Speaker 1: That's just roll looking down field, touchdown, Miami run win win, win, win, win,
Speaker 1: win win, saying what is up? Dolph fans and welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as
Speaker 1: always I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. On today's show. You already heard
Speaker 1: it off the top. It is a victory Monday edition,
Speaker 1: Victory Friday edition. Check that of the Drivetime Podcast. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins win twenty two to ten over Lamar Jackson the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens here at hard Rock Stadium. It's two in
Speaker 1: a row, a ster defensive performance because Miami two victories
Speaker 1: in four days. We're gonna talk about it all the takeaways,
Speaker 1: the postgame show segment. We were fired up for the
Speaker 1: postgame show me Seth and o J from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. It's not
Speaker 1: that late yet. This is the Drive Time Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: too excited to talk about anything else. I want to
Speaker 1: get right in to the five takeaways from this Dolphins
Speaker 1: victory that we saw on Thursday night in prime time
Speaker 1: on national television for the entire country to get to
Speaker 1: watch a party at hard Rock Stadium following Miami's twenty
Speaker 1: two to ten victory over the Baltimore Ravens and takeaway
Speaker 1: number one. What else would it be? The defense shows
Speaker 1: up big. The Ravens began this game oh for seven
Speaker 1: on third down. They finished this game two for fourteen
Speaker 1: on third down. How about that Dolphins defense getting back
Speaker 1: to Sachs takeaways, pressures, third down stops, and holding teams
Speaker 1: off the scoreboard almost entirely, as Baltimore only found the
Speaker 1: end zone very late in the fourth quarter of this game.
Speaker 1: They went ten consecutive drives without allowing points to the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. I don't know this for a factor for anything,
Speaker 1: but I would I would venture to guess the Ravens
Speaker 1: have not gone ten straight drives without points and quite
Speaker 1: a long time. Xaviing Howard, you're all pro cornerback who
Speaker 1: is known and privy for getting around the football and
Speaker 1: making big game changing plays. Well, guess what he did
Speaker 1: it again? A forty nine yards strip, scoop and score
Speaker 1: and that was a third down conversion. But you know
Speaker 1: when you work on X, you're gonna have to find
Speaker 1: a way to put that ball away. He once again
Speaker 1: gets that thing out, scoops it up and takes at
Speaker 1: forty nine yards for a huge, huge touchdown late in
Speaker 1: this football game, and what was a six to three
Speaker 1: football game and about to be a first and tent
Speaker 1: for the Ravens right around midfield until X did what
Speaker 1: he does and made a big play in the football
Speaker 1: and got Miami a twelve point lead at that time.
Speaker 1: Different looks from this Dolphins defense without the course of
Speaker 1: the game, the different philosophy and game plan we saw
Speaker 1: this early on. We're a little bit concerned myself and
Speaker 1: John Conjemmi and Seth watching the game about how the
Speaker 1: Ravens were able to rush the ball early on. They
Speaker 1: had thirty five rushing yards on their opening series and
Speaker 1: a handful more on their second series, but that was
Speaker 1: about all they got. They finished this game with ninety
Speaker 1: four rushing yards about the course of the game. This,
Speaker 1: of course, a team who has led the NFL and
Speaker 1: rushing each of the last two seasons and had a
Speaker 1: good year so far this year. Not so much tonight
Speaker 1: in the rushing department for the Ravens against this Dolphins defense,
Speaker 1: and they did it with a game plan that we really,
Speaker 1: frankly haven't seen out of this defense. And one of
Speaker 1: the reasons is for that, you haven't seen a quarterback
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson faced this defense since nineteen because there
Speaker 1: is one of one when it comes to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: But the idea and they wrote hated guys. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear this on the next podcast. We'll see you
Speaker 1: in the next Drivetime podcast is I'm not sure it's
Speaker 1: gonna come out over the weekend at latest on Monday.
Speaker 1: Taking a look at the All twenty two. You don't
Speaker 1: want to miss that one, as well as the stats
Speaker 1: and snap counts and all that fun stuff. We'll take
Speaker 1: a look at that on the next edition of Drive Time.
Speaker 1: But early in this game and throw out significant chunks
Speaker 1: of the game. Lots of four linebacker looks with really
Speaker 1: three interior defensive lineman types up front in a traditional
Speaker 1: three four with different variations of of of Nickel and
Speaker 1: Diamond said that they ran out of that, but with
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins up front, with ray Kwon Davis and Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler or Adam Butler, any of those four guys in
Speaker 1: a three man rotation with Andrew Van Ginkl and Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker off the edge, almost exclusively playing off the edge
Speaker 1: in this game for a guy like Jerome Baker, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was the best game for him this
Speaker 1: entire season, with then Duke Riley getting a bunch of snaps,
Speaker 1: not just in place of Baker like he did last
Speaker 1: week but or two weeks ago rather but getting snaps
Speaker 1: alongside Jerome Baker as well as alongside a Land and
Speaker 1: Roberts on the inside there, and that just kind of
Speaker 1: forced the issue for the Ravens in terms of how
Speaker 1: they played this game. Of course, you saw plenty of
Speaker 1: zero pressure from this Dolphins team in zero looks where
Speaker 1: guys would bell out, guys would come off the edge,
Speaker 1: and the a gaps just all kinds of confusion and
Speaker 1: a tough day for the Ravens offense on the day.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson finishes forty three two and thirty eight yards,
Speaker 1: a touchdown, a pick sacked four times, a seventy three
Speaker 1: point six passer rating, and in earnest most of those
Speaker 1: passing yards came late in that fourth quarter and then
Speaker 1: nine rushes for thirty nine yards and his long in
Speaker 1: the game was just eleven yards. The defense did a
Speaker 1: fantastic job, the coaching staff, the execution of that game plan.
Speaker 1: I thought it was brilliant. I thought it was aggressive.
Speaker 1: I thought that aggression poured over into the offense, which
Speaker 1: we'll talk about here in just one second. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about some of the individuals in this game.
Speaker 1: And where else do we start besides the guy I've
Speaker 1: talked about a lot on the podcast last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and he's earned every single ounce of the praise that
Speaker 1: we've all given him, Javon Holland, My goodness, this dude
Speaker 1: is making plays. On the official stat book right here,
Speaker 1: I see four solo tackles, one assist, a seven yard
Speaker 1: loss on a sack, two pass his defense. And on
Speaker 1: my own notes here, I thought that, and Seth Levitt
Speaker 1: talked about this, and you'll hear this on the postgame show,
Speaker 1: uh segment we're gonna run at the end of the
Speaker 1: podcast here about how Miami set a tone physically with
Speaker 1: a Baltimore Ravens team for two decades now has been
Speaker 1: a team that out physicals almost every single team they play.
Speaker 1: And I thought that and Seth thought that that first
Speaker 1: hit Javon Holland put on a long run up the sideline.
Speaker 1: I think it was actually an end around and it
Speaker 1: was a big game. But halland deck the dude, he
Speaker 1: knocked him out, decleted him, and it was a great
Speaker 1: clean hit. He of course won the fair play recognition
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago for his clean hit on
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley and that Falcons game. He did it again here,
Speaker 1: great clean shot, knocked the dude to the ground on
Speaker 1: the sideline, and that kind of I thought, and Seth
Speaker 1: thought set a tone for this Dolphins defense and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins game in general, and just the physicality about we're here,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play sixty minutes. And the Dolphins certainly did that.
Speaker 1: So that first hit on the big hit on the
Speaker 1: first drive. Then he came right back with a pressure
Speaker 1: that forces a throw away from the r Jackson in
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone right before the Justin
Speaker 1: Tucker missed field goal. A great pass breakup on the
Speaker 1: ensuing series, flying up over the top on a Lamar
Speaker 1: scramble play that gets the defense off the field again.
Speaker 1: The drive right before the end of the first half
Speaker 1: comes on pressure again gets a blitz pass, breakup on
Speaker 1: the blitz, and then in the second half gets a
Speaker 1: big third down sack of Lamar Jackson. So many of
Speaker 1: those third down stops, you saw Number eight doing multiple
Speaker 1: things to involve himself in the game plan. That one
Speaker 1: play where they ran a jet sweep a little pot
Speaker 1: pass and he was off the edge and he had
Speaker 1: to fight around the block of a tight end and
Speaker 1: get on the upfield shoulder and win the corner while
Speaker 1: staying with the foot race of a receiver a Devin
Speaker 1: DuVernay who once ran a four to forty yard dash
Speaker 1: Olympic level speed from that guy, and Holland finds a
Speaker 1: way to not just carry a blocker all the way
Speaker 1: out to the edge, but get himself out there in
Speaker 1: position to make a play. And also there comes Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones scraping right off that work from Javon Holland to
Speaker 1: help team up for that big stop on that play.
Speaker 1: How about this from next gent Stats. We've talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the Dolphins blitzing their safeties the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Next gent Stats has this Dolphins safety Javon
Speaker 1: Holland twenty one and Brandon Jones seventeen blitzed more times
Speaker 1: tonight against the Ravens than any other defensive back in
Speaker 1: any game this season. Hollywood Vaughan, as he has called
Speaker 1: on Twitter, also set career highs and defensive snaps and
Speaker 1: QB pressures seventy snaps for QB pressures for Javon Holland.
Speaker 1: He also they also had the Dolphins safeties aligning all
Speaker 1: over the field. Both safeties played over of their snaps
Speaker 1: in the box, Holland as the safety in the box
Speaker 1: eleven percent in the slot, four percent at corner, and
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones seventy two in the box at safety in
Speaker 1: the slot and one percent out at wide corner. And
Speaker 1: again back to the postgame show, we touched on this,
Speaker 1: or I touched on this in the post game show
Speaker 1: about how both these guys were essentially slot cornerbacks their
Speaker 1: final year in college. Now they did a lot of
Speaker 1: things and rotated all over the football field. But go
Speaker 1: back to Texas tape in nineteen, go back to Oregon
Speaker 1: tape also in twenty nineteen, the last time Javon Holland played,
Speaker 1: and they were both getting plenty of nickel slot type
Speaker 1: of snaps, star position type of snaps with their covering
Speaker 1: trade up in that slot position and what does that do?
Speaker 1: It just gives Miami so many guys that can play
Speaker 1: that zero pressure and you can disguise your blitzes who
Speaker 1: drops into coverage because Xavien Howard, Byron Jones, Justin Coleman,
Speaker 1: Nick need Hum, Javon halland Brandon Jones, Eric Rowe, all
Speaker 1: these guys you can put out there and cover one
Speaker 1: on one. It makes you so creative and so flexible.
Speaker 1: And a lot of that has to do with these
Speaker 1: two young safeties who are playing outside of their mind
Speaker 1: right now and really helping this Dolphins defense ratchet up
Speaker 1: the pressure and finish off that thought. Brandon Jones seven
Speaker 1: solo tackles to assist in this game. We don't stop there.
Speaker 1: The defense keeps on coming. Thought. Jalen Phillips had a
Speaker 1: great rep along with Andrew Van Geinkle, which I believe
Speaker 1: they split the sack on this play where he wins inside. Immediately,
Speaker 1: He's becoming a real threat from that three tech slash
Speaker 1: four eye technique pass rushing situations where he can work
Speaker 1: over guards and centers and kind of just overwhelmed them
Speaker 1: with the size and athletic combination that he features he
Speaker 1: and Van Ginkl I thought were fantastic and their snaps
Speaker 1: off the edge, especially Van Ginkle, who I thought had
Speaker 1: one of his best games of his career and in
Speaker 1: my opinion, the best game for him this season. He
Speaker 1: finishes with what did Van Ginkle have? Two solo tackles
Speaker 1: to assist, a half of sack and a pass breakup.
Speaker 1: Fantastic work there from number forty three Eric Rowe. We
Speaker 1: haven't talked about him a lot. He's kind of had
Speaker 1: a snap reduction the last couple of weeks, but he
Speaker 1: also winds up with a forced fumble in this game.
Speaker 1: Three solo tackles and a past defense, so he was
Speaker 1: getting after it and just to kind of further the
Speaker 1: point about the zero pressure looks the Baltimore Ravens approach
Speaker 1: that was not to max protect or pull more guys
Speaker 1: in or trying to just withstand the pressure and throw
Speaker 1: the football from there. Their plan was to get the
Speaker 1: ball out quick in space, out on the wings and
Speaker 1: just basically trying to have challenged the Dolphins cornerbacks to
Speaker 1: make a tackle and hope, if you can't win these
Speaker 1: one on one matchups out here, we're gonna spring one
Speaker 1: and that's gonna get you out of the zero pressure. Look.
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins cornerbacks tackled well all night long, not
Speaker 1: just justin Coleman on the pick. He wasn't there for
Speaker 1: several tackles himself to solo one assist. Also had two
Speaker 1: pass breakups and a pick Byron Jones winds up with
Speaker 1: seven total tackles, six solo in this game, and xaviing
Speaker 1: Howard has five of his own, and of course the
Speaker 1: forced fumble. So when those guys can tackle like that
Speaker 1: out on the edge, it gives you a big advantage
Speaker 1: in the defensive backfield against the team that wants to
Speaker 1: throw the screen passes out there. It's just hard to
Speaker 1: get any work done on that. Some other stats here
Speaker 1: for you guys. Your own Baker four solo tackles, but
Speaker 1: I thought that he was fantastic, sidelined the sideline all
Speaker 1: night long. Adam Butler gets his first sack as a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin. Good on him. He also has two solo tackles.
Speaker 1: So this defense just brought the heat all night long.
Speaker 1: They brought the pressure from the safety position, They got
Speaker 1: off the field on third downs, and right around the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter, talking about Lamar having two
Speaker 1: hundred thirty eight passing yards as well as the thirty
Speaker 1: nine rushing yards, so he winds up there with right
Speaker 1: around two hundred and seventy total yards. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter, as the Ravens were trying
Speaker 1: to get something going, Jackson had a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two total yards at that point, so almost three full
Speaker 1: quarters in the books and he had just a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two total yards at that point. I wrote
Speaker 1: down some some notes here individually. I just put the
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker looks really fastest, I thought his fastest, best
Speaker 1: pursuing game of the season. Andrew van Ginkl, same deal there.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins continues to make plays and set up big
Speaker 1: plays beyond him because he makes so many players in
Speaker 1: the backfield to get defense or offenses rather into these
Speaker 1: long down and distance and that creates opportunities. He's part
Speaker 1: of five tackles in this game. Jalen Phillips continues to
Speaker 1: pursue outside so well, and you see that speed and
Speaker 1: athletic ability. Emmanuel Ogba continues to reject passes at the
Speaker 1: Lion screamage. Just so much good work from this Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense Byron X and Coleman. Coleman also had a big
Speaker 1: pass breakup down the field. The Ravens entered this game
Speaker 1: averaging twenty seven point six points per game, that was
Speaker 1: seventh best in the National Football League. They get just
Speaker 1: ten on Thursday. They average six point one yards per
Speaker 1: play coming in. They have just four point three yards
Speaker 1: per play in this game, and they average over four
Speaker 1: yards coming in per game. And they gained just three
Speaker 1: hundred and four yards in this game, and most of
Speaker 1: that again in the fourth quarter. So thinking about that
Speaker 1: also in contrast to the twenty nineteen season open, the
Speaker 1: first Dolphins game against the Ravens in terms of this
Speaker 1: coaching staff, for Brian Flores, I should say, in that game,
Speaker 1: and they go for five touchdowns for Lamar and fifty
Speaker 1: nine points. In this game, just one touchdown and really
Speaker 1: not until about fifty six minutes had gone by, and
Speaker 1: just ten points. So a great reversal of fortunes from
Speaker 1: the last time we saw this quarterback. Hell of an effort.
Speaker 1: Fantastic work by the coaching staff and the game plan
Speaker 1: and the players squat there and executed just fantastic work
Speaker 1: all around. Round to the applause with the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and the defensive players take away number two. It's two
Speaker 1: a time. He came back into the game in the
Speaker 1: second half after Jacoby Brissett suffered an injury, but it
Speaker 1: looked like Jacobe was ready to come back in Brian
Speaker 1: Flores addressed that post game and said that they were
Speaker 1: happy with the way two was playing and put together
Speaker 1: a couple of good throws and eventually some good drives
Speaker 1: and decided to stick with the young quarterback. Hopefully Jacobe
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay going forward, thinking about him as
Speaker 1: he came out of that game into the Blue Tent
Speaker 1: and luckily came out of there looking good. But to
Speaker 1: a came into the game in relief of Jacoby Brissette,
Speaker 1: and I think we all were hoping he would come
Speaker 1: out and put together three or four or five touchdown
Speaker 1: drives and throw for two and fifty yards and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and just be the you know, the story that
Speaker 1: came out and really superseded what the defense had done.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't that kind of game for him until
Speaker 1: it kind of was towards the end, and I thought
Speaker 1: it kind of got started for him with that weird
Speaker 1: double pass where he hands it off to Gascon who
Speaker 1: just turns around throws it back overhanded. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a flee flicker ran like that, but it actually worked
Speaker 1: out as Gascon found some space to have found him
Speaker 1: for a ten yard game. They got another ten yard
Speaker 1: game on a screen pass right after that that gets
Speaker 1: flagged for a ten yard holding call, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're in a big hole first and twenty
Speaker 1: in a position where you really needed some points there
Speaker 1: because it was still at that point of the game
Speaker 1: six to three and Miami hoping to find a way
Speaker 1: down the football fielding and get some points on the
Speaker 1: board to put Lamar Jackson and that Ravens offense in
Speaker 1: a bind. They go first in twenty five yard air
Speaker 1: shot dealon Waddle to move the sticks. He goes up
Speaker 1: high into the air and pulls that thing down. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know if you guys saw this.
Speaker 1: After the game, Marlon Humphrey, the phenomenal corner for the
Speaker 1: Ray wins. He is so good. He tweeted after the game.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle going to be top ten next year, so
Speaker 1: that you have one of the best cornerbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: A big fan of the Dolphins rookie receiver. They come
Speaker 1: right back later with a fade to the Jailan Waddle
Speaker 1: again in the end zone. That gets a easy d
Speaker 1: p I call. He gets open and they have to
Speaker 1: pull him down to prevent a touchdown on that play.
Speaker 1: So some big play elements coming back into the offense.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that here in just one second.
Speaker 1: But back to tow his game, the sixty four yard
Speaker 1: passed to Albert Wilson. They busted a coverage on that one,
Speaker 1: but that's part of the conflict of the r PO
Speaker 1: and good running and just the multiple options where you
Speaker 1: can kind of select your conflict within that scheme. That's
Speaker 1: where it really set you apart in terms of what
Speaker 1: it can do to put the defense and conflict. But
Speaker 1: on that drive, I mean, shoot, you give the ball
Speaker 1: back to Lamar Jackson there. That's just what he's done
Speaker 1: all year and granted they were not doing it in
Speaker 1: this game on Thursday, but all year they've come from
Speaker 1: behind and put themselves in position to win the games
Speaker 1: with big plays for the passing game through Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: But the offense, I love this. My biggest thing is,
Speaker 1: like you can win games with your offense, whether it's
Speaker 1: scoring a bunch of points or closing games out. The
Speaker 1: offense went out there and never let that even become
Speaker 1: an opportunity. Don't give Lamar Jackson the primetime football and
Speaker 1: the chance to move down the field win the game
Speaker 1: for his team. The aggressiveness to put the Ravens away
Speaker 1: with the passing game. I loved that, absolutely loved that.
Speaker 1: And it really started and earnest with a sixty four
Speaker 1: yard pass to Albert Wilson where to a fax a
Speaker 1: handoff and goes out wide and finds Wilson up the
Speaker 1: sideline shrieking all alone. That was the second coverage bust
Speaker 1: of the game for the Ravens. Will come back to
Speaker 1: the other one here in just a second. But to
Speaker 1: to us credit, the scoring drives over saw them overcome
Speaker 1: that first and twenty and then that seventy five yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: Remember he caps it off with a sneak into the
Speaker 1: end zone. And what a great dance that was in
Speaker 1: a celebration for him down there on the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 1: What a night for him. Had to feel good. Now
Speaker 1: he's got ten days to rest up and get better.
Speaker 1: He said it was sore after the game, but also
Speaker 1: said it was happy to have ten days to get better,
Speaker 1: but just to finish this point, the four minute offense
Speaker 1: like gotta have at time, and also when you're trying
Speaker 1: to drive from behind as well, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: put the other team away and win the game. Three
Speaker 1: games that year, the Atlanta game, the two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to get the Dolphins at one point lead,
Speaker 1: the New England game to close that game out, when
Speaker 1: if you don't get a first down you have to
Speaker 1: punt from your own end zone with the Patriots need
Speaker 1: just a field goal to win that game, and now
Speaker 1: this game to keep the ball out of Lamar Jackson's hands.
Speaker 1: Big time work there late and fourth quarters from your quarterback.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number three. How about the unsung receivers, the heroes
Speaker 1: at that position. Isaiah Ford has two catches on the
Speaker 1: final drive before the half, which gives Miami a lead
Speaker 1: when it looked like they were probably gonna have to
Speaker 1: just go into halftime at a three three game. He
Speaker 1: has a nineteen yard catch, a fifty two yard catch,
Speaker 1: which he tweeted after the game, gotta get out of bounds.
Speaker 1: I know that won't happen again, Good on you, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: But to pile up seventy one yards on those two plays,
Speaker 1: what a big night Friday A four is he? I
Speaker 1: think was number two on the team in receiving in
Speaker 1: this game. Pulling up the stats, now he was with
Speaker 1: eighty four yards on four catches and four targets, so
Speaker 1: twenty one yards per target in this game. Frisaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson led the Dolphins in receiving with eighty seven
Speaker 1: yards on four catches. Also the sixty four yard long
Speaker 1: certainly helps. But seeing Albert Wilson get back involved some
Speaker 1: jet sweeps, some quick screen, some tunnel screens to him,
Speaker 1: seeing him involved, that was a nice boom for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense. And then you also wind up with Adam
Speaker 1: Shaheen three catches thirty four yards, Storm Smith one catch
Speaker 1: twenty three yards, and Waddle and there as well four
Speaker 1: for sixty one. But he's been obviously more prevalent weekend
Speaker 1: and week out, put some big time names for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins stepping up that when you're down a couple of
Speaker 1: guys like a Will Fuller, Davante Parker, these guys making plays,
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about next man up, great night
Speaker 1: Friday a Ford and for Albert Wilson number four takeaway.
Speaker 1: There are always gonna be corrections to make right. There
Speaker 1: was too many missed opportunities in this game, like on
Speaker 1: the very first drive of the game and Wattle comes
Speaker 1: wide open off the snap and they look like maybe
Speaker 1: they busted another one there and he has some space
Speaker 1: to run. The ball does not go there. You gotta
Speaker 1: find a way to exploit those. Jalen Waddle also gets
Speaker 1: a deep shot right before the first half, but he
Speaker 1: can't get off press. You'd like to see an opportunity
Speaker 1: for him to kind of get off the line there
Speaker 1: and get open down the field because there was no
Speaker 1: safety help and they had about seventy yards of grass
Speaker 1: behind that cornerback. But he couldn't get off the press
Speaker 1: and he had to go play defense as the ball
Speaker 1: was nearly intercepted. And after the big Isaiah Ford play,
Speaker 1: we just talked about the Shaheen non penalty or they
Speaker 1: he catches the ball and goes the turf and they
Speaker 1: kind of hit him in the back. They throw the flag,
Speaker 1: they come out and they picked the flag back up.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins come up to the line on that play,
Speaker 1: they're not set, they run motion, they bring someone across
Speaker 1: the formation, and it cost the Dolphins about four or
Speaker 1: five seconds and Miami winds up kicking a field goal
Speaker 1: on third down on that drive with five seconds to
Speaker 1: play in the half. That mismanagement time, they're costing the play.
Speaker 1: You've got to be quicker than that. When you have
Speaker 1: the opportunity with the clock stopped, get to the line,
Speaker 1: get a play called fuel position. All night Miami did
Speaker 1: not capitalize on good field position really in that first half.
Speaker 1: With drives beginning at the thirty seven thirty two yard
Speaker 1: line their own two. That's great field position. Gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to capitalize on that. The holding on the
Speaker 1: screen to Miles Gaskon that would have put them at
Speaker 1: the plus forty yard line right after the double pass play,
Speaker 1: that's a killer. A false start on third and goal
Speaker 1: from the one yard line, they wind up kicking a
Speaker 1: field goal. There three drives goal to goal that resulted
Speaker 1: in without touchdowns. That has to get better. So some
Speaker 1: opportunities for Miami to get some things fixed. Mostly they're
Speaker 1: on offense. The fifth takeaway, how about one draft classes
Speaker 1: within this game and how many times have we had
Speaker 1: the conversation about Christian Wilkins and you're number three right now.
Speaker 1: He's gonna set career highs in every stat you can
Speaker 1: think of, tackles, sacks, tackles for loss, QB, hits. He's
Speaker 1: been all over the place this this season, having a
Speaker 1: breakout third year after a good first two seasons, Mike
Speaker 1: Gasicki goes about a year and a half before he
Speaker 1: really starts to pick it up with the touchdowns and
Speaker 1: the big games they can have, like a ninety five
Speaker 1: yard game at one point. But after all that, he
Speaker 1: starts putting together consistent sixty seventy eight yard receiving days,
Speaker 1: one or two touchdown days, and that's just become who
Speaker 1: he is now. Even though in this game seven targets
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night, no receptions, no receptions for himself, Mac
Speaker 1: Hollins or Preston Williams, And that again speaks the ability
Speaker 1: of an Albert Wilson and of Isaiah four to step
Speaker 1: up big. But back to the point exaving Howard, you know,
Speaker 1: his first year often injured, didn't really have any players
Speaker 1: in the football. Then December of that second season starts
Speaker 1: having all kinds of picks, picks off Brady twice against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and that's just become who he is. The
Speaker 1: ultimate ball hawk in the league. Jerome Baker goes from
Speaker 1: a kind of sub package player, a rush specialist, to
Speaker 1: a guy that plays eleven hundred snaps and kind of
Speaker 1: the focal point of the middle of your defense. We
Speaker 1: talked about the free agent acquisitions like Emmanuel Ogba and
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe having their best seasons once arriving here in Miami.
Speaker 1: The idea is developing players and seeing them get better.
Speaker 1: And so when I look at the one draft classes
Speaker 1: within this game, and we'll start with one class, Waddle,
Speaker 1: you guys know how I feel about him and how
Speaker 1: he's produced this year and what he's meant to this team.
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's on track to break the franchise rookie
Speaker 1: receiving records for yards and receptions. Jalen Phillips, the pressures
Speaker 1: keep coming. He came into this game just tilling only
Speaker 1: uh odof O Way and in terms of rookie pressures
Speaker 1: off the edge position, and he got a few more tonight.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland continues look like an absolute stud back there
Speaker 1: in the defensive backfield. So it looks like early on here,
Speaker 1: you've got three picks you're feeling pretty good about, and
Speaker 1: some more guys working and developing. Leam Eikelberg playing a
Speaker 1: bunch of snaps as well. He's coming along at that
Speaker 1: left tackle position, and the rest of the class there
Speaker 1: has some time to go as well. And then the
Speaker 1: class in this game to a tongue by Lowo obviously
Speaker 1: comes off the bench and throws for a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty three yards in less than one half of play,
Speaker 1: and of course has the big rushing touchdown that really
Speaker 1: helps this this offense out hundred for passer rating on
Speaker 1: the day. Then you go back to Rob Hunt, who
Speaker 1: had the amazing play that you have to talk about.
Speaker 1: I mean, how just the effort to get the ball
Speaker 1: across the goal line was was pretty great. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see that play for a long long time to come.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it was in
Speaker 1: fact a penalty don't catch the ball, Rob, even though
Speaker 1: we all had a great time watching to do it.
Speaker 1: But that's besides the point, because Rob Hunt's playing great
Speaker 1: football right now. We talked about this earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Sevent scent run block Win Ray on ESPN was tied
Speaker 1: for second among all offensive guards. He's having a good year.
Speaker 1: And then Brandon Jones, the third round pick that year,
Speaker 1: to go along with ray Kwon Davis, who we all
Speaker 1: believe is having a we all think is you know,
Speaker 1: a tremendous player on the interior defensive line of that
Speaker 1: Dolphins d line. And then Brandon Jones in the third
Speaker 1: round with what he's done the tackles, the pressures, the sacks.
Speaker 1: So as you kind of look a year and a
Speaker 1: half into those guys' career and you look at three
Speaker 1: guys this year, you know, and there's obviously more that
Speaker 1: can join that party and continue to develop themselves, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's it just illustrates to me that the
Speaker 1: jury is in on exactly none of those guys. And
Speaker 1: the idea behind you know, this kind of retooling rebuilding
Speaker 1: process for the Dolphins they began a few years ago,
Speaker 1: was you know, if a GM or a front office
Speaker 1: or a drafting team can hit on three or four
Speaker 1: guys every single year, that's a great, great draft class
Speaker 1: to have. If you hit on just technically are really
Speaker 1: like your picks across the board, You're in a good
Speaker 1: position as far as how this league works, and when
Speaker 1: you have you know, nine, ten eleven picks and you
Speaker 1: get yourself those four hits. That's that's what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: those great draft classes. So hopefully those guys in these
Speaker 1: last couple of draft classes can continue to progress and
Speaker 1: if they can enjoy the similar success in terms of
Speaker 1: the trajectory of a Christian Wilkins, a Mike go Sicky
Speaker 1: and Exaviing Howard Jerome Baker, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've got a great young nucleus of players showing growth
Speaker 1: and improvement every single game, every single year. And hopefully
Speaker 1: that's the case or the track we're on right now.
Speaker 1: So those are the five takeaways. Now what well the
Speaker 1: Jets are next, But look at how different the outlook
Speaker 1: is now still three and seven. I know, I know that,
Speaker 1: But we have a good stretch of home games coming
Speaker 1: up after one quick trip up to the Meadowlands to
Speaker 1: face the Jets, which, by the way, Seth o J
Speaker 1: and myself and DJ Presh of the Fish Tank podcast
Speaker 1: all gonna be up there on the Metlive takeover, So
Speaker 1: come see us out of the Met Left takeover if
Speaker 1: you are going. But all of a sudden, road game
Speaker 1: for the Jets three home games here back at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. Let's keep this thing rolling, play some good football,
Speaker 1: one win at a time, and get this thing rocking
Speaker 1: back in the right direction. A couple of other notes here.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Marlin Humphreys tweet after the game about Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: You love to hear that. Javon Holland said after the
Speaker 1: game that was the most fun he's ever had. I
Speaker 1: believe it. And xaviing Howard broke the team down, he
Speaker 1: said at a press conference by saying, remember this feeling.
Speaker 1: I hope they all do, because that was a great night,
Speaker 1: a great team win. What a night. Stay tuned on
Speaker 1: the other side here for some postgame stuff from the
Speaker 1: five six d w Q AMS Country Seth levitt O,
Speaker 1: Jim McDuffie, and myself on the postgame show. I'll play
Speaker 1: you guys the first segment from the Thursday night recap
Speaker 1: in the meantime, that's gonna be my time you all.
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Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com. Until next time. Fins up, Caroline, it's late,
Speaker 1: but Daddy is coming home. What is up? Dolphans And
Speaker 1: welcome to the fifth quarter postgame Show. The Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast network is all here. Seth Levitt, O. J. Mcduffee
Speaker 1: from the Fish Tank. Travis Winkfield here from the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. It's past midnight, but we're not tired yet.
Speaker 1: It's not past midnight yet. It's almost past midnight, Juice
Speaker 1: big dub tonight. Man, oh man, it feels good to
Speaker 1: be here again. Back to back weeks within last four
Speaker 1: day's actually get back week right? Yeah? Can we play
Speaker 1: another game before the game before the weekend? Bro? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna tell you what, Man, The way
Speaker 1: that defense played and the way the offense found the
Speaker 1: way that and then find a way to get in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Late in the game. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was that was a fun one. Man. You know, I
Speaker 1: love the game, especially on Thursday night. We just never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. And people have a four
Speaker 1: day you know, uh, four days to get ready for
Speaker 1: an event or for a game, and the teams got
Speaker 1: come on the road. Our team went out there, man defensively,
Speaker 1: especially man, and play a one heck of a game
Speaker 1: Thursday night football is nothing like a Travis you know,
Speaker 1: you know, the hype man out there that got him
Speaker 1: hype before the game. I think that I think he carried.
Speaker 1: I think he's the one that the reason that it
Speaker 1: all went the way it went today. I hope so,
Speaker 1: I hope so. I didn't mind that at all, man.
Speaker 1: But yeah, great game, great defensive job today, the pressures
Speaker 1: in the face, you know, Batton balls down, picking them up,
Speaker 1: scoring with it. I mean, it was just fun to watch, man,
Speaker 1: That's what we expected. We talked about this last week.
Speaker 1: We talked about this last game when when when we
Speaker 1: held the Texans to nine points and once again a
Speaker 1: great job by the defense. One bad series, but the
Speaker 1: rest of was just s We're gonna talk about that
Speaker 1: defensive game plan a lot tonight the quarterback position as well.
Speaker 1: Obviously very intriguing there in terms of that storyline. But Seth,
Speaker 1: I want to go to you here real quick, because
Speaker 1: you had to take away in this game of sorts
Speaker 1: that you kind of kept coming back to and it
Speaker 1: just kept showing itself time and time again. About the
Speaker 1: physicality the Dolphins showed tonight. What do you think that
Speaker 1: this Baltimore team usually the one that gives it to
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team. Well, that's it. That's been the history.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw all the stats all week about
Speaker 1: what the you know, the Ravens have beaten the Dolphins
Speaker 1: by this margin over the last Who cares what happened
Speaker 1: two years ago. This is a different team. They're a
Speaker 1: different team. Certainly don't care what happened prior to that.
Speaker 1: But one thing that has been the theme has been
Speaker 1: the Ravens just come in here and they're physical and
Speaker 1: they're nasty, and the Dolphins haven't been able to match that.
Speaker 1: But the physicality and the night juice, and it started
Speaker 1: on the opening drive when the Ravens they I forget
Speaker 1: who it was, but they ran that end around and
Speaker 1: you think that guy's going to distance and Javon Holland
Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere, hit them up high and and
Speaker 1: bodies go flying everywhere. You know, mouth pieces are flying everywhere.
Speaker 1: And from it, from that moment she was hit, was
Speaker 1: on and this team played fast. They were physically at
Speaker 1: the defense was what we had hoped they would be
Speaker 1: and then some and I think that that's what was
Speaker 1: necessary to come out here and punch those guys in
Speaker 1: the mouth, and that's what they did. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: our team is tired of getting punked by these guys,
Speaker 1: and we really are. And I'm glad they played like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad they finally went out to it that type
Speaker 1: of attitude because we've had a physical defense before with
Speaker 1: a lot of same guys out there. We've had a
Speaker 1: fast defense before with a lot of same guys out there,
Speaker 1: and they showed that today. The different looks, the different blitzes,
Speaker 1: and then what you said when they finished the play.
Speaker 1: Remember the beginning season we had trouble finishing tackles, finishing
Speaker 1: the play, finishing to drive as a defense or as
Speaker 1: an offense. But the physicality of the whole thing today
Speaker 1: was what I loved because that's what Baltimore does. They
Speaker 1: want to impose their will and they weren't able to
Speaker 1: do that. Today we were able to go out there
Speaker 1: and do that to them ourselves. And you talk about
Speaker 1: these young guns. I know we're talking a lot about
Speaker 1: these these young guys, you know, the Brandon Jones and
Speaker 1: the and the you know, the Polls Man. Those boys
Speaker 1: right there there have been the difference makers because they've
Speaker 1: been allowing our defense to do what they love to do.
Speaker 1: And the rallying around him right, you can see it there.
Speaker 1: It's infectious. The way they're playing their energy there again,
Speaker 1: that physicality. It's fun to watch. It's changed the way
Speaker 1: they've played defense the last couple of weeks. And it
Speaker 1: goes back to those safeties and the pressure. And I
Speaker 1: was like, keep talking about on the podcast about bringing
Speaker 1: down Brandon Jones and Javon Hall and the pressure the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And it's been the case three weeks in a row now,
Speaker 1: even going back to that Buffalo game. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and get out over my skis here and
Speaker 1: talk about a campaign for Rookie of the Year, defensive
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. This dude's bawling right now. Four
Speaker 1: tackles night solo tackles. He had two passes defense and
Speaker 1: a sack that lost seven yards. He was he had
Speaker 1: his hand in on four plays on those third down
Speaker 1: get us Baltimore in this game was want to for
Speaker 1: four He had he does hand on four of those stops.
Speaker 1: And just to go back to Lamar Jackson and kind
Speaker 1: of what the Ravens have unto the Dolphins team over
Speaker 1: the last several years. Here in this game, two d
Speaker 1: and thirty eight passing yards and a big chunk of
Speaker 1: that was late and what I won't quite call garbage time,
Speaker 1: but it was close to it. And he only rushes
Speaker 1: for thirty nine yards on nine attempts in this game. Juice.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson came into this game averaging three hundred fifty
Speaker 1: one total yards per game. He comes away with less
Speaker 1: than three hundred and a seventy three point six quarterback rating. Man,
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defense, I mean, we just talked about it,
Speaker 1: but that's that's the story of this game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is, man. I tell you what. Also that
Speaker 1: the pressure came in a lot of different ways. We
Speaker 1: saw our young guy and Zaiden Phillips getting there. We
Speaker 1: saw with some bad balls, We saw a lot of
Speaker 1: guys out there that were contributing. Kristen Wilkins again, I
Speaker 1: know it's me. He's just having a heck of a
Speaker 1: year or two, and a lot of times you don't
Speaker 1: really notice it because the interior guys don't getting numbers
Speaker 1: that dictate that they had a really good game. But
Speaker 1: the presidents and stopping up the middle of him in
Speaker 1: Ray Kwon, you know, taking a Baltimore team that loves
Speaker 1: to run the rock and and pretty much neutralize him
Speaker 1: on you know, running the football. But the constant pressure
Speaker 1: and these guys out there able to go out there
Speaker 1: and and and play the style of defense that we
Speaker 1: were hoping to see, and they never stopped playing at
Speaker 1: the whole game. We did a lot of zero today.
Speaker 1: We played a lot of zero. We played a lot
Speaker 1: of single high. We're like we were daring him. And
Speaker 1: I talked about a lot in the post game today
Speaker 1: on the pregame today. You know, um, when I when
Speaker 1: I did a hit that disciplined football stand in your
Speaker 1: lane containing Lamark Jackson, and they did a great job
Speaker 1: that keep him in the pocket when he did want
Speaker 1: to run, put him on the ground four times, right,
Speaker 1: I got it down. Really impressive well, I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say they held him to ten points? What were
Speaker 1: they averaging coming in Travis when he seven point six
Speaker 1: and so twenty seven point six they held him to
Speaker 1: ten points. You know, I got on how happened with
Speaker 1: the palmty post. I love how great guys been covering
Speaker 1: his team for a long time. He gave this defense
Speaker 1: to see last week just because of who the opponent was,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, we don't control who the opponent is. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what. They played the Baltimore Ravens today and held
Speaker 1: them to ten points. So if this isn't a day
Speaker 1: from this Miami Dolphins defense, I don't know what more
Speaker 1: we want. But this was a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And as you said, this was the expectation. This team
Speaker 1: is built around the defense dominating in the offense. Just
Speaker 1: you know, I hate to say it, but if the
Speaker 1: offense is capable, right, if they if they're capable, if
Speaker 1: they protect the football, they move it down the field steady.
Speaker 1: This defense is supposed to win football games, and the
Speaker 1: last two weeks they have showed up big time. And
Speaker 1: to the point about the rushing defense, they go for
Speaker 1: just ninety four yards in the ground seth was it
Speaker 1: thirty five yards they had in that first drive? You
Speaker 1: you and I and John Conjemmi were talking about how
Speaker 1: the Ravens were rushing right at what we saw Juice
Speaker 1: as a different defensive lineup in terms of they went
Speaker 1: Bake and um, who else is off the ginkle? And
Speaker 1: then Riley and Roberts, which is a lineup change. Usually
Speaker 1: you have augba and and Jalen Phillips and there they
Speaker 1: go lighter but faster off the edge, and that speed
Speaker 1: showed up in this game tonight. Nine rushing yards for
Speaker 1: a Ravens team that loves to run the football and
Speaker 1: basically leads the league in rushing every single year, not
Speaker 1: so much in this game. And then kind of to
Speaker 1: further that point, you talk about the aggressiveness and and
Speaker 1: set how the defense sets up this team. How about
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness of the offense late in this game to
Speaker 1: to Albert Wilson for what was that fifty yards on
Speaker 1: that second to last drive there and then the fourth
Speaker 1: like they're going forth, they're pushing the temple and they're
Speaker 1: trying to win the game on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Do not give that thing back to Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson and let him come down and beat you. They
Speaker 1: were the aggression of night and to me, that was
Speaker 1: the difference in the game. Yeah, you know, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we look, we've been waiting for explosive plays from this
Speaker 1: offense and they did incredible it's supposed to plays. And
Speaker 1: I tell you the one at the end you talk
Speaker 1: about to Albert Wilson, I mean you, it doesn't get
Speaker 1: much bigger than that. When you've got to put a
Speaker 1: drive together, you've gotta get points, the game is still
Speaker 1: in the balance, and you're able to go out there
Speaker 1: and make a big throw, make a big play, um,
Speaker 1: and it was. It was nice to see. Man. You
Speaker 1: know what, man, I think this team is tired of
Speaker 1: hearing it. They're tired of hearing all the trash talking.
Speaker 1: They're tired of hearing all these you know, I want
Speaker 1: to be eighting that fans that come out there, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and they hear it. Trust me, as an
Speaker 1: as an athlete, you hear the noise. Now check this out.
Speaker 1: You know you want on Sunday, you want on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You got a long weekend, and they're going to enjoy public, right,
Speaker 1: They're going to be a public all weekend long public.
Speaker 1: I could promise you that right now, many and they
Speaker 1: and they deserve it, man, But it's gonna be time
Speaker 1: to get back to work. Headed to New York next week.
Speaker 1: But stef, we do the post game seth. We don't
Speaker 1: do the pre game right. So we're gonna talk more
Speaker 1: about how they did after a win streak, a chance
Speaker 1: to put together a three game winning streak that has
Speaker 1: happened before. Hopefully it happens here again. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about two more plays before I get out to
Speaker 1: break guys, talking about the aggressiveness on offense and and
Speaker 1: just the game in general. I talked about it was
Speaker 1: sixty four yards. I just looked it up to to
Speaker 1: to Albert Wilson, But how about the thirty five yard
Speaker 1: passed at Jalen Waddle on first and twenty in a
Speaker 1: series where they needed to get points and kind of
Speaker 1: take the pressure off this defense. Juice, I thought those
Speaker 1: two plays with two come back and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that next segment. We're two of the biggest players
Speaker 1: of the season for this team. Absolutely, I mean nothing
Speaker 1: explosive so far, even the beginning game is like three
Speaker 1: yards two yards. For years did have a fifty two
Speaker 1: yard or Isaiah four got a little boy, yeah, get outside,
Speaker 1: made a play down the field which really got at
Speaker 1: the end zone. But that was a broken play type
Speaker 1: of each way. But I'm talking about in terms of
Speaker 1: game plan in itself, it seemed like that was still
Speaker 1: the mentality. But they did take some shots down the
Speaker 1: field and we completed them. We completed some shots down
Speaker 1: the field. Hopefully that that trend continues. We start losing
Speaker 1: some defenses up and we'll start finding some running lanes.
Speaker 1: But we gotta start going down to feel like this
Speaker 1: a little bit more, giving our playmakers a lot more
Speaker 1: opportunities to get those explosive plays, and good things will happen.
Speaker 1: You hit some fifty yard plays and played that good
Speaker 1: of defense, you're gonna win a lot of football games
Speaker 1: in this league. We're not gonna not talk about the quarterback.
Speaker 1: We'll do that next segment here, but first let's go
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