WEBVTT - Dolphins Titans Week 17 Recap 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.240 Two fires touch stop Waddle stocked into the end zone 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.440 of Miami tight broke window. They had to get that 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.680 touchdown on that play. They give it. What is up, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.040 Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:25.480 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.320 I am Travis Wingfield. I'm gonna be your host, bringing 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.440 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.760 today's show, it has been had been sixty three days 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.599 since the Miami Dolphins last loss in that run has 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.320 now come to its conclusion. It's a convincing thirty four 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.800 to three defeat in Nashville. We're gonna get to the 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.519 five takeaways, check on some of the storylines. I was 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.159 interested in going into this game and assess where we 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.879 go from here. Here from Brian Flores and to a 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.120 tongue of Iloa from somewhere in South Florida. This is 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:03.680 the Drive Time Podcast. So no post season play for 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.840 the Dolphins in the game that Miami had to have 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.160 to stay alive in the postseason chase, and it just 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.120 didn't really go that well. From the very start of 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.280 the football game, some key moments and opportunities to possibly 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.040 get back in the game. We're gonna cover all those moments, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.760 including some of the stuff offensively, defensively, some of the 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.559 calls and the explanations of those calls in this game. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.919 But I want to go ahead and start this podcast 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.039 with Brian Flores on the team not playing well enough 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.880 to win. With as much riding on this game as 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.520 there was on Sunday. Every week, we we we put 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.160 our best foot forward. They try to U have a 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:46.560 good performance. It was no different this week. I think 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.040 our guys prepared the right way. The way how good 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.720 we could practice signs are a good team. They had 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.560 a good plan. We didn't play well enough in any 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:01.800 of any any any phase. And you know that starts 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:06.520 with me then coaching well enough either songs m We'll 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.560 go go back and make the corrections, and trying to 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.240 play better next week. My own personal crafty story lines 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.440 here and how it just really didn't come out in 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.560 the Dolphin's favor and almost any facet. I mean Ryan 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.760 Tannehill versus some of the free rushers the Dolphins have 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.280 been able to create over the course of the winning streak. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.880 Just couldn't get those couldn't really get him off his spot. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.880 There was one instance where I thought they did get 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.480 him off his spot, and it wasn't in completion, But 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.280 that was really it that the course of the game 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.760 was curious about a j Brown working on Xavian Howard 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.280 or Byron Jones, or double teams or zone. I think 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:38.440 we saw a little bit of all of that in 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.880 this game. He only caught two for forty one. So 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.320 Miami did a good job neutralizing the Titans top offensive 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.440 weapon in the absence of Derrick Henry and Julio Jones. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.760 But the Titans offense just didn't really have to do 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.800 a lot today with Miami's offensive performance and to in 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.600 the elements was a question. We are a storyline. I 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.280 was curious to see how it played out. Eighteen forty 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.560 two oh five, four sacks, no touchdowns, gets the pick 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.560 that gets kicked up into the air, which is unlucky, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.600 but there were some other players in the game that 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.000 went in his favor as well. He finishes with a 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.880 fifty three point one passer rating. Who can run the 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.080 football in this contest? Well, the Titans answered that rather vehemently. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.640 The number two ranked defense against the run in Tennessee 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.880 versus the number seven ranked Dolphins run defense coming into 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.600 this game. Titans win that one handily as well. And 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.600 then just how Miami would handle a game in elements 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.480 in cold weather that required against the physical football team 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.320 that had a good game plan like coach Flora has 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.720 mentioned there against a tough, physical team, and how the 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.240 rushing kind of balance would go in this game and 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.560 how that would create the tone of this game. I mean, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.520 I think we can all agree we know how that 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.040 went in this one. Let's go ahead and go back 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.560 to head coach Brian Flores here about how his team 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.839 is feeling coming off this loss. You know, I don't 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:58.040 have the performance I'm looking forward. You're dispointed, um, but 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.080 you know this this group, well, they're gonna stick together, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:08.080 support one another, get back out there tomorrow, make the 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:13.200 corrections tomorrow, prepare for up for for another big game 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.720 next week. The big game Brian Floors is talking about 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.239 Week eighteen, the last game of the Miami Dolphins season. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.120 The takeaways here, number one, It starts with the quarterback position. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.440 I really just thought the last three games in different 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.960 capacities that the performance of Tongua Byloa had not been 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.479 to the standard of what we had expected. Over the 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.719 course of the previous portion of the season, in that 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.120 middle part of the season, coming back off the finger injury, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.320 the thumb injury since he replaced Jacobe Brissette, the Baltimore game, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.880 and some considerable strides throughout the course of his career. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.800 But now off of that stretch, a three game stretch 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.960 of kind of the same mistakes that became weekly that 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.520 he kicked out during that stretch and cut those curious 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.400 interceptions down, we see we see not just those, but 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.960 more opportunities of those some weird short hop throws that 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.600 don't quite get there, some off target throws that some 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.800 strange decisions with ball location and where to go, and 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.160 it resulting in balls getting batted into the air and 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.640 possibly intercepted. And O J talked about this early on 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.080 in the game, how it seems like in some of 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.760 these games it Takeshi a while to get warmed up. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.279 Like the Jets game a couple of weeks ago, first 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.400 quarter was not very good, the Saints game, got a 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.120 very slow start in that game, playing poorly to the 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.680 start and then having more of those mistakes trickle out 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.360 throughout the course of the game. And the accuracy issues 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.760 is a part that the rest of stuff, okay, like 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.960 we can work on that, we can get better at that, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.359 but at least the end of the day, we know 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.839 that he is always going to be a high completion 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.400 percentage accurate quarterback who when he has the right throw 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.240 and has the right read, the ball is gonna be 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.800 where it needs to be. But that just wasn't the 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:52.520 case in this game. High low, wide behind all game long. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.120 He struggled with the accuracy. And that's gonna be one 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.719 of our takeaways later on about the uncharacteristic elements of 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.040 this game. But man, how uncharacter touristic was that of 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.680 this quarterback? And that's I think where you get a 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.240 lot of the narrative and some of the stuff that 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.479 you're you're gonna see on Twitter. And I talked about 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.640 this on post game how this type of game and 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.880 this type of moment it invites the conversations that you 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.200 you hate having him on Twitter right and social media 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:16.520 and you want to just be able to say, no, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.080 we're good right there, it's doesn't it's done with. We 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.600 don't need to even look at the draft or free 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.560 agency or whatever the case may be. And that's not 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.000 going to be the case that you're going to have 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.760 to deal with that this off season because of this performance. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.560 That's how this league works. It's it's high risk, high reward, 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.720 and when you don't perform in these big moments, that's 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.480 what people see and that's what people are going to remember. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.760 So when you could put your hat on the accuracy 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.120 and you don't have that, that's when that conversation, that's 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.520 when that leads to a performance like this one, that 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.000 leads to a conversation like that one. I mean the 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.120 two misses on the first series. There was a throw 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.599 behind Mike and Davante on on on different dig routes, 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.160 not setting his feet on that one that I was 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.000 talking about to a Monty hooker that could have been 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.640 picked off where he gets This is something that I've 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.960 noticed has been a bit of a trend on these 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.320 high balls over the middle where the feet don't get set. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.599 And it's so weird because normally he's so good with 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.680 the footwork and the they do get set and he 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.080 drives the football because of it. But that little shuffle 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.920 away from the initial interior pressure and then the release 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.080 is quick and good, but the feet have not matched 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.160 up yet, and so the ball sails on him as 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.240 he doesn't get the feet set on that play and 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.800 it goes over Mike's head and Monty Hooker has a 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.240 possible interception opportunity that gets dropped. The ball comes out 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.600 of his hand on the lost fumble that sets it 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.119 tightens up with a seven oh lead at the plus 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.560 fourteen yard line. Just trying to throw a quick hitter, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.360 a now route right too, Jalen Waddle coming back to 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.680 the to the formation a little bubble inside bubble type 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.280 of screen, little tunnel screen. Ball just flipped out of 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.520 his hands like and then it failed exchange later on 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.520 on a third and short play. Just these these little 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.480 things that pop up, those are difficult to overcome. And 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.440 then when you're not accurate on top of that, very 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.560 difficult to overcome. And you know the other point here 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.600 about this his I don't think it's unfair to ask 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.760 the question about the performance in implement weather games Buffalo 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.920 last season. I mean I talked about this also in 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.760 the radio, about how there were so many drops in 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.840 that game and different elements and the defense could not 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.000 get a stop to save their lives, and how the 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.280 three picks may have been might have been a little 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.400 bit more because of that than it was, you know, 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.480 the quarterback play being not good for sixty minutes, but 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.440 in this game, you didn't have those things and the 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.840 quarterback play was not good. And yet that was There 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.120 was sleet in that first half, I understand that, but 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.640 it did clear up at times throughout the course of 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.600 the game. There was some wind gusts here and there. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.520 But the ball was just all over the place in 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.360 this game. Last year at Denver, it wasn't it was 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.680 just a cold day. Wasn't snow or rain, but it 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.959 was cold. And that's what happens in the a f C. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.600 East East Rutherford, the meadow Lands, the Foxboro, Buffalo, it's 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.480 cold weather cities. So it's just something to think about it. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.440 It's wasn't good in this game. We haven't seen it 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.960 good yet. You really hope that it does get better. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.520 And let's go ahead and hear from Brian Flores talking 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.360 about the impact this game had, or the weather conditions 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.079 I should say had on this football game. Yeah, I 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.680 mean I think it was raining, it was slick. But 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.880 regardless of that, we've got to do a good job 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.080 for tecking football and it's always our number one priority. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.559 We got to do a better job protecting it. It's 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.960 always the top priority. And look, you know they had 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.120 the same elements we had. We're dealing with some even 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.360 playing field. From that, you gotta do a better job. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.640 And so I kept looking for this portion of the 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:38.080 game where Tah would find that little flicker of get 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.400 heating up and hitting that hot streak we've seen pretty 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.040 much every game, even when he hasn't played, like I said, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.360 up to the standard we expect of him. And he 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.319 gets off the goal line with that great second and 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.800 tent RiPP to Davante Parker down by fourteen. That's a 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.960 big time throw that the Dolphins had to get going 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.400 to get themselves back in that temp over them offense 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.360 and kind of get things rocking and roll. And then 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.160 it's another big game down the field till Mike get 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.360 sicky and I saidtle load passed down the seemed to 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.520 Derham Smith. Then we take a sack and the driver 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.839 is basically over from there. Then we come right back 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.400 and miss a throw to Jail and Waddle on a 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.679 slant where he's open with a clean pocket ball over 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.360 the top of his head in the fourth quarter. But 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.160 then we're back with a forty five yard rip to 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.000 Jail and waddle for a gorgeous corner route and then 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.720 it's back to back mrs after that. So I thought 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.920 the line play was good. I thought Duke was running 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.079 the ball pretty well as well. It just wasn't to 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.480 his game. And I wanted to go to this part 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.000 of the tourist press conference post game because I mentioned 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.400 the last three games I just were not as good 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.240 as the previous games. So here's what to I said 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.280 after the game about how teams maybe played them differently 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.800 or adjusted over the course of the last three games 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.280 with the Jets, Saints, and now Titans. Here's to a 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.000 mostly by the Titans right here, I think, and I 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:48.160 think they really run what what they do well. There's 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.439 is really not much game planned unless it's it's third down. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.840 You know, they'll they'll bring some pressure here and there 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.800 on normal down and distances, but other than that, they 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.400 thick to what they do and what they do really well, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.960 and they just go out there and execute. You know, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.000 we we try to stick to what we do and 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:12.200 try to execute, but obviously that wasn't the case today. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.400 Ease today. And then on this first takeaway, let's go 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.840 ahead and finish up with another point from to about 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.320 what the Dolphins offensive game plan coming into the game 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.400 was in the loss only, we wanted to try and 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.479 push the ball down field, get into some of the 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.600 the areas that we felt we're going to be avoided 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.079 with the play action game, you know. We we wanted 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.320 to try to stay ahead of the sticks, being manageable 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.760 third downs, but that wasn't the case with our first 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.920 three series. We were third and nine, I think third 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:45.040 and ten, you know, and and maybe another third intent 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.920 uh but yeah, I mean, you can't you can't go 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.880 out there and you know and not not being able 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.600 to execute on the road against a good team, you know, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:01.200 and expect the outcome to be good. So it just 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.719 needs to be better execution from us us. Let's take 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.960 a short pause and we'll come right back with takeaway 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:14.560 number two Drivetime Podcast five takeaways from the Dolphins Sunday 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.520 lost the Titans thirty four to three, and Week number seventeen. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.079 Takeaway number two on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.080 is that this game was way too close to the 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.400 same script we saw earlier in the season, where the 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.760 strong defense deteriorates as the game goes along and the 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.880 offense really fails to put together much our amount really 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.040 any type of scoring drive at the course of the game. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.800 And that was so often the case early in the season, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.720 and we saw in this one, and it wasn't a 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.760 fun time to be reminded of that game script. And 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.760 for the Titans to come out here and Waddle had 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.160 had I think it was three straight games with nine 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.440 catches for ninety plus yards or eight catches for ninety 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.480 plush yards, they pretty much removed him. Besides one play 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.240 in the game, I think it was late into the 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.240 third quarter. He had one catch for just no yards 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.680 in the game, which is so again just kind of 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.920 out of character for this Dolphins offense. They've always been 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.640 able to find ways to get the rookie receiver involved. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.319 He finishes the game with three catches for forty five yards. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.320 Confirm that three catches for forty seven yards, So he 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.960 is now two catches shy of tying an Kwan Bolden's 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.960 single season receptions mark for a rookie receiver. We talked 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.960 about two was miss throws and how that was problematic 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.000 for the offense is kind of just getting stuck in 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.520 the mud and not being able to do much. That 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.520 ineligible man downfield early in the game basically takes Miami 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.160 out of a first and ten from right around midfield situation. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.040 With the first two plays in the game, like already 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.840 having good success getting upfield and they would convert that 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.400 first down later. But I just thought it was just 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.199 emblematic of how this game went. Kind of like the 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.280 Jason Sanders kick off the crossbar that bounces back from 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.400 fifty three yards, you never see him not have enough 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.640 leg and on the play before that, a sack coming 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.280 around the right end there pushes that field goal from 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.960 I think it was a nine yard loss from forty 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.640 five forty four yards to fifty three yards, and that 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.040 of Orsk goes off the crossbar, uh, just being loose 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.840 with it in the pocket. Like right after that bomb 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.480 to Jitlan Waddle on the double reverse pass that with 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.319 the flee flicker type of action to not be aware 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.640 of the surrounding areas and that that particular play that's 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.880 not a good look. And then right after that, Waddle 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.720 has a drop on the drive after Miami falls down three. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.560 So just a lot of these things that got in 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.680 the way of the Dolphins success and that was the 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.760 idea of two things I said earlier on the podcast 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.680 is this season that I forgot about it, and I'm 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.480 glad that I did, because it wasn't much fun talking 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.080 about it. But the Murphy's law, how everything that could 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.800 go wrong did go wrong. And then what coach Flores 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.320 had mentioned it we kind of talked about in the 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.640 podcast as a result, was how guys would take turns 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.960 making mistakes it seemed at times for this Dolphins team. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.200 So here's head coach Brian Floors on the team's failure 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.560 to execute. And I think it always comes about and 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:55.640 comes back to fundamentals and technique and tackling, defeating excuse me, tackling, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:02.480 breaking tackles, blocking guys, defeating blocks, and um hm, you 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.920 know we can come up with all this. You have 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.320 a plan, but at the end of the day, that's 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.200 that's that's really one football balls onto them. So you 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:15.400 gotta take care of those fundamentals. And you know, we 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.440 had some some communication issues as well, So yeah, I mean, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.440 I guess against a good team, you gotta take care 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.240 of all those little things or else they take advantage. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.240 You know. Seth kept making this point on the post 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.640 game show on five sixt w q A m about 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.640 how he didn't feel like this game was like the 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.720 game against Tampa Bay earlier or the game back in 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.080 Week two against Buffalo. I always just a three phase SmackDown, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.280 and he's he's really right. I mean, the Titans had 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.800 one more first down in Miami, seventeen to sixteen. That number, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.280 it kind of blows me away. They had just fifty 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.720 two more yards. It was just the mistakes and the 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.120 offensive really ineptitude through the course of the game. Just 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.040 three for eleven on third down. They were seven for 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:56.920 fifteen on third downs. That's what where of your big 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.880 differences comes into play. But yeah, just not good enough 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.560 for the Dolphins. You heard coach Flores talk about the 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.600 execution not good enough, fundamentals not good enough in this game. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.120 The third takeaway is that the nut the run defense 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:09.920 is not the one we were used to going into 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.280 this game. Deonta Foreman has fourteen carries for seventy yards 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.360 in that first half. We talked about him having the 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.520 lowest average coming into the Titans running backs, but he 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.480 rips off a big day. They then hit the thirty 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.000 yard wildcat on a really game clinching type of play 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.080 in the fourth quarter where you're down by fourteen, third 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.720 and inches right around midfield. They get that, not just 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.000 the conversion, but they run it into field goal range 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.320 and eventually go in for the touchdown, and then that 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.320 helped to set up the play action passing game. We 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.640 talked about that as one of the keys Titans averaging 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.520 two and a half yards better per pass when they 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.240 go play action, and we talked about how you can 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.440 create that without having to run the football. But we 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.400 saw that early in the game that they tried to 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.880 get to those looks, but you would see Jerome Baker 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.960 kind of falling into the hook zone and interrupting a 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.240 possible passing laner Xavien Howard getting his hand around for 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.920 a pass break up. And so they were able to 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.000 impact those play action passes early because they were doing 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.400 a good job on early ounds of stopping the run. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.360 But once that got away, it made kind of everything 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.240 go away because then Tannehill could get those naked boots 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.360 and get involved in the running game those little play 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.040 action looks where he gets a tight end leaked in 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.640 behind the coverage for a wide open walk in room 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.160 service touchdown pass. So a lot of that came off 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.320 of the running game, and it seems like even when 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.879 things would get stacked up at the line of scrimmage, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.840 and I talked about how Christian Wilkins was a bright 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.840 spot in this game on Twitter because he continues to 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.920 just you know, they had to hold him a couple 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.840 of times. He gets into the into the backfield, makes 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.320 a couple of plays at line of scrimmage a couple 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.720 of times, like every game, He's just a lot to 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.840 deal with. And even with a performance of that nature 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.200 and other guys making plays, with the course of the game, 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.280 it just seemed like they would stack things up and 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.920 then find a way to push the pile an extra 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.840 three or four yards, and going from that second and 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.159 nine to second and six to me, seemed like a 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.560 big deal in this game. Now they got Taylor Lawan 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.320 and Roger Staffold back, so I mean that's you know, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:54.960 this is no slouch on the other side of line 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.000 of scrimmage. I mean, they that offensive line had gone 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.480 through its tribulations this season, but they get those two 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.760 guys back makes a big difference. And I thought that 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.600 little key detail was a big reason for it. They 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.600 finished the game forty rushes for a buck and you 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.399 can see that got inflated late, but I thought that 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.280 was indicative of how the game went on, went through 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.720 the course of all sixty minutes, and again they built 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.879 a Russian game off that passing game for Tannehill to 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.800 just go thirteen for eighteen for a buck twenty and 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.560 two touchdowns. Takeaway number four. I kept referencing this earlier 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.800 on how some of the really all of the losses 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.560 for the most part this year have come at the 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.719 expense of uncharacteristic mistakes. And we've this is just kind 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.880 of an additional takeaway here, but we talked about it already, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.639 the things you haven't seen from this team, Like we 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.720 talked about with some of the inaccurate throws and the 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.920 mistakes that have just kind of been the same script 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.960 this season. But even then, like we've come to, you know, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.320 we talked about standards, like Javon Holland took a couple 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.520 of bad angles in this game that I thought sprung 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.680 big running plays which just haven't seen that much this year. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.800 Xabing Howard gets a flagged for a defensive pass interferens. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.720 We're pretty clearly he did in fear of that pass 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.879 route on first and twenty to get them behind a 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.640