Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfold and on today's show,
Speaker 1: a lot to get to here. As the Dolphins fall
Speaker 1: in New York to the Jets thirty two to twenty,
Speaker 1: their season will come to an end, as the Broncos
Speaker 1: made sure of that pretty quickly in the game against
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Is they mollywop Casey the Casey's backups,
Speaker 1: I should say in Denver thirty eight?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 1: So the Dolphins season is over after the lost eight
Speaker 1: and nine finish. Here we'll go ahead and cover all
Speaker 1: the stuff that happened today from the Baptist Hell Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Hell Training Complex. This is the Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and open things
Speaker 1: up here with a statement from your Miami Dolphins posted
Speaker 1: to social media that you saw make the rounds on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Forgot what day it was there for a second.
Speaker 1: This statement from Stephen Ross. He covered how they're gonna
Speaker 1: to bring back both Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel. I
Speaker 1: want to just go ahead and read the last part
Speaker 1: of the statement here. I thought I was very well
Speaker 1: written and very concise iness messaging. As we look towards
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, our football operation will continue to be
Speaker 1: led by Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel with my full support.
Speaker 1: Their positive working relationship is an asset to the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and I believe in the value of stability. However, continuity
Speaker 1: and leadership is not to be confused with an acceptance
Speaker 1: that status quo is good enough. We will take a
Speaker 1: hard look at where we have fallen short and make
Speaker 1: the necessary changes to deliver our ultimate goal of building
Speaker 1: and sustaining a winning team that competes for championships. And
Speaker 1: of course, the big question after that is what are
Speaker 1: those things that'll be the the entire crux of what
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, Chris Greer and the Miami Dolphins staff from personnel, scouting,
Speaker 1: college pro coaches, all of that. That's going to be
Speaker 1: their task over the coming months trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what went wrong this year outside of not having your
Speaker 1: quarterback for six games, and which issues have persisted for
Speaker 1: multiple years, and how to get those things right and
Speaker 1: get this team who has been on the fringe right
Speaker 1: in that hump, to get over that hump.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five, and of course beyond.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm a little bit dubious about the
Speaker 1: idea of it. I do appreciate continuity because sometimes when
Speaker 1: you enter, you know, a market that has seven or
Speaker 1: other seven or eight other buyers, sometimes you can get left,
Speaker 1: you know, out in the cold, and you can wind
Speaker 1: up saying, what the heck do we just do?
Speaker 2: What do we just wish for?
Speaker 1: You know, be careful what you wish for, as it were,
Speaker 1: And so I think there's value in that. But I
Speaker 1: also go back to the idea of the hard questions
Speaker 1: that have to be asked about play calling, you know,
Speaker 1: personnel decisions, injuries, the how the program operates, your number
Speaker 1: one receiver being a malecontent, which we'll get to here
Speaker 1: in just one second. There are so many things you
Speaker 1: have to think about and ask and those questions must
Speaker 1: be answered.
Speaker 2: And I hope that's the right decision.
Speaker 1: You won't find out until this time next year, but
Speaker 1: at least it's quick and it happened right away, so
Speaker 1: we can stop speculation right off the top and just
Speaker 1: get into the fixes. What do they have to do
Speaker 1: to get this thing back on the track. I want
Speaker 1: to touch on a few things here, before we get
Speaker 1: into the dearth of the show, not the dearth, the
Speaker 1: meat of the show, I should say, actually, this is
Speaker 1: kind of the meat of the show.
Speaker 2: Let's kick it off this way.
Speaker 1: So Tyreek Hill had some very explosive comments following tonight's
Speaker 1: loss to the New York Jets, where he came out
Speaker 1: and basically told you he didn't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to play the audio or even
Speaker 1: talk about what he said, but he basically told you
Speaker 1: that his standard is better than not making the playoffs
Speaker 1: and not getting a thousand yards and me and me
Speaker 1: and me and me and me, and basically asked if
Speaker 1: he wanted out of here. And I thought a few
Speaker 1: things about that, like was was a thousand yard season
Speaker 1: or was missing the playoffs? Was that on your mind
Speaker 1: when you were skipping walkthroughs and practices. I think back
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two when that man taught the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins how to practice. Training camp was as the kids
Speaker 1: say a movie, right, every day was fireworks and bombs
Speaker 1: and touchdowns and Tyreek Hill running fifty routes in practice
Speaker 1: every single day, teaching the Dolphins how to practice. The
Speaker 1: standard they played with was based upon what they saw
Speaker 1: from Tyreek Hill, and he went out there and proved
Speaker 1: himself outside up playing with Patrick Mahomes. Right, you know
Speaker 1: everyone says you're a Mahomes merchant. Well, seventeen hundred yards
Speaker 1: back to back years without Mahomes, he gets that Number
Speaker 1: one player award, he gets the pay raise and basically
Speaker 1: hits the ceiling fort receivers can make in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four and I think he dropped it in a cruise control.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel about.
Speaker 1: You know, he made the comments last year that he
Speaker 1: slowed down late in the year and pursuit of two
Speaker 1: thousand yards and got off his details, like why, and
Speaker 1: then you come out this year and tell us about,
Speaker 1: you know, the lack of details you demonstrated this year
Speaker 1: and missing practices and key drops, which we can go
Speaker 1: over every single big gam game this team has played
Speaker 1: last three years. You can go back to Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: drops or not being in the right spot and causing
Speaker 1: turnovers as a result of that. I just think this
Speaker 1: is a person that has lacked accountability his entire life.
Speaker 1: And after a honeymoon period here, that was fantastic, probably
Speaker 1: the best we ever had, right the crazy X it
Speaker 1: seems we've reached that point. And I will close with this,
Speaker 1: ask yourself this, why on earth with the Chiefs say
Speaker 1: bye bye to a twenty seven year old talent of
Speaker 1: the talent of Tyreek Hill. The Kansas City Chiefs that team, right,
Speaker 1: why would they want to lop off a talent of
Speaker 1: his caliber? Something to think about? Okay, because of some
Speaker 1: criticism on the podcast reviews, I wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: change how I do this a little bit. So if
Speaker 1: you guys have notes on how to change things and
Speaker 1: I agree with you, then we're going to do that.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be a format for next year.
Speaker 1: But I'm want to kick it off right now, just briefly,
Speaker 1: and do a couple of storylines that I thought we
Speaker 1: learned about in this game. Second straight game from a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback could be a good performance because you learn
Speaker 1: about how things will look in the future going forward
Speaker 1: with this team when they don't have the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: who you're probably going to have a miss games in
Speaker 1: the future too. Right, just based upon the history, didn't
Speaker 1: look good. It reverted back to the old stuff. I
Speaker 1: thought there was way too much of the same plays
Speaker 1: over and over again. I thought we had a lot
Speaker 1: of the same routes that would kind of turn into
Speaker 1: dead routes going nowhere fast and guys in the same place,
Speaker 1: and lack of multiplicity in your run scheme I think
Speaker 1: has caused issues and you have the most negative runs
Speaker 1: of anybody in the NFL. I thought that came to
Speaker 1: a head in this game against the New York Jets
Speaker 1: team that historically you have ran the ball against very well.
Speaker 1: So that is my first storyline that was kind of
Speaker 1: agree with a massive red X if you will. How
Speaker 1: we drew it up was a big question line question
Speaker 1: for this game. Would the be a lot of that
Speaker 1: zone read and you know, taking advantage of your run
Speaker 1: game clicking and then getting the single high looks and
Speaker 1: throwing routes into single coverage against Tyreek kill and Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle didn't get that and after the first h and
Speaker 1: exposive run for twenty yards, throw, throw, throw, and Huntley
Speaker 1: Stale on the ball to Hoboken, New Jersey, big red
Speaker 1: X on that one. Would Weaver bounce back from the
Speaker 1: Week fourteen performance? I thought he did until late in
Speaker 1: the game, and I think the scoreboard that they showed
Speaker 1: the Broncos score probably impacted that a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think the offense's futility probably led to that a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I just thought that was you saw a lot
Speaker 1: of what made Weaver great this year today with the
Speaker 1: games up front, Seeler and Campbell running games, ogbas, setting
Speaker 1: picks for guys, the coverage being married to the rush
Speaker 1: up front. I think bringing those that group back in
Speaker 1: that nucleus back and with Jalen Phillips and with Bradley
Speaker 1: Chubb and hopefully even more fire in the in the
Speaker 1: you know, firepower in that position room with a year
Speaker 1: two Chop Robinson, I think that Weave can get nasty
Speaker 1: next year. So that was a big green check mark
Speaker 1: for me was how we would bounce back from Week
Speaker 1: fourteen despite the fourth coreter performance. When you're star receiver,
Speaker 1: you know, checked out of the game, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's kind of like at that point other scores across
Speaker 1: the national football like the Broncos rolled, so we were
Speaker 1: all the way out anyway. Something else I want to
Speaker 1: cover is why did we lose?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I thought we lost this game because we could not
Speaker 1: get the ball on the edge and consistently got behind
Speaker 1: the sticks, turning our backup quarterback into a hero ball
Speaker 1: player where he's barely equipped to just hold things down
Speaker 1: as a game manager.
Speaker 2: What worked?
Speaker 1: Going back to the defense, rush and coverage marriage, those
Speaker 1: two things aligned were very solid, but the offense is
Speaker 1: an ability to do anything. I think kind of bog
Speaker 1: the defense down late. My individual stands before the tape,
Speaker 1: which we'll get to tomorrow on the show, I thought
Speaker 1: Malik Washington to Ron Armstead, Devon eight Chan, Zach Seeler,
Speaker 1: Kalais Campbell, Emmanuel Ogba, Storm Duck despite some catches by
Speaker 1: Devon Thingams, I thought we saw something from storm Duck
Speaker 1: today and Jordan Brooks from my standouts, my Missus, Jordan Boyer,
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, Liam Miikeenberg Snoop and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill I thought didn't have their best games. But enough
Speaker 1: talk about you know future in twenty twenty five, uts
Speaker 1: go ahead and cover a football game here and start
Speaker 1: off with the stats from this game. As the Dolphins
Speaker 1: again fall thirty two to twenty to the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers four touchdown passes leads the way for them,
Speaker 1: and we'll see if he continues on after this year,
Speaker 1: or not. But it started off looking pretty good defensively. Offensively,
Speaker 1: he struggled with some short fields. Dolphins had twenty one
Speaker 1: first down to the Jets twenty two. Miami was three
Speaker 1: for twelve on third downs compared to the New York's
Speaker 1: five for twelve. Dolphins went a perfect three for three
Speaker 1: on fourth down, the Jets one for two on that
Speaker 1: fourth down. Yards were pretty even, three seventy five for
Speaker 1: the Jets, three thirty four for the Dolphins, two fifty
Speaker 1: seven to one ninety nine in the jets favor. In
Speaker 1: the passing department, Miami got a buck thirty five on
Speaker 1: the ground. The explosive run came back in this game,
Speaker 1: compared to one hundred and eighteen yards for the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. Let's see four turnovers to one. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the difference in the game right there. We had
Speaker 1: we were sacked four times, we got to Rogers three times.
Speaker 1: We only had four pounties for thirty two yards. We
Speaker 1: had the football for thirty two minutes in this game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It started off slow offensive right
Speaker 1: three and out. To kick things off, we saw Patrick
Speaker 1: Pollett right tackle. I was pretty pleaseaful what I saw
Speaker 1: from him for the most part. I think there's some
Speaker 1: assignment issues that you see pop up some time, and
Speaker 1: that can be tied into the running game with the
Speaker 1: edge position and you know, various tackles and guards next
Speaker 1: to them, and the rotation at right guard and different
Speaker 1: receivers on crack blocks. There's a lot that goes into that.
Speaker 1: But I think and by and large, I think Patrick
Speaker 1: Paul this year has really allowed you to put a
Speaker 1: vote of confidence in him in the future going forward.
Speaker 1: And look, this game started off the same way a
Speaker 1: lot of these games have begun. When we don't have
Speaker 1: QB one to three and out a three play drive
Speaker 1: where you know, Jonas Smith, I thought I had a
Speaker 1: chance to make a catch and didn't tap the feet down.
Speaker 1: We throw the two now screens the second downplay, lose
Speaker 1: his yards, and it just seems like when you get
Speaker 1: behind the chains, they kind of sniff out those screens
Speaker 1: and really flow to them downhill and get you even
Speaker 1: further behind the chains for a third downplay.
Speaker 2: They never had a chance.
Speaker 1: But then the Jets get the ball back and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins pick it off. We get Javon Holland with a
Speaker 1: really good coverage rep where I think he's kind of
Speaker 1: shown you a lot in that role that he was
Speaker 1: playing in that kind of slot position where in the post.
Speaker 1: I think it's where kind of some of the missed
Speaker 1: tackles and the coverage lapses have happened. But in that position,
Speaker 1: I really felt like he played the man really well
Speaker 1: and got a bad pass, knocks up into the air,
Speaker 1: and Tyrrel Totson comes in with his team leading third
Speaker 1: interception of the year, but Miami couldn't cash it. On
Speaker 1: the other side, a drive that starts in the red zone,
Speaker 1: but you have a second down play where the three
Speaker 1: routes literally just run into defenders and wall themselves off
Speaker 1: without like you know, they.
Speaker 2: Basically plaster themselves.
Speaker 1: You know, DB's are taught to plaster on receivers when
Speaker 1: they when they break the original play, like they ran
Speaker 1: into plasters. And Huntley has to run around like a
Speaker 1: chicken on his head cut off and then he air
Speaker 1: metals the throw on third down. And on that third down,
Speaker 1: a third and two from the five yard line, he's
Speaker 1: got waddle on a on a pretty wide open out
Speaker 1: route and just throws it way over his head and
Speaker 1: we have to kick a field goal there twenty six
Speaker 1: yards for Jason Sanders to take a three to nothing lead,
Speaker 1: and then we get the defense back on the field
Speaker 1: for a four play stop, and I thought there was
Speaker 1: a good sense of energy. You know, you haven't seen
Speaker 1: the Broncos score yet, You've got three points on the board.
Speaker 1: Ramsey has back to back plays with a big hit.
Speaker 1: They had a big a good show of discipline on
Speaker 1: an end to round like double pass they tried to run.
Speaker 1: He makes a couple of big hits there, and then
Speaker 1: they drop a pass on third down. It kind of
Speaker 1: felt like, maybe this is the team that you expect
Speaker 1: might check out from this game, who's ready to go
Speaker 1: to the vacation, But it obviously wouldn't go that way.
Speaker 1: Mimi got the ball back and took a four play
Speaker 1: drive and punted after one explosive play. I wrote down
Speaker 1: explosive play alert han As a twenty plus yard run
Speaker 1: with great combination blocks off the edge from Julian Hill
Speaker 1: and alec Ingold and Tron Armstead gets out there in space.
Speaker 1: Just great execution all around, and you know, for Julian's sake,
Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot of that this year,
Speaker 1: mixed in with some of the ups and downs that
Speaker 1: you'd expect from a young player. But I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot to work with there. With Julian Hill on
Speaker 1: that edge role as kind of your space clear outside,
Speaker 1: I think you could just stand to get a little
Speaker 1: bit more creative and mixing things up in terms of
Speaker 1: not going to that wells frequently. Because after that you
Speaker 1: go after a twenty yard run three consecutive throws, Huntley
Speaker 1: throws two more from the Hoboken, one more to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and you're off the field. But this drive just it
Speaker 1: just kind of got bogged down the details once again
Speaker 1: with a misthrow, they overload a pressure and get a
Speaker 1: strip sack, and on the third downplay, Greg golds Sin
Speaker 1: said the protection slide was wrong and the option route
Speaker 1: from Tyreek was wrong, So I tend to take his
Speaker 1: word for that, even if he doesn't know exactly what
Speaker 1: the you know, the calls are, But just it seemed
Speaker 1: like some of the same issues that when you don't
Speaker 1: have two out there we're starting to pop up earlier
Speaker 1: in this game. Offensively, the defense comes back out and
Speaker 1: gets another four play punt drive where Jordan Brooks goes
Speaker 1: flying through for a run. Stuff we get an Emmanual
Speaker 1: Ogball win. They had Chopping on that first down play
Speaker 1: and they get the Jets get a first down, but
Speaker 1: they go to Ogbah on the next play and he
Speaker 1: comes in and makes the stuff, And I like how
Speaker 1: they have that rotation ability to go, you know, fresh
Speaker 1: off the edge with Chop and then next year with
Speaker 1: guys like Quinton Bell and Ty Spowser off injury reserve
Speaker 1: and obviously you know, hopefully beach Hub and JP as well.
Speaker 2: But I thought that rotation was working out pretty well
Speaker 2: early on.
Speaker 1: They have a third and thirteen play and they check
Speaker 1: it down and I wrote my notes like, it looks
Speaker 1: like they're playing a forty one year old quarterback who
Speaker 1: is in his last game with ots four and five.
Speaker 1: Just design screens behind the line, scrimmage, RPO conversion pops,
Speaker 1: And it was looking that way in Miami got the
Speaker 1: football back and they take a nine play seventy six
Speaker 1: yard drive, but it only winds up in a field goal,
Speaker 1: as Malik Washington had a big day in this one,
Speaker 1: and he converts on a third and short with a
Speaker 1: nice man beater. They run this awesome rub on the
Speaker 1: outside with Devon a Chan and I continue to be
Speaker 1: so impressed by eight Chan, not just catching the football
Speaker 1: as a receiver, but the way he avoided the contact
Speaker 1: there to run that natural rub like it's the guy
Speaker 1: that gets it on the perimeter. I love his his
Speaker 1: you know, skills as a receiver. He's very talented in
Speaker 1: that regard. And then again eight chan sixty one yard run.
Speaker 1: That seventy six yard drive came from Devon eight Chan's
Speaker 1: sixty one yards and I was very surprised to see
Speaker 1: him get hawked from behind. But it was a beautiful counterplay,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, counter to Miami's normal run scheme.
Speaker 2: They run counter.
Speaker 1: They got the jets washed down all the way, great
Speaker 1: block by Tron Arms had to fold the edge down.
Speaker 1: And that's the best Devon a Chan run of the
Speaker 1: entire year. Tremendous, decisive cut at the point of attack,
Speaker 1: run to daylight, hit the big run. But then things
Speaker 1: bogged down and you have to kick a field goal
Speaker 1: after a couple of a negative run on first down
Speaker 1: and two screens that go and like, for the love
Speaker 1: of God, the way I loathe the give up screens
Speaker 1: in the red zone after a first down failure drives
Speaker 1: me crazy, And especially when your second play of the
Speaker 1: drive or the second the first play after the big
Speaker 1: run was going to that same running back. They just
Speaker 1: ran sixty one yards down the field who weighs one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds on a goal line run and
Speaker 1: then two give up screens. I just I really really,
Speaker 1: really really really hated that sequence. But Miami does take
Speaker 1: a six to nothing lead off of that, and then
Speaker 1: another Jets punt three plays and now where Rogers misses
Speaker 1: a second down throw and you saw a man coverage
Speaker 1: on the play. They bracket Devonte Adams, they blitz Rogers,
Speaker 1: move him off the spot. He tries this vertical seam
Speaker 1: shot to Tyler Conklin, but Jordan Brooks is all over
Speaker 1: him playing that third position. The third receiver inside double move,
Speaker 1: stays in a phase, breaks it up. Jordan Brooks having
Speaker 1: himself a hell of a first year for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But then the Dolphins get it back and they also
Speaker 1: go three and out a two minute drive there that
Speaker 1: we get we get the ball, or try to get
Speaker 1: the ball, I should say, on the perimeter with this
Speaker 1: pin pull action. But this is where I'm talking about
Speaker 1: with the run game. You just saw it all night long.
Speaker 1: They would shoot those sea gaps and cut off that
Speaker 1: toss play at the pass, and the running back has
Speaker 1: nowhere to go because if you just split one of
Speaker 1: those gaps, they found a way to basically run them
Speaker 1: to the perimeter and you couldn't turn it up field
Speaker 1: like you were instantly bubbling. So a negative run to
Speaker 1: start things off. That drive for nine yards puts Jillen
Speaker 1: right way behind the sticks and his stats on the
Speaker 1: game as well, and they have to punt it right back.
Speaker 1: Just giving away drive with those negative runs is something
Speaker 1: they have to talk about addressing the issues that was
Speaker 1: an issue this year in the Running Game. Negative plays
Speaker 1: in the Running Game that essentially cost you drives. And
Speaker 1: then the Jets finally got things rolling offense. Me the
Speaker 1: next drive, it's a five yard touchdown pass Rogers to
Speaker 1: Conklin his five hundredth. They go to a tempo offense
Speaker 1: that kind of seems to get things flowing for them,
Speaker 1: get themselves into plus territory. We say aggressive play, press
Speaker 1: man coverage, and Alan Lazard gets outside leverage on a
Speaker 1: crossing route versus cater Co who They hit that for
Speaker 1: fifteen yards in a big play storm Duck gets a
Speaker 1: pass breakup and one on one coverage on DeVante Adams,
Speaker 1: but they do eventually hit that big play over the middle.
Speaker 2: To excuse me, two.
Speaker 1: Lazard because as Greg Olsen tolls on the broadcast, that
Speaker 1: they tried to invert that to but the deep coverage
Speaker 1: from Storm to was a little bit late to get
Speaker 1: over there, and he felt that was why that big play.
Speaker 1: And then Ramsey after getting cooked by Garrett Wilson last
Speaker 1: time round. I don't know what that was, but he
Speaker 1: got beat on the fake crosser, tries to make the
Speaker 1: tackle and gets juked right there again. Poor tackle attempt
Speaker 1: creates that five hundred touchdown pass from Rogers to Conklin,
Speaker 1: and the Jets find the end zone at the end
Speaker 1: of the drive from Rogers to Conklin to make it
Speaker 1: a seven to six game. Miami gets it back two
Speaker 1: play drive picked off by Ashton Davis. We get that
Speaker 1: big offscript play to open the drive. Wattle comes back
Speaker 1: to the football, he finds me on the sideline. Then
Speaker 1: we try to force one in double coverage and this
Speaker 1: is after a weird way in Jets' territory and they
Speaker 1: throw it down to Jayalen Waddle on a corner route.
Speaker 1: And he's open and it's just the ball's late. It's
Speaker 1: also back inside gets picked off. You can't throw late
Speaker 1: and you can't throw inside there. That's what happens. The
Speaker 1: Jets take the football back, they turn it over on downs.
Speaker 1: See Ler and Ogbass split a sack on a nine
Speaker 1: play forty five yard drive where the Jets got into
Speaker 1: plus territory by doing this little cool drag screen that
Speaker 1: I thought was a cool design. You set up a
Speaker 1: screen for your running back and then DeVante Adams runs
Speaker 1: the little drag rout in behind that he had like
Speaker 1: a two layer screen. We miss a tackle on the
Speaker 1: back end, it goes for a big play. Then Storm
Speaker 1: has coverage on third down play where I thought he
Speaker 1: really showed you a good understanding of how his role
Speaker 1: reacts to how the front and the rush plays. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a good cue for that because on
Speaker 1: the fourth down we saw Ogball run this pick where
Speaker 1: Seeler or he sets the pick for Seiler and he
Speaker 1: comes crashing through for the sack there with Ogbas, So
Speaker 1: really cool how that worked together. Miami gets it back
Speaker 1: in good territory once again, just down by one, but
Speaker 1: it's a four play drive that goes for a fumble
Speaker 1: and it was really just like a bunch of mistakes.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyreek has a twenty yard play that coming
Speaker 1: back for the football. We have a blown assignment off
Speaker 1: the edge where they shoot that gap again on a
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson two yard loss, and then Jalen Wattle drops
Speaker 1: a pass and then Huntley, I don't know what he
Speaker 1: was trying to do, but he Toront Armstead gets beat
Speaker 1: and then he gets sacked and he tries to throw
Speaker 1: the ball he's going down, The ball comes out, they
Speaker 1: take it over. They goes down the field for a
Speaker 1: touchdown and two points. Rogers to Lazard again, then Breese
Speaker 1: Hall and they just they leaned on us. Which that's
Speaker 1: kind of like Calmon across the league, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was very apparent this year for the Dolphins, where
Speaker 1: like you have a bad play offensively or a bad
Speaker 1: series offensively, and it kind of comes back on the
Speaker 1: other side, and there's momentum for the for the offense
Speaker 1: and the defense kind of feels that they kind of
Speaker 1: leaned into us some big runs there. They get two
Speaker 1: breaks against a man coverage with Crossers where they hit
Speaker 1: the touchdown just running away from guys, so they were
Speaker 1: locked in. They get the two point run from Breeze
Speaker 1: Hall and just like that, it's fifteen to six, and
Speaker 1: then Huntley throws another pick. This time you know, Malik
Speaker 1: Washington's a sixty seven yard punt return or kick return
Speaker 1: rather with Raheem Moster, who I thought that play told
Speaker 1: you all about him blocking on kickoff team takes a
Speaker 1: Jets defender all the way off the field of the
Speaker 1: drive block and Malak just follows him down there. Then
Speaker 1: we throw the now screen in the leak and he
Speaker 1: slips a couple of tackles and.
Speaker 2: Makes a twelve yard play.
Speaker 1: Like as far as the receivers go, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I like John ew and DeVaughn, but among the receivers,
Speaker 1: I think Malik Washington might be your best screen target
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver. He breaks a tackle behind the
Speaker 1: lnet scrimmage, gets that first down. We throw a fade
Speaker 1: to Tyreek where Brandon Eckles kind of ran the route
Speaker 1: for him, and then Huntley just continues a really rough
Speaker 1: day where he makes a terrible decision throwing off platform,
Speaker 1: kind of lobs one up and it turns into a
Speaker 1: punt return fair catch for Ashon Davis again. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: I never thought Snoop's tape was great, but there was
Speaker 1: something there within the constraints of a game plan that
Speaker 1: highlights his strengths. But my god, where did this guy
Speaker 1: come from? Like did he think we need eleven point
Speaker 1: play on that throw on that particular play? Like, my god, man,
Speaker 1: you know, he was the kind of player that you
Speaker 1: could build a zone read read option game plan around
Speaker 1: and hit opposing teams with the running game and then
Speaker 1: do some in a single high coverage and get some
Speaker 1: defined throws off play action.
Speaker 2: But when he goes hero ball route, it.
Speaker 1: Turns into like worse than Skyler because he can't see
Speaker 1: the field at all either. So rough first half, the
Speaker 1: Jets have a fifteen to six lead at halftime, three
Speaker 1: turn hovers with the Dolphins. Offensively, they had drives they
Speaker 1: kicked off at the plus fifteen, plus twenty seven, plus
Speaker 1: forty six and the minus forty and got just six
Speaker 1: points out of us. That's a big, big struggle in
Speaker 1: the first half. Let's go ahead and take our first
Speaker 1: break rate there, come back on the other side and
Speaker 1: talk about the second half of the game and the
Speaker 1: five takeaways. Drive Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield brought
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Speaker 2: Second half.
Speaker 1: We'll go a little bit quicker through this one this
Speaker 1: time because it kind of got ugly late. The Jets
Speaker 1: open the second half with a punt where Jordan Brooks
Speaker 1: gets cut block and he was going to make a
Speaker 1: great TfL on that play. He was cued up for it,
Speaker 1: he felt the flow of the play, ran downhill and
Speaker 1: gets cut blocked. And then we have that great t
Speaker 1: T stunt with Seiler and Campbell where it gets Kalayis
Speaker 1: Campbell his fifth sack of the year, which is a
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars incentive per social media, So congrats
Speaker 1: on that and his celebration kind of told you that
Speaker 1: story as well, So congrats to Kalaias Campbell. But Miami
Speaker 1: takes the ball back in a three play drive, fumbles
Speaker 1: the football right away as a John new Smith lets
Speaker 1: one go, which you know, Johnny's had such a great year,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, mistakes happened sometimes. So they had
Speaker 1: thirteen takeaways the Jets did coming into this game had
Speaker 1: four on the day. They falled out with a twenty
Speaker 1: five yard field goal. Sealer gets his ten sack. He
Speaker 1: has had ten sacks in back to back years. How
Speaker 1: he is not a pro bowler, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: he's not. So the Jets go up eighteen to six
Speaker 1: and Miami has a touchdown on the next drive, a
Speaker 1: fifteen yard devon eight Chan Runleak Washington a diving catch
Speaker 1: on third down. I'm so impressed by him. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to watch him get a full offseason. The way
Speaker 1: he's going to approach this, I know he's gonna get
Speaker 1: even better. But the drive does bogged down by a
Speaker 1: negative run three yard loss, an illegal shift after the
Speaker 1: right first down run. Then our best call of the
Speaker 1: night on the Ingled misdirection screen sets up a third
Speaker 1: manageable which got Ingled into space pretty quickly. They go
Speaker 1: back shouldered river creak Craft, who makes a tough catch
Speaker 1: on the ball low and away from his frame.
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
Speaker 1: And then Chan another one of those winding runs where
Speaker 1: he's decisive and hits it and runs the daylight fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: And it's another counterplay, a counter to your run game,
Speaker 1: your run system, a player that actually is counter You
Speaker 1: fake one way, go back to the direction.
Speaker 2: They fold it back.
Speaker 1: Julian Hill has that rap return, makes a great block
Speaker 1: at that point of attack. Excellent washed off the right
Speaker 1: side by Patrick Paul, just like toront Armson had on
Speaker 1: the previous big run. H Chan the awesome touchdown run.
Speaker 1: Maybe they miss a holding call on Rob Jones, but hey,
Speaker 1: they didn't call it, so it didn't count. Jets lead
Speaker 1: eighteen thirteen. But this is where it kind of got away.
Speaker 1: They go seven plays seventy yards. Aaron Rodgers finds Devonte
Speaker 1: Abas for a three year our touchdown run. They hit
Speaker 1: critical third downs on a massive play, spliting an invert two,
Speaker 1: where again Greg Olsen broke it down, telling us that
Speaker 1: storm Duck didn't get the proper depth on his inverted two,
Speaker 1: which can happen if you run that coverage. You have
Speaker 1: to be careful with it. Then Rogers finds Ads for
Speaker 1: his third touchdown. They go right back and answer the
Speaker 1: seventy yard touchdown after the offense shows some life, and
Speaker 1: that was you know, the Broncos game was getting away.
Speaker 1: It was kind of tough to stomach at that point.
Speaker 1: But Miami comes right back and scores again. Twelve plays
Speaker 1: seventy yards. They get Tea Stead again around the edge
Speaker 1: for a critical pressure, but he's able to throw this
Speaker 1: one away, and then Huntley gets into a scramble boat
Speaker 1: and finds my league Washington. On fourth and seven, we
Speaker 1: get to a goal and goal goal to go position,
Speaker 1: and again they cross face in the running game on
Speaker 1: a third and one and blow up the five yard line,
Speaker 1: but we do get a River Crekcraft fourth down conversion.
Speaker 1: I thought Aaron Brewer, he's been a Pro Bowl player
Speaker 1: this year. I thought they were did a good job
Speaker 1: of kind of shooting upfield as the one technique to
Speaker 1: the play side, and he couldn't reach him and cut
Speaker 1: him off a few times, and it helped spark spring
Speaker 1: some of those negative plays. So good game plan for
Speaker 1: the Jets there, and to just like continue this point
Speaker 1: and then we score a touchdown here to John new Smith.
Speaker 1: But like on the first down play when he tried
Speaker 1: to throw to Durham Smith, he had Julian Hill in
Speaker 1: the corner of the end zone all alone. And if
Speaker 1: you just read the playout in the coverage like a
Speaker 1: quarterback should like, you would see that. And that's why
Speaker 1: I get so frustrat by watching these tapes. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get to this level if
Speaker 1: you can't see that stuff. But there's only a fields
Speaker 1: guys in the world. Maybe it's just maybe it's not
Speaker 1: that easy. But they do find John new Smith for
Speaker 1: his eighth touchdown of the year. He is now the
Speaker 1: single season franchise record holder for receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 1: his eighth on the year. Good on you, Johnny, you
Speaker 1: had a hell of a year for us when you
Speaker 1: appreciate the heck out of you. The Jets get it
Speaker 1: back and they go seventy yards and put the game
Speaker 1: away to make it thirty two twenty with a touchdown
Speaker 1: of their own. So rough second half, rough game for
Speaker 1: the offense in general. The Dolphins fall thirty two to
Speaker 1: twenty to the New York Jets. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our last break rate there, come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and do five big picture takeaways as we
Speaker 1: head into the offseason. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I Don'tation five
Speaker 1: Big Picture two takeaways from the Miami Dolphins loss to
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. And you know, we've already announced
Speaker 1: that everything is gonna be status quo in terms of
Speaker 1: leadership this year. And I'm not one to sit here
Speaker 1: on the podcast and call out jobs and make those decisions.
Speaker 1: But I did write down my first takeaways. You have
Speaker 1: to revisit everything because I talked about this all week long,
Speaker 1: right the growth of Tyler Huntley. You know, he didn't
Speaker 1: make the big strides in the Colts game out for
Speaker 1: the bye week, but you can kind of understand that
Speaker 1: it's a tough offense. He'd been here for a month.
Speaker 1: Then he comes back to the Cleveland game and it
Speaker 1: looks good. I thought it was more of the game
Speaker 1: plan and the coaching that got him there, but it
Speaker 1: looked good. And then I wanted to see him build
Speaker 1: upon that for this game, and it just didn't happen,
Speaker 1: like at all at all. And so that's to me
Speaker 1: a concern. The fact that the team fell apart just
Speaker 1: about every time you didn't have TUA is a major
Speaker 1: concern to me and one that I'll have for the
Speaker 1: next nine months, quite frankly. And you gotta be more imaginative, man,
Speaker 1: those screens behind the line, once you get behind the chains,
Speaker 1: Like if you know, I was a big proponent all
Speaker 1: off season of like they do not value certain positions
Speaker 1: because they're mismatched no matter who you get and this
Speaker 1: offense relies upon certain elements that can reduce the need
Speaker 1: of that, and that's how the scheme has worked for
Speaker 1: forty years. But you know what, like if you can't
Speaker 1: even trust a drop back on third and eight, then
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? It's a non starter. So
Speaker 1: you have to figure that out. The routes into the
Speaker 1: same area. It's on tape every single week. They had
Speaker 1: that play in the first quarter that made no sense.
Speaker 1: And then like you talk about Tua's injury standing man like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions and let's not burn all
Speaker 1: these here in the first segment because it's going to
Speaker 1: be a table seter for the rest of the thing.
Speaker 1: And that's number two. Is the backup quarterback spot ended
Speaker 1: up that way the way, The fact that it ended
Speaker 1: up that way is a perfect way for this year
Speaker 1: to end. Like if man right, if we had Tua, yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably win three or four more games. You're probably
Speaker 1: staying in the five seed right now, you're playing Houston
Speaker 1: next week and you have a good chance to go
Speaker 1: in there and end your playoff drought. That's if, though, right,
Speaker 1: But I think it's fitting it ended this way with
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback and the team looking like it has
Speaker 1: the last three years from the backup quarterback is in
Speaker 1: the game. They have to figure that out this offseason.
Speaker 1: Number three is the run game concerns. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're going anywhere because if you don't add like the
Speaker 1: Rams did with Sean McVay, and he went personnel heavy
Speaker 1: on this two with Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson. They
Speaker 1: went and drafted bigger, heavier guys in the interior and
Speaker 1: they adapted more of an inside zone with counter and
Speaker 1: man and gap power schemes like you have to have
Speaker 1: a curveball, and they did that against the Cowboys last year.
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson put the Cowboys away with that game winning
Speaker 1: drive by running the football with power, pulling guards and
Speaker 1: power downhill. But you allow teams to read you, and
Speaker 1: you got so predictable. So the Demiico Ryan's Clipper earlier
Speaker 1: this year, the Jets knew exactly what was coming this game,
Speaker 1: shooting upfield, creating negative runs. You got out coached in
Speaker 1: this game and a lot of the big games this year.
Speaker 1: And you have to figure out the run game because
Speaker 1: it's almost like a chicken and the egg type of deal.
Speaker 1: Where is it the tight end play, the perimeter blocking
Speaker 1: play versus the calls and scheme. I think it's all
Speaker 1: of that stuff and they're running back too. It's all
Speaker 1: part of it and they have to get it figured out.
Speaker 1: Number four, A lot of the in house and valuations
Speaker 1: ticked me off this year, kind of getting off the
Speaker 1: rails from the game. But who wants to talk about
Speaker 1: that game anyway? Like the idea to roll with with
Speaker 1: Braxon and Chosen, you know, as long as they did
Speaker 1: before Braxton got hurt and Chosen was eventually cut, but
Speaker 1: brought him back for a second year. You know, Devon
Speaker 1: a Chan being the bell cow back there. I thought
Speaker 1: he had you know, skills elsewhere and you could get
Speaker 1: more good players like Jilen Wright and Rahee Moster are
Speaker 1: involved in the game plan, you know, just across the board.
Speaker 1: There was personal decisions like that that just they got
Speaker 1: to get better. And the number five is that Anthon
Speaker 1: Weaver is the man. I think that Antheon Weaver is
Speaker 1: gonna be a head coach. I hope it's not this year.
Speaker 2: For him.
Speaker 1: I hope it is, but for us, I hope it's not.
Speaker 1: Such a talented, talented play caller and defensive coach and
Speaker 1: leader the way the rush Mary with the coverage, I
Speaker 1: think this is only gonna get better. And year two
Speaker 1: with him there if we get him back the way
Speaker 1: just to beat Benito Jones to sean hand, Emmanuel Ogball
Speaker 1: played the way. Storm Duck came up and played some
Speaker 1: stretches there. Jordan Brooks had a career year. The safety
Speaker 1: play has to be completely different. I would rehaul the
Speaker 1: entire room. But there's a lot to work on defensively here,
Speaker 1: especially when he gets his pass rush guys back up front.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun to watch next season. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get the hell out of here. We'll have plenty against
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