Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, we
Speaker 1: are celebrating another Dolphins victory.
Speaker 2: Waits twin win win win win. Yeah, everything goes win win,
Speaker 2: win win.
Speaker 1: It's always a good day when you get a play
Speaker 1: that sound drop. Here on the show, we're gonna break
Speaker 1: down the dolphins twenty nine to seventeen victory over the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers with the game script, the stats, some
Speaker 1: audio from coach and from Tua.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the five takeaways.
Speaker 1: All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast Dolphins. We love to open the show with
Speaker 1: the stats from the game, and quite frankly, Miami could
Speaker 1: have had more than this if not for a couple
Speaker 1: of self inflicted errors in this game drop passes and
Speaker 1: missus and John. But I think overall, you have to
Speaker 1: be pretty happy with how the Dolphins played against the Niners.
Speaker 1: A three phase victory, as we'll hear from head coach
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel in just one second, so twenty two first
Speaker 1: downs to twenty. Both teams were pretty even on third
Speaker 1: down four for twelve was Miami, five for thirteen were
Speaker 1: the Niners, But of course the Dolphins had three drop
Speaker 1: passes on third downs that would have been good for
Speaker 1: first downs or touchdowns. Miami didn't go for any fourth downs,
Speaker 1: and Nighters were zero for one, three eighty one for
Speaker 1: US three seventy four for them, two fifteen through the
Speaker 1: air for US two to ninety three for the Niners.
Speaker 1: One sixty six though on the ground for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: compared to eighty one on the ground for San Francisco.
Speaker 1: That's thirty carries compared to eighteen carries. The Nighters had
Speaker 1: the one giveaway. Miami did not turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: they did not allow a sack on two a Tongua
Speaker 1: Bai looa, and they had six penalties for forty five
Speaker 1: yards where the Niers had the giveaway three sacks on
Speaker 1: brock Purty, eleven penalties for ninety yards, and Miami outpossessed
Speaker 1: San Francisco thirty three to twenty six.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the three phase win.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel on how
Speaker 1: important that was to get all three phases going in
Speaker 1: the same direction in this week sixteen wins.
Speaker 3: Well I think it was important to a lot of
Speaker 3: guys to collectively have an effort when we knew, Shoot,
Speaker 3: if you're hanging on to a team because you believe
Speaker 3: in it as players, this is the time that you
Speaker 3: find success is in an adverse situation where most may quit.
Speaker 3: So been a long season, but it was probably the
Speaker 3: validation of why we we've really been putting so much
Speaker 3: into this team and why we've been fighting, fighting for
Speaker 3: the season to stay alive, because I think there's been
Speaker 3: a lot of learning lessons, tough ones at that and
Speaker 3: we've been waiting for a three phase game that I
Speaker 3: think we had today. So you know, that's that's why
Speaker 3: you get into sports, is for a validation of that.
Speaker 3: And the season's not over to our team, and so
Speaker 3: we lived to fight another day and look forward to
Speaker 3: a building upon that against Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So not a lot of help across the AFC scores
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins in terms of the Broncos and the
Speaker 1: Chargers and the Colts for that matter. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: kind of been that way all year, but the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had to take care of one thing and one thing
Speaker 1: only to keep their season alive. Heading into Week seventeen
Speaker 1: next week against the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2: And that was to win. And they did that.
Speaker 1: And they started doing that by receiving or rather winning
Speaker 1: the opening coin toss and electing to defer and put
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins defense out there. After a great effort
Speaker 1: last week, just twenty points allowed to the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: and what do they do but get a three and
Speaker 1: out against this nine ers offense. Three plays, nine yards
Speaker 1: minu and a half off the clock, and there was
Speaker 1: a third down stuff for Zach Seeler. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can go back to like my Twitter timeline and search
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty basically through like now, and I always
Speaker 1: will talk about how good Zach Seeler is in short
Speaker 1: yard situations. He is so tough to move off the spot.
Speaker 1: He's just so strong in that length and power he
Speaker 1: plays with. He does that here, Jordan Brooks flies in
Speaker 1: and forces the running back to change his track. And
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Agba, who I thought played maybe his best game
Speaker 1: of the year. We'll see on tape tomorrow, but he's
Speaker 1: had a really strong edge. And then this gang of
Speaker 1: Dolphins arrived just to stomp it out and create a
Speaker 1: third a three and out on the opening drive of
Speaker 1: the game, Miami gets the football and has a five
Speaker 1: play twelve yard drive three minutes off the clock.
Speaker 2: They punched themselves.
Speaker 1: I love the misdirection swing screen they threw to Devon
Speaker 1: e Chan on the second down to open the drive.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna have a theme on this podcast talking
Speaker 1: about first down run success. This was the one first
Speaker 1: down run they had in the game to Devon ah
Speaker 1: Chan where he lost yardage.
Speaker 2: Then they had a cool.
Speaker 1: Design where they pulled as Isaiah Win and I forget
Speaker 1: the second player with the right guard and somebody else
Speaker 1: pulled to the left side of the formation, which was
Speaker 1: the fake run side that they ran. They sold the
Speaker 1: run fake two and Tua took his drop back that
Speaker 1: reverse pivot drop back where he looks like a righty
Speaker 1: when he originally takes the drop back, and he looked
Speaker 1: like he wanted to throw to his right, but then
Speaker 1: he comes all the way back to the left.
Speaker 2: So it's like, we're gonna show you the fake.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make you take the fake and then show
Speaker 1: you our wrinkle off of that, but then come back
Speaker 1: to the fake side. That's when I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: Mike was was cooking up some stuff. This week him
Speaker 1: and Frank Smith for this game plan. This offense would
Speaker 1: have some cool stuff to show us. Unfortunately, we couldn't
Speaker 1: run the ball on the early downs in this particular possession.
Speaker 1: And then Tua throws a perfect shot out of the
Speaker 1: break to Tyreek Hill on a third and nine play
Speaker 1: and he can't squeeze it, drops the football. They have
Speaker 1: to punt the ball back. There was outside leverage safety
Speaker 1: help to a rips it right on time. And if
Speaker 1: you look at that play and Tyreek mentioned it after
Speaker 1: the game, man could have been much bigger than just
Speaker 1: one first down. Could have been a point scoring play
Speaker 1: if he catched my drift touchdown.
Speaker 2: But it's not.
Speaker 1: The punt team comes out, defense goes back out, and
Speaker 1: then it's a five play, four yard drive. The Niners
Speaker 1: punt the ball back to the Miami Dolphins. And they
Speaker 1: were operating very early on this game from all about
Speaker 1: twelve personnel packages, which is two tight ends, one running back,
Speaker 1: and that means obviously just two wide receivers, and so
Speaker 1: Miami could kind of match that with their base defense
Speaker 1: a few times, and also some big nickel packages they ran.
Speaker 1: We saw plenty of Elijah Campbell in this game. After
Speaker 1: he got nine reps last game, in addition to all
Speaker 1: the work that Poyer and Holland.
Speaker 2: Do as well.
Speaker 1: But I thought that they did a good job of
Speaker 1: running their run game off of those looks, which obviously
Speaker 1: adds a gap in the run game, and then creating
Speaker 1: one on one chances against a base defense look with
Speaker 1: the play action game throwing those same plays that you've
Speaker 1: seen down here a million times. It's the same offense
Speaker 1: for the most part, and these teams looked a lot
Speaker 1: alike in this game in more ways than one, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and the Niners kind of shot themselves in
Speaker 1: the foot with some pre snap penalties Offensively, there was
Speaker 1: one that wiped out a first down on third down
Speaker 1: down in the red area, and that turned into a
Speaker 1: field goal post to a first and goal with the
Speaker 1: four yard line. So some similar I guess, even successes
Speaker 1: and airs from these two teams. But in this particular one,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins got them behind the chains after some successful
Speaker 1: plays early where they were running those you know toss
Speaker 1: plays the good into windback runs inside, but then they
Speaker 1: go false start behind the chains second and sixteen on
Speaker 1: this particular play after a first down loss and Jordan
Speaker 1: Brooks throws this nasty euro step on the running back,
Speaker 1: and you know, the running backs responsibility and pass protection
Speaker 1: on a free runner like that is always going to
Speaker 1: be to step up and take the most immediate pressure
Speaker 1: from the quarterback and try to solidify that a gap.
Speaker 1: And for Jordan Brooks, like not the biggest linebacker in
Speaker 1: the world. He's not small by any stretch, but he's
Speaker 1: only he's not the biggest player. He's not like a
Speaker 1: land In Roberts who goes to sixty and runs through guys'
Speaker 1: face mask for a living. But he has to find
Speaker 1: ways to beat blocks, and he can do it with physicality,
Speaker 1: but he also can do it with the eurostep. And
Speaker 1: he just steps around this running back, absorbs a shot
Speaker 1: that he caught across like the thigh pad, but stays
Speaker 1: on his feet cleans up the sack. He killed the
Speaker 1: drive and he's been doing that for the last several weeks.
Speaker 1: Here for the Miami Dolphins. Big sack for Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 1: To kick off this game, Miami gets the ball back
Speaker 1: and goes forty four yard or rather yeah, eight plays
Speaker 1: forty four yards to kick a forty four yard field goal,
Speaker 1: and the drive took four minutes off the clock forward
Speaker 1: the number the drive apparently. But the Dolphins, I thought,
Speaker 1: on this drive and early in the game, we're getting
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage quickly, and like I would
Speaker 1: look at the play clock. When Tua got to the line,
Speaker 1: fifteen sometimes twenty seconds. They get up there, they throw these,
Speaker 1: you know, these easy baked in completions, which I think
Speaker 1: is part of what can happen when you can give
Speaker 1: two of that much time to survey at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Like a quick out route the Durham Smith
Speaker 1: against leverage, a swing screen to a Chan that carves
Speaker 1: up some yards, a little swing route where Tua hits
Speaker 1: e Chan again for a nice game up the sideline.
Speaker 1: I love those swing routes that Tua throws on the
Speaker 1: upfield shoulder because it allows the runner to run right
Speaker 1: through it and not decelerate, and it puts the ball
Speaker 1: in niners territory almost right away.
Speaker 2: Then he has this.
Speaker 1: Backside dig that he throws to devon a Chan who
Speaker 1: elevates and makes a contested catch on an eighteen yard
Speaker 1: route cutting across the middle. The play goes for twenty yards.
Speaker 1: And that's when I was like, Okay, well waddles down.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyreek had the early drop. Eight Chan stepping
Speaker 1: up is a big time pass catcher. We could certainly
Speaker 1: use that. And then that's the drive where I thought
Speaker 1: Tua threw like it kind of reminded me. And I
Speaker 1: know this is like a Dolphins Twitter lore play. It
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of the Kenny Stills touchdown from
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill in twenty sixteen against the Chargers.
Speaker 2: I know, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: When he threw a shot down the field, took a
Speaker 1: big a hit from a defender right across the face,
Speaker 1: and the ball just fell perfectly into Kenny Steals his hands.
Speaker 1: That was what this one looked like. And you know,
Speaker 1: the defender did get a fingernail on the football and
Speaker 1: it changes the trajectory, which I think makes it difficult
Speaker 1: to call it a catch. Although you know Oj is
Speaker 1: my consigli area on these plays and he said you
Speaker 1: have to catch that football, so I'll take his word
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: I think Tiger could probably tell you it was a
Speaker 2: drop as well.
Speaker 1: But there's a slight smage in the football and it
Speaker 1: fell right into the bread basket with Tua getting absolutely
Speaker 1: obliterated on the play. And two has been so good
Speaker 1: at you know, kind of having that shoulder roll or
Speaker 1: protecting himself after he throws the football. He didn't really
Speaker 1: have the time to do that on this one. Takes
Speaker 1: the big shot, puts it in the bucket. We dropped
Speaker 1: the football, winds up for a field goal. Three to
Speaker 1: nothing lead here in the first quarter. But then the
Speaker 1: Niners take the ball back and you wouldn't hold this
Speaker 1: offense down for long. Seventy plays our seventy yard drive
Speaker 1: ten plays, a sixteen yard strike from Pretty to Samuel.
Speaker 1: It takes over four minutes off the clock, and again
Speaker 1: they go back to their run game success. They start
Speaker 1: pulling that second level linebacker, a part of the defense
Speaker 1: up and they throw in behind it twenty one yards
Speaker 1: in the first play. Then a chunk play that goes
Speaker 1: incomplete as Perty skips it. So there was some quarterback
Speaker 1: misses there as well for the Niners. They do convert
Speaker 1: a fourth and one on a quick count. Miami couldn't
Speaker 1: get substituted. They had twelve man on the field. They
Speaker 1: still gain four yards and turns into a first and
Speaker 1: ten at the thirty five yard line. And then how
Speaker 1: about big man with the football without a helmet on.
Speaker 1: Banito Jones peels back in the hook zone, scoops this
Speaker 1: pick off the ground. They run down to the other
Speaker 1: side of the field and do a whole team celebration.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Benito was break dancing or something on
Speaker 1: the ground. I couldn't see what he was doing exactly,
Speaker 1: but everybody was celebrating Benito Jones getting a pick. But
Speaker 1: they overturn the play. The Dolphins challenge it. They look
Speaker 1: at it, and the ball does touch the ground. I
Speaker 1: feel like he maybe had possession of that football, and
Speaker 1: it's one of those plays where yeah, I touched the ground,
Speaker 1: but because you possessed it, it's okay. And I feel
Speaker 1: like because the replay assist gave him the ruling that
Speaker 1: was incomplete, they couldn't overturn at that point, so the
Speaker 1: play stands. They get a first down conversion on the
Speaker 1: next play, a third and ten crosser to Deebo. Samuel
Speaker 1: or Javon Holland looked like he hadn't scored up for
Speaker 1: a tackle, but Deebo evades that tackle and.
Speaker 2: Goes for a first down. It would have been like
Speaker 2: fourth and four.
Speaker 1: Have you made the stop at that point, and then
Speaker 1: Zach Sealer blows up a second and one play with
Speaker 1: an immediate win. A sack couldn't have gotten there any faster.
Speaker 1: It was his six and a half sack since he
Speaker 1: came back from the eye injury, which is the most
Speaker 1: in the entire National Football League, not just defensive tackles, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, his eight and a half sacks on
Speaker 1: the season are second behind only Sexy Dexy Dexter Lawrence
Speaker 1: with the New York Giants for sacks among defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: and of course, with ten sacks last year eighteen and
Speaker 1: a half in the last two years.
Speaker 2: What a stud he is.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the Niners would score on the next play and
Speaker 1: go up seven to three, and he gets it back
Speaker 1: and marches forty nine yards on eleven plays for a
Speaker 1: field goal drive of a kick of thirty eight yards
Speaker 1: rather where Sanders connects took almost five minutes off the clock.
Speaker 1: They do hit Tyreek this time on the dig and
Speaker 1: he kind of gets loose, and that was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you, guys, I kind of
Speaker 1: miss seeing these speedy receivers catch balls on the move
Speaker 1: and take off for thirty two yards, good timing, good catch,
Speaker 1: good run after the catch. Then eight Chan has a
Speaker 1: pair of seven to eight yard runs. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: exactly how far they went with a first down conversions
Speaker 1: on a second down play to Johndrey Smith. The second
Speaker 1: run was a third and three conversion to Malik Washington,
Speaker 1: who man the real deal right. He looks like a
Speaker 1: hit for the Dolphins Draft class Dolphins getting the red
Speaker 1: zone at the seventeen yard line, a four yard moster
Speaker 1: run gets called back on a Rob Jones holding call.
Speaker 1: I thought Rob had missed a block earlier on a
Speaker 1: screen as well to or to Johnny Smith rather that
Speaker 1: could have gone for a bigger gain. So a couple
Speaker 1: of misses there from sixty five. But he would bounce
Speaker 1: back later in the game and show some metal down
Speaker 1: the stretch. First in seventeen that the plus twenty four
Speaker 1: yard line, they throw a deep shot to Maleak Washington
Speaker 1: that kind of looked like it don't really have much
Speaker 1: of a chance, you know, when you're down waddle like
Speaker 1: it kind of changes the complexion the receiver's room. So
Speaker 1: you throw some maybe some routes to guys that maybe
Speaker 1: isn't their bread and butter. That's what this one looked like.
Speaker 1: Here on that takeoff route that was pretty well blanketed.
Speaker 1: They throw an angle screen to Javon eight Chan for
Speaker 1: four yards and immediate pressure on third and thirteen forces
Speaker 1: to turf it. And I mentioned that play because OJ
Speaker 1: made a good point on the postgame show that he
Speaker 1: liked some of Tua's incompletions where he just gave up
Speaker 1: on a dead play and didn't make it a negative play,
Speaker 1: which that's a big deal in this league, right, Sometimes
Speaker 1: you beat yourself more so than the opposing team beats you,
Speaker 1: and Tua made some good decisions.
Speaker 2: To do that and keep drives alive.
Speaker 1: So the Dolphins trail seven six Niners go three and
Speaker 1: out three plays negative nine yards chops. It's a very
Speaker 1: hard edge to begin the drive, and brit and Jordan
Speaker 1: Brooks scrapes it and makes a first down run stuff.
Speaker 1: We get a pressure with Ogba and Ramsey and Ramsey
Speaker 1: leaves his feet otherwise probably has a big sack in
Speaker 1: the backfield, but Brock tries to peel it back and
Speaker 1: throw over the middle nearly gets picked off. He kind
Speaker 1: of makes some crazy decisions when it comes like throwing
Speaker 1: outside of the p and I'm surprised he didn't pay
Speaker 1: for it more today. But he puts some balls in
Speaker 1: Harm's way and then they had a false start, creates
Speaker 1: a third and fourteen. We get more pressure, pretty evades
Speaker 1: it but runs right into the waiting arms of Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba for a one yard gain, and we get good
Speaker 1: field position on a low punt that when League takes
Speaker 1: back to the forty three yard line, but Patrick McMorris
Speaker 1: gets hit for a holding call, the drive begins at
Speaker 1: the thirty two yard line.
Speaker 2: And all this means is the Dolphins have.
Speaker 1: To go sixty eight yards, which they do on eight
Speaker 1: plays for a touchdown two or three yards rather from
Speaker 1: two of the Tyreek hill four and a half minutes
Speaker 1: off the clock again, eight chan first down run seven yards.
Speaker 1: Then Raheem on the angle screen goes for nine yards
Speaker 1: immediately and plus territory with some easy, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of baked in plays there you run the ball that
Speaker 1: well screen game, you can get some easy first downs.
Speaker 1: Then Raheem an explosive run and I was so excited
Speaker 1: to see explosive runs twenty yards as he picks his
Speaker 1: way through the right side. Good blocking all around, I
Speaker 1: know Malik Washington had a really good block down field
Speaker 1: because on the very next play he catches an in
Speaker 1: breaking ball that was maybe two of his most inaccurate
Speaker 1: throw of the night on the back shoulder, but it
Speaker 1: didn't matter because Malik has the strong hands. He pulls
Speaker 1: it in for eighteen yards. Dolphins failed to punch it
Speaker 1: in on the first two plays from first and second
Speaker 1: in goal, although eight chans run down to the three
Speaker 1: yard line creates an easier pass there. And then Tyreek
Speaker 1: really cool design here to get Tybek in theienzone because
Speaker 1: Miami had trips to the field. That's the wide side
Speaker 1: of the formation. He's on the boundary short side of
Speaker 1: the formation, and they create a one on one situation
Speaker 1: where he gets a release where he can square up
Speaker 1: the corner. Now you've got a two way go. He
Speaker 1: can separate on the outbreak and twas past is perfect
Speaker 1: right on the outside shoulder, he can't jump that route.
Speaker 1: Thirteen to seven, Dolphins lead with three twenty to play.
Speaker 1: The Niners come back down the field and kick a
Speaker 1: field goal of twenty one yards to cut the lead
Speaker 1: down to thirteen to ten. Dolphins have a drive where
Speaker 1: they have a chance to put some points up with
Speaker 1: forty seven seconds left, no timeouts. They get a completion
Speaker 1: to Jonas Smith, but then after that couldn't really find
Speaker 1: a rhythm and throw some incomplete passes. Find a completion
Speaker 1: of River Craycraft that got tackled in bounds, and that
Speaker 1: was that for the end of the half. So thirteen
Speaker 1: to ten game at the break. Dolphins getting the ball
Speaker 1: on the other side, go ahead and take our first break,
Speaker 1: come back and break down the second half the five takeaways,
Speaker 1: and get the heck out of here. Dolphins win this
Speaker 1: one twenty nine to seventeen over the Niners. Second half
Speaker 1: coming up next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. So the Dolphins, with
Speaker 1: a three point halftime lead, take the opening drive of
Speaker 1: the second half. Eight plays thirty four yards, took four
Speaker 1: minutes of time off the clock, and it results in
Speaker 1: a fifty four yard Jason Sanders field goal and the Niners.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought the Dolphins played well in all
Speaker 1: three phases, but the Niners made a lot of mistakes,
Speaker 1: including some late hits after the fact a defensive personnel
Speaker 1: of defensive personal foul on the first play turns a
Speaker 1: run for no gain into fifteen yards. We think get
Speaker 1: ourselves in a third and one situation after John new
Speaker 1: Smith gets nine yards on that quick screen. That kind
Speaker 1: of beat the Jets in overtime, and they go to
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson, who was part of a deeper running back
Speaker 1: rotation today in terms of carries, and he takes it
Speaker 1: power football. They run gap scheme downhill and he lead
Speaker 1: into that offensive line or rather the defensive line should say,
Speaker 1: and picks up four yards and moves the chains. Then
Speaker 1: he comes right back on the next play and goes
Speaker 1: for eight yards. And then on third and four, two
Speaker 1: of rips won the tyreek hill for a first down,
Speaker 1: but it's holding on Aaron Brewer. So third and fourteen,
Speaker 1: Miami gets back into field goal range with eight yards
Speaker 1: devon eight chan and it's a fifty four yard kick
Speaker 1: from Jason Sanders, who has now made twenty three consecutive
Speaker 1: field goals. That's a franchise record for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He is having a hell of a year. Dolphins leads
Speaker 1: sixteen to ten. The Niners get the ball back and
Speaker 1: drive down the field nine plays, forty seven yards, five
Speaker 1: minutes off the clock. They have a third and one
Speaker 1: sneak after some good runs by both Deebo Samuel and
Speaker 1: George Kittle. After the catch for the tight end there
Speaker 1: where Brock Purty moves the chains and then Kittle catches
Speaker 1: this seam shot right.
Speaker 2: Over Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 1: And there were a couple of completions in this game
Speaker 1: where I thought Brooks had like really good depth and
Speaker 1: was in good position. But the throw of Purdy, which
Speaker 1: this is what he does right, He's accurate in the
Speaker 1: middle of the football field like a quarterback you know
Speaker 1: about down here. He puts it on Kittle's numbers, make
Speaker 1: a big catch and runs down the field for twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards. Then the Niners start to kind of shoot
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot illegal formation backshim up behind the
Speaker 1: chains and out of the red zone. We get a
Speaker 1: Kendall Fuller pass breakup where he drives on a Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel play and Kendall Fuller injres his kneeler in the
Speaker 1: game and hopefully he'll be okay, but he was downgraded
Speaker 1: to out pretty quickly, so we will learn more for
Speaker 1: you guys on that probably tomorrow, I'm guessing. And then
Speaker 1: Purty evades some pressure able to scramble for six yards
Speaker 1: and takes a big shot from Jordan Brooks. Jordan Brooks, Man,
Speaker 1: this guy, he is so dang good. If you didn't
Speaker 1: watch the breakdown last week on Dolphin's HQ, go ahead
Speaker 1: and rectify that. He is so much fun to watch,
Speaker 1: and it sets up a huge down in the game.
Speaker 1: Third and eight, Deebo Samuel catches a crosser, breaks another
Speaker 1: tackle in the Dolphins secondary. Dang near scores in the play,
Speaker 1: but there's that illegal formation I talked about earlier. Third
Speaker 1: and thirteen they forced pretty off of the spot with
Speaker 1: a really nice rush game from Ogbah and Campbell to
Speaker 1: force pressure on him and cause a short throw.
Speaker 2: Really and they kick a field goal, but this one
Speaker 2: goes wide left.
Speaker 1: Jake Moody misses from forty one yards out, and now
Speaker 1: Miami has a chance to kind of put this game,
Speaker 1: you know, in their control, right, and they do that
Speaker 1: by a nine play, fifty three yard drive, four and
Speaker 1: a half minutes, forty four yard field goal for Miami.
Speaker 1: It was a seven yard Raheem Mostert first down run,
Speaker 1: first down runs for big yards. Man. It helps out
Speaker 1: Then third and one, I thought Tua kind of start
Speaker 1: to found a rhythm because they ran that little rpo
Speaker 1: flat slide combination where you can throw the ball to
Speaker 1: the flap, you can give it to the back inside,
Speaker 1: you can throw the little glance over the middle. And
Speaker 1: Tua had like pressure in his face. The rail was
Speaker 1: not available. He has to pump fake, gets a defensive
Speaker 1: lineman off of his feet, and then throws it around
Speaker 1: him for a first down completion of Tyreek Hill. Big
Speaker 1: time to stay on the field there. And then he
Speaker 1: has a strike on a cross or Jhondrew Smith for
Speaker 1: twenty two yards, who catches it inch dride and takes off,
Speaker 1: and then Tua falls in a botch snap, but johnre
Speaker 1: catches a swing for nine yards, and on third and
Speaker 1: one at the plus sixteen, Tua throws an even better
Speaker 1: ball than the last one, and this one doesn't get
Speaker 1: tipped and you see it go through the elbows of
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2: He got to make that catch. That's a big time
Speaker 2: moment in the game right there.
Speaker 1: We don't secure it and kick the field goal and
Speaker 1: take a night eighteen to ten lead. Niners get the
Speaker 1: ball back and you weren't going to hold him down
Speaker 1: all game. They march sixty yards on nine plays after
Speaker 1: a kickoff that was a legal didn't land in the
Speaker 1: landing zone, so they get the ball to the forty
Speaker 1: yard line. Four minute drive paid off by a three
Speaker 1: yard pass from Perdy to George Kittle. Deebo has a
Speaker 1: catch and run, just plowing through tacklers, then to carry
Speaker 1: down the middle for himself. That goes for fifteen and
Speaker 1: just like that, they're at the plus thirty eight yard line.
Speaker 1: But then injuries just kind of got crazy. Kendall fully
Speaker 1: gets leg whipped and did not come back. The Niners
Speaker 1: lose Aaron Banks the next play. The very next play,
Speaker 1: Jordan Brooks has to be helped off and he would return.
Speaker 1: So that's good to hear, because we need that guy
Speaker 1: on this defense, or any defense would need that guy
Speaker 1: if they had him. All of this occurs, why the
Speaker 1: Niners are just marching down the field. They're first in
Speaker 1: goal three minutes into the drive. We stuffed the first
Speaker 1: down play, but Jordan Brooks is off the field and
Speaker 1: the Niners wisely attack his replacement and Duke Riley and
Speaker 1: run play action off of him. They throw the ball
Speaker 1: in behind him, and you know, we don't know the
Speaker 1: assignment for sure, but That's what it looked like in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, Duke spun back and chase the
Speaker 1: tight end to the back of the end zone. It
Speaker 1: goes for a touchdown. Dolphins lead is cut to just
Speaker 1: two points. Miami gets it back with twelve with twelve
Speaker 1: minutes in the game. Two point lead, and we get
Speaker 1: some footing, get some first downs. The run game is
Speaker 1: really taking off, and they put the ball into plus
Speaker 1: territory and then we have a critical third and seven
Speaker 1: right around midfield. Two of throws a strike to Craycraft
Speaker 1: on a corner route that would have put us first
Speaker 1: and ten at the thirty seven yard line, but he
Speaker 1: can't hang on. Miami has to give it back over
Speaker 1: to the Niners, and it was like, is this going
Speaker 1: to follow that same script? Dolphins get a double digit
Speaker 1: lead or two score lead, I should say, other team
Speaker 1: kind of gets back into it. Offense makes one mistake,
Speaker 1: defense can't get to stop late. Nope, wouldn't happen. Niers
Speaker 1: punt the ball back after a four play twenty seven
Speaker 1: yard drive after Kyle Yuschek takes the opening play twenty
Speaker 1: yards on a screen. Then we get a run stop
Speaker 1: and a screen for five yards creates a third and four,
Speaker 1: and this is where Jalen Ramsey had one of his
Speaker 1: best reps of the entire year. He is one on
Speaker 1: one to the boundary in a y io for George Well,
Speaker 1: this is the ideal makeup for your star tight end.
Speaker 1: Why Iso, It's where you have trips to one side
Speaker 1: of the formation. He's the backside guy to the other
Speaker 1: side of the formation. You can create one on ones
Speaker 1: this way. They did with Mike Asiki way back in
Speaker 1: the day. They did it with even you know, Julius
Speaker 1: Thomas back in the day as well. And you create
Speaker 1: this why io and Jilen Ramsey not only like re
Speaker 1: routes and kind of takes Kittle out of the play.
Speaker 1: He passes him off and then flies downhill and teams
Speaker 1: up with Duke Riley for a stop on the running
Speaker 1: back on the checkdown to keep him short of the sticks.
Speaker 1: So Miyai gets the ball back a chance to put
Speaker 1: it away. They wouldn't quite put it away, but they
Speaker 1: would get points. Forty eight yard field goal, seven plays
Speaker 1: forty one yards and this is where the run game
Speaker 1: just took off. Eight chan good run, fifteen yards penalty
Speaker 1: on the Niners after a good perimeter run. We get
Speaker 1: the run game going with some chunk plays as well,
Speaker 1: and kick the field goal. And my notes get worse
Speaker 1: here because I'm like moving to the postgame radio spot
Speaker 1: and I can't really analyze the game for you guys.
Speaker 2: So I do apologize for that. And didn't get to
Speaker 2: see the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Actually didn't see the Katerkohu pick except for on a replay,
Speaker 1: but he did pick off the pass of Brock Purty
Speaker 1: on a two play seventeen yard drive that help the
Speaker 1: Dolphins kind of ic this game away, and they would
Speaker 1: for sure put it away on the next drive a
Speaker 1: fifty yard devon a Chan run that went three plays
Speaker 1: sixty two yards and he finished with a fifty yard
Speaker 1: score to put the Niners away twenty nine to seventeen.
Speaker 1: The Niners would end that game with the football and
Speaker 1: would not get any points out of it. So there
Speaker 1: you go. Miami finds a big win. They improved to
Speaker 1: seven and eight. They're going to have to get a
Speaker 1: lot of help down the stretch, but I mean it's
Speaker 1: all right there for him. If they can win these
Speaker 1: last two games, perhaps they can get that help and
Speaker 1: at least at least stay alive for yet another week.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that here in the takeaways and much
Speaker 1: much more coming up next. But first, let's actually hear
Speaker 1: some sound from TUA, who talked about the game, the performance,
Speaker 1: and what this win means for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Now, that was that was awesome. That was that was
Speaker 4: super cool. I think that that was something we needed
Speaker 4: to see as a team together. You could see in
Speaker 4: all three phases that we were able to play the
Speaker 4: complimentary football that we said we wanted to play. Defense
Speaker 4: given to the offense opportunity he used to go put
Speaker 4: points on board and when you know, there were times
Speaker 4: where we didn't do what we wanted to say offensively,
Speaker 4: defense held and you know Jason five for five, I
Speaker 4: mean he was able to help with with putting points
Speaker 4: on board for us as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a big game from Jason Sanders, big game
Speaker 1: on the defense, and then some critical drives from the offense.
Speaker 1: It's a three phase victory you'll love to celebrate.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, we'll probably hear about some of that
Speaker 1: in the five Takeaways. That's next Drive Time podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autnation twenty nine
Speaker 1: seventeen victory for your Miami Dolphins over the Niners. There
Speaker 1: are two games left for sure, hopefully there are more.
Speaker 1: We'll find out how the Dolphins can make that happen
Speaker 1: here in just one second, but the first takeaway is
Speaker 1: the run game and first down play success and how
Speaker 1: critical how if this team can find that in any
Speaker 1: given game with this quarterback in the weapons, they are
Speaker 1: legit one of the toughest teams, one of the toughest
Speaker 1: offenses to stop and to beat in this league, because
Speaker 1: if you are constantly and second and three and second
Speaker 1: and two, you're just not gonna slow this offense down.
Speaker 1: And they had fourteen for fifty nine in the first half.
Speaker 1: Of course, a fifty yard carry to close it out,
Speaker 1: we'll make the numbers look better. But ending thirty for
Speaker 1: one sixty seven is a beautiful thing. A twenty yard
Speaker 1: run by Moster. I just thought that was so critical
Speaker 1: to have an explosive run. It just changes the way
Speaker 1: defenses have to defend you, especially in our outside zone game,
Speaker 1: when we can get the ball on the perimeter and
Speaker 1: make teams pay out there, it just creates so much
Speaker 1: more with our misdirection, our crossing routes, our quarterbacks, ball handling,
Speaker 1: so to get the explosive runs are very very critical.
Speaker 1: And I'll have to double check on this because I
Speaker 1: did it kind of hastily on the postgame show, but
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is accurate. I could be one
Speaker 1: or two runs off, but this is what I had
Speaker 1: devon a Chan alone, just eight Chan, not Moster or
Speaker 1: Jeff or jaln Ryder alec Ingold. But this was eight
Speaker 1: Chan's first down carry, so negative one to kick off
Speaker 1: the game. Then eight seven seven one two, and then
Speaker 1: the two yard run was down the goal line as well,
Speaker 1: so or the one ends who were down with the
Speaker 1: goal to go situations, then seven seven, seven, eight and
Speaker 1: fifty those are his first down run situations. It just
Speaker 1: changes the entire landscape. We saw how it impacted the
Speaker 1: Niners play action game early in this one. They were
Speaker 1: getting those twenty yard digs and seam shots in behind
Speaker 1: that second level of the defense because of the run game,
Speaker 1: the play action and how it impacts that part of
Speaker 1: the field and then the Dolphins from there, when you
Speaker 1: can lean on teams and when you can have that
Speaker 1: physical nature of you know, a change of pace with
Speaker 1: Raheem Moster or with Jeff Wilson, and Seth made a
Speaker 1: great point that you know when a chance comes out
Speaker 1: for a play or two, maybe even a full series,
Speaker 1: when he gets back in there and has fully fresh
Speaker 1: legs and hits them with that speed. And this is
Speaker 1: my comparison, because Seth would ever make a baseball comparison,
Speaker 1: is that it's kind of like going from Jamie Moyer
Speaker 1: to like a rolldis Chapman, and you non baseball fans,
Speaker 1: that's like an eighty five malin hour fastball pitcher to
Speaker 1: a one hundred and five mal and hour fastball pitcher.
Speaker 1: It is a different game when you have that type
Speaker 1: of velocity or in this case, that type of speed
Speaker 1: from the running back. I kind of like the way
Speaker 1: they can mix it up and choose their matchups that way.
Speaker 1: They salted the game away through the screen and the
Speaker 1: running game, and that is how.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be done.
Speaker 1: What a thing A bouty first takeaway run game in
Speaker 1: first down play success chef's kiss. Do that every single game,
Speaker 1: you'll win a lot of football games. Number two, I
Speaker 1: just put that Seeler and Brooks are absolute dogs because
Speaker 1: every week they show up. Every week they give us,
Speaker 1: you know, eighty plus percent of the snaps, and in
Speaker 1: Jordan Brooks's case, he plays dang near every snap. That
Speaker 1: might have been the first snaps he missed this year.
Speaker 1: In fact, when he injured left the game for a
Speaker 1: couple of plays. There Seeler has another sack, you know,
Speaker 1: and he won like immediately. He couldn't have got in
Speaker 1: there faster than he did. It's eight and a half
Speaker 1: this year. We talked about the stats, second behind only
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence with the Giants, and again since he came
Speaker 1: back from the eye injury in Week ten, six and
Speaker 1: a half sacks are most in the NFL by anybody.
Speaker 1: Jordan Brooks impacts the game as a cover guy, as
Speaker 1: a blitzer, as a run defender.
Speaker 2: He is a leader.
Speaker 1: He you know, spoke up a few weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: since that game against the Packers he has played, for
Speaker 1: my money, his three best games as of Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1: What an absolute hit he has been here for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And you know, those two guys. We can talk about
Speaker 1: John Smith who broke the Dolphins tight end franchise record
Speaker 1: today and you know, just kind of bring it all
Speaker 1: in here for all these guys that the Dolphins were
Speaker 1: able to acquire or.
Speaker 2: Had it in house.
Speaker 1: Like those guys set a model for what it's supposed
Speaker 1: to look like.
Speaker 2: You can follow their lead.
Speaker 1: Follow those guys' lead to paydays basically because if you
Speaker 1: put in the work, if you treat the game like
Speaker 1: they do, if you love the game like they do,
Speaker 1: you will find success for yourself in this league.
Speaker 2: And I just love the way those guys play.
Speaker 1: You know, Johnny as Well who went over eight hundred
Speaker 1: yards and seventy five catches, which are both Dolphins tight
Speaker 1: end records, will congratch to JOHNO.
Speaker 2: Smith for that.
Speaker 1: But Steeler and Brooks on defense many they kind of
Speaker 1: set the charge, set the tempo, and lead from there
Speaker 1: and they continue to play really good every single week.
Speaker 1: How about some Jason Sanders love four more field goals
Speaker 1: in this one, a couple from fifty plus. I probably
Speaker 1: do a bad job of covering special teams on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I get so infatuated by offense and maybe even the
Speaker 1: defense suffers a little bit because of that. But he
Speaker 1: was the player of the month and November he had
Speaker 1: the two miss pats, which I think the first kick
Speaker 1: he had after the Player of the Month was a
Speaker 1: miss pat in the Jets game if not mistaken, but
Speaker 1: he has been nails. You can trust this guy from anywhere.
Speaker 1: He's been money from fifty plus yards. He scored seventeen
Speaker 1: points a day, twenty three consecutive made field goals. That
Speaker 1: is clutch and big time kicking from Jason Sanders having
Speaker 1: a big, big year for your Miami Dolphins. My fourth takeaway, Look,
Speaker 1: it's not going to always be great, right, not gonna
Speaker 1: be perfect every single game, but drops and missed opportunities.
Speaker 2: Just got to find a way to clean those up.
Speaker 1: Because if you make those catches, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think Tyreek would tell you he expects to make those catches,
Speaker 1: you could have blown the Niners all the way out
Speaker 1: today and you could have you know, not that it
Speaker 1: makes a difference in how your season goes, but like,
Speaker 1: if you can start to button up those errors and
Speaker 1: make those four point swings, you become even tougher to beat.
Speaker 1: I mean, the first drop was a tip ball that
Speaker 1: you know probably could have been caught. But who are
Speaker 1: we to debate that second one when right through the
Speaker 1: arms that the opening drive, third down conversion could have
Speaker 1: been caught, maybe for a big play as well, the
Speaker 1: craft drop. Just for whatever reason, we have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: where things could have gotten better, and in this instance,
Speaker 1: it could have been the receivers helping the quarterback out
Speaker 1: because Tua only had two hundred and fifteen yards in
Speaker 1: this game. But I don't feel as though that was
Speaker 1: indicative of how he played because he put the ball
Speaker 1: on the money in key spots. They still go four
Speaker 1: for thirteen on third downs, but if they're seven for thirteen,
Speaker 1: this game is different.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You probably win this game before the fourth quarter even begins.
Speaker 1: So just in a win, you gotta find the things
Speaker 1: to correct. Here it's catching passes. And then the fifth
Speaker 1: thing is just what are the Dolphins facing ahead? You
Speaker 1: kind of know what it is already. You need one
Speaker 1: Colts loss that has to happen, and that might be
Speaker 1: tough because they're facing the Giants next week. And the
Speaker 1: Giants have I saw the tweet from Schefter that they
Speaker 1: now control their own destiny for the first to overall
Speaker 1: pick in the draft because the Raiders won today. So
Speaker 1: the Giants don't have a lot to play for. I mean,
Speaker 1: those guys don't care about draft picks. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough game for the Colts to lose. The
Speaker 1: Colts scored thirty eight points a day by throwing the
Speaker 1: ball eleven times. It's the first time that combination of
Speaker 1: things has happened since two thousand.
Speaker 2: So you need them to lose one game.
Speaker 1: You need Denver or the Chargers, not both Denver or
Speaker 1: the Chargers to lose two games as well. And the Broncos,
Speaker 1: I mean, they play at Joe Burrow and the Bengals.
Speaker 1: That's not an easy game by any stretch. And then
Speaker 1: they play at the or home for the Chiefs, which
Speaker 1: we'll see if Casey has anything to play for in
Speaker 1: that Week eighteen game. Maybe they do have the first
Speaker 1: round by locked up, but they want to get Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes some reps who knows, but that's what you have
Speaker 1: to have there. And then the Chargers have to lose
Speaker 1: to both at the Patriots and then home for the Raiders.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. But that's peg you're looking
Speaker 2: at here.
Speaker 1: It feels somewhat bleak, but we will hold out hope
Speaker 1: until it is over. I just just get me, just
Speaker 1: get me to Sunday. Like if we can get a
Speaker 1: Broncos loss to the Bengals. That would be just great.
Speaker 1: Let's have that happen, please. I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and add a couple of things here. Number one, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a takeaway if they lost. But
Speaker 1: the safety play whoa dude like critical third downtackle opportunities
Speaker 1: that could have forced a field goal Javon Hall and whiffs.
Speaker 1: Then Deebo runs over both Poyer and haul the goal
Speaker 1: line on a on a third down for the touchd
Speaker 1: on the goal line for a third down touchdown. It
Speaker 1: just happened way too frequently. And then another complaint that
Speaker 1: I have is, you know, I feel very strong in
Speaker 1: the running back usage. It's either number one or a
Speaker 1: very very very close number two to the tight end position.
Speaker 1: In terms of why the run game hasn't worked because
Speaker 1: of selection, I mentioned the A Chan change up earlier
Speaker 1: than how valuable I believe that can be. But like man,
Speaker 1: sometimes just a forward, lean and power football and getting
Speaker 1: four yards opposed to trying to hit the outside run
Speaker 1: for twenty yards, I believe that can be super valuable.
Speaker 1: So you know, eh Chan, love his receiving ability, love
Speaker 1: his game today, he was awesome. But if it's more
Speaker 1: of a complimentary role or more of a you know,
Speaker 1: a one A one B situation. I just feel O,
Speaker 1: that's a more valuable way to use this guy, and
Speaker 1: I hope we'll get to that point at some point.
Speaker 1: And then I want to finish on this because oh
Speaker 1: Man talked about it a little bit here and there,
Speaker 1: but to get confirmation on this, Tyreek Hill after the
Speaker 1: game said that some of those vet rest days and
Speaker 1: missing practices when you're available to practice is starting to
Speaker 1: show up, and it's why some of those misses aren't
Speaker 1: happening and some of the timing plays with Tua are off.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, dude, yeah, that's why we had three
Speaker 1: picks in a critical must win game last week, and
Speaker 1: if we don't have three picks, if we have zero picks,
Speaker 1: we win that game. And now we're eight and seven
Speaker 1: and now we control our destiny for the most part
Speaker 1: in the AFC playoffs. So it is frustrating to have
Speaker 1: it go down like that. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting to hear him cop to that and be almost
Speaker 1: genuine and how he copped to it, But like, is
Speaker 1: he being for real? Because you never know of this guy.
Speaker 1: And then Tula was asked about it after the fact,
Speaker 1: and two was comments here tell you everything that you
Speaker 1: need to know about that situation, about that connection, because
Speaker 1: he talks about John hus Smith and the connection they
Speaker 1: have and all the time they put on the grass,
Speaker 1: time on task, working together, getting these routes perfective. Shoot,
Speaker 1: it happened in twenty twenty two in training camp. They're
Speaker 1: out there every day together getting working. Here's Tua on
Speaker 1: Tyreek's comments about missing too many practices and the lack
Speaker 1: of production that comes with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if he told you that, then that's what we
Speaker 4: need more of. He reps. Me and him need need
Speaker 4: more reps. That's what we we gotta do. There's that's
Speaker 4: that's the secret sauce to me being able to connect
Speaker 4: with all these guys. You guys see John who here Like,
Speaker 4: that's that's the secret sauce. If if if we if
Speaker 4: we miss a throw, if we're off on on a throw,
Speaker 4: in in the team practice or in in a routes
Speaker 4: on air rep, like, we'll get together in whatever time
Speaker 4: we have, whether it's after or during while the defense
Speaker 4: is on, and we'll get those reps made up. Telling
Speaker 4: him what I see and then him also telling me
Speaker 4: how he feels with with running it so that that
Speaker 4: has a lot to do with with reps for.
Speaker 1: Sure, and that is a good place to go ahead
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