just love they things
Speaker 1: they did with Two in this game, getting him out
Speaker 1: on the move, getting him out on those boots, running
Speaker 1: some of that zone read. He got free for a
Speaker 1: run early in the game. He also had a couple
Speaker 1: of those quick twitch movements in the pocket that you
Speaker 1: grow in love with two a tongue of vloa, or
Speaker 1: you come to grow in love about him the way
Speaker 1: he can evade pressure and evade those free rushers. Got
Speaker 1: himself active that way, pressed the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: got outside and made throws behind the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: as he broke through the initial pressure, the initial surge.
Speaker 1: I thought he got comfortable that way, had that deep
Speaker 1: shot to Jakeem Grant back up on his old goal
Speaker 1: post that was just falling right into the bread basket
Speaker 1: there almost ran under that thing and took it all
Speaker 1: the way for what would have been like a ninety
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown drive. So you get him loosened up,
Speaker 1: you get him going the deep shots, the running aspect
Speaker 1: of it, getting him out in space. Plenty of those
Speaker 1: little pot passes to Jakeem Grant to take advantage of,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they don't follow your motion or shift
Speaker 1: with you on the defensive side of the football. I
Speaker 1: think Jachim had two of those twenty yard or within
Speaker 1: the twenty yard range pot passes in this game, giving
Speaker 1: lynbod and some carries out of the backfield, and that
Speaker 1: RPO mixing things up and keeping the Bengals defense off
Speaker 1: balance with plenty of action where TWA does pull that
Speaker 1: thing and chuck it into that little hook zone behind
Speaker 1: the linebackers, you influence them that way, and those two
Speaker 1: things go off each other so well. With the r
Speaker 1: P O game and the way you open up the
Speaker 1: running game as Miles Gascon hits it up for ninety yards.
Speaker 1: In this game, both those things can work off each other,
Speaker 1: finding that balance and finding that rhythm and completing those
Speaker 1: six yards RPOs to help keep those linebackers a little
Speaker 1: bit concerned about their first fall step forward, their their
Speaker 1: first fall step backward. If two can read that and
Speaker 1: make the decision, it's gonna be a lot more difficult
Speaker 1: to defend this Dolphin's offense when they get both those
Speaker 1: things working and sync. I like the way they went
Speaker 1: empty and spread things out and create those big pockets
Speaker 1: and big windows for two of to make a quick
Speaker 1: decision catch rock throw. Your pass protection at that point
Speaker 1: basically is invalid because the balls out before the defensive
Speaker 1: line even has a chance to get there. So spread
Speaker 1: things out created a line of vision for tow The
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands, got him in that rhythm.
Speaker 1: I just love the way they called this game for
Speaker 1: him in the second half, giving multiple options to football,
Speaker 1: spreading things out and going to the up tempo look
Speaker 1: to start the third quarter. Here's two. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the stress the up temple offense can put on the
Speaker 1: opposing defense. I think when you're on the ball and
Speaker 1: you're going fast, it confuses the defense because they need
Speaker 1: to get lined up. They can't get their right call
Speaker 1: in at times. Then when you have guys motioning, it
Speaker 1: confuses up their call if they have a blitz on
Speaker 1: or what coverage they're gonna run. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the up temple things that we did in the
Speaker 1: second half really helped us to get the ball rolling,
Speaker 1: and they did get that ball rolling for a career
Speaker 1: high two nine passing yards there four tongue BYLOA think
Speaker 1: an area of improvement for this week to look at
Speaker 1: as red zone opportunities. They had some down there close
Speaker 1: near the goal line. Just couldn't quite finish off a
Speaker 1: few of those drives. But otherwise I thought the game
Speaker 1: was a really good one for to that play where
Speaker 1: he broke contain and found Miles gasking for thirty five
Speaker 1: yards was just vintage to getting off the spot making
Speaker 1: a playoffs had the pocket. He almost did the exact
Speaker 1: same thing and that Chargers game with the Jachem Grant
Speaker 1: peel back throw where he got out of pressure, threw
Speaker 1: it up the field and just was out of reach
Speaker 1: of Towah. This time he finds Gasking with a floater
Speaker 1: for thirty five yards in a big game, and that's
Speaker 1: right before the touchdown pass where he finds Mike gets
Speaker 1: Sicky with just perfectly leveraged throw or get sick. He
Speaker 1: has the open back shoulder underneath the fender, big target,
Speaker 1: put it up high and away, Gassicky locates it, pulls
Speaker 1: it in. That's what he does to gave him the chance.
Speaker 1: They're just love the way he's able to do that,
Speaker 1: the way they're aggressive out of the out of the
Speaker 1: break at halftime, I talked about that gets him in
Speaker 1: this motion where he goes seven for ten with ten
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown on the next two drives quick
Speaker 1: ten points to really change the feel of that football
Speaker 1: game to make it sixteen seven. And I talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about Lynn Boden there. I liked why soften
Speaker 1: linbod and I think there's something there with some more
Speaker 1: work as we go along here. Jan Guilly spoke about
Speaker 1: spoke about his skill set kind of integrating with the
Speaker 1: offense back when he first got here, not that it
Speaker 1: was a lack of talent, but a lack of just
Speaker 1: being here and having those repetitions and practice him getting
Speaker 1: more work is a positive sign for another possible option
Speaker 1: in the skill spots. Getting the football in the game
Speaker 1: and jachiem Grant on those pot passes again. Loved his
Speaker 1: activity and involvement in this game. So offense, good job
Speaker 1: in that second half. Third takeaway. We'll go quickly here
Speaker 1: through these the injuries and the way this team responds
Speaker 1: to adversity. We lost at one point, Eric Rowe. He
Speaker 1: landed Roberts and Eric Flowers in this game, and Road
Speaker 1: did return to the football game, so that was good
Speaker 1: to see. The story was not the same for Roberts
Speaker 1: and Flowers, and Flowers went off on a car. So
Speaker 1: you hope the best for him. I felt sick to
Speaker 1: my stomach watching him get carded off. You could see
Speaker 1: how how upset he was about that fact. Playing good
Speaker 1: football here for his hometown team. Get well, suing Flowers.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope you're good man. I hope everything's
Speaker 1: okay with Eric Flowers in his place. They brought in
Speaker 1: Solomon Ckiley at left guard and brought Jesse Davis off
Speaker 1: the bench to play right guard. Thought that group played
Speaker 1: well and it's not unexpected that Jesse Davis steps and
Speaker 1: employs well at a spot he's played four spots of
Speaker 1: the offensive line in his career, but that losing the
Speaker 1: bodies on both offense and defense with guys, and just
Speaker 1: the uncare acturistic penalties of this game, like not reporting
Speaker 1: on that on the fake for Matt Hawk taking points
Speaker 1: off the board, a false start from Mac Hollands on
Speaker 1: the punt team neutral zone, and fraction on the defense
Speaker 1: roughing the quarterback on a slide down from Calvin Munson.
Speaker 1: Just some mistakes you don't see this football team normally make.
Speaker 1: We're out there in this game. Some drop passes, some mistackles,
Speaker 1: some that that weird aggressive you know, the zero blitz
Speaker 1: where Byron Jones kind of weren't worked on the inside
Speaker 1: when Tyler Boyd got the outside for the one really
Speaker 1: good offensive play they had in the game. Some oun
Speaker 1: characteristic mistakes, but this team's metal and next band up
Speaker 1: mentality for both the injuries and those mistakes, the way
Speaker 1: they bounced back and made sure this thing didn't cavalcade
Speaker 1: into a you know, too score deficit, a three score deficit,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it's the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and you're you're done. You've lost a game that you
Speaker 1: you need to win. They didn't let that happen. They
Speaker 1: turned it around, They showed the resiliency, turned things back
Speaker 1: up and got back in the game and one going away.
Speaker 1: So that was great to see. Love the fact that
Speaker 1: this team can respond to that. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to take away number four here, it's just that
Speaker 1: Jason Standers stays golden. Jason Sanders stays golden, four for
Speaker 1: four on the day. What a weapon this guy is
Speaker 1: and the way it can change the way you approach
Speaker 1: the football game is really my takeaway here because you
Speaker 1: put him out there, you're okay, three points, that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else is it? Twenty nine? It changes
Speaker 1: the way you can attack in key situations. It changes
Speaker 1: the target point for the offense when you're trailing in
Speaker 1: a game, when we eventually get to this point, which
Speaker 1: we're going to at some point where you need a
Speaker 1: drive late to win the game. It's happened I think
Speaker 1: once this year and since since TWA came in once
Speaker 1: in a long time. On top of that, where Miami
Speaker 1: had to have a drive late in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: to put points on the board to to tie it
Speaker 1: or go ahead, and they got it down against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals and then later came back and had the game
Speaker 1: winning field goal there as well, that's gonna happen again
Speaker 1: at some point, and knowing that I can get the
Speaker 1: ball to the forty and being pretty damn good shape
Speaker 1: for Jason Sanders, that is a weapon, my friends, Jason Sanders,
Speaker 1: an absolute weapon. Vote him for the Pro Bowl Number
Speaker 1: five takeaway here the career days for two a Ghasiki
Speaker 1: and Gasket. I thought that we talked about the offense
Speaker 1: a lot in the second takeaway, but just kind of
Speaker 1: piggyback off that and give some more individual notes here
Speaker 1: to really on his perform. I just again thought he
Speaker 1: was really good in the second half and saw a
Speaker 1: lot of the things that you feel comfortable with him,
Speaker 1: maybe knocking off some of that rust after not playing
Speaker 1: for a week less, missing last week with the thumb,
Speaker 1: getting things going and giving yourself a chance to have
Speaker 1: some confidence and some positivity going into a tough game
Speaker 1: next week against the Kansas City Chiefs. And it just
Speaker 1: seems like for most of the season, and really since
Speaker 1: especially since two have got back, we just haven't had
Speaker 1: all the weapons come together. And right now, I know
Speaker 1: Preston Williams was not out there today, but getting Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskon back in the running game going a little bit,
Speaker 1: and having Mike got sicky with DeVante Parker and Lynn
Speaker 1: Bowden active and ready hopefully to get Malcolm Perry back
Speaker 1: here as soon as well. He was inactive in this game.
Speaker 1: I liked the rhythm these three, these three guys got
Speaker 1: into together to a tonk about looa most passing yards
Speaker 1: in his career at nine six. He also has now
Speaker 1: tied the franchise record with five consecutive games without throwing
Speaker 1: an interception, that ties Jay Fiedler all time. He's four
Speaker 1: and one in his five starts. Again, hasn't turned the
Speaker 1: football over pass a raining around a hundred that's top
Speaker 1: ten twelve in the league if you qualify him among
Speaker 1: enough past attempts. He's off to that start. And Mike
Speaker 1: Gasicki's nine receptions in this game. Those are a career
Speaker 1: high for Gasiki, who leads all tight ends and yards
Speaker 1: per reception. He's third among all tight ends with touchdowns
Speaker 1: since Week thirteen of last season, so basically since he
Speaker 1: started scoring touchdowns, he's become a consistent red zone threat.
Speaker 1: That way, he has the most the highest first down
Speaker 1: conversion rate of tight ends this year in the NFL
Speaker 1: as well. So Mike Gasicky continues to get it done.
Speaker 1: Career high nine catches and in eighty eight yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in this game. Miles Gaskin finishes a day
Speaker 1: with one forty one yards for scrimmage. That is a
Speaker 1: career high for him as well. So this Dolphin's team
Speaker 1: again plenty that can work on going forward. But again
Speaker 1: eight and four for the first time since two thousand
Speaker 1: and three. Just go ahead and rip through some of
Speaker 1: my individual notes here really quickly. I talked about Gaskins
Speaker 1: balanced to stay on his feet after the screen pass.
Speaker 1: After the passage Achim Grant went incomplete deep from their
Speaker 1: own end zone. Uh, it was a second and ten.
Speaker 1: They threw a screen to Miles Gaskin and he was
Speaker 1: four or five yards behind the line and got hit.
Speaker 1: And you show you saw the balance and the lower
Speaker 1: body strength of of gasking to stay on his feet
Speaker 1: to pick up sixteen yards after what pbably shoud have
Speaker 1: been a loss and the Dolphins would go on to
Speaker 1: score that drive. So big change in the game right
Speaker 1: there by Myles Gaskin staying on his feet and making
Speaker 1: a good play their receivers. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about Lynn Bowden. Davante Parker draws to passionate reference calls
Speaker 1: in the game early on to help get the offense
Speaker 1: going early. He also caught a pair of passes why
Speaker 1: I thought was a really nice anticipation right between he
Speaker 1: and tongue Bylowa early in the game. Mike is sick
Speaker 1: and we talked about him already, but that one handed
Speaker 1: catch looking like Oronde Gadsden one two days rather after
Speaker 1: he was on the podcast. Thank you for doing that, Mike.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. My man on the offensive line, we
Speaker 1: talked about three replacements on the interior getting the job
Speaker 1: done there with Jesse Davis. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: on Tuesday's podcast. Defensive line wise, we talked about Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins a bunch he was all over my notes. Agba
Speaker 1: continues to win from multiple spots. Zach Seiler had the
Speaker 1: sack and continues to do what he does all season long.
Speaker 1: This defensive line just playing really good football in conjunction
Speaker 1: with the linebacker corps. Van Noi three sacks in the game.
Speaker 1: Calvin Munson I thought had some good plays outside of
Speaker 1: the one penalty we talked about in this game, a
Speaker 1: Land and Roberts had some good pursuit early on before
Speaker 1: he left the game with an injury. Own Baker continues
Speaker 1: to show that speed sideline. The sideline Andrew Van Gekol
Speaker 1: makes plays as well. I talked about Byron Jones being
Speaker 1: in the hip pocket on a third down stop on
Speaker 1: a a pass target on the first possession, just always
Speaker 1: in phase where he needs to be. And then Nick
Speaker 1: Needum gets a great pass breakup on Tyler Boyd in
Speaker 1: the first half of that was worth mentioning, in addition
Speaker 1: to his his I t that fell from the heavens
Speaker 1: into his hands. Good for him there. And then the
Speaker 1: exaviing Howard pick Man the switch release where he fights
Speaker 1: through the rub and plays the football like a receiver.
Speaker 1: Again we talked about off the top. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: surprise you anymore. Eric Rowe and Bobby McCain, the way
Speaker 1: these guys communicate and move. We talked about the foods
Speaker 1: ball table last week. Saw more of that this week,
Speaker 1: and McCain's ability to run off routes and then close
Speaker 1: on different routes and impact multiple reads in the progression
Speaker 1: on any given play. Gosh, it's fun to watch. I
Speaker 1: love this secondary so much. And they played another great
Speaker 1: football game, another game allowing just seven points, allowed ten
Speaker 1: points in the last two games combine. So just dominant,
Speaker 1: dominant defense for your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: turn this thing over now to John con Jemmy and
Speaker 1: get to his three takeaways for Dolphins nineteen Bengal seven.
Speaker 1: And joining me now on the podcast as he do
Speaker 1: does weekly here on the Sunday edition of Drive Time,
Speaker 1: is John con Jemmy. He is the co host of
Speaker 1: the audible podcast John, How you doing tonight? I'm doing great. Uh,
Speaker 1: nice win at home for the Miami Dolphins. So it
Speaker 1: sets uh, it sets this football team up for a
Speaker 1: strong finish and hopefully they'll be able to win enough
Speaker 1: down that stretch to to enter the playoffs. So it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's a good conversation to have, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to see what the last couple of games and in
Speaker 1: this last month having store for us first time at
Speaker 1: eight and four since two thousand and three, that was
Speaker 1: the year the Dolphins beat the Cowboys and Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: then things kind of went arrived from that point forward.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, John, Usually you and I have
Speaker 1: these these moments in the press box where you're going
Speaker 1: down for TV in the fourth quarter and you leave
Speaker 1: and the game's pretty much in hand. That wasn't the
Speaker 1: case in this one, although it kind of started to
Speaker 1: feel that way as the Dolphins defense got hotter and hotter.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine your first takeaway If I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: correct me, but I have to imagine your first takeaway
Speaker 1: goes some where towards that Dolphins defense. It does, And
Speaker 1: it was really the tale of two halves. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: when I got up at the beginning of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: I kind of missed the fisticuff. So I need to
Speaker 1: get filled into at some point this week on what
Speaker 1: exactly happened. But it really was a tale of two halves,
Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. I think Cincinnati left some points
Speaker 1: out on the football field that they could have had,
Speaker 1: you know, two scores or at least ten points going
Speaker 1: to halftime. And I thought the Dolphins were very fortunate
Speaker 1: to be only trailing by a point going in a halftime.
Speaker 1: With the way they played. They were. They were a
Speaker 1: little bit lethargic on both sides. They had too many penalties, Um,
Speaker 1: they weren't efficient in the red zone. Uh, just too
Speaker 1: many self inflicted mistakes. And I don't think too I
Speaker 1: had a particularly good half. But then you know, you
Speaker 1: turn around, you come up after a halftime, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the offense goes into this up tempo,
Speaker 1: no huddle, get to a going and getting distributing the football,
Speaker 1: and they looked like a completely different football team, and
Speaker 1: so does the defense. They go with three consecutive three
Speaker 1: and outs. I think the Dolphins the total yardage in
Speaker 1: the third quarter was something like one to minus four.
Speaker 1: So it really was a different football team after the
Speaker 1: first thirty minutes, and I it really turned the whole
Speaker 1: game around. The offense came out and was explosive. The
Speaker 1: defense came out they you know, stop Cincinnati in their tracks,
Speaker 1: and they both complimented each other and it was fun
Speaker 1: to watch for the last thirty minutes. You said minus
Speaker 1: four yards in the second half of the Bengals second
Speaker 1: maybe the third quarter. I think it was the third quarter,
Speaker 1: Uh that they had maybe minus four yards to one Somebody, Uh,
Speaker 1: what was telling me that On the way out of
Speaker 1: the stadium after we were done doing the Channel four stuff,
Speaker 1: And I kind of jotted it down, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a total domination in that third quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I believe it for the half
Speaker 1: because there were so many sacks and negative plays there.
Speaker 1: Towards the end, they just kept on pushing that offense back.
Speaker 1: And that's been one of my favorite things about watching
Speaker 1: this team this year is the NFL. It seems as
Speaker 1: designed where a team has a seventeen or twenty point lead,
Speaker 1: whatever the case might be, and the other team starts
Speaker 1: inching their way back. That just doesn't happen on this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. They closed games as well as anybody in
Speaker 1: the league right now, John, what is your second takeaway
Speaker 1: from Dolphins nineteen Bengal seven. I thought some of the
Speaker 1: star players shined. I thought Mike Kasicki was had his
Speaker 1: best game as a pro. I know he had a
Speaker 1: career high nine catches, but just the way his catches
Speaker 1: impacted the game and the way you felt like, who
Speaker 1: is that? You know? That was eight? That was Mike
Speaker 1: Kasicki And and you know the one touchdown was again
Speaker 1: climb the ladder, ripping away from somebody, and I just
Speaker 1: thought he played really well. I thought to a really
Speaker 1: played well in the second half. Obviously, Xavian Howard with
Speaker 1: with another interception making it eight on the season. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kyle Van Annoy with the multiple sack game and the
Speaker 1: defense with six total uh in holding, you know, holding
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati offense just they were inept in the second half.
Speaker 1: And I just thought that defense rallied, but that the
Speaker 1: star players came up and they shined when they needed to.
Speaker 1: And you know guys, and there's a lot of them
Speaker 1: on this football team, and a couple of them stepped up,
Speaker 1: and I thought they needed to to get to win
Speaker 1: at least absolutely. You mentioned Mike Asiki that one handed
Speaker 1: catch was it looked just like a Rende Gaston back
Speaker 1: in two thousand two against the Jets, And I actually
Speaker 1: spoke to Aronde on the Friday podcast. I was very
Speaker 1: excited to have that those two things come together. He
Speaker 1: catches nine passes, like you mentioned, on ten targets, so
Speaker 1: highly efficient. Eighty eight yards on those ten targets. That
Speaker 1: is some supreme production out of your tight end. John.
Speaker 1: He is number one in first down conversions in terms
Speaker 1: of how many of his targets turned into first downs
Speaker 1: among tight ends. He's first in yards perception among tight ends,
Speaker 1: and since Week thirteen of last season, when he called
Speaker 1: his first career touchdown pass, he has the third most
Speaker 1: touchdown receptions among all tight ends. So Mike a siky big,
Speaker 1: big time game here, John. Your third takeaway is what
Speaker 1: I think the Miami Dolphins need to play with more discipline. Um.
Speaker 1: I know things get heated in the football game. I've
Speaker 1: been in the middle of a couple of those uh
Speaker 1: scraps myself, just by chance and just it happens, and
Speaker 1: you go support your team. But down the stretch, if
Speaker 1: the Dolphins want to get to where they want to
Speaker 1: get to, and that's the playoffs, you can't play down
Speaker 1: to your competition. And in the next four weeks you're
Speaker 1: gonna be playing up to your competition because you've got
Speaker 1: the World champs coming into hard Rock Stadium. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna you're not gonna be within three touchdowns of that
Speaker 1: Kansas City team if you play the way you did
Speaker 1: in the first half and then you play with the
Speaker 1: discipline or lack thereof that you did in this football game.
Speaker 1: And the same goes for New England, same goes for
Speaker 1: the for Vegas, same goes for the Buffalo Bills on
Speaker 1: the road in Buffalo at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: You will not win those games. You will find a
Speaker 1: way to lose. Is if you have eight penalties for
Speaker 1: you know, fifty four yards like they did today, or
Speaker 1: ten penalties for over a hundred yards, or if you're
Speaker 1: careless with the football, or if you uh give that
Speaker 1: first push or that that retaliation push, it just won't happen.
Speaker 1: Those hidden yards will will beat you against good football teams,
Speaker 1: and just so happens that Cincinnati and the Jets are
Speaker 1: not good football team and they're able to get away
Speaker 1: with that. So I think coach flores and starts with him.
Speaker 1: You know, he has to get back to, you know,
Speaker 1: focusing on that discipline and coming from him, coming from
Speaker 1: the whole football team. You're not gonna win against the
Speaker 1: teams you have left on the schedule if you beat
Speaker 1: yourself and you help the teams, uh beat the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So I think that has to be corrected very quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that you're excited for the opportunity to go
Speaker 1: into the stretch run at eight and four, and you
Speaker 1: know that's a good example of there, like this team
Speaker 1: has a chance already to kind of test themselves against
Speaker 1: some of the better teams in the league, like a
Speaker 1: Kansas City, New England just put forty five nothing on
Speaker 1: the Chargers last eye check. I was that was pretty
Speaker 1: surprised about that that outcome. You mentioned the Chiefs. I mean,
Speaker 1: if if you don't play good, if you don't play
Speaker 1: your best game against the Chiefs, you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance. The Bills obviously a big AFC East rival,
Speaker 1: and the Raiders are a good team as well. They're
Speaker 1: down the stretch, John, look forward to it. We've got
Speaker 1: two more of these together at home and then two
Speaker 1: on the road. So four more, my friend, and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish the season strong. Dolphins eight and four. John,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time tonight. You gotta
Speaker 1: thanks Travis, And there he goes John Congemmi of the
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