Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 3: What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 1: And welcome to a victory Monday edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering
Speaker 1: your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: How's it going, everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins role in the Nation's capital forty five to fifteen.
Speaker 3: You know what time that means? It is when? When?
Speaker 1: When? And the Dolphins do win going away forty five
Speaker 1: point fifteen, they improve to nine and three atop the
Speaker 1: AFC at the moment of recording this podcast late on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, before the Chiefs and Packers have a chance
Speaker 1: to do battle, the best start for the Dolphins since
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. We'll break down this victory. We'll
Speaker 1: do the play by play, we'll do the five big
Speaker 1: picture takeaways the play before the play and thoughts from
Speaker 1: Tua and Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: That's Miami dolphers. I want to go ahead and start
Speaker 1: here with a commentary from Tuatungua Bi Looa following today's
Speaker 1: victory up in Washington, because I think it's instructive for
Speaker 1: how the team is wired for, how the quarterback is
Speaker 1: wired for, how he's grown in his fourth year into
Speaker 1: this leadership role, and something that coach and Tua and
Speaker 1: Tyreek and all the players and this podcast have been
Speaker 1: talking about on Twitter, on these airwaves wherever you can
Speaker 1: find your Dolphins content from me, been talking about how
Speaker 1: this team has a special aura to it and the
Speaker 1: ability if they can execute and get things accomplished, to
Speaker 1: accomplish lofty heights and the ultimate goal. Right, I want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and play this sound here from Tuatungua
Speaker 1: Bi Looa, who was asked after the game about the
Speaker 1: way the guys worked this week and a follow up
Speaker 1: question to the question that I post to Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: I think it was on Friday when I asked him,
Speaker 1: what did you learn about last year that was instructive
Speaker 1: for this year? Being at this point the first weekend
Speaker 1: in December, eleven games into the season, you're eight and
Speaker 1: three in both marks. What was last year instructive towards
Speaker 1: this year? And how can you guys get better from
Speaker 1: that the follow up question was, well, you had mentioned
Speaker 1: or McDaniel had mentioned that Wednesday and Thursday's practice had
Speaker 1: an intentionality to them and a locked in focus, and
Speaker 1: even after the game today, McDaniel said that it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who the opponent is, the guys approach every day
Speaker 1: the same way, and that can often be like lip
Speaker 1: service where it's not necessarily I guess taking a face
Speaker 1: value when it's said across the league, but it's pretty
Speaker 1: difficult to ignore the results you get in accordance with
Speaker 1: what coach said there. So I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and play this audio from TUA who talked about how
Speaker 1: locked in this team is right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everyone is locked in. I think everyone
Speaker 4: is starting to handle their job, not more seriously, but
Speaker 4: everyone's starting to do a little more. You see guys
Speaker 4: staying a little longer, watching film together, when meetings that
Speaker 4: you know, there's no meetings after practices on third down days,
Speaker 4: you see a lot of position groups meeting and staying
Speaker 4: back a little longer. You're starting to see a lot
Speaker 4: of guys staying out on the field a little longer
Speaker 4: as well. So I think that's what Mike is seeing
Speaker 4: is everyone knows that we can do something special this year,
Speaker 4: and like no one on our team is trying to
Speaker 4: waste that opportunity.
Speaker 1: It was cool because Seth and Oja in the postgame
Speaker 1: show had a perspective that I wasn't aware of back
Speaker 1: from OJ's playing days when they called him extras week
Speaker 1: when you had a big game, you would do extra stuff.
Speaker 1: But this team getting ready for a four and eight
Speaker 1: football team this week has already adopted that mindset. I
Speaker 1: just think it's a very very special place to be.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead and rip off the stature from
Speaker 1: this game real quick, which aren't quite as impressive as
Speaker 1: you might think. I know that might sound again like
Speaker 1: we've raised the standard to a certain point that we
Speaker 1: don't appreciate what good stats look like. But I just
Speaker 1: thought that the that sheet would be a little bit
Speaker 1: more lopsided. But the explosive plays can change that a
Speaker 1: little bit. I digress from a game perspective. Miami had
Speaker 1: twenty first downs to Washington's eleven. Miami was seven for
Speaker 1: thirteen on third downs, Washington was six for fourteen. But
Speaker 1: that again was a lot like last week, where the
Speaker 1: Jets got a lot of their third down conversions late
Speaker 1: in the game when you're not really pressing the issue
Speaker 1: defensively up by multiple scores, Dolphins were two for two
Speaker 1: on fourth down, one for one on fourth down was
Speaker 1: the commanders. Miami had four h six to Washington's two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty five yards. That includes two eighty three
Speaker 1: through the air versus just one oh seven good stuff
Speaker 1: from the Miami defense. There one twenty three rushing for Miami,
Speaker 1: one thirty eight for Washington. Miami only had five more
Speaker 1: plays than Washington, which, again the explosive nature of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense can do that sometimes. We'll talk about this
Speaker 1: a lot in the podcast tonight. No giveaways from Miami.
Speaker 1: One takeaway. No sacks from Miami with another cobbled together
Speaker 1: offensive line combination that changed in game once again. So
Speaker 1: no sacks again, A credit to those guys, a credit
Speaker 1: to Butch Berry, A credit to a timenge by Lowa
Speaker 1: because sacks are definitely a QB stat and he keeps
Speaker 1: those things low weekend week out. Two penalties for fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: We sacked Washington three times, by the way, Sam Howe
Speaker 1: got dumb three.
Speaker 3: Times in the game.
Speaker 1: Two penalties for fifteen yards, three for thirty one for Washington,
Speaker 1: Hats off to the officials for keeping their Hankees in
Speaker 1: their pockets, and then thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds
Speaker 1: sign possession for the Miami Dolphins in this one, I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and play their sound bye here
Speaker 1: as we're going to hear from Coach McDaniel talking about
Speaker 1: the special nature of Tua tongue by Lowa and Tyreek
Speaker 1: kill and what they're doing for you know, record books,
Speaker 1: for team records, the potential league records they're looking to
Speaker 1: set this year, and marks that are you know, all
Speaker 1: time in that regard. So let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: from coach on how special one and ten are and
Speaker 1: how much fun they've made our lives as Dolphins fans.
Speaker 2: I think they're tremendous players that can make plays on
Speaker 2: their own for sure, without but together the important thing
Speaker 2: for this team is you know that that you're seeing
Speaker 2: the best selves of both players while playing together. So
Speaker 2: I think that's for me the way I know they're
Speaker 2: elite players, but you know, working together, they're they're finding
Speaker 2: you know, two is able to be super aggressive in
Speaker 2: certain windows because he trusts what Tyreek's gonna do. Tyreek's
Speaker 2: able to be super aggressive because he trusts to his
Speaker 2: field vision and knows that if he's putting a ball
Speaker 2: up in the air a little bit over the middle,
Speaker 2: to just track it and catch it, because two is
Speaker 2: not going to lead him in hard harm's way. So, uh,
Speaker 2: the the aggressiveness they are or they they play with
Speaker 2: is is very unique and just h you know, their
Speaker 2: their ability to make plays together that other people can't.
Speaker 2: I think is is is why there there is the
Speaker 2: results of both of their numbers. It's they're independently awesome,
Speaker 2: but together they're even better.
Speaker 1: How about some more just Tua and Tyreek's stats. So
Speaker 1: Tua was one forty one passer rating in this game
Speaker 1: was the second best of his career. His best was
Speaker 1: back in Week three versus Denver. Again, the Dolphins started
Speaker 1: their eighth different offensive line combination, did not allow a sack,
Speaker 1: and allowed just two QB hits in the game. Miami's
Speaker 1: thirty point victory was the largest on the road since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, a forty two to nothing win over Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Kind Of getting away from the two in Tyreek stats here,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get back to that. He's the
Speaker 1: only player Tyreek since at least two thousand to have
Speaker 1: two games in the same year with multiple receptions of
Speaker 1: sixty yards in that same game. He had two today
Speaker 1: and two against the Giants back in Week five. Crazy
Speaker 1: crazy stats there. Let's see what else we got here.
Speaker 1: Tyreek is the first player in NFL history with five
Speaker 1: plus games of one hundred and fifty yards receiving plus
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the same season. He is now the
Speaker 1: first Miami Dolphin to have twelve plus receiving touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a season since Mark Clayton did in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1: Remember Chris Chambers had eleven back in two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else does Tyreek have. He's topped one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards receiving for the sixteenth time in
Speaker 1: his career. That ties Julio Jones for the fourth most.
Speaker 1: Jerry Rice had thirty, and then Lance Alworth and Treo
Speaker 1: Owens both had seventeen apiece. My goodness, Rice was a
Speaker 1: different cat, wasn't he? Most one hundred yard receiving games
Speaker 1: in a season for a Miami Dolphin. Tyreek Hills eight
Speaker 1: are the now tied for Mark Duper for the most.
Speaker 1: Last year, he had seven. That was third in the
Speaker 1: nation in the Miami Dolphins history. He also has let's see,
Speaker 1: three one hundred yard games in a row. He's the
Speaker 1: first Dolphin to do this since Chris Chambers back in five.
Speaker 1: It's the second longest one hundred yard game streak by
Speaker 1: receiver in team history. Pretty good stuff there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's uniform across the board for these guys.
Speaker 1: For the production they've had with Cheetah and Tua and
Speaker 1: the offense, just a lot of fun to watch. Tua
Speaker 1: also extended his twenty one game passing streak with a
Speaker 1: touchdown two twenty one games. He now trails only Dan
Speaker 1: Marino with thirty as far as Dolphins all time record.
Speaker 1: So good stuff there. Let's go ahead and get to
Speaker 1: the story of the game. And it started early on defense,
Speaker 1: as it seems to always do for the Dolphins. They
Speaker 1: get a quick stop of the commander's offense. And I
Speaker 1: was really impressed with how David Long flew around the
Speaker 1: football field in this game. And it began on the
Speaker 1: first play of the game where he fit his gap
Speaker 1: and stuck the running back. And I always like to
Speaker 1: see what happens at collision with the running back and
Speaker 1: the full back because or the running in the linebacker,
Speaker 1: I should say does he fall forward or does he
Speaker 1: get put back? And when David Long arrives, it typically
Speaker 1: goes back into the direction. You also had a Sam
Speaker 1: Howe like erran pass on this drive because Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: drove out of his back pedal on an out route
Speaker 1: and I think maybe had that thing in his crosshairs
Speaker 1: for a potential pick the other way, and how Like
Speaker 1: kind of let go of the ball mid throwing motion
Speaker 1: and the ball just kind of skipped out and went
Speaker 1: off to the to the ground, and then we got
Speaker 1: good pressure. But Sam Howell does what he's done all
Speaker 1: year and scrambled, made a big play and threw the
Speaker 1: ball to the sideline. McDaniel challenges the play. It looked
Speaker 1: like at first glance that Johan Dotson was out of bounds,
Speaker 1: but he was not. The plays upheld. The Commanders stay
Speaker 1: on the field, but then we get Cater Kohu with
Speaker 1: a run blitz to shut that thing down. Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: drives on a flat that creates a third and eight,
Speaker 1: and then Miami operates from this look that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen much from this team this year. In the past
Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot, but a simulated pressure
Speaker 1: look with zero cover zero and like an all out blitz.
Speaker 1: But we did have Van Ginkle peel out and Sam
Speaker 1: Howe looked confused by that, which, of course a young
Speaker 1: quarterback against this defense. Gosh, this defense has been impressive
Speaker 1: and they looked like it today, but they can certainly
Speaker 1: put the screws to a young quarterback and kind of
Speaker 1: confuse them. And of course on that blitz, who else
Speaker 1: besides Brandon Jones who got a bunch of run today
Speaker 1: playing in for the injured Javon Holland. Great to see
Speaker 1: him getting pressure on the quarterback. And just this, I
Speaker 1: thought this drive set the tone for the game for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defensively, that we're gonna have different looks. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hit hard, we're gonna force you out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: we're gonna force you some tough throws. And they got
Speaker 1: one first down, but that was it and Mimi gets
Speaker 1: the football back and what do they do besides a
Speaker 1: check down from Tua to Waddle that I just thought
Speaker 1: was instructive of two was game today? The way he
Speaker 1: I watched the Patriots game at three o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning the other night because my son was awaken. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you are a parent of a one
Speaker 1: year old is you watch Dolphins games at three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. And I was watching the Week two
Speaker 1: Patriots game, and I just thought the way that Tua
Speaker 1: got from like interior of the field boom boom down
Speaker 1: the field and then quickly to his checkdown to the
Speaker 1: swing route to the perimeter route to his running back
Speaker 1: was like really clean operationally, and I thought he got
Speaker 1: right back to that in this game.
Speaker 3: It was so smooth.
Speaker 1: And it started off on the very first play of
Speaker 1: the game to get the ball to Waddle quickly for
Speaker 1: five whereheem gives you a three yard run and that
Speaker 1: creates a third and short. And what I talked about
Speaker 1: all week last week, right, how paramount those slot fades
Speaker 1: to Hill and Waddle in the Jets game were going
Speaker 1: to be for this offense going forward, And like I thought,
Speaker 1: that would mean more throws in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field because you have to pill your coverage off. Maybe
Speaker 1: go Patriots three safeties look, but the commander said, bet
Speaker 1: we'll try that again, and they got beat twice for
Speaker 1: two long touchdowns. This's whe I seventy eight yard touchdown
Speaker 1: where again Tyreek is the two to the field, the
Speaker 1: second furthest out receiver, and he just gets inside or
Speaker 1: the corners outside leverage. There's no safety help. He runs
Speaker 1: with a nasty little move, a little hesitation step at
Speaker 1: that corner, and Tua puts the ball right on the money.
Speaker 1: And they talked about this after the game. T and
Speaker 1: McDaniel did about the ball placement and about checking to
Speaker 1: this play and having conversions that they can go to,
Speaker 1: you know, in play before the snap goes off and
Speaker 1: after the fifteen second you know clock ticks off that
Speaker 1: McDaniel can no longer communicate with two in his helmet.
Speaker 3: They talked about all the.
Speaker 1: Side adjustments in the preparation, the work that goes into
Speaker 1: this and how much time to and Tyreek put in together.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel first on
Speaker 1: that first touchdown because he was so impressed by so
Speaker 1: many things that had to occur to make that play happen.
Speaker 2: So you're talking about command of really the game, what's
Speaker 2: going on, when to be aggressive, when not to you know,
Speaker 2: it didn't surprise me, but you know, I think that
Speaker 2: this was something that really the whole team knew Tua
Speaker 2: was going to come out and have a day like
Speaker 2: this with the with the way that he operates and
Speaker 2: the way he'd been frustrated about turning the ball over,
Speaker 2: so to to be that aggressive while having that, you know,
Speaker 2: that burden of frustration is exactly what you hope for
Speaker 2: with your with your starting quarterback. We have to learn
Speaker 2: from things and have lessons, not scars. And and you know,
Speaker 2: the connection between Tua and tyreek Uh in terms of
Speaker 2: two players playing together, is about as good as I've
Speaker 2: ever been around. Hence, hence they're the the some of
Speaker 2: the players they're able to make each and every week.
Speaker 1: Sure loved hearing coach talk about his teammates to us
Speaker 1: teammates and how confident they were that he was going
Speaker 1: to come out and have a performance like this one
Speaker 1: because of just the way he's wired. And I think
Speaker 1: you sensed confidence and that bravado he shows at the
Speaker 1: podium at press conferences, and the way he plays the
Speaker 1: game on Sundays is fearless and I love it. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and hear from Tua on the placement of
Speaker 1: that first touchdown pass the long one seventy eight yards
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: On that play, specifically, the ball is designated to go
Speaker 4: at a certain spot with what we tell our receivers,
Speaker 4: and on that play, the ball they were to Tyreek
Speaker 4: was to expect the ball on the inside edge of
Speaker 4: the numbers. Now I can bleed him in more, but
Speaker 4: I you know, I try to throw them away from
Speaker 4: from the middle of the field safety So if you
Speaker 4: go back, it landed on the inside edge of the numbers.
Speaker 4: But phenomenal, phenomenal job by what Tyreek did. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's that's tough to do. That's tough to do,
Speaker 4: especially going as fast as he's going. It's tough. It's remarkable.
Speaker 1: Seth and OLJ were really hyping me up in the
Speaker 1: postgame radio because we heard that quote from Tua and
Speaker 1: when they played the play back from the end zone angle,
Speaker 1: I was saying, I think, I think two was supposed
Speaker 1: to put this ball right on the number, and you
Speaker 1: kind of saw Tyreek ajus at the last moment he
Speaker 1: runs right underneath it. Just that coordination in the synchronousy
Speaker 1: those two guys have shared have really taken this passing
Speaker 1: attack to the next level. Mans it's awesome to watch.
Speaker 1: We're pretty deep into the podcast. We're two drives into
Speaker 1: the game. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there, come back on the other side, do the
Speaker 1: rest of the game story, and then we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick it up in segment three with the five
Speaker 1: big picture takeaways. All of that next Here on a
Speaker 1: victory Monday edition of the Drive Time podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So we
Speaker 1: are early first quarter here on the recap of the
Speaker 1: dolphins forty five to fifteen win over the Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: to improve to nine to three and currently at the
Speaker 1: time of the recording, sitting atop the AFC. If the
Speaker 1: Chiefs win this game tonight, it'll be second in the AFC,
Speaker 1: ahead of Jacksonville and Cincinnati on Monday night, which will
Speaker 1: dictate whether Miami is second or third in the AFC
Speaker 1: going into week number fourteen. Okay, so the Commands get
Speaker 1: the football back after the long touchdown pass from Tua
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Hill, which, by the way, haven't covered this yet.
Speaker 1: Tua eighteen for twenty four on the day with two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty passing yards. That's seventy five percent, eleven
Speaker 1: point seven yards per throw, two touchdowns, a one to
Speaker 1: forty one passer rating, and Tyreek five for one fifty
Speaker 1: seven for two touchdowns on this day. And the defense
Speaker 1: came right back out swinging after that, Zach Sealer gets
Speaker 1: immediate pressure inside to force Sam hal off a spot.
Speaker 1: How good was Zach Sealer in this game? Man? He
Speaker 1: was just vicious with his rushes, quickly penetrating inside the
Speaker 1: long arms that always seem to benefit him for leverage creation.
Speaker 1: Just a fantastic game from him. And then Caterer had
Speaker 1: a couple of good reps, one in coverage on the
Speaker 1: tight end, forcing Logan Thomas into a tough diving catch
Speaker 1: that he could not make. And then you get Van
Speaker 1: Ginkel an out and out pass rush win that gets
Speaker 1: to Sam Howe, and I believe it was Chubb and
Speaker 1: Sealer that finished him off with the sack on that play.
Speaker 1: So Miami, you know, we'll talk about the depth of
Speaker 1: the team here pretty soon, but Miami just finding hits
Speaker 1: and pieces all over this defense, all over this team
Speaker 1: in general to has to have success. Dolphins with the
Speaker 1: football back and they kick a field goal with a
Speaker 1: devon a chan pop pass with burst that we know about, right,
Speaker 1: and you can just see the difference in his burst
Speaker 1: and the way he finds those small creases but also
Speaker 1: runs through contact like he's a physical dude in the
Speaker 1: way that Raheem moster are with the four to three speed,
Speaker 1: you don't expect it. Maybe Raheem's a lot bigger of
Speaker 1: a guy, but the physicality is there. Man. We saw
Speaker 1: that with how this team ground the Commanders into a
Speaker 1: pulp in that fourth quarter. You get a stick to
Speaker 1: waddle between a trio of defenders for sixteen yards on
Speaker 1: third and four, which I thought Miami's third down operation
Speaker 1: across the board, whether it was running game, passing game
Speaker 1: was superb in this game, and in fact, Miami's now
Speaker 1: eighteen for twenty nine on third down and the last
Speaker 1: two games combined. I thought that was a great throw
Speaker 1: to kind of settle Wattle into a window of space
Speaker 1: compared to the three Commanders that were in that area.
Speaker 1: And Tua just had that in his bag all game long, right,
Speaker 1: But also the attention that a Chan got on the
Speaker 1: route there was something that caught my eye. You get
Speaker 1: a ten yard run from Raheem, then we started going
Speaker 1: backwards and get ourselves behind the chains. But the play
Speaker 1: before the play today was the third and seventeen drag
Speaker 1: route that Jaln Waddle ran the shallow crosser where we
Speaker 1: got twelve yards to put Jason Sanders in position for
Speaker 1: a forty eight yard field goal, and Wattle got all
Speaker 1: kinds of good blocks, put a good move on the
Speaker 1: first defender and then dropped his shoulder and ran through
Speaker 1: a tackle to put himself, you know, short of the sticks,
Speaker 1: but in range inside fifty yards for a field goal,
Speaker 1: which Sanders hit and then the defense comes back out
Speaker 1: and gets any immediate three and out. As Christian wilkins Man,
Speaker 1: he made a play in this drive where he defended
Speaker 1: the front side shoulder but then was able to get
Speaker 1: backside of the gap on the other side of the
Speaker 1: guy that was blocking him. Just impresses with plays like
Speaker 1: that all the time. Again, Seler gets pressure on third down,
Speaker 1: you get great rush lane integrity from both Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: and Andrew Van Ginkel, forces a throwaway boom Commanders three
Speaker 1: and out, Miami goes three and out on the other side,
Speaker 1: and Waddle when he dropped that pass, he had a
Speaker 1: block on a safety who had maybe the only angle
Speaker 1: on him and nobody else did. And I think he
Speaker 1: might have ran to the end zone on that play
Speaker 1: if he caught that ball, But either way, no harm,
Speaker 1: no foul. They also had a negative run after that.
Speaker 1: So just an ugly drive and those are gonna happen
Speaker 1: to the course of a game. Then the commandsion of
Speaker 1: the football back and what do we do on the
Speaker 1: first play, But Andrew Van Ginkle picks sixing Sam Howe.
Speaker 1: He's got a fumble six in his career, the long
Speaker 1: win against the Rams four years ago. He has a
Speaker 1: punt blocked return for a touchdown that was Jalen Phillips'
Speaker 1: block against Chicago last year. And now he has a
Speaker 1: pick six and this one off Sam Howe. This time
Speaker 1: he just works down the line on a now throw
Speaker 1: catch rock throw from Sam Howe. Get yourself in the
Speaker 1: passing lane, catch the football, and he's off to the
Speaker 1: races with the beautiful blonde hair flowing in the wind
Speaker 1: in Landover for six. Dolphins take a seventeen oh in lead.
Speaker 1: We'll hear more about that from coach McDaniel later on.
Speaker 1: So the commander of the football back and they have
Speaker 1: their best driver of the game going down the field
Speaker 1: where Ogba had a great play for a sack where
Speaker 1: he played through the right tackle with power and overwhelmed
Speaker 1: him with the right hand stab and just kind of
Speaker 1: again played through with power for that sack. With him,
Speaker 1: we lost contain on the outside on a big Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson run, so it's a little bit giveth and take
Speaker 1: it there on that particular situation. And then the player
Speaker 1: that Jerome Baker got injured on which, by the way,
Speaker 1: Bake tweeted tonight, don't worry about me, Dolphins fans, I'll
Speaker 1: be back sooner than you think. That's obviously a great sign.
Speaker 1: But he got Curtis Samuel on a wheel up the corner,
Speaker 1: and then Brandon Jones came over to make the play
Speaker 1: at the pylon and took out Baker at the knee,
Speaker 1: and he had to lead at the game after that.
Speaker 1: But the Commanders get into the end zone three plays
Speaker 1: later for their only touchdown of the half, and they're
Speaker 1: one of two in the game, and then Mini gets
Speaker 1: the ball back, and what do they do but answer man,
Speaker 1: it's the last drive before the half, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had the football coming out, so they dominate the middle
Speaker 1: eight minutes of the game, which is obviously something that
Speaker 1: all great teams do, and my imedied it in this one.
Speaker 1: You get, first of all, Julian Hill had a jet
Speaker 1: motion kickout block where he sent a man all the
Speaker 1: way over to Baltimore. And then we had just consistently,
Speaker 1: you know, third down conversions. Once again, third and seven,
Speaker 1: two sixty yards to Tyreek. Hill uncorks this dime a
Speaker 1: beautiful in flight adjustment, So baseball references right. I used
Speaker 1: to play in field and outfield in my younger days,
Speaker 1: and head whips were a DRELLI ran every single day
Speaker 1: where you would track the baseball over one shoulder and
Speaker 1: then flip back the other way and locating the ball
Speaker 1: in air, taking your eyes off. It is not at
Speaker 1: all easy. In fact, McDaniel explains it here in just
Speaker 1: a second. But these deep shots. Man Tua slides away
Speaker 1: from pressure. How good was his pocket presence all game
Speaker 1: long in this one, just kind of subtly moving away
Speaker 1: from where pressure might be get to a clean platform platform.
Speaker 1: Uncork that thing. Celebrate with six in the roller coaster
Speaker 1: right after the fact. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: McDaniel on that second touchdown and the rare depth perception
Speaker 1: something you will never hear, you haven't heard before, probably
Speaker 1: from a coach, the depth perception of Tua to recognize
Speaker 1: where safeties are on the field. I love this answer
Speaker 1: here from coach.
Speaker 2: The second touchdown was it was he threw it to
Speaker 2: the right spot and it wasn't the exact coverage that
Speaker 2: we planned on doing that.
Speaker 4: But the.
Speaker 2: Depth perception that Tua has down the field is pretty rare,
Speaker 2: so he can really feel when a post safety is
Speaker 2: not at the depth they need to be. And for
Speaker 2: him to be able to do that under a hair
Speaker 2: of duresses, why he's doing some special stuff on the
Speaker 2: football field, all right.
Speaker 1: So I lied that was not the drive at the
Speaker 1: end of the half there because the Dolphins went down
Speaker 1: and scored again. But after the Commanders punted the football
Speaker 1: right back to Miami with again more Zach Sealer pressure.
Speaker 1: And how about Duke Riley making a handful of plays
Speaker 1: in this game in place of Jerome Baker. He was
Speaker 1: fantastic on the screenplay on third and a mile where
Speaker 1: they had dumped Sam Howe the previous play, and then
Speaker 1: Duke Riley comes in and forces an incompletion on a
Speaker 1: screen that's supposed to be like a give me ten
Speaker 1: yard play, right, but Duke saw it all the way
Speaker 1: and knock that thing down for no game incomplete pass.
Speaker 1: Miami gets it back and they go to the eight
Speaker 1: minute well really four minute offense here, but back to
Speaker 1: back drives with Raheem physical runs and they get themselves
Speaker 1: behind the sticks with a negative play that puts it
Speaker 1: a second twelve. But then you get a third and
Speaker 1: six throw from two of the Tyreek where again fantastic
Speaker 1: throw with Tyreek going up over his head to make
Speaker 1: the catch. You had like kind of a high low
Speaker 1: concept with Tyreek and Jalen and Tua just saw it,
Speaker 1: felt it, put it right in the window, right on time.
Speaker 1: Just cooking in this game all game long. Really fun
Speaker 1: to watch him do that. Then you get a third
Speaker 1: and twelve play in the red zone where Tua again
Speaker 1: gets trouble off the spot, has to scramble and move
Speaker 1: and finds waddle for seventeen yards and another first down.
Speaker 1: And then just a couple of plays later, Devon ah
Speaker 1: Chan or rather Raheem Moster goes in for another touchdown
Speaker 1: for him thirty one seventeen at the break. Miami comes
Speaker 1: back out of the break and goes on the field
Speaker 1: and scores yet another touchdown where you get two runs
Speaker 1: put you in a position for a third and two
Speaker 1: and then two. A finds Tyreek on the shortest completion
Speaker 1: of the day to him for like four yards on
Speaker 1: a mesh concept, which I thought was brilliant because the
Speaker 1: Commanders were in that man coverage. You run a mesh
Speaker 1: and you bump off that middle linebacker wide up and
Speaker 1: throw in the middle of the field. Move the chains
Speaker 1: stay on the field, and then e Chan gets going
Speaker 1: and just continues to make plays. A really cool swing
Speaker 1: pa where he breaks a tackle and gets a bunch
Speaker 1: of extra yards, finds River Craykraft for a big first down.
Speaker 1: Tua just there was a comment in the game that
Speaker 1: Mark Sceleras talked about with Tua changing up his footwork
Speaker 1: for throws to Tyreek and Jalen compared to his throws
Speaker 1: to Cedric or.
Speaker 3: River or Barrios.
Speaker 1: Just really cool nuance there to twos game that we
Speaker 1: saw all game long. In this one, he evades a
Speaker 1: rusher again for a strike to Julian Hill on third down.
Speaker 1: Just amazing suddenness in the pocket, a free runner right
Speaker 1: in your face, whoop right around We saw that all
Speaker 1: the time in college. You're seeing it now for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins as well. And then Devon Achan goes in
Speaker 1: for another touchdown run thirty eight seven, And that's about
Speaker 1: when you took the will of the Commanders. Although they
Speaker 1: did get a touchdown and two point conversion on their
Speaker 1: next drive, Dolphins punt the football right back and just
Speaker 1: missed Tyreek on a corner route.
Speaker 3: I thought it was two was like.
Speaker 1: One miss of the day, Like a little bit late
Speaker 1: on the throat of the corner otherwise could have been
Speaker 1: a third and long conversion.
Speaker 3: Doesn't happen. You put the ball back in the commander's hands.
Speaker 1: They miss a field goal after a very nice open
Speaker 1: field tackle from Nick Needham on third down. Dolphins get
Speaker 1: it back and punt the football back. Commanders go three
Speaker 1: and out, and then Miami marches down the field with
Speaker 1: Mike White at quarterback, handed the football off the entire way.
Speaker 1: A chang just slippery as hell, finding creases, moving people
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. I thought Rob Hunt had
Speaker 1: pancake blocks for days in this game. Thought Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: got surge. Liam Eichenberg's playing the best football of his
Speaker 1: career and it just looks fantastic. Connor Williams. I thought
Speaker 1: Keon Smith had some good work. I thought Lester Cotton
Speaker 1: had some good blocks on this drive as well. Just
Speaker 1: this team is clicking right now.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: It's fun to watch as they put this victory in
Speaker 1: the back pocket forty five to fifteen with just dominance
Speaker 1: across all phases. Speaking of that, AT's come back on
Speaker 1: the other side and talk about five big picture takeaways
Speaker 1: we learned from this victory up in Washington, DC. That's
Speaker 1: next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by AutoNation Dolphin's role in Washington with a forty five
Speaker 1: fifteen victory, Let's go ahead and take a look at
Speaker 1: the five big picture takeaways I.
Speaker 3: Have from this one.
Speaker 1: And I wrote that this was the most complete team
Speaker 1: victory since and I wrote the Houston Texans game last year,
Speaker 1: but that one didn't finish strong because the second half
Speaker 1: was not Miami's best performance. Somebody mentioned the Denver game
Speaker 1: back in Week three and like, seventy twenty, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty clearly the answer. But I would contend that you
Speaker 1: gave up a kick return for a touchdown.
Speaker 3: In that game.
Speaker 1: And the Broncos moved the ball pretty well in the
Speaker 1: first half of that game, whereas in this time, this game,
Speaker 1: like you never felt as though Washington was really going
Speaker 1: to consistently mount a threat against this Dolphins defense. They
Speaker 1: once again, for the what is it fifth week in
Speaker 1: a row now, were lockdown on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the football. Offense had passing game, early, run game, late everything,
Speaker 1: clicking their third downs, quarterback, play, your top receivers, your
Speaker 1: role guys, your the offensive line, like everybody got in
Speaker 1: on the victory today and showed their medal, showed their depth,
Speaker 1: showed their toughness, and just came out and played fantastic
Speaker 1: explosive plays. Splash players on defense, pass rush coverage, run
Speaker 1: d run game, pass game, red zone production, long drives,
Speaker 1: short drives, long field goal, good special teams work, only
Speaker 1: a couple penalties, complete game. We knew it was coming,
Speaker 1: We knew it was in there, right. We knew this
Speaker 1: team had that performance in their bag, and they showed
Speaker 1: it as it could be a sign of things to come.
Speaker 1: And if it is, buckle up, man, We're in for
Speaker 1: a fun ride here. Takeaway number two is that the
Speaker 1: solutions to teams taking things away like the slot fade
Speaker 1: for instance, are presenting Miami with more opportunities offensively to
Speaker 1: show you their versatility. So again in that Jets game,
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the podcast a lot last week,
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins got them with those looks because of
Speaker 1: their ability to do multiple things offensively and really create
Speaker 1: indecision for the defense and the commanders here with that
Speaker 1: hybrid's man zone coverage helped to the boundary for waddle
Speaker 1: slot plays outside leverage. So Tyreek just runs right by
Speaker 1: him on the inside and Tua drops it in. And
Speaker 1: those are too easy, but they're not always guaranteed when
Speaker 1: you get them like that, and we just don't miss them.
Speaker 1: We have now ten plays of fifty plus yards on
Speaker 1: the season. I believe the Chargers were second with five
Speaker 1: coming into the game, and I haven't looked at their box,
Speaker 1: but they only had six points in their game, so
Speaker 1: I'm assuming Miami now has double these second place team
Speaker 1: in terms of fifty plus yard plays. Then, of course,
Speaker 1: the sixty yard touchdown, the Tyreek just uncorks this thing
Speaker 1: with like super crazy anticipation, let that thing out there,
Speaker 1: puts it right into the brad basket hand off sixty
Speaker 1: yards down the field for an easy touchdown there, and
Speaker 1: this team just continues to find multiple ways to win.
Speaker 1: I think the a Chan's presence and insertion back in
Speaker 1: the lineup creates another element the team. The defenses have
Speaker 1: to deal with from a not just a vertical stretch aspect,
Speaker 1: but the horizontal stretch. Because you just saw the urgency
Speaker 1: they felt when he had the ball on the perimeter
Speaker 1: in the same way that they filled it with Raheem Moster,
Speaker 1: but man achan a second guy like that, It is
Speaker 1: it is rare.
Speaker 4: It is nice.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from Tua actually on how
Speaker 1: he approaches throwing the deep ball because of the two
Speaker 1: guys he has and Tyreek and Jalen, and not just
Speaker 1: the deep ball, but in general having those two guys
Speaker 1: to go to. I love this answer about how I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that those guys are completely covered
Speaker 1: before I cross them off my list in the progression.
Speaker 4: You know, nothing starting to surprise me anymore in this league.
Speaker 4: You know, some people will do what they deem his
Speaker 4: best for their matchups within their coverages of the defense.
Speaker 4: And you know, sometimes you'll get looks where you've never
Speaker 4: seen them on film against our team, and it's because
Speaker 4: it's just specified for our team with how they want
Speaker 4: to play us. But I don't think anything really surprises me,
Speaker 4: whether they cover Tyreek, whether they want to me and him.
Speaker 4: I'm just going to really make sure that they're covering
Speaker 4: either him or Jalen or any of our guys before
Speaker 4: I start moving on in my progression.
Speaker 1: And of course, the other part of that's great is
Speaker 1: him talking about how teams just play them in a
Speaker 1: way that's different because they don't like this Dolphins offense
Speaker 1: is so one of one in the NFL right now
Speaker 1: that you have to play differently. Number Three, the defensive
Speaker 1: dominance continues, and like it almost felt like the defense
Speaker 1: was kind of taking the team back a little bit
Speaker 1: after the offense kind of put their stamp on the
Speaker 1: early part of the season. But we've also seen plays
Speaker 1: both ways up and down the year. Even the victory
Speaker 1: is early on the defense closing out, you know, the
Speaker 1: early games, being the last one on the field to
Speaker 1: make the plays that got us in the in the
Speaker 1: winner circle ultimately, But gosh, this defense is clicking right now,
Speaker 1: isn't it. And it doesn't really matter like you can
Speaker 1: plug a play almost it seems like with injuries and
Speaker 1: guys that have gone down, and it's a good sign
Speaker 1: of the team's depth and the way they work together.
Speaker 1: But I thought Zach Steeler was maybe his best version
Speaker 1: of himself this season today. He was fantastic in both phases.
Speaker 1: I thought co Who's run blitzing and tight coverage and
Speaker 1: just overall being a menace. And the slot was on display.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins two gapping and penetrating and getting sack product
Speaker 1: or pass rush production as well as run defensive production.
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey just him and Xavi and Howard that played
Speaker 1: the X man in the end zone to break up
Speaker 1: that pass. My goodness, what great ball skills that was.
Speaker 1: Ramsey just not really targeted like he usually isn't. If
Speaker 1: you do, you probably get picked off. Van Ginkel has
Speaker 1: a sack, has great rush land integrity, has a pick six.
Speaker 1: I thought Bradley Chubb played well off the edge. Raekwon Davis,
Speaker 1: David Long was fantastic in this one. Like it man,
Speaker 1: It was so good that they continue to just hold
Speaker 1: offenses down to minimal points, and they do it with
Speaker 1: different guys and they make splash plays like the one
Speaker 1: that Andrew Van Ginkle made let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: from coach on Gink phenomenal.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. It was knowing knowing the situation. You know,
Speaker 2: that's a that's a critical critical and allowing players to
Speaker 2: play aggressive is the preparation that you know is on
Speaker 2: on the shoulders of the coaches. And I thought when
Speaker 2: you have people, uh, when you have players that are
Speaker 2: prepared and locked in and know what the opponent's trying
Speaker 2: to do, you know, to be able to to be
Speaker 2: able to aggressively get in that screen lane is one
Speaker 2: thing that on top of that to for it not
Speaker 2: to be a PVU or a batted ball, but a
Speaker 2: catch in it. You know, it's a it's a huge
Speaker 2: momentum swing. It's a huge play in the game. But
Speaker 2: my favorite part of that play is that it's not
Speaker 2: just showing up on Sunday that that was stuff that
Speaker 2: we saw in practice. And they talk situational football or
Speaker 2: you know, serious start, earned first down, all the different
Speaker 2: things that you can kind of get a beat on
Speaker 2: stuff and then shoot your guns when you when you
Speaker 2: have conviction that of preparation.
Speaker 1: It's funny what Tape said he will do for you huh.
Speaker 1: Takeaway number four here, the depth is well, it's deep.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Andrew van Ginkel, he was in place of you,
Speaker 1: then Phillips today who again Phillip's tweeting out during the
Speaker 1: game is my new favorite thing. I think it's cool
Speaker 1: to see him, you know, in good spirits and supporting
Speaker 1: the guys. Duke Riley I thought played really well in
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's place. Brandon Jones I thought was awesome early
Speaker 1: on when the game was still like actually in the
Speaker 1: balance with those couple of plays early on. We'll watch
Speaker 1: tape more for him tomorrow and see what things went
Speaker 1: right there as well. Keon Smith comes into the game
Speaker 1: and has a really good space clearing seal off the
Speaker 1: edge for the a Chan run to finish things out.
Speaker 1: And you know, he just looks like a guy that,
Speaker 1: with the way he fires off the football, is a
Speaker 1: fit in the system. And you can look at up
Speaker 1: and down the ross at this it's a testament to
Speaker 1: Chris Greer, who has now five winning seasons out of
Speaker 1: eight as the GM of the Miami Dolphins. And if
Speaker 1: you really think about, like in earnest when he was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say like fully in charge because
Speaker 1: he was always the GM. But to me in earnest
Speaker 1: like his era kind of began in twenty twenty in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. You know, it's it's not fair
Speaker 1: to cut out either part of that. But since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four of those winning seasons, and this roster just
Speaker 1: gets better every single year, and you have hits like
Speaker 1: Cater Kohu an undrafted free agency. You have Tyreek Hill trade,
Speaker 1: which is probably the greatest trade in Dolphin's history, Like
Speaker 1: maybe don Shu look probably up there. Larimy Tunzel was
Speaker 1: also a trade executed by Chris Greer. Like the list
Speaker 1: is long, Ricky Williams is a good trade as well.
Speaker 1: But the way this team has been established and the
Speaker 1: roster's been constructed, you can plug and play offensive line
Speaker 1: when they get injured. You've been down multiple running backs
Speaker 1: this year. You've lost Tyreek and Galen for stretches of
Speaker 1: games in game and had no wallow for some of
Speaker 1: those games. Like they just find ways to win. It's
Speaker 1: a testament to how good this roster is and how
Speaker 1: great of a job Chris Career has done, and how
Speaker 1: good the coaching staff has done on getting guys ready
Speaker 1: who are not your typical starters. My fifth takeaway, and
Speaker 1: this is my number one ask going into the game.
Speaker 1: You can ask sethan Oj play a clean game, and
Speaker 1: they did. No turnovers, two would never put the ball
Speaker 1: in harms bay one time. There was no fumbles in
Speaker 1: the game. Two penalties for fifteen yards. It was a
Speaker 1: sloppy field in December, and we were as clean as
Speaker 1: buttoned up as we could be. We had one drop,
Speaker 1: some negative runs, but all things told, fantastic end this game.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from two of the close
Speaker 1: things out here on overcoming the turnovers that he has
Speaker 1: had recently, and I love this answer.
Speaker 3: Keep shooting, baby, shoot or shoot.
Speaker 4: I just went out there and played the way I
Speaker 4: normally play, with, you know, having in the back of
Speaker 4: my mind certain throws. You know, should you throw it,
Speaker 4: should you not throw it? You know. I made had
Speaker 4: to make quick decisions on those. But for the most part,
Speaker 4: I don't think you can go out there and be
Speaker 4: timid and expect to push the ball downfield and expect
Speaker 4: to score points that way. So I just went out
Speaker 4: there and literally took what the defense gave me.
Speaker 1: Great way to end the show, great way to end
Speaker 1: the first week of December, Heroes Dolphins improved once again
Speaker 1: to nine and three with a forty five to fifteen
Speaker 1: victory over the Washington Commanders. Back tomorrow with the All
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