November 30, 2025 • 34 mins
The Dolphins won 21-17 over the Saints on Sunday to push their record to 5-7. Travis is going over the story of the game, the themes, the critical moments, the crazy ending sequence, the individual standouts and big picture takeaways from the Dolphins big win!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
the Dolphins survive quite a scare. They are winners twenty
one to seventeen against the Saints. That's three in a row,
that's four of the last five, that's one game away
from six to seven. And we'll cover it all as
we always do. Why do I keep talking in this tone?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thanks twin win win, win win.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We'll talk about all the good, the bad, and the
ugly from a Dolphins twenty one to seventeen win. From
the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
This is the Draft Time Podcast. I'm taking this at
six eighteen pm in the East and Aaron Rodgers just
got sacked by Joey Bosa for a strip and score,
a scoop and score for the Bills defense to take
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a ten to seven lead over the Steelers. I haven't
seen what happened, but Aaron Rodgers exited the game. He
was playing with three rebroken bones in that wrist, which
is why the Dolphins closing this game out and the
way they did was important. Because if you can beat
the Jets on the road next week, you might get
a trip to Pittsburgh to face Mason Rudolph if that
injury is significant to Rogers, And so you know, I
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just want to go ahead and make a point riffle
top here. If you're gonna be upset about the way
I cover a win, this is not gonna be the
show for you. We are gonna cover what has to
get better. But we have five of these games left
guaranteed to us, and every single one of them that
gets to keep the hope alive is going to be
something I celebrate. Even if I think there are potentially
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fatal issues on the roster to prevent that from happening,
or issues that could stend into future years, that can
all be true. I'm not going to go away from
the fact that I'm excited about this team showing some
life over the last five games, winning four of those games,
and putting himself in position for us to possibly have
some fun for a few more weeks. And the story
of the game as we kick things off here, it
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changed completely. And this is one of those games where
it kind of reminded me of the Raiders game in
twenty twenty, where I had to redo my entire show
outlined like two or three times down the stretch, and
this one. The result didn't change, but it changed the
way I think we opened the discussion here because the
end of the sequence, the end of the game sequence
here was wild. I mean, I had submitted my entire rundown,
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was ready to go for this podcast, and then the
entire ending happened the way it did. And Miami had
several opportunities to put the game away, and luckily they
had as many as they did because they needed all
of them to get the race car over the finish line,
if you will, and into the winner circle. So Miami
third and four up by eight three fourteen your own,
you have possession of the ball at the plus forty six.
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You're one more first down away from another three mens
coming off the clock or timeouts being used, and then
also possibly in field goal range, and we get a
quarterback scramble where he slides short of the sticks, a
missed opportunity to keep the football there, but you have
a chance to convert on fourth and a half a
yard and Olie Gordon gets parallel to the last scrimmage
and gets stuffed on fourth and one. It wasn't blocked well.
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They did not get any surge off the last scrimmage.
But for Ali, you have to be thinking about gaining
twelve inches on that play, right, He gets parallel, loses
the yard. It goes back over to the Saints, and
they commit a holding call on offense. And now it's
first in twenty for an offense that hadn't created solid
pockets all day long, for a quarterback who was going
to be in passing situations with the rest of the game,
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and they pick up the twenty yards relatively easily. We
get to a third and six at the two minute
warning and Shook fines a lave for sixteen yards and
they score two plays later. All of these opportunities were
opportunities to close the game out, including a two point
conversion where these Saints could tie the game. But Minka
Fitzpatrick undercuts an over route with pressure all over almost
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said Mason Rudolph all over Tyler Shook, and he has
to make this throw on this over route otherwise he's
going to be sacked. Because Chopp was in there for
the potential sack on the play. Not only does Mika
Fitzpatrick pick it off. He runs it back for two
more points, which pretty much won you the game because
the Saints will get an onside kick that did not
travel ten yards. It traveled nine and three quarters yards,
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but it did nick Nick Westbrook Akine on the calf
and was able to be recovered by the Saints, and
they are throwing into the end zone a ball that
went right through Chris Olave's hands and just a fun
little side for you guys. I run down to the
radio booth at the two minute warning, so all of
this is happening on various monitors throughout hard Rock Stadium.
We go into the booth and we see the onside
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kick hap him and we're like, this game's on over,
let's go watch it again. Me and Jermon bush Rob
run back into the team store and we're literally standing
outside the team store with our hands up on the
glass to reduce glare to see the TV screens. And
I didn't see that the ball hit the ground, and
the way a Lave reacted, I thought that he caught
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the ball and was doing like the you know, no
celebration celebration, Like it's me, I'm him. I just made
this play. We just won this, but he didn't. They
didn't catch the ball. In fact, I haven't even seen
the play since that happened, so I guess he didn't
catch a ball that he could have caught they would
have given the Saints the win. And they go for
a third and one play on a little play action
rollout and shoot can't complete that. They try on fourth down,
Chop Robinson makes the stop amid a variety of Dolphins
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players that stack that up, and they finally get the
game winning play on attempt like number nine within this game,
so really really unique ending to the football game.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The Dolphins pull out the win.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What I had for the story of the game before
all that happened was the story of this game was
a defense that found utter conviction in their play style
through playing connected within the scheme and all the variety
of zone coverages and fire zones and blitzes and man
switch ups. They have to perplex a young quarterback, in
this case a rookie quarterback making his fourth start. It
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creates two first half takeaways, no points allowed. You had
three to three and outs to start the game. Dominant
at the line of scrimmage, changing the picture post snap
blitzes from all over the world, Minkup Fitzpatrick gets his
first career stack. Can you believe that a force fumble
that he had in this game. All of that paired
with a running game that can get it when the
defense knows it's coming, which is one of the most
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valuable things in the NFL. And quite frankly, we'll talk
about this throughout the course of the show. The Dolphins
have what they need to create their identity around, not
just for the rest of this season, but for the
long term. This defense and running game in this environment,
in this structure and this humidity is a really good
way to wear teams down and be a very tough
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out at home. And it also travels in in clement
weather on the roads, such as a game where it
come where the rains coming down all game long.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's in aside.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The only reason this game wasn't a runaway at halftime
was because the passing offense was stuck in the mud
and it was a terrible performance from the passing offense.
Mike McDaniel called it Herky Jerky after the game, said
that the Dolphins are going to have to work on
this week finding a way because teams are eventually going
to overcommit to the run and take it away and
we'll have to pass to win games that way. That'll
be the focus of this week in practice. But they
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struggled to make plays consistently outside of the opening drive
where they did get that. They got a second and
eighteen completion for I think it was thirteen yards and
then another like twenty yards on a third and six
ball to League Washington. But this game it felt over
at halftime at sixteen z it because of how the
defense was playing and because of what the Saints had
on offense. I mean, shook Is looks like a nice player.
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We'll see what his career turns into. I don't think,
you know, he's gonna force them off of taking a
quarterback they like high in the draft.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But he played well.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think he's got some some tools to work with
there for an offense that you know, Alvin Kamara's down.
Chris Olave played in the game and he was a
big difference maker. But Rashid Shahed, you know, had been traded,
Brandon Cooks has been waived.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They've just lost a lot of talent on that side
of the ball.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So it felt like a sixteen point lead was somewhat
insurmountable considering Miami's defense and running game, but that wasn't
the case. They go down the field on the opening
drive of the second half and put it right in
the end zone and convert on a Tyler Shook sweep
that gets to the pylon for two points to make
it a one score game. But the Dolphins got a
stop after the offense couldn't move at sixteen to eight,
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and then Tua finally hits his biggest throw of the day,
a twenty two yard strike between a trio of defenders
to Jalen Waddell ahead of two more big a Chan
runs and they would convert a field goal there that honestly,
that kind of felt like it put it away at
nineteen to eight. Obviously it did not. We'll get into
more of that, but the story offensively is that the
eight Chan runs eight Chan going for nine, ten, nine,
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twenty nine, sixteen nine. It seemed like it had about
nine rushes for nine yards each. You know, that was
his favorite number of the day, apparently, but he became
the fourth Dolphins running back in team history to rush
for one thousand yards in the team's first twelve games
of a season, Larry sanka Delvin Williams, which, hey, go
ahead and shoot. The messenger wasn't really aware of who
Delvin Williams was as a Dolphins historian. And then Ricky
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Williams did twice in two and o three, and now
Devon ah Chan and that was enough for the Dolphins
to get this win. It's hard not to feel like
this had blowout written all over it without as many
misses as they had in the passing game, whether it
was detection breakdowns, whether it was location issues, turnovers, bad
choices by the quarterback, just disjointed across the board, but
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they were able to overcome it with the other facets
of the team, clicking defense, run game, and special teams.
Before we get to the pre game checklist here, let's
go ahead and check off. Okay, the Chargers was just
went by two touchdowns. The Bills have gone up by
eleven points. Not looking good there on the outtown scoreboard.
Before we get to the pregame checklist, here some Dolphins
and Saints stats for you. Gosh, sixteen first downs from
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Miami to twenty for New Orleans. Both teams were four
for twelve on third down and zero for one on
fourth down. Pretty even in the yardage just two ninety
eight from Miami to ninety four for the Saints. We
only threw for one hundred and thirty four yards in
this game. In fact, Tua now has seven games this
year with less than two hundred yards passing. He never
had more than four in one season. That was actually
twenty twenty one when that happened for a very bad
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offensive team back then. So the passing game has has
kind of dealt with this the entire year. But you
do trim a little bit off the top when it
comes to your running game doing what does because you're
not throwing the ball as much. They throw for one
thirty four in this game to two thirteen, but Miami
does run it for one sixty four. The Saints got
eighty one yards on twenty seven carries. This run defense
has become legit since a really rocky start to the season.
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Miami has won turnover the pick from Tua to waddle
in the end zone to kol Aid McKinstry the Dolphins.
Rasul Douglas gets a pick, Minka Fitzpatrick gets a force
fumble that Zach Sealler picks up. For two takeaways. Both
quarterbacks sacked four times. The Dolphins had just three penalties
for fifteen yards the Saints six for forty five, and
both teams had the ball for just about even thirty minutes.
So a pretty even game when you consider how you
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know the Saints got going there down the stretch. My
pre game checklist was a few things here, and I
think the Dolphins did pretty well in most of these regards.
Number one, I was curious how the wrinkles and self
scouting changes off the bye week might change. You had
four games of a very unique personnel, you know, a
very unique attack offensively with your personnel groupings. How do
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they take the week down to take the next steps
and add wrinkles of the offense. We saw the opening
play of the game was like full house with Waller
and Ingold in the backfield. They attacked that light box
on the first drive of the Saints with those heavy
personnel groupings. They brought Brunskill out. We saw different snaps
that had three tight ends on the drive. Dvon ah
Chan had carries of eight and twenty nine yards in
that first half. With that power run game that can
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also like get with and get speed off the edge,
so it's I think we saw remnants of it. I'm
curious to watch the tape and get more detail for
you guys on that on the show tomorrow. But I
thinks what I saw live, which don't. I like to
go back and watch the film first. Which, by the way,
the Devon h Chan screen passed that didn't go for
a touchdown. Wasn't a perfect throw, but that's a drop pass.
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McDaniel says much after the game. I got cooked on Twitter.
In fact, anyone that was, you know, making styder marks
about it pound sand and we're gonna not see you
on Twitter anymore because I don't. I don't deal with that.
Like it was right in his face mask. It was
a little bit hot, and you know he didn't get
his hands up in time. But catch the football. McDaniels
used to have caught the football. I thought I should
have caught the football. Not the best throw, but man,
I can't believe the well, I can't believe because that's
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what Twitter is. But the reactions were so stark in
the other direction. But yeah, the Dolphins. I'm curious to
watch the tape and see what it looks like on
that side of things, because I thought there was a
lot more versat variety in this game from the offense
and some added wrinkles. I was curious about our approach
to the added gaps and bigger groupings of the Saints offense.
Which defensive personnel groups we run, who matches up on
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tight ends. They didn't really do it a whole lot,
but there was a snap. They were in eleven personnel
for like two thirds of the snaps in the first quarter,
but they did have a snap where Juwan Johnson flexed
out and ran a little slant route against Willie Gay,
so he had a good match up there on a
tight end. So we weren't using corners and safeties as
much as I thought we might in that position. I
also saw some fronts where it was Zeke Bigger's playing
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a lot of two technique, and they had lots of
fronts today where it was either a backside zero shade
or sorry, a one shade, a one technique off the
left shoulder of the center, and then a two technique
to the play side, So some kind of condensed defensive
tackle groupings, and they're getting to Biggers in those looks.
They're getting to obviously Jordan Phillips and Zach Seeler and
Kenneth Grant. There's a lot of variety there in this
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defense in front all of a sudden that it's all
young players and Zach Seeler, which I love to see.
How did the Saints change their approach for our big
grouping because this is a light box defense, but you
can't go light against Miami's heavy personnel, and they just
kind of took it on the chin, which I think
I think helped their passing defense, you know, produce one
hundred and thirty four yard day from the Dolphins passing offense,
but it afforded the Dolphins running game as many opportunities
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as they had, and when the defense and special teams
played like they did, that's why the Dolphins were able
to get twenty one points on the board in this game,
and it should have been a lot more. Quite frankly,
I was curious, similarly, the rush plan against Tyler Shook,
who completed thirty nine percent of his passes this year
coming into the game against the Blitz. In the first
six plays, there was two three and outs, there was disguise,
there was a cat Blitz. We saw Minka come on
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that safety blitz. Later in the game, they inverted coverage
on the second third down of the game, just unloading
the kitchen sink at the Saints, and Tyler shook and
he was struggling under Durest threw an off target ball
on the second third down of the game. That's what
you want, right, heat up a young quarterback, change the picture.
That's how you can unforced airs from the opposing quarterback.
But he did settle in pretty nicely towards the end
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of the game and ended up making some big time throws.
But by and large, Miami's defense was able to confuse
him and get enough stops to win this football game.
And then, lastly, I was curious about incorporating Austin and
Waller back into the game, akin to the first one
with Darren Waller. But is Austin Jackson a platoon at
the right tackle who plays right guard.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
There was no mystery here whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It was Austin Jackson at right tackle, Cole Strange at
right guard, and Darren Waller played a pretty good chunk
of snaps in this game.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Let's go ahead and pause for our first break, come
back and talk about game themes and critical moments before
the individual performances and takeaways. All that next Drivetime podcast,
brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here Dolphin's winners
over the New Orleans Saints twenty one seventeen on Sunday,
and I have just watched the Aaron Rodgers stripsack that happened.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
That didn't look too good.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think there's a real, real possibility that your route
to seven and seven back to five hundred, which the
exact same thing the twenty twenty one Dolphins did. I
think it goes through Tyrod Taylor in the New York
Jets and Mason Rudolph in the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of
a potential Sunday night football game against Joe Burrow and
the Bengals here at hard Rock Stadium on the twenty first.
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And I want to get too far ahead of myself,
but I feel and those wins aren't guaranteed. I'm not
gonna say that right now at all, but I feel
that is the new path because I don't think. I
don't think we're gonna see Rogers again after watching that play.
Let's get back to the Dolphins and Saints here. They
get a very important win in terms of keeping their
playoff hopes alive, and the game themes was the Dolphins
adding wrinkles and variety to what was already working with
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big personnel and a power run game. Again, we're gonna
talk about two in the quarterback position, but we've been
talking about this for weeks now, right going back to
the Atlanta game and the need to have this power
style of run game that you can kind of develop,
you know, complementary football around. And they've done it. They've
they've just done it. And I'm talking about power in
the sense that they can boil you. But make no
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mistake about this, they want a utiliz the speed and
get off the edge and get to von Hien into
spaces and gaps, and his relationship to time and space
within those short little gaps among the offensive line is special.
It is special football. And they have found something with
how they can get to those looks with the personnel
they have, with youth that should be here for a
long time and I'm excited about that fact. Again, there's
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things they're going to have to find ways to clean
up for this year and for going forward, but it's
it's been a nice change.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's been a welcome change.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And they also came out with muddle huddle where they
would get to the you know, break the huddle, sprint
to the line of scrimmage and go on the first
sound like whether it was a you know, a dummy
count or sorry so no dummie count, a silent count,
or like, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Just go right away.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And it was the to a deep shot to Cedric Wilson,
which within that decision he had a first time if
he just kept the ball and ran it and tried
to throw like an over the top ball in the
double coverage, that was a confusing decision there.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I made a few confusing decisions in this game for TUA.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But there's differences, right, There's tendency breakers based upon what
this team has done and who they've shown to be
in the past. And you see so clearly what Darren
Waller's influence is. They can get good matchups from those
heavy groupings. They can flex Waller out with Wattle to
the field on a condensed split the wide side of
the field, shorten them into the formation. Wattle takes both
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defenders on a speed out and then Waller sneaks downfield
all alone for a thirty three yard pass on naked
vertical route. You create those matchups with all the other
stuff you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Can get to.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You fake a corner route and you throw a lot
a common route. You throw it to your best receiver,
Dalen Wattle. It creates a bust and you take advantage
for an explosive play that flips the field and changes
the game. We saw Brenskil flexed all the way to
the field as the one the furthest receiver out there.
But then you go all the Gordon on duo inside.
It just shows you the ability to like, here's our
power package. There's the power player sixty four outside the numbers,
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and then we're going to go back to the power
inside on the run. It's showing you one thing doing
something entirely different. That's the idea of the offense. We'll
come back to that. I liked the third and one
play action on the first drive of the third quarter,
the ball that Julian Hill dropped, which I thought that
throw was far more off target than the eight chan
screen was. That was way off Julian's back hip. He
has to make the catch and McDaniel says much on
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both those throws after the game.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But the ball wasn't It wasn't where you need to be.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And that's that's part of the entire draw for two
of for me for the longest time, right, the ball
is always in the upfield shoulder.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It creates the maximum.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yack mack yak, if you will max yak, and we're
not getting that in this game. The place was all
over the place, and that was a nice tendency breaker,
a nice look there. It got you wide open tight
end space, just couldn't execute if the offense executed in
the passing game. In this game, this is a blowout.
That's over and you've got you know, guys chewing sunflower
season the fourth quarter. But then there was some self
inflicted wounds that caused quick three and ounce that prevented
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this game from being a runaway.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
In the first half.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The second drive got behind the chains early, then the
third drive starts to the TfL then a screen that
they pop sometimes, but sometimes they almost feel like, you know,
give up plays or you know, not really trusting the
offense to hit a true drop back, and how can
you blame them that they turn into sacks a lot
of the time. Both players look discombibulated. Then you get
twelve men in the huddle and it makes it third
and fourteen. So it's like made the comparison on the
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Post Game Show. It's like the Chevy Chase scene. Man
in a Vegas vacation, he gets his gum out and
he plugs one hole. In the minute that hole gets plugged,
another one pops up, and you got a new issue
to deal with. And I'm like, we spent all these
years talking about this high flying, explosive offense that can
hit you from you know, can score forty points in
a game, but we can't convert a critical third down
to keep the game alive whatever it is, or can't
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play a bully ball, can't convert on gold and goast situations,
and those things seem to be solved, and now the
other thing is a problem. So it's that's the frustrating
part about the whole experience here. Despite the fact that
you're winning and you're on a street right now, it's
like those little things, if you don't clean them up
over the course of the final five games, at some
point it's gonna bite you. It's gonna cost you a game,
and it's gonna end your season. So there's stuff to
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work on. There's lots to be happy about, excited about,
but there's plenty to work on. And I you know
something else was the sequence at the end of the
first half. I don't have a problem with not spiking
the ball right away. When Tua got to the line scrimmage,
there was about eighteen seconds in the clock, and he
just said, let's just kill this thing out and kick
the field goal because the ball's at the thirty yard line.
Thirty one yard line again, eighteen seconds, no timeouts. If
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he kills it with seventeen seconds, you have to throw
something either either over the ball in the middle of
the field or to the sideline for a quick out,
and that opens up the possibility of it was if
the first reads not there and we have a true
dropback situation and Carl Granderson or Chase Young comes screaming
off the edge and puts two on his butt, that's
a sack. That's no points, and it's an absolute meltown
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situation in a game where sixteen nothing is pretty good.
And I'm one of the biggest biggest proponents of like acceleration, aggressiveness,
go for the win, kill them on offense.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I've been that way for a long time.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But I understand the decision right there in that spot
to not open up ourselves to a sack to get
no points out of that situation. Now, the running play
on second and one without timeouts, that one I think
you could have done differently and giving yourself a chance
to make more attempts to get the ball down the field.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Because let's just pull it up real quick. I'll pull
it up live on the show here.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, first and ten one away to play nine yard run,
take a time out at their last time out of
the half second one, with one minute to play the
thirty three yard line. They run the ball again for
two yards, gets tackled in bounds to a finals in
League Washington. Now you've wasted thirty seconds in the clock
for a six yard game to get him themselves into
field goal range. That was the decision right there. The
second one play was the decision. With a minute left
to go and you had no timeouts, but second one
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from the thirty three, that's your chance to go get
seven points. That was where the mistake occurred, not the
decision to wind the clock on the play before the
field goal, but then also going back to the self
inflicted wounds and the wrinkles in the passing game or
the offense. They were resetting the line of scrimmage like
they were pushing guys off the football. They paired that
vertical game with the outside zone game, with the inside
wind back run to Olie Gordon where he's working it
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wide then cutting it back inside, and the Dolphins are
just folding back that lione of scrimmage the next play
eight chan if you sset the line scrimmage another five
yards for another ten yard game for him. These guys
weren't getting touched for four or five yards down the field,
and you can create that within your offensive system, and
the Dolphins did that. The last thing here from the
game theme standpoint, this is a long show already. The
defense breaking the Saints down up front early, then mixing
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it up on passing downs. They had a really difficult time.
The Saints did blocking Sealer and Grant and Biggers. We
had two TFLs and a sack among them on the
first three drives. We talked about Miami mixing it up
in the checklists with their coverage, their different fronts they
ran this game. They were making shook work post snap
and just from the live view, it looked like there
were some anticipatory shots available there. But for a guy
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playing his fourth career game with limited NFL style experience
at the college level, you don't expect him to come
out here like Tom Brady and pick apart your coverage
to rip the seam to Gronk on the vertical because
the safety rotates down, like you know, you don't have that,
so attack it. Good plan, good execution through the first quarter,
really through the entire game until very late. They had
one nice drive the Saints did, and then the game
got muddy towards the end, but and large they were
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getting after it. They got the safety blitz from Minka
who arrives for a sack fumble. See the recovers just
changing in every snap on the rookie, and he was
feeling the heat. They tried to create the matchup with
their best tight end, Juwan Johnson on Willie Gay.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
He defends it well.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Dolphins mixing their front, their personnel, the group they look
locked in the Rasul Douglas pick. I'll break that down
on Rasoul's individual portion here.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The Saints again did get it going on the opening
drive of the second half, and they did it through
the run game and through Shook creating plays off structure.
That was the second key of the game this week,
right was defend the run, defend their four tight end
personnel groupings they run, and then make sure when Shook
creates you find ways to plaster or don't let them
get outside for a break and contain. But he was
getting out of pressures in the first half but not
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finishing on that drive. In the second half, he kind
of did, so the test became from Miami, how can
you stuff the run again and limit shooks out of
structure play?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That was, you know good in the first half. Second half,
nice start.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
After the opening drive, but then Shook tried to create
on the next drive a five man pressure with chop
retracing didn't get out of his rush lane. It allows
him to pick up a sack there on a big play.
So a nice adjustment by Weaver and company. After the
Saints made their nice adjustment coming out of the break,
you get Bradley Chubb sacked to start the third quarter.
Was straight up strain and winning as an individual was
the same for Zeke Biggers. He was double teamed and
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just strained through that block to get a sack, So
I'm excited about this front and their future. Here, let's
go ahead and pause for a quick break right there,
come back and break down the critical moments of the game,
the individual standouts, and the five takeaways on the Drive
Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. Right, we're back,
Rogers came back into the game, So disregard everything I
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talked about. But then again, maybe a forty what is
he forty two, forty two yer old quarterback with three
broken bone? Maybe that's not the best thing in the world. Hey,
the Jets are up next. Go beat the Jets. When
to talk with us theeeers? After that, Travis Critical moments
breakdowns Here, we're still talking about the Saints game. Dolphins
win twenty one to seventeen at home against the two
wins Saints. There was a third and six of the
second quarter, fourteen to twenty to play plus twenty two
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two yard line. The protection breakdown gets a free run.
The Dolphins were struggling to get these third down protections
sorted after doing a great job on the opening drive,
but the Saints were in a five to zero. Look,
it's man across the board. They squeezed the nose and
the second level backer blitzes the b gap untouched two
was able to make him miss, but has to throw
it away after getting off the spot. We still kick
the field goal and take a ten zip lead. But
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with this defense, it felt like a great spot to
be in. But four drives ten points into the game
is a pretty good spot to be It just wouldn't
continue that way for the rest of the game. Third
and ten for the Saints eleven to forty six. Second quarter,
still the same score or ten to nothing. After the
sack fumble, then the two a pick. It felt like
the defense needed to do a good job getting off
the field and they got into a third long backed
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him up. They motioned Juwan Johnson out to the boundary
and that's the Willie Gay undercut pass breakup rep. You
know that felt good against his former team. So one
to one so far in these moments. Third goal plus seven,
six minutes to play in the second quarter, up ten zip.
We drove it down there, chance at a four point
play on third down to possibly get a touch down.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
There.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They come out in twenty one personnel the angle screen
to eight Chan who has the walk in touchdown, but
two throws a little bit high, a little bit hot,
and it's dropped and you kick the field goal.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Four point play right there. One and two are the
Dolphins in critical moments.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Third and four at the Saints plus forty five their
ball sorry at the plus forty five Saints football thirteen
zip game, two minute warning, chop, jumps off sides, It
just happens too much.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Can't do that.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Saints two point conversion ten forty left in the third quarter.
Shook takes the quarterback sweep and gets it in there
for another Saints win, which brings them to four and one.
In these critical spots, third and four, down by ten
sorry sorry minus ten yard buying up by eight, three
point thirty to go in the third quarter. I felt
like this play was kind of like where the Dolphins
possibly put the game away. Two A steps up, gets
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really good protection all around, throws the ball across the
progression to greg doles, which are twenty one yards. Huge
conversion when a miss there makes you punt from your
goalpost in a one score game. I thought that was
a big moment in the game. Then, on third and
eight at the plus thirty nine with six fifteen to
play in the game, the Saints were down eleven and
Jack Jones is all over a cornerback a comeback route
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and Tyler Shook has to try to throw it because
the boss is getting close and the ball goes incomplete,
so a second win for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Two and five.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
In those moments, a fourth down and one three minutes
to go, try to run it inside. Alli Gordon gets
shut down two and six the two point play, Mika
Fitzpatrick bangs his shoulder up early, it comes back and
makes the play chop in there for the pressure runs
it back for two points. The Dolphins get their third
critical spot win, and of course they win the fourth
down critical moment after losing the on side kick. So
I guess losing the plot here, But the whole point
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is the Saints made way more critical moment plays than
the Miami Dolphins did, and that's why this game was close,
because Miami pretty much won the rest of the game,
But the Saints made like five or six out of
like the nine critical plays, and that's kind of in
the story of the year for the Dolphins for the
most part, except for a couple of nice wins they
had against Atlanta and Buffalo, but that was kind of
the story in this game today. Again, I just felt
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you kind of got away with it because the Saints
are not a very good football team. Individual Standoutsavon a
Shan is special. You give him an inch. He's gone
twenty nine yard touchdown run on the opening drive. He
presses the angle so well to create the lane. Happens
all the time he's gliding around out there. He made
Jonas Sanker miss coming from depth without decelebrating at all,
like it's crazy how special he is. Didn't have a
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catch in this game, first game all year, didn't catch
a football. Could have had a touchdown catch, but it
will drop Austin Jackson. He is so critical and such
a nice feature to this team's newfound ground and pound mindset.
He's a punishing run blocker. He'll push your wig back.
I think the broadcast copy will show what it looks like,
you know, what looks like pass pro mistakes. But I
think that was more of a systemic effect on a
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few plays. But he just dents the edge and drives
guys and walls them off and get into space. I'm
excited about Austin's progression here in the offense. Hopefully he's
feeling right and can go the rest of the way
because he'll be a big piece for US. I thought
Patrick Paul and Aaron Brewer did some good stuff. There
was a sack on Pat Paul on a third and
goal against against Chase Young, and the interior struggle big
time with rush games all game long. So we'll dive
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into that more on the All twenty two. And I
just thought Darren Waller's impact is so palpable man the
way he commands coverage, the way you can create matchups
with him in there. He damn near broke that tackle
on the thirty three yard catch that we'll have turned
into a sixty yard touchdown. But he's had a big
impact just from being out there and the different groupings
you can get too. Offensively. On defense, I thought Zach's
Eiler had one of his best games of the season.
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Pressure early on the first drive, a pursuit tackle for
loss in the second play of the game, had the
fumble recovery. He was getting some good pressure on the
inside all game long. Jordan Phillips has just been steady
as she goes all year long. Now He's making big
plays TFLs rubin the belly was part of that fourth
down stop as well. Minka Fitzpatrick got my game ball
on the postgame show. I mean the pick two, the
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sack fumble, he had a third down tackle in space
on a checkdown that was really nice. He is just
everything you want. He's the straw that stirs the drink
in those coverage structures. On the backside, Jordan Brooks was
playing everything super tight, scraping downhill, fitting, playing his gap
in coverage, playing his gap and in coverage. Another awesome
game for LB one in this league. Rasoul Douglass I
thought was very good in this game. The pick, you know,
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I think it was two man. It might have been
quarter quarter, a half, might have been cover sick. There's
lots of variety that could have been. But Tyler Shook
tries to throw the speed out to Rasul Douglas. He
had eyes in the quarterback, knew we had help over
the top, a chance to gamble on a play, perfect time.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
To do it, gets the pick and makes it back
the other way. But hey, he is slow. Huh. He
should have had that pick six.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Jack Jones also just that that third down rap I
talked about in the fourth quarter. He has been solid
for us for quite a while. Now, I thought Jonah,
I thought the guard plays struggled, but I want to
watch the tape before I get into that more. I
thought Tua really struggled in this game. No mystery there.
The deep shot to Waddle. We can't do these things.
We're going to beat Pittsburgh Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
In a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Gotta score these drives. The deep flip to Cedric Wilson
was kind of an odd decision when he had a
first down at the run. The screen to a Han
could have been a touchdown, but it was a little
bit hot and high. Should have been caught. But make
the throw easier. Same deal with the Julian Hill throw.
Also got to catch up, but make the throw. Next
he gets off the spot and has Malik Washington breaking
all alone on a broken play and slides for two
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yard gain. I thought the pass pro in general just
wasn't that good. The twists, we're confusing communication. But the
quarterback play was the you know two. I mentioned that
after the game. Not to his standard, right, and it's
got to get a lot better here as we go forward. Defensively,
thought Ashton Davis was in bad positions throughout the course
of the game. Chubb had a key sack, but he
also missed a bunch of tackles and Chop finished strong.
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I had him in the originally, but Chop finish strong
get himself out of that position.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
A good game for Chop. Here five takeaways. Number one.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The offensive identity remains obvious and effective to me. There's
a couple of things that got to get cleaned up,
and like, I don't know that you can do it
right away from jump this year. The quarterback's skill set
and his movement, some of the changing landmarks and shifts
that caused these misses third and long pass pro breakdowns.
But the bones of a really nice offensive attack is
built for the game is in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's in place.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Quite frankly, I thought it would take longer to pivot
off of what we built this thing for from twenty
two to twenty four and frankly into twenty five, which
was forced upon you because of a Tyreek kill injury,
which is a whole different conversation. But this is why
I was so geeked about the off season, because they
gave themselves a chance to cure some of the woes.
The run game consistency, the short yards, the red zone stuff,
and they've done that and there's more to come with
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Waller and Austin getting back, but some other stuff might
have popped up along the way as well. So that's
how this game goes. Number two, The passing game needs
a jolt man. They really struggle to get the ball
vertical on key third downs. Was big sacks and throwaways.
Two red zone drives stall out with some misses, a
bad pick on a first down shot play in the
double coverage, can't throw that ball. We've seen it in
flashes this year, but it has it's it's had these
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types of low moments as well, where it's like just
looks tough and if they're gonna keep on winning, they're
gonna have to find balance. At some point, I just
thought it wasn't good enough from the quarterback position or
protection standpoint. Everything else in the game was pretty good,
but in general, the passing game off target thrower is
bad ball placement, a bad pick, bad decisions. Just struggled
to find an all game long, and the passing game offensively.
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Number three, the defense's energy pairs with a scheme click.
We've been over this corner on this lot right with me,
you know, with we being me on drivetime the Royal
Wei for a few weeks, but you saw it at
its best day. The scheme is connected, it's on its rules.
Guys are feeling comfortable and guys are playing inspired. They're
playing their hair on fire. A nice combo tackle on
a swing checkdown by Jack Jones, a Minka Fitzpatrick where
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they both you know, good technique on the tackle. Disruption
on hookstone throws by Tyrrel Dodson by Jordan Brooks, by
Willie Gabe, the use of DB's in the blitzing game.
Everybody's playing fast and convicted. That comes from conviction in
the scheme, and it has me excited about what they
can do in the final five games, as me excited
about Anthony and Weaver and going forward here with this team.
Number four Special Teams continued to be awesome. They were
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third in EPA coming into the game. They probably got
better because they flipped the field on every punt. There
was four punts in the game and Bailey averaged fifty
one yards of net punting and as long as fifty four,
so they're all consistent. Elijah Campbell is a man on fire.
He's been very good. It helped Miami in a slug
fest of a game win the Hidden Yards battle. And
my fifth takeaway, I wanted to talk about the quarterback position,
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but we've been over it so much. It's been really
it struggled this year. It's got to get a lot
better now going forward. But the bigger takeaway got to
five and seven? Can we make it six to seven?
Three in a row, four to the last five. Played
some ugly football today, but we got the job done,
so I'm excited that we're still alive. That's the fifth takeaway.
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Speaker 1 (34:36):
He's coming home.
This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
the Dolphins survive quite a scare. They are winners twenty
one to seventeen against the Saints. That's three in a row,
that's four of the last five, that's one game away
from six to seven. And we'll cover it all as
we always do. Why do I keep talking in this tone?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thanks twin win win, win win.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We'll talk about all the good, the bad, and the
ugly from a Dolphins twenty one to seventeen win. From
the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
This is the Draft Time Podcast. I'm taking this at
six eighteen pm in the East and Aaron Rodgers just
got sacked by Joey Bosa for a strip and score,
a scoop and score for the Bills defense to take
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a ten to seven lead over the Steelers. I haven't
seen what happened, but Aaron Rodgers exited the game. He
was playing with three rebroken bones in that wrist, which
is why the Dolphins closing this game out and the
way they did was important. Because if you can beat
the Jets on the road next week, you might get
a trip to Pittsburgh to face Mason Rudolph if that
injury is significant to Rogers, And so you know, I
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just want to go ahead and make a point riffle
top here. If you're gonna be upset about the way
I cover a win, this is not gonna be the
show for you. We are gonna cover what has to
get better. But we have five of these games left
guaranteed to us, and every single one of them that
gets to keep the hope alive is going to be
something I celebrate. Even if I think there are potentially
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fatal issues on the roster to prevent that from happening,
or issues that could stend into future years, that can
all be true. I'm not going to go away from
the fact that I'm excited about this team showing some
life over the last five games, winning four of those games,
and putting himself in position for us to possibly have
some fun for a few more weeks. And the story
of the game as we kick things off here, it
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changed completely. And this is one of those games where
it kind of reminded me of the Raiders game in
twenty twenty, where I had to redo my entire show
outlined like two or three times down the stretch, and
this one. The result didn't change, but it changed the
way I think we opened the discussion here because the
end of the sequence, the end of the game sequence
here was wild. I mean, I had submitted my entire rundown,
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was ready to go for this podcast, and then the
entire ending happened the way it did. And Miami had
several opportunities to put the game away, and luckily they
had as many as they did because they needed all
of them to get the race car over the finish line,
if you will, and into the winner circle. So Miami
third and four up by eight three fourteen your own,
you have possession of the ball at the plus forty six.
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You're one more first down away from another three mens
coming off the clock or timeouts being used, and then
also possibly in field goal range, and we get a
quarterback scramble where he slides short of the sticks, a
missed opportunity to keep the football there, but you have
a chance to convert on fourth and a half a
yard and Olie Gordon gets parallel to the last scrimmage
and gets stuffed on fourth and one. It wasn't blocked well.
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They did not get any surge off the last scrimmage.
But for Ali, you have to be thinking about gaining
twelve inches on that play, right, He gets parallel, loses
the yard. It goes back over to the Saints, and
they commit a holding call on offense. And now it's
first in twenty for an offense that hadn't created solid
pockets all day long, for a quarterback who was going
to be in passing situations with the rest of the game,
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and they pick up the twenty yards relatively easily. We
get to a third and six at the two minute
warning and Shook fines a lave for sixteen yards and
they score two plays later. All of these opportunities were
opportunities to close the game out, including a two point
conversion where these Saints could tie the game. But Minka
Fitzpatrick undercuts an over route with pressure all over almost
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said Mason Rudolph all over Tyler Shook, and he has
to make this throw on this over route otherwise he's
going to be sacked. Because Chopp was in there for
the potential sack on the play. Not only does Mika
Fitzpatrick pick it off. He runs it back for two
more points, which pretty much won you the game because
the Saints will get an onside kick that did not
travel ten yards. It traveled nine and three quarters yards,
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but it did nick Nick Westbrook Akine on the calf
and was able to be recovered by the Saints, and
they are throwing into the end zone a ball that
went right through Chris Olave's hands and just a fun
little side for you guys. I run down to the
radio booth at the two minute warning, so all of
this is happening on various monitors throughout hard Rock Stadium.
We go into the booth and we see the onside
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kick hap him and we're like, this game's on over,
let's go watch it again. Me and Jermon bush Rob
run back into the team store and we're literally standing
outside the team store with our hands up on the
glass to reduce glare to see the TV screens. And
I didn't see that the ball hit the ground, and
the way a Lave reacted, I thought that he caught
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the ball and was doing like the you know, no
celebration celebration, Like it's me, I'm him. I just made
this play. We just won this, but he didn't. They
didn't catch the ball. In fact, I haven't even seen
the play since that happened, so I guess he didn't
catch a ball that he could have caught they would
have given the Saints the win. And they go for
a third and one play on a little play action
rollout and shoot can't complete that. They try on fourth down,
Chop Robinson makes the stop amid a variety of Dolphins
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players that stack that up, and they finally get the
game winning play on attempt like number nine within this game,
so really really unique ending to the football game.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The Dolphins pull out the win.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What I had for the story of the game before
all that happened was the story of this game was
a defense that found utter conviction in their play style
through playing connected within the scheme and all the variety
of zone coverages and fire zones and blitzes and man
switch ups. They have to perplex a young quarterback, in
this case a rookie quarterback making his fourth start. It
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creates two first half takeaways, no points allowed. You had
three to three and outs to start the game. Dominant
at the line of scrimmage, changing the picture post snap
blitzes from all over the world, Minkup Fitzpatrick gets his
first career stack. Can you believe that a force fumble
that he had in this game. All of that paired
with a running game that can get it when the
defense knows it's coming, which is one of the most
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valuable things in the NFL. And quite frankly, we'll talk
about this throughout the course of the show. The Dolphins
have what they need to create their identity around, not
just for the rest of this season, but for the
long term. This defense and running game in this environment,
in this structure and this humidity is a really good
way to wear teams down and be a very tough
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out at home. And it also travels in in clement
weather on the roads, such as a game where it
come where the rains coming down all game long.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's in aside.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The only reason this game wasn't a runaway at halftime
was because the passing offense was stuck in the mud
and it was a terrible performance from the passing offense.
Mike McDaniel called it Herky Jerky after the game, said
that the Dolphins are going to have to work on
this week finding a way because teams are eventually going
to overcommit to the run and take it away and
we'll have to pass to win games that way. That'll
be the focus of this week in practice. But they
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struggled to make plays consistently outside of the opening drive
where they did get that. They got a second and
eighteen completion for I think it was thirteen yards and
then another like twenty yards on a third and six
ball to League Washington. But this game it felt over
at halftime at sixteen z it because of how the
defense was playing and because of what the Saints had
on offense. I mean, shook Is looks like a nice player.
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We'll see what his career turns into. I don't think,
you know, he's gonna force them off of taking a
quarterback they like high in the draft.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But he played well.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think he's got some some tools to work with
there for an offense that you know, Alvin Kamara's down.
Chris Olave played in the game and he was a
big difference maker. But Rashid Shahed, you know, had been traded,
Brandon Cooks has been waived.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They've just lost a lot of talent on that side
of the ball.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So it felt like a sixteen point lead was somewhat
insurmountable considering Miami's defense and running game, but that wasn't
the case. They go down the field on the opening
drive of the second half and put it right in
the end zone and convert on a Tyler Shook sweep
that gets to the pylon for two points to make
it a one score game. But the Dolphins got a
stop after the offense couldn't move at sixteen to eight,
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and then Tua finally hits his biggest throw of the day,
a twenty two yard strike between a trio of defenders
to Jalen Waddell ahead of two more big a Chan
runs and they would convert a field goal there that honestly,
that kind of felt like it put it away at
nineteen to eight. Obviously it did not. We'll get into
more of that, but the story offensively is that the
eight Chan runs eight Chan going for nine, ten, nine,
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twenty nine, sixteen nine. It seemed like it had about
nine rushes for nine yards each. You know, that was
his favorite number of the day, apparently, but he became
the fourth Dolphins running back in team history to rush
for one thousand yards in the team's first twelve games
of a season, Larry sanka Delvin Williams, which, hey, go
ahead and shoot. The messenger wasn't really aware of who
Delvin Williams was as a Dolphins historian. And then Ricky
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Williams did twice in two and o three, and now
Devon ah Chan and that was enough for the Dolphins
to get this win. It's hard not to feel like
this had blowout written all over it without as many
misses as they had in the passing game, whether it
was detection breakdowns, whether it was location issues, turnovers, bad
choices by the quarterback, just disjointed across the board, but
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they were able to overcome it with the other facets
of the team, clicking defense, run game, and special teams.
Before we get to the pre game checklist here, let's
go ahead and check off. Okay, the Chargers was just
went by two touchdowns. The Bills have gone up by
eleven points. Not looking good there on the outtown scoreboard.
Before we get to the pregame checklist, here some Dolphins
and Saints stats for you. Gosh, sixteen first downs from
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Miami to twenty for New Orleans. Both teams were four
for twelve on third down and zero for one on
fourth down. Pretty even in the yardage just two ninety
eight from Miami to ninety four for the Saints. We
only threw for one hundred and thirty four yards in
this game. In fact, Tua now has seven games this
year with less than two hundred yards passing. He never
had more than four in one season. That was actually
twenty twenty one when that happened for a very bad
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offensive team back then. So the passing game has has
kind of dealt with this the entire year. But you
do trim a little bit off the top when it
comes to your running game doing what does because you're
not throwing the ball as much. They throw for one
thirty four in this game to two thirteen, but Miami
does run it for one sixty four. The Saints got
eighty one yards on twenty seven carries. This run defense
has become legit since a really rocky start to the season.
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Miami has won turnover the pick from Tua to waddle
in the end zone to kol Aid McKinstry the Dolphins.
Rasul Douglas gets a pick, Minka Fitzpatrick gets a force
fumble that Zach Sealler picks up. For two takeaways. Both
quarterbacks sacked four times. The Dolphins had just three penalties
for fifteen yards the Saints six for forty five, and
both teams had the ball for just about even thirty minutes.
So a pretty even game when you consider how you
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know the Saints got going there down the stretch. My
pre game checklist was a few things here, and I
think the Dolphins did pretty well in most of these regards.
Number one, I was curious how the wrinkles and self
scouting changes off the bye week might change. You had
four games of a very unique personnel, you know, a
very unique attack offensively with your personnel groupings. How do
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they take the week down to take the next steps
and add wrinkles of the offense. We saw the opening
play of the game was like full house with Waller
and Ingold in the backfield. They attacked that light box
on the first drive of the Saints with those heavy
personnel groupings. They brought Brunskill out. We saw different snaps
that had three tight ends on the drive. Dvon ah
Chan had carries of eight and twenty nine yards in
that first half. With that power run game that can
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also like get with and get speed off the edge,
so it's I think we saw remnants of it. I'm
curious to watch the tape and get more detail for
you guys on that on the show tomorrow. But I
thinks what I saw live, which don't. I like to
go back and watch the film first. Which, by the way,
the Devon h Chan screen passed that didn't go for
a touchdown. Wasn't a perfect throw, but that's a drop pass.
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McDaniel says much after the game. I got cooked on Twitter.
In fact, anyone that was, you know, making styder marks
about it pound sand and we're gonna not see you
on Twitter anymore because I don't. I don't deal with that.
Like it was right in his face mask. It was
a little bit hot, and you know he didn't get
his hands up in time. But catch the football. McDaniels
used to have caught the football. I thought I should
have caught the football. Not the best throw, but man,
I can't believe the well, I can't believe because that's
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what Twitter is. But the reactions were so stark in
the other direction. But yeah, the Dolphins. I'm curious to
watch the tape and see what it looks like on
that side of things, because I thought there was a
lot more versat variety in this game from the offense
and some added wrinkles. I was curious about our approach
to the added gaps and bigger groupings of the Saints offense.
Which defensive personnel groups we run, who matches up on
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tight ends. They didn't really do it a whole lot,
but there was a snap. They were in eleven personnel
for like two thirds of the snaps in the first quarter,
but they did have a snap where Juwan Johnson flexed
out and ran a little slant route against Willie Gay,
so he had a good match up there on a
tight end. So we weren't using corners and safeties as
much as I thought we might in that position. I
also saw some fronts where it was Zeke Bigger's playing
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a lot of two technique, and they had lots of
fronts today where it was either a backside zero shade
or sorry, a one shade, a one technique off the
left shoulder of the center, and then a two technique
to the play side, So some kind of condensed defensive
tackle groupings, and they're getting to Biggers in those looks.
They're getting to obviously Jordan Phillips and Zach Seeler and
Kenneth Grant. There's a lot of variety there in this
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defense in front all of a sudden that it's all
young players and Zach Seeler, which I love to see.
How did the Saints change their approach for our big
grouping because this is a light box defense, but you
can't go light against Miami's heavy personnel, and they just
kind of took it on the chin, which I think
I think helped their passing defense, you know, produce one
hundred and thirty four yard day from the Dolphins passing offense,
but it afforded the Dolphins running game as many opportunities
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as they had, and when the defense and special teams
played like they did, that's why the Dolphins were able
to get twenty one points on the board in this game,
and it should have been a lot more. Quite frankly,
I was curious, similarly, the rush plan against Tyler Shook,
who completed thirty nine percent of his passes this year
coming into the game against the Blitz. In the first
six plays, there was two three and outs, there was disguise,
there was a cat Blitz. We saw Minka come on
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that safety blitz. Later in the game, they inverted coverage
on the second third down of the game, just unloading
the kitchen sink at the Saints, and Tyler shook and
he was struggling under Durest threw an off target ball
on the second third down of the game. That's what
you want, right, heat up a young quarterback, change the picture.
That's how you can unforced airs from the opposing quarterback.
But he did settle in pretty nicely towards the end
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of the game and ended up making some big time throws.
But by and large, Miami's defense was able to confuse
him and get enough stops to win this football game.
And then, lastly, I was curious about incorporating Austin and
Waller back into the game, akin to the first one
with Darren Waller. But is Austin Jackson a platoon at
the right tackle who plays right guard.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
There was no mystery here whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It was Austin Jackson at right tackle, Cole Strange at
right guard, and Darren Waller played a pretty good chunk
of snaps in this game.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Let's go ahead and pause for our first break, come
back and talk about game themes and critical moments before
the individual performances and takeaways. All that next Drivetime podcast,
brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here Dolphin's winners
over the New Orleans Saints twenty one seventeen on Sunday,
and I have just watched the Aaron Rodgers stripsack that happened.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
That didn't look too good.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think there's a real, real possibility that your route
to seven and seven back to five hundred, which the
exact same thing the twenty twenty one Dolphins did. I
think it goes through Tyrod Taylor in the New York
Jets and Mason Rudolph in the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of
a potential Sunday night football game against Joe Burrow and
the Bengals here at hard Rock Stadium on the twenty first.
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And I want to get too far ahead of myself,
but I feel and those wins aren't guaranteed. I'm not
gonna say that right now at all, but I feel
that is the new path because I don't think. I
don't think we're gonna see Rogers again after watching that play.
Let's get back to the Dolphins and Saints here. They
get a very important win in terms of keeping their
playoff hopes alive, and the game themes was the Dolphins
adding wrinkles and variety to what was already working with
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big personnel and a power run game. Again, we're gonna
talk about two in the quarterback position, but we've been
talking about this for weeks now, right going back to
the Atlanta game and the need to have this power
style of run game that you can kind of develop,
you know, complementary football around. And they've done it. They've
they've just done it. And I'm talking about power in
the sense that they can boil you. But make no
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mistake about this, they want a utiliz the speed and
get off the edge and get to von Hien into
spaces and gaps, and his relationship to time and space
within those short little gaps among the offensive line is special.
It is special football. And they have found something with
how they can get to those looks with the personnel
they have, with youth that should be here for a
long time and I'm excited about that fact. Again, there's
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things they're going to have to find ways to clean
up for this year and for going forward, but it's
it's been a nice change.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's been a welcome change.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And they also came out with muddle huddle where they
would get to the you know, break the huddle, sprint
to the line of scrimmage and go on the first
sound like whether it was a you know, a dummy
count or sorry so no dummie count, a silent count,
or like, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Just go right away.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And it was the to a deep shot to Cedric Wilson,
which within that decision he had a first time if
he just kept the ball and ran it and tried
to throw like an over the top ball in the
double coverage, that was a confusing decision there.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I made a few confusing decisions in this game for TUA.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But there's differences, right, There's tendency breakers based upon what
this team has done and who they've shown to be
in the past. And you see so clearly what Darren
Waller's influence is. They can get good matchups from those
heavy groupings. They can flex Waller out with Wattle to
the field on a condensed split the wide side of
the field, shorten them into the formation. Wattle takes both
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defenders on a speed out and then Waller sneaks downfield
all alone for a thirty three yard pass on naked
vertical route. You create those matchups with all the other
stuff you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Can get to.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You fake a corner route and you throw a lot
a common route. You throw it to your best receiver,
Dalen Wattle. It creates a bust and you take advantage
for an explosive play that flips the field and changes
the game. We saw Brenskil flexed all the way to
the field as the one the furthest receiver out there.
But then you go all the Gordon on duo inside.
It just shows you the ability to like, here's our
power package. There's the power player sixty four outside the numbers,
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and then we're going to go back to the power
inside on the run. It's showing you one thing doing
something entirely different. That's the idea of the offense. We'll
come back to that. I liked the third and one
play action on the first drive of the third quarter,
the ball that Julian Hill dropped, which I thought that
throw was far more off target than the eight chan
screen was. That was way off Julian's back hip. He
has to make the catch and McDaniel says much on
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both those throws after the game.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But the ball wasn't It wasn't where you need to be.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And that's that's part of the entire draw for two
of for me for the longest time, right, the ball
is always in the upfield shoulder.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It creates the maximum.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yack mack yak, if you will max yak, and we're
not getting that in this game. The place was all
over the place, and that was a nice tendency breaker,
a nice look there. It got you wide open tight
end space, just couldn't execute if the offense executed in
the passing game. In this game, this is a blowout.
That's over and you've got you know, guys chewing sunflower
season the fourth quarter. But then there was some self
inflicted wounds that caused quick three and ounce that prevented
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this game from being a runaway.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
In the first half.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The second drive got behind the chains early, then the
third drive starts to the TfL then a screen that
they pop sometimes, but sometimes they almost feel like, you know,
give up plays or you know, not really trusting the
offense to hit a true drop back, and how can
you blame them that they turn into sacks a lot
of the time. Both players look discombibulated. Then you get
twelve men in the huddle and it makes it third
and fourteen. So it's like made the comparison on the
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Post Game Show. It's like the Chevy Chase scene. Man
in a Vegas vacation, he gets his gum out and
he plugs one hole. In the minute that hole gets plugged,
another one pops up, and you got a new issue
to deal with. And I'm like, we spent all these
years talking about this high flying, explosive offense that can
hit you from you know, can score forty points in
a game, but we can't convert a critical third down
to keep the game alive whatever it is, or can't
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play a bully ball, can't convert on gold and goast situations,
and those things seem to be solved, and now the
other thing is a problem. So it's that's the frustrating
part about the whole experience here. Despite the fact that
you're winning and you're on a street right now, it's
like those little things, if you don't clean them up
over the course of the final five games, at some
point it's gonna bite you. It's gonna cost you a game,
and it's gonna end your season. So there's stuff to
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work on. There's lots to be happy about, excited about,
but there's plenty to work on. And I you know
something else was the sequence at the end of the
first half. I don't have a problem with not spiking
the ball right away. When Tua got to the line scrimmage,
there was about eighteen seconds in the clock, and he
just said, let's just kill this thing out and kick
the field goal because the ball's at the thirty yard line.
Thirty one yard line again, eighteen seconds, no timeouts. If
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he kills it with seventeen seconds, you have to throw
something either either over the ball in the middle of
the field or to the sideline for a quick out,
and that opens up the possibility of it was if
the first reads not there and we have a true
dropback situation and Carl Granderson or Chase Young comes screaming
off the edge and puts two on his butt, that's
a sack. That's no points, and it's an absolute meltown
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situation in a game where sixteen nothing is pretty good.
And I'm one of the biggest biggest proponents of like acceleration, aggressiveness,
go for the win, kill them on offense.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I've been that way for a long time.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But I understand the decision right there in that spot
to not open up ourselves to a sack to get
no points out of that situation. Now, the running play
on second and one without timeouts, that one I think
you could have done differently and giving yourself a chance
to make more attempts to get the ball down the field.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Because let's just pull it up real quick. I'll pull
it up live on the show here.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, first and ten one away to play nine yard run,
take a time out at their last time out of
the half second one, with one minute to play the
thirty three yard line. They run the ball again for
two yards, gets tackled in bounds to a finals in
League Washington. Now you've wasted thirty seconds in the clock
for a six yard game to get him themselves into
field goal range. That was the decision right there. The
second one play was the decision. With a minute left
to go and you had no timeouts, but second one
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from the thirty three, that's your chance to go get
seven points. That was where the mistake occurred, not the
decision to wind the clock on the play before the
field goal, but then also going back to the self
inflicted wounds and the wrinkles in the passing game or
the offense. They were resetting the line of scrimmage like
they were pushing guys off the football. They paired that
vertical game with the outside zone game, with the inside
wind back run to Olie Gordon where he's working it
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wide then cutting it back inside, and the Dolphins are
just folding back that lione of scrimmage the next play
eight chan if you sset the line scrimmage another five
yards for another ten yard game for him. These guys
weren't getting touched for four or five yards down the field,
and you can create that within your offensive system, and
the Dolphins did that. The last thing here from the
game theme standpoint, this is a long show already. The
defense breaking the Saints down up front early, then mixing
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it up on passing downs. They had a really difficult time.
The Saints did blocking Sealer and Grant and Biggers. We
had two TFLs and a sack among them on the
first three drives. We talked about Miami mixing it up
in the checklists with their coverage, their different fronts they
ran this game. They were making shook work post snap
and just from the live view, it looked like there
were some anticipatory shots available there. But for a guy
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playing his fourth career game with limited NFL style experience
at the college level, you don't expect him to come
out here like Tom Brady and pick apart your coverage
to rip the seam to Gronk on the vertical because
the safety rotates down, like you know, you don't have that,
so attack it. Good plan, good execution through the first quarter,
really through the entire game until very late. They had
one nice drive the Saints did, and then the game
got muddy towards the end, but and large they were
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getting after it. They got the safety blitz from Minka
who arrives for a sack fumble. See the recovers just
changing in every snap on the rookie, and he was
feeling the heat. They tried to create the matchup with
their best tight end, Juwan Johnson on Willie Gay.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
He defends it well.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Dolphins mixing their front, their personnel, the group they look
locked in the Rasul Douglas pick. I'll break that down
on Rasoul's individual portion here.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The Saints again did get it going on the opening
drive of the second half, and they did it through
the run game and through Shook creating plays off structure.
That was the second key of the game this week,
right was defend the run, defend their four tight end
personnel groupings they run, and then make sure when Shook
creates you find ways to plaster or don't let them
get outside for a break and contain. But he was
getting out of pressures in the first half but not
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finishing on that drive. In the second half, he kind
of did, so the test became from Miami, how can
you stuff the run again and limit shooks out of
structure play?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That was, you know good in the first half. Second half,
nice start.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
After the opening drive, but then Shook tried to create
on the next drive a five man pressure with chop
retracing didn't get out of his rush lane. It allows
him to pick up a sack there on a big play.
So a nice adjustment by Weaver and company. After the
Saints made their nice adjustment coming out of the break,
you get Bradley Chubb sacked to start the third quarter.
Was straight up strain and winning as an individual was
the same for Zeke Biggers. He was double teamed and
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just strained through that block to get a sack, So
I'm excited about this front and their future. Here, let's
go ahead and pause for a quick break right there,
come back and break down the critical moments of the game,
the individual standouts, and the five takeaways on the Drive
Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. Right, we're back,
Rogers came back into the game, So disregard everything I
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talked about. But then again, maybe a forty what is
he forty two, forty two yer old quarterback with three
broken bone? Maybe that's not the best thing in the world. Hey,
the Jets are up next. Go beat the Jets. When
to talk with us theeeers? After that, Travis Critical moments
breakdowns Here, we're still talking about the Saints game. Dolphins
win twenty one to seventeen at home against the two
wins Saints. There was a third and six of the
second quarter, fourteen to twenty to play plus twenty two
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two yard line. The protection breakdown gets a free run.
The Dolphins were struggling to get these third down protections
sorted after doing a great job on the opening drive,
but the Saints were in a five to zero. Look,
it's man across the board. They squeezed the nose and
the second level backer blitzes the b gap untouched two
was able to make him miss, but has to throw
it away after getting off the spot. We still kick
the field goal and take a ten zip lead. But
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with this defense, it felt like a great spot to
be in. But four drives ten points into the game
is a pretty good spot to be It just wouldn't
continue that way for the rest of the game. Third
and ten for the Saints eleven to forty six. Second quarter,
still the same score or ten to nothing. After the
sack fumble, then the two a pick. It felt like
the defense needed to do a good job getting off
the field and they got into a third long backed
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him up. They motioned Juwan Johnson out to the boundary
and that's the Willie Gay undercut pass breakup rep. You
know that felt good against his former team. So one
to one so far in these moments. Third goal plus seven,
six minutes to play in the second quarter, up ten zip.
We drove it down there, chance at a four point
play on third down to possibly get a touch down.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
There.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They come out in twenty one personnel the angle screen
to eight Chan who has the walk in touchdown, but
two throws a little bit high, a little bit hot,
and it's dropped and you kick the field goal.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Four point play right there. One and two are the
Dolphins in critical moments.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Third and four at the Saints plus forty five their
ball sorry at the plus forty five Saints football thirteen
zip game, two minute warning, chop, jumps off sides, It
just happens too much.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Can't do that.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Saints two point conversion ten forty left in the third quarter.
Shook takes the quarterback sweep and gets it in there
for another Saints win, which brings them to four and one.
In these critical spots, third and four, down by ten
sorry sorry minus ten yard buying up by eight, three
point thirty to go in the third quarter. I felt
like this play was kind of like where the Dolphins
possibly put the game away. Two A steps up, gets
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really good protection all around, throws the ball across the
progression to greg doles, which are twenty one yards. Huge
conversion when a miss there makes you punt from your
goalpost in a one score game. I thought that was
a big moment in the game. Then, on third and
eight at the plus thirty nine with six fifteen to
play in the game, the Saints were down eleven and
Jack Jones is all over a cornerback a comeback route
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and Tyler Shook has to try to throw it because
the boss is getting close and the ball goes incomplete,
so a second win for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Two and five.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
In those moments, a fourth down and one three minutes
to go, try to run it inside. Alli Gordon gets
shut down two and six the two point play, Mika
Fitzpatrick bangs his shoulder up early, it comes back and
makes the play chop in there for the pressure runs
it back for two points. The Dolphins get their third
critical spot win, and of course they win the fourth
down critical moment after losing the on side kick. So
I guess losing the plot here, But the whole point
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is the Saints made way more critical moment plays than
the Miami Dolphins did, and that's why this game was close,
because Miami pretty much won the rest of the game,
But the Saints made like five or six out of
like the nine critical plays, and that's kind of in
the story of the year for the Dolphins for the
most part, except for a couple of nice wins they
had against Atlanta and Buffalo, but that was kind of
the story in this game today. Again, I just felt
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you kind of got away with it because the Saints
are not a very good football team. Individual Standoutsavon a
Shan is special. You give him an inch. He's gone
twenty nine yard touchdown run on the opening drive. He
presses the angle so well to create the lane. Happens
all the time he's gliding around out there. He made
Jonas Sanker miss coming from depth without decelebrating at all,
like it's crazy how special he is. Didn't have a
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catch in this game, first game all year, didn't catch
a football. Could have had a touchdown catch, but it
will drop Austin Jackson. He is so critical and such
a nice feature to this team's newfound ground and pound mindset.
He's a punishing run blocker. He'll push your wig back.
I think the broadcast copy will show what it looks like,
you know, what looks like pass pro mistakes. But I
think that was more of a systemic effect on a
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few plays. But he just dents the edge and drives
guys and walls them off and get into space. I'm
excited about Austin's progression here in the offense. Hopefully he's
feeling right and can go the rest of the way
because he'll be a big piece for US. I thought
Patrick Paul and Aaron Brewer did some good stuff. There
was a sack on Pat Paul on a third and
goal against against Chase Young, and the interior struggle big
time with rush games all game long. So we'll dive
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into that more on the All twenty two. And I
just thought Darren Waller's impact is so palpable man the
way he commands coverage, the way you can create matchups
with him in there. He damn near broke that tackle
on the thirty three yard catch that we'll have turned
into a sixty yard touchdown. But he's had a big
impact just from being out there and the different groupings
you can get too. Offensively. On defense, I thought Zach's
Eiler had one of his best games of the season.
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Pressure early on the first drive, a pursuit tackle for
loss in the second play of the game, had the
fumble recovery. He was getting some good pressure on the
inside all game long. Jordan Phillips has just been steady
as she goes all year long. Now He's making big
plays TFLs rubin the belly was part of that fourth
down stop as well. Minka Fitzpatrick got my game ball
on the postgame show. I mean the pick two, the
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sack fumble, he had a third down tackle in space
on a checkdown that was really nice. He is just
everything you want. He's the straw that stirs the drink
in those coverage structures. On the backside, Jordan Brooks was
playing everything super tight, scraping downhill, fitting, playing his gap
in coverage, playing his gap and in coverage. Another awesome
game for LB one in this league. Rasoul Douglass I
thought was very good in this game. The pick, you know,
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I think it was two man. It might have been
quarter quarter, a half, might have been cover sick. There's
lots of variety that could have been. But Tyler Shook
tries to throw the speed out to Rasul Douglas. He
had eyes in the quarterback, knew we had help over
the top, a chance to gamble on a play, perfect time.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
To do it, gets the pick and makes it back
the other way. But hey, he is slow. Huh. He
should have had that pick six.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Jack Jones also just that that third down rap I
talked about in the fourth quarter. He has been solid
for us for quite a while. Now, I thought Jonah,
I thought the guard plays struggled, but I want to
watch the tape before I get into that more. I
thought Tua really struggled in this game. No mystery there.
The deep shot to Waddle. We can't do these things.
We're going to beat Pittsburgh Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
In a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Gotta score these drives. The deep flip to Cedric Wilson
was kind of an odd decision when he had a
first down at the run. The screen to a Han
could have been a touchdown, but it was a little
bit hot and high. Should have been caught. But make
the throw easier. Same deal with the Julian Hill throw.
Also got to catch up, but make the throw. Next
he gets off the spot and has Malik Washington breaking
all alone on a broken play and slides for two
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yard gain. I thought the pass pro in general just
wasn't that good. The twists, we're confusing communication. But the
quarterback play was the you know two. I mentioned that
after the game. Not to his standard, right, and it's
got to get a lot better here as we go forward. Defensively,
thought Ashton Davis was in bad positions throughout the course
of the game. Chubb had a key sack, but he
also missed a bunch of tackles and Chop finished strong.
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I had him in the originally, but Chop finish strong
get himself out of that position.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
A good game for Chop. Here five takeaways. Number one.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The offensive identity remains obvious and effective to me. There's
a couple of things that got to get cleaned up,
and like, I don't know that you can do it
right away from jump this year. The quarterback's skill set
and his movement, some of the changing landmarks and shifts
that caused these misses third and long pass pro breakdowns.
But the bones of a really nice offensive attack is
built for the game is in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's in place.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Quite frankly, I thought it would take longer to pivot
off of what we built this thing for from twenty
two to twenty four and frankly into twenty five, which
was forced upon you because of a Tyreek kill injury,
which is a whole different conversation. But this is why
I was so geeked about the off season, because they
gave themselves a chance to cure some of the woes.
The run game consistency, the short yards, the red zone stuff,
and they've done that and there's more to come with
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Waller and Austin getting back, but some other stuff might
have popped up along the way as well. So that's
how this game goes. Number two, The passing game needs
a jolt man. They really struggle to get the ball
vertical on key third downs. Was big sacks and throwaways.
Two red zone drives stall out with some misses, a
bad pick on a first down shot play in the
double coverage, can't throw that ball. We've seen it in
flashes this year, but it has it's it's had these
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types of low moments as well, where it's like just
looks tough and if they're gonna keep on winning, they're
gonna have to find balance. At some point, I just
thought it wasn't good enough from the quarterback position or
protection standpoint. Everything else in the game was pretty good,
but in general, the passing game off target thrower is
bad ball placement, a bad pick, bad decisions. Just struggled
to find an all game long, and the passing game offensively.
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Number three, the defense's energy pairs with a scheme click.
We've been over this corner on this lot right with me,
you know, with we being me on drivetime the Royal
Wei for a few weeks, but you saw it at
its best day. The scheme is connected, it's on its rules.
Guys are feeling comfortable and guys are playing inspired. They're
playing their hair on fire. A nice combo tackle on
a swing checkdown by Jack Jones, a Minka Fitzpatrick where
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they both you know, good technique on the tackle. Disruption
on hookstone throws by Tyrrel Dodson by Jordan Brooks, by
Willie Gabe, the use of DB's in the blitzing game.
Everybody's playing fast and convicted. That comes from conviction in
the scheme, and it has me excited about what they
can do in the final five games, as me excited
about Anthony and Weaver and going forward here with this team.
Number four Special Teams continued to be awesome. They were
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third in EPA coming into the game. They probably got
better because they flipped the field on every punt. There
was four punts in the game and Bailey averaged fifty
one yards of net punting and as long as fifty four,
so they're all consistent. Elijah Campbell is a man on fire.
He's been very good. It helped Miami in a slug
fest of a game win the Hidden Yards battle. And
my fifth takeaway, I wanted to talk about the quarterback position,
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but we've been over it so much. It's been really
it struggled this year. It's got to get a lot
better now going forward. But the bigger takeaway got to
five and seven? Can we make it six to seven?
Three in a row, four to the last five. Played
some ugly football today, but we got the job done,
so I'm excited that we're still alive. That's the fifth takeaway.
You all please be sure subscribe, rate review of the show,
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follow me on social at Winkle NFL, the team at
Miami Dolphins, check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins HQ,
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Miami Dolphins dot Com. Until next time, as straight O
for your Jupe Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy.
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