WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Demolish Commanders 45-15 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.440 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.520 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not far though. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:09.920 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.399 And welcome to a victory Monday edition of the Drive 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.919 Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.880 your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.240 How's it going, everybody? 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.520 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.360 the Dolphins role in the Nation's capital forty five to fifteen. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.760 You know what time that means? It is when? When? 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:39.720 When? And the Dolphins do win going away forty five 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.559 point fifteen, they improve to nine and three atop the 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.159 AFC at the moment of recording this podcast late on 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.960 Sunday night, before the Chiefs and Packers have a chance 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.880 to do battle, the best start for the Dolphins since 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.320 two thousand and one. We'll break down this victory. We'll 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.520 do the play by play, we'll do the five big 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.319 picture takeaways the play before the play and thoughts from 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.880 Tua and Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.320 the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.600 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:12.280 That's Miami dolphers. I want to go ahead and start 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.400 here with a commentary from Tuatungua Bi Looa following today's 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.600 victory up in Washington, because I think it's instructive for 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.520 how the team is wired for, how the quarterback is 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.880 wired for, how he's grown in his fourth year into 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.040 this leadership role, and something that coach and Tua and 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.840 Tyreek and all the players and this podcast have been 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.840 talking about on Twitter, on these airwaves wherever you can 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.200 find your Dolphins content from me, been talking about how 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.000 this team has a special aura to it and the 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.560 ability if they can execute and get things accomplished, to 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.800 accomplish lofty heights and the ultimate goal. Right, I want 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.800 to go ahead and play this sound here from Tuatungua 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.760 Bi Looa, who was asked after the game about the 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.120 way the guys worked this week and a follow up 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.240 question to the question that I post to Mike McDaniel. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.760 I think it was on Friday when I asked him, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.640 what did you learn about last year that was instructive 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.040 for this year? Being at this point the first weekend 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.239 in December, eleven games into the season, you're eight and 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.480 three in both marks. What was last year instructive towards 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.519 this year? And how can you guys get better from 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.320 that the follow up question was, well, you had mentioned 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.560 or McDaniel had mentioned that Wednesday and Thursday's practice had 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.880 an intentionality to them and a locked in focus, and 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.800 even after the game today, McDaniel said that it doesn't 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.680 matter who the opponent is, the guys approach every day 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.040 the same way, and that can often be like lip 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.120 service where it's not necessarily I guess taking a face 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.280 value when it's said across the league, but it's pretty 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.919 difficult to ignore the results you get in accordance with 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.760 what coach said there. So I want to go ahead 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.639 and play this audio from TUA who talked about how 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.160 locked in this team is right now. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.240 Yeah, I think everyone is locked in. I think everyone 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:58.360 is starting to handle their job, not more seriously, but 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.919 everyone's starting to do a little more. You see guys 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.280 staying a little longer, watching film together, when meetings that 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.280 you know, there's no meetings after practices on third down days, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.840 you see a lot of position groups meeting and staying 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.120 back a little longer. You're starting to see a lot 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.960 of guys staying out on the field a little longer 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.160 as well. So I think that's what Mike is seeing 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.480 is everyone knows that we can do something special this year, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.560 and like no one on our team is trying to 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:27.559 waste that opportunity. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.399 It was cool because Seth and Oja in the postgame 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.760 show had a perspective that I wasn't aware of back 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.360 from OJ's playing days when they called him extras week 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.720 when you had a big game, you would do extra stuff. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.680 But this team getting ready for a four and eight 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.840 football team this week has already adopted that mindset. I 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.560 just think it's a very very special place to be. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.720 And let's go ahead and rip off the stature from 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.960 this game real quick, which aren't quite as impressive as 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.400 you might think. I know that might sound again like 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.440 we've raised the standard to a certain point that we 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.360 don't appreciate what good stats look like. But I just 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.160 thought that the that sheet would be a little bit 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.400 more lopsided. But the explosive plays can change that a 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.680 little bit. I digress from a game perspective. Miami had 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.760 twenty first downs to Washington's eleven. Miami was seven for 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.120 thirteen on third downs, Washington was six for fourteen. But 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.920 that again was a lot like last week, where the 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.719 Jets got a lot of their third down conversions late 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.599 in the game when you're not really pressing the issue 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.480 defensively up by multiple scores, Dolphins were two for two 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.480 on fourth down, one for one on fourth down was 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.360 the commanders. Miami had four h six to Washington's two 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.320 hundred and forty five yards. That includes two eighty three 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.039 through the air versus just one oh seven good stuff 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.040 from the Miami defense. There one twenty three rushing for Miami, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.360 one thirty eight for Washington. Miami only had five more 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.000 plays than Washington, which, again the explosive nature of the 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.520 Dolphins offense can do that sometimes. We'll talk about this 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.680 a lot in the podcast tonight. No giveaways from Miami. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.960 One takeaway. No sacks from Miami with another cobbled together 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.080 offensive line combination that changed in game once again. So 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.440 no sacks again, A credit to those guys, a credit 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.520 to Butch Berry, A credit to a timenge by Lowa 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.400 because sacks are definitely a QB stat and he keeps 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.520 those things low weekend week out. Two penalties for fifteen yards. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.440 We sacked Washington three times, by the way, Sam Howe 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:10.200 got dumb three. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:10.680 Times in the game. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.760 Two penalties for fifteen yards, three for thirty one for Washington, 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.640 Hats off to the officials for keeping their Hankees in 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.400 their pockets, and then thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.560 sign possession for the Miami Dolphins in this one, I 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.280 want to go ahead and play their sound bye here 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.239 as we're going to hear from Coach McDaniel talking about 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.960 the special nature of Tua tongue by Lowa and Tyreek 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.560 kill and what they're doing for you know, record books, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.400 for team records, the potential league records they're looking to 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.760 set this year, and marks that are you know, all 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.960 time in that regard. So let's go ahead and hear 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.640 from coach on how special one and ten are and 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.839 how much fun they've made our lives as Dolphins fans. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.880 I think they're tremendous players that can make plays on 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:52.240 their own for sure, without but together the important thing 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:58.000 for this team is you know that that you're seeing 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.159 the best selves of both players while playing together. So 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:06.840 I think that's for me the way I know they're 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:12.320 elite players, but you know, working together, they're they're finding 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.760 you know, two is able to be super aggressive in 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:22.320 certain windows because he trusts what Tyreek's gonna do. Tyreek's 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.440 able to be super aggressive because he trusts to his 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.800 field vision and knows that if he's putting a ball 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.800 up in the air a little bit over the middle, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.640 to just track it and catch it, because two is 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.799 not going to lead him in hard harm's way. So, uh, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:45.280 the the aggressiveness they are or they they play with 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:51.560 is is very unique and just h you know, their 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:57.640 their ability to make plays together that other people can't. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.800 I think is is is why there there is the 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.600 results of both of their numbers. It's they're independently awesome, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.520 but together they're even better. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.760 How about some more just Tua and Tyreek's stats. So 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.200 Tua was one forty one passer rating in this game 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.880 was the second best of his career. His best was 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.680 back in Week three versus Denver. Again, the Dolphins started 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.680 their eighth different offensive line combination, did not allow a sack, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.600 and allowed just two QB hits in the game. Miami's 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.280 thirty point victory was the largest on the road since 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.600 nineteen seventy eight, a forty two to nothing win over Baltimore. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.640 Kind Of getting away from the two in Tyreek stats here, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.440 let's go ahead and get back to that. He's the 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.840 only player Tyreek since at least two thousand to have 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.120 two games in the same year with multiple receptions of 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.640 sixty yards in that same game. He had two today 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.720 and two against the Giants back in Week five. Crazy 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.480 crazy stats there. Let's see what else we got here. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.360 Tyreek is the first player in NFL history with five 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.160 plus games of one hundred and fifty yards receiving plus 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.040 a touchdown in the same season. He is now the 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.840 first Miami Dolphin to have twelve plus receiving touchdowns in 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.680 a season since Mark Clayton did in nineteen ninety one. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.120 Remember Chris Chambers had eleven back in two thousand and five. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.880 Let's see what else does Tyreek have. He's topped one 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.120 hundred and fifty yards receiving for the sixteenth time in 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.960 his career. That ties Julio Jones for the fourth most. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.640 Jerry Rice had thirty, and then Lance Alworth and Treo 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.480 Owens both had seventeen apiece. My goodness, Rice was a 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.840 different cat, wasn't he? Most one hundred yard receiving games 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.600 in a season for a Miami Dolphin. Tyreek Hills eight 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.200 are the now tied for Mark Duper for the most. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.079 Last year, he had seven. That was third in the 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.480 nation in the Miami Dolphins history. He also has let's see, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.840 three one hundred yard games in a row. He's the 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.480 first Dolphin to do this since Chris Chambers back in five. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.280 It's the second longest one hundred yard game streak by 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.360 receiver in team history. Pretty good stuff there. I mean, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.480 it's it's it's uniform across the board for these guys. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.280 For the production they've had with Cheetah and Tua and 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.000 the offense, just a lot of fun to watch. Tua 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.920 also extended his twenty one game passing streak with a 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.160 touchdown two twenty one games. He now trails only Dan 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.720 Marino with thirty as far as Dolphins all time record. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.640 So good stuff there. Let's go ahead and get to 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.640 the story of the game. And it started early on defense, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.959 as it seems to always do for the Dolphins. They 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.320 get a quick stop of the commander's offense. And I 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.480 was really impressed with how David Long flew around the 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.200 football field in this game. And it began on the 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.440 first play of the game where he fit his gap 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.720 and stuck the running back. And I always like to 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.000 see what happens at collision with the running back and 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.080 the full back because or the running in the linebacker, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.079 I should say does he fall forward or does he 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.280 get put back? And when David Long arrives, it typically 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.600 goes back into the direction. You also had a Sam 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.400 Howe like erran pass on this drive because Jalen Ramsey 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.640 drove out of his back pedal on an out route 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.000 and I think maybe had that thing in his crosshairs 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.000 for a potential pick the other way, and how Like 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.160 kind of let go of the ball mid throwing motion 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.280 and the ball just kind of skipped out and went 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.480 off to the to the ground, and then we got 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.440 good pressure. But Sam Howell does what he's done all 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.480 year and scrambled, made a big play and threw the 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.400 ball to the sideline. McDaniel challenges the play. It looked 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.200 like at first glance that Johan Dotson was out of bounds, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.280 but he was not. The plays upheld. The Commanders stay 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.000 on the field, but then we get Cater Kohu with 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.640 a run blitz to shut that thing down. Brandon Jones 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.719 drives on a flat that creates a third and eight, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.080 and then Miami operates from this look that we haven't 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.240 seen much from this team this year. In the past 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.400 a whole heck of a lot, but a simulated pressure 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.160 look with zero cover zero and like an all out blitz. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.080 But we did have Van Ginkle peel out and Sam 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.600 Howe looked confused by that, which, of course a young 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.800 quarterback against this defense. Gosh, this defense has been impressive 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.720 and they looked like it today, but they can certainly 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.520 put the screws to a young quarterback and kind of 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.920 confuse them. And of course on that blitz, who else 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.720 besides Brandon Jones who got a bunch of run today 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.000 playing in for the injured Javon Holland. Great to see 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.080 him getting pressure on the quarterback. And just this, I 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.160 thought this drive set the tone for the game for 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.720 the Dolphins defensively, that we're gonna have different looks. We're 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.319 gonna hit hard, we're gonna force you out of the pocket, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.360 we're gonna force you some tough throws. And they got 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.360 one first down, but that was it and Mimi gets 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.120 the football back and what do they do besides a 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.960 check down from Tua to Waddle that I just thought 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.000 was instructive of two was game today? The way he 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.640 I watched the Patriots game at three o'clock in the 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.679 morning the other night because my son was awaken. That's 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.040 what happens when you are a parent of a one 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.240 year old is you watch Dolphins games at three o'clock 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.720 in the morning. And I was watching the Week two 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.400 Patriots game, and I just thought the way that Tua 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.280 got from like interior of the field boom boom down 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.160 the field and then quickly to his checkdown to the 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.400 swing route to the perimeter route to his running back 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.160 was like really clean operationally, and I thought he got 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:26.520 right back to that in this game. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:27.400 It was so smooth. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.199 And it started off on the very first play of 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:30.880 the game to get the ball to Waddle quickly for 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.480 five whereheem gives you a three yard run and that 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.440 creates a third and short. And what I talked about 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.000 all week last week, right, how paramount those slot fades 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.760 to Hill and Waddle in the Jets game were going 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.240 to be for this offense going forward, And like I thought, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:47.679 that would mean more throws in the middle of the 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.920 field because you have to pill your coverage off. Maybe 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.160 go Patriots three safeties look, but the commander said, bet 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.400 we'll try that again, and they got beat twice for 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.760 two long touchdowns. This's whe I seventy eight yard touchdown 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.719 where again Tyreek is the two to the field, the 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.120 second furthest out receiver, and he just gets inside or 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.160 the corners outside leverage. There's no safety help. He runs 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.800 with a nasty little move, a little hesitation step at 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.520 that corner, and Tua puts the ball right on the money. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.880 And they talked about this after the game. T and 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.000 McDaniel did about the ball placement and about checking to 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.439 this play and having conversions that they can go to, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.040 you know, in play before the snap goes off and 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.640 after the fifteen second you know clock ticks off that 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.600 McDaniel can no longer communicate with two in his helmet. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:32.880 They talked about all the. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.600 Side adjustments in the preparation, the work that goes into 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.480 this and how much time to and Tyreek put in together. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.800 And let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel first on 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.360 that first touchdown because he was so impressed by so 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.760 many things that had to occur to make that play happen. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:51.240 So you're talking about command of really the game, what's 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.439 going on, when to be aggressive, when not to you know, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.880 it didn't surprise me, but you know, I think that 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.319 this was something that really the whole team knew Tua 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:06.760 was going to come out and have a day like 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.079 this with the with the way that he operates and 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.800 the way he'd been frustrated about turning the ball over, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:20.280 so to to be that aggressive while having that, you know, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:25.959 that burden of frustration is exactly what you hope for 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.320 with your with your starting quarterback. We have to learn 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:35.319 from things and have lessons, not scars. And and you know, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:41.319 the connection between Tua and tyreek Uh in terms of 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.920 two players playing together, is about as good as I've 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:49.079 ever been around. Hence, hence they're the the some of 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.760 the players they're able to make each and every week. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.480 Sure loved hearing coach talk about his teammates to us 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.520 teammates and how confident they were that he was going 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.240 to come out and have a performance like this one 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.520 because of just the way he's wired. And I think 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.000 you sensed confidence and that bravado he shows at the 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.360 podium at press conferences, and the way he plays the 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.000 game on Sundays is fearless and I love it. Let's 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.920 go ahead and hear from Tua on the placement of 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.880 that first touchdown pass the long one seventy eight yards 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:12.520 to Tyreek Hill. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:17.839 On that play, specifically, the ball is designated to go 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.000 at a certain spot with what we tell our receivers, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.520 and on that play, the ball they were to Tyreek 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.400 was to expect the ball on the inside edge of 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.480 the numbers. Now I can bleed him in more, but 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.040 I you know, I try to throw them away from 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.160 from the middle of the field safety So if you 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.960 go back, it landed on the inside edge of the numbers. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.640 But phenomenal, phenomenal job by what Tyreek did. I mean, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.000 that's that's that's tough to do. That's tough to do, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.880 especially going as fast as he's going. It's tough. It's remarkable. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.000 Seth and OLJ were really hyping me up in the 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.040 postgame radio because we heard that quote from Tua and 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.320 when they played the play back from the end zone angle, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.440 I was saying, I think, I think two was supposed 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.400 to put this ball right on the number, and you 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.600 kind of saw Tyreek ajus at the last moment he 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.920 runs right underneath it. Just that coordination in the synchronousy 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.720 those two guys have shared have really taken this passing 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.160 attack to the next level. Mans it's awesome to watch. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.960 We're pretty deep into the podcast. We're two drives into 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.920 the game. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.080 right there, come back on the other side, do the 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.760 rest of the game story, and then we'll go ahead 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.000 and pick it up in segment three with the five 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.280 big picture takeaways. All of that next Here on a 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.320 victory Monday edition of the Drive Time podcast, your host 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:35.880 Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So we 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.720 are early first quarter here on the recap of the 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.800 dolphins forty five to fifteen win over the Washington Commanders 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.920 to improve to nine to three and currently at the 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.720 time of the recording, sitting atop the AFC. If the 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.240 Chiefs win this game tonight, it'll be second in the AFC, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.400 ahead of Jacksonville and Cincinnati on Monday night, which will 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.800 dictate whether Miami is second or third in the AFC 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.560 going into week number fourteen. Okay, so the Commands get 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.840 the football back after the long touchdown pass from Tua 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.400 to Tyreek Hill, which, by the way, haven't covered this yet. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.280 Tua eighteen for twenty four on the day with two 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.640 hundred and eighty passing yards. That's seventy five percent, eleven 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.840 point seven yards per throw, two touchdowns, a one to 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.960 forty one passer rating, and Tyreek five for one fifty 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.480 seven for two touchdowns on this day. And the defense 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.200 came right back out swinging after that, Zach Sealer gets 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.840 immediate pressure inside to force Sam hal off a spot. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.920 How good was Zach Sealer in this game? Man? He 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.280 was just vicious with his rushes, quickly penetrating inside the 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.040 long arms that always seem to benefit him for leverage creation. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.760 Just a fantastic game from him. And then Caterer had 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.840 a couple of good reps, one in coverage on the 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.400 tight end, forcing Logan Thomas into a tough diving catch 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.320 that he could not make. And then you get Van 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.920 Ginkel an out and out pass rush win that gets 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.040 to Sam Howe, and I believe it was Chubb and 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.240 Sealer that finished him off with the sack on that play. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.640 So Miami, you know, we'll talk about the depth of 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.760 the team here pretty soon, but Miami just finding hits 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.760 and pieces all over this defense, all over this team 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.640 in general to has to have success. Dolphins with the 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.080 football back and they kick a field goal with a 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.119 devon a chan pop pass with burst that we know about, right, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.560 and you can just see the difference in his burst 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.120 and the way he finds those small creases but also 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.879 runs through contact like he's a physical dude in the 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.160 way that Raheem moster are with the four to three speed, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.440 you don't expect it. Maybe Raheem's a lot bigger of 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.720 a guy, but the physicality is there. Man. We saw 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.840 that with how this team ground the Commanders into a 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.560 pulp in that fourth quarter. You get a stick to 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.879 waddle between a trio of defenders for sixteen yards on 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.240 third and four, which I thought Miami's third down operation 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.240 across the board, whether it was running game, passing game 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.840 was superb in this game, and in fact, Miami's now 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.320 eighteen for twenty nine on third down and the last 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.440 two games combined. I thought that was a great throw 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.560 to kind of settle Wattle into a window of space 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.879 compared to the three Commanders that were in that area. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.639 And Tua just had that in his bag all game long, right, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.080 But also the attention that a Chan got on the 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.320 route there was something that caught my eye. You get 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:59.959 a ten yard run from Raheem, then we started going 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.560 backwards and get ourselves behind the chains. But the play 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.399 before the play today was the third and seventeen drag 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.520 route that Jaln Waddle ran the shallow crosser where we 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.639 got twelve yards to put Jason Sanders in position for 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.919 a forty eight yard field goal, and Wattle got all 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.960 kinds of good blocks, put a good move on the 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.879 first defender and then dropped his shoulder and ran through 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.679 a tackle to put himself, you know, short of the sticks, 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.480 but in range inside fifty yards for a field goal, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.919 which Sanders hit and then the defense comes back out 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.919 and gets any immediate three and out. As Christian wilkins Man, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.520 he made a play in this drive where he defended 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.320 the front side shoulder but then was able to get 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.520 backside of the gap on the other side of the 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.480 guy that was blocking him. Just impresses with plays like 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.440 that all the time. Again, Seler gets pressure on third down, 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.120 you get great rush lane integrity from both Bradley Chubb 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.560 and Andrew Van Ginkel, forces a throwaway boom Commanders three 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.520 and out, Miami goes three and out on the other side, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.399 and Waddle when he dropped that pass, he had a 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.320 block on a safety who had maybe the only angle 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.560 on him and nobody else did. And I think he 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.080 might have ran to the end zone on that play 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.280 if he caught that ball, But either way, no harm, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.200 no foul. They also had a negative run after that. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:08.800