Speaker 1: Practice Patrick throwing touchdown. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
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Speaker 1: How the hell is it going to everybody? It is Friday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, you already know what time it is.
Speaker 1: It is a victory Friday. Here on the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: we're gonna break down all things Dolphins Jaguars thirty one
Speaker 1: to thirteen, including some quotes from coach and players, some stats,
Speaker 1: interesting tidbits, the five Takeaways, individual evaluations, Chan Gailey's bag
Speaker 1: of tricks, Ryan Fitzpatrick pulling one out for the beards,
Speaker 1: all of that and more on this Friday September edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's go ahead and kick this
Speaker 1: thing off with some audio from coaches and players here
Speaker 1: on a Friday, win win, Win win edition of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast. And one of the things we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into heavy on this podcast was the versatility the mixing
Speaker 1: of the offensive personnel groupings and some wrinkles on the
Speaker 1: offensive side to produce the thirty one points on this
Speaker 1: Thursday night football Dolphins win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Here's
Speaker 1: coach Flores on the Dolphins coaching staff getting this team
Speaker 1: ready on a short week. Well, we got all too
Speaker 1: a good start, something we've you know, talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: I think our staff did a good job offensively, defensively
Speaker 1: in the Kidning game in a short week, getting the
Speaker 1: guys ready to go, so you know, change Josh Danny.
Speaker 1: A lot of credit goes to them for the for
Speaker 1: the for the work they did this week. Um, but
Speaker 1: also the credit goes to the players. I mean they
Speaker 1: put the work in and did a job with the communication,
Speaker 1: the fundamentals, techniques, and they made plays out there tonight.
Speaker 1: And but it was a total team effort offense, defense
Speaker 1: and special teams. Let's go ahead and here next from
Speaker 1: coach Flora's on that Dolphin's pass rush, two takeaways, four
Speaker 1: sacks and ten hits on Gardner Minshew, Yeah, it's something
Speaker 1: we've been working on. You know, anytime they get pressure,
Speaker 1: every team wants to get pressure on the quarterback. We're
Speaker 1: able to do that, you know, tonight and you know
Speaker 1: there's some mistesses where it could have been better, but
Speaker 1: definitely improved from previous weeks. They've got a good old line,
Speaker 1: they've got a good quarterback, they got good skilled guys.
Speaker 1: So that was it was a tough test for us.
Speaker 1: But you know, guys, they came ready to play tonight.
Speaker 1: They played fast, they played physicals, a lot of energy
Speaker 1: in the field. I'm sure you guys could see that
Speaker 1: they were. They were fired up and they worked for
Speaker 1: you know, it was a short week and we put
Speaker 1: a lot of time in as a team and you know,
Speaker 1: they did all out of extra work this week. It
Speaker 1: was important for them and they saw the food to
Speaker 1: the labor and scoring thirty one points allowing just thirteen.
Speaker 1: We had the great punt from Matt Hawk that penned
Speaker 1: the Jaguars deep. That complimentary football coach Flora says, it's
Speaker 1: how you win football games in this league, alright. I mean,
Speaker 1: complmarry football is always I saw you win in this league.
Speaker 1: So you can have a good you know, back them
Speaker 1: up or win the field position battle and when the
Speaker 1: time of possession battle by getting first downs offensively and
Speaker 1: turn the ball over defensively and that's how you that's
Speaker 1: how you win in this league. And I was I
Speaker 1: was a good played by calm by by Kyle. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't just calm. I mean it was It's never
Speaker 1: just one personal play. I'm not sure who who else was.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure someone else
Speaker 1: had a really good rush that might have pulled somebody
Speaker 1: else off of Kyle and popped in there. But it
Speaker 1: was a good individual play. And we need. What we
Speaker 1: need is on every snap eleven you know, really good
Speaker 1: individual plays and love the guys trying to win their matchup.
Speaker 1: We get that consecutively, we get good results. We normally
Speaker 1: get good results. Sometimes you don't. When you don't, you
Speaker 1: just move on to the next play and believe that
Speaker 1: get eleven guys on the same page in the right direction,
Speaker 1: good communication, good fundamentals, good technique of people. And I
Speaker 1: think the guys believe that if we do that, will
Speaker 1: have good plays. Um. So it's important for each of
Speaker 1: them too to try to do that, not only for
Speaker 1: themselves but for the guy next to Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and here now from quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, and how about
Speaker 1: that quarterback eighteen sixty yards three touchdowns on the day,
Speaker 1: one rushing and a bunch of rushing yards to go
Speaker 1: along with that. I tweeted out after his first drive
Speaker 1: how efficient he was in that drive that continued all
Speaker 1: night long. As the quarterback tells us here with his
Speaker 1: first question, it was good. I felt like we were
Speaker 1: efficient today. We had a good game play and we
Speaker 1: followed it. Guys made plays and you know, the second half,
Speaker 1: running the clock out a little bit and that stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: but I thought, I thought our guys up front us
Speaker 1: but came to play today. If it's you mentioned the
Speaker 1: game plan there a little bit, and you guys ran
Speaker 1: some stuff that look new to the untrained eye, some
Speaker 1: full house backfield, some pistol that end around a Jachim Grant.
Speaker 1: I just want to get your take on the ability
Speaker 1: to get that game plan sorted out in such a
Speaker 1: short week and how the coaching staff did with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was obviously a very short week. So to have
Speaker 1: a few new wrinkles, I think it, you know, speaks
Speaker 1: to the creativity of our coaching staff and also just
Speaker 1: speaks to the guys that we have in there being
Speaker 1: able to do things like that, and you know, for
Speaker 1: us to be able to trust that they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to get in there and figure things out. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, Jachim made a couple of nice plays today. Davante,
Speaker 1: we really just spread it around in the first half,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was just it was nice to see
Speaker 1: everybody involved in the creativity. And uh, you know that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff on a short week, which in and
Speaker 1: how about fits go ahead and adding something here to
Speaker 1: the idea or the question about him having a totally
Speaker 1: complete game on this Thursday night and football victory for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Here's fits on the one thing reporter
Speaker 1: forgot to mention that made his game completely complete. You
Speaker 1: know what, you know you can add to that which
Speaker 1: rarely if you look at a lot of footage to me,
Speaker 1: you will rarely see me slide. And today I also slit,
Speaker 1: So you can throw that one in there. Um, that
Speaker 1: may not happen again all a year. So there were
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. That was my third career reception.
Speaker 1: I was glad I actually got positive yards on that one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think running and you know, trying to
Speaker 1: throw a block here there and getting hit that stuff
Speaker 1: helps me get into the game a little bit. And
Speaker 1: how about what happened between Gardner Minshew and Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: postgame when the two were seen laughing and chatting it
Speaker 1: up after the Dolphins victory on Thursday night. Yeah, I just,
Speaker 1: I mean, we said good game to each other, and
Speaker 1: I just I told him I I appreciate the stash.
Speaker 1: I like to look. Um, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think he rocks it. I think he owns it and
Speaker 1: that's kind of his trademark deal. Um, it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: to look for me, but I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's awesome. Okay, So we have a lot to get
Speaker 1: to on this podcast. From the postgame report, some stats,
Speaker 1: will read, some more quotes from the players. If you
Speaker 1: guys want to see the entirety of those press conferences,
Speaker 1: check back on Miami Dolphins dot com and the YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: We are certainly going to have some of those for
Speaker 1: you guys available, probably on Friday, I imagine we don't
Speaker 1: get them out late on this Thursday night. Actually, as
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you right now, it is Friday morning,
Speaker 1: So go ahead and check out you too Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot Com for the rest of those Dolphins press conferences.
Speaker 1: As for this game, let's go ahead and break this
Speaker 1: thing down and talk about it, because man, what a
Speaker 1: fun game. Right out of the shoot. Dolphins come down,
Speaker 1: score three consecutive touchdowns to open this thing up and
Speaker 1: wind up with the thirty one win to get back
Speaker 1: to one and two with a long or I guess
Speaker 1: I should say a mini by week here coming into
Speaker 1: week four for the Seattle Seahawks. But in this game,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins march eight and seventy five yards on the
Speaker 1: first three drives. It was the second time since at
Speaker 1: least two thousand, as far as we go back to
Speaker 1: track that stat the Dolphins scored touchdowns on the first
Speaker 1: three drives of the game two thousand eleven. That Matt
Speaker 1: Moore Reggie Bush game at Buffalo was the other. And
Speaker 1: my goodness, the stats in this game definitely go in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins favor. They had eight team plays to start
Speaker 1: the game and twelve of those plays resulted in first downs.
Speaker 1: You probably heard on the broadcast they didn't face a
Speaker 1: third down to the very end of that opening drive.
Speaker 1: Miami was seven for thirteen on third downs, one for
Speaker 1: one on fourth down, so better than fifty percent converting
Speaker 1: on those money downs. Jacksonville was just three out of
Speaker 1: thirteen on third and fourth down to Miami defense putting
Speaker 1: the clamps on their Miami only had two yards of offense,
Speaker 1: but you heard Fitzpatrick talked about their efficiency. We heard
Speaker 1: Brian Flores talking about in his press conference as well.
Speaker 1: There were some things he would like to have cleaned up.
Speaker 1: I want to see a better running game in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter, and beyond. After that
Speaker 1: strong start on the ground, but still Miami rush was
Speaker 1: for one hundred and thirty eight yards passed for one
Speaker 1: fifties six compared to Jacksonville's three eighteen yards. Miami had
Speaker 1: to four but we ran fifties seven plays, so they're
Speaker 1: sixty three, so just a smidge were five yards per
Speaker 1: play for the Jaguars offense. A nice uh dip in
Speaker 1: that staff from the Dolphins from a week ago. Good
Speaker 1: job with a defense on that side of the football.
Speaker 1: Dolphins got two takeaways, They sacked Menshoo four times, hit
Speaker 1: him ten times, as we talked about earlier in the podcast.
Speaker 1: So those your pass rush getting cranked up. Dolphins had
Speaker 1: not turned the football over and Fitzpatrick took one sack,
Speaker 1: but I think that was one of those plays, or
Speaker 1: maybe he wanted to wind some clock there. We probably
Speaker 1: should have asked him that on that press conference. But
Speaker 1: he took a sack there towards the end of the
Speaker 1: game with that three touchdown lead, when he probably could
Speaker 1: have passed the ball or thrown it away, I should say,
Speaker 1: but he takes the sacks. So those are one sack
Speaker 1: on the board. So really in earnest you know, no turnovers,
Speaker 1: that one sack a great showing. Their Dolphins out possessed
Speaker 1: the Jaguars two thirty eight and they had fewer penalties.
Speaker 1: Miami had six penalties for fifty one yards. Jacksonville had
Speaker 1: eight for sixty three and you guys heard the stat
Speaker 1: in the game. Fitzpatrick hit his final nine passes last
Speaker 1: week against Buffalo and picks up right where he left
Speaker 1: left off here in this game, with completing the first
Speaker 1: twelve passes of the game that gave him twenty one
Speaker 1: consecutive completions. He threw for a hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: yards in that first half and a pair of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: His first half passer rating was one point oh. That's
Speaker 1: the fifth highest first half passer rating of his career.
Speaker 1: Of course, one fifty eight point three is a perfect
Speaker 1: passer rating. So Fitz has had some big time first
Speaker 1: halfs in his career man and coming into this night,
Speaker 1: Fits had three of his last four Thursday night football
Speaker 1: games produced a passer rating of better than one oh five.
Speaker 1: Will go ahead and make it four out of five
Speaker 1: as he of course goes way over the clip there
Speaker 1: for a passer rating of one oh five in this
Speaker 1: game against Jacksonville. You heard the quote there. He enjoys playing.
Speaker 1: It's why he still plays, especially when you are having
Speaker 1: success driving the football down the field scoring touchdowns. I
Speaker 1: feel like the luckiest guy in the world, he says.
Speaker 1: Sometimes getting to play football with my friends, the thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old having a great time there and Mike
Speaker 1: get sick. He joked. Afterwards, he called him thirty eight
Speaker 1: on an answer to a question, So he's thirty eight,
Speaker 1: but he probably plays like he's twenty three years old.
Speaker 1: And then reporter corrected Mike Gassicky on that particular moment
Speaker 1: and said, you're making him older than he actually is.
Speaker 1: He's only thirty seven years old, and Mike said that, well,
Speaker 1: he looks like he's forty eight years old. So definitely
Speaker 1: a good rapport, good joking there. He talked about all
Speaker 1: the chess bumps and the and the high fives and
Speaker 1: they just going crazy on the sideline together. This team
Speaker 1: certainly has a lot of fun. They love playing for
Speaker 1: the guy. I think you saw that on his rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown when he gave the ball to Ted Carriss on
Speaker 1: the ground after a great pancake block from Ted Carriss.
Speaker 1: The entire Dolphins team mob Fitzpatrick on that touchdown run,
Speaker 1: including Christian Wilkins number ninety four gets in there for
Speaker 1: the celebration as he always does. But the Dolphins last week,
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the podcast. They really kind
Speaker 1: of got going in the late part of that second
Speaker 1: quarter and had some nice sustained drives in the second
Speaker 1: half of that Buffalo game. And it just picks up
Speaker 1: right here again. Eighty and seventy five yards again, the
Speaker 1: first time they scored three touchdowns to open the game
Speaker 1: since two thousand eleven. Very impressive start there for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And this is of course Fitzpatrick's third stint with offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Chan Gailey, who was previously with the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: in the New York Jets, and he broke out the
Speaker 1: bag of tricks in this game tonight, man, we saw
Speaker 1: the very first play of the game. They opened up
Speaker 1: in pistol formation, which is just something unique, another wrinkle, right,
Speaker 1: something the defense has to look at and say, we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen that before on tape, and if we did,
Speaker 1: it was something new with a different wrinkle. They go
Speaker 1: down that later later in that drive show the full
Speaker 1: house package with a couple of tight ends and a
Speaker 1: running back in the backfield behind Fitzpatrick to run the football.
Speaker 1: They come back to that package later. We saw a
Speaker 1: twelve personnel in the game plenty as we usually do,
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel with three tight ends on the field, and
Speaker 1: they had that awesome misdirection play from Jachem Grant of
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards where he basically didn't even get touched
Speaker 1: until about twenty yards down the field and nobody had
Speaker 1: to hit a seal block on the edge because the
Speaker 1: Jags defense flew or flowed rather to that completely. And
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis and his press are talked about how we
Speaker 1: kind of had an idea what they were going to do.
Speaker 1: They wanted to attack our gaps and kind of get
Speaker 1: that penetration, and they just used the aggressiveness against them.
Speaker 1: Go missdirection get the big plays that way based off
Speaker 1: the scheme and the design of the play. Great job
Speaker 1: tonight by chan Gailey. He'll be our takeaways here in
Speaker 1: just one moment. And as the passing game was a
Speaker 1: crankin all night long, it was the running game that
Speaker 1: really got things going early on in this contest, with
Speaker 1: a tone being set earlier. Running back Miles Gaskon had
Speaker 1: eight carries for thirty five yards on that opening march.
Speaker 1: He talked a little bit postgame about what that offensive
Speaker 1: line does for him in terms of creating gaps and
Speaker 1: creating lanes, saying that it's all about leverage. As a
Speaker 1: running back, you have to be able to read the
Speaker 1: leverage of the defender on the block, and these guys,
Speaker 1: he says, makes that job very easy. I asked him
Speaker 1: about that, about his ability to bend back on those runs,
Speaker 1: because you have three options as a running back. You
Speaker 1: can bounce where you get it outside to the play side.
Speaker 1: You can bang where you just stick it up in
Speaker 1: the middle and try to get the yards that way,
Speaker 1: or you can bend it back against the grand against
Speaker 1: the formation and go to the backside of the formation.
Speaker 1: And Gascon really has the vision and the quick feet
Speaker 1: and the small making himself skinny getting into the gap
Speaker 1: to make all of that very effective. He talked about
Speaker 1: how good of a job this offensive line does creating
Speaker 1: that leverage and making those gaps easier for him to read,
Speaker 1: which expounds his vision to make it even better than
Speaker 1: really it already is. And that's me adding that part
Speaker 1: there at the end. Didn't say that himself talking about
Speaker 1: his own vision, but the way Miles Gaskin creates yardage
Speaker 1: is based upon quickness, acceleration, that vision, and we're seeing
Speaker 1: that on display so far through three games for your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I talked about Ted Carriss's pancake block in
Speaker 1: the end zone that was so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Got that twenty seven third quarter lead on that pancake
Speaker 1: on the Ryan Fitzpatrick rushing touchdown, and the dolphins ninety
Speaker 1: one rushing yards in the first half of this game
Speaker 1: were the most in the first half since the win
Speaker 1: over the New England Patriots the Miami Miracle there. They
Speaker 1: had one and forty two rushing yards in the first
Speaker 1: half of that game. And to continue that point there
Speaker 1: for Miles Gaskin, he also made a point to say
Speaker 1: that they make it easy because they get on their
Speaker 1: dudes and stay on them. Staying on blocks is very crucial.
Speaker 1: Speaking of guys that he talked about saying he did
Speaker 1: his job all the time in this game, Miles Gaskin
Speaker 1: said Jesse Davis had himself a hell of a game,
Speaker 1: and Jesse had this to say after the game. We
Speaker 1: had a good plan. We knew what they were going
Speaker 1: to be lining up in and Miles Gaskin did a
Speaker 1: great job with running hard, finding lanes, dropping his shoulder
Speaker 1: and fits got a couple in there as well. End
Speaker 1: quote in. Miami earned the lead just seven minutes into
Speaker 1: the game and they never relented from their Miami's week
Speaker 1: to lead lasted only one series last week against Buffalo,
Speaker 1: but playing with the wire to wire lead that really
Speaker 1: allowed the Dolphins defense to tee off late in this game.
Speaker 1: We saw the four sacks, the ten quarterback hits, the
Speaker 1: two takeaways. Gardner minshow through for just eighty three yards
Speaker 1: in the first half of the game, averaging just five
Speaker 1: point nine yards per pass in that first half, and
Speaker 1: they were threatening there towards the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: trying to get into Dolphins territory or into the red zone.
Speaker 1: They were already at the plus thirty five ish yard
Speaker 1: line and it was seven, so even a field goal,
Speaker 1: they're getting the ball back in the second half. I mean,
Speaker 1: technically the Jaguars could have made it a twenty one
Speaker 1: to seventeen, maybe even one game. But the play of
Speaker 1: the of that drive that I was so impressed with
Speaker 1: and his performance throughout the course of the night was
Speaker 1: no igmonogamy, because they run a toss sweep out to
Speaker 1: the side of the formation that he's on, he or
Speaker 1: that he's not on, and he comes over the formation
Speaker 1: and makes the running back bubble back inside, cut back inside,
Speaker 1: and that's where Jerome Baker meets him there for a loss.
Speaker 1: Then of course it forces a fourth down, and then
Speaker 1: we get the Commu Gruge Hill sack to get a
Speaker 1: turnover and just completely thwart any possible momentum there at
Speaker 1: the end of the half that Jacksonville was hoping to create.
Speaker 1: So very good job. Just Fitzpatrick talked about it last week,
Speaker 1: finding those moments, those big plays, and responding in those
Speaker 1: moments and making the plays in those moments. He said,
Speaker 1: we didn't get done last week, but Miami came up
Speaker 1: big time and time again. In this game in those
Speaker 1: big moments, and for Noah Igbangny to bounce back and
Speaker 1: have a game that he had on this Thursday night,
Speaker 1: that was just awesome to see the mental toughness, the
Speaker 1: mental fortitude. These guys are wired just differently, and Imogeny
Speaker 1: certainly fits the bill that way. So great work there
Speaker 1: from Commu gruge Hill on the sack. I thought Zack
Speaker 1: Seeler got a nice pick right there as he kind
Speaker 1: of closed down the a gap on that blitz from
Speaker 1: gruge Hill. They both kind of condensed their rush together
Speaker 1: and the center and guard kind of came over with
Speaker 1: Seiler and then gruge Hill got skinny and just exploded
Speaker 1: using that speed to get in for the turnover on
Speaker 1: downs and Minshew did pile up some yards and some
Speaker 1: stats in the second half, but overall finishes thirty or
Speaker 1: forty two with two hundred and seventy two yards. That's
Speaker 1: just six point five yards per pass, no touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: had three touchdowns in each of the first two games,
Speaker 1: an interception and a fumble lost on the Kyle van
Speaker 1: Noy trifecta. The sack strip and Scoop van Noy provided
Speaker 1: pressure on Jacksonville's quarterback relentlessly going both off the edge
Speaker 1: and on the inside. That's gonna be in the takeaways
Speaker 1: as well. You heard Flora's talking about the pass rush
Speaker 1: they got in this game. The Dolphins also got touchdowns
Speaker 1: in this game from Preston Williams and Mike get Sick.
Speaker 1: All four Fitzpatrick's touchdown passes this year have gone to
Speaker 1: either of those two or Devonte Parker, with those guys
Speaker 1: going six ft three, six ft five, and six ft six,
Speaker 1: and according to NFL Next Gen Stats, Fitzpatrick owns two
Speaker 1: of the six tightest window touchdown throws this season, threatening
Speaker 1: the needle when he has to get that job done.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams snared the first one of the night, that
Speaker 1: third and goal from the three yard line. Gets the
Speaker 1: inside released there from the enter back on a condensed split.
Speaker 1: Not putting him out wide. You bring him in close
Speaker 1: to the formation, get him closer to the quarterback, make
Speaker 1: that throw easier, and make that read easier, and Williams
Speaker 1: just breaks that thing off on the inside. But they're
Speaker 1: still tight coverage there, and Fitzpatrick just puts it on
Speaker 1: the bull's eye with the defensive back draped all over
Speaker 1: his back. Big time play there, big time touchdown from
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick to Williams to get the party started. Then after
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard's touchdown, Gasicky makes that leaping catch in the
Speaker 1: corner up on the goal line but not quite to
Speaker 1: the pylon. Really nice route combination there. I love the
Speaker 1: way Troy Aikman broke that play down talking about how
Speaker 1: the cornerback kind of falls off to the post for
Speaker 1: Preston Williams and that allows Gatsicky to grab that corner.
Speaker 1: And if Fitzpatrick sees that leverage, he sees that cornerback
Speaker 1: falling off, it only takes a second in this league
Speaker 1: for it to happen. And if your quarterback can see
Speaker 1: it and rip those man, you become tough to defend.
Speaker 1: And Fitzpatrick just saw it all tonight. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: more about him also in the takeaways, and let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start there with the first of the five
Speaker 1: takeaways from this game from yours Truly. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: hear from John Conjemmi on this podcast. Of course the
Speaker 1: late night game. We just couldn't make the phone call happen,
Speaker 1: but he will be back on next Sunday's recap podcast
Speaker 1: after the Seattle Seahawks game. But the first takeaway here
Speaker 1: is chan Gailey's bag of tricks. I asked Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: and the presser about it. You heard him talk about it.
Speaker 1: The coaching staff's ability to put in the game plan
Speaker 1: that had wrinkles and different looks off of it in
Speaker 1: a short week. It just really speaks to their creativity.
Speaker 1: But he also talked about the creativity of the players
Speaker 1: to be able to get that job executed with all
Speaker 1: the different looks and different packages. They called out their
Speaker 1: first player of the game. They go and pistol. We
Speaker 1: saw a third team personnel down around the goal line
Speaker 1: over and over again, that full house package with an
Speaker 1: extra offensive lineman. I mean, who do you how do
Speaker 1: you know where the blocking assignments are when you have
Speaker 1: three guys in the backfield and extra offensive lineman. Just
Speaker 1: ultimate confusion. The fourth and one call after Fitzpatrick's heroic scramble,
Speaker 1: which was freaking awesome, by the way, but the fourth
Speaker 1: and one call right after that, I loved that call.
Speaker 1: I wrote that I effing love that call in my
Speaker 1: notes because I do. I just fourth and one around midfield.
Speaker 1: The defense always tends to kind of blitz those ga
Speaker 1: apps and you actually saw Jacksonville put a pair of
Speaker 1: one techniques a defensive tackle on either side of the center,
Speaker 1: which means you can't sneak the ball because there's just
Speaker 1: no push you're gonna get right there against those guys.
Speaker 1: And running the ball in that situation makes it difficult
Speaker 1: as well. So what do you do. You get the
Speaker 1: quarterback on the move, You give him options. A quarterback
Speaker 1: that can run, that can scramble, that can pick up
Speaker 1: first down with his legs. He has the option to
Speaker 1: do that and to throw, and he has the decision
Speaker 1: making to go ahead and make the smart decisions in
Speaker 1: the passing game or to tuck the football. That makes
Speaker 1: it extremely hard to defend for the defense. Hell of
Speaker 1: a call there from Chan Gaily and play calls don't
Speaker 1: get it done if you don't have a player executing
Speaker 1: the play call. And that's takeaway number two here. Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick just straight dealing, starting the game off with the
Speaker 1: twelve straight completions throwing from accuracy. Both instructure in the
Speaker 1: pocket went protected, which by the way, he was protected
Speaker 1: all night long again really for pretty much the third
Speaker 1: straight game in a row. Very good past protection from
Speaker 1: this Dolphins offensive line, but also when there was pressure
Speaker 1: the third and six conversion on the first or second
Speaker 1: touchdown drive, I forget, but he has to kind of
Speaker 1: fade back because he gets pressure in his face. And
Speaker 1: when that happens, you have to drop the arm ankle
Speaker 1: and kind of throw the football around the pass rusher
Speaker 1: in your face. And you see that sometimes on like
Speaker 1: screenplays like Gardner minshe did on a screenplay when Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy came free and came, you know, right in
Speaker 1: his face, and he just drops the arm around the
Speaker 1: side of Van Noy, who throws his arms up naturally
Speaker 1: to try to bat the past down in his face.
Speaker 1: And min She was able to work that ball around
Speaker 1: vent around van Noy's frame. But Fitzpatrick did that on
Speaker 1: a slant or an inbreaking route to Devanta Parker, which
Speaker 1: is you know, five, six, seven yards downfield on top
Speaker 1: of the seven or eight yards that he's drifting back
Speaker 1: in the back of the pocket. So really impressive job
Speaker 1: by Fitzpatrick, just making it work no matter what the
Speaker 1: situation was, no matter what the platform was, throwing the football,
Speaker 1: making it happen with his legs. I just loved his work.
Speaker 1: In this game, throwing the ball into those tight windows,
Speaker 1: into those tight targets in the red zone, in the
Speaker 1: end zone, knowing where his big touchdown makers are. We
Speaker 1: talked about Devanta Parker, Preston Williams, Mike get Sicky catching
Speaker 1: all four of his touchdown passes so far this season.
Speaker 1: You have to love the performance of Ryan Fitzpatrick. And
Speaker 1: how about that post game fit, that postgame drip that
Speaker 1: dude was showing. Uncle Rico came to play. That's one
Speaker 1: for the Beards, baby. Takeaway Number three was Miles Gaskin
Speaker 1: and the push upfront. And I kind of want to
Speaker 1: make this point about the Dolphins investment in the offensive
Speaker 1: line this offseason and the credit you give the personnel
Speaker 1: staff and the coaching staff are going out and finding
Speaker 1: a nucleus of guys and Coach Flores talked about it
Speaker 1: in the postgame press or how those guys are doing
Speaker 1: a good job of understanding it's not about any one individual.
Speaker 1: It's about the entire unit coming together and solidifying as
Speaker 1: one collective group. And I think we're starting to see
Speaker 1: that more and more as these games go along. That
Speaker 1: past protection has been good, the running games getting cranking
Speaker 1: more and more. Here they're creating space. Four Miles Gaskin, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, seventh round draft choice right now looks
Speaker 1: like a bona fide two way player that can give
Speaker 1: you all kinds of production both in the rushing game
Speaker 1: and the passing game. You heard him talk about the
Speaker 1: leverage he creates, the small angle, the small strike, so
Speaker 1: in the quick acceleration he shows in those little small pockets.
Speaker 1: And then the balance, the contact balance to break tackles.
Speaker 1: I've been bringing up his yards after contact average on
Speaker 1: every single podcast so far. Here on Drivetime in the
Speaker 1: recap podcast, he did it again in this game. I
Speaker 1: cannot wait to see what the number is from Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus on Monday or whenever that whenever that stack
Speaker 1: comes out. But back to the offensive line, the addition
Speaker 1: of Eric Flowers and Solomon Kiley, two big, big, nimble guards,
Speaker 1: guys that have a mentality and a mindset. You see
Speaker 1: Brandon Thorne out there. He's at Brandon Thorne NFL on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He'll tweet out some images of offensive line play over
Speaker 1: and over again. That's what he does. He grades offensive
Speaker 1: line play. And he went back over the Buffalo game
Speaker 1: and showed these two guys punishing jumpers. If you want
Speaker 1: to try to jump up at the last scrimmage and
Speaker 1: back the football down, he's gonna put you on your back.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit you and make you feel that they're
Speaker 1: getting these hook blocks. When they get wrapped around and
Speaker 1: they seal off the edge, they do the old hip
Speaker 1: toss where you throw the guy out the club put
Speaker 1: him on the ground. Solomon Kiley putting guys in the ground.
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers putting guys in the ground. We talked about
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss getting a pancake block. I watched Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: wipe out that edge all night long. We talked about
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis with Miles Gascon. He has himself a big night.
Speaker 1: He goes up against Jacksonville's best pass rusher, one of
Speaker 1: the keys to the game. In the preview piece up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot Com and here on the Drivetime
Speaker 1: podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, we talked
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen being a possible game record. I don't
Speaker 1: think I heard his name until that clean up sack
Speaker 1: he got on Fitzpatrick where Fitzpatrick basically slid into the sacks.
Speaker 1: So great job by all five of the offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Great job by this Dolphin's personnel staff and coaching staff
Speaker 1: so far through three games, getting this offensive line play
Speaker 1: much better than it was a year ago, and just
Speaker 1: playing really good football right now and getting good offensive
Speaker 1: production in the running game, the passing game, and for
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick big time there. So Myles gaskon the offensive
Speaker 1: line playing good football. Takeaway number three there. Takeaway number
Speaker 1: four is a comment that Troy Aikman made about the adjustments,
Speaker 1: and this is kind of a general takeaway. I'm going
Speaker 1: to have the adjustments of the coaching staff and the defense.
Speaker 1: In particular, he showed you the Dolphins cornerbacks playing more
Speaker 1: soft off coverage, forcing the Jaguars to make more longer
Speaker 1: sustained drives because they maybe got beat for too many
Speaker 1: big plays the previous game. Make them go down the
Speaker 1: field and make them not make mistakes, make them pass
Speaker 1: block every single rep and not allow you to get
Speaker 1: quarterback pressure and then create chaos from there, because we
Speaker 1: saw as this game went along, the more reps the
Speaker 1: Jaguars offense took, the more it kind of fell apart
Speaker 1: for them as the Dolphins defense ramped this thing up,
Speaker 1: got it geared up, got pressure, played with high energy,
Speaker 1: and just completely put the clamps on that Jacksonville offense.
Speaker 1: So to be able to adjust your game plan there
Speaker 1: and get let that pass rush have more time because
Speaker 1: playing off coverage there's less likely that you're gonna get
Speaker 1: beat immediately off line of scrimmage. And having the safety
Speaker 1: to kind of alternate between two high and one high
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, and just all kinds
Speaker 1: of different looks. I saw McCain playing half field. I
Speaker 1: saw Brandon Jones all over the field. Tons of good
Speaker 1: work on the defensive side. The willingness to adapt your
Speaker 1: game plan after do you it didn't work for you
Speaker 1: last time, you come back in this game and you
Speaker 1: adjust things, you make it happen. Troy Aikman talks about
Speaker 1: it on the defensive side of the football, and again
Speaker 1: go back to the offensive side. The gaily bag of tricks,
Speaker 1: just adapting and finding new wrinkles and new ways is
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick said. To attack the defense, to attack the offense,
Speaker 1: just a comprehensive Dolphins win in this game, and the
Speaker 1: ability to adjust is takeaway number four. So we have
Speaker 1: the offensive line of Miles gascon Chan Gilly's bag of tricks,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick absolutely dealing, and the Dolphins ability to adjust
Speaker 1: as the four takeaways. The fifth is the defensive bounce back.
Speaker 1: And this is more about the players and the coaching
Speaker 1: staff here and this one four days after a you know,
Speaker 1: not a not the best showing against the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins come out here and just completely put
Speaker 1: the clamps on Gardner Minshew and a Jacksonville offense that
Speaker 1: was producing high volume, high numbers, high touchdowns, everything you
Speaker 1: want from an offense. They were doing it, and then
Speaker 1: they ran to a bus saw in the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: on this Thursday night. Kyle Van Noy, I want to
Speaker 1: really focus on this here, on this particular portion. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad he got that sack, that strip in that
Speaker 1: recovery because I think that you have to have the
Speaker 1: stats sometimes for the fan base to truly appreciate what
Speaker 1: a player does. We know Brian Flores doesn't believe in
Speaker 1: that whatsoever. Thinks a player can have zero zero zero
Speaker 1: across the stats board and still have an effective game.
Speaker 1: I showed you a clip on film last week where
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins really does a good job of standing the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman up discarding him and creating a play for
Speaker 1: a guy behind him. That's the type of play you
Speaker 1: talk about, and I think Van Noy does a lot
Speaker 1: of that playing assignment sound football. He's always in the
Speaker 1: right gap and his run defense, he's just a solid, solid,
Speaker 1: sound playoffs who he's been his entire career. That's who
Speaker 1: he's gonna be here for the Miami Dolphins. But now
Speaker 1: he's getting that pass rush going and some of the
Speaker 1: different looks he allows you to give. We heard Troy
Speaker 1: Aikman again talking about the games the Dolphins running up front,
Speaker 1: some stunts, some twists, some slants. He has that length,
Speaker 1: that angle ability to get around the edge and bend
Speaker 1: that thing back inside to rush over the inside. Again
Speaker 1: solid and the run fits. He is relentless in his pursuit,
Speaker 1: always does a good job of getting depth and finding
Speaker 1: land marks on his his drops in coverage as he
Speaker 1: kind of searches for for players and not just grass
Speaker 1: out there. The near interception he had last week, so
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy kind of stepping up and seizing this
Speaker 1: defense as his own in a way that kind of
Speaker 1: the lynchpin of the middle of that defense. As a
Speaker 1: guy that can do so much and be so versatile
Speaker 1: in a defense that wants to be versatile. I thought
Speaker 1: that was just an excellent, excellent bounce back for him,
Speaker 1: for a guy like Noah Iganogeny. Bobby McCain had a
Speaker 1: really good game, I thought in this one, the pass
Speaker 1: rush work of Emmanuel Ogba and Shack lost him. We
Speaker 1: saw the length there of ag Ba, the ability to
Speaker 1: collapse the pocket. He had a really nice pass rush
Speaker 1: on a Noah Iganogeny tackle short of the sticks on
Speaker 1: third down where he just reset the right tackle back
Speaker 1: and back and back right into Minshew's lap, and that
Speaker 1: allowed ignog to close down and make a tackle on
Speaker 1: a pass that went short of the sticks because Minshu
Speaker 1: had to get rid of it quickly. We saw Shack
Speaker 1: lost an impact of the game with his pass rush
Speaker 1: getting after the quarterback. We saw Andrew van Ginkle get
Speaker 1: in there for his sack as well. So plenty of
Speaker 1: guys making big improvements on that defensive side of the
Speaker 1: football bouncing back, and Kyle van Away really kind of
Speaker 1: making the defense his own on this Week three Jacksonville
Speaker 1: victory one to thirteen. So that's your fifth takeaway. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and breeze through some of the individual spots
Speaker 1: here that I wrote down just to kind of close
Speaker 1: this podcast out. We talked about Ryan Fitzpatrick, the reads,
Speaker 1: the accuracy, the different arm angles, the playing kind of
Speaker 1: outside and inside of the structure, both with his legs
Speaker 1: and with his arm. Just really really nice work from
Speaker 1: the Dolphin's quarterback tonight. Myles Gascon, We talked about him
Speaker 1: a whole lot. One guy that didn't come up was
Speaker 1: Devanta Parker. The receptions he has sometimes where he has
Speaker 1: to really extend his arms and catch it away from
Speaker 1: his body, really strong, solid hands. You heard Roy Aquin
Speaker 1: on the broadcast talk about his ability to kind of
Speaker 1: fight through the hamstring injury get himself out there, and
Speaker 1: he made place tonight despite the injury on a short week,
Speaker 1: coming off of four days rest of the previous game,
Speaker 1: being played with a tight hamstring. Big time kudos to
Speaker 1: Davanta Parker for toughing it out and making plays and
Speaker 1: being there for his offense and contributing on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. Jachin grants awareness after that catch
Speaker 1: he made where he ends a wheel stick. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll call it a wheel route and you come right
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback and he makes a diving catch
Speaker 1: away from his body and then the awareness to get
Speaker 1: up because the cornerback did not touch him and gain
Speaker 1: an extra ten fifteen yards. Awesome worked, Achem. I love
Speaker 1: seeing that stuff. Man, Keep doing that and you'll keep
Speaker 1: getting football's. I had in my notes here that Derham
Speaker 1: Smith made two great blocks on split zone. All split
Speaker 1: zone is the tight end comes across the formation on
Speaker 1: zone and blocks the backside forced defender off the outside.
Speaker 1: Two great blocks there from Derham Smith on that Mike
Speaker 1: gets like he's touchdown catch. Obviously on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: we talked about those guys in spades. We don't have
Speaker 1: to get much further into those. I thought Zach Seler
Speaker 1: had a nice game again getting pressure on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: had a nice close down backside run stop on the
Speaker 1: defensive line. I wrote a note here that Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: made a really nice play coming off a block and
Speaker 1: swallowing up a running play after just a three yard game.
Speaker 1: We talked about the linebackers a little bit there with
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy Andrew Van Ginkle, some of those guys
Speaker 1: games and the defensive secondary. No Monogamy had the bounce
Speaker 1: back game Brandon Jones. There was a play early in
Speaker 1: this game where Lavisca Chanal catches a pass just short
Speaker 1: of the sticks. But you watch Brandon Jones on that play,
Speaker 1: he kind of sees it developed and comes over the
Speaker 1: middle and has to fight his way over a pick
Speaker 1: and he damn near gets in there for a pick
Speaker 1: an interception, I should say, over fights over a screen
Speaker 1: and dang near gets in there for an interception, and
Speaker 1: if he does, he's off to the races the other way.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of what Rashad Jones used to do,
Speaker 1: cutting off those short passes in the hook zone and
Speaker 1: taking him back the other way. I think this kid's
Speaker 1: coming along nicely. Eric Rowe had a very very nice
Speaker 1: key and flow on an outside toss play man. They
Speaker 1: wanted to get James Robinson going, and why not. That
Speaker 1: kid is a ball or dude. But Eric Rowe coming
Speaker 1: over on another outside play, he just keyed it float
Speaker 1: over there, made a hell of a tackle off the edge.
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe, another good game. I thought, that's two back
Speaker 1: to back good games for Eric Rowe. And finally with
Speaker 1: the specialist, Jason Sanders still has not missed a kick.
Speaker 1: And Matt Hawk, my goodness, Hawk season baby, putting those
Speaker 1: things down inside the five yard line. That punt was
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. Stay hot, Matt, ha alright, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do what. We're gonna go into the weekend here
Speaker 1: and take the weekend off. You guys should too, because
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and enjoy this win, this mini bye week.
Speaker 1: I'm actually back home right now with my girls. And
Speaker 1: to be totally honest, Thursday, Thursday was King Felix Hernandez.
Speaker 1: It was a perfect day, man, Like absolutely perfect. I
Speaker 1: cry a lot, man, when I get excited, when I
Speaker 1: get joy, and I had tears of joy throughout the
Speaker 1: day on Thursday. And I got to spend the whole
Speaker 1: day with my daughter, celebrate the win with her, read
Speaker 1: her a good night story tonight, put her to bed,
Speaker 1: seeing my amazing wife and just being there to help
Speaker 1: her and make her life easier with our little care bear.
Speaker 1: Both my cats, ConA and Wilson were glued to me
Speaker 1: all day on the couch watching the game. We need
Speaker 1: love in this world, man, and I felt all the
Speaker 1: love today. It was phenomenal. And I love these dolphins, man.
Speaker 1: So what a night. And with that, you all, please
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