Speaker 1: Hey guys, before we start the show today, I wanted
Speaker 1: you to hear this part first, stripping down all the
Speaker 1: pomp and circumstance, all the music and uplifting energy and
Speaker 1: the what's up doll fans, all of that, and I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you as someone that has been
Speaker 1: on this ride with all of you for the last
Speaker 1: twenty five years, give or take. So I've been absolutely
Speaker 1: nuts about this team since I was a teenager, and
Speaker 1: they were always the team that I followed. But when
Speaker 1: you grow up in a town with a team that
Speaker 1: has four Hall of Famers on it, Liketle Mariners had,
Speaker 1: that's your primary focus. And as I got older, it
Speaker 1: started to appreciate sports more than just being a wide
Speaker 1: eyed kid watching with stars in my eyes. Football became
Speaker 1: my thing, and the Miami Dolphins became everything, not just
Speaker 1: in sport, but in hobbies and interest. It was the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, And I just wanted to reflect on the
Speaker 1: last twenty or so years as a fan, because as
Speaker 1: this season goes in a direction that I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody saw going this way through six weeks, I find
Speaker 1: myself reflecting as a fan. And I mentioned the Manners
Speaker 1: because current Mariners outfitler Mitch Haniger wrote a tremendous letter
Speaker 1: in The Players Tribune earlier this week talking about the
Speaker 1: eleven and three finish the Mariners had this season that
Speaker 1: put them in position to qualify for the postseason. On
Speaker 1: the final day of the regular season, they had to
Speaker 1: have a win, and they had to have a Yankees
Speaker 1: or Red Sox loss. Had they done that, they would
Speaker 1: have ended the longest playoff drout an American professional sports
Speaker 1: at twenty years. But they didn't. They lost. They came
Speaker 1: up short, and Mitch reflected upon that upon carrying the
Speaker 1: weight of the twenty year playoff drout and how even
Speaker 1: though that twenty year drought wasn't the current players burden
Speaker 1: to carry, it also was because they wore the star,
Speaker 1: the nautical star on their hat. That's the Manner's logo.
Speaker 1: And I say that as a precursor to absolve anyone
Speaker 1: in this building of past performances, because those should not
Speaker 1: be attached to anybody that's here now. Players and coaches
Speaker 1: now should not be held accountable for what happened to
Speaker 1: thousand and six. They can only control what happened since
Speaker 1: their arrival. But that's why I come to you as
Speaker 1: a fan of this Miami Dolphins franchise. A fan who
Speaker 1: cried tears of joy when they beat the Jets in
Speaker 1: two thousand eight to win the a f C East
Speaker 1: literal tears of joy. A fan who earlier that year
Speaker 1: went way out of character, way off script by putting
Speaker 1: a hole in my bedroom door. It was flimsy, cheap wood.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that, but I put a hole in
Speaker 1: that bedroom door when Matt Shob converted a fourth in
Speaker 1: goal in that game on a quarterback draw to beat
Speaker 1: Miami with the Houston Texans. A fan who has received
Speaker 1: Dolphins themed Christmas and Birthday gifts every year since I
Speaker 1: can remember. I don't need any more Dolphins socks. Guys,
Speaker 1: this is tough. It's deflating. It's the word I keep
Speaker 1: coming back to. It feels like every time this team
Speaker 1: has built momentum over the last twenty years, it dissipates
Speaker 1: in the most gut wrenching fashion. After that oh eight season,
Speaker 1: quarterback gets hurt, the Dolphins win seven games, and the
Speaker 1: young quarterback who would possibly be the future really ruggled
Speaker 1: in his place. We later find out he was never
Speaker 1: the guy for anybody before oh eight. The last winning
Speaker 1: season was two thousand five, not that long ago. Before that,
Speaker 1: and the next year our coach didn't leave to Alabama
Speaker 1: and the Dolphense won six games in the free agent
Speaker 1: quarterback acquisition blows up in our face, while like we
Speaker 1: didn't sign goes on to a Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 1: Before that, two thousand three, a ten win season, didn't
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, but it was a good football team
Speaker 1: that was followed up by a shocking retirement by the
Speaker 1: best player on the team and one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the National Football League, a consequent coaching fire,
Speaker 1: and a four and twelve season after. It took a
Speaker 1: lot longer but ten wins playoff appearance. How do you
Speaker 1: follow that up? The quarterback suffers a second a c
Speaker 1: L injury inside of a calendar year before the season
Speaker 1: even starts. Six wins, then ten wins. A team that
Speaker 1: established an identity as a strong defensive team that could
Speaker 1: take the life force out of imposing offense, turned the
Speaker 1: football over, put the clamps on third down, rush the quarterback,
Speaker 1: play type man coverage, and win in all the small
Speaker 1: areas and be disciplined and find their way to victory
Speaker 1: through the things that make a football team great together,
Speaker 1: and then they have a great offseason, a draft that
Speaker 1: everybody praises, a free agency class that fixes a bunch
Speaker 1: of perceived holes on the roster. National media starts talking
Speaker 1: about you, giving you some hype, and you're one in five.
Speaker 1: We are one in five football team, and we have
Speaker 1: to wear that we just lost to a team that
Speaker 1: hasn't won a game since Week one of last year.
Speaker 1: It's twenty game losing street. They busted today. That's a
Speaker 1: bitter pill to have to swallow. And as we go
Speaker 1: forward and search for answers, I get how you're feeling.
Speaker 1: Football is supposed to be something we do for fun, right,
Speaker 1: It's an escape from everyday monotony. Some franchises stay in
Speaker 1: that winning spotlight for years, decades, even others find short
Speaker 1: bouts of success for a couple of year period and
Speaker 1: they go back into obscurity. Others have a pop up
Speaker 1: year here or there, maybe they even make a deep
Speaker 1: playoff run. But for us, for the is the bleed
Speaker 1: Awk went orange so much that we fight about it
Speaker 1: on Twitter, that we come out here and watch them practice.
Speaker 1: We deck out an entire room or garage in our
Speaker 1: house full of Dolphins memorabilia. Those moments of success and
Speaker 1: joy have been way too fleeting for way too long.
Speaker 1: One solid year which ends in a first round playoff drubbing, typically,
Speaker 1: and then it's back to not knowing what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in the future. Right now, at one in five,
Speaker 1: we don't know what's gonna happen in the future. It's
Speaker 1: not good right now. There's plenty of season left to go.
Speaker 1: But all of that is why this is so painful
Speaker 1: and why you are demanding answers. Everybody wants to know why,
Speaker 1: How does it get better? Maybe you don't want that
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe you want to be upset and let
Speaker 1: all these emotions come out in anger and sadness, emptiness.
Speaker 1: Is a football fan, and you know, we know that
Speaker 1: a game of football is much bigger than a game
Speaker 1: to you, the football fan. Whatever emotion you want to feel,
Speaker 1: you're certainly within your rights to feel that way. I'll
Speaker 1: never tell you how to be a fan of this team.
Speaker 1: Do your thing, man, but gosh, it's been a tough
Speaker 1: go and I just want you guys to know that
Speaker 1: the most important thing among this entire community of Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans is the community itself, and regardless of the results,
Speaker 1: all forever be thankful for the relationships and opportunities afford
Speaker 1: to me because of this team, this organization, and the sport.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this sucks. It sucks so bad. I want
Speaker 1: to bring you that upbeat, positive show. We can talk
Speaker 1: about all the great things we just saw, all the
Speaker 1: great plays and great players and great long term outlook.
Speaker 1: But for five weeks it just hasn't been the case.
Speaker 1: So we four, John, let's get to the show here,
Speaker 1: we'll have the five takeaways and then we'll get out.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and play the music and get this
Speaker 1: thing going. Cutdown, Miami un Drawn? What's up, Dolphans And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield. I am here to bring you
Speaker 1: or daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we did the monologue off the top. Why don't we
Speaker 1: go ahead and jump right in to the five Takeaways
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast, So we had the
Speaker 1: opening monologue, So if you fast forward the opening part
Speaker 1: of the show every single week, go ahead and go
Speaker 1: back and check that out. That was a big part
Speaker 1: of the show. So hit that rewind button a few
Speaker 1: times to get a nice little state of the die
Speaker 1: hard Dolphins fan right now. And for the takeaways, I
Speaker 1: want to spend it back to what we took away
Speaker 1: from this game in particular, and maybe we'll discuss next
Speaker 1: steps as we get to the animal see how much
Speaker 1: time we have and how we feel we might pump
Speaker 1: that to another episode. We start here with takeaway number one,
Speaker 1: which is playing within small margins, and the Dolphins, I
Speaker 1: thought on Sunday improved their ability or opportunity to win
Speaker 1: within those small margins to stay on schedule, which I
Speaker 1: thought flipped everything with an efficient day from the quarterback
Speaker 1: and the offense as far as putting up yardage and
Speaker 1: moving the football average yards per play, it flipped everything.
Speaker 1: From time of possession thirty three minutes, twenty seven ments
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville, sixty eight plays from Miami, sixty two plays
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. Miami out gains Jacksonville four three six On
Speaker 1: third down, Miami goes nine for seven teams a great number.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville goes three for twelve also a great number for Miami.
Speaker 1: They got the things they needed in so many areas
Speaker 1: to win the game within the capacity of the type
Speaker 1: of game they invite by their style of play. And
Speaker 1: last year it was a master stroke with the defense
Speaker 1: setting up short fields and the special teams winning the
Speaker 1: hidden yardage battles, to not get penalized, to create penalties,
Speaker 1: to get knocked back on return men, to pin teams
Speaker 1: deep on kickoffs that you poach inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: and then the offense came up with timely plays both
Speaker 1: in the run game in the passing game. But now
Speaker 1: you have other mistakes popping up that give you almost
Speaker 1: no chance of victory in a game like that. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the entire or how the recipe rather and
Speaker 1: ingredients are both finding ways to come together to not succeed.
Speaker 1: A holding call that turns a second and goal from
Speaker 1: the one into first and goal from the twenty a
Speaker 1: very high nineties percent chance you score a touchdown in
Speaker 1: that position right three places from two yard from the
Speaker 1: one yard line. Analytics and research numbers tell you you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna score from there. Then you go first and
Speaker 1: goal to twenty. That number is cut significantly in half,
Speaker 1: especially when the next two plays are a two yard
Speaker 1: rush and an incomplete screen pass two Miles Gaskin, where
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to make several guys missed to even
Speaker 1: have a chance to find the end zone and get
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It's okay to kick field goals when you
Speaker 1: have a dynamite special teams and a defense that's first
Speaker 1: in every major category from third down, takeaways, and points
Speaker 1: throughout the course of most of last season. But that's
Speaker 1: not what this defense has been this year, not even close.
Speaker 1: And that's before you're down Xavien Howard and Byron Jones
Speaker 1: on the perimeter, which is going to be our takeaway
Speaker 1: number two. Spoiler alert. Next drive, Albert Wilson catches a
Speaker 1: pass one yard short of the sticks on second and six,
Speaker 1: and he runs backwards, giving those three or three of
Speaker 1: those yards back, and we miss on the third and
Speaker 1: four punt. The football two A misses the throw on
Speaker 1: the next drive on on third and two, but then
Speaker 1: he converts the twenty yard pass on fourth and two
Speaker 1: to mccollins. And this is what I'm talking about, an
Speaker 1: instance where being aggressive, playing the numbers to your advantage
Speaker 1: and hitting a play with your big playmakers, you can
Speaker 1: make mistakes when you have those types of plays created
Speaker 1: and when they happen. That's a positive example of this
Speaker 1: little case study here in our first takeaway. So there
Speaker 1: was a mistake, but they corrected it by hitting on
Speaker 1: the next play. Then we drop a pass on third
Speaker 1: and goal and settle for a field goal. Next drive,
Speaker 1: Mike Kasiki runs arounte one yard shot of the sticks
Speaker 1: on third down, and now we have to punt again.
Speaker 1: First drive in the second half, overcome a penalty and
Speaker 1: convert on second and fourteen, moving to Jacksonville territory and
Speaker 1: hit a big pass up the sideline to knock on
Speaker 1: the door of the red zone, but it's coming back
Speaker 1: offensive pass interference on mc collins first and twenty run
Speaker 1: for no gain, a tunnel screen to waddle to set
Speaker 1: up a third and fourteen, no dice punt the ball.
Speaker 1: Next drive, Bing bang bong touchdown master class. Look fantastic.
Speaker 1: Next drive, dropped pass on third and one. We lose
Speaker 1: the challenge there. There goes a time out and one
Speaker 1: of the challenges you have. Then we punt and lose
Speaker 1: a challenge there, and that looked very very close, but
Speaker 1: their chances. I think of overturning that on a play
Speaker 1: that looks that close on replay, they're not gonna overturn
Speaker 1: something like that. That one hurts too, but still lost
Speaker 1: time outlost challenge. Next drive, savon akbed drops the past
Speaker 1: that would have given Miami a third and three. Instead,
Speaker 1: we get another route one yard short of the sticks
Speaker 1: on third and six. Then we run on fourth and
Speaker 1: one out of shotgun. Durham Smith gets beat across his
Speaker 1: face and the block or the block does not succeed.
Speaker 1: He gets beat across his face by the opposing defender
Speaker 1: who gets in the backfield and makes a play on
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown play it fails, and then Jacksonville kicks a
Speaker 1: field goal after that, after a quick hitter on fourth
Speaker 1: and doubt fourth down from Trevor Lawrence to set up
Speaker 1: the game winning field goal from fifty three yards. So
Speaker 1: how many mistakes were in there? Double digits. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's no recipe for success in any former fashion. But
Speaker 1: if you play the small margins game where you need
Speaker 1: to be really sharp in those areas, and that's the
Speaker 1: type of performance you're gonna get that is gonna be
Speaker 1: tough to overcome. That's one in five takeaway number two
Speaker 1: the defense without exaviing Howard and Byron Jones. We know
Speaker 1: we talked about this last season. We heard Brian Baldinger
Speaker 1: talk about it, even put some of his sound on
Speaker 1: the air waves here where he talked about how a
Speaker 1: lot of the creativity and blitz packaging and the confidence
Speaker 1: to send extra rushers up front is because of how
Speaker 1: good this team is in the back end and coverage
Speaker 1: with Exaviing Howard, with Byron Jones, with Nick Needham, with
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe. Today, both those guys are down and they
Speaker 1: had to play a different type of game because of that,
Speaker 1: and that's that's understandable. But you coach to the personnel
Speaker 1: you have, and they played I thought fairly well for
Speaker 1: the most part. On the outside. They gave the Jaguars
Speaker 1: a lot of chances to make plays, and just like
Speaker 1: we talked about in the previous segment, the Jaguars made
Speaker 1: their fair share mistakes. How many missed rows do they have?
Speaker 1: How many drop passes did they have? Especially in that
Speaker 1: first half. But when you're built around those guys, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough to win without them, even when you
Speaker 1: have a pair of corners playing largely off coverage and
Speaker 1: giving up those cushions. I talked to Seth Levitt about
Speaker 1: this during the game when we were getting for the
Speaker 1: postgame show, about all the second and fifteens and how
Speaker 1: that seemed to be the time that Miami like to
Speaker 1: dial up the pressure after a false start or after
Speaker 1: a negative play on first down, and that was so successful.
Speaker 1: But it was hard to get into those spots because
Speaker 1: on those first downs there was a lot of space
Speaker 1: to be given to the Jacksonville offense, and they for
Speaker 1: large stretches of the game, maybe even the entire game.
Speaker 1: I don't really recall his name being called barely at all.
Speaker 1: They avoided Nick Needham, and no, it was not gonna
Speaker 1: gets himself in great position a lot. He got beat
Speaker 1: by a perfect throw in the touchdown pass from Lawrence
Speaker 1: to Marvin Jones, and then he was beaten later again
Speaker 1: where I thought he had a chance to get his
Speaker 1: head around on that penultimate Jaguars drive. I think it was.
Speaker 1: But we did see the Dolphins go back to more
Speaker 1: pressure looks late in the game when the Dolphins really
Speaker 1: had to get a stop and must have spots, we
Speaker 1: saw some exotic stuff and the pressure worked I mean
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker running downhill. To me, he looks way faster
Speaker 1: than he does going side to side right now. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know why. That's just what it
Speaker 1: looks like to me. You get the Emmanuel og Bob
Speaker 1: bat down, Baker running free on the quarterback. Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: wins around the side of the tackle from a three
Speaker 1: tech position where he loops around the outside and corners
Speaker 1: for a big strip set. What a big time play
Speaker 1: from big time player. There. There was some positive stuff,
Speaker 1: but then I keep seeing this question on Twitter. Where
Speaker 1: is the Amba defense, Travis? Where is the guy standing
Speaker 1: up and dancing around and looking for different gaps to
Speaker 1: shooting confuse the quarterback. We saw all the time last year.
Speaker 1: We see it a few times this year. But I
Speaker 1: look at this defense and I continuously see these same
Speaker 1: things popping up on tape where we talked about on
Speaker 1: the podcast last week. Too many instances of guys covering grass.
Speaker 1: There's instances where guys are miss aligned pre snap. There
Speaker 1: was a play in the game last week where Jerome
Speaker 1: Bakers on the wrong side of the formation. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's him, if that's someone telling him where
Speaker 1: to be or what the case. Maybe all I know
Speaker 1: is the running backs on the right side of the formation.
Speaker 1: He's on the left side, and that was the guy
Speaker 1: that he covered and it was an easy ten yards
Speaker 1: before he even got there to the football. There was
Speaker 1: a couple of plays last week where they went unbalanced
Speaker 1: offensive line and Brady had like three or four blockers
Speaker 1: to two or three hats in the area. That's just
Speaker 1: not being lined up in a competitive way to to
Speaker 1: compete on a football field. And if you're having issues
Speaker 1: at times getting aligned, how do you operate a complex
Speaker 1: defense that asks guys to kind of freelance and pick
Speaker 1: their way into certain gaps. Maybe freelances the wrong word,
Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying. It's complex to run
Speaker 1: that AMO defense. It's complex to run a gamut of
Speaker 1: twists and stunts and games up front. To have linebackers
Speaker 1: looping and scraping, and you have safeties filling and guys
Speaker 1: blitzing and capping off those blitzes. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: reactionary play you have to have that comes from preparation.
Speaker 1: And this is a young team for sure, but if
Speaker 1: you can't get those other things executed, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get that executed. So basically, my takeaways that in order
Speaker 1: to get to the complex stuff, you better be rock
Speaker 1: solid and all the other stuff. And right now this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team just is not. Take away number three. Look
Speaker 1: at how different the offense looked in this game. We
Speaker 1: talked about four and thirty one yards. We've been clamoring
Speaker 1: for that for a long time. That's that's good eating
Speaker 1: in today's NFL. And you know, the the command of
Speaker 1: the offense that to a tongue of iloa held in
Speaker 1: this game, I thought we saw it right away on
Speaker 1: the first touchdown pass of the game, the first drive
Speaker 1: of the game of a master class drive by the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins offense ended on Jalen Waddle touchdown reception, where
Speaker 1: that's a running play. It looks like a running play
Speaker 1: to me that he checks too. You see him kind
Speaker 1: of stand up with the line scrimmage, make a little
Speaker 1: hand signaled to to Jalen Waddle. They get that thing
Speaker 1: checked to the right. Look he comes with a little
Speaker 1: glance route off the r p O off the fake handoff.
Speaker 1: It was exactly like the play in New England on
Speaker 1: first and four teen, backed up in our own end,
Speaker 1: having to have a first down to extend that drive
Speaker 1: and win that football game. The exact same thing he
Speaker 1: checks so that gets out of the bad run play,
Speaker 1: gets to a positive pass play, turns into a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and post a possibly a negative play behind the line,
Speaker 1: converting third downs. The Dolphins had their best third down
Speaker 1: performance of the season today. Two with his legs, by
Speaker 1: the way, talked about the time position of flipping in
Speaker 1: the other direction. Now instead of being on the field
Speaker 1: for forty minutes, defense is only out there for twenty
Speaker 1: seven minutes. Lengthy drives, you know, a ninety one yard touchdown,
Speaker 1: driving eight yard touchdown drive to start the game, up
Speaker 1: and down the field to produce four thirty one yards,
Speaker 1: hitting consistent layups, getting guys the football early. You saw
Speaker 1: him hit the top of that drop and the ball
Speaker 1: came out and on time, gave guys chance to create
Speaker 1: after the catch. We'll talk about the yacht numbers on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's podcast. To me, that's how the offense was supposed
Speaker 1: to look with the pieces they brought in, with the
Speaker 1: offensive line strenks they had, with the quarterback strenks. He
Speaker 1: has obviously the rotation of running backs. To me, that
Speaker 1: was today what you want to look like as far
Speaker 1: as moving the ball from twenty to twenty, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get the other mistakes figured out and corrected later,
Speaker 1: because I thought this offense was so close to putting
Speaker 1: up thirty five forty two points in this game if
Speaker 1: they just get some of those airs corrected. We talked
Speaker 1: about the third downs. How about the must have its
Speaker 1: situations the fourth quarter on the go ahead drive two ago,
Speaker 1: six for six, eighty three yards and the touchdown pass
Speaker 1: on what could have been the game winning drive if
Speaker 1: the defense held their end of the bargain. And he
Speaker 1: finishes that fourth quarter after that drive nine for ten
Speaker 1: with a hundred nine passing yards and the touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: So play his best ball late in the game. On
Speaker 1: third down, he himself was eight for fourteen with eighty
Speaker 1: passing yards and two rushing first down, So nine total
Speaker 1: conversions on sixteen tries, and a lot of those were
Speaker 1: third and long. Two on the first scoring drive under pressure,
Speaker 1: even with a hand in his face kind of throwing
Speaker 1: a football from an off off platform. Look, there was
Speaker 1: one place where he's looking down the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and he fires to the left because the footworks
Speaker 1: not a line because he's off the platform after being
Speaker 1: chased from pressure, and he delivers a strike for a
Speaker 1: first down a big third and six on the go
Speaker 1: ahead drive in the fourth quarter, utilizing Jalen Waddle ten catches,
Speaker 1: seventy yards, two touchdowns. All three of his touchdowns for
Speaker 1: both two and Waddle have gone from the other guy
Speaker 1: to the other guy. Getting Mike Kasiki running in space
Speaker 1: eight catches for one, fifteen crossing routes, getting going vertical
Speaker 1: with a thirty two yard pass to him, and just
Speaker 1: finding ways to get him on linebackers on safeties and
Speaker 1: creating after the catch because he's getting hit and stride
Speaker 1: checking to that glance route off the run look based
Speaker 1: on the spacing on that first touchdown pass. Ultimately, I
Speaker 1: think that some of the misses were just little things
Speaker 1: like communication, like for instance, on the one of the
Speaker 1: field goals you kicked from its ow the ten yard
Speaker 1: buying where Gascon sits down his route instead of continuing
Speaker 1: up on the little angle route. That was like a
Speaker 1: little miscommunication. I thought that they could iron out and
Speaker 1: possibly give themselves a touchdown pass the next time they
Speaker 1: see that. And there were a few drops again in
Speaker 1: this game as well, now to me too, A did
Speaker 1: have one big air and one big mistake. The big
Speaker 1: mistake was the interception, and after the game he owned it.
Speaker 1: He said that was an awful decision that he should
Speaker 1: have never thrown that football, and the error was the
Speaker 1: third and two that I talked about earlier, and I
Speaker 1: actually liked the throw of the decision to put it
Speaker 1: up there, and I want to see it on tape
Speaker 1: and see what he saw because the TV broadcast didn't
Speaker 1: show me where guys were coming from. But I think
Speaker 1: we just gotta hit that because I thought he had
Speaker 1: a couple of guys open. The ball just kind of
Speaker 1: flew to empty space and he gave up a first
Speaker 1: down to make that throw. But he came back and
Speaker 1: converted on fourth and two. Anyways, but to go over
Speaker 1: three hundred yards thirty seven nine yards, two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: the bad pick one passer rating three rushes for twenty
Speaker 1: two yards. To do that without Fuller, Parker and Williams,
Speaker 1: that says something to me, but it doesn't say anything
Speaker 1: to to UH. Every time he was asked about his
Speaker 1: performance individually after the game, he said what he should
Speaker 1: have said, that we lost, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: But take away number three was I thought the offense
Speaker 1: looked better and more proficient, more efficient, and more successful,
Speaker 1: and he about them being close. I tend to agree
Speaker 1: with to about them getting closer to the ultimate finished products.
Speaker 1: But week six, now in the NFL, you don't have
Speaker 1: that much time to get it figured out. So it
Speaker 1: has to happen. Now. It's a go time right now.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number four the mystery of the first and fourth
Speaker 1: quarter versus the second and third quarter. We've been following
Speaker 1: this script all year long. It seems basically going back
Speaker 1: to that Las Vegas game or even you know, even
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game where the offense had some drives early
Speaker 1: and bogged down. But the Radar game, for sure, you
Speaker 1: start off fast, the offense has some success, the big
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown touchdown running that Raiders game. In the Colts game,
Speaker 1: you get out to an early lead as well, and
Speaker 1: then the offense kind of disappears in the second quarter
Speaker 1: and the defense starts to kind of come undone in
Speaker 1: that second and third quarter, and the opposition scores to
Speaker 1: start the third quarter on their first drive of the game.
Speaker 1: They closed the second quarter in this drive with pointed
Speaker 1: in and the half as well. It's just been the
Speaker 1: same script of strong first quarter, strong script offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: getting some stops, getting some drives, getting some field goals,
Speaker 1: even touchdowns for both of two of start. Now, his
Speaker 1: first drive as a resulted in a touchdown, two for
Speaker 1: two in that regard, and then you just have this
Speaker 1: this empty vat of space where nothing is being accomplished
Speaker 1: for the most part, and then the fourth quarter turns
Speaker 1: it back up and it's right back to the same
Speaker 1: old stuff. The offense is hitting key third downs, the
Speaker 1: defense is getting the pressure they desire, they're getting stops.
Speaker 1: Just a weird, weird script for the game. And on
Speaker 1: that track, Jalen Waddle in this game had twelve targets.
Speaker 1: Eleven of those targets came in the first and fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: He made four catches on four targets on that first
Speaker 1: drive or in the first quarter rather for twenty nine
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown, and only had his next catch
Speaker 1: came in the fourth quarter. I don't, I don't. That's
Speaker 1: all I have for the takeaway. It's just it's it's
Speaker 1: confusing to me. I don't know why that's the case,
Speaker 1: but I just think it's very curious that the games
Speaker 1: keep following the same script almost every single week so far.
Speaker 1: And take away number five as the special teams. You
Speaker 1: know Sanders from fifty eight. I've seen him hit that
Speaker 1: field goal more times than I can count, even in
Speaker 1: his sleep. I've seen him hit from that distance no problem.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't even close. And that's three points that
Speaker 1: would have been valuable in this game. And Michael Pollardi
Speaker 1: less than forty yards per punt four for an average
Speaker 1: of thirty nine point five and a couple of those
Speaker 1: we're kicking from around midfield and we're not even getting
Speaker 1: a chance to down the football. It's short of the
Speaker 1: ten yard line, and they're fair catching and not giving
Speaker 1: you a chance of a a bounce or a roll or
Speaker 1: a pen. It's it's costing you yardage. So those are
Speaker 1: the five takeaways. Special teams are strange and not hitting
Speaker 1: well at all. Right now, the mystery of the first
Speaker 1: and fourth quarter versus the second and third quarter. The
Speaker 1: offense looking different under two a toungle by Loa and
Speaker 1: his performance in this game. Takeaway number two without Byron
Speaker 1: and X, the defense is difficult to execute. And then
Speaker 1: number one takeaway playing with small margins. It's difficult, especially
Speaker 1: when you make that many mistakes. So I want to
Speaker 1: talk about a few individuals here before you out here
Speaker 1: on the podcast. We're not gonna do a postgame show today,
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow's podcast. We'll see, but I'll tweet the link
Speaker 1: out for you guys either way so you can listen
Speaker 1: to me Seth and o J kind of unpack this.
Speaker 1: But as far as the individuals that we didn't talk
Speaker 1: about in the takeaways, Christian Wilkins is certainly deserving of
Speaker 1: a nod in this game, had a big strip sack.
Speaker 1: He continues to really hold the point against the running game.
Speaker 1: I mean the sack that he got from the three tech,
Speaker 1: which is aligned right outside the outside shoulder of your
Speaker 1: offensive guard. To go from that position to looping around
Speaker 1: the defense or the offensive tackle and corner from that
Speaker 1: defensive end position and get a strip sac is impressive,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider all his run game work that
Speaker 1: he did in this game and all season long, with
Speaker 1: the tackles, the TFLs, the run stop win percentage. He's
Speaker 1: having a hell of a year. He's a hell of
Speaker 1: a player, and I continue to take my hat off
Speaker 1: to Christian Wilkins I think Jalen Phillips continues to not
Speaker 1: just look the part, but you can tell by the
Speaker 1: way offenses are playing against him that he's he's either
Speaker 1: there he's getting there because they're doubling him, they're chipping
Speaker 1: him there, using him as the unblocked freeman to try
Speaker 1: to use the quarterbacks ball handling and you know, the
Speaker 1: decision on on zone reads and RPOs and that type
Speaker 1: of thing to influence him and make him have to
Speaker 1: react rather than just play straightforward. They're doing so much
Speaker 1: on Phillips, try to negate him out of game plans,
Speaker 1: and he's doing everything from set in the edge, providing
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback, condensing inside. I just continue to
Speaker 1: be really impressed with his game, and he continues to
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback. So does Emmanuala. Had a couple
Speaker 1: of big players in this game. The big sack in
Speaker 1: this one, a big bat down at the lion of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He continues to look to part off that edge. After
Speaker 1: his kind of drop off performance last week with no
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures, he got right back to work in this
Speaker 1: one and return to being the same Emmanual. But we
Speaker 1: all know and love around here talked about Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: just the way he approaches the football and makes tough catches.
Speaker 1: I know he has some drops this season, but he
Speaker 1: made a couple of tough catches in traffic in this
Speaker 1: game that I was really impressed with. And he continues
Speaker 1: to impress me. I just want to see more. Just
Speaker 1: give me more Waddle. I want more and more Waddle.
Speaker 1: I want more and more. Mike KASICKI, he has himself
Speaker 1: a heck of a football game in this one, just
Speaker 1: catching the ball and rambling down the field for big
Speaker 1: games eight for one fifteen. What a big game that
Speaker 1: is for a tight end. I thought Robert Hunt had
Speaker 1: a lot of big time hits and blocks and coming
Speaker 1: across the formation wiping guys out good and pass pro
Speaker 1: creating space in the running game. Really made a mention
Speaker 1: of Robert Hunt in my notes. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: the offensive line on the Ultimately two podcast on tomorrow's show,
Speaker 1: so keep an air out for that, and then Javon
Speaker 1: Holland want to talk about here for a second. There
Speaker 1: was a play with Holland where he's a split safety
Speaker 1: on one side of the field and the play goes
Speaker 1: to the opposite side of the field. And he comes
Speaker 1: all the way across the formation basically disregarding a guy
Speaker 1: that ran through his area and coming down and closing
Speaker 1: on a pass that Lawrence through and getting the past
Speaker 1: break up, and they almost flagged him for it. I
Speaker 1: think for a camera what it was there was there
Speaker 1: was some flag they picked up after the play. But
Speaker 1: he came from nowhere to make that play. And we
Speaker 1: saw that all the time on his organ tape where
Speaker 1: he was just relentless in his pursuit of the football
Speaker 1: to not just show the speed and reaction skills that
Speaker 1: he has athletically and physically, but the mental makeup to
Speaker 1: understand this route is going behind me. That means this
Speaker 1: route is gonna feel this place. I'm gonna come off
Speaker 1: and jump that make a big play. We saw all
Speaker 1: the time in Oregon. I thought we saw a couple
Speaker 1: of times in this game. We'll talk about it more
Speaker 1: on the AL twenty two review when you get a
Speaker 1: better look at the safety's But I continue to be
Speaker 1: so impressed by his coverage, the way he flows downhill,
Speaker 1: his work coming around a receiver who's stationary and coming
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. There's so many times where he could
Speaker 1: easily get that hand and the lower back and turn
Speaker 1: him and get a past interference call or a hold
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. And he's just not
Speaker 1: drawing those fouls because he does it clean, and he's
Speaker 1: so adept at finding the football and the tackling the
Speaker 1: sure tackling the run game and you know, off the
Speaker 1: football when receivers are in space. Been super super impressed
Speaker 1: with Javon Holland's game, and he Jalen Waddle and Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips and then Leah Meickenberg has had some moments as well.
Speaker 1: Those first four draft picks. I think you really got
Speaker 1: something there with that class. So that kind of takes
Speaker 1: us into our final talpic here that I told you
Speaker 1: guys we talked about as far as like where to
Speaker 1: go from here? And where do you go from here?
Speaker 1: To me? Seth made a great point on the podcast
Speaker 1: about how you know, we kind of got we got
Speaker 1: some some heat on the on the postgame show for
Speaker 1: not calling for people's heads, and that's just not something
Speaker 1: you're ever gonna hear from us, because that's what well
Speaker 1: beyond our pay grades and well beyond our ability to
Speaker 1: assess who's doing what kind of job around here. So
Speaker 1: we wanted to kind of, you know, fight back on that,
Speaker 1: and just in seth point I thought was really good
Speaker 1: to the point point of you're never going to get
Speaker 1: out of this perpetual rebuild you find yourself in that
Speaker 1: we kind of talked about earlier in the podcast, if
Speaker 1: you don't find a system and and work through the
Speaker 1: kinks and work through some of the downfalls of whatever
Speaker 1: is going on within your organization. We've seen so many coaches,
Speaker 1: GMS players, anyone involved in this league has had slumps,
Speaker 1: has had moments where it looked like maybe that wasn't
Speaker 1: the guy for that job, for that team, for that
Speaker 1: particular possessition, wherever the case may have been. There has
Speaker 1: been a lot of those moments. I thought Seth said
Speaker 1: it well when he said that you're not gonna get
Speaker 1: to where you want to go if you just repeat
Speaker 1: this rebuilding process over and over again and don't give
Speaker 1: guys a chance to find their footholds and find and
Speaker 1: establish their hold on this football team. And while we
Speaker 1: get that a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars previously win
Speaker 1: list and previously when listen their last twenty games combined
Speaker 1: going to last season, yeah, that's gonna that's gonna really
Speaker 1: cause some questions to be asked, some hard questions about
Speaker 1: adjustments or what are you doing that's not working, because
Speaker 1: it's not working and you've got to find the fix.
Speaker 1: But to just think that you're gonna go out there
Speaker 1: and make whole cell changes and have it all fixed
Speaker 1: that way, I think that's not realistic. I think you
Speaker 1: have to look at the man in the mirror, like O.
Speaker 1: J always says, and find those results internally, and especially
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. It's only it's week
Speaker 1: six right now. We have eleven football games left to
Speaker 1: play this year, right, seventeen games? Yeah, eleven games left
Speaker 1: to play this year. To me, that's a chance to
Speaker 1: evaluate a lot of young players this roster still has.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even looking. I'm not gonna look at
Speaker 1: the standings anymore, because what's We're not doing that right now?
Speaker 1: One in five you're a looking at the standings. So
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? You want to see
Speaker 1: if this quarterback can continue to build upon the things
Speaker 1: that he showed in training camp in the preseason and
Speaker 1: week one and out week's number six. I thought he's
Speaker 1: played well so far. Really the entire calendar year, and
Speaker 1: George Gonzi talked about him building off what he did
Speaker 1: in training camp and in preseason, and I thought we
Speaker 1: saw a continuation of that in this game. But the
Speaker 1: running back position, you have two young running backs and
Speaker 1: Miles gascon Savana. What can they give you? Is Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown a long term fixture there? At receiver? Wattle continues
Speaker 1: to get pumped targets and continues to make catches and
Speaker 1: make plays and score touchdowns. Excited about his development. Can
Speaker 1: we get some le game going with Jalen Waddle at
Speaker 1: that at the position as well Parker and Williams. Can
Speaker 1: they come back and kind of earned earned some of
Speaker 1: their their keep as far as production, because it hasn't
Speaker 1: been there this year for Eill of those guys with
Speaker 1: the injuries popping up here, Mike Asiki continues to show
Speaker 1: his trajectory towards a year by year improvement. The tight
Speaker 1: end position. How does leam Mykenburg progress? How is Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt progress? I thought both guys had a good games today.
Speaker 1: I thought Robert Hunt was fantastic today. What else we
Speaker 1: have on the offensive line there? Michael Dieter was off
Speaker 1: to a strong star. Greg Mans has played pretty well
Speaker 1: in his place as well. On defense, Christian Wilkins continues
Speaker 1: to show you things here your number three. Andrew van
Speaker 1: Ginkl I thought his best game of the season today.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips continues to show a week by week improvement.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of developmental players on this roster.
Speaker 1: Javon Hall on the second Dary Brandon Jones in the secondary.
Speaker 1: Nick Needam continues to play well. No Whatnogady got a
Speaker 1: chance to maybe he gets more chances going forward. The
Speaker 1: linebacker position. Jerome Baker is still very young and on
Speaker 1: a contract he just signed. Can he kind of turned
Speaker 1: things around? To me? There's lots of things to look
Speaker 1: at on this team. And I know I talked about
Speaker 1: it last week about not going into evaluation mode because
Speaker 1: it's just way too early for me to do that.
Speaker 1: I understand the need and the the release for something
Speaker 1: to think about a fix. How do you fix this
Speaker 1: mess wearing right now? Like I understand the want and
Speaker 1: the desire to do that, just not really keen on
Speaker 1: doing that. I think you have to go out and
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on with in your football team.
Speaker 1: What's going on on this fifty three man roster, which guys,
Speaker 1: this is what you're gonna find out right now, gut
Speaker 1: checked time. We found out back in two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: which of those guys were going to be around long term.
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe was a guy that proved himself. Preston Williams
Speaker 1: kind of guy that proved himself late and that's he's in.
Speaker 1: Vante Parker sure as hell proved himself late in that season.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how you approach this season. Now, how
Speaker 1: can they who's gonna be the guys that galvanize and
Speaker 1: really are the engines that drive the turnaround, but drive
Speaker 1: victories and drive this team? Just playing better football right now?
Speaker 1: It's I mean about victories anymore. It's about playing better
Speaker 1: football for me right now. I'm sure you know they'll
Speaker 1: tell you something different. As far as coaches and players,
Speaker 1: it's all about winning. But I want to see better
Speaker 1: football be because it wasn't a lot better on Sunday
Speaker 1: lose the Jaguars. It's not a lot better. Let's see
Speaker 1: more consistent. All three phases complimentary football is continue to
Speaker 1: build and get this thing better and make the program
Speaker 1: that you have right now improve. That's the best way
Speaker 1: You're gonna get back into success and turn this thing
Speaker 1: around and get off this perpetual cycle we talked about
Speaker 1: in the monologue. You have to have the guys internally
Speaker 1: do it, fix it, it can happen. Go out and
Speaker 1: do it. Make it happen. That's the show. Please subscribe, rate,
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