October 19, 2025 • 23 mins
It was a tough Sunday for the Dolphins in Cleveland. Travis takes you through the 31-6 loss that drops the Dolphins to 1-6 on the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What is up Dolphins and Welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And on today's show, the Dolphins fall their third consecutive
loss in a sloppy game.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
In Cleveland, thirty one to six. The Dolphins fall to
one and six.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We're gonna cover it all from the Baptist Hill Studios
inside the Baptist Hills Training Complex. This is the Draft
Time Podcast. The story of this game is that it
did not change from the opening stanza. The Dolphins took
it to the Browns up front early. That part did change,
but some key penalties extended drives and allowed the Browns
to get into that power run game, which eventually wore
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Miami down. Critical plays often went the way of the Browns,
often by penalty, and we looked pretty much unprepared for
the conditions the opponent for the moment and largely checked out.
In that second half. We struggled to catch the football,
whether it was snaps and passes, secure the ball on
kickoff pre snap penalty is an issue, operation and issue,
and things sort of evolved in the second half from
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a tight game to a blowout that brings even more
questions than what you had previously. Not a great day
for the Miami Dolphins. The pregame checklist, how does the
weather impact the game? Well, it did, and it was
wet to start, but the win was quiet. Early the
track got pretty slippery, the Browns went downhill quite a lot,
and we kept trying to get the ball on the
perimeter and continue to have issues doing that. In the
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first half of the game, we had seventeen passes and
eight runs and it was a close game. In the
first half, those eight runs produced seventy yards and the
Browns had twenty plus run calls in the game at
that point and it was twenty four to six. So
that was a big x in terms of playing to
the conditions. But that shouldn't be a surprise. That was
what we were told going into the game about not
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changing the approach for the weather, but rather playing the
opponent instead of the weather. The next one the first
down defense. Can you stop the run and limit the
first down play action game to make them play from
behind the chains. They did a good early on. Miami
was the more physical defensive line. In terms of the
Browns offensive line, early Jordan Phillips getting some penetration. Benito
Jones had a couple of plays, Kenneth Grant had some plays,
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Zach Seeler had an arm over win in the backfield.
But all those early down wins were undone by critical
third down penalties that extended drives when you had stops,
and from there it began to mount and continue looking
like it did in previous weeks, like the Chargers Commandie Vidal,
like the Panthers Rico Daddle. By the way, I checked
the halftime scoreboard, Kamani Vidala had five for seven today
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at halftime in that game. So this second half of
this game looked more like it did in previous games,
where the Browns got their offense rolling. Quinn Shawn Judkins
goes for three touchdowns on the day and toted the
rock twenty five times. Conversely, there was a stretch in
the game offensively where we had negative thirteen yards on
fourteen first down plays, and that includes a pick six,
So first down in a critical game like this in
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a weather game, Miami was nowhere near competitive enough to
be winners in the game. And this one wasn't really
much of a you know, check or X battle. But
I think I was just generally curious to see the
personnel operation on defense. We saw a mix at cornerback
last week. We heard Weave talking about the nickel position
and shuffling there. I was curious to see what it
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looked like this week, and it was if Emila Famu
back at safety, Ashton Davison at safety.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
No Dante Trigger in this game. Very often.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We saw Tyrel Dodson back in for kJ Britt after
kj's big game last week, so more status quo in
that regard. The next one was the big groupings and
how they presented those groupings. Can they bring out twenty
two personnel and present it in a spread fashion? Things
like that, and they began that way. It looked good early,
looked promising with Waller in the game, and even got
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to their empty grouping from a twelve personnel showing to
hit that man beater early on to Malik Washington where
he gets that little wheel route around the Browns man coverage.
And they love playing that press up man coverage. You
get trips to the side of the field. They run
double slant from the two in or the one and
the two the furthest out receiver, the second closest receiver
in and there the furthest slot receiver into the formation.
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Malik runs that wheel route around those two natural rubs
and it's an easy, natural, clean rub for an easy
conversion from Tua to Washington. Then they get a forty
six yard run from Devon ah Chan from that same
grouping thanks to an awesome second level climb by jonasovit
Naya hitting a reach block to spring Devon ah Chan
so early it worked. Once Darren Waller exited the game
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he had a peck injury did not return, the Dolphins
couldn't get any of that going, and that really restricts
your ability to do that. The next one was the
team's connectivity post two comments last week, and I mean
it was about as bad as it could have gone, right.
The mistakes, the penalties, the discipline. Bradley Chubb asked after
the game about what's what's the biggest thing to point to.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He talked about discipline.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We saw fumbles out of the break, a pick six
and a fumble off the kickoff return, then a three
and out, then a personal foul on the punt. Bad football, man,
You're not gonna win many games. Turn the ball over
four times and committing eleven penalties for over one hundred yards.
That's what Miami did in this game. How would they
approach the plan for Miles Garrett? Like Mike McDaniel said,
it was a little bit of everything. But he made
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an impact moving about the formation. He slanted, he twisted,
He got matchups on Jonas of vit Naya. He got
a one on one chance against Larry borhim a couple
of times. I thought Patrick Paul did a pretty good
job in his reps of one on one, But I
want to watch that a little bit further before I
get more comment on that. Some game themes here, same
old early on, right. I mean, how about that sequence
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in the second series of the first drive. You take
a deep shot to a receiver who's not there, a miscommunication,
throw a now screen to Devon a Chan, which is
a backwards later role, so he drops it and that
makes it a five yard loss because it's a live
football and a fumble. Then we break the huddle with
under ten seconds in the play clock and rush to
a screen that never had a chance on third and fifteen.
That was the theme of the game early on, and
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it wouldn't get better from there. The next big theme
is something you're going to hear from coaches and players,
and we're going to do a long little thing on
this right here, the self inflicted wounds. And it started
very early in this game that Devon eh Chan drop
on the now screen on that lateral turns a second
and ten, where the whole idea of the second and
ten play is to get back into the mix to
give yourself if possibly third and six or better, you
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drop it, you go backwards and it loses five yards.
Now it's third and fifteen, and then you have to
punt on the drive because I mean, we can't pass
protect for that long.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
We can't push the ball on the field.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The entire game happens pretty much at or behind the
line screamage with the Miami Dolphins on defense. We force
a third and fourteen. There's an illegal contact on Rasul Douglas.
I thought it was a bad penalty, but it happened.
Then he has a pick in his crosshairs. One play after,
Jack Jones takes a chance a gamble that pays off
and he gets a six yard tackle for loss. Shooting
a back door play on an outside zone run and
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Rasseul Douglas has an interception lined up in his crosshairs
and it goes right through his hands, and not only
does he not pick it off, it's a reception for
Jerry Judy. Then we blow up a screen, but Zach
Steeler gets hit with a roughing the passer call. Then
we get a pick on an overthrow as Ashton Davis
makes a diving catch, but Minka Fitzpatrick gets called for
pass interference in press trail technique, which I also thought
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was a good play by Minka and a bad flag,
but it happened. That's a third and six, So our
third penalty on either third down or long or a
second and long, I should say and distance, and this
one leads to a forty six yard touchdown run on
the very next play from Quinn Shawn Judkins. That kind
of speaks to the ability to handle adversity right. Bad call,
go from a takeaway back to a first down for
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the Browns, and they pay it off on the very
next play with the forty six yard touchdown. I don't
think this is a lapse in judgment or anything, but
DS Gridge loses a fumble on the kickoff. That can't
happen right, the ensuing third down play, we jump off
sides but aren't able to go unabated to the quarterback
and shut the entire play down, and they wind up
converting on a checkdown anyway. But it goes back to
some of the same issues in the short passing game
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we've talked about. When we drop behind the sticks, they
throw it short. Our pass rush doesn't make much of
an impact. It resets the line of scrimmage and pass
pro which they allow you to do that, and then
they just throw the ball right over the defensive line
into a vacant space, and the linebackers and safeties are
late to come down and it's just a walk in
the park first down. That paired with the run defense
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being the way it is, it's a really tough combination
to overcome, and it's why you're forcing punts at a
rate we've never seen before, a low rate in the
National Football League. This was another one I didn't fully
agree on a lot of that today, but the Jalen
Phillips roughing the passer call or the I guess it
was unnecessary roughness. After Dylan Gabriel simulates a play action
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play pass drop back, like what's he supposed to do.
Let Gabriel just execute his play action and not hit him.
But it's another fifteen yards and we're twenty one minutes
into the game. We've got five penalties for fifty nine yards.
Talk about beating yourself, man. We get that good field
position at the end of the first half, and we
start with a false start. That was two drives in
a row, false starts on drives that began in plus territory.
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That's how the previous drive started too. Now, we did
overcome that false start and sack to create a second
and twenty one that we converted to Von eight chan,
but it was two self inflicted wounds to start the drive.
We get the break on the missed field goal penalty,
like they're trying to get us back into the game.
But the next play is a snap through the quarterbacks
hands for a nine year old boss. How many time
does that happen to? Day three or four? And then
how about calling a timeout on third and one with
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a bad spot in the running play instead of challenging
it and giving yourself save the timeout, use the challenge,
get the first down, get that they award to you.
But we use a timeout and convert on fourth and
one on a play where he barely got across the
line there as well. The other theme of the game
to me was I just feel like finishing continues to
be an issue for this team the last handful of
years and especially this year. And it goes back to
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the last week on the final drive, right, you didn't
finish the drive defensively, didn't finish those tackles on Herbert
lad McConkey. And then we get keep getting into these
third down situations in this game, and you couldn't finish
the series, usually with fouls, but also with the coverage
not checkdown in the middle of the second quarter after
the d s Gridge fumble, and then on the third
down in the red zone there too, Chopp looked like
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he won his pass rush but couldn't finish the sack
on Dylan Gabriel. We couldn't finish our own third down
play in the red zone when two throws a nice
ball to Moleak Washington in the corner of the of
the field in front in front of the pylon, could
make that catch. So this team struggles to finish games
as well finished plays. And then I also just put
the theme of the game was that both backs were
up to the challenge in a weather game. But it
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went eighteen for seventy five for Juggins in the first half,
seven for eighty for h n in that first half.
But look at those carry numbers, more than double the
carries for quin Shawn Judkins then for Devon h Chan.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Let's go ahead and pause for a break.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
We'll go over the game stats and the critical moment
breakdowns all that next Draft Time Podcast, brought to you
by Auto Nation. Dolphins lose thirty one to six in
Cleveland to the one in five Browns to fall to
one and six on the season, and the stats in
this game for either side were not eye popping. The
Dolphins actually out gained the Browns in this game two
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hundred and nineteen yards to two h six. The Browns
do get fifteen first downs to Miami's twelve. The Dolphins
were one for thirteen on third down in this game,
the Browns were four for eleven. The Dolphins had four
turnovers and were sacked four times. The Browns did not
turn the ball over and took just two sacks. The
Browns had five penalties for thirty seven yards. The Dolphins
had eleven for one h three in this game. So
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you know, a pick six from Tua, another pick that's
right in front of the end zone as well, basically
a pick six as well, and Quinn Shawn Judkins pays
it off just.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Two plays later.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
That was kind of the story of the game, the
offensive breakdowns on top of defensive fouls on critical third
down situations. Speaking of critical third down moments, the third
and five mid red zone Brown's offense first quarter was
a combination of a misread by Dylan Gabriel and a
play by Tyrel Dotson that you know, for missing a
coverage was actually kind of smart because he does take
advantage of the five yard window, collisioning the receiver, knocking
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him to the ground, and Gabriel throws to that receiver
and the ball goes incomplete. But you could tell the
receiver was trying to set a pick on Tyrel Dotson
and it worked because Dotson put him on the ground
and took the took the screen and Dylan Gabriel just
never saw the sideline route that was wide open for
a touchdown as he targeted the wrong eligible So the
Dolphins get a win there, but it was more of
the Browns kind of doing it to themselves. Third nine
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red zone started the second quarter for the Dolphins offense
was a vintage to a play. He's got more rushers
than he's got protectors, so he buys some time and
falls back into the throw, throws it before the route breaks,
throws it before the defense can drive on it, puts
it right on the money, but we cannot finish the catch.
The pressure came off Cole Strangers inside post, where plenty
of pressures came on this day. Third and eight at
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the plus fourteen for the Browns in a ten to
three game game still in the balance, right, we run
a game, a pass rush game, a twist a stunt
with Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb and then Chop on
the other side. Initially wins to get pressure, but Gabriel
moves and gets the check down and we cannot rally
and make a play. They would eventually cash it in
for a touchdown. Third and twelve, three point fifteen left
in the first half, Browns have it at the minus eight.
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We get a pass rush win across the board. Phillips, Chop,
Chubb all penetrate and sack them on the one yard line,
almost a safety at that spot, a big win for
the defense, for the offense, and possibly paid off on
the backside. They would with a field goal, but not
a touchdown. And then that next drive, third and six,
one point fifteen, second quarter, seventeen to three game, need
a touchdown, right, have to score a touchdown here incomplete
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pass as to a Wheels against an unblocked rusher and
tries to throw a little flat route to Connor, but
Ali Gordon's right there and tips it out of the way,
almost gets picked off. You can kind of see that
Alli Gordon probably should not have been there on that play.
He must have ran the wrong route. He was confused
in the entire operation of the play, which you know,
that's just been the theme too many times in these games.
The Browns do commit a foul on a missed field
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goal in the next play, and then we drop the
next snap, and then we take a sack and it's
just like two a scrambles in the third down play
after that short of the sticks, we kick a field goal.
This time it goes up and then I just wrote
at twenty four to six, I don't think there's any
more critical moments in the game to break down for
you guys, So we will stop at that. It's going
to be a short podcast tonight. Standouts from the game. Offensively,
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Jonah had the big block on the eight Chan run,
but quite frankly, I don't know what else he did
to kind of, you know, make it a calling card.
He had that pass rush Bowl rush where he got
knocked down on the ground on the big Quinnywers completion late,
So I'll watch the tape and give you guys more
on him tomorrow. Eight Chan continues to be in this
portion of the podcast, excellent track pressing and explosion to
get to the second level. I cannot believe that somebody
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flagged him down. It was Tyson Campbell, who was fast
as hell. Apparently did it last year against Jailn Waddle
in the Jags game as well. Aaron Brewer had the
big block on the second and twenty one eight Chan
carry backed up. He makes a critical second level block
on that play and then I just like Allie Gordon's
power runs, especially complimenting von eh Chan. He got some
run on the drive after the pick six. The three
announced goes back to back, you know, catastrophic drives for
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the Dolphins, and it was downhill for eight yards and
a first down. First time we called it all game long,
and it goes for eight yards. Then he converts twice,
even if he only got word for one. So Allie
a Chan Brewer, that's kind of what I have for
you right now. On defense, Minka I thought was good early.
Had had some negative plays, obviously that the falley he
got flagged for. I didn't like the call there, but
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that was good. I thought technique and press and trail
technique from press coverage takes a pick off the board,
but in from the nickel playing on tight end, shutting
down an early screen in the game, had a tackle
on special teams. I like how Minka Fitzpatrick plays me.
I hope mink guy is a future here. Jordan Phillips
continues to get knocked back up front. It was consistent
for him. Me and Jamal bush Rod watching it all
game long. It was three series in a row on
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watching him hold the point of attack against the right guard,
which is Whyatt teller a pretty good football player.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
So I thought he had himself a good day.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Jordan Brooks had an up and down day, but he
beat a few blocks in a couple of plays. He
just never missed his tackles either. But I think with
what he's playing behind in terms of the Dolphins penetration upfront,
I think he continues to play pretty well in that position.
Kenneth Grant had his best game as a pro. Made
back to back plays when the Browns were backed up
at the end of the game or then the first half.
I should say, first he walks the right tackle in
for a TfL, then he stacks and sheds the right
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guard for a short gay on second down, and he
was in for the sack on third down as well.
Chop had a couple of nice rushes where he kind
of was able to dip the edge and bend it
back in buying large. Not a great game, but I
thought there was some positives there from the way he
rushed the passer and that get off he shows off
the edge. So man, we have a long way to go.
But there was a couple of stouts in the games.
Stan downs were more frequently. Tua through three picks in
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the game through for one hundred yards on twenty three
pass attempts. His touchdown Street comes to an end. The
drop snaps were a killer. He made a couple of
good throws, but you know that first ball at the
at the second half, the start of the second half
made it curtains of pick six where and you know,
made it so hard on ourselves too, Like let's throw
a thirty yard ball to the far hash on a
four yard route to a running back and it has
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to be perfect and if not, it's going to get
you know, possibly picked off. And that's what happened. But
Toua the decisions, the way he saw the field late.
I don't know what he was doing on two of
those picks. It just looks like the old strengths of
ripping the ball and moving defenses and being able to
manipulate you know, coverage and throw with anticipation accuracy. It
just doesn't look the same to me anymore. And I've
been talking about that since week one, but it looks
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pretty difficult. He winds up getting benched here by Mike
McDaniel for Quinn. You weers in this game. And then
Quinn comes into the game and the first throw he
throws should have been picked off, it gets dropped. Then
he drops the third down snap. So just ugly performs
from the quarterbacks today and Tua and a rough year
contain used to look pretty pretty tough out there, Cole Strange.
His staying on blocks is very inconsistent at best. After
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the two a pick, he got chucked on a loss
for a Devon e Chan run. Then he got smoked
on the inside by a Miles Garrett twist. It's it's
been rough for that right guard. Both guard positions have
been tough all year long. Malik drops a third down
red zone ball. It's a four point play if he
makes it. Alec Ingold had a weird play and this
is probably more of the offense than Alec Ingle, but
there was a wide running play where Patrick Paul didn't
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have leverage on his man and Ingold turns down the
block of that immediate threat who's coming off the Patrick
Paul block and going to make a hit on the
running back on Devon eight Chan, and he flies by
it and goes and blocks a safety ten yards down
the field. And again I think it's probably the offensive
designed to do that. But like, you can't turn down
the immediate block who's gonna hitch It's like stepping up
in the a gap and pass protection like that's more
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important than the sea gap because it's quicker to the
quarterback right, So I just that was kind of strange
to see. And then Tanner Connor dropped another football today,
like that's I mean what it is. Defensively, Rasul Douglas
had a really tough game. You know, missed the pick,
the illegal contact gave the Browns a first down on
fifteen yards to go. Zach Stealer another big penalty in
this one, got kind of knocked back again in this game.
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He got really knocked back on the second quin Shawn
Judkins touchdown run. Jack Jones keeps going in the wrong direction.
He misses Judkins on the wide run. Did have that
nice backdoor play for a six year old loss, but
he is not interested in the running game most of
the time. Jalen Phillips got sealed by Harold Fannon on
a long quin Shohn Judkins run that was strained to
see if I do think Phillips had some good plays here.
And then Benito Jones got blocked to Canada on one
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of the quin Chew Judkins touchdown runs. So rough, rough
game all across the board. We'll have the film review
for you guys tomorrow. Let's go ahead and take our
last break right here, come back and do five takeaways
and get out of here and get on to Game
six of the American League Championship Series. That's next Drive
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got Game six here in an hour and a half.
All hell has broken loose here on the Drive Time Podcast.
My five big picture takeaways. We're going to be brief here,
just unprepared, uncompetitive and folded up shop in the second half,
playing the same game despite the conditions. Look at how
the Browns adapted right wildcat in that first drive. We're
still throwing the screens behind the line of scrimage that never
seemed to work, and trying to stretch a run game
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wide that way. It's just not effective. It's not effective
at all. And this game was telling to me. You
could see it in the second half of the game two.
On that drive, backed up twenty four to six, a
run walk back to the huddle snapped with ten seconds left,
false start run it again, just kind of like white
flagging it there. So that was dispiriting to see, to
say the least. Number two was the condition's impact. And this,
I mean this has been going back for a while, right,
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The conditions showed their impact in this game between drop passes,
drop snaps, which are just dead plays. You're just giving
up snaps and losing yardage footing on the offensive philosophy
that's about stretch and overplay. Seems like we couldn't keep
our feet to maximize that and make those quick cutups.
You heard Mike McDaniel after the game say they're going
to change the way they play football if they have to. Yeah,
it seems like a smart idea. They looked like a
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team that didn't touch wet football all week. Also, and
this is the to a debate that goes back to
the twenty twenty one game at Tennessee. Wet football's poor
conditions like bad weather. I mean, look, we play three
games against the Patriots, Bills, and Jets every year. He
got a conference with outdoor stams for Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Casey,
and Denver, all these outdoor teams and inclement weather, and
it just continues to show up that it can't be done.
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So like that's a pretty big obstacle to overcome. Third
takeaway check downs have been beating us on either side
of the football. I think this is the appropriate week
to talk about this because it's been something we've been
seeing all year long and it drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But it was really tough today.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We talked about the third down conversion of the Browns offense,
but Jerman and I were talking about this.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
In the game.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
There was a swing to a Chan where we throw
the swing against a zone look and it's a one
hundred percent man call offensively to run it against man coverage,
but they're in zone. So you run these double slants,
these crossers from the backside of the formation to lift
that side of the coverage, and then the running back
runs the swing into that vacant area. But they're in zone.
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They got a curl flat linebacker right there on the numbers.
They got a cloud cornerback wide of the numbers, just
squatting there two yards down the field, five yards down
the field, and you throw it six yards blindly on
a swing to devon eight Chan who has to make
two guys miss just to get back to the lion scrimmage.
And it happens all the time, like immediately throw it
to that swing with no pressure on you. It's like
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just taking losses for the sake of taking losses. Man,
it drives me nuts. Offensively, there's a pretty big chunk
of the offense is these screens, and it's led to
being the leader last year. We had more negative plays
last year than any teams in twenty seventeen. And we're
on that track again this year producing negative plays offensively
and with the way we pass, pro the way the
quarterback's playing as a recipe for disaster. Offensively, when you're
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consistently in second and twelve and third and thirteen, number
four is a positive one. There was some youngster production
on the field today and quite frankly, that's gonna be
the podcast going forward. I'm not gonna sit here and
bemoan these things. We know what you guys know. I
know it too, right, it's obvious we're one and we
lost the freaking Browns. But in twenty nineteen I did
this podcast. We knew of that season was it was
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horrendous from the start. We talked about the guys that
you want to build up for future, and this game,
kennth Grant had his best game. He took over an
entire series that led to a Browns punt and great
Dolphins field position. Jordan Phillips continues to show you the
stuff that he can do from that nose tackle position,
dominating the point of attack against guards and centers. Jonas
Avit and I I had one of his best plays
of the year. I'm really curious to watch his whole
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game on tape because there's some good stuff in the
running game there. And then Ollie Gordon had some tough runs,
including a third down conversion shoot. He got it twice
on third and fourth down. So the youngster production was
if you want to hang your hat on something today,
I guess that would be it. And the number five
is the Waller injury and the impact on the passing game.
We moved the ball best early when Waller was out there,
but then he goes out and the ability to be
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multiple was really negated. From that point forward, the twenty
two personnel grouping becomes tougher because Tanner Connor is not
really a great receiver or blocker, so it removes the
ability to be flexible that way. And since we're in
the big picture takeaways, if he misses any more time,
that's gonna be a huge challenge for this offense to
overcome without Tyreek Hill and without Darren Waller, because right
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now the only guys they've shown any proclivity to give
the football to are Jalen Waddle, who got taken out
of this game by Denzel Ward and the Browns coverage
smart by them, that was a good way to approach it.
And then also Devon h Chan, which is the bread
and butter guy that we continue to go back to
when things aren't clicking. It's like, just get the ball
to Devon h Chan any way you possibly can. And
when that becomes the focus, the offense never seems to click.
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So they have a lot of stuff to work on
to figure it out, make corrections, all that stuff. That's
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Fins Up, Caroline Cameron Willow Daddy, He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What is up Dolphins and Welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And on today's show, the Dolphins fall their third consecutive
loss in a sloppy game.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
In Cleveland, thirty one to six. The Dolphins fall to
one and six.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We're gonna cover it all from the Baptist Hill Studios
inside the Baptist Hills Training Complex. This is the Draft
Time Podcast. The story of this game is that it
did not change from the opening stanza. The Dolphins took
it to the Browns up front early. That part did change,
but some key penalties extended drives and allowed the Browns
to get into that power run game, which eventually wore
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Miami down. Critical plays often went the way of the Browns,
often by penalty, and we looked pretty much unprepared for
the conditions the opponent for the moment and largely checked out.
In that second half. We struggled to catch the football,
whether it was snaps and passes, secure the ball on
kickoff pre snap penalty is an issue, operation and issue,
and things sort of evolved in the second half from
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a tight game to a blowout that brings even more
questions than what you had previously. Not a great day
for the Miami Dolphins. The pregame checklist, how does the
weather impact the game? Well, it did, and it was
wet to start, but the win was quiet. Early the
track got pretty slippery, the Browns went downhill quite a lot,
and we kept trying to get the ball on the
perimeter and continue to have issues doing that. In the
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first half of the game, we had seventeen passes and
eight runs and it was a close game. In the
first half, those eight runs produced seventy yards and the
Browns had twenty plus run calls in the game at
that point and it was twenty four to six. So
that was a big x in terms of playing to
the conditions. But that shouldn't be a surprise. That was
what we were told going into the game about not
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changing the approach for the weather, but rather playing the
opponent instead of the weather. The next one the first
down defense. Can you stop the run and limit the
first down play action game to make them play from
behind the chains. They did a good early on. Miami
was the more physical defensive line. In terms of the
Browns offensive line, early Jordan Phillips getting some penetration. Benito
Jones had a couple of plays, Kenneth Grant had some plays,
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Zach Seeler had an arm over win in the backfield.
But all those early down wins were undone by critical
third down penalties that extended drives when you had stops,
and from there it began to mount and continue looking
like it did in previous weeks, like the Chargers Commandie Vidal,
like the Panthers Rico Daddle. By the way, I checked
the halftime scoreboard, Kamani Vidala had five for seven today
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at halftime in that game. So this second half of
this game looked more like it did in previous games,
where the Browns got their offense rolling. Quinn Shawn Judkins
goes for three touchdowns on the day and toted the
rock twenty five times. Conversely, there was a stretch in
the game offensively where we had negative thirteen yards on
fourteen first down plays, and that includes a pick six,
So first down in a critical game like this in
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a weather game, Miami was nowhere near competitive enough to
be winners in the game. And this one wasn't really
much of a you know, check or X battle. But
I think I was just generally curious to see the
personnel operation on defense. We saw a mix at cornerback
last week. We heard Weave talking about the nickel position
and shuffling there. I was curious to see what it
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looked like this week, and it was if Emila Famu
back at safety, Ashton Davison at safety.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
No Dante Trigger in this game. Very often.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We saw Tyrel Dodson back in for kJ Britt after
kj's big game last week, so more status quo in
that regard. The next one was the big groupings and
how they presented those groupings. Can they bring out twenty
two personnel and present it in a spread fashion? Things
like that, and they began that way. It looked good early,
looked promising with Waller in the game, and even got
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to their empty grouping from a twelve personnel showing to
hit that man beater early on to Malik Washington where
he gets that little wheel route around the Browns man coverage.
And they love playing that press up man coverage. You
get trips to the side of the field. They run
double slant from the two in or the one and
the two the furthest out receiver, the second closest receiver
in and there the furthest slot receiver into the formation.
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Malik runs that wheel route around those two natural rubs
and it's an easy, natural, clean rub for an easy
conversion from Tua to Washington. Then they get a forty
six yard run from Devon ah Chan from that same
grouping thanks to an awesome second level climb by jonasovit
Naya hitting a reach block to spring Devon ah Chan
so early it worked. Once Darren Waller exited the game
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he had a peck injury did not return, the Dolphins
couldn't get any of that going, and that really restricts
your ability to do that. The next one was the
team's connectivity post two comments last week, and I mean
it was about as bad as it could have gone, right.
The mistakes, the penalties, the discipline. Bradley Chubb asked after
the game about what's what's the biggest thing to point to.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He talked about discipline.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We saw fumbles out of the break, a pick six
and a fumble off the kickoff return, then a three
and out, then a personal foul on the punt. Bad football, man,
You're not gonna win many games. Turn the ball over
four times and committing eleven penalties for over one hundred yards.
That's what Miami did in this game. How would they
approach the plan for Miles Garrett? Like Mike McDaniel said,
it was a little bit of everything. But he made
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an impact moving about the formation. He slanted, he twisted,
He got matchups on Jonas of vit Naya. He got
a one on one chance against Larry borhim a couple
of times. I thought Patrick Paul did a pretty good
job in his reps of one on one, But I
want to watch that a little bit further before I
get more comment on that. Some game themes here, same
old early on, right. I mean, how about that sequence
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in the second series of the first drive. You take
a deep shot to a receiver who's not there, a miscommunication,
throw a now screen to Devon a Chan, which is
a backwards later role, so he drops it and that
makes it a five yard loss because it's a live
football and a fumble. Then we break the huddle with
under ten seconds in the play clock and rush to
a screen that never had a chance on third and fifteen.
That was the theme of the game early on, and
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it wouldn't get better from there. The next big theme
is something you're going to hear from coaches and players,
and we're going to do a long little thing on
this right here, the self inflicted wounds. And it started
very early in this game that Devon eh Chan drop
on the now screen on that lateral turns a second
and ten, where the whole idea of the second and
ten play is to get back into the mix to
give yourself if possibly third and six or better, you
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drop it, you go backwards and it loses five yards.
Now it's third and fifteen, and then you have to
punt on the drive because I mean, we can't pass
protect for that long.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
We can't push the ball on the field.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The entire game happens pretty much at or behind the
line screamage with the Miami Dolphins on defense. We force
a third and fourteen. There's an illegal contact on Rasul Douglas.
I thought it was a bad penalty, but it happened.
Then he has a pick in his crosshairs. One play after,
Jack Jones takes a chance a gamble that pays off
and he gets a six yard tackle for loss. Shooting
a back door play on an outside zone run and
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Rasseul Douglas has an interception lined up in his crosshairs
and it goes right through his hands, and not only
does he not pick it off, it's a reception for
Jerry Judy. Then we blow up a screen, but Zach
Steeler gets hit with a roughing the passer call. Then
we get a pick on an overthrow as Ashton Davis
makes a diving catch, but Minka Fitzpatrick gets called for
pass interference in press trail technique, which I also thought
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was a good play by Minka and a bad flag,
but it happened. That's a third and six, So our
third penalty on either third down or long or a
second and long, I should say and distance, and this
one leads to a forty six yard touchdown run on
the very next play from Quinn Shawn Judkins. That kind
of speaks to the ability to handle adversity right. Bad call,
go from a takeaway back to a first down for
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the Browns, and they pay it off on the very
next play with the forty six yard touchdown. I don't
think this is a lapse in judgment or anything, but
DS Gridge loses a fumble on the kickoff. That can't
happen right, the ensuing third down play, we jump off
sides but aren't able to go unabated to the quarterback
and shut the entire play down, and they wind up
converting on a checkdown anyway. But it goes back to
some of the same issues in the short passing game
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we've talked about. When we drop behind the sticks, they
throw it short. Our pass rush doesn't make much of
an impact. It resets the line of scrimmage and pass
pro which they allow you to do that, and then
they just throw the ball right over the defensive line
into a vacant space, and the linebackers and safeties are
late to come down and it's just a walk in
the park first down. That paired with the run defense
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being the way it is, it's a really tough combination
to overcome, and it's why you're forcing punts at a
rate we've never seen before, a low rate in the
National Football League. This was another one I didn't fully
agree on a lot of that today, but the Jalen
Phillips roughing the passer call or the I guess it
was unnecessary roughness. After Dylan Gabriel simulates a play action
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play pass drop back, like what's he supposed to do.
Let Gabriel just execute his play action and not hit him.
But it's another fifteen yards and we're twenty one minutes
into the game. We've got five penalties for fifty nine yards.
Talk about beating yourself, man. We get that good field
position at the end of the first half, and we
start with a false start. That was two drives in
a row, false starts on drives that began in plus territory.
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That's how the previous drive started too. Now, we did
overcome that false start and sack to create a second
and twenty one that we converted to Von eight chan,
but it was two self inflicted wounds to start the drive.
We get the break on the missed field goal penalty,
like they're trying to get us back into the game.
But the next play is a snap through the quarterbacks
hands for a nine year old boss. How many time
does that happen to? Day three or four? And then
how about calling a timeout on third and one with
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a bad spot in the running play instead of challenging
it and giving yourself save the timeout, use the challenge,
get the first down, get that they award to you.
But we use a timeout and convert on fourth and
one on a play where he barely got across the
line there as well. The other theme of the game
to me was I just feel like finishing continues to
be an issue for this team the last handful of
years and especially this year. And it goes back to
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the last week on the final drive, right, you didn't
finish the drive defensively, didn't finish those tackles on Herbert
lad McConkey. And then we get keep getting into these
third down situations in this game, and you couldn't finish
the series, usually with fouls, but also with the coverage
not checkdown in the middle of the second quarter after
the d s Gridge fumble, and then on the third
down in the red zone there too, Chopp looked like
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he won his pass rush but couldn't finish the sack
on Dylan Gabriel. We couldn't finish our own third down
play in the red zone when two throws a nice
ball to Moleak Washington in the corner of the of
the field in front in front of the pylon, could
make that catch. So this team struggles to finish games
as well finished plays. And then I also just put
the theme of the game was that both backs were
up to the challenge in a weather game. But it
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went eighteen for seventy five for Juggins in the first half,
seven for eighty for h n in that first half.
But look at those carry numbers, more than double the
carries for quin Shawn Judkins then for Devon h Chan.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Let's go ahead and pause for a break.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
We'll go over the game stats and the critical moment
breakdowns all that next Draft Time Podcast, brought to you
by Auto Nation. Dolphins lose thirty one to six in
Cleveland to the one in five Browns to fall to
one and six on the season, and the stats in
this game for either side were not eye popping. The
Dolphins actually out gained the Browns in this game two
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hundred and nineteen yards to two h six. The Browns
do get fifteen first downs to Miami's twelve. The Dolphins
were one for thirteen on third down in this game,
the Browns were four for eleven. The Dolphins had four
turnovers and were sacked four times. The Browns did not
turn the ball over and took just two sacks. The
Browns had five penalties for thirty seven yards. The Dolphins
had eleven for one h three in this game. So
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you know, a pick six from Tua, another pick that's
right in front of the end zone as well, basically
a pick six as well, and Quinn Shawn Judkins pays
it off just.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Two plays later.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
That was kind of the story of the game, the
offensive breakdowns on top of defensive fouls on critical third
down situations. Speaking of critical third down moments, the third
and five mid red zone Brown's offense first quarter was
a combination of a misread by Dylan Gabriel and a
play by Tyrel Dotson that you know, for missing a
coverage was actually kind of smart because he does take
advantage of the five yard window, collisioning the receiver, knocking
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him to the ground, and Gabriel throws to that receiver
and the ball goes incomplete. But you could tell the
receiver was trying to set a pick on Tyrel Dotson
and it worked because Dotson put him on the ground
and took the took the screen and Dylan Gabriel just
never saw the sideline route that was wide open for
a touchdown as he targeted the wrong eligible So the
Dolphins get a win there, but it was more of
the Browns kind of doing it to themselves. Third nine
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red zone started the second quarter for the Dolphins offense
was a vintage to a play. He's got more rushers
than he's got protectors, so he buys some time and
falls back into the throw, throws it before the route breaks,
throws it before the defense can drive on it, puts
it right on the money, but we cannot finish the catch.
The pressure came off Cole Strangers inside post, where plenty
of pressures came on this day. Third and eight at
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the plus fourteen for the Browns in a ten to
three game game still in the balance, right, we run
a game, a pass rush game, a twist a stunt
with Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb and then Chop on
the other side. Initially wins to get pressure, but Gabriel
moves and gets the check down and we cannot rally
and make a play. They would eventually cash it in
for a touchdown. Third and twelve, three point fifteen left
in the first half, Browns have it at the minus eight.
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We get a pass rush win across the board. Phillips, Chop,
Chubb all penetrate and sack them on the one yard line,
almost a safety at that spot, a big win for
the defense, for the offense, and possibly paid off on
the backside. They would with a field goal, but not
a touchdown. And then that next drive, third and six,
one point fifteen, second quarter, seventeen to three game, need
a touchdown, right, have to score a touchdown here incomplete
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pass as to a Wheels against an unblocked rusher and
tries to throw a little flat route to Connor, but
Ali Gordon's right there and tips it out of the way,
almost gets picked off. You can kind of see that
Alli Gordon probably should not have been there on that play.
He must have ran the wrong route. He was confused
in the entire operation of the play, which you know,
that's just been the theme too many times in these games.
The Browns do commit a foul on a missed field
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goal in the next play, and then we drop the
next snap, and then we take a sack and it's
just like two a scrambles in the third down play
after that short of the sticks, we kick a field goal.
This time it goes up and then I just wrote
at twenty four to six, I don't think there's any
more critical moments in the game to break down for
you guys, So we will stop at that. It's going
to be a short podcast tonight. Standouts from the game. Offensively,
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Jonah had the big block on the eight Chan run,
but quite frankly, I don't know what else he did
to kind of, you know, make it a calling card.
He had that pass rush Bowl rush where he got
knocked down on the ground on the big Quinnywers completion late,
So I'll watch the tape and give you guys more
on him tomorrow. Eight Chan continues to be in this
portion of the podcast, excellent track pressing and explosion to
get to the second level. I cannot believe that somebody
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flagged him down. It was Tyson Campbell, who was fast
as hell. Apparently did it last year against Jailn Waddle
in the Jags game as well. Aaron Brewer had the
big block on the second and twenty one eight Chan
carry backed up. He makes a critical second level block
on that play and then I just like Allie Gordon's
power runs, especially complimenting von eh Chan. He got some
run on the drive after the pick six. The three
announced goes back to back, you know, catastrophic drives for
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the Dolphins, and it was downhill for eight yards and
a first down. First time we called it all game long,
and it goes for eight yards. Then he converts twice,
even if he only got word for one. So Allie
a Chan Brewer, that's kind of what I have for
you right now. On defense, Minka I thought was good early.
Had had some negative plays, obviously that the falley he
got flagged for. I didn't like the call there, but
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that was good. I thought technique and press and trail
technique from press coverage takes a pick off the board,
but in from the nickel playing on tight end, shutting
down an early screen in the game, had a tackle
on special teams. I like how Minka Fitzpatrick plays me.
I hope mink guy is a future here. Jordan Phillips
continues to get knocked back up front. It was consistent
for him. Me and Jamal bush Rod watching it all
game long. It was three series in a row on
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watching him hold the point of attack against the right guard,
which is Whyatt teller a pretty good football player.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
So I thought he had himself a good day.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Jordan Brooks had an up and down day, but he
beat a few blocks in a couple of plays. He
just never missed his tackles either. But I think with
what he's playing behind in terms of the Dolphins penetration upfront,
I think he continues to play pretty well in that position.
Kenneth Grant had his best game as a pro. Made
back to back plays when the Browns were backed up
at the end of the game or then the first half.
I should say, first he walks the right tackle in
for a TfL, then he stacks and sheds the right
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guard for a short gay on second down, and he
was in for the sack on third down as well.
Chop had a couple of nice rushes where he kind
of was able to dip the edge and bend it
back in buying large. Not a great game, but I
thought there was some positives there from the way he
rushed the passer and that get off he shows off
the edge. So man, we have a long way to go.
But there was a couple of stouts in the games.
Stan downs were more frequently. Tua through three picks in
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the game through for one hundred yards on twenty three
pass attempts. His touchdown Street comes to an end. The
drop snaps were a killer. He made a couple of
good throws, but you know that first ball at the
at the second half, the start of the second half
made it curtains of pick six where and you know,
made it so hard on ourselves too, Like let's throw
a thirty yard ball to the far hash on a
four yard route to a running back and it has
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to be perfect and if not, it's going to get
you know, possibly picked off. And that's what happened. But
Toua the decisions, the way he saw the field late.
I don't know what he was doing on two of
those picks. It just looks like the old strengths of
ripping the ball and moving defenses and being able to
manipulate you know, coverage and throw with anticipation accuracy. It
just doesn't look the same to me anymore. And I've
been talking about that since week one, but it looks
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pretty difficult. He winds up getting benched here by Mike
McDaniel for Quinn. You weers in this game. And then
Quinn comes into the game and the first throw he
throws should have been picked off, it gets dropped. Then
he drops the third down snap. So just ugly performs
from the quarterbacks today and Tua and a rough year
contain used to look pretty pretty tough out there, Cole Strange.
His staying on blocks is very inconsistent at best. After
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the two a pick, he got chucked on a loss
for a Devon e Chan run. Then he got smoked
on the inside by a Miles Garrett twist. It's it's
been rough for that right guard. Both guard positions have
been tough all year long. Malik drops a third down
red zone ball. It's a four point play if he
makes it. Alec Ingold had a weird play and this
is probably more of the offense than Alec Ingle, but
there was a wide running play where Patrick Paul didn't
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have leverage on his man and Ingold turns down the
block of that immediate threat who's coming off the Patrick
Paul block and going to make a hit on the
running back on Devon eight Chan, and he flies by
it and goes and blocks a safety ten yards down
the field. And again I think it's probably the offensive
designed to do that. But like, you can't turn down
the immediate block who's gonna hitch It's like stepping up
in the a gap and pass protection like that's more
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important than the sea gap because it's quicker to the
quarterback right, So I just that was kind of strange
to see. And then Tanner Connor dropped another football today,
like that's I mean what it is. Defensively, Rasul Douglas
had a really tough game. You know, missed the pick,
the illegal contact gave the Browns a first down on
fifteen yards to go. Zach Stealer another big penalty in
this one, got kind of knocked back again in this game.
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He got really knocked back on the second quin Shawn
Judkins touchdown run. Jack Jones keeps going in the wrong direction.
He misses Judkins on the wide run. Did have that
nice backdoor play for a six year old loss, but
he is not interested in the running game most of
the time. Jalen Phillips got sealed by Harold Fannon on
a long quin Shohn Judkins run that was strained to
see if I do think Phillips had some good plays here.
And then Benito Jones got blocked to Canada on one
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of the quin Chew Judkins touchdown runs. So rough, rough
game all across the board. We'll have the film review
for you guys tomorrow. Let's go ahead and take our
last break right here, come back and do five takeaways
and get out of here and get on to Game
six of the American League Championship Series. That's next Drive
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wife is currently sick, my kids are screaring downstairs. We've
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got Game six here in an hour and a half.
All hell has broken loose here on the Drive Time Podcast.
My five big picture takeaways. We're going to be brief here,
just unprepared, uncompetitive and folded up shop in the second half,
playing the same game despite the conditions. Look at how
the Browns adapted right wildcat in that first drive. We're
still throwing the screens behind the line of scrimage that never
seemed to work, and trying to stretch a run game
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wide that way. It's just not effective. It's not effective
at all. And this game was telling to me. You
could see it in the second half of the game two.
On that drive, backed up twenty four to six, a
run walk back to the huddle snapped with ten seconds left,
false start run it again, just kind of like white
flagging it there. So that was dispiriting to see, to
say the least. Number two was the condition's impact. And this,
I mean this has been going back for a while, right,
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The conditions showed their impact in this game between drop passes,
drop snaps, which are just dead plays. You're just giving
up snaps and losing yardage footing on the offensive philosophy
that's about stretch and overplay. Seems like we couldn't keep
our feet to maximize that and make those quick cutups.
You heard Mike McDaniel after the game say they're going
to change the way they play football if they have to. Yeah,
it seems like a smart idea. They looked like a
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team that didn't touch wet football all week. Also, and
this is the to a debate that goes back to
the twenty twenty one game at Tennessee. Wet football's poor
conditions like bad weather. I mean, look, we play three
games against the Patriots, Bills, and Jets every year. He
got a conference with outdoor stams for Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Casey,
and Denver, all these outdoor teams and inclement weather, and
it just continues to show up that it can't be done.
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So like that's a pretty big obstacle to overcome. Third
takeaway check downs have been beating us on either side
of the football. I think this is the appropriate week
to talk about this because it's been something we've been
seeing all year long and it drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But it was really tough today.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We talked about the third down conversion of the Browns offense,
but Jerman and I were talking about this.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
In the game.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
There was a swing to a Chan where we throw
the swing against a zone look and it's a one
hundred percent man call offensively to run it against man coverage,
but they're in zone. So you run these double slants,
these crossers from the backside of the formation to lift
that side of the coverage, and then the running back
runs the swing into that vacant area. But they're in zone.
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They got a curl flat linebacker right there on the numbers.
They got a cloud cornerback wide of the numbers, just
squatting there two yards down the field, five yards down
the field, and you throw it six yards blindly on
a swing to devon eight Chan who has to make
two guys miss just to get back to the lion scrimmage.
And it happens all the time, like immediately throw it
to that swing with no pressure on you. It's like
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just taking losses for the sake of taking losses. Man,
it drives me nuts. Offensively, there's a pretty big chunk
of the offense is these screens, and it's led to
being the leader last year. We had more negative plays
last year than any teams in twenty seventeen. And we're
on that track again this year producing negative plays offensively
and with the way we pass, pro the way the
quarterback's playing as a recipe for disaster. Offensively, when you're
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consistently in second and twelve and third and thirteen, number
four is a positive one. There was some youngster production
on the field today and quite frankly, that's gonna be
the podcast going forward. I'm not gonna sit here and
bemoan these things. We know what you guys know. I
know it too, right, it's obvious we're one and we
lost the freaking Browns. But in twenty nineteen I did
this podcast. We knew of that season was it was
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horrendous from the start. We talked about the guys that
you want to build up for future, and this game,
kennth Grant had his best game. He took over an
entire series that led to a Browns punt and great
Dolphins field position. Jordan Phillips continues to show you the
stuff that he can do from that nose tackle position,
dominating the point of attack against guards and centers. Jonas
Avit and I I had one of his best plays
of the year. I'm really curious to watch his whole
(22:27):
game on tape because there's some good stuff in the
running game there. And then Ollie Gordon had some tough runs,
including a third down conversion shoot. He got it twice
on third and fourth down. So the youngster production was
if you want to hang your hat on something today,
I guess that would be it. And the number five
is the Waller injury and the impact on the passing game.
We moved the ball best early when Waller was out there,
but then he goes out and the ability to be
(22:48):
multiple was really negated. From that point forward, the twenty
two personnel grouping becomes tougher because Tanner Connor is not
really a great receiver or blocker, so it removes the
ability to be flexible that way. And since we're in
the big picture takeaways, if he misses any more time,
that's gonna be a huge challenge for this offense to
overcome without Tyreek Hill and without Darren Waller, because right
(23:09):
now the only guys they've shown any proclivity to give
the football to are Jalen Waddle, who got taken out
of this game by Denzel Ward and the Browns coverage
smart by them, that was a good way to approach it.
And then also Devon h Chan, which is the bread
and butter guy that we continue to go back to
when things aren't clicking. It's like, just get the ball
to Devon h Chan any way you possibly can. And
when that becomes the focus, the offense never seems to click.
(23:29):
So they have a lot of stuff to work on
to figure it out, make corrections, all that stuff. That's
it for me. Go Mariners Fins Up one and six
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