Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
Speaker 2: Now, let me check your pulse.
Speaker 1: If you're not for heard of, you better double check
Speaker 1: that pulse. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network
Speaker 1: covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it has been entirely too long since we heard the
Speaker 1: theme music, and by that I mean two weeks. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and cute up play the song. Waks twin win
Speaker 1: win win win. Yeah, whin win win win. That's right,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are back in the winner circle thanks to
Speaker 1: a thirty to nothing shutout over the Jets. That's a sweep.
Speaker 1: That's seven of eight. That's eleven of the last thirteen.
Speaker 1: That's three in a row. It's nine in a row
Speaker 1: in that building across the street at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: In fact, the last home loss to the Jets was
Speaker 1: in London in twenty fifteen. We'll go over the game script.
Speaker 1: We'll break down the key moments. We'll do five big
Speaker 1: picture takeaways. We'll do the play. Before the play, we'll
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback to a Tongua Ba Lowe. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from head coach Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast. That's another Miami Dolphins. We always start these
Speaker 1: shows looking at the stats, and the stats were good
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins in this one. Thirty to nothing
Speaker 1: is the final score, and it was comprehensive in every
Speaker 1: sense of the words. Sixteen first downs to eleven. That
Speaker 1: doesn't sound comprehensive, but I'll tell you why here in
Speaker 1: just one second. Miami was six for fifteen on third down,
Speaker 1: but at one point when Tua was still in the game,
Speaker 1: they were six for eleven and one for one on fourth,
Speaker 1: so very efficient in that regard. In fact, with Tua
Speaker 1: under center against the Jets this season, Miami was seventeen
Speaker 1: for twenty seven on third downs. That's that's gonna win
Speaker 1: a lot of football games if you can do that.
Speaker 1: The Jets were five for thirteen, but a lot of
Speaker 1: those third down conversions were very late in the game.
Speaker 1: Miami two for two on fourth, the Jets zero for two,
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety total yards to one of the three,
Speaker 1: so not a crazy discrepancy at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: but it was five and a half to one again
Speaker 1: when the first team exited the game. At the end
Speaker 1: of the third quarter. There two hundred and thirteen passing
Speaker 1: yards to eighty passing yards, seventy seven rushing yards to
Speaker 1: twenty three. The Jets ran the ball twelve times for
Speaker 1: twenty three yards in the game. Miami had two more
Speaker 1: plays fifty seven to fifty five. Kind of nice to
Speaker 1: get out of a game where you don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, you've had games where you had
Speaker 1: eighty snaps in the past, under sixty for both sides
Speaker 1: of the football, So in and out pretty quickly. There
Speaker 1: four turnovers for the Jets, none for your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: six sacks with the Dolphins, three for the Jets against
Speaker 1: our offense, and the Dolphins had nine penalties for sixty
Speaker 1: five yards the Jets seven for fifty five. Miami held
Speaker 1: the ball for over thirty six minutes in this game,
Speaker 1: So great stuff there all around for the Dolphins. We'll
Speaker 1: sprinkle in some stats as we go along here because
Speaker 1: Miami's numbers very, very good in this one. Before we
Speaker 1: get to the game script, I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and play some audio here from Tua Tongueabailoa, who talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about how the week was coming off
Speaker 1: that difficult loss, short week, bad taste in your mouth,
Speaker 1: and we felt it right. Fans were in a panic.
Speaker 1: I was not my normal self all week long. But
Speaker 1: that team, the guys that matter, the ones that put
Speaker 1: the jersey on, they never wavered.
Speaker 2: Throughout the week one.
Speaker 3: No one changed what they did within their normal routines.
Speaker 3: No one did more than what they'd normally do. Everyone
Speaker 3: knew that what we had put out Monday night was
Speaker 3: embarrassing and it felt weird as we came into the building,
Speaker 3: and one thing we wanted to do was not feel
Speaker 3: that feeling again. So in a way, guys were happy
Speaker 3: that it was a short week that we got to
Speaker 3: play again and you know, sort of exercise you know
Speaker 3: a lot of the things that we didn't do right
Speaker 3: and take the right step forward in winning and really
Speaker 3: winning the way we did today.
Speaker 1: And the game began with the Dolphins on offense, which
Speaker 1: has been a rarity, not just this year the last
Speaker 1: two years, as they actually lost a coin toss and
Speaker 1: began on offense, and the game began the way you
Speaker 1: would think it would or would hope it would. No
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, by the way, which if you haven't covered
Speaker 1: the game at all, Dolphins have down several key parts
Speaker 1: in this game. No Tyreek Hill. You know about the
Speaker 1: injuries on the offensive line, Robert Hunt, Isaiah Win both
Speaker 1: out of the game, win on ir No Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: So your entire interior three are out. Your top receiver
Speaker 1: is out. On defense, Xavi and Howard having a great year,
Speaker 1: he was out. Javon Holland, your top safety, just Deshaun Elliott,
Speaker 1: your other starting safety, Both those guys are out. No
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, no Jalen Phillips. You're down several critical parts
Speaker 1: of like your top twenty players, like half of them
Speaker 1: are out right. But Miami came out and threw some haymakers,
Speaker 1: threw some punches and put themselves in position to win
Speaker 1: this game early on, despite the fact that the opening
Speaker 1: drive didn't go that way. Because Watad gets a couple
Speaker 1: of catches for twenty one yards, He's making guys miss.
Speaker 1: He looks good, he looks quick, and the ball's coming
Speaker 1: out fast. They get a couple of runs off the perimeter.
Speaker 1: But then you get a holding call that wipes out
Speaker 1: a twenty yard gain two waddle down the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, and he exits with an injury and goes
Speaker 1: into the blue medical tent, luckily popped back out a
Speaker 1: couple of plays later as back in the game after
Speaker 1: the Dolphins got the football back because they punt the ball,
Speaker 1: and then the Jets take the ball back over and
Speaker 1: the dominance was apparent very early on. So the Jets
Speaker 1: get the ball backed up in their own zone and
Speaker 1: first down successful running play, and then Bradley Chubb, who
Speaker 1: had a well of a game, beats a block and
Speaker 1: gets a tackle for loss to create a third and six.
Speaker 1: And then Christian Wilkins comes flying down the pike for
Speaker 1: a big sack fumble on Zach Wilson, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: Chubb was the one that knocked the ball out there too,
Speaker 1: so he gets a couple of four fumbles in this one,
Speaker 1: but Christian Wilkins first on the scene. They split the sack.
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler comes up one yard shy of his third
Speaker 1: career touchdown two in as many weeks on the recovery
Speaker 1: and just dominant, dominant, dominant from the Dolphins front. In fact,
Speaker 1: most of Zach Wilson's early passes in this game were
Speaker 1: him retreating and then throwing the ball at the legs
Speaker 1: of his running back or tight end who's basically already
Speaker 1: in pass protection because they couldn't block the edges or
Speaker 1: the interior the entire game. I mean, this Dolphins front
Speaker 1: in this pass rush has been ferocious. We'll come back
Speaker 1: to that here in just one second. They get a
Speaker 1: big takeaway early on to put the Dolphins right back
Speaker 1: in scoring range. And I know you guys out there
Speaker 1: love this. The first two results I didn't love, which
Speaker 1: is so funny because McDaniel always touches on this right.
Speaker 1: I like to play call if it works, and you're
Speaker 1: an idiot if it doesn't work. But Dolphins take over
Speaker 1: first and goal stuffed, second and goal stuffed, and that
Speaker 1: one lost yardage. So now it's third and goal from
Speaker 1: the three yard line. And here's what I love about it,
Speaker 1: because this spot is the tendency breaker. And we'll come
Speaker 1: back to this in the in the takeaways, because it's
Speaker 1: a big takeaway for me that the Dolphins created this
Speaker 1: touchdown situation because the Jets were expecting pass and you
Speaker 1: could feel that they were in man coverage. All the
Speaker 1: dbs and the guys that had responsibility in terms of
Speaker 1: eligibles in the passing game, they had eyes on the eligibles.
Speaker 1: And so when Miami motions a receiver from the week's
Speaker 1: side of the formation back across the formation, it opens
Speaker 1: up the outside lane and all it took was a
Speaker 1: tearan armstead seal off the edge and it's a walk
Speaker 1: in a cruise in touchdown, which, by the way, is
Speaker 1: a record for Raheem moster. It can grad to Raheem.
Speaker 1: He scored two touchdowns in this game, so twenty total
Speaker 1: eighteen rushing. Those are both Miami Dolphins records. Put a
Speaker 1: pin in that we're going to come back on the
Speaker 1: takeaways and talk about that so quickly seven to nothing
Speaker 1: in a spot you kind of felt like, let's get
Speaker 1: it early start. Let's dampen this quarterback who hasn't had
Speaker 1: back to back good games in his career, just came
Speaker 1: off the best game of his career. Let's take that
Speaker 1: confidence and zap it right away. And what better way
Speaker 1: than three guys putting a big hit on him and
Speaker 1: shripsacking him and turn the ball over and scoring seven
Speaker 1: points right off the bat. That is how you start,
Speaker 1: That's how you respond to a tough week. You love, love, love,
Speaker 1: love to see it. They just get the football back
Speaker 1: and it's more of the same. David Long down the
Speaker 1: middle for a big pressure right in the face of
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson. Bradley Chubb gets a big stop that creates
Speaker 1: a third and six and then they convert. They convert
Speaker 1: after that their first first down of the game. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't much more after that because you get great
Speaker 1: coverage from Van Ginkle, which, by the way, our play
Speaker 1: before the play goes to Andrew van Ginkle on second
Speaker 1: and four where he has Tyler Conklin, who if you
Speaker 1: listen to the preview podcast, we talked about how the
Speaker 1: Jets want to throw these covered seam balls and covered
Speaker 1: perimeter balls with tight ends on the linebackers. They feel
Speaker 1: that's a mismatch for them with either Tyler Conklin or
Speaker 1: Jeremy Ruckert. They try it, but you're not going to
Speaker 1: do it on Andrew Van Ginkle because he runs step
Speaker 1: for step with Conklin, puts his punch between the hands
Speaker 1: and separates them, creates an incompletion. The very next play,
Speaker 1: Eli Apple, who's getting significantly more playing time, and he's
Speaker 1: been inactive for a few games this year. By getting
Speaker 1: more playing time because you don't have Xavier and Howard,
Speaker 1: he steps up and has great coverage on a man
Speaker 1: coverage responsibility on a crossing route. Do you guys know
Speaker 1: how difficult of an assignment that is to run all
Speaker 1: the way across the field and stay in stride with
Speaker 1: an NFL receiver and the speed day feature and the
Speaker 1: accuracy of NFL quarterbacks, It's a tough ask. He gets
Speaker 1: his hand in there, punches it out, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Jets have a fourth and four and
Speaker 1: they fake the punt. Good thing that Christian Wilkins has
Speaker 1: all the discipline in the world. He's all over it,
Speaker 1: beats his block gets in there and meets Duke Riley
Speaker 1: and shuts it down. So immediately Miami back in scoring range,
Speaker 1: and they put together one of the strangest drives you'll
Speaker 1: ever see because of some penalties and some kind of
Speaker 1: methodical approach. It's a nine play, twenty seven yard drive
Speaker 1: that goes through the uprights to make the game ten
Speaker 1: nothing and more. Excellent scheming and game planning because they
Speaker 1: put themselves in a third and short after a Claypool
Speaker 1: screen gain six and then a flip to eight chan
Speaker 1: for two. So third and three and they get or
Speaker 1: third and two rather they get eight chan motion out
Speaker 1: of the backfield into the flat, and you wind up
Speaker 1: with the linebacker chasing him. And it's easy pitch and catch,
Speaker 1: exploit that man coverage, decipher pre snap, exploit it after
Speaker 1: the snap to a very decisive just was playing on
Speaker 1: time and in rhythm and moving guys with a manipulation.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait to come back and watch this tape. He
Speaker 1: comes back and Durham smythe for another first down on
Speaker 1: this drive, and then Miami kind of bogged down with
Speaker 1: a couple of penalties. So the first drive and now
Speaker 1: the third drive both had penalties kind of pushed them
Speaker 1: back off their track and off of their you know,
Speaker 1: their schedule. They were staying on early in the game.
Speaker 1: And they have to kick a field goal here, but
Speaker 1: it goes through the uprights ten nothing, and the way
Speaker 1: the defense is playing, I mean, that was all they
Speaker 1: were gonna need in this one, because the Jets on
Speaker 1: the very next series they go three and out once again,
Speaker 1: where David Long and Christian Wilkins I thought in addition
Speaker 1: to Bradley Chubb, were not just two of the best
Speaker 1: players on the field today, two of the best performances
Speaker 1: with Chubb, So I should say three three of the
Speaker 1: best performances I've seen from Dolphins defenders all year long.
Speaker 1: David Long was so fast and so quick and so
Speaker 1: deconstructing blocks in a almost perfect kind of way. He
Speaker 1: was dominant Christian Wilkins, whether it was front side flow, backside,
Speaker 1: break back from the running back, he was all over
Speaker 1: the place. Pass rush, he shuts this first play down,
Speaker 1: you get Bradley Chubb who oversets Makai Beckton then wins
Speaker 1: right inside for an easy sack on Zach Wilson. They
Speaker 1: draw it on third and twenty four, ball right back
Speaker 1: to Miami, but the Dolphins go three and out and
Speaker 1: kick the football back to the Jets. And this is
Speaker 1: actually kind of funny because there was a sack on
Speaker 1: third and three which the Jets went cover zero and
Speaker 1: Miami was empty. So once the first or second read's
Speaker 1: not there for that, the pressure's going to arrive because
Speaker 1: they had zero pressure. Is zero coverage and simulated pressure
Speaker 1: up at the lion of scrimmage. And I told seth
Speaker 1: this in the press box. I said, that's actually a
Speaker 1: good sack because Tua didn't force that. We stayed, you know,
Speaker 1: on the plus side of the field and the way
Speaker 1: this game is going to go, manage the game the
Speaker 1: way you expect your defense to play as well. And
Speaker 1: then we get down to the postgame radio for it,
Speaker 1: and OJ's talking about these good sacks that Tua took.
Speaker 1: And then we get to the press, the postgame press conference,
Speaker 1: and McDaniel says, that's one of the best sacks that
Speaker 1: Tuoa could take right there because of the fact that
Speaker 1: he's not forcing the ball into pressure and you know,
Speaker 1: throwing the ball into this tight coverage. And I want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and play the audio because we were
Speaker 1: all in lockstep and thinking that Tua, because of the
Speaker 1: university he's faced this season and the decisions he's made
Speaker 1: and kind of that rollodex of plays in the back
Speaker 1: of his mind, one of the smartest quarterbacks we've ever
Speaker 1: been around, right, A guy that can tell you what
Speaker 1: the route combination, the pressure in the front, and the
Speaker 1: protection on his Alabama Devonte Smith game winning touchdown passing
Speaker 1: the National Championship. He can recall all that for you now,
Speaker 1: what is it eight years after the fact. So this
Speaker 1: is a quarterback that can process that stuff very quickly.
Speaker 1: So he's able to take his lessons earlier in the
Speaker 1: year and apply him to critical situations in a key
Speaker 1: December football game against a division opponent. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and play some audio here from McDaniel, who touched on
Speaker 1: Tua's performance. He was asked about not just the outside
Speaker 1: noise that Tua had heard this week, because if you're
Speaker 1: on social media, you hear it. But we know that
Speaker 1: TWOA is not on social media. But McDaniel was asked
Speaker 1: about the outside noise and the questioning of his performances,
Speaker 1: and he eventually gets to this thought about to his
Speaker 1: growth as a player. Let's go ahead and show this
Speaker 1: audio here with coach talking about the sacks being ultimately
Speaker 1: probably a good thing.
Speaker 2: It's not like we talk about that, but noise is loud.
Speaker 4: You embrace adversity for the opportunity that it is.
Speaker 2: But it did far from surprise me. I could tell
Speaker 2: all week.
Speaker 4: You know there are certain things that him, in particular
Speaker 4: him and Jalen Waddell were doing together that I knew
Speaker 4: they were going to be able to do. Some explosive stuff,
Speaker 4: and he really did a great job playing within the play.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of times that there was a shot
Speaker 4: down the field. I think on the two sacks, if
Speaker 4: he would have had a a tick longer, he probably
Speaker 4: would have thrown the ball, but it would have been
Speaker 4: he would have been pressing to do it. And you know,
Speaker 4: so I was really tired of about his sacks, to
Speaker 4: be honest. And you know, I think I think you're
Speaker 4: what we're watching as a team is a bunch of
Speaker 4: young players really coming into their own and he's one
Speaker 4: of the primary ones to is because he's he's not
Speaker 4: he's learning from everything. It doesn't mean everything goes well. Again,
Speaker 4: I think that's fake and that that that would make
Speaker 4: me nervous if at this point in the season we
Speaker 4: hadn't gone through adversity, just because I know what is coming.
Speaker 2: So oh, I think that it was a.
Speaker 4: Great example of him worried about the right stuff, which
Speaker 4: is his responsibility each and every play, and he was.
Speaker 4: He definitely commanded the game entirely.
Speaker 1: So it's not it's not points, but it's not a turnover. Right,
Speaker 1: So the Jets get the football back again deep in
Speaker 1: their own zone, and once again the Dolphins just continue
Speaker 1: to collapse the pocket with Bradley Chubb inside outside, going
Speaker 1: on stunts, rushing one on one. It just didn't matter.
Speaker 1: They could not block the guy. And then Zach Steeler
Speaker 1: finishes the drive off with a sack of his own
Speaker 1: where he just walked the left guard all the way
Speaker 1: into the quarterback and then once it was time to
Speaker 1: make the play, toss him aside and go get the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Like this front did whatever they wanted to do all
Speaker 1: game long, and it was a blast to watch. And
Speaker 1: then Miami pays it off just one play later because
Speaker 1: Quinn Williams was doing the Wattle sack dance or the
Speaker 1: Wattle touchdown dance on his sack. Should have done that,
Speaker 1: my friend, because one play later Miami dials up a shot.
Speaker 1: It's two on a sixty yard dime, and this thing
Speaker 1: was let go as Waddle makes this double move break, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, let's just's pull this back a little bit,
Speaker 1: because I've talked about this to people that I talked
Speaker 1: to in my group chat, I've talked about it on
Speaker 1: the postgame pregame radio, I've talked about it hearing the podcast.
Speaker 1: Anybody that wants to hear about it. I can show
Speaker 1: you tape and this goes back to Wattle's rookie ga
Speaker 1: when I thought that he had some yards left on
Speaker 1: the field, just because of the circumstances, and it's not
Speaker 1: anybody's fault. Sometimes the pressure look forces the ball out hot,
Speaker 1: and because Waddle runs one of his best routes of
Speaker 1: the game, on that look, you don't get a chance
Speaker 1: to see him catch a sixty yard touchdown pass because
Speaker 1: the ball had to come out to durham Smyth hot
Speaker 1: on a check from Tua. Not this time, Not this time.
Speaker 1: The deallop a shot play to Waddle, who makes an
Speaker 1: excellent double move and Tua uncorks this thing before he
Speaker 1: makes that double move and the ball just lands right
Speaker 1: and stride. Speaking of the DeVante Smith touchdown pass in
Speaker 1: the National Championship game, I mean, you couldn't handled this
Speaker 1: thing to Wattle any better right down the field, big strike,
Speaker 1: sixty yards and a touchdown. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: from McDaniel on that play.
Speaker 4: There's not many people that could cover the route that
Speaker 4: Jalen Wattle ran because it's not many people that are
Speaker 4: capable of.
Speaker 2: Going vertical.
Speaker 4: He did a left right move and then still found
Speaker 4: an exit angle, which is a very hard thing to do.
Speaker 4: So we really like the player, the matchup, and you know,
Speaker 4: just kind of the way those two were connecting all
Speaker 4: week was that was pretty easy to call.
Speaker 1: And then at seventeen to nothing right there, right before
Speaker 1: the halftime break, and the Jets get the football back
Speaker 1: and once again it's pretty quickly back to the sideline
Speaker 1: because they did convert on illegal contact play. But then
Speaker 1: you get an Elijah Campbell pass breakup, showing range from
Speaker 1: his deep half responsibility at safety. All the guys played great.
Speaker 1: Brand Jones got two picks in the game, by the way,
Speaker 1: taking his career hot career total to three picks this season.
Speaker 1: Great to see him bounce to come out and get
Speaker 1: a chance to start the game and really play well.
Speaker 1: And then third and twelve you got David Long chasing
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson backwards towards his own goal. Polls like every
Speaker 1: play was like run backwards and try to make something happen.
Speaker 1: And because he left the pocket, he raises an illegal
Speaker 1: contact call they had made. Picked up the flag, put
Speaker 1: it back in your pocket, punt the ball back after
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogbass sack on the previous play, So the Dolphins
Speaker 1: get the football right back and now you have a
Speaker 1: chance to go basically not win the game, but put
Speaker 1: it really out of reach right. Four scorers at halftime
Speaker 1: for an offense that's struggling is a lot to overcome,
Speaker 1: and you get three conversions with Tua on third down
Speaker 1: third and three, a slant, a dart to Waddle for
Speaker 1: an additional first down, and fifteen yards because of a
Speaker 1: late hit on Wattle. You get a third and six
Speaker 1: dot to Burios on the perimeter, who makes a great
Speaker 1: lunging catch up over his head. Also had a great
Speaker 1: day return of the football today on kicks Braxon Burios did.
Speaker 1: Then third and seven on the plus three two, Tua
Speaker 1: hits what I think was maybe his best throw of
Speaker 1: the day besides the deep shot where he's got pressure
Speaker 1: right in his face, kind of has to adjust the
Speaker 1: feet and you see him. You'll see some quarterbacks bring
Speaker 1: the plant leg up when they throw like a arm
Speaker 1: like dropped the arm angle to three quarters or sign
Speaker 1: on angle in terms of their release point, and Tua
Speaker 1: shifts the feet with pressure in his face to help
Speaker 1: him protect himself from the big hit after the throw
Speaker 1: and the throw is right between two Jets defenders on
Speaker 1: waddle on the money, big run after the catch, huge play.
Speaker 1: You get a thirteen yard round from Moster and then
Speaker 1: you get a first in goal and Durham Smyth seals
Speaker 1: the edge for ahem Moster for his second touchdown of
Speaker 1: the game, and real quick. I gave a game ball
Speaker 1: to Durham Smyth in the postgame radio show because four
Speaker 1: catches for thirty two is cool, but that dude destroyed
Speaker 1: the Jets edge in the running game all game long.
Speaker 1: He's had a great season. He's had a great career
Speaker 1: here with the Miami Dolphins, especially these last two years
Speaker 1: under Mike McDaniel. I thought today was one of his
Speaker 1: best games. I cannot wait to watch his tape because
Speaker 1: I think he was fantastic. So first half twenty four
Speaker 1: to nothing, not too bad, right, Dolphins taken it to
Speaker 1: the Jets. Let's go ahead and take a break right here,
Speaker 1: come back and finish up the second half. Do the
Speaker 1: five big picture takeaways. We have a bunch more audio
Speaker 1: from McDaniel, Tua, and Raheem Moster all that. Next Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation second half kicking off here on the Sunday
Speaker 1: night Monday morning recap edition of the Drive Time podcast,
Speaker 1: and man, it just kind of flew by. The game
Speaker 1: was less than three hours. Trevor Simeon checks into the
Speaker 1: game and he gets sacked on his first third and ten,
Speaker 1: So nothing happening there that was on the other side
Speaker 1: of the break. I should say, they get the football
Speaker 1: to start the second half, and you get a couple
Speaker 1: of catches to move the chains for Garrett Wilson his
Speaker 1: first catches of the game. But then Jalen Ramsey, who
Speaker 1: will talk about more in a second, makes just a
Speaker 1: crazy athletic play on third and seventeen where Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: ran a really good out route and Ramsey and I
Speaker 1: was explaining this to OJ after the game. We watched
Speaker 1: the we watched the highlight of this play, and Ramsey
Speaker 1: like he's moving towards the play, like towards the football
Speaker 1: while he's like in the middle of that pivot like
Speaker 1: opening the gate type of steps, So he's functioning two
Speaker 1: different operations at once. Does that make sense? If you've
Speaker 1: ever played any type of instrument or music, try to
Speaker 1: play a guitar and sing it at the same time.
Speaker 1: Like those two tunes. If they're not the same, it
Speaker 1: feels like a much advanced version of rubbing your belly
Speaker 1: and patting your head. Remember that old game as a kid.
Speaker 1: Ramsey's ability to move is like that. It's rare, it's freaky.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I can't explain it, obviously, I'm struggling
Speaker 1: here on the podcast. So the Dolphins get that pass breakup,
Speaker 1: get right off the field. They go kick a field
Speaker 1: goal to make it twenty seven nothing. We get a pick,
Speaker 1: a Brandon Jones pick right short of the end zone
Speaker 1: helps preserve the shutout at this point, kick another field
Speaker 1: goal to make it thirty to nothing, and then we
Speaker 1: get a fumble. A Bradley Chubb explosive play off the
Speaker 1: edge to have his sixth force fumble of the years
Speaker 1: leads the National Football League to get the football right
Speaker 1: back to Miami once again. In plus territory. Chubb had
Speaker 1: himself a day three sacks on the game for Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and play some audio here
Speaker 1: from Mike McDaniel on one of his star pass rushers
Speaker 1: who went off with seven total tackles, three sacks in
Speaker 1: the game, and two forced fumbles. Here's McDaniel on Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 4: You know, so often you are trying to take yourself
Speaker 4: to another level, and you're inspired to take your game
Speaker 4: to another level, and you kind of have to realize
Speaker 4: that it's the work that you do day and day
Speaker 4: out and nothing has to change on game day. You
Speaker 4: have to be yourself. Yourself is absolutely good enough. You
Speaker 4: don't have to try and go above and beyond. You
Speaker 4: just have to be diligent and play with your teammates.
Speaker 2: So he's.
Speaker 4: You know, he's one of my favorite players on the
Speaker 4: team simply because of how important it is for him
Speaker 4: to do right by his teammates. And as you can
Speaker 4: see him, being him is plenty good enough.
Speaker 2: He was really really hard to block today.
Speaker 1: Dolphins get it back, punt it back, but then we
Speaker 1: get another Brandon Jones interception. Dolphins punt it back just
Speaker 1: to take the ball again, and it is the end
Speaker 1: of the game, right there. Truth be told for you guys.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the last couple of drive. Was making
Speaker 1: my way down to the fort to to the postgame
Speaker 1: radio show, A much better walk than last week when
Speaker 1: I'm walking through the concourse thinking, all right, we're ten
Speaker 1: and three, just beat the Titans, and I go back
Speaker 1: down there and watch the game play out into loss.
Speaker 1: So not very much fun there, But today, a totally
Speaker 1: different story. The team was so much fun to watch
Speaker 1: that game. The postgame radio show out in front of
Speaker 1: the Dan Marino statue there at the South Plaza, in
Speaker 1: front of the team store, just people with their brooms
Speaker 1: sweeping them up, Jets fans in dismay. What a blast
Speaker 1: that was. Man, there is nothing better than being there
Speaker 1: after a Dolphins victory. And I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and jump right in to the five takeaways because the
Speaker 1: game script pretty much over, you know, early fourth quarter, right,
Speaker 1: so run through that. Let's go ahead and talk about
Speaker 1: five big picture takeaways number one. And I talked about
Speaker 1: it all week. I tweeted about it before the game.
Speaker 1: Get out of your feelings, step up, and for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, be a man or be a woman,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Just be tough, right number one. This team
Speaker 1: is made of the right stuff, and they prove that
Speaker 1: with how they performed this game. Because there was never
Speaker 1: a question, never in doubt, how this game would turn out.
Speaker 1: And Miami just kept on coming and kept on bringing
Speaker 1: the good stuff. Short week, devastating loss. You heard all
Speaker 1: week about same old Dolphins, December collapse. The nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: four Dolphins will clearly have an impact on the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three Dolphins. I despise that thinking. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't care what happened even last year. It's not
Speaker 1: the same stuff at all. Down nine starters to injury,
Speaker 1: and you come out and you put twenty four in
Speaker 1: the first half on the Jets, You beat him thirty
Speaker 1: to nothing. You cumulatively beat him sixty four to thirteen,
Speaker 1: your biggest rival. Come on, how can you not love that?
Speaker 1: That's the best result possible. And the first half disparity
Speaker 1: was one hundred and ninety seven yards to four. They
Speaker 1: had four yards in the first half. They were negative
Speaker 1: yards at one point. Miami allowed just one rushing first
Speaker 1: down in the entire game, like utterly, utterly dominant. So pregame,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, there's a lot of guys who
Speaker 1: aren't playing in this one, right, But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who are playing in this game, like Tua
Speaker 1: Tongua bai Loa, who completed his first eleven passes of
Speaker 1: the game and posted a one to nineteen point four
Speaker 1: passer rating, which, by the way, remember when we did
Speaker 1: this on the Jets game the first time around about
Speaker 1: all these elite quarterbacks that and Robert saw A said
Speaker 1: this himself that we have quote unquote embarrassed. Do you
Speaker 1: know what Tua was today? Not just eleven for eleven,
Speaker 1: He was twenty one for twenty four with two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four yards, a touchdown and no picks, no turnovers,
Speaker 1: one hundred and nineteen point four passer rating. Like Mahomes, Herbert, Hertz, Allen,
Speaker 1: all these top line quarterbacks have all posted passer ratings
Speaker 1: under seventy against that Jets team to a one to
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty against a Jets defense that shout
Speaker 1: out C. J. Stroud and the Houston Texans last week.
Speaker 1: So Tua did that. Guys that also played in the
Speaker 1: game like a Jelian Wadle who had one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighteen yards in the first half and one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two total. In fact, he's now thirty six yard
Speaker 1: shy of becoming the first Miami Dolphin ever to have
Speaker 1: three consecutive one thousand yard seasons to begin his career.
Speaker 1: What a stud. Jalen Waddle is. Also had guys like
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, like Christian Wilkins, like Zach Seeler who can
Speaker 1: bind for four first half sacks in Miami had six
Speaker 1: total in the game. Dominant, dominant, dominant in every phase.
Speaker 1: You're still the two seed in the AFC. Now, hopefully
Speaker 1: we get a little bit healthier. I think the game
Speaker 1: came out okay. Austin Jackson had to exit the game
Speaker 1: and he looked like he was walking around. Possibly could
Speaker 1: have gone back in. Maybe if the game was closer,
Speaker 1: you had to Ron Armshead exit as well. But I
Speaker 1: think those guys came out of the game clean. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we see X back, Javon back, Rob huntback, Tyreek hillback
Speaker 1: to drop those four guys into a team like this,
Speaker 1: Come on, this team's made of the right stuff. They
Speaker 1: came ready to play, and they're gonna carry that the
Speaker 1: rest of the way and give you the best version
Speaker 1: of themselves heading into this run of kind of playoff
Speaker 1: games before the playoffs. Before we move on to the
Speaker 1: second takeaway, I want to hear from coach McDaniel on
Speaker 1: this team resolve what he saw all week long, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't have loved this more because what I say
Speaker 1: on the podcast all week long, I said it all
Speaker 1: year long, like watching some of the other teams around
Speaker 1: the league that are hovering around five hundred and it's
Speaker 1: a struggle to put together anything offensively. You just watched
Speaker 1: those games and watch the Dolphins games and you can see,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's what the two thousand and nine Dolphins
Speaker 1: looked like. That in the twenty twenty three Dolphins. That's
Speaker 1: different type of competitiveness and you'll can different type of
Speaker 1: quality of team. You're looking at here, right, So use
Speaker 1: your eyeballs and see what the game tells you. And
Speaker 1: one of McDaniel had him believing that this team could
Speaker 1: bounce back and show the resolve they did to his eyeballs.
Speaker 4: I'm just having my eyes open for the entirety of
Speaker 4: the season. It's one thing that I mentioned to the
Speaker 4: team last night. What what's given me confidence is how
Speaker 4: they've responded to adversity throughout the season. We've had four losses,
Speaker 4: and it was just a point of emphasis from the
Speaker 4: year previous where our losses came in streaks. We've had
Speaker 4: four losses. The previous three were one game, losing streaks.
Speaker 4: So there's a there's a lot of character in in
Speaker 4: the locker room. There's a lot of character just in
Speaker 4: the organization. They've been really going after it, the players,
Speaker 4: coaches and support staff every day, treating it like it's
Speaker 4: the most important day. So football is not a game
Speaker 4: of avoiding adversity, or it's not a game of uh,
Speaker 4: you go through a season and you don't have things
Speaker 4: happen to you.
Speaker 2: It's actually quite the opposite.
Speaker 4: You need to have things happen to you to grow
Speaker 4: and be able to handle, you know, some of the
Speaker 4: moments that come in December. So there there's there's a
Speaker 4: litany of individuals in that locker room and beyond that
Speaker 4: gave me absolute confidence that they would come and compete today.
Speaker 1: So you know how earlier in the podcast, we talked
Speaker 1: about McDaniel praising Tua for not forcing the ball and
Speaker 1: taking sacks and situations where the sack is the best option.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and throw the audio here to Tua
Speaker 1: because he touched on the same thing. And I just
Speaker 1: love how lockstep and together these guys are with their thinking.
Speaker 1: That's the recipe for success. Man, you're head coaching your
Speaker 1: quarterback being this lock in lockstep.
Speaker 3: The protection did did really well, I would say on Monday,
Speaker 3: with the things that had happened, you know, with guys
Speaker 3: going down and then others having to step up, it
Speaker 3: was a good rep for me that throughout this entire
Speaker 3: the entirety of the season, you know, things like that
Speaker 3: hadn't happened, and we needed just a little bit more time.
Speaker 3: So as we went throughout practice this week, we we
Speaker 3: knew what what we were up with. And really it's
Speaker 3: it's just that it's trusting the guy next to you
Speaker 3: is trusting that you know, hey, one guy might have
Speaker 3: lost on this play, but don't think that they're gonna
Speaker 3: lose on the you know, the next next time we
Speaker 3: call that play, just just trust that they'll they'll make
Speaker 3: that block. And that's really the mentality that not just
Speaker 3: not just me that I came in with, but everyone
Speaker 3: came in with.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number two is brief because I touched on it already,
Speaker 1: but to it without Tyreek narratives, right, they're fun. They
Speaker 1: change every single week in the landscape that is media
Speaker 1: and coverage and fans, and ultimately we shouldn't complain about that.
Speaker 1: And someone in my position, because that stuff fuels the
Speaker 1: most popular sports league in the country. It fuels all
Speaker 1: the benefits we get from this league because of how
Speaker 1: profitable and how you know, fruitful football is and the
Speaker 1: engagement we get is what makes it that way. So
Speaker 1: shouldn't complain about it. But those narratives exist, and they
Speaker 1: change weekly because that's what drives talk shows. Six games
Speaker 1: between game, six days between games. I should say I
Speaker 1: get it, but they're silly because you generate a narrative
Speaker 1: off of one game, you wind up looking foolish because
Speaker 1: a process should include multiple data points and when just
Speaker 1: one game is never enough for that. But TUA can't
Speaker 1: compete without Tyreek, Right, the Dolphins offense is broken without
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. Consecutive completions to begin the game, never put
Speaker 1: the ball in harm's way, not even once. Three incomplete
Speaker 1: passes in the game, an absolute dot sixty yard touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to Waddell, who again showed you he can't get
Speaker 1: open deep converts three third downs in a two minute
Speaker 1: drive and sort of a kill opportunity. Right, if you
Speaker 1: go up twenty four to nothing and a half like
Speaker 1: that's tough to come back from. An offense of struggling,
Speaker 1: hit those critical third downs, super sharp with the football.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from two A real quick
Speaker 1: on playing this game without Tyreek Hill. And I love
Speaker 1: what he said here to Tyreek pregame. This is conference man.
Speaker 1: Confidence is brewing within this team.
Speaker 3: He was talking to Kyle, he was talking to Chris Greer.
Speaker 3: I went up to him and I told him, like, dude,
Speaker 3: if you can't go, we got you, brother. Like it's
Speaker 3: a team sport, like it's gonna take all it's gonna
Speaker 3: take all of us. And he said, I appreciate it,
Speaker 3: but you know, don't don't count me out yet. And
Speaker 3: you know, he made the decision, and you know it's
Speaker 3: tough because he's a competitor and he wants to be
Speaker 3: out there with the guys. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: with with not having him and to be able to
Speaker 3: put thirty thirty points and have a shutout by our defense,
Speaker 3: you know, I should.
Speaker 2: Tell you a lot about the.
Speaker 3: Team, really, the guys on all three aspects in three
Speaker 3: phases of the game.
Speaker 1: The Kyle that he mentioned there is Kyle Johnson, Dolphins
Speaker 1: head athletic trainer. All right, let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our last break. Right there. Come back on the other
Speaker 1: side and talk a little bit more about this game.
Speaker 1: Takeaways three through five. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Takeaways
Speaker 1: one and two in the books, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: do three through five. Number three is a game plan
Speaker 1: bounce back.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I've praised the job of the Titans last week and
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel and Shane Bowen and that entire staff, because
Speaker 1: I thought their defensive game plan was excellent and I
Speaker 1: thought Miami had a tough time adjusting to what they
Speaker 1: did to take away some of their top options by
Speaker 1: spamming the middle of the football field. And today Miami
Speaker 1: came back and just kind of used all that and
Speaker 1: took it to their advantage. Now, I think you have
Speaker 1: on tape stuff that shows you your opportunities and your
Speaker 1: abilities to stretch every blade of grass because the perimeter
Speaker 1: run game was cranking in this one. They found room
Speaker 1: off the edges and it wasn't like, you know, the
Speaker 1: big explosive plays. Thought some of the best players got
Speaker 1: called back on penalties actually, but they stressed the edge
Speaker 1: of the Jets running game to create opportunities by you know,
Speaker 1: stretching out the second level the defense, which creates more
Speaker 1: zone and the curl flat and the hook throws the
Speaker 1: quick passing game like you're down several guys on the
Speaker 1: offensive line right your left guard, center, and right guard
Speaker 1: are not your typical starters at those positions, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to do that for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: at at least two of those spots. But the quick
Speaker 1: game to get the ball out of the quarterback's hand
Speaker 1: to kind of negate the reps those guys have against
Speaker 1: those elite pass rushers and minimize them. I should say
Speaker 1: the shot played on the quick change to wild down
Speaker 1: the field the pressure packages from Vic Fangio. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to go look at the film and the numbers
Speaker 1: on the tape behind this one, because Fangio was in
Speaker 1: his back all game long. And how about Jalen Ramsey Man,
Speaker 1: my goodness, so he said after the game that he
Speaker 1: found out he was gonna shadow Garrett Wilson because exaving
Speaker 1: Howard's not playing typically those guys play one side of
Speaker 1: the field, and even kicked in to go cover Garrett
Speaker 1: Wilson inside when he was playing from the slot. First half,
Speaker 1: no targets for Garrett Wilson. He caught three for twenty
Speaker 1: four in the game. Jalen Ramsey is that dude. Man,
Speaker 1: He is that dude. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: Tua on the game plan of the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: With Mike, he he was just trying to get a
Speaker 3: feel off of how the defense wanted to play with
Speaker 3: ten being out, if they were going to pressure more,
Speaker 3: if they weren't, what the back.
Speaker 2: End was going to look like. And so I think in.
Speaker 3: That regards, he was just trying to trying to get
Speaker 3: the get the ball out as quickly as possible, because
Speaker 3: it also does help our.
Speaker 2: Guys up front.
Speaker 3: You know, it throws off the timing of the d
Speaker 3: lineman with where the spot is for the quarterback, and
Speaker 3: so yeah, I think that that was something that Mike
Speaker 3: had done really well in the game plan for today.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number four is that ferocious front man. They got
Speaker 1: after it all game long, all kinds of records and
Speaker 1: jaw dropping stats produced by this Dolphins defense. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pull up mister Brett KUIs and timeline because
Speaker 1: he had all the good stats for US twenty three
Speaker 1: rushing yards allowed are the lowest since twenty ten for
Speaker 1: Miami and the seventh fewest allowed in a game for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins defense of all time. Not too bad, right.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins also allowed one hundred and three total yards
Speaker 1: in the shoutout victory. That is the second lowest output
Speaker 1: allowed by a Dolphins defense in their entire history. It's
Speaker 1: also tied for the fourth fewest yards by a Jets
Speaker 1: game in their history. The Dolphins allowed just four rushing
Speaker 1: yards in the or fourth holl yards I should say,
Speaker 1: in the entire first half. It was the fewest yards
Speaker 1: allowed in an NFL game since twenty fifteen Broncos and Raiders.
Speaker 1: They held and they get a twelve yards in that game.
Speaker 1: Just utterly, utterly dominant man all game long. They brought
Speaker 1: this dominant stuff on defense and offense. Five sacks in
Speaker 1: the first half was the second time since two thousand
Speaker 1: Miami had five sacks in the first half of a game.
Speaker 1: The other one was the Dan Campbell game up in
Speaker 1: Tennessee in twenty fifteen. Just dominant by this Dolphins pass rush,
Speaker 1: I mean Bradley Chubb three sacks, Zack Seeler picks up
Speaker 1: a full sack. We had a half sack for Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Andrew Van Ginkle and Luke Riley and Emmanuel Ogba.
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, man, just dominant and like I said,
Speaker 1: you're down Jalen Phillips, You're down Jevon Holland, you're down
Speaker 1: to Shaun Elliott. The communication in the back end was
Speaker 1: just fine, no issues, no explosives in the entire game.
Speaker 1: I think there's one twenty one yard catch and run
Speaker 1: on a short throat to Xavier Gibson in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of the game. You're down at Xavier and Howard,
Speaker 1: You're down Jerome Baker like key parts and you dominate
Speaker 1: like this. That's impressive stuff. And takeaway number five. We
Speaker 1: saved the best for last because a certain someone is
Speaker 1: a new record holder in the Miami Dolphins organization. Before
Speaker 1: we get to Raheem Mostert on his records hitting day
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins twenty total touchdowns, eighteen rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear a lengthy McDaniel answer on
Speaker 1: his running back who you know means a lot to him.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the same thing that got him in the
Speaker 4: position to be on this team. You know, it's there's
Speaker 4: a lot of people on the team that have been
Speaker 4: told they couldn't and there's certain types of people that
Speaker 4: really thrive in those types of scenarios. Raheem was told
Speaker 4: he shouldn't have a NFL career from his first draft day.
Speaker 2: You know, you go undrafted.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's something that people don't really pay attention to,
Speaker 4: but that's a heartbreak. Then you had your cut from
Speaker 4: a multitude of teams that he's one of the you know,
Speaker 4: strongest willed in people that I've ever been around. And oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, he's a unique athlete, one that you know,
Speaker 4: I think second to Tyreek in sixteen he he he
Speaker 4: uh has he's the only other player to ever go
Speaker 4: twenty three miles an hour and he did it when
Speaker 4: he was like twenty eight or nine. So that's a
Speaker 4: different type of athlete with a different type of mindset.
Speaker 4: And just very happy for him. And the first thing
Speaker 4: he said to me after the game was, yeah, I
Speaker 4: know I got a game ball.
Speaker 2: Sorry, there's a nap.
Speaker 4: I got a game You know, you got a game
Speaker 4: ball for you know, setting a franchise record for touchdowns.
Speaker 4: And he immediately came to me and said, you know,
Speaker 4: every single player on the offense should get one because
Speaker 4: he he understands that for him to exhibit some of
Speaker 4: his h unique traits each and every play, people really
Speaker 4: have to grind for that to happen. I think a
Speaker 4: lot of our guys totally understand that at this point
Speaker 4: in the season, which is why you see inspired football.
Speaker 4: That's really fun to watch.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, go ahead, raheem, mister record holder.
Speaker 2: It feels amazing. You know.
Speaker 5: It's something that I didn't necessarily think I would ever do,
Speaker 5: especially with a guy like like Ricky Williams and the
Speaker 5: Russian touchdowns that and I didn't. I thought the world
Speaker 5: of them, you know, because me being from Florida, Uh,
Speaker 5: you watch certain players and and he was definitely a
Speaker 5: player that call at an early age. And so to
Speaker 5: be able to break his record and then mark Clayton's
Speaker 5: record as well, it speaks a lot.
Speaker 1: All Right, I have one last little treat for you guys.
Speaker 1: It's this bye Bye Bye bye with it, Bye Bye Street,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite calls in Dolphins history. To snap
Speaker 1: an eight game losing streak against the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: How cool? How fitting is it? The mister Florida boy
Speaker 1: himself for heem moster breaks breaks, Ricky Williams all time
Speaker 1: Dolphins rushing touchdown record against those Jets. That's the podcast.
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