WEBVTT - Dolphins Jaguars Week 6 Recap 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.680 Hey guys, before we start the show today, I wanted 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.040 you to hear this part first, stripping down all the 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.320 pomp and circumstance, all the music and uplifting energy and 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.680 the what's up doll fans, all of that, and I 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.680 want to talk to you as someone that has been 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.960 on this ride with all of you for the last 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.680 twenty five years, give or take. So I've been absolutely 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.439 nuts about this team since I was a teenager, and 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.840 they were always the team that I followed. But when 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.960 you grow up in a town with a team that 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.080 has four Hall of Famers on it, Liketle Mariners had, 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.240 that's your primary focus. And as I got older, it 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.600 started to appreciate sports more than just being a wide 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.200 eyed kid watching with stars in my eyes. Football became 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.400 my thing, and the Miami Dolphins became everything, not just 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.120 in sport, but in hobbies and interest. It was the 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.000 Miami Dolphins, And I just wanted to reflect on the 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.480 last twenty or so years as a fan, because as 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.279 this season goes in a direction that I don't think 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.600 anybody saw going this way through six weeks, I find 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.960 myself reflecting as a fan. And I mentioned the Manners 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.880 because current Mariners outfitler Mitch Haniger wrote a tremendous letter 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.560 in The Players Tribune earlier this week talking about the 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.400 eleven and three finish the Mariners had this season that 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.000 put them in position to qualify for the postseason. On 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.440 the final day of the regular season, they had to 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.200 have a win, and they had to have a Yankees 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.920 or Red Sox loss. Had they done that, they would 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.959 have ended the longest playoff drout an American professional sports 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.680 at twenty years. But they didn't. They lost. They came 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:36.040 up short, and Mitch reflected upon that upon carrying the 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.960 weight of the twenty year playoff drout and how even 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.160 though that twenty year drought wasn't the current players burden 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.320 to carry, it also was because they wore the star, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.640 the nautical star on their hat. That's the Manner's logo. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.400 And I say that as a precursor to absolve anyone 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.080 in this building of past performances, because those should not 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.400 be attached to anybody that's here now. Players and coaches 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.960 now should not be held accountable for what happened to 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.160 thousand and six. They can only control what happened since 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.720 their arrival. But that's why I come to you as 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.839 a fan of this Miami Dolphins franchise. A fan who 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.400 cried tears of joy when they beat the Jets in 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.080 two thousand eight to win the a f C East 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.120 literal tears of joy. A fan who earlier that year 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.320 went way out of character, way off script by putting 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.519 a hole in my bedroom door. It was flimsy, cheap wood. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.360 Don't worry about that, but I put a hole in 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.079 that bedroom door when Matt Shob converted a fourth in 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.519 goal in that game on a quarterback draw to beat 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.520 Miami with the Houston Texans. A fan who has received 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.519 Dolphins themed Christmas and Birthday gifts every year since I 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.960 can remember. I don't need any more Dolphins socks. Guys, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.160 this is tough. It's deflating. It's the word I keep 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.440 coming back to. It feels like every time this team 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.200 has built momentum over the last twenty years, it dissipates 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.760 in the most gut wrenching fashion. After that oh eight season, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.520 quarterback gets hurt, the Dolphins win seven games, and the 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.440 young quarterback who would possibly be the future really ruggled 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.400 in his place. We later find out he was never 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.160 the guy for anybody before oh eight. The last winning 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.440 season was two thousand five, not that long ago. Before that, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.600 and the next year our coach didn't leave to Alabama 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.239 and the Dolphense won six games in the free agent 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.640 quarterback acquisition blows up in our face, while like we 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.160 didn't sign goes on to a Hall of Fame career. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.960 Before that, two thousand three, a ten win season, didn't 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.880 make the playoffs, but it was a good football team 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.120 that was followed up by a shocking retirement by the 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.560 best player on the team and one of the best 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.560 players in the National Football League, a consequent coaching fire, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.360 and a four and twelve season after. It took a 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.360 lot longer but ten wins playoff appearance. How do you 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.480 follow that up? The quarterback suffers a second a c 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.080 L injury inside of a calendar year before the season 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:53.480 even starts. Six wins, then ten wins. A team that 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.800 established an identity as a strong defensive team that could 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.280 take the life force out of imposing offense, turned the 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.600 football over, put the clamps on third down, rush the quarterback, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.240 play type man coverage, and win in all the small 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.400 areas and be disciplined and find their way to victory 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.840 through the things that make a football team great together, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.120 and then they have a great offseason, a draft that 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.120 everybody praises, a free agency class that fixes a bunch 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.600 of perceived holes on the roster. National media starts talking 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.000 about you, giving you some hype, and you're one in five. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.719 We are one in five football team, and we have 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.320 to wear that we just lost to a team that 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:29.920 hasn't won a game since Week one of last year. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.680 It's twenty game losing street. They busted today. That's a 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.400 bitter pill to have to swallow. And as we go 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.760 forward and search for answers, I get how you're feeling. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.240 Football is supposed to be something we do for fun, right, 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.120 It's an escape from everyday monotony. Some franchises stay in 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.560 that winning spotlight for years, decades, even others find short 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.320 bouts of success for a couple of year period and 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.240 they go back into obscurity. Others have a pop up 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.520 year here or there, maybe they even make a deep 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.440 playoff run. But for us, for the is the bleed 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.640 Awk went orange so much that we fight about it 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.040 on Twitter, that we come out here and watch them practice. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.400 We deck out an entire room or garage in our 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.680 house full of Dolphins memorabilia. Those moments of success and 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.320 joy have been way too fleeting for way too long. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.640 One solid year which ends in a first round playoff drubbing, typically, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.360 and then it's back to not knowing what's going to 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.599 happen in the future. Right now, at one in five, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.120 we don't know what's gonna happen in the future. It's 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.560 not good right now. There's plenty of season left to go. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.880 But all of that is why this is so painful 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.599 and why you are demanding answers. Everybody wants to know why, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.200 How does it get better? Maybe you don't want that 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.880 right now. Maybe you want to be upset and let 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.280 all these emotions come out in anger and sadness, emptiness. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.520 Is a football fan, and you know, we know that 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.640 a game of football is much bigger than a game 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.559 to you, the football fan. Whatever emotion you want to feel, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.839 you're certainly within your rights to feel that way. I'll 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.440 never tell you how to be a fan of this team. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.160 Do your thing, man, but gosh, it's been a tough 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.360 go and I just want you guys to know that 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.800 the most important thing among this entire community of Dolphins 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.880 fans is the community itself, and regardless of the results, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.320 all forever be thankful for the relationships and opportunities afford 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.680 to me because of this team, this organization, and the sport. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.960 But yeah, this sucks. It sucks so bad. I want 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.920 to bring you that upbeat, positive show. We can talk 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.919 about all the great things we just saw, all the 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.160 great plays and great players and great long term outlook. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.400 But for five weeks it just hasn't been the case. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.280 So we four, John, let's get to the show here, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.599 we'll have the five takeaways and then we'll get out. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.279 Let's go ahead and play the music and get this 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:50.200 thing going. Cutdown, Miami un Drawn? What's up, Dolphans And 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.440 welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.800 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. I am 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.880 your host, Travis Wingfield. I am here to bring you 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.360 or daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.800 we did the monologue off the top. Why don't we 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.400 go ahead and jump right in to the five Takeaways 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.840 from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:19.680 This is the Drive Time Podcast, So we had the 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.320 opening monologue, So if you fast forward the opening part 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.280 of the show every single week, go ahead and go 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:25.800 back and check that out. That was a big part 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.480 of the show. So hit that rewind button a few 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.040 times to get a nice little state of the die 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.680 hard Dolphins fan right now. And for the takeaways, I 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.960 want to spend it back to what we took away 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.880 from this game in particular, and maybe we'll discuss next 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.000 steps as we get to the animal see how much 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.119 time we have and how we feel we might pump 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.000 that to another episode. We start here with takeaway number one, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:50.080 which is playing within small margins, and the Dolphins, I 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:55.000 thought on Sunday improved their ability or opportunity to win 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.640 within those small margins to stay on schedule, which I 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.720 thought flipped everything with an efficient day from the quarterback 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.600 and the offense as far as putting up yardage and 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.720 moving the football average yards per play, it flipped everything. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.960 From time of possession thirty three minutes, twenty seven ments 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.880 for Jacksonville, sixty eight plays from Miami, sixty two plays 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:16.040 for Jacksonville. Miami out gains Jacksonville four three six On 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.920 third down, Miami goes nine for seven teams a great number. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.920 Jacksonville goes three for twelve also a great number for Miami. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.880 They got the things they needed in so many areas 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.360 to win the game within the capacity of the type 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.320 of game they invite by their style of play. And 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.880 last year it was a master stroke with the defense 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.599 setting up short fields and the special teams winning the 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.560 hidden yardage battles, to not get penalized, to create penalties, 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.760 to get knocked back on return men, to pin teams 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.920 deep on kickoffs that you poach inside the five yard line, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.160 and then the offense came up with timely plays both 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.839 in the run game in the passing game. But now 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.160 you have other mistakes popping up that give you almost 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.800 no chance of victory in a game like that. Let's 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.680 talk about the entire or how the recipe rather and 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.640 ingredients are both finding ways to come together to not succeed. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.880 A holding call that turns a second and goal from 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.560 the one into first and goal from the twenty a 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.120 very high nineties percent chance you score a touchdown in 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:12.959 that position right three places from two yard from the 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.560 one yard line. Analytics and research numbers tell you you're 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.480 probably gonna score from there. Then you go first and 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.080 goal to twenty. That number is cut significantly in half, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.280 especially when the next two plays are a two yard 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.040 rush and an incomplete screen pass two Miles Gaskin, where 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.800 he's gonna have to make several guys missed to even 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.079 have a chance to find the end zone and get 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.280 a touchdown. It's okay to kick field goals when you 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.720 have a dynamite special teams and a defense that's first 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.080 in every major category from third down, takeaways, and points 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.360 throughout the course of most of last season. But that's 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.520 not what this defense has been this year, not even close. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.920 And that's before you're down Xavien Howard and Byron Jones 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.040 on the perimeter, which is going to be our takeaway 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.520 number two. Spoiler alert. Next drive, Albert Wilson catches a 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.040 pass one yard short of the sticks on second and six, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.680 and he runs backwards, giving those three or three of 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.760 those yards back, and we miss on the third and 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.000 four punt. The football two A misses the throw on 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.200 the next drive on on third and two, but then 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.079 he converts the twenty yard pass on fourth and two 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.200 to mccollins. And this is what I'm talking about, an 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.200 instance where being aggressive, playing the numbers to your advantage 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.680 and hitting a play with your big playmakers, you can 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.840 make mistakes when you have those types of plays created 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.360 and when they happen. That's a positive example of this 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.840 little case study here in our first takeaway. So there 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.000 was a mistake, but they corrected it by hitting on 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.600 the next play. Then we drop a pass on third 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.240 and goal and settle for a field goal. Next drive, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.400 Mike Kasiki runs arounte one yard shot of the sticks 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.720 on third down, and now we have to punt again. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.960 First drive in the second half, overcome a penalty and 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.160 convert on second and fourteen, moving to Jacksonville territory and 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.280 hit a big pass up the sideline to knock on 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.200 the door of the red zone, but it's coming back 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.600 offensive pass interference on mc collins first and twenty run 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.920 for no gain, a tunnel screen to waddle to set 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.680 up a third and fourteen, no dice punt the ball. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.040 Next drive, Bing bang bong touchdown master class. Look fantastic. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.560 Next drive, dropped pass on third and one. We lose 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.160 the challenge there. There goes a time out and one 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.800 of the challenges you have. Then we punt and lose 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.240 a challenge there, and that looked very very close, but 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.840 their chances. I think of overturning that on a play 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.680 that looks that close on replay, they're not gonna overturn 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.640 something like that. That one hurts too, but still lost 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.360 time outlost challenge. Next drive, savon akbed drops the past 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.120 that would have given Miami a third and three. Instead, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.720 we get another route one yard short of the sticks 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.720 on third and six. Then we run on fourth and 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.320 one out of shotgun. Durham Smith gets beat across his 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.440 face and the block or the block does not succeed. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.880 He gets beat across his face by the opposing defender 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.959 who gets in the backfield and makes a play on 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.839 Malcolm Brown play it fails, and then Jacksonville kicks a 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.680 field goal after that, after a quick hitter on fourth 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.840 and doubt fourth down from Trevor Lawrence to set up 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.880 the game winning field goal from fifty three yards. So 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.280 how many mistakes were in there? Double digits. I mean, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.240 that's no recipe for success in any former fashion. But 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.199 if you play the small margins game where you need 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.400 to be really sharp in those areas, and that's the 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.840 type of performance you're gonna get that is gonna be 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.280 tough to overcome. That's one in five takeaway number two 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.560 the defense without exaviing Howard and Byron Jones. We know 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.680 we talked about this last season. We heard Brian Baldinger 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.160 talk about it, even put some of his sound on 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.480 the air waves here where he talked about how a 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.599 lot of the creativity and blitz packaging and the confidence 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.760 to send extra rushers up front is because of how 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.560 good this team is in the back end and coverage 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.679 with Exaviing Howard, with Byron Jones, with Nick Needham, with 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.040 Eric Rowe. Today, both those guys are down and they 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.760 had to play a different type of game because of that, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.200 and that's that's understandable. But you coach to the personnel 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.240 you have, and they played I thought fairly well for 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.000 the most part. On the outside. They gave the Jaguars 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.160 a lot of chances to make plays, and just like 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.360 we talked about in the previous segment, the Jaguars made 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.720 their fair share mistakes. How many missed rows do they have? 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.200 How many drop passes did they have? Especially in that 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.160 first half. But when you're built around those guys, it's 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.200 gonna be tough to win without them, even when you 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.360 have a pair of corners playing largely off coverage and 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.760 giving up those cushions. I talked to Seth Levitt about 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.240 this during the game when we were getting for the 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.840 postgame show, about all the second and fifteens and how 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.800 that seemed to be the time that Miami like to 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.880 dial up the pressure after a false start or after 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.880 a negative play on first down, and that was so successful. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.360 But it was hard to get into those spots because 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.480 on those first downs there was a lot of space 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.520 to be given to the Jacksonville offense, and they for 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.080 large stretches of the game, maybe even the entire game. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.240 I don't really recall his name being called barely at all. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.920 They avoided Nick Needham, and no, it was not gonna 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.560 gets himself in great position a lot. He got beat 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.680 by a perfect throw in the touchdown pass from Lawrence 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.920 to Marvin Jones, and then he was beaten later again 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.120 where I thought he had a chance to get his 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.560 head around on that penultimate Jaguars drive. I think it was. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.079 But we did see the Dolphins go back to more 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.520 pressure looks late in the game when the Dolphins really 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.720 had to get a stop and must have spots, we 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.240 saw some exotic stuff and the pressure worked I mean 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.760 Jerome Baker running downhill. To me, he looks way faster 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.679 than he does going side to side right now. I 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.040 don't know. I don't know why. That's just what it 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.040 looks like to me. You get the Emmanuel og Bob 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.000 bat down, Baker running free on the quarterback. Christian Wilkins 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.160 wins around the side of the tackle from a three 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.960 tech position where he loops around the outside and corners 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.679 for a big strip set. What a big time play 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.120 from big time player. There. There was some positive stuff, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.640 but then I keep seeing this question on Twitter. Where 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.040 is the Amba defense, Travis? Where is the guy standing 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.679 up and dancing around and looking for different gaps to 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.040 shooting confuse the quarterback. We saw all the time last year. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.320 We see it a few times this year. But I 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.040 look at this defense and I continuously see these same 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.360 things popping up on tape where we talked about on 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.080 the podcast last week. Too many instances of guys covering grass. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.720 There's instances where guys are miss aligned pre snap. There 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.760 was a play in the game last week where Jerome 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.760 Bakers on the wrong side of the formation. I don't 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.520 know if that's him, if that's someone telling him where 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.360 to be or what the case. Maybe all I know 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.160 is the running backs on the right side of the formation. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.840 He's on the left side, and that was the guy 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.040 that he covered and it was an easy ten yards 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.920 before he even got there to the football. There was 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.800 a couple of plays last week where they went unbalanced 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.760 offensive line and Brady had like three or four blockers 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.360 to two or three hats in the area. That's just 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.800 not being lined up in a competitive way to to 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.320 compete on a football field. And if you're having issues 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.480 at times getting aligned, how do you operate a complex 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:08.080 defense that asks guys to kind of freelance and pick 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.520 their way into certain gaps. Maybe freelances the wrong word, 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.240 but you get what I'm saying. It's complex to run 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.480 that AMO defense. It's complex to run a gamut of 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.080 twists and stunts and games up front. To have linebackers 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.840 looping and scraping, and you have safeties filling and guys 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.360 blitzing and capping off those blitzes. That's a lot of 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.200 reactionary play you have to have that comes from preparation. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.240 And this is a young team for sure, but if 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.920 you can't get those other things executed, you're not gonna 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.280 get that executed. So basically, my takeaways that in order 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.320 to get to the complex stuff, you better be rock 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.360 solid and all the other stuff. And right now this 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.200 Dolphins team just is not. Take away number three. Look 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.000 at how different the offense looked in this game. We 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.840 talked about four and thirty one yards. We've been clamoring 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.400 for that for a long time. That's that's good eating 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:56.360 in today's NFL. And you know, the the command of 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.160 the offense that to a tongue of iloa held in 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.320 this game, I thought we saw it right away on 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.080 the first touchdown pass of the game, the first drive 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.680 of the game of a master class drive by the 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.360 Miami Dolphins offense ended on Jalen Waddle touchdown reception, where 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.080 that's a running play. It looks like a running play 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.360 to me that he checks too. You see him kind 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.040 of stand up with the line scrimmage, make a little 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.240 hand signaled to to Jalen Waddle. They get that thing 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.120 checked to the right. Look he comes with a little 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.400 glance route off the r p O off the fake handoff. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.000 It was exactly like the play in New England on 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.360 first and four teen, backed up in our own end, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.760 having to have a first down to extend that drive 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.000 and win that football game. The exact same thing he 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:29.680 checks so that gets out of the bad run play, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.880 gets to a positive pass play, turns into a touchdown, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.000 and post a possibly a negative play behind the line, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.840 converting third downs. The Dolphins had their best third down 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.120 performance of the season today. Two with his legs, by 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.040 the way, talked about the time position of flipping in 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.720 the other direction. Now instead of being on the field 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.800 for forty minutes, defense is only out there for twenty 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.840 seven minutes. Lengthy drives, you know, a ninety one yard touchdown, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.280 driving eight yard touchdown drive to start the game, up 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.680 and down the field to produce four thirty one yards, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.800 hitting consistent layups, getting guys the football early. You saw 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.240 him hit the top of that drop and the ball 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.720 came out and on time, gave guys chance to create 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.920 after the catch. We'll talk about the yacht numbers on 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.440 tomorrow's podcast. To me, that's how the offense was supposed 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.159 to look with the pieces they brought in, with the 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.600 offensive line strenks they had, with the quarterback strenks. He 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.119 has obviously the rotation of running backs. To me, that 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.320 was today what you want to look like as far 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.480 as moving the ball from twenty to twenty, and you know, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.679 we'll get the other mistakes figured out and corrected later, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.680 because I thought this offense was so close to putting 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.600 up thirty five forty two points in this game if 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.560 they just get some of those airs corrected. We talked 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.800 about the third downs. How about the must have its 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.000 situations the fourth quarter on the go ahead drive two ago, 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.240 six for six, eighty three yards and the touchdown pass 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.120 on what could have been the game winning drive if 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.040 the defense held their end of the bargain. And he 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.920 finishes that fourth quarter after that drive nine for ten 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.200 with a hundred nine passing yards and the touchdown pass, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.520 So play his best ball late in the game. On 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.560 third down, he himself was eight for fourteen with eighty 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.119 passing yards and two rushing first down, So nine total 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.040 conversions on sixteen tries, and a lot of those were 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.880 third and long. Two on the first scoring drive under pressure, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.840 even with a hand in his face kind of throwing 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.359 a football from an off off platform. Look, there was 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:03.840 one place where he's looking down the middle of the 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.000 field and he fires to the left because the footworks 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.560 not a line because he's off the platform after being 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.760 chased from pressure, and he delivers a strike for a 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.840 first down a big third and six on the go 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.399 ahead drive in the fourth quarter, utilizing Jalen Waddle ten catches, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.439 seventy yards, two touchdowns. All three of his touchdowns for 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.880 both two and Waddle have gone from the other guy 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.480