December 16, 2025 • 25 mins
The Dolphins are eliminated from playoff contention with a 28-15 loss in Pittsburgh. Travis takes you through the game recap, with themes, standouts, takeaways and much more!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
the Dolphins take a beating in Pittsburgh twenty eight to fifteen.
The score was not indicative of how the game played out.
They fall to six and eight and they are officially
eliminated from the postseason. We'll talk about a strong start
and how it quickly got sideways from the Baptist Hill
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Studios inside the Baptist Hill Training Complex. This is the
Draft Time Podcast. May some kind of weekend for your boy.
I contracted the neurovirus on Saturday night and spent all
day Sunday trying to recover from that, and then Monday
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happened and I was feeling half alive today. So that
was good, but not my best spirits my best feeling
of all time. And I remember being so excited about
the Jets win last week because we had a chance
to watch the Chargers possibly lose to the Eagles on
Monday Night Football and then possibly again on Sunday. And
by the time the Dolphins had played this game, I
thought they might be playing for a chance to move
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to within a game of the Chargers, and none of
that happened on top of plenty of let's just say,
trips to the restroom over the course of the weekend.
So that was how it went before this game. The
story of this game for me, we saw a defense
that was ready to bust the narrative, but the offense,
the passing game really just was not ready to beat
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the Steelers defense. When the defense finally caved in, it
turned into a runaway key penalties, but really the Steelers
with a tush push, a taunting call, a fraction of
a second late on a crossing route turns a pick
into a Steelers touchdown. And it was just that kind
of let's go ahead and get into all this year.
Beginning with the pregame checklist, I was curious about the
running back rotation, how they would scheme up the running
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game in general. I've got all these you know, this
essentially cheesecake factory sized menu of things that have worked
for your run game over the course of the month.
How does it get whittled down into the final product
for this game? And there was some good mix early on.
The run game was hitting the outside zone game stuff
was hitting the most. The inside runs were tough and downhill,
not producing a ton of yardage, but giving you a
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commitment to the running game that I thought was going
to bode well for the entire sixty minute stretch run
of this game. But it faltered and it got behind
the chains and behind the script. You get twelve eight
chan carries for sixty yards. Jillian Wright gets just one
carry in the game. Allie Gordon gets one carry and
gets injured. So you go from this diverse fun running
games to basically a paired down version of what the
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running game was in the first half of the season.
And look, you can sit here and talk about game flow,
dictating the game going a certain way, but you opted
to pass the ball early in the game, and I
thought foolishly enough of me, and like the preview podcast
talked about the options of how that might be there.
But at some point, I guess you have to accept
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who you are as a football team when you come
out and you throw the ball like that. You don't convert,
you don't move the change, you don't score points, and
then the scoreboard gets wonky onya and all of a sudden,
you can't commit to the running game in the second half,
so that was a massive X on that part of
the game plan. Number two was what I just talked about.
I assume the Steelers would sell out to stop the
running game, and we know they play a brand of
football that invites some of two was preferred throws. We
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saw some of it in the garbage time portions of
the game, a nice shot to Darren Waller down the scene,
for instance. But how did it play out? Again, we
went against the Tennessee early in the game. The run
game was working, but we got ourselves in trouble with
two dropbacks, the pick and the scramble short of the sticks.
Absolute disasters on both of those play. I was curious
how the second half would play out because it felt
like we control the game in the first half, at
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least maybe the first twenty five minutes of the game.
And I wanted to add the amendment here at halftime
because we had twelve runs for fifty two yards, eight
passes for sixty one yards through the first three quarters too.
It was six for ten for sixty six yards and
a pick, and then he went bonkers in the fourth
quarter to make his stats look pretty good. But it
felt like the game flow dictated we find the way
to really commit to the running game. I was curious
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how it played out and the third quarter went how
a lot of the third quarters have gone this year.
One hundred and sixty yards for the Steelers, negative twenty
from Miami that third quarter, even over the winch streak,
was an area we struggled in all season long. And
by the time Dolphins got the football again after that
end of the first half touchdown by the Steelers, it
was fourteen to three. Then you go three and out
and they give it back to DK Metcalf and Aaron
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Rodgers and they go and score again. So a big
X on that one as well. I was curious about
sim pressures and blitzes and disguise coverages. How do we
attack a quarterback at age forty two has seen everything.
It was a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Early on.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He had those hard counts that were getting us to
tip our hands early on defense, which I thought was
a veteran moved by Rogers to get some success that way.
But we got him eventually, and it was the interior
pressure winning off the edge, forcing him to step into it,
some good zone drops where he had to get out
of rhythm, out of the play. We got the two
in the first half on four man rushes. That's another
feather in the cap of this defense that can do
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it with pressure looks sim pressures, four man rushes and
against a quarterback that's so good at decide fraking the
chess match pre snap and the Dolphins held the Steelers
to one for seven on third downs in the first half.
But then they get to the tempo game, they get
the run game hitting, we start missing tackles. That was
what Jordan Brooks after the game. They missed tackles after
tackle after tackle, and that wasn't the case in the
first half. A little bit of everything to get the
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offense rolling there for the Steelers offense, and Rogers starts
picking you apart with the quick game holding safeties. He
really had a feel for this defense, did it last
year with the Jets against the Dolphins, and tonight. By
the time the game was twenty eight three was twenty
two of twenty six for two hundred and nineteen yards,
two touchdowns and no turnovers in the game, and it
just kind of felt like as we roll into themes
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of the game here, you know, the third quarter continues
to perplex. I mean, again, one sixty to negative twenty.
That is a tough place to make a living when
you come out of the halftime break with that type
of adjustment. But really, you know, I kind of wonder
about the two sides of the football here. And you've
seen this with teams in the past, like the New
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York Jets when Zach Wilson was there are the best
example I can think of in recent memory, and maybe
to some degree the Colts defense on Sunday, who played
like above board in that Philip Rivers game. But when
the offense you know, continues to not move the ball eventually,
even in the modern game in twenty twenty five, with
the shift of you know, Josh Allen in a thirty
five point output for a Bill's miraculous comeback victory through
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for one hundred and ninety seven yards, like, passing stats
are just not that crazy anymore, and even where you
are at this stage of the game, like it feels
like when when the opposing when your defense plays good
football but the counterpart offense is enable to amount to much,
the defense eventually breaks. And those those Jets teams were
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definitely a case of that. I felt like that happened
for the Dolphins in this game, because the first theme
of the game for me was how competitive we were
on the line of scrimmage. They had fifteen runs for
twenty seven yards in the first half. Miami had twelve
runs for fifty two yards. Like it was, you were
winning the game. You were shutting down the run game,
you were getting early the play action. Flat thrills were
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getting rallied up and tackled. We were coming downhill on screens.
We stopped a tush push on the second drive on
third down, made them grind out their touchdown drive. We
had two sacks again, one for seven on third downs
in that first half. You know, Steeler Phillips, Grant Chop
playing their butts off, Jordan Brooks having another all pro
style game. But I think you just see or at
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least you hoped to see it in the first half
of the game. For the rest of the game was
and I still think this is true. This team's strength
is in the trench play, it's in the interior. But
in this game it wasn't good enough to carry you
to victory. But I just I can't help but shake
the feeling that it goes beyond the impact of some
of those runs or you know, the off the Steelers' offense,
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fighting the rhythm. I think it all comes back to
what you saw in the passing game and a lack
of belief in the and the ability to win games.
Because when you can't do that, we'll get to it.
It just it creates a dark cloud over the entire
over the entire operation. I felt another game theme was
being stuck in between the run game commitment and taking
shots against an overplay defense. I don't think you can
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stop trying the tendency breakers all together, and it worked early,
but the passing game struggled to get it going to
with those opportunities, and particularly at the quarterback position, like
it's non competitive right now at that position. I mean
the interception where we're striding in one direction throwing the
ball back to the other direction. It's just floating up
there for the for the corner to make a play
on it. You know, there's not zip on the ball,
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there's zero ability to create outside of structure. And there
was a couple of plays where he made some plays
you know, off off script tonight, but by and large,
like I keep going back to that Ramsey sack because
it was a pressure from depth. He came down the
B gap, the protection didn't get it picked up. And
whether that's on the line of the quarterback pre snap
is neither here nor there, because you have to go
quick in a play that and throw the ball where
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that blitz comes from ideally, or you have to make
a move and make that guy miss. We see it
all the time, like defensive backs blitzeing quarterbacks. We've seen
this with Us against Alan, against Herbert, against these guys
that can move a little bit, they whiff a lot
because the quarterback has room and space to make a
move and they do it. But for Tua, he has
to get off the spot. And then once he's on
the move, he's not gonna beat with his arm because
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doesn't have it in his bag, and so these teams
are just pushing him off the spot and the quick
game process has not been there. He tried to throw
a pick to Alex Highsmith on a ball that was
like predetermined from the snap, and you're gonna get a
bunch of guys that are dunking on like this version
of two us saying.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Like this is who he always was, bs man.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Bs He had his shortcomings for sure, but these plays
and these throws and these decisions and the lack of mobility,
it's all compounded into this mess of like a passing
game that just can't do anything, and there's a multitude
of factors. Mcdalie says much after the game, Nick Westbrook
Kina fell down on a route and didn't get back up,
and that was where the balls supposed to go, just
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sitting on the ground and like so two, it can't
go there. But he's a sitting duck in those situations.
So it's all all around difficult, and I think it
has an impact on the entire football team. My third
theme is the defense. They flew around, you know, and
the second half be damned, but the cornerbacks were tackling
Jordan Brooks doing everything the way the cornerbacks played the
wrong you know, swings and swings, swings and screens in
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the running game. I thought early was a microcosm of
the physical nature of this team. That Darnell Washington catch
took seven Dolphins defenders to get him to the ground.
But you just saw white jerseys flying into the football.
There was zero hesitancy and of their desire to get
after the football, and they tackled really well until they didn't, right,
And I was thinking about the Packers game last year
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and they had a season high missed tackles of like
freaking twenty four or something like that. It wasn't the
case earlier this game, but then it became the case
later on. I wonder how much of the compounding factors
you know, you know, added up to that result at
the end. A critical moment breakdown here. Let's go ahead
and actually pause for our first break come back and
talk about the key plays while the game was still
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in the balance. We'll do that next, talk about standouts,
five takeaways, and get the heck out of here. A
Drift Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. I
went twenty four hours without having any food this weekend
and a dehydrated brain that was craving water, but I
couldn't drink water because I would just throw it back up.
And that was the second worst day of the weekend
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for me. And the first worst day was this Monday,
which wasn't the weekend, but for my purposes in my job,
it was because the Dolphins got blown out in Pittsburgh
and it was just ugly, pretty much from the second
half on as the Dolphins, I mean sixteen first downs
from Miami, the Steelers had twenty two. We were two
for eight on third downs. Third down offense has been
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non existent for really the entire season, I mean, especially
the winning streak, and in this game it reaarched ugly
had once again one for one on fourth downs. The
Steelers go four for thirteen on third three for three
on fourth downs. They have three hundred and thirty six
yards of Miami's two eighty five. We only ran forty
eight plays in the game. That's like a kind of
a consistent theme across these road games for the Miami
Dolphins over the last four years. I never get a
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chance to really get things rolling. Four sacks, we sacked
Rogers three times. We had six penalties for thirty one yards,
held the ball for just over twenty six minutes, So
every way you splice it, the Steelers kind of dominated
this game. I had one, two, three, four, five, six
critical moment play breakdowns. The first one was the pick
that two of threw because I was talking about this
in the post game show with Tremon bush Rod, like
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we started the game of that twenty yard great dolsitch
patch pass. Then we go a negative one yard throw
to e Chan and then it's a run to eight
Chan for four, then an incomplete pass. Then you come
out and you get successful runs of fifteen and six yards.
That sets up a ten yard throw to Waddle. At
that point, eight minutes to play in the first core
defense is playing their butts off and getting the job done,
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and it kind of felt like you had an opportunity
to just stick to the run there and push the
ball deeper into the red zone and into the Steelers zone,
and you opt for a pass, which is fine, but
it was one of those max like protection. You know,
two three men into the route combinations with at the
forty yard line, and it's a pick by Sante Samuel
who's playing his first game in like freaking two years,
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and there was no pattern in the flat to hold
that cloud corner. He was gaining depth the entire time.
Tua sees the corner route and just rips it and
the flow throated.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The throw floated. It's one fifteen in the morning, one
thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The throw floated because he strides to the right and
the ball comes out to the left like as bad mechanics,
and that's been the case in all fifteen picks this year,
and it's been the case really for the entire season.
When this is a quarterback that coming out was all about,
like you know, efficiency, it was mechanics. So I don't
know where you go with that, but it's a critical
play in the game that costs you to points early
in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And yeah, it's a big, big mistake. Then the Steelers
had a.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Fourth down, fourth and three late first core at the
plus forty two second fourth down of the drive, and
after Rogers have been hard count the defense a whole
bunch of times, he catches him not ready for the snap,
and he gets the easy release to the quick out
and he hits it for a first down. So these
critical moments, Dolphins not ready. Right two after the game,
talked about how he couldn't the guys in the huddle,
couldn't hear him, that was why they had so many
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misalignments and miscommunications, which you know, pinch me right, I've
heard that way too many times for four years now.
But he's saying he couldn't hear the guys in the huddle,
and then here's the Steelers running up to the line
scrimmage quick counting us and getting an easy first down
like it's just you see the night and day in
the operation there Miami third down two in the second
quarter of twelve minutes to play the thirty eight yard line.
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Two A scrambles and has a lane, but he starts
to slide short of the sticks and leads to a punt.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Just that's a turnover. You lose a possession by doing that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Miami third and six, seven to forty five to play,
second quarter minus thirty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Two.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It hits eight chan a little offscript play, really good
quarterback and receiver play there by eight chan and two
a nice chemistry to be on the same page after
the fact as well. Not many backs in this game
can make an adjustment like that, make a catch offf frame,
stay on balance and keep on rolling. Some good stuff
there for the Dolphins offense to convert that one, and
it put him in position to kick a go ahead
field goal thre right. And then Pittsburgh gets the ball
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back third and six plus forty three, six and a
half minutes to play in the third quarter, and they
convert with the hook backer running out to the vertical.
That was one of the players that drove me the craziest,
Tyrrell Dawson, just got vertical off the snap. They run
the tight end right into that zone, easy pitch and catch,
move the chains, and that creates a third and eleven
just one series later, and they hit metcalf for the
touchdown where Ashon Davis rolls into a split field presentation,
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starts in the split field presentation, rolls into a half
field Robber sees it, goes over, hesitates, and then is
one step late, and then we can't tackle DK and
it's a touchdown to go up twenty one to three.
That's it for the critical moments because the game was over.
Really buying large by that point, but just seeing things
late being you know, just late across the board for
the entire football team. Offensive standouts. Darren Waller continues to
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be an absolute monster. Six touchdowns and what does he
played six games for US this year, Like he's a
weapon man at this stage of his career, He's still
a weapon in the back of the end zone. You
can just throw it up as Tua did in the
first one, and he's gonna find a way to either
separate or just come down with the football, so it
was cool to see him get involved again. Alec Ingold,
I thought when the first half run game was working,
he was a big part of that, kicking out some
of those wide runs, inserting up into the run game
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as well. Aaron Brewer, it's the same for him. Overtake,
reached combos, in space, everything. He continued to get the
job done. To von ah Chan hitting up with conviction
once again didn't look hampered to me. I thought those
were the four offensive standouts. Defensively, I was started off
good Rastull Douglass. I continue to be impressed by him.
I hope we get a chance to get him back
next year because physical play coming downhill against the run game.
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There were some wide runs he was cutting down, had
a third down tackle short of the sticks, had the
big play on third and one at the end of
the first half as well. And then Jordan Brooks Man.
I know he had the taunting call, but I think
that was kind of a bogus call because he just
made a play and stood there. But third down stick
early in the game by flying in cleaning up a
pile that was stood up for him, had a tackle
for loss and a sack with in the same series.
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Big hits brought the attitude, kind of set the tempo
for the game early on, and although that wore out,
I thought that was impactful for Jordan Brooks in this
football game. Jack Jones, I just like how he continues
to play this hair on fire. It's been that way
since around the Madrid game. You really see it in
his run defense. Zack Steeler was getting really really good
push on the interiors a pocket collapse early on in
the game. I think that's part of the entire group
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around him kind of upping their games and their impact.
And I thought Kenneth Grant, the splash play is not
there again, but he's impacting the line of scrimmage, getting
surged consistently. And I thought Minka Fitzpatrick had some nice
plays as well, the big third down run stuff, big
hit on Kenneth gain Will, cutting off some routes and
some of those Rogers double clutch throws early on in
the game. But ultimately didn't make the tackle on the
metcalf play. So a little bit negative play there for him,
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but he played I thought a pretty good game prior
to the injury stand downs. Offensively, I mean to the
bad pick on the corner route, bad decision, bad mechanics,
not striding to his target, slides short of the sticks
on third down, just relatively uncompetitive. Tries to throw that
pick to Alex Heihsmith at twenty one to three, throwing
blind in the multiple coverage defenders like it's been that
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way for quite a while, pretty much the entire season.
I thought Patrick Paul didn't have his best night. Came
off some blocks and have his use will surge and
got beatn one pass pro rep. I thought Jonahkan took
a step back in this one. We'll let the film,
you know, take us through that tomorrow on the show.
But I thought it was the same with him in
terms of sticking on blocks, got beaten, some pass nets,
got walked on, a sack by Cameron Hayward. Defensively, Matthew
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Judon been this way for a while now. It tries
to tackle Jonaspent with the shoulder, that's not gonna work.
We lost the edge in the run game consistently, and
it was mostly off of his edge. There was a
rep before the touchdown where he carries the flat then
just goes after Rogers and leaves the route all alone.
Despite being like twenty yards away from Rogers. I don't
know what you're gonna achieve with that, but it seemed
like a strange decision to me. Ashon Davis been in
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this calm consistently, missus tackles, throws the shoulder down in
bad position and coverage later on that Robert rep the
Metcalf TD was there to make a play. Still got
beat if he melafan Wu got caught on the touchdown
pass started the third quarter. I think his play has
really improved, but both he and Davis have been culprits
and some big plays this year. Tyrell Dotts and those
coverage reps are really brutal to watch. And then Bradley Chubb.
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It was tackle four off that left edge right and
I didn't hear his name one time all night. Not
great on that side. Not a great night for the
Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and take our last break
right there, come back and do five big picture takeaways
and get the heck out of here, a Draft Time
podcast brought to you by Automation. Dolphins lose to the
Steelers twenty eight to fifteen and ends the twenty twenty
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five season, which probably a relief to some of you
guys out there, because this has been a pretty rough year.
We got a fun four week reprieve from it. But
back on the back foot now on the outside looking in,
and quite frankly, there's not really any playoff races that
are heating up outside of like bad divisions. Right You've
pretty much got your three wildcard teams in both conferences.
You might see the lines push into the backside of
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the NFC race, but they're out by a couple of
games right now. And then you have Bucks and Panthers
and Ravens and Steelers who are like five hundred football teams, right,
so we'll have that to look forward to. Greg five
Takeaways Number one. The first half looked like we all
hope to see. Second half not so much, And I
was excited to talk to you guys about like this
football team finally, like establish shing. Its brand is a physical,
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like smash mouth team. The way things were going early on,
it looked to me like one team wanted to be
out there more than the other, and the team that
wanted to be out there was the team from South Florida.
The way the defense flew to the football, the way
we reset the line of scrimmage in the running game,
physical bruising football. We made our mistakes and made the
game look a lot closer early on, in my opinion,
but we looked ready for action. We were hitting the
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Brooks and Werestool stop on the third down play. Chop
had the big hit on game Will Brooks and Mica
had that big stick on a play where Brooks got
hit with the face mask call. But then it all changed, right,
And I'm not really sure how to how to compartmentalize that.
Like I talked about in the opening segment, I'm having
a hard time deciphering if it's like the defense, like
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collapsing on itself, or like the defense maybe you know,
having the Levy break after one too many stops over
the last handful of weeks. But I think when the
offense has struggles like that, you could these residual effects
on defense. Maybe it's like excuse making, but that's kind
of what I saw in this Onely a little bit
of both, like most things in this world, probably a
little bit of defense not playing their best game and
also being a little bit like, man, what can we
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do with this offense playing the way they are? Number Two,
the quarterback problem continues to hold you back right, and
it's been that way for the large part of the season.
Another tough to outing the pick, bad process, bad decision making,
bad throw when over that had the slide shot of
the sticks. There was rumin this passing game and tonight
to throw the ball, and then it turned into a true,
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you know, a true drop back game, and that you know,
took us into our third takeaway here, which was number three.
A lack of creativity in the passing game is tough
to overcome, Like if you can't get off the spot,
if you can't compete in quick game, and teams are
squatting on quick game more now than they ever have,
and it's just the windows are tighter and defenses are
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faster and stronger and playing smarter. And if you like,
if you don't have the playmaking ability right now at
this position, like it's it's tough.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's tough living out there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We talked about the eight Champ play in the first
half or two of Go off the Spot and found
him that's a lot of play to get made today's NFL.
With athleticism of the pass rush, with these blitzing defensive backs,
quarterbacks get free runners they make a miss or the
quick game overcomes it. But right now we aren't getting
either of those things, and you're getting turnovers and sacks
and dead drives that have nowhere to go. Our first
drive of the second half after they just scored and
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make it fourteen to three, it's third and six. They
blitz and two of runs backwards and where's what's he
going to do with that football? He's not going to
threaten the post on the deep vertical to dsbridge that play,
which means you can't lift the overcover that the route
on the over the coverage on the over route to
waddle because the deep post safety's not going to respect that.
The third longs just looks so arduous and like, go
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back and watch the twenty twenty two game against the Lions.
I know they were like a one to six team
at that point of the season. Go back and watch
that on third downs and watch that offense, and then
watch this offense and tell me what it looks like
to you, because it is different football teams, despite the
fact that a lot of the guys are the same
are uh, I mean, it's tough, man, You move them
off the spot to play pretty much pretty much comes
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to it. To conclude Number four is that Jordan Brooks
is a special, special talent, and not just in his play.
We talked about narratives, the weather, the primetime game, all that, right,
Brooks in the first half was a one man wrecking crew.
He ended up with thirteen tackles in the game, had
a sack, a pass breakup that he damn near picked off.
He's beaten blocks, He's flying in with big hits. He's
your emotional leader. You see guys fly with him to
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stops that they team up for these big shots on
guys because like heets that tone his work in the
goal line series. I mean, I know they scored, but
he was a huge part of making it very difficult
for them to get in on a third down. The
third down sack he did have, Like he does everything.
They move him all over the defense. You see him
fitting inside, you see him running wide on stretch plays,
rushing up from mugged up spots, playing that willbacker, the
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mic backer, and he brings guys with him. He is
the heartbeat of this team, the soul of this team.
And I thought he deserved an entire takeaway for himself tonight.
I hope he's here for the rest of his career.
Number five three games to go, no playoffs. That was
likely the case given all the help we had to
have happened. But the final three games will be about
gathering information and hopefully that comes with winning in the process.
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This is the first time we've been eliminated prior to
the final game of the season since twenty nineteen. The
only game we played where there wasn't playoff hopes within
that contest was a twenty twenty one finale against the Patriots.
Now I've got three of them. I'm curious to see
how the team reacts, and we'll be reacting. We'll be
reacting accordingly here on the podcast and bring you guys
some draft content.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We'll talk about, like you know.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Holdovers and what it means long term for this team
and take a new approach here on the show as
a twenty twenty five season now will officially end in
three weeks after that Patriots game. All right, short podcast tonight,
I'm gonna call it a night and do the film
review show for you guys tomorrow, and they'll turn the
page of the Bengals and do all of that again
next week. But Until then, you all please be sure, subscribe, rate, review,
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
the Dolphins take a beating in Pittsburgh twenty eight to fifteen.
The score was not indicative of how the game played out.
They fall to six and eight and they are officially
eliminated from the postseason. We'll talk about a strong start
and how it quickly got sideways from the Baptist Hill
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Studios inside the Baptist Hill Training Complex. This is the
Draft Time Podcast. May some kind of weekend for your boy.
I contracted the neurovirus on Saturday night and spent all
day Sunday trying to recover from that, and then Monday
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happened and I was feeling half alive today. So that
was good, but not my best spirits my best feeling
of all time. And I remember being so excited about
the Jets win last week because we had a chance
to watch the Chargers possibly lose to the Eagles on
Monday Night Football and then possibly again on Sunday. And
by the time the Dolphins had played this game, I
thought they might be playing for a chance to move
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to within a game of the Chargers, and none of
that happened on top of plenty of let's just say,
trips to the restroom over the course of the weekend.
So that was how it went before this game. The
story of this game for me, we saw a defense
that was ready to bust the narrative, but the offense,
the passing game really just was not ready to beat
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the Steelers defense. When the defense finally caved in, it
turned into a runaway key penalties, but really the Steelers
with a tush push, a taunting call, a fraction of
a second late on a crossing route turns a pick
into a Steelers touchdown. And it was just that kind
of let's go ahead and get into all this year.
Beginning with the pregame checklist, I was curious about the
running back rotation, how they would scheme up the running
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game in general. I've got all these you know, this
essentially cheesecake factory sized menu of things that have worked
for your run game over the course of the month.
How does it get whittled down into the final product
for this game? And there was some good mix early on.
The run game was hitting the outside zone game stuff
was hitting the most. The inside runs were tough and downhill,
not producing a ton of yardage, but giving you a
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commitment to the running game that I thought was going
to bode well for the entire sixty minute stretch run
of this game. But it faltered and it got behind
the chains and behind the script. You get twelve eight
chan carries for sixty yards. Jillian Wright gets just one
carry in the game. Allie Gordon gets one carry and
gets injured. So you go from this diverse fun running
games to basically a paired down version of what the
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running game was in the first half of the season.
And look, you can sit here and talk about game flow,
dictating the game going a certain way, but you opted
to pass the ball early in the game, and I
thought foolishly enough of me, and like the preview podcast
talked about the options of how that might be there.
But at some point, I guess you have to accept
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who you are as a football team when you come
out and you throw the ball like that. You don't convert,
you don't move the change, you don't score points, and
then the scoreboard gets wonky onya and all of a sudden,
you can't commit to the running game in the second half,
so that was a massive X on that part of
the game plan. Number two was what I just talked about.
I assume the Steelers would sell out to stop the
running game, and we know they play a brand of
football that invites some of two was preferred throws. We
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saw some of it in the garbage time portions of
the game, a nice shot to Darren Waller down the scene,
for instance. But how did it play out? Again, we
went against the Tennessee early in the game. The run
game was working, but we got ourselves in trouble with
two dropbacks, the pick and the scramble short of the sticks.
Absolute disasters on both of those play. I was curious
how the second half would play out because it felt
like we control the game in the first half, at
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least maybe the first twenty five minutes of the game.
And I wanted to add the amendment here at halftime
because we had twelve runs for fifty two yards, eight
passes for sixty one yards through the first three quarters too.
It was six for ten for sixty six yards and
a pick, and then he went bonkers in the fourth
quarter to make his stats look pretty good. But it
felt like the game flow dictated we find the way
to really commit to the running game. I was curious
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how it played out and the third quarter went how
a lot of the third quarters have gone this year.
One hundred and sixty yards for the Steelers, negative twenty
from Miami that third quarter, even over the winch streak,
was an area we struggled in all season long. And
by the time Dolphins got the football again after that
end of the first half touchdown by the Steelers, it
was fourteen to three. Then you go three and out
and they give it back to DK Metcalf and Aaron
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Rodgers and they go and score again. So a big
X on that one as well. I was curious about
sim pressures and blitzes and disguise coverages. How do we
attack a quarterback at age forty two has seen everything.
It was a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Early on.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He had those hard counts that were getting us to
tip our hands early on defense, which I thought was
a veteran moved by Rogers to get some success that way.
But we got him eventually, and it was the interior
pressure winning off the edge, forcing him to step into it,
some good zone drops where he had to get out
of rhythm, out of the play. We got the two
in the first half on four man rushes. That's another
feather in the cap of this defense that can do
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it with pressure looks sim pressures, four man rushes and
against a quarterback that's so good at decide fraking the
chess match pre snap and the Dolphins held the Steelers
to one for seven on third downs in the first half.
But then they get to the tempo game, they get
the run game hitting, we start missing tackles. That was
what Jordan Brooks after the game. They missed tackles after
tackle after tackle, and that wasn't the case in the
first half. A little bit of everything to get the
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offense rolling there for the Steelers offense, and Rogers starts
picking you apart with the quick game holding safeties. He
really had a feel for this defense, did it last
year with the Jets against the Dolphins, and tonight. By
the time the game was twenty eight three was twenty
two of twenty six for two hundred and nineteen yards,
two touchdowns and no turnovers in the game, and it
just kind of felt like as we roll into themes
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of the game here, you know, the third quarter continues
to perplex. I mean, again, one sixty to negative twenty.
That is a tough place to make a living when
you come out of the halftime break with that type
of adjustment. But really, you know, I kind of wonder
about the two sides of the football here. And you've
seen this with teams in the past, like the New
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York Jets when Zach Wilson was there are the best
example I can think of in recent memory, and maybe
to some degree the Colts defense on Sunday, who played
like above board in that Philip Rivers game. But when
the offense you know, continues to not move the ball eventually,
even in the modern game in twenty twenty five, with
the shift of you know, Josh Allen in a thirty
five point output for a Bill's miraculous comeback victory through
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for one hundred and ninety seven yards, like, passing stats
are just not that crazy anymore, and even where you
are at this stage of the game, like it feels
like when when the opposing when your defense plays good
football but the counterpart offense is enable to amount to much,
the defense eventually breaks. And those those Jets teams were
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definitely a case of that. I felt like that happened
for the Dolphins in this game, because the first theme
of the game for me was how competitive we were
on the line of scrimmage. They had fifteen runs for
twenty seven yards in the first half. Miami had twelve
runs for fifty two yards. Like it was, you were
winning the game. You were shutting down the run game,
you were getting early the play action. Flat thrills were
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getting rallied up and tackled. We were coming downhill on screens.
We stopped a tush push on the second drive on
third down, made them grind out their touchdown drive. We
had two sacks again, one for seven on third downs
in that first half. You know, Steeler Phillips, Grant Chop
playing their butts off, Jordan Brooks having another all pro
style game. But I think you just see or at
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least you hoped to see it in the first half
of the game. For the rest of the game was
and I still think this is true. This team's strength
is in the trench play, it's in the interior. But
in this game it wasn't good enough to carry you
to victory. But I just I can't help but shake
the feeling that it goes beyond the impact of some
of those runs or you know, the off the Steelers' offense,
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fighting the rhythm. I think it all comes back to
what you saw in the passing game and a lack
of belief in the and the ability to win games.
Because when you can't do that, we'll get to it.
It just it creates a dark cloud over the entire
over the entire operation. I felt another game theme was
being stuck in between the run game commitment and taking
shots against an overplay defense. I don't think you can
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stop trying the tendency breakers all together, and it worked early,
but the passing game struggled to get it going to
with those opportunities, and particularly at the quarterback position, like
it's non competitive right now at that position. I mean
the interception where we're striding in one direction throwing the
ball back to the other direction. It's just floating up
there for the for the corner to make a play
on it. You know, there's not zip on the ball,
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there's zero ability to create outside of structure. And there
was a couple of plays where he made some plays
you know, off off script tonight, but by and large,
like I keep going back to that Ramsey sack because
it was a pressure from depth. He came down the
B gap, the protection didn't get it picked up. And
whether that's on the line of the quarterback pre snap
is neither here nor there, because you have to go
quick in a play that and throw the ball where
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that blitz comes from ideally, or you have to make
a move and make that guy miss. We see it
all the time, like defensive backs blitzeing quarterbacks. We've seen
this with Us against Alan, against Herbert, against these guys
that can move a little bit, they whiff a lot
because the quarterback has room and space to make a
move and they do it. But for Tua, he has
to get off the spot. And then once he's on
the move, he's not gonna beat with his arm because
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doesn't have it in his bag, and so these teams
are just pushing him off the spot and the quick
game process has not been there. He tried to throw
a pick to Alex Highsmith on a ball that was
like predetermined from the snap, and you're gonna get a
bunch of guys that are dunking on like this version
of two us saying.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Like this is who he always was, bs man.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Bs He had his shortcomings for sure, but these plays
and these throws and these decisions and the lack of mobility,
it's all compounded into this mess of like a passing
game that just can't do anything, and there's a multitude
of factors. Mcdalie says much after the game, Nick Westbrook
Kina fell down on a route and didn't get back up,
and that was where the balls supposed to go, just
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sitting on the ground and like so two, it can't
go there. But he's a sitting duck in those situations.
So it's all all around difficult, and I think it
has an impact on the entire football team. My third
theme is the defense. They flew around, you know, and
the second half be damned, but the cornerbacks were tackling
Jordan Brooks doing everything the way the cornerbacks played the
wrong you know, swings and swings, swings and screens in
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the running game. I thought early was a microcosm of
the physical nature of this team. That Darnell Washington catch
took seven Dolphins defenders to get him to the ground.
But you just saw white jerseys flying into the football.
There was zero hesitancy and of their desire to get
after the football, and they tackled really well until they didn't, right,
And I was thinking about the Packers game last year
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and they had a season high missed tackles of like
freaking twenty four or something like that. It wasn't the
case earlier this game, but then it became the case
later on. I wonder how much of the compounding factors
you know, you know, added up to that result at
the end. A critical moment breakdown here. Let's go ahead
and actually pause for our first break come back and
talk about the key plays while the game was still
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in the balance. We'll do that next, talk about standouts,
five takeaways, and get the heck out of here. A
Drift Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. I
went twenty four hours without having any food this weekend
and a dehydrated brain that was craving water, but I
couldn't drink water because I would just throw it back up.
And that was the second worst day of the weekend
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for me. And the first worst day was this Monday,
which wasn't the weekend, but for my purposes in my job,
it was because the Dolphins got blown out in Pittsburgh
and it was just ugly, pretty much from the second
half on as the Dolphins, I mean sixteen first downs
from Miami, the Steelers had twenty two. We were two
for eight on third downs. Third down offense has been
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non existent for really the entire season, I mean, especially
the winning streak, and in this game it reaarched ugly
had once again one for one on fourth downs. The
Steelers go four for thirteen on third three for three
on fourth downs. They have three hundred and thirty six
yards of Miami's two eighty five. We only ran forty
eight plays in the game. That's like a kind of
a consistent theme across these road games for the Miami
Dolphins over the last four years. I never get a
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chance to really get things rolling. Four sacks, we sacked
Rogers three times. We had six penalties for thirty one yards,
held the ball for just over twenty six minutes, So
every way you splice it, the Steelers kind of dominated
this game. I had one, two, three, four, five, six
critical moment play breakdowns. The first one was the pick
that two of threw because I was talking about this
in the post game show with Tremon bush Rod, like
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we started the game of that twenty yard great dolsitch
patch pass. Then we go a negative one yard throw
to e Chan and then it's a run to eight
Chan for four, then an incomplete pass. Then you come
out and you get successful runs of fifteen and six yards.
That sets up a ten yard throw to Waddle. At
that point, eight minutes to play in the first core
defense is playing their butts off and getting the job done,
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and it kind of felt like you had an opportunity
to just stick to the run there and push the
ball deeper into the red zone and into the Steelers zone,
and you opt for a pass, which is fine, but
it was one of those max like protection. You know,
two three men into the route combinations with at the
forty yard line, and it's a pick by Sante Samuel
who's playing his first game in like freaking two years,
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and there was no pattern in the flat to hold
that cloud corner. He was gaining depth the entire time.
Tua sees the corner route and just rips it and
the flow throated.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The throw floated. It's one fifteen in the morning, one
thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The throw floated because he strides to the right and
the ball comes out to the left like as bad mechanics,
and that's been the case in all fifteen picks this year,
and it's been the case really for the entire season.
When this is a quarterback that coming out was all about,
like you know, efficiency, it was mechanics. So I don't
know where you go with that, but it's a critical
play in the game that costs you to points early
in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And yeah, it's a big, big mistake. Then the Steelers
had a.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Fourth down, fourth and three late first core at the
plus forty two second fourth down of the drive, and
after Rogers have been hard count the defense a whole
bunch of times, he catches him not ready for the snap,
and he gets the easy release to the quick out
and he hits it for a first down. So these
critical moments, Dolphins not ready. Right two after the game,
talked about how he couldn't the guys in the huddle,
couldn't hear him, that was why they had so many
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misalignments and miscommunications, which you know, pinch me right, I've
heard that way too many times for four years now.
But he's saying he couldn't hear the guys in the huddle,
and then here's the Steelers running up to the line
scrimmage quick counting us and getting an easy first down
like it's just you see the night and day in
the operation there Miami third down two in the second
quarter of twelve minutes to play the thirty eight yard line.
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Two A scrambles and has a lane, but he starts
to slide short of the sticks and leads to a punt.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Just that's a turnover. You lose a possession by doing that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Miami third and six, seven to forty five to play,
second quarter minus thirty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Two.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It hits eight chan a little offscript play, really good
quarterback and receiver play there by eight chan and two
a nice chemistry to be on the same page after
the fact as well. Not many backs in this game
can make an adjustment like that, make a catch offf frame,
stay on balance and keep on rolling. Some good stuff
there for the Dolphins offense to convert that one, and
it put him in position to kick a go ahead
field goal thre right. And then Pittsburgh gets the ball
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back third and six plus forty three, six and a
half minutes to play in the third quarter, and they
convert with the hook backer running out to the vertical.
That was one of the players that drove me the craziest,
Tyrrell Dawson, just got vertical off the snap. They run
the tight end right into that zone, easy pitch and catch,
move the chains, and that creates a third and eleven
just one series later, and they hit metcalf for the
touchdown where Ashon Davis rolls into a split field presentation,
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starts in the split field presentation, rolls into a half
field Robber sees it, goes over, hesitates, and then is
one step late, and then we can't tackle DK and
it's a touchdown to go up twenty one to three.
That's it for the critical moments because the game was over.
Really buying large by that point, but just seeing things
late being you know, just late across the board for
the entire football team. Offensive standouts. Darren Waller continues to
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be an absolute monster. Six touchdowns and what does he
played six games for US this year, Like he's a
weapon man at this stage of his career, He's still
a weapon in the back of the end zone. You
can just throw it up as Tua did in the
first one, and he's gonna find a way to either
separate or just come down with the football, so it
was cool to see him get involved again. Alec Ingold,
I thought when the first half run game was working,
he was a big part of that, kicking out some
of those wide runs, inserting up into the run game
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as well. Aaron Brewer, it's the same for him. Overtake,
reached combos, in space, everything. He continued to get the
job done. To von ah Chan hitting up with conviction
once again didn't look hampered to me. I thought those
were the four offensive standouts. Defensively, I was started off
good Rastull Douglass. I continue to be impressed by him.
I hope we get a chance to get him back
next year because physical play coming downhill against the run game.
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There were some wide runs he was cutting down, had
a third down tackle short of the sticks, had the
big play on third and one at the end of
the first half as well. And then Jordan Brooks Man.
I know he had the taunting call, but I think
that was kind of a bogus call because he just
made a play and stood there. But third down stick
early in the game by flying in cleaning up a
pile that was stood up for him, had a tackle
for loss and a sack with in the same series.
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Big hits brought the attitude, kind of set the tempo
for the game early on, and although that wore out,
I thought that was impactful for Jordan Brooks in this
football game. Jack Jones, I just like how he continues
to play this hair on fire. It's been that way
since around the Madrid game. You really see it in
his run defense. Zack Steeler was getting really really good
push on the interiors a pocket collapse early on in
the game. I think that's part of the entire group
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around him kind of upping their games and their impact.
And I thought Kenneth Grant, the splash play is not
there again, but he's impacting the line of scrimmage, getting
surged consistently. And I thought Minka Fitzpatrick had some nice
plays as well, the big third down run stuff, big
hit on Kenneth gain Will, cutting off some routes and
some of those Rogers double clutch throws early on in
the game. But ultimately didn't make the tackle on the
metcalf play. So a little bit negative play there for him,
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but he played I thought a pretty good game prior
to the injury stand downs. Offensively, I mean to the
bad pick on the corner route, bad decision, bad mechanics,
not striding to his target, slides short of the sticks
on third down, just relatively uncompetitive. Tries to throw that
pick to Alex Heihsmith at twenty one to three, throwing
blind in the multiple coverage defenders like it's been that
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way for quite a while, pretty much the entire season.
I thought Patrick Paul didn't have his best night. Came
off some blocks and have his use will surge and
got beatn one pass pro rep. I thought Jonahkan took
a step back in this one. We'll let the film,
you know, take us through that tomorrow on the show.
But I thought it was the same with him in
terms of sticking on blocks, got beaten, some pass nets,
got walked on, a sack by Cameron Hayward. Defensively, Matthew
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Judon been this way for a while now. It tries
to tackle Jonaspent with the shoulder, that's not gonna work.
We lost the edge in the run game consistently, and
it was mostly off of his edge. There was a
rep before the touchdown where he carries the flat then
just goes after Rogers and leaves the route all alone.
Despite being like twenty yards away from Rogers. I don't
know what you're gonna achieve with that, but it seemed
like a strange decision to me. Ashon Davis been in
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this calm consistently, missus tackles, throws the shoulder down in
bad position and coverage later on that Robert rep the
Metcalf TD was there to make a play. Still got
beat if he melafan Wu got caught on the touchdown
pass started the third quarter. I think his play has
really improved, but both he and Davis have been culprits
and some big plays this year. Tyrell Dotts and those
coverage reps are really brutal to watch. And then Bradley Chubb.
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It was tackle four off that left edge right and
I didn't hear his name one time all night. Not
great on that side. Not a great night for the
Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and take our last break
right there, come back and do five big picture takeaways
and get the heck out of here, a Draft Time
podcast brought to you by Automation. Dolphins lose to the
Steelers twenty eight to fifteen and ends the twenty twenty
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five season, which probably a relief to some of you
guys out there, because this has been a pretty rough year.
We got a fun four week reprieve from it. But
back on the back foot now on the outside looking in,
and quite frankly, there's not really any playoff races that
are heating up outside of like bad divisions. Right You've
pretty much got your three wildcard teams in both conferences.
You might see the lines push into the backside of
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the NFC race, but they're out by a couple of
games right now. And then you have Bucks and Panthers
and Ravens and Steelers who are like five hundred football teams, right,
so we'll have that to look forward to. Greg five
Takeaways Number one. The first half looked like we all
hope to see. Second half not so much, And I
was excited to talk to you guys about like this
football team finally, like establish shing. Its brand is a physical,
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like smash mouth team. The way things were going early on,
it looked to me like one team wanted to be
out there more than the other, and the team that
wanted to be out there was the team from South Florida.
The way the defense flew to the football, the way
we reset the line of scrimmage in the running game,
physical bruising football. We made our mistakes and made the
game look a lot closer early on, in my opinion,
but we looked ready for action. We were hitting the
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Brooks and Werestool stop on the third down play. Chop
had the big hit on game Will Brooks and Mica
had that big stick on a play where Brooks got
hit with the face mask call. But then it all changed, right,
And I'm not really sure how to how to compartmentalize that.
Like I talked about in the opening segment, I'm having
a hard time deciphering if it's like the defense, like
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collapsing on itself, or like the defense maybe you know,
having the Levy break after one too many stops over
the last handful of weeks. But I think when the
offense has struggles like that, you could these residual effects
on defense. Maybe it's like excuse making, but that's kind
of what I saw in this Onely a little bit
of both, like most things in this world, probably a
little bit of defense not playing their best game and
also being a little bit like, man, what can we
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do with this offense playing the way they are? Number Two,
the quarterback problem continues to hold you back right, and
it's been that way for the large part of the season.
Another tough to outing the pick, bad process, bad decision making,
bad throw when over that had the slide shot of
the sticks. There was rumin this passing game and tonight
to throw the ball, and then it turned into a true,
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you know, a true drop back game, and that you know,
took us into our third takeaway here, which was number three.
A lack of creativity in the passing game is tough
to overcome, Like if you can't get off the spot,
if you can't compete in quick game, and teams are
squatting on quick game more now than they ever have,
and it's just the windows are tighter and defenses are
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faster and stronger and playing smarter. And if you like,
if you don't have the playmaking ability right now at
this position, like it's it's tough.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's tough living out there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We talked about the eight Champ play in the first
half or two of Go off the Spot and found
him that's a lot of play to get made today's NFL.
With athleticism of the pass rush, with these blitzing defensive backs,
quarterbacks get free runners they make a miss or the
quick game overcomes it. But right now we aren't getting
either of those things, and you're getting turnovers and sacks
and dead drives that have nowhere to go. Our first
drive of the second half after they just scored and
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make it fourteen to three, it's third and six. They
blitz and two of runs backwards and where's what's he
going to do with that football? He's not going to
threaten the post on the deep vertical to dsbridge that play,
which means you can't lift the overcover that the route
on the over the coverage on the over route to
waddle because the deep post safety's not going to respect that.
The third longs just looks so arduous and like, go
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back and watch the twenty twenty two game against the Lions.
I know they were like a one to six team
at that point of the season. Go back and watch
that on third downs and watch that offense, and then
watch this offense and tell me what it looks like
to you, because it is different football teams, despite the
fact that a lot of the guys are the same
are uh, I mean, it's tough, man, You move them
off the spot to play pretty much pretty much comes
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to it. To conclude Number four is that Jordan Brooks
is a special, special talent, and not just in his play.
We talked about narratives, the weather, the primetime game, all that, right,
Brooks in the first half was a one man wrecking crew.
He ended up with thirteen tackles in the game, had
a sack, a pass breakup that he damn near picked off.
He's beaten blocks, He's flying in with big hits. He's
your emotional leader. You see guys fly with him to
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stops that they team up for these big shots on
guys because like heets that tone his work in the
goal line series. I mean, I know they scored, but
he was a huge part of making it very difficult
for them to get in on a third down. The
third down sack he did have, Like he does everything.
They move him all over the defense. You see him
fitting inside, you see him running wide on stretch plays,
rushing up from mugged up spots, playing that willbacker, the
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mic backer, and he brings guys with him. He is
the heartbeat of this team, the soul of this team.
And I thought he deserved an entire takeaway for himself tonight.
I hope he's here for the rest of his career.
Number five three games to go, no playoffs. That was
likely the case given all the help we had to
have happened. But the final three games will be about
gathering information and hopefully that comes with winning in the process.
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This is the first time we've been eliminated prior to
the final game of the season since twenty nineteen. The
only game we played where there wasn't playoff hopes within
that contest was a twenty twenty one finale against the Patriots.
Now I've got three of them. I'm curious to see
how the team reacts, and we'll be reacting. We'll be
reacting accordingly here on the podcast and bring you guys
some draft content.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We'll talk about, like you know.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Holdovers and what it means long term for this team
and take a new approach here on the show as
a twenty twenty five season now will officially end in
three weeks after that Patriots game. All right, short podcast tonight,
I'm gonna call it a night and do the film
review show for you guys tomorrow, and they'll turn the
page of the Bengals and do all of that again
next week. But Until then, you all please be sure, subscribe, rate, review,
follow me on social, check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins,
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HQ Media, Baillibilis, and so much more and last, butt
not least, mimy dolphins dot com. Until next time, fins up,
Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy E's already
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