WEBVTT - Dolphins Win 19-7 Behind Dominant Defense, Up Tempo Second Half Offense 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:14.400 Field touchdown, Miami perpect water run, What is up, Dolphans 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.639 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.680 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.720 each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.200 late Sunday night, possibly Monday morning when you are listening 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.479 to this podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.199 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.080 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, you know what time? 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.360 It is another victory Monday edition here of the Drive 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.720 Time Podcast as the Dolphins win win, win, win. 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Some game that was out in 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.880 Miami today, Hun, we had the Dolphins win this one 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.400 nineteen to seven, and I finally got a chance to 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.520 go back and look at the box score because there 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.360 was a lot going on from quotes and articles and 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.160 writing things up in the let's call it a shift 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.280 in the mindset late in that game that kind of 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.440 set the temple for post game and what coach and 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.960 players were gonna talk about to the media. But what 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.160 kind of got lost in the shuffle there for me 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.919 was the box score. Look at this Dolphins box score. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.400 We've we've long heard the conversation this year that even 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.919 as the Dolphins are winning games by multiple scores, we've 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.000 heard coach Flores's talk about how I don't really care 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.560 about the stats without the proper context, because they might 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.880 tell you one thing and I think I saw another thing. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.880 We'll look at the box score for this game from Miami, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.520 no doubt about who played the better football game. Miami 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.320 four hundred and six yards one hundred ninety six for 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.840 the Bengals. The Dolphins had one hundred ten yards on 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.679 the ground. Cincinnati rushed for only forty yards in the game. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.480 Dolphins passed for two nine six to the Bengals one 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.919 fifty six. Miami is one for ten on third down, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.480 so that's got to get better. We know that the 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.080 Bengals were three for twelve, right in line with Miami's 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.239 top third down defense in the National Football League. To 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.720 takeaways from Miami, one for the Bengals on that late 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.600 Miles gascon fumble, six Dolphins sacks the Bengals didn't have any, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.320 and the Dolphins eight penalties for fifty four yards. We 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.480 heard coach talk about that post game. That's not gonna 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.280 that's not gonna do it for Coach Flora's and the 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.919 way he wants this operation run. The Bengal six penalties 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.560 sixty two yards and TP goes to Miami, who had 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.600 thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds of time of possession. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.200 A couple of the storylines I was keeping my eye on, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.160 keeping a finger on the pulse of as we got 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.440 closer and closer to kickoff was how the running back 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.400 rotation worked, and it went how I thought it would. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.240 Miles Gaskin played the line share of the snaps. We 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.240 did see some Patrick Lard out there at times in 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.280 this game, and Chandler Cox as well in the very 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.360 early going. I don't know how many snaps he played, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.400 but I did see him on the field early, but 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.480 it was mostly Miles Gaskin out there as he Cox 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.480 the fullback of course, and Laird were the only running 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.200 backs available. Of course I was concerned or not concerned, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.680 but I was curious to see what To have played 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.040 like in this game because we've heard all the stories. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.600 He hasn't played since that Denver game. So you know, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.120 everyone in the week to week league and the kind 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.880 of get your reaction, get your take, gets your final 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.800 conclusion on a player after every single game, reform that 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.640 and propose it as a long term solution. That's how 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:01.960 it is in this league. So I was curious to 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.080 see how to would bounce back and the second half 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.800 that he played in this game, I think, I hope 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.400 is what folks will remember, and how he was just 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.880 comfortable and throwing on the move and making plays. We'll 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.119 talk more about that here. Just one second, I wanted 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.680 to know how many three an ounces they were gonna get, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.039 how many turnovers could they force? Could they hold the 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.880 Bengals to ten or fewer first downs? Those were my 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.920 target points and expectations for this Dolphins defense, and they 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.919 came damn close. Two more takeaways that extends the NFL's 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.839 longest active street of eight teen straight games with a 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.520 takeaway they get four or three and ounce in the game, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.359 a whole bunch of punts. We'll talk more about that 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.520 again in the takeaway segment here. And twelve first downs 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.520 with the Bengals offense, so just a little bit over 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.240 on the end of the game. A couple of first 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.599 downs they're late help the Bengals get over the ten mark. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.320 But those were what I was looking for, and this 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.080 defense once again did not disappoint. And then the offensive 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.479 line with Robert Hunt started the game instead of in 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.160 place of Jesse Davis at right tackle, with Solomonckinley back 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.480 at right guard. We did see Eric Flowers get hurt 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.400 in this game. More on that in just one second, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.279 which pushed Dave Us into right guard off the bench 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.520 and Solomon Kindley over the left guard where he played 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.520 at Georgia. So some interesting stuff to look out there. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.440 We'll get more on the offensive line stuff on the 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.359 All twenty two review. Just an easier time for me 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.479 to have more transparency with that for you guys. First though, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.600 let's go ahead and just address the elephant in the room, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.320 and here from Coach Flora's he spoke post game about 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.640 the skirmish between the two teams, which saw the Dolphins 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.440 sideline kind of pour onto the field in support of 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.200 Jachem Grant, who was hit late on a kickoff or 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.359 a punt return. I should say for a fair with 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.440 a fair catch for the second time in the game. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.039 Let's go ahead and let Coach Flora's take you through 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.880 his perspective of the entire event. Yeah, I mean we 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.440 got to do a better job of keeping our pois 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.160 That starts with me. Have that a better job of 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.160 keeping up my boys? Um, you know, look, I'm gonna 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.960 stick off for my players. Um, they're gonna stick up 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.719 for each other. Without getting penalties, without um, you know, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.279 hurting the team. But we got to do a better 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.479 job keeping keeping our boys, you know, as a team. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.160 These are I'm just gonna be These are like my kids. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.560 So the first time, yeah, you know, second time I 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.520 got a little you know said about it. But you know, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.360 still I got to do a better job. I have 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.320 to and I can't. I can't you do anything to 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.440 hurt the team. My ambution's got the best of me there. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.760 But again he's you see somebody care about you know, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.440 you'll get hit like that, you know, twice. And but 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.159 I gotta do a better job. I keep my punking 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.080 ways better. We have to do a better job of 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.880 that as a team. And his greater point remains and 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.080 will remain for Coach Flora's that he just has to 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.400 maintain better composure. And coach was asked this later in 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.520 the press conference about if he felt like he might 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.440 have scored some points with his players, with us, with 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.960 the entire Dolphins operation, and again he'll repeat the fact 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.560 that he has to do a better job and his 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.000 team has to do a better job of keeping their poise. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.760 But the players talked about it afterwards after the game 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.599 and they all came out and support a coach Flora's 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.039 and talked about the same things Coach said, where if 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.000 they're gonna do something to one of our guys like Jacheems, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.960 someone you care about, then you're gonna have to react 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.400 in a certain way. And that was kind of the 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.960 general theme of the message afterwards. But also the team, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.000 of course, has to keep your head on straight. Can't 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.760 have those kind of mistakes play out. And you know 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.720 in a football game that maybe it's closer on the scoreboard, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.080 So we'll go ahead and leave that and bury that 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.680 right there. You're not coming to show to hear me 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.480 talk about the drama. You want to hear me talk 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.560 about the football game. And that's where we get into 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.720 our very first takeaway here with the first takeaway the 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.440 value of a cornerback that takes the football away paired 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.560 with the pass rush that does what it does to 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.760 close out football games. That's kind of a long winded 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.560 first take here, but I couldn't find out a way 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.400 to focus this thing on one singular area, so I 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.080 had to bring both of them together because I think 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.840 that they both go so perfectly in unison to what 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.160 we talked about on Friday's top news piece. The vision 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.840 of this defense, what coach Flora is with Josh Boyer 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.000 and that defensive staff, what they want this defense to 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.200 look like, to fit what they think they can do 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.600 best schematically. And so you'd hear them talk about making 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.880 the scheme fit the players, which of course is great 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.000 and you should do it. But it's also nice when 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.480 you sign players that have the skill set to operate 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.240 the scheme that you want to run. And that's what 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.400 they did by getting these two lockdown cornerbacks and Xavien 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.360 Howard and Byron Jones. Now, the long touchdown for the Bengals, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.360 the seventy or two yards today came because of a 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.480 little rub route on a flat a little pick to 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.559 get a first down for Tyler Boyd on a third short, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.680 but Byron Jones went underneath the rub and that gave 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.240 Tyler Boyd a chance to make a move and get 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.000 up field and scored that touchdown. But besides that mistake, 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.440 the defense was lights out throughout the course of this game, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.040 and the cornerbacks in particular, they continue to get it done. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.280 We talked about the Brian Baldinger radio spot on that 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.720 Friday Top news piece where he talked about you have 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.560 the stout outside coverage that allows you to get all 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.720 these guys that can rush from different spots and create 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.920 and new different things and line up in different spots 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.520 and stunt and twist, and when pass rush with the 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.480 bull rush, when pass rush with the speed move, do 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.600 counter moves, all these different variety of things. It confuses 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.480 the quarterback. It allows this defense to crank up the 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.200 pressure with the trust and and just security of knowing 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.840 those cornerbacks on the outside. In addition to two safeties 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.959 who should be mentioned in that group as well, Eric 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.679 Roe Bobby McCain are both having fantastic seasons. The vision 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.360 of the defense coming together and as the second scoring 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.520 defense in the league, the top ranked third down defense 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.760 in the league eight teen trade games. In the takeaway 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.240 six sacks in this football game, you see the vision 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.240 pairing up with the talent on the football field and manage. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.120 Sure has been fun to watch when we go ahead 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.840 and start here with xaviing Howard who he catches it, 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.920 and the press box just goes, yeah, it was ex 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.680 who else would it be. It's it's weird. I don't 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.640 know how to describe it. I think shack Lawson said 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.280 it best when he said he has never seen anybody 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.360 doing what xaviing Howard's doing right now, and with credit 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.160 to trade Avious White over in Buffalo, shack Lawson has 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.599 a certain thought about xaviing Howard best going back in 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.200 the league and down you get one every week, man, 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.600 I ain't never witnessed nothing like that. I mean, I'm 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.199 playing with good pointer back and don't get me wrong, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.960 I played with a great quarterback last year. Let's see 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.120 a guy to get a pick almost every week. It's incredible, man, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.720 It's incredible, man. And I'm mad on witness being with 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.240 one of the best going in the league. That is 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.560 twenty interceptions in his last thirty four games. He leads 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.920 the NFL this year with eight. He got twenty picks 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.120 in fifty two career games, which of course that is 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.360 the same amount that he has in the last thirty 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.520 four games. I saw a staff from the great Brett 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.240 Coleman on Twitter the Fame YouTube channel of the Film Room, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.360 and he talked about Asante Samuel playing for eleven years 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.160 of his NFL career, so a lot longer than x 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.560 so far, but averaging a pick every three games. And 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.840 how absurd that is. Xavian Howard in his career is 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.240 averaging a pick less than every three games, and in 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.200 the last thirty four games it's like every game and 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.800 a half. So he is on an unreal ridiculous pace 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.880 helping this defense out and playing that good man coverage, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.160 that good tight coverage, staying in the hip pockets of 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.200 the game's best receivers up and down the field. He 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.400 and Byron Jones and Nick need him in the slot 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.240 with those two safeties that pairs up so well with 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.880 his pass rush that went off today, went off with 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.120 six sacks in the game, three for Kyle van Noy, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.280 two for Shack Lawson, one for Zach Seeler, and Shack 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.960 Lawson talked about I asked him this question post game, like, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.760 is there something about a guy making a play that 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.600 gets you guys energy level at just another level, like 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.920 beyond ten even. And the reason I want to play 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.040 this audio four years because I think it speaks to 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.720 what this Dolphins team, what they've said they are all 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.080 season long, about how they truly care for one another 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.520 and how they all have a like minded mentality when 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:09.920 it comes to how to work and how to play. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.200 Football and how they truly do believe in one another 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.320 and the Dolphins emphasis this offseason on getting the right 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.640 fifty three here in Miami. Listen to Shack Laws and 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.439 talk about the defense. It's the sitement when when you 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.880 see a guy make a play, especially your teammate, and 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.320 you know do at the weekly work hard, work hard 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.760 to make plays for Sunday. I mean, you just feed 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.480 off that and you want to go make a next play, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.360 and then we just feed off each other. Man, you know, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:39.560 people speeding off cow Alma Christian, you know Christians. The 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:44.120 Christian is the reason why. Like I'm get us going, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.440 like its energy and joice. I know I'll be part 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.640 of that too. But Christian, it's it's been different since 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.400 we've been having him back then before he was missing. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.200 You know, the energy level is a lot different having 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.520 that guy. I want to focus on that last part. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.800 There's a reason I played that Christian Wilkins part because 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.160 this defense. We talked about Shack Laws, and we talked 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.440 about Kyle van Noy, the five sacks between those two guys. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.880 Today we talked about Emmanuel Ogba, who damn near had 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.120 his ninth sack, but they just overturned it would have 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.160 given Christian a touchdown pass. Talking about Xavien Howard rightfully 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.600 so and all these other players on this defense, Christian 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 Wilkins continues down in and down out, game in and 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.720 game out, to give penetration, to get knocked back, to 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.120 be disruptive both as a pass rusher and a run defender, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.800 and he does so much to create chances for other players. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.120 But it's not just that we talked about the right 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.920 fifty three right well, you heard Shaq talk about it 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.960 right there. Who is the guy on this team, the 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.240 second year player that brings the juice and changes the 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.360 complexion and the overall feeling in that locker room. It's 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.640 Christian Wilkins. And he was the first draft pick of 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.480 the Brian Flores and Chris Career regime, the Brian Flores 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.920 Chris Career marriage here in Miami that right now is 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.280 looking so good with the way this defense has come together. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.080 Christian Wilkins was the first part they brought in for that, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.640 and they talked about that extensively when he was draft 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.920 throughout the course of his rookie season into this year. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.240 You hear it every day in the press conferences and 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.200 in this game the reason I wanted to really harp 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.280 on Christian here he was so it was the same 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.280 Christian Wilkers performance shud get a lot of the time 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.720 that goes unnoticed, just constant penetration, reset the line, scrimmage 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.160 on the inside and creating big gaps in big lanes 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.240 for pass rushers to blitz inside of him for the 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.160 guys in the outside to get those one on one chances. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.120 He does so much for this defense. And it's not 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.080 just on the football field, it's in the personality. And 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.960 I think you hear that right here in Christians audio 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.760 when somebody asked him about getting that touchdown taking off 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.640 the board when he scooped up the aug bas strip 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.720 sack and they took it off the board after he 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.400 dunked it over the goal post and lost his mind. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.800 On the same level that he would celebrate with his teammates, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.920 he got to be the one scoring. This time, he 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.520 loses his mind and has a great celebration, broke out 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.720 all the dances. He's not too thrilled about the fact 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.080 that they overturned it and called it an incomplete pass 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.559 on the field. Here's Christian man daveson haters. That's all 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:49.880 I got to say. I don't know who I got 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.319 to talk to, but I'm a set. I didn't did 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.240 every dance in the book, every celebration. I was tired 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.880 all of that. And it didn't even count. Marty even 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.680 got it. Took the fine, but it was worse than 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.640 I had a little fun out there. Not too bad. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.480 It just didn't count. But it does what it didn't. 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.160 Glad We've got to win. So there you go. And 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.400 he finishes off by talking about the most important thing 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.920 on the day, getting to win, the bubbly personality, but 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.880 the switch to know when to flip that thing on. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.240 I love Christian Wilkins, I love Shack Loss and those 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.920 are too easy guys to to be around, to root 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.040 for and to watch play football, and I'm glad that 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.320 they're on our team. And I just continues this theme here. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.640 The first takeaway kind of turned into a defensive brave fest. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.120 Here is Josh Bowyer's unit continues to get the job done. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.400 We talked about the Van Noy three sacks, all three 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.920 of those sacks coming up lining up inside shack Laws 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.000 and ripping off the edge for both of his sex 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.000 add but in that same spot gets the the hit 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.640 on the quarterback, the non sack, the incomplete pass, Zack 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.120 Seeler on the three technique. It comes from all over, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.200 It comes and waves, and when you give this team 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.760 a lead back to the first point, man, they sure 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.200 do know how to close out football games. The Bengals 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.880 offense today punt punt, touchdown, three and out, punt, missed 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.800 field goal, three and out, three and out, three and out, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.200 punt interception. So this Dolphins defense just continues to blow 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.160 you away every single week. Takeaway number two calling the 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.520 game to two a tongue of by lower strengths. I 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.000 love the way chan Gailey got back to some of 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.280 those things in that second half. We're gonna go ahead 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.280 and hear from coach Flores here about the tempo in 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.560 the second half of the game, making the switch to 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.960 go up tempo and how that can impact the defense 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.520 and how you can also benefit your young quarterback and 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.400 your offense. You think Channing the offensive staff, you know, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.760 made that adjustment. We uh, I just wanted to pick 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.520 up the pace a little bit, and um, you know, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.720 it was it was, it was efficient and we got 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.280 some production out of it, so we stayed with it. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.400 I think, you know, again, that's that's hard to deal 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:43.720 with defensively. So we were able to make some good throws, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.200 make some good runs and execute and really keep the 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.560 pressure on. And that's that's that was the thought process 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.440 at halftime, and we gotta we gotta accomplished. I gotta 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.360 say there's no one way to skin account. I never 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.120 believe there's one blueprint in the National Football League. But 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.920 I sure do like having my defensive minded coach helping 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.640 rookie quarterback because of things like that, the idea that 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.240 he knows what's hard on his defense, so he wants 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.760 to call things for his offense that puts the opposing 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.160 defense in a bind. And I just love they things 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.080 they did with Two in this game, getting him out 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.160 on the move, getting him out on those boots, running 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:16.800 some of that zone read. He got free for a 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.680 run early in the game. He also had a couple 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.720 of those quick twitch movements in the pocket that you 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.920 grow in love with two a tongue of vloa, or 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.920 you come to grow in love about him the way 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.440 he can evade pressure and evade those free rushers. Got 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.240 himself active that way, pressed the line of scrimmage and 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.680 got outside and made throws behind the line of scrimmage 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.480 as he broke through the initial pressure, the initial surge. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.720 I thought he got comfortable that way, had that deep 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.760 shot to Jakeem Grant back up on his old goal 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.360 post that was just falling right into the bread basket 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.360 there almost ran under that thing and took it all 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:45.920 the way for what would have been like a ninety 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.560 one yard touchdown drive. So you get him loosened up, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.600 you get him going the deep shots, the running aspect 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.760 of it, getting him out in space. Plenty of those 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.520 little pot passes to Jakeem Grant to take advantage of, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.720 you know, maybe they don't follow your motion or shift 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.800 with you on the defensive side of the football. I 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.160 think Jachim had two of those twenty yard or within 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.720 the twenty yard range pot passes in this game, giving 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.720 lynbod and some carries out of the backfield, and that 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.200 RPO mixing things up and keeping the Bengals defense off 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.239 balance with plenty of action where TWA does pull that 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.440 thing and chuck it into that little hook zone behind 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.240 the linebackers, you influence them that way, and those two 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.960 things go off each other so well. With the r 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.840 P O game and the way you open up the 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.800 running game as Miles Gascon hits it up for ninety yards. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.000 In this game, both those things can work off each other, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.160 finding that balance and finding that rhythm and completing those 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.480 six yards RPOs to help keep those linebackers a little 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.240 bit concerned about their first fall step forward, their their 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.480 first fall step backward. If two can read that and 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.080