November 16, 2025 • 30 mins
The Dolphins won the first ever regular season NFL game played in Spain in a 16-13 overtime finish. Travis takes you throw the game from the themes, critical moments, story of the game, individual standouts and five big picture takeaways.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
thanks twin win win, win win. That's a Dolphins dub.
They'll go into the bye week four and seven after
an overtime sixteen thirteen winner with Riley Patterson connecting at
the buzzer, well not at the buzzer, but it is
a walk off win over the Washington Commanders. You guys
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are on the drill by now let's get right into it.
From the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Hills Training Complex.
This is.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Very unique experience on this Sunday as far as my
watching and covering of the game. For instance, it's four
fifteen right now on Sunday. I just finished watching the
Bills pull it out over the Bucks and I'm going
to talk about this game in one second and why
this all ties back into itself. Nine to thirty kickoff
gives you a chance to watch you in more football
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when it's your team. You can pull up the YouTube
quadbox or Sunday Ticket quad box, whatever the hell it's called,
and just get after it and root for the teams
that you're hoping losing games and four teams that you
want to win those games. And that's where I want
to start with this, because the reason that win, despite
how the game looked and your grand illusions and grand
takeaways that you might have from it, which I'm not
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here to dispute any of it, the win gives you
two weeks of like what if you know, the delusional
confidence as Bradley Chubb has dubbed it. And that's why
I was so excited to see that ball go through
those uprights, because I was pretty frustrated by and take
us right into the story of the game. A pretty
sloppy football game, right, lots of yards between the twenties,
lots of conversions and big plays and sustained drives from
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the Commanders, but in the big moments, the two sides
really took turns, taking mistakes, and so I can see
how you would feel, and I agree with this that
it wasn't necessarily the Dolphins finding the victory, which as
it was, the Commander's not getting it done, which was
going to be the case if the Commanders pulled off
the win in their overtime drive. Or if the Matthew
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gave field goal goes through at the end of regulation,
I would have felt the same way from their perspective,
because it felt like both teams took turns kind of
shooting themselves in the foot and making mistakes, which, at
this stage of the season and where this team has
to go, is a little bit of an alarm going
off because they're going to have to be pretty much
perfect down the stretch, right, That's where you are in
the situation. But I'm not going to bemoan that fact
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as if it changes anything else, because I'm excited about
the fact that I.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Get to watch football today.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm going to go downstairs after this and watch By
the way Sundays if we're on the road, they're not
from the back to Cell studios, they are from my house.
But I will go downstairs and watch Chiefs and Broncos
and Rams and Seahawks. Hell yeah, right, what a great
afternoon of games that is. And there's no skin in
the game for those I guess the Chiefs and Broncos
game maybe has some AFC Wildcard ramifications, but you can
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make a case either team losing would be a good thing.
I digress, but this win gives you the opportunity to
watch those games, to watch Thursday, to watch next Sunday,
to watch that next Monday and the following Thursday, and
just get your money's worth in terms of how can I,
you know, Charlie Kelly Pepe Silva, this thing into the
Dolphins making the playoffs, which has to require pretty much
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a ten and seven record, I think when you look
at the AFC balance of power right now, although things change,
but anyway, that's like a sub genre, a tangent that
I wanted to get to and why I care about
the opportunity to have that right because again I didn't
feel as though Miami made you feel good about this
game outside.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Of the result. And the result is what I just
talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You get more meaningful football, hopefully for at least a
couple more weeks. But otherwise it was like sloppy football, right.
We have potential touchdowns on three drives, got two field goals,
one turnover on downs three of the first four times
we touched the football like that's that's how those drives
ended with kicks and it was like a fitting you know,
Spain Madrid like soccer, right, kicking the football and it
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was the same story for the Commander a missfield goal
turnover on down to the two yard line when they
had zach Ertz on that angle route and he just
flat out slips. But you got to give credit to
the Dolphins for winning on third down to create that opportunity,
and that gave us the ball with six minutes left
and a chance to go win the game. But just
as the Commanders squandered their opportunity there, the Dolphins get
the ball back and what was it a It was
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a four yard loss on first down on a little
slip screen behind the line of scrimmage backwards throw, and
then it was a drop pass from Tua to Waddle,
then a third down sack. So it was like different
areas of the offense, like committing the an offensive hold
in that play as well, just different areas of the
team like bogging down in the biggest moment you punt
it back and they muffed the punt, but on either
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side of the football, like there was kind of the
same game for both teams. Right effective run game, finding
some soft spots in the zones and coverage. But then
whether it was a wrong route, a penalty, a miss assignment,
whatever could go wrong on Murphy's low situation, it kind
of did for either side, and the Dolphins were able
to capitalize on the last one of the day. Because
the game goes tied into the fourth or defense allows
to drive all the way down to the two yard line.
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Bowse Up gets the stop, gets it back to the
offense after an Ali Gordon twenty yard run to get
off the shadow of our own goalpost. We feed that
storyline of the game by having those three errors back
to back to back, but you keep the keeping up
with the game flow. The commanders then muffed that punt.
Ethan Bonnard does a great job wrestling that football away
getting it back to the Miami Dolphins, and from there,
I don't know what it is. I'm not gonna look
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it up, but the like win probability that position ball
at the plus forty yard line, first and ten with
four minutes to go, has got to be like in
the over eighty five, right, like you're supposed to win
that football game. And it's not how it went down
because the Dolphins drove it down the field and it
was all runs the last two drives of the game.
The Dolphins did not pass the football a four minute offense.
Running the ball with eight chan going ten eight twelve
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twenty like fifteen do was awesome, due remains awesome, And
the overtime drive it was eight chan like ten four
to eight one, and that was like curtains right there, right,
So we get it all the way down there on
that end of regulation drive to fourth and goal, and
that's where you get a such situation where quite frankly,
I think the decision to go for it is the
right one. I think maybe what you did to get
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to that position on the four plays that you had
maybe could have been done differently. Obviously it could have
if anyone can choose to make any you know, your
own adventure, if you will. But at the one yard line,
I do think the right idea is to try to
hammer it in there. I was calling for play action
a lot. I'm kind of a pass heavy guy, and
I think when you get a situation where you have
shown the ability to run the ball inside, you can
possibly pull that thing back out and try to play action.
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But then I also understand that sometimes you know, when
Tua gets on a boot and there's a one on
one situation, he's not making that guy miss so it
can be difficult to go that way. But whatever the
case was, we get stuffed. McDaniel talked about it after
the game. But the thinking is, and this is like
just kind of how like game theory and game strategy goes, like,
you score a touchdown, it's you have a great chance
to win. Right, They're gonna have to drive the field
with no timeouts in less than two minutes left, very
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difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You kick a field goal.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
They have more than enough time to get in a
field goal range, could score a touchdown, could beat you.
So you also have the risk of losing the football
game if you go for it and you don't get it.
They didn't have to drive the like the longest amount
of yards they would have to drive with no timeouts,
you're probably gonna get a chance to go to overtime
at least, if not get a quick three and out,
call timeouts and get the ball back again for another
chance to win.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So I do think the decision to go is the
right one.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I just didn't Extque didn't get push him off the football,
and then we get a Willie Gate, not Willy Gay.
Willie Gay is our guy, a Matthew Gay missed fifty
eight yard field goal. We go to overtime, win the toss,
opt to kick and it pays off immediately as Jack
Jones makes the biggest pick of the season. He had
a great day in this game. He tweeted after the game,
the Raiders never should have got rid of me. That's hilarious.
I love his twitter. Game gives us a short field,
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we go back to eighthn on traditional runs ten four
eight yard gain, Riley Patterson send us home. And then
just two really strange officiating calls, a defensive pass interference
where Jack didn't make contact. That was one that I
think could be one that the league looks at as
far as like, can we replay assist that and you know,
get some help on that, because that was you know,
they had the replay angle of it and it was
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pretty obviously didn't touch him. So where's that? Where's the
flag come in? You know, it's it's just a tough
spot right there. And then the grounding call. It's close,
but I do think Mariota was still within the pocket.
There a tough call to win against the Dolphins in
those two spots. My pregame checklist, how would the Energy
game plan, long week of prep. How does it all look?
You know? Mike McDaniel and alec Ingold both talked about
finding their prep flow ahead of the Falcons game, not
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having the same feel for TNF then finding it for Buffalo.
Do we get that? Are the players energized? Do they
want it more than Washington? And it started out hot
and looked good, but you also had the timeout and
the delay game on the fourth down, the opening drive,
which it's like the things that those Atlanta and Buffalo
games were were one o'clock kickoffs on Sunday afternoons. There's
something strange around this team about Thursday night football against
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the Ravens Island window game here against the against the
Commanders at Madrid, like international game, long trip. Your whole
routine gets thrown off, and it just doesn't produce sharp football.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Like it seems like it's a thing, right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It honestly seemed like they were ready and had a plan,
just kind of had one player here here or there
that just kind of got them off the results they
were building towards the beginning, and then when the game
didn't go in their favor, they wound up halfing to
chase points and we're playing from behind much of the
second half. The offense did come out in the second
half and went muddle huddle, and that was a cool
drive adjustment to get thirty one yards to waddle on
a catch and run. Got that slant catch and run
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I was talking about in the preview podcast. Didn't pop it,
but it was a nice that was there, that was available,
and it set up some more power downhill runnings which
you know Ali Gordon hits those, some inside zones of
inside runs in general, the toss windbacks to von ah
Chan getting you down there closer to the goal line.
So I thought that there was some of the game
plan stuff in terms of getting to that traditional power
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football and just line up and go play was there
was good, But in terms of like the operation going
in a unique situation which luckily we're going to be
Sundays at one o'clock for the next two weeks. Whether
that's a curse or like a mythical thing, I don't know,
but it seems to be real and it affected them
today and I didn't think it looked as sharp as
far as the game plan and just having the understanding
of how it's supposed to go now again, you are
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in Madrid, which it is not a regular work week,
So perhaps that is the caveat there, because they talked
about in the Baltimore game the short week, perhaps that's
the difference there. The other question I had of three
two of three is how would the front be deployed?
And we saw in this game more Grant on the outside,
more Biggers getting action.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
In this game.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He was active over Matthew Butler who has played some
of that big end Zach Steeler as well. I saw
Seiler get bodied a couple times in this game, but
also made a couple of plays. And of course you
know with Phillips gone and Chop missing the game last week,
would it be the same or how would they activate
that or rotate that. We saw more Matthew Judahon. I
did think Chop had to struggle a lot in this game.
Biggers was active, but man Kenneth Grant was kind of
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the story in this one. And I'm thinking about like
me and Jamon Bush had had this conversation on the
postgame show, Jordan Phillips is a stout grown man that
plays with pure power and can two gap and playee
through you and reset the line scrimmage on down the
down basis at that nose tackle position or one shades
or if it's a two or two I or three technique,
I think you can do all that. There's not a
lot of pass rush there right now for him in
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his game, but he brings a lot of values a
twenty five three down snap per game player kindeth grant
the pad level and the way he fires off, and
the quickness and the power he can one gap and
kind of get into the gap and you know, use
a hump move and just kind of use his strength
to prevent you from recovering to his quickness win. And
we're starting to see that, man, and I'm excited about
where that's developing. You know, Coach Clark gets these offensive
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tackles in there and he develops them. I mean, he's
batting a thousand on that stuff. Almost set a cuss
word there. But Coach Clark with these guys is getting
it done. And they've got some options, and they're gonna
have to kind of find a way to get a
fixed I thought today it kind of step back in
the wrong direction, but I do think that at the
bye week they can kind of find out what's worked
what hasn't and make some adjustments there for Coach Clark
and coach Weave, who I've got a lot of faith
in to make that happen over the bye week. Number
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three here was how do we attack those non disguised coverages,
Because I talked about in the pregame show Quarters two beaters,
Cover three, Cover one? Does Hn have his receiving short game?
Does receiving game going off? And the passing the short
passing game for the Dolphins go off? And I didn't
really get a good feel for it because of full transparency.
We were doing the postgame show at the Bow on
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the Beach, which I didn't know existed. I ended up
going to bow campers and Fort Lauerdale didn't know Bows
on the Beach existed, So I was late for the game,
missed the first drive, loved it, and then the TVs
that we were watching were like pretty far away and
I couldn't really see. I saw replays on Jamond's iPad
a lot, but I couldn't tell you about how they
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attacked those coverages. So I'm just gonna go ahead and
pass on that. The game themes in this one. In
the first quarter, I will cover all that stuff on
the film review podcast. We do have Luckily, we have
the technology that I can go back and actually see
exactly what happened to all game long, and guess you
guys some answers on that the game themes in the
first quarter. It was exactly what I talked about in
the preview show. Cover one, Cover three principles. Take the
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quick stuff. If we saw the swing to a chan,
this the slide rail glance, RPO to Dulcic a good
route to run it their cover one cover three combinations
as they take those deep drops and you can conflict
that curl flat defender on the rail right was I
was excited about back We broke it down on Dolphins
HQ a couple weeks ago. But you can, you know,
kind of back shoulder that thing around the sinking cornerback
on the outside who's trying to get depth and cover
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three and cover his deep third or the glance if
that curl flat defender widens and gives you the inside
access and then the Dolphins went to work right off
of that right side. In the running game, hn taking
tosses outside zone, anything wide and you get crackbacks from
the receivers and tight ends and Larry borhim and Cole
Strange were climbing and attaching on like rap motions around
the outside to kind of hem the sam backer and
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the force defenders and the safety coming down off that
edge without much resistance really until they were five or
ten yards down the field. So you know, I think
Austin Jackson probably getting pretty close coming back here. But
the right side of the Dolphins offensive line they were
kicking butt today. On the first drive, it got a
little bit cute and bogged down in the red zone.
Same on the second drive with that swing way behind
the line of scrimmage. I mean, we must have ran
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four or five plays that were like kind of gadget
like change of pace type of plays that just were
dead in the water for big losses, like drive killing
losses four and five yards behind the line of scrimmage.
And Devon h Chan just like got you and made
it work right, pretty amazing football player. But they overcome
that one, get the first down, they get it into
the red zone, eight yard run on first down, and
then it was difficult to complain at that point because
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like Doulcich is wide open on that rail route, and
I think to a I'm trusting Tua over Dulsitch. I
could be wrong, but when there's a miscommunication with those
two guys, I tend to think it's probably the rout
runner because he's been here for you know, ten weeks two,
has been here for six years, and he Dolts was
doing the like the my bad gesture right off the chest.
So throwing that route to the pylon, like you gotta
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get that thing, why that was wide open for a
touchdown could have kind of changed the complexion of this
game early on, And you know, at six to three,
I thought there was a chance to start scoring and
pulling away right in this down in the mid second quarter.
Here in my notes, on the very next drive, ingold
gets caught no man's land, and on the Jonathan Jones
third down, sack didn't pick it up, didn't really release
him to the route. Tua didn't see him, didn't throw it,
couldn't make the freemanner miss, So that was you know,
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it was. It was hot for a little bit except
for a couple of plays and then cool down. Then
he did back up, but by and large, I don't
think it was the performance you to hope for from
the Dolphins. Offense in general against a defense that they've
had success within the past in terms of the scheme
and coverage. So I guess missed assignments miscommunications after promising
drives had been a theme in the first half, which
continued in the second half. Also, another theme of the
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game for me was the zone distributions were not good
in this game, and they would run some some pressure,
some zero looks, the cage rush technique, the spy, the
green dog. Also, if we talked about right and we
broke down the third down sack on the commander second driver,
I'm going to here in a second, I should say,
but it was a kin to what I discussed in
the Thursday show. However, they got a lot of chunk
plays in the middle of the field, lengthy drives and
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chunks in the passing game, regardless of the down and
distance or our early down wins. So kind of playing
detached in that intermediate portion of the field was kind
of a disappointing setback for me in terms of how
I saw in the game. But again, I'll have a
better feel for on tape. Let's go ahead and take
our first break right there, come back and do the
critical moments breakdown. We'll do five takeaways, individual standouts, all
of that coming up Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It is brought to you by Auntation.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Right, we're back because the Dolphins are winners sixteen thirteen
in Madrid over the Washington Commanders. A lot of critical
moments in this game because it was closed throughout. So
we started off on the opening drive, a fourth down
for the Commanders. They pick it up on fourth and
one after a Kenneth Grant tackle for loss on third ninches.
They went play action and got the flat route against
a defense that was selling out the top of the run.
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That's why I like play action on those spots, especially
when you have a quarterback that can get off the
spot and create a little bit. But we kind of
lost contain in those positions. But I wanted to put
that in the notes because Kenny g was really damn
good in this game in that play, in particular, on
the same exact drive, it's a third and one and
he makes another play to penetrate the a gap. Mika
Fitzpatrick and Chubbs set hard edges to make the stop
off off the tackle and then they fall start on
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fourth down to kick the field goal. But you watch
Kenneth grant Man when he can one gap, get up
field and play low to the ground the way he
did in this game. I have a feeling We're gonna
come away from this tape and I'm gonna be like,
this guy is here. He has officially arrived. Just had
to give him a few weeks. Guys, third and three
plus thirty six for the Dolphins on their open on
the next drive too, it hits the league for eighteen yards,
had all data throw and I was thinking this is
going to be a Dolphins like four hundred and fifty
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yard game the way it looked early with how they
were getting space. Tua got through all his progressions, had
all kinds of time in the pocket, fires an over
route to Malakue Washington, who goes for eighteen yards on
third and three on that same drive three six, No, Yeah,
three to three football game here, yeah, three to three game.
And they try to boot to it in the red
zone with a sale concept, a flat and a corner
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route two. It had a one on one chance to
make a free rusher miss couldn't do it. Sack field
goal time. That was after an eight yard run on
first down and a second down play. We missed the
touchdown and they tried to boot two of rolls right
into the sack like it just felt like and after
the eight yard run, just finish it off.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Man, It's kind of what it felt like.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But that's also hard to complain because like the pass
was wide open too, So it's like play the results,
I guess. And the Dolphins had come into this game
thirteen for thirteen in goal to go situations and had
two three failures in this game, which was that's football, right,
So we love football so much, you never know what
you're gonna get. Third and ten, eight minutes to play
in the second quarter, commander's ball, down six three. We
get a similar call to the one we saw against
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the Bills with the Ifi melafm Wu pick. We show zero,
wind up actually bringing more than four, so it wasn't
the same pressure. But I had like the look of
who's coming, who's dropping? Still bring five, and we are
able to peel out and get good coverage in the
back end and force an incomplete pass to get off
the field. Man, we were down to seven minutes to
play in the quarter and there had been four positions
in the entire game. Now I thought one of the
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biggest wings in the entire game was the DPI on
Jack Jones. I again don't know why that garnered a flag.
Looked like he played it clean on the back end
of the ball, but it was overthrown. If the flag
doesn't come out, it goes from third and eleven at
the minus five with five thirty to play, compared to
a first down at like the thirty yard line. But
then the Commanders killed the rest of the clock with
a sustained drive that produces that field goal to make
it six to six of the break. So if it's
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six to three there and the Dolphins get it back
maybe ten yards short of midfield, a good chance they
get three of the row, and like that kind of
feels like it was going to be nine to three
going to halftime, and that call made it six to six.
That's kind of how that's that was the importance of
that call. Maybe you get up a third eleven, I
don't know, Maybe you do, but I don't think it's like.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's improbable, not impossible.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Third and goal opening drive second half, Julian Hill alec
Ingold get beat at the point of attack and they
stuff Allie Gordon right we go for an on fourth
down and the passes incomplete two. It came off of
his first read, try to get it to waddle on
a drag route from the backside and Bobby Wagner breaks
it up.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That was a tough pill to swallow in that spot.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It felt like Miami was going in once again, like
they were down there all day long, just couldn't quite
finish it off. Have to figure out a way to
make those big plays in those big moments and not
come up small in those spots. Ensuing sequence with them
backed up, we play stout up front, get a first down.
Run stuff pressure forces the quarterback to flee the pocket,
throw it away. They pick up the flag right for grounding. Yeah,
that was the grounding call. That's again that's two points
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because he's in the end zone.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
They don't call it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We get a check down, they pick it up Brooks
and Brents couldn't make the stop.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
They get a first down. It's a huge sequence in
the game.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Man two points to them driving back down the field
two minutes left from the third quarter, down by seven,
it's third and six at midfield. They motion waddle, convert
that side to a blitz and like these throws are
here in the offense. I just we don't see him
as much as we used to, where like wild emotions
away the cornerback has to go with him. You have
soft zone off of Maleik, like I talked about in
the pregame show, they don't really show their hand. They
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just convert that cover guy down to a blitz. He
blows this to a Malik has inside access in the slant, easy,
easy catch and pitch. Then he kind of looks like
prime Jarvis Landry, you know, slowly powering his way down
the field. Gave us a first down at the plus
thirty seven yard line, goal to go opening the fourth quarter,
looking to tie the game. First down to it and
complete the dull switch on the glance he overthrew him.
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Second down angle screen back over the middle of Devon
gets eight yards. I love how they spread him out
on that play before the Ali Gordon Downhill one yard
touchdown run on third and goal at the one yard line.
That's like, gotta find a way to mix it up.
It's like it's let's go to a baseball. It's like
when you're pitching to a batter. This is why baseball diehards.
Love baseball versus like my buddy Seth Levitt listening to
the show right now, probably shaking his head and why
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he doesn't care about baseball. If you don't care about baseball,
all you like when you watch, like when are they
gonna put it in play? But the beauty of baseball
is like every single at bat is a chess match
where okay, if I'm gonna show you hard stuff inside
off your hands and then I throw that breaking ball
back off the outside of the plate, like, it's tough
to be able to cover both of those elements as
a batter. And football for a defense, show you one thing,
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do something else. You gotta think about multiple things. Why
running football is important because you get teams in their
back heel. It's why it's important to use get the
ball out of the perimeter, get the ball vertically. You
have to make them think about all areas of the
strike zone the field. That's sports, baby, we know about sports.
We don't care who knows third nine eleven, good to go.
In the fourth quarter TI football game, Jack Jones blows
up a screen, beats a block, and makes a tackle
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on second down, so it's up a third down. But
that's where Marrioitaver runs for forty three ouch fourth and
goal six minutes left. They try to jam one in
there to zech Ertz on fourth down. He cannot make
the play. He slips in coverage, ball goes over to
the Miami Dolphins. Huge, huge stop. At that point of
the game, we talked about our third down response ensuing
third and thirteen to a get sacked after the entire
sequence which was going backwards. After going backwards, then we
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get the ball back on a muff pump with four
eleven left to play. Big sequence in the game. Ethan
Bonner rips it away. Dolphins go run, run, run, run, run,
take it all the way on a fourth and goal.
Devon eight Chan on third and goal get stopped on
a downhill run and then the Commanders come out sell
out against the run. We try to run it with
Oli Gordon, They get knocked back, They defeat blocks all
across the board and they stuff us and the ball
goes back to the Commanders. Then we get a third
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and six backed up and they convert for a huge
chunk into positive territory. They had no timeouts on a
second down completion and we took one there in that
spot that gave them pretty much all the time they
needed to go kick a field goal. Us trying to
try to get the ball back on third down, they
wind up converting it, putting it into field goal range,
and then we get the stop there on the missfield goal,
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and then the Dolphins get a pick with Jack Jones
making the critical play on the first play of overtime
undercutting zach Ertz.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's what he does.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Man, He's a bit of a high river boat gambler,
but he was locks alid and coverage in this game,
and he took a chance and went and got us
the kind of playmaking I'm talking about at the cornerback position.
Jack Jones today showed you why I was so excited
about his signing this offseason. Ben some downs, bend some ups.
With this game, he was big up in a big
way and it led to a big Dolphins fringe up
and a victory. Let's go ahead and pause right there,
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come back and do the standouts and the takeaways. That's
next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Autotation.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I want to be.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Very very very clear off the top here that I
did not have the best view of this game, and
I want to make sure that I can verify this
on tape. What I saw on the broadcast was, I
thought I saw Larry Boram doing an excellent job getting
pushed in the running game, lead and wrapping, pulling, doing
everything in the run game. Also playing well in pass pro.
I saw a Brewer getting leverage, displacement, turning guys, whether
it was a reach or a digout, just do an
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Aaron Brewer things. I thought Jonah Hill looks solid and
pass pro opening inside lanes on the downhill runs. Those
power runs I thought were really helping Boram, Strange and
Jonah who have had their ups and downs this year,
like play the part. Like just play downhill football and
look good doing it. To Von eh chen Man seeing it,
hitting it all kinds of variety, outside zone, inside zone,
toss off, you know, windback actions, some man concepts had
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a downhill effective run in the gold ghost situations. I
legit think that play he made on the jet sweep
to open the fourth quarter save the game, like it
was gonna be second in sixteen. He was gonna be
toast in the backfield, winds up making a second one.
He just kept saving it on busted runs and Jermon
Bush raw in the Post game show dubbed him mister
make it Right, and I think that's a pretty goodick
name for Davon h Chen.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Ollie Gordon downhill, physical finisher, always screaming after he gets
off the pile. I just love the energy he brings. Defensively,
I thought Kenneth Grant play's best game as a pro.
I knew that he would show up at some point,
might take a few weeks, but here he is. Quickness
off the ball, convicted at his pad level, pere knockback
as a penetrator. Him and Jordan Phillips working under Austin
Clark is gonna be awesome for this team for a
long time. Speaking of Phillips, rock'm sockem robots dog. When
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he unfrols the length and loads up the pure power
just to reset you. You'll notice it all the time
you see four guys play to a stalemate. Not that
we always get stalemated, but like it's it happens a
lot where no one gets surged, and then ninety four
taking a guy back into the backfield.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He is awesome. Julius Brents, I gotta watch the tape.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Get a field for the coverage, but man, I really
liked the way he comes up and plays the run.
He gets hurt exits to this game, but I thought
he played pretty solid for the most part. I gotta
go back and watch the tape. Jack Jones the pick,
excellent play. He was locked down on coverage all day.
There's a good stat about him along just I think
one catch on five targets. He runs the route for
zach Ertz, undercuts it, finishes, wins the damn game made
the made the play against the screen earlier tackle. Well,
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big game for Jack. Offensively, I thought Greg Dolcich that
wrong route. If I'm right on that, that's kind of
gets you in the in the red category there.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Tough look there.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Alec Ingold had that bust on the third down, had
some some run play assignments that I didn't think were right,
But I again kind of watch the tape on that,
and then just the limitations on two on those free runners,
you know, two drives where you have third manageable in
the quarterback deck just doesn't make anybody miss Like I'd
like to see more in that spot, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I guess I'm getting greedy.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Julian Hill had some back some miss blocks the goal
line on the stand to the against the Commanders. He
did make a critical block on the Olli Gordon touchdown run,
but I thought he struggled in his first game back defensively.
I thought Ashton Davis's spot drops and coverage weren't as
fluid as an instinctive Dante Trader. I thought looked better
in that position again today. Bradley Chubb was a brutal
matchup on Larry and we Tons, but we probably knew
that going into the game.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
We talked about in the preview show.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
He missed a sack on Mariot on the second drive
of the game where it would have made it second
in sixteen, and I couldn't understand how Mariota got out
of it. Was almost a touchdown pass when he slipped
out of it too, Matthew Judon, I just the effort
really really bothered me. I thought Chop struggled against the
run as well. I think, you know, the way you
play against these teams, I think was with bigger ends,
you know, maybe more Kenny and Jordan and SiO, with
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Seiler and biggers outside kind of in that sealer of
Campbell roll you know they did that last year with
Chubb and Phillips down for a big part of the season.
So I just think, you know, the Judon reps, they
haven't really caught your eye so far. Tyreel Dotson jumping gaps, guessing.
To me, Zach Ridge kind of got what he wanted
in space. And I thought Jordan Brooks, despite ten tackles
in a good finish, had some up and down moments
in this game. Had a critical miss and that third
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down after the non grounding call that could have been
a tackle, and a big spot for a punt getting
back to us. Not his best day, but I know
he's still the All Pro linebacker in the AFC. Here
in the NFL, I should say five takeaways. We have
football players on this team, man, tell you what, man,
pretty generic, right, But I just think we line up
and play football, of course stuff. We are super effective,
run it downhill, play action off of that core pass concepts.
Now you need some wrinkles, You got to mix it up.
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We saw them hammer it down there on the opening
drive in the third quarter and quite frankly, those core
things that they got them to all the way to
the two yard line, and not that it was a wrinkle,
but we just couldn't xeque on fourth down. My point
is that I was happy they were able to show
the power and core stuff to execute better because that
stuff travels week over week, year over year. This gimmicky stuff,
I can take it to leave it. Number two can
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be our own worst enemy as well. Missed Dulcich on
the first two drives, a third and short stuff on
eight chan a missed assignment, and Passporo on the third
drive for a sack on third down. There was some
rhythm disruption type of plays that I just felt kept
this game close in the first half where Miami could
have blown the doors off of it, and the Commanders
did it as well. But you know, you get two
touchdowns in those plays off Commander's field goal and Commanders
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missfield goal.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If it's fourteen to.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Three, I feel like Miami gets some confidence, they get rolling,
They just cruise with this game. But they said it's
six to three in their football. Obviously time sensitive here,
but they wind up, you know, keeping it there, and
we barely make out of the game and stay back
in the playoff mix. So got to find a way
to stop shooting yourself in the foot number three. We
were not as sharp in our zone distributions this week,
just more openings and zone coverage. We knew there wasn't
gonna be a lot of man calls in this game.
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That personnel's command and did not call. The commander's personnel
did not call for it. They didn't have the vertical
pass element in this game, but the fire zones created
some pretty easy throws and runs from Marcus Marriota. It's
got to be sharper going forward. Number four. Not our
best football, but we stole a win. Right, It felt
like you really controlled the game early, but time and
time again, the early drives just ending drives on kicks.
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It hadn't been that way for weeks. We'd played sharper football,
I thought, and look, the command's getting paid to make
plays too, And I talked about it this week, Right,
how if we could, just if we just could have
stolen a couple of early games in the season while
playing our better ball down the stretch, you might feel
a certain way about the type, a certain type way
about the season. They didn't, you know, play the best
ball today and did get that win. If you could
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have done that in the Chargers game and the Patriots game.
You're sitting here in a great spot going into bye week,
but you're not. And today was a good job of
winning the game despite you know, maybe not playing good
enough football in the win. Number five, Staying alive wasn't fun.
I hated it, but we stayed alive. We go into
the bi week still alive. Steal a win, come home,
get healthy, Maybe Austin Jackson comes back, maybe Darren Wallace
coming down the pipe. Maybe James Daniels at some point,
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hopefully get some guys back for the Saints, for the Jets, Steelers,
Rogers got hurt today, Herbert got hurt today. Are the
Chargers gonna if Herbert's hurt for a long time? That
Chargers team is not gonna do much. They're just too
banged up. And the Steelers without without Rogers, like Rudolph,
I'd like our chances to win that game too.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Home for the Bengals. After that, let's go on run here,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Let's let's play better football next time and go on
a run all right tomorrow. Film review show again didn't
have the best view today, so this podcast take up
with a grandssalt.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Although I thought it was pretty good, you guys, tell
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Speaker 2 (29:43):
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
thanks twin win win, win win. That's a Dolphins dub.
They'll go into the bye week four and seven after
an overtime sixteen thirteen winner with Riley Patterson connecting at
the buzzer, well not at the buzzer, but it is
a walk off win over the Washington Commanders. You guys
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are on the drill by now let's get right into it.
From the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Hills Training Complex.
This is.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Very unique experience on this Sunday as far as my
watching and covering of the game. For instance, it's four
fifteen right now on Sunday. I just finished watching the
Bills pull it out over the Bucks and I'm going
to talk about this game in one second and why
this all ties back into itself. Nine to thirty kickoff
gives you a chance to watch you in more football
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when it's your team. You can pull up the YouTube
quadbox or Sunday Ticket quad box, whatever the hell it's called,
and just get after it and root for the teams
that you're hoping losing games and four teams that you
want to win those games. And that's where I want
to start with this, because the reason that win, despite
how the game looked and your grand illusions and grand
takeaways that you might have from it, which I'm not
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here to dispute any of it, the win gives you
two weeks of like what if you know, the delusional
confidence as Bradley Chubb has dubbed it. And that's why
I was so excited to see that ball go through
those uprights, because I was pretty frustrated by and take
us right into the story of the game. A pretty
sloppy football game, right, lots of yards between the twenties,
lots of conversions and big plays and sustained drives from
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the Commanders, but in the big moments, the two sides
really took turns, taking mistakes, and so I can see
how you would feel, and I agree with this that
it wasn't necessarily the Dolphins finding the victory, which as
it was, the Commander's not getting it done, which was
going to be the case if the Commanders pulled off
the win in their overtime drive. Or if the Matthew
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gave field goal goes through at the end of regulation,
I would have felt the same way from their perspective,
because it felt like both teams took turns kind of
shooting themselves in the foot and making mistakes, which, at
this stage of the season and where this team has
to go, is a little bit of an alarm going
off because they're going to have to be pretty much
perfect down the stretch, right, That's where you are in
the situation. But I'm not going to bemoan that fact
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as if it changes anything else, because I'm excited about
the fact that I.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Get to watch football today.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm going to go downstairs after this and watch By
the way Sundays if we're on the road, they're not
from the back to Cell studios, they are from my house.
But I will go downstairs and watch Chiefs and Broncos
and Rams and Seahawks. Hell yeah, right, what a great
afternoon of games that is. And there's no skin in
the game for those I guess the Chiefs and Broncos
game maybe has some AFC Wildcard ramifications, but you can
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make a case either team losing would be a good thing.
I digress, but this win gives you the opportunity to
watch those games, to watch Thursday, to watch next Sunday,
to watch that next Monday and the following Thursday, and
just get your money's worth in terms of how can I,
you know, Charlie Kelly Pepe Silva, this thing into the
Dolphins making the playoffs, which has to require pretty much
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a ten and seven record, I think when you look
at the AFC balance of power right now, although things change,
but anyway, that's like a sub genre, a tangent that
I wanted to get to and why I care about
the opportunity to have that right because again I didn't
feel as though Miami made you feel good about this
game outside.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Of the result. And the result is what I just
talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You get more meaningful football, hopefully for at least a
couple more weeks. But otherwise it was like sloppy football, right.
We have potential touchdowns on three drives, got two field goals,
one turnover on downs three of the first four times
we touched the football like that's that's how those drives
ended with kicks and it was like a fitting you know,
Spain Madrid like soccer, right, kicking the football and it
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was the same story for the Commander a missfield goal
turnover on down to the two yard line when they
had zach Ertz on that angle route and he just
flat out slips. But you got to give credit to
the Dolphins for winning on third down to create that opportunity,
and that gave us the ball with six minutes left
and a chance to go win the game. But just
as the Commanders squandered their opportunity there, the Dolphins get
the ball back and what was it a It was
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a four yard loss on first down on a little
slip screen behind the line of scrimmage backwards throw, and
then it was a drop pass from Tua to Waddle,
then a third down sack. So it was like different
areas of the offense, like committing the an offensive hold
in that play as well, just different areas of the
team like bogging down in the biggest moment you punt
it back and they muffed the punt, but on either
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side of the football, like there was kind of the
same game for both teams. Right effective run game, finding
some soft spots in the zones and coverage. But then
whether it was a wrong route, a penalty, a miss assignment,
whatever could go wrong on Murphy's low situation, it kind
of did for either side, and the Dolphins were able
to capitalize on the last one of the day. Because
the game goes tied into the fourth or defense allows
to drive all the way down to the two yard line.
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Bowse Up gets the stop, gets it back to the
offense after an Ali Gordon twenty yard run to get
off the shadow of our own goalpost. We feed that
storyline of the game by having those three errors back
to back to back, but you keep the keeping up
with the game flow. The commanders then muffed that punt.
Ethan Bonnard does a great job wrestling that football away
getting it back to the Miami Dolphins, and from there,
I don't know what it is. I'm not gonna look
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it up, but the like win probability that position ball
at the plus forty yard line, first and ten with
four minutes to go, has got to be like in
the over eighty five, right, like you're supposed to win
that football game. And it's not how it went down
because the Dolphins drove it down the field and it
was all runs the last two drives of the game.
The Dolphins did not pass the football a four minute offense.
Running the ball with eight chan going ten eight twelve
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twenty like fifteen do was awesome, due remains awesome, And
the overtime drive it was eight chan like ten four
to eight one, and that was like curtains right there, right,
So we get it all the way down there on
that end of regulation drive to fourth and goal, and
that's where you get a such situation where quite frankly,
I think the decision to go for it is the
right one. I think maybe what you did to get
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to that position on the four plays that you had
maybe could have been done differently. Obviously it could have
if anyone can choose to make any you know, your
own adventure, if you will. But at the one yard line,
I do think the right idea is to try to
hammer it in there. I was calling for play action
a lot. I'm kind of a pass heavy guy, and
I think when you get a situation where you have
shown the ability to run the ball inside, you can
possibly pull that thing back out and try to play action.
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But then I also understand that sometimes you know, when
Tua gets on a boot and there's a one on
one situation, he's not making that guy miss so it
can be difficult to go that way. But whatever the
case was, we get stuffed. McDaniel talked about it after
the game. But the thinking is, and this is like
just kind of how like game theory and game strategy goes, like,
you score a touchdown, it's you have a great chance
to win. Right, They're gonna have to drive the field
with no timeouts in less than two minutes left, very
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difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You kick a field goal.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
They have more than enough time to get in a
field goal range, could score a touchdown, could beat you.
So you also have the risk of losing the football
game if you go for it and you don't get it.
They didn't have to drive the like the longest amount
of yards they would have to drive with no timeouts,
you're probably gonna get a chance to go to overtime
at least, if not get a quick three and out,
call timeouts and get the ball back again for another
chance to win.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So I do think the decision to go is the
right one.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I just didn't Extque didn't get push him off the football,
and then we get a Willie Gate, not Willy Gay.
Willie Gay is our guy, a Matthew Gay missed fifty
eight yard field goal. We go to overtime, win the toss,
opt to kick and it pays off immediately as Jack
Jones makes the biggest pick of the season. He had
a great day in this game. He tweeted after the game,
the Raiders never should have got rid of me. That's hilarious.
I love his twitter. Game gives us a short field,
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we go back to eighthn on traditional runs ten four
eight yard gain, Riley Patterson send us home. And then
just two really strange officiating calls, a defensive pass interference
where Jack didn't make contact. That was one that I
think could be one that the league looks at as
far as like, can we replay assist that and you know,
get some help on that, because that was you know,
they had the replay angle of it and it was
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pretty obviously didn't touch him. So where's that? Where's the
flag come in? You know, it's it's just a tough
spot right there. And then the grounding call. It's close,
but I do think Mariota was still within the pocket.
There a tough call to win against the Dolphins in
those two spots. My pregame checklist, how would the Energy
game plan, long week of prep. How does it all look?
You know? Mike McDaniel and alec Ingold both talked about
finding their prep flow ahead of the Falcons game, not
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having the same feel for TNF then finding it for Buffalo.
Do we get that? Are the players energized? Do they
want it more than Washington? And it started out hot
and looked good, but you also had the timeout and
the delay game on the fourth down, the opening drive,
which it's like the things that those Atlanta and Buffalo
games were were one o'clock kickoffs on Sunday afternoons. There's
something strange around this team about Thursday night football against
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the Ravens Island window game here against the against the
Commanders at Madrid, like international game, long trip. Your whole
routine gets thrown off, and it just doesn't produce sharp football.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Like it seems like it's a thing, right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It honestly seemed like they were ready and had a plan,
just kind of had one player here here or there
that just kind of got them off the results they
were building towards the beginning, and then when the game
didn't go in their favor, they wound up halfing to
chase points and we're playing from behind much of the
second half. The offense did come out in the second
half and went muddle huddle, and that was a cool
drive adjustment to get thirty one yards to waddle on
a catch and run. Got that slant catch and run
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I was talking about in the preview podcast. Didn't pop it,
but it was a nice that was there, that was available,
and it set up some more power downhill runnings which
you know Ali Gordon hits those, some inside zones of
inside runs in general, the toss windbacks to von ah
Chan getting you down there closer to the goal line.
So I thought that there was some of the game
plan stuff in terms of getting to that traditional power
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football and just line up and go play was there
was good, But in terms of like the operation going
in a unique situation which luckily we're going to be
Sundays at one o'clock for the next two weeks. Whether
that's a curse or like a mythical thing, I don't know,
but it seems to be real and it affected them
today and I didn't think it looked as sharp as
far as the game plan and just having the understanding
of how it's supposed to go now again, you are
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in Madrid, which it is not a regular work week,
So perhaps that is the caveat there, because they talked
about in the Baltimore game the short week, perhaps that's
the difference there. The other question I had of three
two of three is how would the front be deployed?
And we saw in this game more Grant on the outside,
more Biggers getting action.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
In this game.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He was active over Matthew Butler who has played some
of that big end Zach Steeler as well. I saw
Seiler get bodied a couple times in this game, but
also made a couple of plays. And of course you
know with Phillips gone and Chop missing the game last week,
would it be the same or how would they activate
that or rotate that. We saw more Matthew Judahon. I
did think Chop had to struggle a lot in this game.
Biggers was active, but man Kenneth Grant was kind of
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the story in this one. And I'm thinking about like
me and Jamon Bush had had this conversation on the
postgame show, Jordan Phillips is a stout grown man that
plays with pure power and can two gap and playee
through you and reset the line scrimmage on down the
down basis at that nose tackle position or one shades
or if it's a two or two I or three technique,
I think you can do all that. There's not a
lot of pass rush there right now for him in
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his game, but he brings a lot of values a
twenty five three down snap per game player kindeth grant
the pad level and the way he fires off, and
the quickness and the power he can one gap and
kind of get into the gap and you know, use
a hump move and just kind of use his strength
to prevent you from recovering to his quickness win. And
we're starting to see that, man, and I'm excited about
where that's developing. You know, Coach Clark gets these offensive
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tackles in there and he develops them. I mean, he's
batting a thousand on that stuff. Almost set a cuss
word there. But Coach Clark with these guys is getting
it done. And they've got some options, and they're gonna
have to kind of find a way to get a
fixed I thought today it kind of step back in
the wrong direction, but I do think that at the
bye week they can kind of find out what's worked
what hasn't and make some adjustments there for Coach Clark
and coach Weave, who I've got a lot of faith
in to make that happen over the bye week. Number
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three here was how do we attack those non disguised coverages,
Because I talked about in the pregame show Quarters two beaters,
Cover three, Cover one? Does Hn have his receiving short game?
Does receiving game going off? And the passing the short
passing game for the Dolphins go off? And I didn't
really get a good feel for it because of full transparency.
We were doing the postgame show at the Bow on
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the Beach, which I didn't know existed. I ended up
going to bow campers and Fort Lauerdale didn't know Bows
on the Beach existed, So I was late for the game,
missed the first drive, loved it, and then the TVs
that we were watching were like pretty far away and
I couldn't really see. I saw replays on Jamond's iPad
a lot, but I couldn't tell you about how they
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attacked those coverages. So I'm just gonna go ahead and
pass on that. The game themes in this one. In
the first quarter, I will cover all that stuff on
the film review podcast. We do have Luckily, we have
the technology that I can go back and actually see
exactly what happened to all game long, and guess you
guys some answers on that the game themes in the
first quarter. It was exactly what I talked about in
the preview show. Cover one, Cover three principles. Take the
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quick stuff. If we saw the swing to a chan,
this the slide rail glance, RPO to Dulcic a good
route to run it their cover one cover three combinations
as they take those deep drops and you can conflict
that curl flat defender on the rail right was I
was excited about back We broke it down on Dolphins
HQ a couple weeks ago. But you can, you know,
kind of back shoulder that thing around the sinking cornerback
on the outside who's trying to get depth and cover
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three and cover his deep third or the glance if
that curl flat defender widens and gives you the inside
access and then the Dolphins went to work right off
of that right side. In the running game, hn taking
tosses outside zone, anything wide and you get crackbacks from
the receivers and tight ends and Larry borhim and Cole
Strange were climbing and attaching on like rap motions around
the outside to kind of hem the sam backer and
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the force defenders and the safety coming down off that
edge without much resistance really until they were five or
ten yards down the field. So you know, I think
Austin Jackson probably getting pretty close coming back here. But
the right side of the Dolphins offensive line they were
kicking butt today. On the first drive, it got a
little bit cute and bogged down in the red zone.
Same on the second drive with that swing way behind
the line of scrimmage. I mean, we must have ran
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four or five plays that were like kind of gadget
like change of pace type of plays that just were
dead in the water for big losses, like drive killing
losses four and five yards behind the line of scrimmage.
And Devon h Chan just like got you and made
it work right, pretty amazing football player. But they overcome
that one, get the first down, they get it into
the red zone, eight yard run on first down, and
then it was difficult to complain at that point because
(14:07):
like Doulcich is wide open on that rail route, and
I think to a I'm trusting Tua over Dulsitch. I
could be wrong, but when there's a miscommunication with those
two guys, I tend to think it's probably the rout
runner because he's been here for you know, ten weeks two,
has been here for six years, and he Dolts was
doing the like the my bad gesture right off the chest.
So throwing that route to the pylon, like you gotta
(14:27):
get that thing, why that was wide open for a
touchdown could have kind of changed the complexion of this
game early on, And you know, at six to three,
I thought there was a chance to start scoring and
pulling away right in this down in the mid second quarter.
Here in my notes, on the very next drive, ingold
gets caught no man's land, and on the Jonathan Jones
third down, sack didn't pick it up, didn't really release
him to the route. Tua didn't see him, didn't throw it,
couldn't make the freemanner miss, So that was you know,
(14:50):
it was. It was hot for a little bit except
for a couple of plays and then cool down. Then
he did back up, but by and large, I don't
think it was the performance you to hope for from
the Dolphins. Offense in general against a defense that they've
had success within the past in terms of the scheme
and coverage. So I guess missed assignments miscommunications after promising
drives had been a theme in the first half, which
continued in the second half. Also, another theme of the
(15:11):
game for me was the zone distributions were not good
in this game, and they would run some some pressure,
some zero looks, the cage rush technique, the spy, the
green dog. Also, if we talked about right and we
broke down the third down sack on the commander second driver,
I'm going to here in a second, I should say,
but it was a kin to what I discussed in
the Thursday show. However, they got a lot of chunk
plays in the middle of the field, lengthy drives and
(15:32):
chunks in the passing game, regardless of the down and
distance or our early down wins. So kind of playing
detached in that intermediate portion of the field was kind
of a disappointing setback for me in terms of how
I saw in the game. But again, I'll have a
better feel for on tape. Let's go ahead and take
our first break right there, come back and do the
critical moments breakdown. We'll do five takeaways, individual standouts, all
of that coming up Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It is brought to you by Auntation.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Right, we're back because the Dolphins are winners sixteen thirteen
in Madrid over the Washington Commanders. A lot of critical
moments in this game because it was closed throughout. So
we started off on the opening drive, a fourth down
for the Commanders. They pick it up on fourth and
one after a Kenneth Grant tackle for loss on third ninches.
They went play action and got the flat route against
a defense that was selling out the top of the run.
(16:19):
That's why I like play action on those spots, especially
when you have a quarterback that can get off the
spot and create a little bit. But we kind of
lost contain in those positions. But I wanted to put
that in the notes because Kenny g was really damn
good in this game in that play, in particular, on
the same exact drive, it's a third and one and
he makes another play to penetrate the a gap. Mika
Fitzpatrick and Chubbs set hard edges to make the stop
off off the tackle and then they fall start on
(16:41):
fourth down to kick the field goal. But you watch
Kenneth grant Man when he can one gap, get up
field and play low to the ground the way he
did in this game. I have a feeling We're gonna
come away from this tape and I'm gonna be like,
this guy is here. He has officially arrived. Just had
to give him a few weeks. Guys, third and three
plus thirty six for the Dolphins on their open on
the next drive too, it hits the league for eighteen yards,
had all data throw and I was thinking this is
going to be a Dolphins like four hundred and fifty
(17:02):
yard game the way it looked early with how they
were getting space. Tua got through all his progressions, had
all kinds of time in the pocket, fires an over
route to Malakue Washington, who goes for eighteen yards on
third and three on that same drive three six, No, Yeah,
three to three football game here, yeah, three to three game.
And they try to boot to it in the red
zone with a sale concept, a flat and a corner
(17:23):
route two. It had a one on one chance to
make a free rusher miss couldn't do it. Sack field
goal time. That was after an eight yard run on
first down and a second down play. We missed the
touchdown and they tried to boot two of rolls right
into the sack like it just felt like and after
the eight yard run, just finish it off.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Man, It's kind of what it felt like.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But that's also hard to complain because like the pass
was wide open too, So it's like play the results,
I guess. And the Dolphins had come into this game
thirteen for thirteen in goal to go situations and had
two three failures in this game, which was that's football, right,
So we love football so much, you never know what
you're gonna get. Third and ten, eight minutes to play
in the second quarter, commander's ball, down six three. We
get a similar call to the one we saw against
(17:59):
the Bills with the Ifi melafm Wu pick. We show zero,
wind up actually bringing more than four, so it wasn't
the same pressure. But I had like the look of
who's coming, who's dropping? Still bring five, and we are
able to peel out and get good coverage in the
back end and force an incomplete pass to get off
the field. Man, we were down to seven minutes to
play in the quarter and there had been four positions
in the entire game. Now I thought one of the
(18:21):
biggest wings in the entire game was the DPI on
Jack Jones. I again don't know why that garnered a flag.
Looked like he played it clean on the back end
of the ball, but it was overthrown. If the flag
doesn't come out, it goes from third and eleven at
the minus five with five thirty to play, compared to
a first down at like the thirty yard line. But
then the Commanders killed the rest of the clock with
a sustained drive that produces that field goal to make
it six to six of the break. So if it's
(18:42):
six to three there and the Dolphins get it back
maybe ten yards short of midfield, a good chance they
get three of the row, and like that kind of
feels like it was going to be nine to three
going to halftime, and that call made it six to six.
That's kind of how that's that was the importance of
that call. Maybe you get up a third eleven, I
don't know, Maybe you do, but I don't think it's like.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's improbable, not impossible.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Third and goal opening drive second half, Julian Hill alec
Ingold get beat at the point of attack and they
stuff Allie Gordon right we go for an on fourth
down and the passes incomplete two. It came off of
his first read, try to get it to waddle on
a drag route from the backside and Bobby Wagner breaks
it up.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That was a tough pill to swallow in that spot.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It felt like Miami was going in once again, like
they were down there all day long, just couldn't quite
finish it off. Have to figure out a way to
make those big plays in those big moments and not
come up small in those spots. Ensuing sequence with them
backed up, we play stout up front, get a first down.
Run stuff pressure forces the quarterback to flee the pocket,
throw it away. They pick up the flag right for grounding. Yeah,
that was the grounding call. That's again that's two points
(19:41):
because he's in the end zone.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
They don't call it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We get a check down, they pick it up Brooks
and Brents couldn't make the stop.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
They get a first down. It's a huge sequence in
the game.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Man two points to them driving back down the field
two minutes left from the third quarter, down by seven,
it's third and six at midfield. They motion waddle, convert
that side to a blitz and like these throws are
here in the offense. I just we don't see him
as much as we used to, where like wild emotions
away the cornerback has to go with him. You have
soft zone off of Maleik, like I talked about in
the pregame show, they don't really show their hand. They
(20:10):
just convert that cover guy down to a blitz. He
blows this to a Malik has inside access in the slant, easy,
easy catch and pitch. Then he kind of looks like
prime Jarvis Landry, you know, slowly powering his way down
the field. Gave us a first down at the plus
thirty seven yard line, goal to go opening the fourth quarter,
looking to tie the game. First down to it and
complete the dull switch on the glance he overthrew him.
(20:31):
Second down angle screen back over the middle of Devon
gets eight yards. I love how they spread him out
on that play before the Ali Gordon Downhill one yard
touchdown run on third and goal at the one yard line.
That's like, gotta find a way to mix it up.
It's like it's let's go to a baseball. It's like
when you're pitching to a batter. This is why baseball diehards.
Love baseball versus like my buddy Seth Levitt listening to
the show right now, probably shaking his head and why
(20:52):
he doesn't care about baseball. If you don't care about baseball,
all you like when you watch, like when are they
gonna put it in play? But the beauty of baseball
is like every single at bat is a chess match
where okay, if I'm gonna show you hard stuff inside
off your hands and then I throw that breaking ball
back off the outside of the plate, like, it's tough
to be able to cover both of those elements as
a batter. And football for a defense, show you one thing,
(21:13):
do something else. You gotta think about multiple things. Why
running football is important because you get teams in their
back heel. It's why it's important to use get the
ball out of the perimeter, get the ball vertically. You
have to make them think about all areas of the
strike zone the field. That's sports, baby, we know about sports.
We don't care who knows third nine eleven, good to go.
In the fourth quarter TI football game, Jack Jones blows
up a screen, beats a block, and makes a tackle
(21:34):
on second down, so it's up a third down. But
that's where Marrioitaver runs for forty three ouch fourth and
goal six minutes left. They try to jam one in
there to zech Ertz on fourth down. He cannot make
the play. He slips in coverage, ball goes over to
the Miami Dolphins. Huge, huge stop. At that point of
the game, we talked about our third down response ensuing
third and thirteen to a get sacked after the entire
sequence which was going backwards. After going backwards, then we
(21:56):
get the ball back on a muff pump with four
eleven left to play. Big sequence in the game. Ethan
Bonner rips it away. Dolphins go run, run, run, run, run,
take it all the way on a fourth and goal.
Devon eight Chan on third and goal get stopped on
a downhill run and then the Commanders come out sell
out against the run. We try to run it with
Oli Gordon, They get knocked back, They defeat blocks all
across the board and they stuff us and the ball
goes back to the Commanders. Then we get a third
(22:17):
and six backed up and they convert for a huge
chunk into positive territory. They had no timeouts on a
second down completion and we took one there in that
spot that gave them pretty much all the time they
needed to go kick a field goal. Us trying to
try to get the ball back on third down, they
wind up converting it, putting it into field goal range,
and then we get the stop there on the missfield goal,
(22:37):
and then the Dolphins get a pick with Jack Jones
making the critical play on the first play of overtime
undercutting zach Ertz.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's what he does.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Man, He's a bit of a high river boat gambler,
but he was locks alid and coverage in this game,
and he took a chance and went and got us
the kind of playmaking I'm talking about at the cornerback position.
Jack Jones today showed you why I was so excited
about his signing this offseason. Ben some downs, bend some ups.
With this game, he was big up in a big
way and it led to a big Dolphins fringe up
and a victory. Let's go ahead and pause right there,
(23:06):
come back and do the standouts and the takeaways. That's
next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Autotation.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I want to be.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Very very very clear off the top here that I
did not have the best view of this game, and
I want to make sure that I can verify this
on tape. What I saw on the broadcast was, I
thought I saw Larry Boram doing an excellent job getting
pushed in the running game, lead and wrapping, pulling, doing
everything in the run game. Also playing well in pass pro.
I saw a Brewer getting leverage, displacement, turning guys, whether
it was a reach or a digout, just do an
(23:36):
Aaron Brewer things. I thought Jonah Hill looks solid and
pass pro opening inside lanes on the downhill runs. Those
power runs I thought were really helping Boram, Strange and
Jonah who have had their ups and downs this year,
like play the part. Like just play downhill football and
look good doing it. To Von eh chen Man seeing it,
hitting it all kinds of variety, outside zone, inside zone,
toss off, you know, windback actions, some man concepts had
(23:58):
a downhill effective run in the gold ghost situations. I
legit think that play he made on the jet sweep
to open the fourth quarter save the game, like it
was gonna be second in sixteen. He was gonna be
toast in the backfield, winds up making a second one.
He just kept saving it on busted runs and Jermon
Bush raw in the Post game show dubbed him mister
make it Right, and I think that's a pretty goodick
name for Davon h Chen.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Ollie Gordon downhill, physical finisher, always screaming after he gets
off the pile. I just love the energy he brings. Defensively,
I thought Kenneth Grant play's best game as a pro.
I knew that he would show up at some point,
might take a few weeks, but here he is. Quickness
off the ball, convicted at his pad level, pere knockback
as a penetrator. Him and Jordan Phillips working under Austin
Clark is gonna be awesome for this team for a
long time. Speaking of Phillips, rock'm sockem robots dog. When
(24:40):
he unfrols the length and loads up the pure power
just to reset you. You'll notice it all the time
you see four guys play to a stalemate. Not that
we always get stalemated, but like it's it happens a
lot where no one gets surged, and then ninety four
taking a guy back into the backfield.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He is awesome. Julius Brents, I gotta watch the tape.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Get a field for the coverage, but man, I really
liked the way he comes up and plays the run.
He gets hurt exits to this game, but I thought
he played pretty solid for the most part. I gotta
go back and watch the tape. Jack Jones the pick,
excellent play. He was locked down on coverage all day.
There's a good stat about him along just I think
one catch on five targets. He runs the route for
zach Ertz, undercuts it, finishes, wins the damn game made
the made the play against the screen earlier tackle. Well,
(25:18):
big game for Jack. Offensively, I thought Greg Dolcich that
wrong route. If I'm right on that, that's kind of
gets you in the in the red category there.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Tough look there.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Alec Ingold had that bust on the third down, had
some some run play assignments that I didn't think were right,
But I again kind of watch the tape on that,
and then just the limitations on two on those free runners,
you know, two drives where you have third manageable in
the quarterback deck just doesn't make anybody miss Like I'd
like to see more in that spot, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I guess I'm getting greedy.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Julian Hill had some back some miss blocks the goal
line on the stand to the against the Commanders. He
did make a critical block on the Olli Gordon touchdown run,
but I thought he struggled in his first game back defensively.
I thought Ashton Davis's spot drops and coverage weren't as
fluid as an instinctive Dante Trader. I thought looked better
in that position again today. Bradley Chubb was a brutal
matchup on Larry and we Tons, but we probably knew
that going into the game.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
We talked about in the preview show.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
He missed a sack on Mariot on the second drive
of the game where it would have made it second
in sixteen, and I couldn't understand how Mariota got out
of it. Was almost a touchdown pass when he slipped
out of it too, Matthew Judon, I just the effort
really really bothered me. I thought Chop struggled against the
run as well. I think, you know, the way you
play against these teams, I think was with bigger ends,
you know, maybe more Kenny and Jordan and SiO, with
(26:25):
Seiler and biggers outside kind of in that sealer of
Campbell roll you know they did that last year with
Chubb and Phillips down for a big part of the season.
So I just think, you know, the Judon reps, they
haven't really caught your eye so far. Tyreel Dotson jumping gaps, guessing.
To me, Zach Ridge kind of got what he wanted
in space. And I thought Jordan Brooks, despite ten tackles
in a good finish, had some up and down moments
in this game. Had a critical miss and that third
(26:46):
down after the non grounding call that could have been
a tackle, and a big spot for a punt getting
back to us. Not his best day, but I know
he's still the All Pro linebacker in the AFC. Here
in the NFL, I should say five takeaways. We have
football players on this team, man, tell you what, man,
pretty generic, right, But I just think we line up
and play football, of course stuff. We are super effective,
run it downhill, play action off of that core pass concepts.
Now you need some wrinkles, You got to mix it up.
(27:07):
We saw them hammer it down there on the opening
drive in the third quarter and quite frankly, those core
things that they got them to all the way to
the two yard line, and not that it was a wrinkle,
but we just couldn't xeque on fourth down. My point
is that I was happy they were able to show
the power and core stuff to execute better because that
stuff travels week over week, year over year. This gimmicky stuff,
I can take it to leave it. Number two can
(27:28):
be our own worst enemy as well. Missed Dulcich on
the first two drives, a third and short stuff on
eight chan a missed assignment, and Passporo on the third
drive for a sack on third down. There was some
rhythm disruption type of plays that I just felt kept
this game close in the first half where Miami could
have blown the doors off of it, and the Commanders
did it as well. But you know, you get two
touchdowns in those plays off Commander's field goal and Commanders
(27:49):
missfield goal.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If it's fourteen to.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Three, I feel like Miami gets some confidence, they get rolling,
They just cruise with this game. But they said it's
six to three in their football. Obviously time sensitive here,
but they wind up, you know, keeping it there, and
we barely make out of the game and stay back
in the playoff mix. So got to find a way
to stop shooting yourself in the foot number three. We
were not as sharp in our zone distributions this week,
just more openings and zone coverage. We knew there wasn't
gonna be a lot of man calls in this game.
(28:11):
That personnel's command and did not call. The commander's personnel
did not call for it. They didn't have the vertical
pass element in this game, but the fire zones created
some pretty easy throws and runs from Marcus Marriota. It's
got to be sharper going forward. Number four. Not our
best football, but we stole a win. Right, It felt
like you really controlled the game early, but time and
time again, the early drives just ending drives on kicks.
(28:33):
It hadn't been that way for weeks. We'd played sharper football,
I thought, and look, the command's getting paid to make
plays too, And I talked about it this week, Right,
how if we could, just if we just could have
stolen a couple of early games in the season while
playing our better ball down the stretch, you might feel
a certain way about the type, a certain type way
about the season. They didn't, you know, play the best
ball today and did get that win. If you could
(28:53):
have done that in the Chargers game and the Patriots game.
You're sitting here in a great spot going into bye week,
but you're not. And today was a good job of
winning the game despite you know, maybe not playing good
enough football in the win. Number five, Staying alive wasn't fun.
I hated it, but we stayed alive. We go into
the bi week still alive. Steal a win, come home,
get healthy, Maybe Austin Jackson comes back, maybe Darren Wallace
coming down the pipe. Maybe James Daniels at some point,
(29:15):
hopefully get some guys back for the Saints, for the Jets, Steelers,
Rogers got hurt today, Herbert got hurt today. Are the
Chargers gonna if Herbert's hurt for a long time? That
Chargers team is not gonna do much. They're just too
banged up. And the Steelers without without Rogers, like Rudolph,
I'd like our chances to win that game too.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Home for the Bengals. After that, let's go on run here,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Let's let's play better football next time and go on
a run all right tomorrow. Film review show again didn't
have the best view today, so this podcast take up
with a grandssalt.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Although I thought it was pretty good, you guys, tell
me what you think. We're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
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