Speaker 1: To on the move, going deep speedways Peace do hell
Speaker 1: peas from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my adnds in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis wing feldon on today's show.
Speaker 2: Don't it just feel good? Don't it just feel good?
Speaker 1: Waits twin win win win win. Yeah, everything goes win win, win, win.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what the Dolphins did on Monday night
Speaker 3: football in a primetime spot against a good football team,
Speaker 3: a red hot Rams team that had won three straight
Speaker 3: coming in. That was the conversation of this team that
Speaker 3: could pop up in the second half of the season
Speaker 3: and go on a tear and be a problem for
Speaker 3: the rest of the teams in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: But tonight, the Miami Dolphins were not the rest of
Speaker 3: the National Football League. They came out and gave the
Speaker 3: Rams their best punch and took it to him wire
Speaker 3: to wire with a twenty three to fifteen win on
Speaker 3: the road in prime time. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 3: to the five big picture takeaways. The game script and
Speaker 3: a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health
Speaker 3: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 3: Maybe it just feels good to get a big dub.
Speaker 3: It feels good to do the radio show with Seth
Speaker 3: and OJ after a big win, to walk down the
Speaker 3: stairs there at the iHeart Studios into our cars or
Speaker 3: out to our cars, I should say, after a victory,
Speaker 3: because we haven't had that opportunity very many times this season.
Speaker 3: And despite all of that, your boy is feeling awfully,
Speaker 3: awfully optimistic about where this team can go. Because I
Speaker 3: think you didn't quite get the complimentary nature of this
Speaker 3: team tonight that you had seen earlier in the year,
Speaker 3: or maybe that we had been striving four all year,
Speaker 3: because it does feel at times like this team trades off.
Speaker 3: You know, here's the offense playing their best ball, here's
Speaker 3: the defense not playing their best ball. And next week,
Speaker 3: for a fun surprise, we'll twist that up on you
Speaker 3: and make it a barn Burner game down to the wire,
Speaker 3: which is kind of how the National Football League works.
Speaker 3: But as a Dolphins fan, you'd kind of like to
Speaker 3: see him put it all together for a game. And
Speaker 3: I do think that time is coming, because what do
Speaker 3: we get on Monday night that we haven't gone the
Speaker 3: last two weeks, A swarming, swarming defensive effort. As the
Speaker 3: Dolphins hold the Rams to just one for ten on
Speaker 3: third down, they keep them out of the end zone,
Speaker 3: and they hold them checking the yards here to three
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty seven yards of total offense. They were
Speaker 3: three for twelve on third downs. I should say they're
Speaker 3: one for ten. At one point. They got two in
Speaker 3: that final drive when they kicked the field goal that
Speaker 3: I thought they should have thrown into the endzon one
Speaker 3: more time. But I digress from that point. And the
Speaker 3: total stats from this game Rams twenty first downs Miami
Speaker 3: fifteen Dolphins. This is where the game was won. Six
Speaker 3: for thirteen on third downs versus three for twelve. Neither
Speaker 3: team went for it on a fourth down. Miami only
Speaker 3: had two hundred and thirty eight yards of total offense
Speaker 3: in this game, just one seventy one through the air
Speaker 3: sixty seven on the ground. The Rams had the three
Speaker 3: to twenty seven, two fifties seven through the air and
Speaker 3: seventy on the ground. They did run fifteen more plays
Speaker 3: than Miami did and some turnovers in the middle part
Speaker 3: of the game kind of impacted that a little bit.
Speaker 3: But the Dolphins give it away twice, they get it
Speaker 3: back twice from the Rams that both teams got after
Speaker 3: the quarterback. Three sacks for the Rams, four sacks for
Speaker 3: the Dolphins up front. And here's maybe the best at
Speaker 3: of the entire game. The Dolphins had one penalty, and
Speaker 3: it was a special team's foul on on sportsmanlike conduct
Speaker 3: for not coming back into the field of play soon enough,
Speaker 3: which Seth and Ojin I were talking like, why is
Speaker 3: that a fifteen yard penalty when holdings only ten yards.
Speaker 3: We're not going to get into the rule book and
Speaker 3: the whys of what that is, but it's the only
Speaker 3: penalty the Dolphins have on the entire night. No offensive flags,
Speaker 3: no defensive flags, and when you do that, you put
Speaker 3: yourself in position to to win a lot of football games.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened here for the Dolphins. We kick
Speaker 3: it off opening drive. How great was that? By the way,
Speaker 3: five plays seventy yards took three minutes off the clock.
Speaker 3: I missed those quick touchdown strikes and it was what
Speaker 3: you saw last year, the great drive starter on the
Speaker 3: glance to waddle for twenty yards where they run riek
Speaker 3: down the middle of the field and that attracts, you know,
Speaker 3: a deep third player to basically get some deeper depth
Speaker 3: and to create the opening that Wattle ran into for
Speaker 3: that glance for twenty yards. Then you get a couple
Speaker 3: of negative plays, or rather one negative play and an
Speaker 3: incomplete pass that creates a third and thirteen. But Tua,
Speaker 3: as he did all night long, and was what kind
Speaker 3: of the story of this game. He was five of
Speaker 3: six throwing on the move, he was seven for eight
Speaker 3: throwing outside of the pocket, and those were for some
Speaker 3: big explosive plays. And it kicked off early where he
Speaker 3: attacked Lione Scrimmage after getting away from initial pressure, initial surge.
Speaker 3: And granted, he is not Tuscaloosa Tua anymore, where he's
Speaker 3: going to be making all those moves in the open
Speaker 3: field and dutch ducking and dodging and moving around guys
Speaker 3: to you know, create big explosive runs. But he can
Speaker 3: move around enough to put himself in better situations to
Speaker 3: attack with his arm, and that's exactly what happened on
Speaker 3: this thirty six yard ball to Waddle where Wattle got
Speaker 3: turned free, and it was because two was able to
Speaker 3: create extra time with his legs after initial surge and
Speaker 3: initial pressure and get up towards land. Scrimmage didn't cross
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. We don't need you running. On
Speaker 3: third and thirteen, Tua, he finds the deep throw down
Speaker 3: the field and hits him. And then you come right
Speaker 3: back with Malik Washington for eighteen yards on that end
Speaker 3: around with a great block down the field from River Craycraft,
Speaker 3: some good work off the edge from the tight ends
Speaker 3: as well as Kendall Lamb who filled in for Austin
Speaker 3: Jackson in this game. And the Dolphins are on the
Speaker 3: board three minutes of the game, seven zip, and they
Speaker 3: come out defensively quick three and out for the Rams
Speaker 3: where they get pressure off the edge from Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 3: and that forces Matthew Stafford to throw this like looping
Speaker 3: screen over the top of him. And who is there
Speaker 3: besides mister Weiser himself, Zach Seeler, who cuts this play
Speaker 3: down for a ten yard loss, and it ruins the
Speaker 3: entire drive because you forced check down, rally up and
Speaker 3: tackle on third down. And what a perfect start for
Speaker 3: the Dolphins. But then it's not so perfect from the
Speaker 3: offensive perspective, a three play drive that goes six seconds,
Speaker 3: and it was two disjointed throws were to a threw
Speaker 3: to like receivers that weren't ready for the ball or
Speaker 3: looked like it was some sort of miscommunication where the
Speaker 3: ball goes to like just a space on the field
Speaker 3: that's not occupied by a Miami Dolphin. And you know,
Speaker 3: Juice has mentioned this a few times during the games,
Speaker 3: even the postgame show, how sometimes it looks like the
Speaker 3: Dolphins have multiple routes into the same area of the field,
Speaker 3: which I know it's not designed that way because that's
Speaker 3: literally what the coaches work, you know, one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty hour weeks to do, is to create spacing on offense.
Speaker 3: But it's happened a few times and you start to wonder, like,
Speaker 3: can we get better spacing on some of these routes
Speaker 3: because eventually you're gonna run somebody into a pick. And
Speaker 3: there was a play where Waddle took an inside release
Speaker 3: and then threw an out to Johona Smith and it
Speaker 3: brought the cloud corner into that part of the field. Like,
Speaker 3: have to find a way to create better space, And
Speaker 3: that's why I thought happened on this drive just a
Speaker 3: three play, no yard, six second drive. That's where you
Speaker 3: get hit for the fifteen yards and an unsportsmanlike on
Speaker 3: Sir ran Neil for not getting back onto the field,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden after your touchdown and then
Speaker 3: three and out start, the Rams are trolling by a
Speaker 3: touchdown and have the ball just a yard shy of midfield,
Speaker 3: but the defense once again three plays minus nine yards
Speaker 3: and a buck thirty off the clock. And I wanted
Speaker 3: to point this out because I talked about it heavily
Speaker 3: on the pregame show. We saw our first bare front
Speaker 3: of the night, and you get basically free runs from
Speaker 3: the linebackers because ninety two ninety five that's Banninito Jones
Speaker 3: and Zach Sigler and ninety three Kalayis Campbell didn't give
Speaker 3: an inch of ground. And for those that didn't listen
Speaker 3: to the Thursday pregame show, a barefront is just a
Speaker 3: head up over the guard, tackle and guard. You're essentially
Speaker 3: trying to reduce the number of gaps in space. They
Speaker 3: have to run off those inside gaps by putting more
Speaker 3: bodies up front than they can handle. And we got that,
Speaker 3: and then you get a sack from Klayus Campbell. This
Speaker 3: or rather a bat pass from Klays Campbell, I should
Speaker 3: say that creates a third and ten. And then in
Speaker 3: comes Chop Robinson for his second sack in as many weeks,
Speaker 3: and he plays the five technique and it looks to
Speaker 3: me like they try to run a game off of that,
Speaker 3: but it also speaks to CHOP's quickness and how they
Speaker 3: want to create situations where he can have space. Because
Speaker 3: on this particular front, Kalaias Campbell was the one technique,
Speaker 3: but he was to the left side of the formation,
Speaker 3: and Chopp was the only hand in the dirt rusher
Speaker 3: defensive lineman that was lined up on the right side
Speaker 3: of the offensive center. And you did see Campbell loop
Speaker 3: off of the slant inside from Chop initially, but Chopp
Speaker 3: got there so quickly that he just got up field
Speaker 3: and pursued the quarterback and gotten down for a sack
Speaker 3: and wins that way. So I think that Chop there's
Speaker 3: still some things in his game that has to be
Speaker 3: cleaned up. Obviously he's a rookie, but he's coming on man,
Speaker 3: and I wish we had our full array of guys
Speaker 3: out there, because I think that Chop in that kind
Speaker 3: of third role behind JP and beach Hub fully healthy
Speaker 3: would maximize his skill set. But maybe you're getting a
Speaker 3: baptism by fire where he's learning a little bit quicker
Speaker 3: than he would have otherwise. And I think you're seeing
Speaker 3: the fruits of that labor show up here little bit.
Speaker 3: So they'd ato get the football back, but they go
Speaker 3: six plays, sixteen yards and punt it back after four
Speaker 3: minutes of possession, where it was again. I saw some
Speaker 3: complaints about the Dolphins pass run game a balance, but like,
Speaker 3: what did you want.
Speaker 2: Them to do?
Speaker 3: Because it was basically consistent runs into the wall for
Speaker 3: like one in two yards and created these third down
Speaker 3: and longs all night long. In fact, on the six
Speaker 3: conversions the Dolphins had, their average yards to gain on
Speaker 3: those third downs was nine point eighty three yards. Now, luckily,
Speaker 3: your quarterback made some really good plays on situations to
Speaker 3: cover up for the lack of run game and for
Speaker 3: some of his own errors earlier in the game, which
Speaker 3: we will get to. But the running game early on
Speaker 3: it wasn't working. You ran the ball twenty two times
Speaker 3: for just sixty seven yards. Like I like a coach
Speaker 3: that sees that's not working, that way and we have
Speaker 3: this great passing game, like, let's do that instead, Like
Speaker 3: it's nice to have the balance, but if it's not there,
Speaker 3: it ain't there.
Speaker 2: So they punted the ball back.
Speaker 3: And this is where Tua, you know, had thrown a
Speaker 3: nice little check down the Raheem Moster who made a
Speaker 3: man miss at the sticks and converted and moved the
Speaker 3: chains and that it felt like a big play because
Speaker 3: the crowd was ramping up getting behind their defense. But
Speaker 3: then you go right back to the running game and
Speaker 3: it's a negative play. Is right has to bubble outside
Speaker 3: of a good edge by the Rams, And like you
Speaker 3: might look at some of these plays and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins offensive line, it was their fault and to
Speaker 3: your point, to your credit, like this was a step
Speaker 3: back for the Dolphins offensive line.
Speaker 2: I will caution against this.
Speaker 3: It is very difficult to replace players in game in
Speaker 3: the system and get the same production. I think we
Speaker 3: saw it for the Rams. And this goes back to
Speaker 3: Austin Jackson missing the game as well, so you were
Speaker 3: down your right tackle. Kendall Lamb comes into the game,
Speaker 3: but at least he had all week to work at
Speaker 3: that position. But Lester Cotton playing left guard for Rob Jones,
Speaker 3: who left the game with an injury and did not return.
Speaker 3: Like it's tough to get offensive lineman on the same
Speaker 3: track that quickly, and that's why I think the Rams
Speaker 3: had some issues up front because they were working back
Speaker 3: Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson, who were a big draft
Speaker 3: pick last year for a Villa, a big free agent
Speaker 3: acquisition for Jonah Jackson, but both those guys had missed
Speaker 3: serious time for the Rams this year. They get them
Speaker 3: both back in and their offense looked disjointed, and I
Speaker 3: think that that's a big part of why. So the
Speaker 3: Dolphins offensive line gonna have to find a way to
Speaker 3: get some of those things corrected, because we'll see what
Speaker 3: the report is on Rob Jones, and we obviously know
Speaker 3: Austin Jackson is going to miss at least the next
Speaker 3: three games, as this was the first game before going
Speaker 3: on IR. The injury is not believed to be season ending.
Speaker 3: But Austin Jackson was playing so good, and I think
Speaker 3: that his familiarity with Liam Miikenberg was help helping Liam
Speaker 3: play some of his best ball, because I thought Liam
Speaker 3: kind of got beat a few times tonight in this game.
Speaker 3: We'll do more on that in the All twenty two
Speaker 3: review on the podcast later tonight, because it's Tuesday morning
Speaker 3: to and talking to you right now, we'll have the
Speaker 3: All twenty two breakdown Tuesday evening for you guys. So
Speaker 3: that drive is a punt, the Rams take it back
Speaker 3: and then Anthony Walker gets a pick his first as
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphin five plays sixteen yard drive three mens eleven
Speaker 3: seconds off the clock. They get a couple of first
Speaker 3: down runs to take them right back into that midfield
Speaker 3: stripe area. But then I thought that, you know, we
Speaker 3: haven't done the play before the play very often this
Speaker 3: podcast since we haven't won many games. But there has
Speaker 3: been a couple of options within this game. But I
Speaker 3: think this is the best one because Anthony Walker again
Speaker 3: behind one of those tight fronts. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it was Barret tighter Eagle, it was basically guys jammed
Speaker 3: in trying to force this inside zone and man gap scheme.
Speaker 3: The Rams can pare off each other so well into
Speaker 3: different types of runs in the back to bubble and
Speaker 3: take his track elsewhere. Walker works behind that big front
Speaker 3: and shoots in there and with a great key and
Speaker 3: a great trigger and creates a third and seven, which
Speaker 3: then creates a klay As Campbell batted pass that creates
Speaker 3: an Anthony Walker interception. I feel like we've batted so
Speaker 3: many balls this year, and we did get the Cater
Speaker 3: Kohu pick in the Seattle game off of a batted pass,
Speaker 3: but I feel like we've sent so many footballs right
Speaker 3: up into the air and they just always seem to
Speaker 3: harmlessly fall to the ground.
Speaker 2: Not this one, though.
Speaker 3: Dolphins get off the field on a big time interception
Speaker 3: and turned out and paid off with a field goal
Speaker 3: on the other side, a five play, twenty two yard
Speaker 3: drive that takes two minutes off the clock, a fifty
Speaker 3: yard Jason Centers field goal, one of his three field
Speaker 3: goals of the night, two of those from fifty plus
Speaker 3: to help a Dolph and get into the win column.
Speaker 3: But we got our best surge of the night on
Speaker 3: this run at this point, with an eight chan inside
Speaker 3: run and he spins it back and hits a ten
Speaker 3: yard run. And then Jalen Wright comes into the game
Speaker 3: and it's like, Oh, it's going to be more of him,
Speaker 3: which you kind of recognized early on because Raheem Moster
Speaker 3: was returning kickoffs and didn't get a single carry in
Speaker 3: this football game. He would have a huge conversion on
Speaker 3: a third nineteen pass play. We'll talk about that here
Speaker 3: in a moment. But Jalen Wright comes into the game
Speaker 3: and it just wasn't really working for him. We saw
Speaker 3: Tanner Connor take that lead block around the outside and
Speaker 3: jialen Wright hit the lane and had a good run
Speaker 3: on that play. But for the most part, you were
Speaker 3: trying to replace, you know, alec Ingold's production. You're trying
Speaker 3: to work in new offensive lineman. The tight end position
Speaker 3: is still kind of work in progress in terms of
Speaker 3: their blocking game. So maybe not the best work by
Speaker 3: the Dolphins offense, but they found a way to get
Speaker 3: twenty three and a big win in this game. Obviously,
Speaker 3: on this play or on this drive, I should say,
Speaker 3: they create a third and two at the plus thirty
Speaker 3: one yard line, and like the Cowboys stadium white thing
Speaker 3: is a big deal right now in the news, and
Speaker 3: Waddle like was convinced that he he lost this ball
Speaker 3: in the Cunner didn't see it. The ball goes right
Speaker 3: through his hands, and I thought it was one of
Speaker 3: two was best throws the night because it was third
Speaker 3: and two and you run this little curl route at
Speaker 3: the sticks, which is where the defense's attention usually will go.
Speaker 3: And Tua like pumped and then hitched and like looks
Speaker 3: like he wanted to throw that curl to Tyreek, and
Speaker 3: it created the space as that cloud corner who could
Speaker 3: have sunk back into that coverage wound up driving up
Speaker 3: the field onto Reek's little curl route and that creates
Speaker 3: the sale in behind the little flag route in behind
Speaker 3: Tyreek for what could have been a fifteen to twenty
Speaker 3: yard conversion to waddle and been a first and ten
Speaker 3: in the red zone with a seven to zero lead. Instead,
Speaker 3: he drops the football. We kicked the field goal and
Speaker 3: go up ten zip. The defense pays it right back
Speaker 3: off with a five play ten yard drive three mints
Speaker 3: off the clock where you get a great tackle on
Speaker 3: special teams by Saran Neil and Chang Tindall to cut
Speaker 3: them down at the sixteen yard line. Ramsey makes a
Speaker 3: great play and the flat with a tackle coming from
Speaker 3: depth to get that play to the ground, and then
Speaker 3: Cater Kohu and Kendall Fuller had one of my the
Speaker 3: ferret plays the entire game where they swing this ball
Speaker 3: out to Cooper Cup and you see cater motion like
Speaker 3: stay outside, I got inside contained for you get the
Speaker 3: outside contained.
Speaker 2: And they get Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3: To the ground right away and get off the field
Speaker 3: the very next play, and then the Dolphins to get
Speaker 3: the ball back with a ten point lead, and they
Speaker 3: throw a pick where Tua just first of all, Jared
Speaker 3: Versus dumps von A Chan for a five yard loss
Speaker 3: where they tried that little motion rap with Julian Hill,
Speaker 3: but he overruns the big gap on the motion, and
Speaker 3: I can't blame Julian for that. I don't know whose
Speaker 3: fault it was. I don't care about fault really as
Speaker 3: much as I know some football fans do. But either way,
Speaker 3: he overran that gap. Whether it was timing of the
Speaker 3: snap or whatever it should have been, he just wasn't
Speaker 3: in a position to make that play. Jared verse beats
Speaker 3: him inside. It's a big loss, and then Tua throws
Speaker 3: like this fade away where you can tell he clearly
Speaker 3: thought that the linebacker that was mugged up just wasn't
Speaker 3: going to be part of the equation. And he peels
Speaker 3: back into that hook zone and makes an easy room
Speaker 3: service pick, undercutting the wattle.
Speaker 2: The throat to wattle. I just don't time.
Speaker 3: Two made a couple of those throws in this game,
Speaker 3: and it seems to be like a primetime thing, man,
Speaker 3: like he ain't doing that on Sundays.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what it was. It was just weird.
Speaker 3: And then the worst part about that was like, dude,
Speaker 3: get off, get out of the way. I don't let
Speaker 3: him score a touchdown, Like, you don't have to make
Speaker 3: a tackle to We don't need you.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do that, brother.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, Like I appreciate his commitment to,
Speaker 3: you know, being a football player and play into the fullest,
Speaker 3: but like, I don't want to see Two ever put
Speaker 3: a head on anybody ever again. So that was scary,
Speaker 3: but we've survived it. And then the Dolphins get the
Speaker 3: ball right back because the Rams fumble the football right
Speaker 3: back and Kendall Fuller recovers it. And by the way,
Speaker 3: how great was the block in the back call in
Speaker 3: the Rams, because maybe that changes the play call, maybe
Speaker 3: they go in and score earlier. But because of that,
Speaker 3: it's a one play, three yard drive where Kendall Fuller
Speaker 3: falls on a fumble. Dolphins get it right back and
Speaker 3: then they lose it right back on a four play
Speaker 3: negative three yard drive where I too threw again another
Speaker 3: nice ball, and Tyreek on that little drag route where
Speaker 3: he got on the move and in space and threw
Speaker 3: the ball right on the upfield shoulder leads him into
Speaker 3: a twelve yard run. After the catch, we lose some yards,
Speaker 3: and then it's third and thirteen. Jared Verse once again
Speaker 3: slants in with a power rush and Robert Jones gets
Speaker 3: ran over, loses his anchor, and then TWA does not
Speaker 3: put the football away. They get the strip sack and
Speaker 3: they recover. It can't have that happen, but Miami bows
Speaker 3: up on defense again, allowing a thirty four yard field
Speaker 3: goal after a six play twenty yard drive. Short play
Speaker 3: short play than we bow up on a really nice
Speaker 3: third down rush that made Stafford Hot throws into a
Speaker 3: well rotated coverage as Jordan Poyer flies up and is
Speaker 3: there for the stop. It's incomplete anyway, but I just
Speaker 3: love the way Miami blitzed and rotated to fill those
Speaker 3: vacancies from those blitzers all night long. So it's ten
Speaker 3: to three Dolphins. They punt the ball in their next
Speaker 3: drive five to play ten yards, and it's more of
Speaker 3: the same and two, it runs himself into a sack
Speaker 3: after getting into positive yardage, and I'm thinking, like, man,
Speaker 3: he was moving to his left, there was room there
Speaker 3: to roll, and he just like peeled back to his
Speaker 3: right and got ran right into his sack. And it
Speaker 3: was terrible decision making, and he put himself behind the
Speaker 3: chains and they have to punt the ball back. They
Speaker 3: do get a good punt from Jake Billy down to
Speaker 3: the nine yard line. The Rams take that drive eleven plays,
Speaker 3: fifty four yards and score a field goal on that drive.
Speaker 3: Before that drive, with two minutes and thirteen seconds left
Speaker 3: in the half, the Rams had fifty four yards and
Speaker 3: two turnovers and no third down conversions. They do get
Speaker 3: their checkdowns and some runs after the catch to create
Speaker 3: a fifty five yard field goal there before the half
Speaker 3: to make it a ten to six Dolphins lead at
Speaker 3: the break, just like it was last week in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and put a pennant right there, come
Speaker 3: back on the other side and do the second half
Speaker 3: of the game. Five big picture takeaways all that. Next
Speaker 3: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
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Speaker 2: So it's ten to six.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins have this narrow lead, and you're probably thinking
Speaker 3: to yourself, like, how are they going to find a
Speaker 3: way to let this game go by the wayside as
Speaker 3: they have the last three weeks, really ten point leads
Speaker 3: over Arizona and Indie. In the Buffalo game obviously not
Speaker 3: going we wanted it to, but this one didn't go
Speaker 3: that way. And it kicks off in the second half
Speaker 3: with a missed fifty seven yard field goal, a nine
Speaker 3: play thirty one yard drive, and again it's more of
Speaker 3: this like, you know, effort to Nakua for eighteen yards,
Speaker 3: they're starting to reset the line of scrimmage, you get
Speaker 3: two or three yards of pushback and then downhill leading
Speaker 3: from the running backs. I'm thinking like, ah, this this
Speaker 3: kind of has that game script that I'm a little
Speaker 3: bit terrified of, where they could just like milk things
Speaker 3: and you know, mount these second half drives that we
Speaker 3: have allowed the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But that's not what happened.
Speaker 3: And part of that was because they blew a snap
Speaker 3: and sent it over Matthew Stafford's head and that was
Speaker 3: kind of the case all night, and it was kind
Speaker 3: of nice to see somebody else have those issues because
Speaker 3: it seems to really only plag us, but Jordan Brooks
Speaker 3: is back there, who damn near had himself a pick
Speaker 3: six and a ball that got deflected. Damn Near gets
Speaker 3: this scoop on a fumble, but he winds up falling
Speaker 3: on Stafford from the twenty eight yard line back to
Speaker 3: the forty one. They do run a second downplay and
Speaker 3: get two yards, and you figure they're gonna put themselves
Speaker 3: back in position to go after a you know, a
Speaker 3: better field goal opportunity, and they do that with a
Speaker 3: little screen. But we're right there and cam Smith shuts
Speaker 3: down the nakoua screen for like a two yard gain
Speaker 3: and forces this fifty seven yard field goal where if
Speaker 3: he got five more yards, maybe the kick is good.
Speaker 2: But it's not. It's no good.
Speaker 3: And the Dolphins go down and get their cell, get
Speaker 3: themselves a touchdown to take a seventeen to six lead
Speaker 3: on a six play fifty three yard drive. And this
Speaker 3: is where Lester Cotton checked him, and I was worried
Speaker 3: about the offensive line at that point.
Speaker 2: But they get some.
Speaker 3: Positive plays, put themselves some plus territory. They get the
Speaker 3: second down, the shot play on second and eight, where
Speaker 3: I thought, like, okay, two is gonna wide up and
Speaker 3: take a shot. But the Rams defense played the shell
Speaker 3: all night long. They weren't gonna let anything get over
Speaker 3: their head. And he wisely takes the check down the
Speaker 3: durham smythe which creates a third and three, and you
Speaker 3: get this really good process, that's really good decision making
Speaker 3: to throw the ball right off the end break to
Speaker 3: John new Smith, who then catches it and just gets rolling.
Speaker 3: And why I was so pumped to sign this guy.
Speaker 3: A thirty three yard run all the way down to
Speaker 3: the one yard line, broke several tackles on the play,
Speaker 3: and then they dial up this really good play design
Speaker 3: where they've run this pistol run off the weak side
Speaker 3: of the formation behind the receiver crackback or down block
Speaker 3: that you've seen so many times from that nasty split
Speaker 3: when the receiver's in tight to the formation. They bluff
Speaker 3: this all the way to a play actions and Reeke
Speaker 3: goes for the block. He bluffs it, he deeks it
Speaker 3: and just kind of turns out to his left, shows
Speaker 3: his numbers with the quarterback and the balls right there,
Speaker 3: easy pitching catch.
Speaker 2: Dolphins touchdown.
Speaker 3: The Rams answer with a fifty two yard field goal,
Speaker 3: on an eleven play thirty nine yard drive. They got
Speaker 3: their first third down conversion of the game in this
Speaker 3: drive with four and a half minutes to go. It's
Speaker 3: Cooper Cup on that sick one handed catch he made
Speaker 3: with Cam Smith in pretty good shape right there. Then
Speaker 3: you get Ramsey blanketing Pokinakoula on a deep shot.
Speaker 2: Ran the route for him.
Speaker 3: But then they get completions in nakua back to back
Speaker 3: plays to get to the edge of the red zone.
Speaker 3: But then the Dolphins defense just kind of like said
Speaker 3: not today, like dou shall not pass brother a Deshaun
Speaker 3: han tackle for loss on second down. This was the
Speaker 3: other play before the play that I wanted to put
Speaker 3: in here, but the turnover for Walker and it being
Speaker 3: him on both plays kind of made that easier for me.
Speaker 3: But Deshaun ham blew in there. It was like second
Speaker 3: and three on the verge of the red zone. They're
Speaker 3: about to go make this a seventeen thirteen game or
Speaker 3: maybe seventeen fourteen. But he blows in there, gets a
Speaker 3: big TfL and then the Dolphins get this really well
Speaker 3: time blitz where Javon Holland comes screaming off the edge.
Speaker 3: Might have been the best Javon Holland game of the year,
Speaker 3: I think in this one. And you could hear Matt
Speaker 3: Stafford check to Louis Louis Louie, which typically is a
Speaker 3: slide to the left, and we backed out. The pressure
Speaker 3: to the left, brought the pressure off the right. They
Speaker 3: had no one to block Javon Holland. He comes in
Speaker 3: clean for a sack and they kicked the field goal
Speaker 3: seventeen to nine Dolphins. And this is where it's like
Speaker 3: the game kept going one score two score one score
Speaker 3: two score and credit Miami's offense a thirty seven yard
Speaker 3: field goal on this particular drive, eleven plays fifty one yards,
Speaker 3: took almost six minutes off the clock, and it began
Speaker 3: with the great Liam Flop, who is one of the
Speaker 3: greatest instigators in the entire national football the Liam Miikeenberg.
Speaker 3: He will start stuff and create that reaction and I
Speaker 3: love watching him do it. That's kind of his personality
Speaker 3: in general. It's my favorite thing about Liam, quite frankly.
Speaker 3: And it takes us all the way out to the
Speaker 3: forty five yard line. Then we get ourselves into a
Speaker 3: third and three at the plus forty eight after two
Speaker 3: yards to John who win five yards for an eight
Speaker 3: chan run where eight chan runs the arrow right into
Speaker 3: the arrow route would say, and Tua hits him right
Speaker 3: upfield on the outside shoulder for a big first down.
Speaker 3: Nice little shake by eight hand to get free. He's
Speaker 3: been a weapon as a receiver for this Dolphins offense.
Speaker 3: Two of them nearly gets picked off throwing the rail
Speaker 3: to tyreek where that could have been a killer man.
Speaker 3: It could have been you know, any points here makes
Speaker 3: it like, puts you in a pretty good spot and
Speaker 3: we need more yards and they burn a time out
Speaker 3: after that, and it's not looking good. Second and ten
Speaker 3: at thirty eight, Tua takes a sack on a four
Speaker 3: man rush and it's like, wow, this is back to
Speaker 3: that second quarter again. The negative players are stacking up.
Speaker 3: But then the play of the year for two a
Speaker 3: third and nineteen, just like the National championship game at Alabama,
Speaker 3: takes the big sack on second play on second down,
Speaker 3: makes the big play on third down. He wheels out
Speaker 3: of the sack, spins out to his right, and throws
Speaker 3: the ball back across his body a slice, a little
Speaker 3: dump throw to Raheem Moster who's free, and he rolls
Speaker 3: for twenty five yards. Great play by him and Raheem
Speaker 3: to get us not back into field goal range, but
Speaker 3: into scoring territory. Then we get ourselves A couple of
Speaker 3: runs sets up a third nine to twenty one yard line,
Speaker 3: and they were behind the chains and couldn't convert their
Speaker 3: two yard play for Waddle. A thirty seven yard Sanders
Speaker 3: field goal makes it twenty to nine. The Rams answer
Speaker 3: back with a field goal of their own to take
Speaker 3: it right down the field. Chunk completions to cup In
Speaker 3: Nakua and we lose Cater Kohou for a snap, but
Speaker 3: luckily he's back into the game, and you can see
Speaker 3: them going after our banged up secondary because Kendall Fuller
Speaker 3: had to exit with a concussion or concussion protocol, I
Speaker 3: should say. Nakua gets twenty three yards right after Cater
Speaker 3: goes down working on Siran Neil, and then we hold
Speaker 3: in the red zone and this is the point where
Speaker 3: there one for ten on third downs. Dolphins got three
Speaker 3: consecutive incomplete passes in that part of the field and
Speaker 3: force another field goal twenty twelve. And then I'm thinking
Speaker 3: to myself, you have like this is your forminut offense.
Speaker 3: You have to go score. Like we've seen this too
Speaker 3: many times over the years. The Dolphins have a like
Speaker 3: a two score lead and there's like, you know, ten
Speaker 3: minutes left. Its defense, offense, defense, you have three chances
Speaker 3: to win the game, and too often I have felt
Speaker 3: the offense has been very conservative in those spots. After
Speaker 3: the defense allows to score, you give it back to
Speaker 3: the hot offense. They go down to score again, and
Speaker 3: you lose the game. And this one, I'm thinking, win
Speaker 3: the game, offense, go win the game. And they do
Speaker 3: eight plays thirty nine yards four minutes. Jalen Wright starts
Speaker 3: the game in the back of the drive in the
Speaker 3: backfield and he gets two runs for four yards. So
Speaker 3: not great, but I think he's your closer in the
Speaker 3: long term, so I like the idea. And then Tua
Speaker 3: makes this big time off script, off platform on the
Speaker 3: move throw to Odell Beckham for a first down, and
Speaker 3: that fired the troops up man. Everybody's celebrating, pointing first down,
Speaker 3: probably thinking about a nice flight home after a victory.
Speaker 3: Then a better throw to Malik Washington in the turkey
Speaker 3: hole that cover two hole up the sideline, rips the
Speaker 3: shot right over the defender's hands for seventeen yards and
Speaker 3: puts us into field goal range. And then they get
Speaker 3: one more not one more first down, but they get
Speaker 3: enough yards. They get four more yards to put themselves
Speaker 3: in position, and Sanders connects from fifty yards his third
Speaker 3: field goal, second from fifty plus. The night the Rams
Speaker 3: go down kick their own field goal, which I thought
Speaker 3: was really weird the third and ten play. I get
Speaker 3: kicking the field goal when it's like, you know, forty
Speaker 3: seconds left and your thirty five yard line, but when
Speaker 3: you're thirteen yards out, like go for the touchdown.
Speaker 2: I didn't get that one at all.
Speaker 3: We get the stop and then we get the recovery
Speaker 3: on the on side kick, and that's your ballgame. Dolphins
Speaker 3: recover it and win twenty three fifteen. They're now one
Speaker 3: and a half games back from the Broncos. I believe
Speaker 3: it's the seventh seed in the AFC. We have dates
Speaker 3: with the Raiders and Patriots at home coming up before
Speaker 3: a Thanksgiving trip on Thanksgiving, believe or not against the
Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers. So hey, big big win tonight, boys,
Speaker 3: big win to put yourself back into position, to have
Speaker 3: a chance to have you know, a rally and cry
Speaker 3: to go on a miraculous run. It had to happen tonight.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was a week too late. I think it's not.
Speaker 3: I hope it's not. But you had to have this
Speaker 3: one tonight and you got it, and I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about that and the five big picture
Speaker 3: takeaways on the other side. Draft Time Podcast, your host
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation my five
Speaker 3: big picture takeaways for the dolphins twenty three fifteen win
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. The rams Is missed opportunities early, but
Speaker 3: you didn't miss him in the second half. And this
Speaker 3: is kind of a tua tweet a Tua dua wor's
Speaker 3: to a segment eighty five percent completion in the second
Speaker 3: half or one hundred and twenty yards. It's nine point
Speaker 3: two three yards per clip, a touchdown, no picks, and
Speaker 3: a one hundred and thirty passer rating. And they had
Speaker 3: points on every single drive except for the end of
Speaker 3: game neel down, which is the best formation you can call.
Speaker 2: I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 3: Miena Chimes tweeted out the two was five for six
Speaker 3: for eighty yards on the move. He was seven for
Speaker 3: eight when it come to when it came to throwing
Speaker 3: outside the pocket, so he was clicking in all those
Speaker 3: all those cylinders and had this offense cranking after a
Speaker 3: first half where opening drive looked pretty damn good, but
Speaker 3: they held the ball with a ten to lead three
Speaker 3: times in the first half and couldn't move the ball
Speaker 3: in those situations. We also had a third and three
Speaker 3: drop that would have been first and tended at the
Speaker 3: fifteen yard line for Waddle. Then Tua had the three
Speaker 3: drive sequence where it's pick fumble, big sack, poor decision
Speaker 3: after poor decision after poor decision, bad ball security, and
Speaker 3: we had gone two games without any of that. But
Speaker 3: those drives were all opportunities to put this game not away,
Speaker 3: but like three scores away is pretty good for a
Speaker 3: defense that was playing their butts off. And I was
Speaker 3: just thinking, like, where's the consistency from week to week
Speaker 3: with this stuff? This is the stuff I don't want
Speaker 3: to see from the quarterback. But then he came back
Speaker 3: and had that second half. They convert on that critical
Speaker 3: third down with John Wui Smith rolling, they score on
Speaker 3: the next play. They convert a third and nineteen a
Speaker 3: half for the bad sack that puts us back into
Speaker 3: field goal shape for a two score lead at that
Speaker 3: point of the game. The Rams made it a one
Speaker 3: score game three times. The offense responded all three times
Speaker 3: to push it back to a two lead.
Speaker 2: And then the third downs.
Speaker 3: I mean I mentioned earlier six for eleven on third
Speaker 3: downs in this game conversions of three, six, eight, ten, thirteen,
Speaker 3: and nineteen yards. That's nine point eight three yards per
Speaker 3: conversion there on those third downs, So big time stuff.
Speaker 2: They're from your quarterback.
Speaker 3: And again, like this is we'll talk about us here
Speaker 3: in one second, but like finding ways to win games
Speaker 3: in different ways, I think when your quarterback can convert
Speaker 3: third and longs, that can erase a lot of woes
Speaker 3: in the game. And we saw it consistently from two
Speaker 3: in this one. So missed opportunities early, converted on them
Speaker 3: late is takeaway number one here for Dolphins over Rams.
Speaker 3: Number two is I thought this was a step back
Speaker 3: in terms of the trench play. I've been praising this
Speaker 3: offensive line for quite a while now. I think the
Speaker 3: Rams played it really well though, because like there was
Speaker 3: a play where they shut down an eight chan run
Speaker 3: for negative five where Aram Brewer tried to pull and
Speaker 3: they just like met him where he was in the backfield,
Speaker 3: didn't let him get around the corner an angle up field.
Speaker 3: They just went and shut him down and got knocked
Speaker 3: back that way. They got surge all night long. They
Speaker 3: know how to play our polars and our rat blocks
Speaker 3: just kept meeting us where we were at on top
Speaker 3: of reset and the line of scrimmage in multiple ways.
Speaker 3: They also confused our pass protection. I thought a few
Speaker 3: times or just flat out overpowered us Versus. Is that
Speaker 3: you guys headly talking about him in the podcast Chops
Speaker 3: coming on, But Jared Versus is so freaking good and
Speaker 3: his power rushed like he's going to be defensive rookie
Speaker 3: of the Year, and he was able to get our
Speaker 3: guys flat footed and then run through their chests couple
Speaker 3: of times, and that showed up. So I thought the
Speaker 3: trench play against a surprisingly prett damn good Rams front
Speaker 3: all of a sudden was a step in the wrong direction,
Speaker 3: and with injuries on the offensive line, it'll be further
Speaker 3: test as we go forward. Number three is the defense
Speaker 3: looked just like it did before it lost Zach Sealer
Speaker 3: and Cater Kohu. And I'll never throw a game on
Speaker 3: one player or one play. I think that's not how
Speaker 3: you do it. Although I thought the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: if we didn't drop a pick against the Cardinals, if
Speaker 3: we didn't hit Keon Coleman in the head, I think
Speaker 3: those results would have been different. But I also think
Speaker 3: the results would have been different if you had Zach
Speaker 3: Seeler in both those games because of the flexibility and
Speaker 3: the just overall attitude and brute strength, but mostly the
Speaker 3: flexibility of what he adds to your defense because of
Speaker 3: how thin we are off the edge. Been talking about this,
Speaker 3: you know for weeks now the Dolphins are so thin
Speaker 3: with Phillips and Chubb and obviously Shaq retired before the
Speaker 3: year began, and you know, you're just at that position.
Speaker 3: And because of Campbell and Sealer's ability to play so
Speaker 3: many spots, to play the those big fronts and stretch
Speaker 3: those guys out and get more from Deshan Hanna, Banino
Speaker 3: Jones like it allows you to stay alive, which is
Speaker 3: what the Dolphins defense did tonight. On top of like
Speaker 3: forcing the issue, I thought the rush games and blitzers
Speaker 3: were really well timed up with the coverage. They would
Speaker 3: rally to those vacancies in the back end, so it
Speaker 3: was well connected and communicated, and again they held the
Speaker 3: Rams at a first without a conversion on their on
Speaker 3: their you know, ninety percent of their first ten attempts
Speaker 3: in that position. I got the big fronts I was
Speaker 3: talking about, and the mix of rush and coverage with
Speaker 3: the ability to show sim pressure. That big Javon hollandsack
Speaker 3: was a blitz that had sim pressure off the other side.
Speaker 3: That drive at the end of the third quarter where
Speaker 3: Stafford makes that Louis check and this is haul and play,
Speaker 3: just big time stuff to keep backing them up in
Speaker 3: big spots. One other thing that I love the most
Speaker 3: about this game was the defense's physicality. Where I thought
Speaker 3: they just tackled really poorly the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: it seemed like they were dialed up an extra gear
Speaker 3: in this one, and guys weren't falling through tackles for
Speaker 3: extra yards. We were the one forcing the issue and
Speaker 3: pushing ball carriers back, clawing for every inch in a
Speaker 3: must win game.
Speaker 2: I love to see it.
Speaker 3: The impressive thing here the offense turned it over twice
Speaker 3: and set the Rams up with the plus thirty six
Speaker 3: and plus forty three yard lines, and the Rams only
Speaker 3: got three points off those two drives, so great job
Speaker 3: by the defense all night long. Number four, how about
Speaker 3: an explosive offense. How about a third down offense, and
Speaker 3: how about a game closing offense that's a part four, A,
Speaker 3: B and C. Twenty yards thirty six yards than nineteen
Speaker 3: yards on the opening drive.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I want to see more explosive offense because if that
Speaker 3: goes along with good ball distribution, we can be an
Speaker 3: absolute nightmare for every team we face the rest of
Speaker 3: the way. Again, the offense responded to all the RAMS scores.
Speaker 3: That's a good way to bounce back. The third down
Speaker 3: offense was nails, especially at the quarterback position, and those
Speaker 3: answers at the end of the RAMS scores you close
Speaker 3: it out. So really across the board, good job by
Speaker 3: the offense in the second half. And then my number
Speaker 3: five takeaway is I was just I don't really have
Speaker 3: a take from this, but I thought that the coaching
Speaker 3: changes in one instance for sure was rewarded. But we
Speaker 3: saw Anthony Walker again in for David Long Junior, who's
Speaker 3: working his way back from you know, some ailments and whatnot,
Speaker 3: But it's more of a performance based decision there for Walker,
Speaker 3: who played really good in this game, and that was
Speaker 3: you know, that's a testament to the coaching staff for
Speaker 3: recognizing someone you know, maybe more ready for that role
Speaker 3: and stepping up into that role and playing well where
Speaker 3: Hee moster, you know, getting punishment. I should say, I
Speaker 3: don't know, that's probably the wrong phrase to use, but
Speaker 3: you know, he didn't see a carry in this game
Speaker 3: after some really big fumbles the last few weeks. And
Speaker 3: then Malik Washington's role has been elevated to go along
Speaker 3: with his great downfield blocking. He's getting more footballs and
Speaker 3: making plays with it. And not to mention for the offense,
Speaker 3: you know, losing Austin Jackson ahead of the game, Rob
Speaker 3: Jones goes down, no alec Ingold, So a huge faction
Speaker 3: of your offense and the two back personnel they love
Speaker 3: to run is out. I mean, Tanner Connor ran some
Speaker 3: of it, but you could tell it wasn't Alec out
Speaker 3: there tonight. So that was all good to see. And
Speaker 3: I'll just leave with this. I think that when you
Speaker 3: can win different styles of games, that's how you can
Speaker 3: advance the furthest in this league and make the biggest
Speaker 3: impact in terms of being contenders. And we have seen
Speaker 3: this defense has won you a couple of games this
Speaker 3: year in terms of the production they gave you. I
Speaker 3: think the offense has done the exact same thing, and
Speaker 3: this one it was a bit of both. But I
Speaker 3: think that the Dolphins can beat you with the running game.
Speaker 3: They can beat you in the deep passing game. They
Speaker 3: can beat you in the intermediate passing game. They can
Speaker 3: beat you by the ball control, make your quarterback go,
Speaker 3: make some plays on the third down style of game.
Speaker 3: They can get after you with their blitzes and their
Speaker 3: sim pressures and their occasional four man rushes and create
Speaker 3: They've shown you multiple ways to win games. They have
Speaker 3: to find a way to put it all together and
Speaker 3: be that team each and every week because they don't
Speaker 3: have any room for air at this point. Probably lose
Speaker 3: one more game if you want to make the playoffs,
Speaker 3: I think that seventh seed would be probably ten and
Speaker 3: seven probably get you in because right now the teams
Speaker 3: I think are going to compete with for that spot.
Speaker 3: I don't think we'll have head to head tire breakers
Speaker 3: on you. I tend to look at the Chargers the Bengals. Well,
Speaker 3: let's say the Chargers and Steelers get the five and
Speaker 3: six spots, cause I'm already given the Ravens the AFC North.
Speaker 3: It would basically the Bengals, the Colts, and the Broncos
Speaker 3: for that last spot, and I just you guys know,
Speaker 3: I don't believe in the Broncos. They're five, five and
Speaker 3: five right now. Yeah, you're a game and a half
Speaker 3: back of them. So they're five and five. The Bengals
Speaker 3: are four and six and have some tough games coming up,
Speaker 3: but they're the ones that kind of scare me because
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow's playing like an MVP this year and the
Speaker 3: Colts are going the wrong direction, So hey, man, win
Speaker 3: some games.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this in the podcast.
Speaker 3: I think if the Dolphins actually after this whin, I
Speaker 3: believe the Dolphins will go into Thanksgiving playing for the
Speaker 3: seventh seed if they can find a way to beat
Speaker 3: the Packers, but first have to beat the Raiders, have
Speaker 3: to beat the Patriots. We'll get to all that coming
Speaker 3: up here in the meantime. That's gonna be my time.
Speaker 3: I didn't throw in the coach McDaniel audio. I wanted
Speaker 3: to play on the show because it's like two o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning, and that's more editing and more just time,
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