December 7, 2025 • 34 mins
The Dolphins obliterated the Jets, picking up a sweep of their rival, en route to a four-game winning streak. Travis will take you through the Dolphins complete deconstruction of the Jets in the Sunday night recap show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast. I am your host,
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Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the Dolphins make it
four by obliterating, eviscerating, evaporating any will to live the
New York Jets may have had coming into this football game,
thirty four to ten over our division rival. In the
rivalry uniforms, we get back to six and seven. We've
won four straight games. We've swept the Jets in four
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of the last six years. Again, thirty four to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thanks twin win win win, win, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I had fun today from the Baptist Health Studios inside
the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
A k new today's game was different than the rest
of the season because I had this emotion coming into
the game, like I always feel nervous for Dolphins games
until I believe the season is kind of like out
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of our hands or a wash. And I felt that
way going into the Colts game. My entire mantra of
the entire offseason was get me on my couch at
eight fifteen to watch the Bills and Ravens game and
Hopefully the Bills lose that game and we take our
place atop the AFC East to kick off the season.
But that game with the complete ops of direction, and
it set up a season that I felt was coming
the way it did over the course of the next
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seven or eight weeks. But now we have gotten out
of that world of trouble. We have found our rhythm.
We found this winning streak and it has me feeling
nerves again today, which is a great thing. I hated
that pregame, but when you get to celebrate it like this,
it's a heck of a lot of fun. And I
think the Dolphins have found out exactly who they are,
who they want to be, who they should be going forward.
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And I man, when you can dominate games like that
with the production they've gotten in the passing game, there
is something to work with there, and that kicks us
right off into the story of the game today. Just dominance,
at least early on on offense and defense could have
been a much more lopsided game than it actually was.
The Dolphins offense comes out red hot and scores touchdowns
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on their first three drives of the game. Playing with
incredible balance, they get a three and out and then
a pick on Tyrod Taylor on the two drives that
he plays, he gets injured. Miami scores the ensuing possession
to make it twenty one zip. Then they go to
an undrafted rookie free agent quarterback shades of the Black
Friday game, although Tim Boyle was not a rookie undrafted quarterback,
but Brady Cook looked about as ready and is just,
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I guess, ability wise, the same as I thought Tim
Boyle looked on that game on Black Friday two years ago.
I mean, we kick a field goal to go up
twenty four to seven at that point of the game,
with two minutes to play in the first half, it's
twenty four to seven. The Jets to get a pump
return touchdown, which good for them, but they hadn't had
a first down yet. It was fourteen first downs to
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nada for the New York Jets. They do get a
down on a screen into a Dolphins blitz on that
two minute drive, but from there it was a brutal
spot for the rookie quarterback who actually put some passes
in some decent locations, but whether it was drop passes,
miss blocks, failed assignments pre snap penalties or a rookie
quarterback doing rookie quarterback things. There was just not a
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lot to write home from for this Jets offense. We'll
give the Dolphins defense their due, but so much of
this podcast was really done by the end of the
first quarter, by halftime for sure. To answer the questions
we had, the theme of the game, the takeaways, It
was all determined by the halftime break and quite frankly,
by the end of the first quarter. Now, I will
say for a game that felt over by the end
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of the first quarter, there's a lot to clean up
in what was eventually a blowout win. So corrections are
always way more fun to make when you do it
in winning fashion, especially in blowout fashion. Let's go ahead
and talk about the good, the bad, and where the
Dolphins can get better everything in between here on the
recap show. So we start as we do after the
story of the game, with the pregame checklist, and I
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was so curious to see does the ground and pound
game continue to flourish? Well, you ran for two hundred
and thirty nine yards, you tell me. A lot of
these snaps was Jets defenders being contacted by down blocks,
But Miami Dolphins offensive lineman three and four yards down
the field, and if you win your block, if you
defeat your block, get off of it and make the play.
At that point, your best case scenario is like a
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six or seven six or seven yard gain from the
running back, because by the time he drops his shoulder
into you and gets forward, lean and accumulates two or
three more yards, you're on the wrong side of the chains.
So when you can do that in a football game,
you're not gonna lose. You see it like in high
school football, Like we are bigger, stronger, and we have
a better run game than you, and we're gonna run
down your throats for the next sixty minutes, I guess
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in high school forty eight, and there is not a
damn thing you can do to stop it. And that's
what the Dolphins look like today. Offensively, first drive runs
of twenty one and thirty nine yards. Twenty one yards
is an end a round to waddle where you go
muddle huddle, you sprint to the lne scre and you
snap it on first sound. That's a great wrinkle for
a team that runs pre snap motion on eighty percent,
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a league leading four fifths of their offensive snaps.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They didn't last week against the Saints.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I pointed it out as a possible like wrinkle slash
self scouting bye week option, they could unfold and continue
with here. And they do it on the opening drive
of the game, on the second play of the game,
and it sparks a Wattle twenty one yard run and
it catches the Jets totally off guard. You then go
back to your kind of downhill people moving runs. You
get twelve unbalanced where you have the unbalanced means on
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twelve personnel. The two tight ends in formation are to
one side of the formation if you balance it, they're
on either side where you have an extra gap on
either side of the formation. Makes sense, right, You motion
Greg Dolcic over to balance it. Then you jet sweep
Waller back to make it unbalanced to the other side
of the formation, and you hand it to him and
he runs for a first down. I was having a
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ton of fun watching the game at this point and
it kind of just kept getting better. And then I
thought a pregame checklist, itam big check on that one.
Is there more to work off of it? The passing
from the run heavy looks, the Jets struggle and their
base looks to defend the pass. Do we take advantage
of that in general? How does the passing game support
the ground game? This week? And I wrote all those
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things down when I thought they were gonna have Tony Adams.
Marceleno McCurry ball was a player that I put a
sombrero on in the pregame. The previews show I should
say as a guy to go after in that regard,
and they both were inactive in this game. They lost
Isaiah Thomas at one point, still can't say his first name.
They just kept accumulating injuries. The Dolphins took it to
them and basically got them to kind of fold up
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shop early on in the game. But we saw some
strides in this regard. Second drive starts with that little
play action boot underneath the Greg Dolcic and it goes
for twenty three and the touchdown throw to Waddle was
off play action as well. We talked about CT counter
right pulling Brewer and Paul from the left side of
the formation out to the right side of the formation
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on some pass shows. Now get Austin Jackson back, who
played another hell of a football game two for two
for him now and they pull ct counter from the
opposite direction and he makes a key second level block
on a seven yard Jalen Wright run. They do a
fake toss and get flow away from Waller on that
or away from the crossing route that he's going to run.
That's exactly what I talked about. It's a chunk gain
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for thirteen yards.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
There.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
They run another fake toss. The entire Jets defense flows downhill,
and two has got waddle against single coverage running across
the field for twenty four yards. No one's going to
cover him doing that. And that's what the beauty of
this power run game has done for you. You get
severe overplay and it creates easy decisions for the quarterback
from clean pockets because the pass rush isn't going to
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exist in those scenarios, and you get easy declarations in
terms of or indicators I should say, in terms of
what he can throw to in the space he has
to operate from in the passing game. So another massive
check mark on that one. The next one was how
do we hem Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In the pocket? Did we do it? How do we
do it? Well? They did great? For two drives.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
He had no scrambles and he got knocked out of
the game on the second drive and made life tough
on a young quarterback who probably never had thought he
was gonna play regular season snaps this year. He gets
out there and you know how you expected it to go.
So I guess a check mark there. Although abbreviated number
four was Tua in the passing game, go time. We
needed more from the passing game here if we're gonna
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make this run right. McDaniel and Tua have both set
as much. And when you play Aaron Rodgers and Joe
Burrow and Baker Mayfield and Drake may you will need
more of that. Against Brady Cook, you didn't need as
much of it today. But this was a good game
on paper to get things going. Frankly, the next few
games like could be that same situation against the defense
is you're going to face. But we're only gonna tarned
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about the Jets on today's show. I just wanted to
see how efficient, dependable, and just good the passing game
was in a good showing from Tua, and his first
pass of the game was big time stuff pressure, takes
a shot, throws a perfect pass for six. Like his
first play of the game that he threw the ball touchdown,
and that is this is somewhat repetitive of the earlier thing,
because we're six minutes into the game at this point,
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and it looked like vintage to a right time off
play action. Putting the ball right on target, right on time.
You get the passing game going like this, like look out.
That was That was my note, like, just look out
if they can do that. Unfortunately, the rest of the
game turned into, for lack of a better term, a
total slot fest for two in the passing offense.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
It was not good at all. It was not good
at all.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But you can see what's available to them when they
get that going. We'll get to that here in just
a second. Let's go ahead and talk about the game
themes before our first break. You heard it already. The
Dolphins took it to the Jets by showing their diverse.
Someone told me, I tweeted after the game, this is
who the Dolphins are now. They're a smash mouth, physical
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football team that's gonna take it to you. And someone said,
this is a they're a finesse run game.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Brother, What you says?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Who?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
What?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Nah? It ain't it is a push your wig back.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It is a Ollie Gordon stopped at the four yard
line and Patrick Paul, Aron Brewer and Austin Jackson are
gonna run through you and carry him.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Into the end zone type of offense.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is an offense that lost their star running back
in the second quarter of the game and completely changed
their run scheme to inside zone, to lead, iso, to
counter to duo to trap, to compliment what Jalen Wright
does well. And they ran it down your freaking throat.
I want to say the F bomb there, but I'm
not allowed to. They ran it down your throat and
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it immediately opens up the passing game. The first drive
right down the field on the run and you throw
a touchdown on the last play of the drive. The
second drive, you throw it all the way down the
field and you hand it off to a chan for
thirteen yards and a touchdown run. Fittingly, both drives ended
with the opposite approach to get the ball down there.
I thought that was a beautiful thing of symmetry there.
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That's pretty much it. That's pretty much what it's gonna be.
On the other side of the ball, you get a
rookie UDFA quarterback that was just flat out in over
his head. He fumbles a snap early in the game
on a third and two, had ball, had ball bad security, right,
We'll call it bad ball security on a chop Robinson's
tripsack where he tried to get rid of that thing
too fast and just it just he looked like a UDFA,
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a rookie UDFA. That's what it looks like when you
get those guys out there. So on top of all that,
the Jets defense played a really poor game. I think
they kind of got, you know, lost in the sauce
early on because of the way the game played out.
And I just think that they kind of gave up
on this game because the tackling efforts that played the
line scrimmage. It was uninspired pretty much from the first
from the second quarter on so critical moments breakdowns. I
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don't think it's even necessary to do that this week
because I'm gonna punt on it, because the only third
down of consequence like in the whole game was the Jets'
second drive, and it was already a two score game,
and then it was a three score game after that,
And there were some third downs in the second quarter
where it's like the offense isn't playing very well, but
if the that's convert a third down and go make
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it a twenty one to seven game, even a twenty
one to ten game. You didn't feel like it was
ever going to be in danger because of the situation,
because of the implication, but the result of the game, Like,
I just don't think it's worth doing it this week.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Let's go ahead and keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Dolphins were at an eighty five percent win probability seth
Levitt's favorite stat of all time six minutes into the game.
So was there really a critical moment? I say, no,
first break right there, come back on the other side
and talk about the standouts in this game. That's next
Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by AutoNation. I probably should
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have let off with this bit of news to start
the show, Mike McDaniel said after the game, although you
probably don't get any news updates on this podcast right
Like you've heard by now that Devon ah Chan was
able to go back into the game if he needed
to be, and I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's a very McDaniel ism.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
When you see mcachan on the sideline wearing the coat
and have the hellt on. You knew he could have
gone back in, but when you're beating the crap out
of the New York stage, you just keep on the
sideline and let Jalen Wright run right over them. Their
bare butts just built to bare butt on those guys
for the next you know, thirty minutes with Jalen Wright
and so a Chan. He didn't commit to you know,
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a timeline, but if he could have gone back in today,
you feel pretty good about his position here going forward.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So that's the good news.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Let's talk about some stats real quick, because we didn't
do that yet on the show. I think I forgot
to do it last week too, so shame on you, Travis.
The Dolphins in this game, man, the win probability numbers
are pretty great. It's like always at eighty five percent
or better. Twenty three first downs to twelve. The Dolphins
were just two for ten on third down, the Jets
just one for twelve. Three hundred and fifty eight total
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yards to two oh seven. We had one nineteen through
the air and two thirty nine on the ground. We
only were on the field for fifty seven plays. Defensively,
had sixty three Offensively, the Jets ran for sixty five
yards on seventeen attempts. We continue to beat the crapout
teams at the point of attack and that's been very
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So one two for the Jets through the air, sixty
five on the ground.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Three giveaways for the Jets, none for the Miami Dolphins.
You'd love to see that we sacked the quarterback six times.
They got two of just one time in the game.
And we had five for fifty four on penalties. Hey
that Nika Fitzpatrick DEPI what excuse me how? And they
had six for fifty We had the ball for thirty
six minutes of game clock in this one. So if
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you're thinking about next week in the Steelers like they
just wanted an emotional, like last second victory over the
Baltimore Ravens to take first place in the division, and
the Dolphins were kind of cruising by the third quarter,
so perhaps there's some lingering effects for that game and
you can come out and punch the Steelers in the
mouth the same way you did the Jets in this one.
Let's go ahead and talk about some standouts from the
game individually. I had two in the notes off the
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top because the first few drives he was playing some
of the best football of the year under a met's heat.
Threw a good ball on time and rhythm. Feet were
in the good spot. Just was put in the ball
where I had to be. But then after, you know,
he missed Waller on the third down before the first
punt where Waller had a defender stacked on overrout.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We got to hit those.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Then the first down throw on the next drive to
Waddle was way off his target and he has to
dive and can't make that catch. Like I thought it
was telling. On third and eleven with two and a
half minutes to play in the half, up by fourteen points,
they ran a screen and Greg Adultchits went full Jesus
mode and ran through the entire jet secondary, breaking multiple tackles.
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But then they handed it off after that play was
called back on offsetting penalties. So I thought that kind
of You know, sometimes your play caller can tell you,
like the story of the quarterback play right, and I
thought that did it in that spot right there, the
near pick six to start the second half, the backwards
throw at the end of the first half, which that
was a backwards throw by.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The way it got kind of built out on that one.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That's the kind of stuff that makes you scratch your
head from both an operational standpoint but also the quarterback position,
and you just can't have that. That's not going to
work against the Bengals and against the Steelers. Like, I
know the Bengals are a bad football team, but like
when there's a quarter back on the side that can throw,
you know, can put up thirty five points, that's not
going to play. So it was a good start, but
did not finish that way. Devon h Chan certainly gets
into this part through the thirty nine yard run, like
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what can you say about this guy?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Man?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He runs through a tackle, spins off of another one,
continues to put stress on the edge. There were so
many runs, Like we talked about this in the post
game show with bush Rod, Me and Jamal bush Rod.
If a Chan played the whole game, which they would
have brought him out late anyways, But if he was
in this game, with the way they were blocking and
creating lanes, I thought right struggled early but got it
going late. Obviously, Man, with some of the gaps that
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they had, a Chan might have broken the record in
this game.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
In Jess, I fully believe that because he had what
ninety two rushing yards in the game when it were
over one hundred from scrimmage, and that was in a
quarter and a half of football, and we we had
a drive in the fourth quarter where we ran the ball.
We ran nine plays, eight runs, and ran right down
their throats for a touchdown. Ah Chan could have gone
for two hundred, like two fifty plus in this game.
In my opinion, he looked so good. He looks so good.
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He's one of the best players in football. He is
fun to watch. I'm going to continue to make this
point and I'm gonna be annoying about it because y'all
were annoying back to me. And when I say y'all,
I'm like talking to the diehard draft time fans that
don't talk crap on Twitter. So I'm really not talking
to any of you, but I'm talking to the general COGNACENTI.
I tweeted about jonasavite you Naya's game coming along in
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the Buffalo game, and all I got back was the
four plays where he whiffed and made bad plays, and
what do you know, it's coming together. For Big Jonah
had a key block on the thirty nine yard HN
touchdown run. He had second level control all game long.
The feet are under the hips, the hips are under
the shoulders. He's driving guys off the football. He's connecting,
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he's staying attached to blocks. He's also had a super
heads up play. On the first nap of the game.
Jawan Briggs comes over the line of scrimmage, go ahead
and touch him. That's a free five yards. Good job
by the officials to correct that wrong call at first.
But jonahsavite Naya man. The light has come on. It's official.
He's playing good football, and he's playing alongside Aaron Brewer,
who had a critical block on the HN touchdown run.
He drove a man to the turf on Jalen Wright's
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touchdown run. He had a big part of Olie Gordon's
touchdown run. He is a elite center in this league,
and he's got a really good rookie playing next to him.
And next to that rookie is one of the best
left tackles in football, who had solid pass protection all
day long. Wiped out the edge on a Chan's first
core A touchdown run and was part of that all
the Gordon touchdown run where he pushed him across the
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goal line as well. That left side of the offensive line, brother,
is what you've been wanting for a long time, Dolphins fans,
Patrick Paul Jonas, Ivit Naya, Aaron Brewer, and how about
the right tackle Austin Jackson, who was erasing humans off
the face of the earth. He was impressive. Three drives
in on Ryan this after Milik Jones or Malik Jones,
Malik Washington pop pass. He was consistently squaring guys up
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and putting them on their backsides. There was a player
where a Chan ran right into his back where he
had a great block lined up downfield, and a Chan
took him out by wiping him out. But the entire
Dolphins offensive line, I thought Cole Strains had some struggles
and it's why he's not in the notes for the
individual stowns. But the pass pro and the two touchdown pass,
he got kind of beat on that one. But that's
four guys that are really really getting it done, and
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Cole Strange has not been bad. So I think across
the board, the five offensive linemen are just getting it
done big time. Greg dolsich Man how about this guy. Huh,
what a nice release valve. He is making catches, running
through you, taking the soul out of your body as
he runs through you. Strong hands. He's caught balls down
around the shoe strings a few times here. I like
his game. I like the cut of his jim. I
like what he does. I like it a lot. How
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about wabble moving, catching it in stride, roll in good separation.
The block in the back was I thought, smart football,
got in there, got the hands up. I wouldn't thrown
the flag there if I'm the ref, but I'm a
Dolphins fan, so who knows. Jalen Right, I thought there
was a couple of runs he missed in the first half,
and we talked we'll talk about.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It more on this Hape review and get into this
more in depth.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But as he got into the flow of the game,
his conviction and play speed. I saw this dude in
training camp his rookie year look like that. That was
why I saw every day in practice. That's why I
saw in the game against the Patriots when AHM went
down last year, running hard with power and the way
he opens up your run game diversity. We'll get into
more of that here second, but that last touchdown drive
over one hundred yards for him, physical runs, running through
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people's face, masks, awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. Ollie Gordon, awesome.
He gets in here on the touchdown run alone, but
he had more than that. I had a great pass
protection pickup on the first touchdown of the game where
they blitz the second level defender and he goes in
there and greets the linebacker.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm gonna come get you and knock you back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
A big play there, depleting the Jets will on that
and the touchdown run, and then alec Ingold was like
game ball worthy, wrecking ball talk about run scheme, flexibility
and versatility. He's the key cog to all that. He
just disposed of the Jets will. It keeps saying that mentality, mindset,
knocking heads. Alec Ingold captain at the forefront of all
of that. Defensively, how about Zach Seeler. He was barking
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out runs and directions they were gonna go before the
snap went off, like, hey, they're going to the right.
There it goes to the right. Then he beats his
man across his face, stacks it up with a one
gap win. He was two gap winning. The sack he
split with Chubb was a dog walk. He wrapped, just
took John Simpson back into the quarterback's lap to chucked him.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Made the play.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Then he gets in there on the pick stunt to
dump a quarterback on third down early on the third quarter.
Getting more of these rush games up front. The pups
are starting to feel it and the old dog is
he's biting again. His power was popping right now.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Man. I'm happy he got full credit for that second half.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That second sack too, because the rest of it was
kind of clean up duty. But he walked the right
guard of the quarterback and tripped him up, gets the sack,
and he gets gifted a second sack in the game,
two and a half sacks for the day because Brady
Cook steps out of bounds short of a line of
scrimmage and Zach was the last one closest to him.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
So good for you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Zach keeps stacking those sacks. My friend Jordan Brooks all
over the field, flying downhill, two run stuffs on the
jets first two run drives. He's awesome as always.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Jack Jones.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It feels like since the Washington game and the pick
in particular, there's a higher level of juice for jack
Like I think he sees like, hey, this coaching staff
like bought into me and invested in me and developed
me and took me through all the ups and downs,
and now he's like paying them off by playing his
butt off so much better than he was early on
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in the year, playing fast with conviction and confidence. Had
that run stuff in the first quarter, had a nice
tackle right at the catch point on a third and
nine ball that was caught like seven yards down the field.
Keep doing your things, Jackie boy. How about Rasul Douglas
who got my game ball in the postgame show. He's
awesome that breakup on the first drive from a cloud
zone position driving, He's so good in those spots. Completely
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ran a route for ad Mitchell on a pass breakup
at the end of the first half in man coverage.
Then he gets the room service interception. He's not going
to take the cheese on the double move. Why you
even trying? He has that third quarter pass breakup where
he comes off his responsibility and gets in there on
the crosser. Gets a third and eight pass breakup at
the end of the third quarter where the ball was there.
Ad Mitchell has his hands on it, but he rakes
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the back hand and pulls it apart because you can't
catch it if you don't have your hands for another
breakup there. This was the guy that you probably viewed
as a one year stopgap solution, but he's a freaking player,
been very very good all year. Tyrrell Dawson's having a
nice stretch right now. That pick awesome job, runs to
the football, finding a way to squeeze it, has a
tackle for loss to open the third quarter. He's playing
his best ball of the year the last couple of weeks.
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And if e Mela Falma I thought had a really
good day. A play that's a will backer condensing down
into the formation, rushed the quarterback in there for the
fits against the run, and the rush did a little
bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Defense was just flat out awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
No third down conversions allowed that the first thirty five
minutes of the game. Did it against Taylor, and granted
Brady Cook like you'd expect him to look the way
he looked, but Miami turned him over. They sacked him.
They dominated into the way they should have in this game.
The only player they had was the DPI and that
led to the Bristol Douglas pick, and the DPI was
like almost like a mercy thing. Something else that Jamal
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bush Rod talked about post game. I kind of alluded
to it there with Jack Jones's breakdown. But you know
Anthony Weaver and the way he always gets to the
press conference podium and talks about how he loves these guys.
He puts his arm around them, how they can get
better and develop. Like Jamal mentioned, like talking life into
your team, the developmental process, not beating you down, lifting
your guys up.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Man. Look at Zeke Biggers, Like the comment this week
about developing his game is mad and you can't just
throw him out there getting him ready to go. The
cornerback development. You go into this year thinking the cornerbacks
are gonna be your biggest bugaboo. They've been a flat
out strength of this football team. The young defensive line, Like,
I kind of love what they have right now. Man.
There's some things you got to get better at, obviously,
and some decisions that have to be made, but like,
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what can you hate on right now? It's been fun
to watch the last four games, especially this one. Now
on the stand doowns portion. I had one player and
one player only. It was the quarterback. We talked about
him already, so I'm gonna go ahead and buy it
past that. Take our last break right here and get
into the five takeaways. We'll talk more about the quarterback
and that portion as well. Draft Time Podcast brought to
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Speaker 3 (24:38):
Oh no, No, swept again.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You got swept again for the fourth time in six
years New York Jets by the Miami Dolphins. And from
that we get five takeaways from the Dolphins thirty four
to ten, trouncing of the rival. They just can't find
a way to beat the Miami Dolphins. Number one, we
found out what this offense looks like when they balanced
the dynamic the dynamic passing game WHOA with a newly
found dominant ground attack. I mean the sheer stress on
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the Juts defense. They're overplayed to run downhill. It took
two runs, one to waddle, one to eh hm, and
for the rest of the game, well until they weren't
and we ran it again. They were attacking downhill, they
were attacking out wide, trying to take away all the
different angles this run game creates, and Tuoo was just
replacing those vacancies with the football. And by the way,
this Dulcic and Waller and Hill tight end room, I
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saw someone called it an average tight end room. No, no, nope, nope, nope,
it's pretty damn good. It's pretty nice. And I still
think you can do more. Like I'm a huge Kenyon
Sadik fan from Oregon next year in the draft, but
like this is working. It works pretty damn good. And
then man, the ability to be flexible in your run scheme.
I haven't shut up about this since the spring, but
Miami can be whatever type of run scheme team they
want to be, and it has to do with the
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offensive lineman with Patrick Paul Brewer, Jonas about Naya Austin Jackson,
and I'll throw Cole Stranger there because he was a
first round pick that had the athletic chops as well.
You see the fit there. Larry Boram comes over here,
he has athletic chops to kind of run some of
the stuff. Like, you can be flexible with your power
and your finesse game on the outside, and Miami's paired
that together like a beautiful white to wine. I don't
I don't what the I don't know what the hell
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I'm talking about. But Jalen Wright ran like lead iso
trap power inside zone.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
We have the backs.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We have the backs to do it all and to
line up to do it all like they can. They
can do multiple things within their scheme. You can get
the Jets completely out of their their fits and their
responsibilities and their assignments. All three backs are young, they're
all in the rookie contracts. Him probably gonna get some
new money here coming up soon, i'd imagine, But uh right,
going into his third year next year. All he going
into a second year next year, Patrick Paul into his
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third year, Jonah into his second year. Aaron Brewer is
like the oldest guy on the offensive line. Austin Jackson
is twenty five years old, and if he stays healthy,
he's a dominant piece of the group.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
But your oldest guy.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Is twenty seven year old captain center who is in
the prime of his damn career. And we'll get into
the quarterback, which is still a big piece of this puzzle.
But man, this is a portable type of offense that
can win in September while you're trying to figure things out,
and you can melt in the Miami Heat. It can
win in December, it can win in the playoffs. It
doesn't matter. It's portable, it's more sustainable than what the
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offense was previously. And Travis has to take an l
on that. I was all about speed and throwing it
all over the field and being receiver heavy and the
way the NFL is right now. Maybe that mindset was
good ten years ago, but the way it is right now,
this is what you gotta do. This is what you
gotta be there. You know, Number two a learning opportunity
when it comes to handling success and your pedal to
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the floor mentality. That second quarter just got two sideways
too of missus Waller and the third down the big
punt return, we miss waddle on a first down play,
we nearly get picked off, we punt it back. And
this might be nitpicking, but every play stands on its
own merit. They'll make these corrections within the game themselves,
the Dolphins will. And you're not gonna win every play,
but that sequence was that, like, you know, for taking
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a Jordan Brooks approach. Here, you're gonna play sixty snaps
in the gate game, excuse me, fifty seven of them?
Are good, but we're looking at the three snaps and
how to improve those right, and in this game it
became a lot more than that. But you're trying to
make the corrections within this game. I think that portion
of the game is a good way to show the
team something that keeps them hungry, that does not allow
for complacency to set in. It's like you say, hey,
you either win or you learn right. But those few
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plays will give the coaches a chance to say, we
need to be sharper in these spots when we play
the Steelers, the Bengals, the Bucks and the Patriots and
then whoever we get in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I'm just joking. I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm joking. O where am I to further that point?
The sequence at the end of the first half, the
Dulcuch scream and the run on third and eleven. I
get the situation, I get who you're playing, preserve the
field goal, all of that. It just seemed like the
opposite of the aggressiveness we've gotten to known from Mike McDaniel,
and I just wish we had the pieces to make
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that part of the game too, because then you can
really step on some throats and be a dominant football team.
The same with the sequence at the end of the
first half and the backwards pass play. There's nothing that
can excuse that. In my opinion, that was just a
horrendous cavalcade of errors decision making the play itself. McDaniel
mentioned after the game that's a rep between Tua and
h Chan and Right hadn't repped it very much, Like,
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so then don't call it, right. That's kind of my
position there, and you know, I don't want to get
in trouble here like that. That's my position, Like, don't
call it then, you know, time out on the first
posession to start the second half through a swing blindly
into a player that was crashing on that, Like, you
just got to find a way to be sharper there.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
And McDaniel had.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
A comment after the game as well about how they
have worked to condense the meeting times where he's talking less,
getting more to nuts and bolts in their instruction.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
They're doing less walk through Like all of that is great.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's like learning how to coach these guys and learning
what's working for your program. And I'm excited about that fact.
But to see it put into practice more and more.
I can't complain in a four game winning streak, but
within the winning streak are some less to learn, and
that's a big one for McDaniel, his staff, this team.
Everybody like we can be better. Still, that's my whole
point here. For number two, number three, it's it's pretty
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clear they don't trust where the passing game is right
now because of the play calls that has talked about
and the near pick backed up the backwards start like,
we got to be so much better than this. He
was rolling in the opening script. But literally the only
way that Jets get back into the game is if
you give them points. And we tried on like three
consecutive possessions. It was insane. We have to get better.
Number three. We have to get better in the passing game,
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at the quarterback position, all around. Number four, back to
the fun stuff. Rookie and youngster growth feels really fun again.
I gotta spike the football on the Jonas ofvit nya
take about how he was coming along the feet, the control,
the balance, it has taken off, the light has gone on.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Jalen Wright.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I love coach McDaniel's comments after the game about how
Jalen like had expectations going into the year. The year
didn't start the way he probably wanted it to, but
he kept plugging. He kept making an impact on a
scout team, on special teams, and look, it gets an
opportunity and he runs for one hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm so excited for him, for his family.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I know how important stuff is to all them, Like
go get yourself a game ball to the right. That
was awesome to watch. Ollie Gordon had himself a nice
touchdown run the big Blitz pick up. You guys know
how I feel Patrick Paul about being a top tackle
in the game. He's in year two, first year starting.
Dulci is not crazy young, but he's only twenty five.
He's not a first or second year guy, but he's
new to us. He's a long term fit here. Jordan
Phillips did what Jordan Phillips does every single week once again,
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chop on a strip, sack, peer pass rush, chucks a
tight end, then blows around the corner on that pick
ctent with Zack Seeler. He's heating up now. Kenny g
and Biggers I thought played well. I'll get more on
the tape review on those guys, But it's nice to
win games while you're developing a solid, hard working, gritty
young foundation on the roster. Like, damn it, man, let's
go number five. The interior rush and heavy blitzes and
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pass rush games are an area to focus on for corrections.
I'm not gonna harp on this. The offense has been
so much fun to watch, but over the last few games,
like when there's been break downs, that's kind of where
it's been that and like you know, the quarterback play,
but they get the third six sack on two in
the second quarter even to a touchdown pass was a
pass rush win over the interior of the offensive line.
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But again, like it's working, so uh, we're just nitpicking
at this point. But I think if you're gonna find
a way to make corrections and play better football and
try to strive for perfection, that's the area this offense
can find a way because the last couple of games,
that's where the breakdowns and passpro have come from. Nothing
else really besides that have caused issues in pass pro.
But like you're still playing like nine out of ten
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right on the offensive line, they've been awesome. Two hundred
and thirty nine yards, two backs over ninety yards, like
everybody score a touchdown like awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, And
if there's a five B if you will, oh real quick,
all he got beat in passpro on the sack I mentioned,
we had eight chan on the wrong side and a
Blitz pick up. Just some things to iron out, that's
all it is, big dog at five B if you will.
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And the reason it's not in the takeaways is I
don't think it's a situation that has been consistent. I mean,
your third and special teams eta coming into this one.
But I have to mention the touchdown return allowed. Like
Bonnard got out of his gap. Hey Barnard, great bounce
back on the pick, but like he had some rough
reps in this game, and then they executed a fake
punt as well. That's again all to say, nice to
make corrections after win, but we're gonna have to play
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a lot better than that on Monday if we're gonna
get to seven to seven.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
If there's a five C here AFC.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I was excited to talk about the Bills possibly losing
what they came back and won that game, But I
told you about a possible Colts collapse Daniel Jones is
going to be done for the year. That was an
achilles injury. Pretty clear on that They're not gonna win
more than nine games. You're gonna jump the Colts in
my opinion, if you win ten Chargers on Monday is
a huge game. I'm recording this at seven o'clock on Sunday,
I'm gonna go watch the Chiefs. I want the Chiefs
to lose the Texans. We need the Chiefs to lose
this game and then one more game and the Chargers
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and the Colts to lose three more games each. The
Colts did one today, so two more for them. Absent
Daniel Jones. Feels like it could happen, and the Chargers
to the Eagles. They played the Broncos again, they played
the Chiefs again, they played the Cowboys. There's a lot
of opportunities there for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Get back in this. Go ten seven, make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If this is your win a playoff game, I'm not
gonna get too far ahead of myself. If this is
Eily win the playoff game, that would be freaking hilarious. Also, Uh,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That's good. That's all done.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Until next time, fitz up I can bring it again, Caroline,
Cameron
Speaker 1 (34:23):
And Daddy and Billow Daddy come on home,
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast. I am your host,
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Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the Dolphins make it
four by obliterating, eviscerating, evaporating any will to live the
New York Jets may have had coming into this football game,
thirty four to ten over our division rival. In the
rivalry uniforms, we get back to six and seven. We've
won four straight games. We've swept the Jets in four
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of the last six years. Again, thirty four to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thanks twin win win win, win, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I had fun today from the Baptist Health Studios inside
the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
A k new today's game was different than the rest
of the season because I had this emotion coming into
the game, like I always feel nervous for Dolphins games
until I believe the season is kind of like out
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of our hands or a wash. And I felt that
way going into the Colts game. My entire mantra of
the entire offseason was get me on my couch at
eight fifteen to watch the Bills and Ravens game and
Hopefully the Bills lose that game and we take our
place atop the AFC East to kick off the season.
But that game with the complete ops of direction, and
it set up a season that I felt was coming
the way it did over the course of the next
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seven or eight weeks. But now we have gotten out
of that world of trouble. We have found our rhythm.
We found this winning streak and it has me feeling
nerves again today, which is a great thing. I hated
that pregame, but when you get to celebrate it like this,
it's a heck of a lot of fun. And I
think the Dolphins have found out exactly who they are,
who they want to be, who they should be going forward.
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And I man, when you can dominate games like that
with the production they've gotten in the passing game, there
is something to work with there, and that kicks us
right off into the story of the game today. Just dominance,
at least early on on offense and defense could have
been a much more lopsided game than it actually was.
The Dolphins offense comes out red hot and scores touchdowns
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on their first three drives of the game. Playing with
incredible balance, they get a three and out and then
a pick on Tyrod Taylor on the two drives that
he plays, he gets injured. Miami scores the ensuing possession
to make it twenty one zip. Then they go to
an undrafted rookie free agent quarterback shades of the Black
Friday game, although Tim Boyle was not a rookie undrafted quarterback,
but Brady Cook looked about as ready and is just,
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I guess, ability wise, the same as I thought Tim
Boyle looked on that game on Black Friday two years ago.
I mean, we kick a field goal to go up
twenty four to seven at that point of the game,
with two minutes to play in the first half, it's
twenty four to seven. The Jets to get a pump
return touchdown, which good for them, but they hadn't had
a first down yet. It was fourteen first downs to
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nada for the New York Jets. They do get a
down on a screen into a Dolphins blitz on that
two minute drive, but from there it was a brutal
spot for the rookie quarterback who actually put some passes
in some decent locations, but whether it was drop passes,
miss blocks, failed assignments pre snap penalties or a rookie
quarterback doing rookie quarterback things. There was just not a
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lot to write home from for this Jets offense. We'll
give the Dolphins defense their due, but so much of
this podcast was really done by the end of the
first quarter, by halftime for sure. To answer the questions
we had, the theme of the game, the takeaways, It
was all determined by the halftime break and quite frankly,
by the end of the first quarter. Now, I will
say for a game that felt over by the end
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of the first quarter, there's a lot to clean up
in what was eventually a blowout win. So corrections are
always way more fun to make when you do it
in winning fashion, especially in blowout fashion. Let's go ahead
and talk about the good, the bad, and where the
Dolphins can get better everything in between here on the
recap show. So we start as we do after the
story of the game, with the pregame checklist, and I
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was so curious to see does the ground and pound
game continue to flourish? Well, you ran for two hundred
and thirty nine yards, you tell me. A lot of
these snaps was Jets defenders being contacted by down blocks,
But Miami Dolphins offensive lineman three and four yards down
the field, and if you win your block, if you
defeat your block, get off of it and make the play.
At that point, your best case scenario is like a
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six or seven six or seven yard gain from the
running back, because by the time he drops his shoulder
into you and gets forward, lean and accumulates two or
three more yards, you're on the wrong side of the chains.
So when you can do that in a football game,
you're not gonna lose. You see it like in high
school football, Like we are bigger, stronger, and we have
a better run game than you, and we're gonna run
down your throats for the next sixty minutes, I guess
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in high school forty eight, and there is not a
damn thing you can do to stop it. And that's
what the Dolphins look like today. Offensively, first drive runs
of twenty one and thirty nine yards. Twenty one yards
is an end a round to waddle where you go
muddle huddle, you sprint to the lne scre and you
snap it on first sound. That's a great wrinkle for
a team that runs pre snap motion on eighty percent,
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a league leading four fifths of their offensive snaps.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They didn't last week against the Saints.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I pointed it out as a possible like wrinkle slash
self scouting bye week option, they could unfold and continue
with here. And they do it on the opening drive
of the game, on the second play of the game,
and it sparks a Wattle twenty one yard run and
it catches the Jets totally off guard. You then go
back to your kind of downhill people moving runs. You
get twelve unbalanced where you have the unbalanced means on
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twelve personnel. The two tight ends in formation are to
one side of the formation if you balance it, they're
on either side where you have an extra gap on
either side of the formation. Makes sense, right, You motion
Greg Dolcic over to balance it. Then you jet sweep
Waller back to make it unbalanced to the other side
of the formation, and you hand it to him and
he runs for a first down. I was having a
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ton of fun watching the game at this point and
it kind of just kept getting better. And then I
thought a pregame checklist, itam big check on that one.
Is there more to work off of it? The passing
from the run heavy looks, the Jets struggle and their
base looks to defend the pass. Do we take advantage
of that in general? How does the passing game support
the ground game? This week? And I wrote all those
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things down when I thought they were gonna have Tony Adams.
Marceleno McCurry ball was a player that I put a
sombrero on in the pregame. The previews show I should
say as a guy to go after in that regard,
and they both were inactive in this game. They lost
Isaiah Thomas at one point, still can't say his first name.
They just kept accumulating injuries. The Dolphins took it to
them and basically got them to kind of fold up
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shop early on in the game. But we saw some
strides in this regard. Second drive starts with that little
play action boot underneath the Greg Dolcic and it goes
for twenty three and the touchdown throw to Waddle was
off play action as well. We talked about CT counter
right pulling Brewer and Paul from the left side of
the formation out to the right side of the formation
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on some pass shows. Now get Austin Jackson back, who
played another hell of a football game two for two
for him now and they pull ct counter from the
opposite direction and he makes a key second level block
on a seven yard Jalen Wright run. They do a
fake toss and get flow away from Waller on that
or away from the crossing route that he's going to run.
That's exactly what I talked about. It's a chunk gain
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for thirteen yards.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
There.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
They run another fake toss. The entire Jets defense flows downhill,
and two has got waddle against single coverage running across
the field for twenty four yards. No one's going to
cover him doing that. And that's what the beauty of
this power run game has done for you. You get
severe overplay and it creates easy decisions for the quarterback
from clean pockets because the pass rush isn't going to
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exist in those scenarios, and you get easy declarations in
terms of or indicators I should say, in terms of
what he can throw to in the space he has
to operate from in the passing game. So another massive
check mark on that one. The next one was how
do we hem Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In the pocket? Did we do it? How do we
do it? Well? They did great? For two drives.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
He had no scrambles and he got knocked out of
the game on the second drive and made life tough
on a young quarterback who probably never had thought he
was gonna play regular season snaps this year. He gets
out there and you know how you expected it to go.
So I guess a check mark there. Although abbreviated number
four was Tua in the passing game, go time. We
needed more from the passing game here if we're gonna
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make this run right. McDaniel and Tua have both set
as much. And when you play Aaron Rodgers and Joe
Burrow and Baker Mayfield and Drake may you will need
more of that. Against Brady Cook, you didn't need as
much of it today. But this was a good game
on paper to get things going. Frankly, the next few
games like could be that same situation against the defense
is you're going to face. But we're only gonna tarned
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about the Jets on today's show. I just wanted to
see how efficient, dependable, and just good the passing game
was in a good showing from Tua, and his first
pass of the game was big time stuff pressure, takes
a shot, throws a perfect pass for six. Like his
first play of the game that he threw the ball touchdown,
and that is this is somewhat repetitive of the earlier thing,
because we're six minutes into the game at this point,
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and it looked like vintage to a right time off
play action. Putting the ball right on target, right on time.
You get the passing game going like this, like look out.
That was That was my note, like, just look out
if they can do that. Unfortunately, the rest of the
game turned into, for lack of a better term, a
total slot fest for two in the passing offense.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
It was not good at all. It was not good
at all.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But you can see what's available to them when they
get that going. We'll get to that here in just
a second. Let's go ahead and talk about the game
themes before our first break. You heard it already. The
Dolphins took it to the Jets by showing their diverse.
Someone told me, I tweeted after the game, this is
who the Dolphins are now. They're a smash mouth, physical
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football team that's gonna take it to you. And someone said,
this is a they're a finesse run game.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Brother, What you says?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Who?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
What?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Nah? It ain't it is a push your wig back.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It is a Ollie Gordon stopped at the four yard
line and Patrick Paul, Aron Brewer and Austin Jackson are
gonna run through you and carry him.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Into the end zone type of offense.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is an offense that lost their star running back
in the second quarter of the game and completely changed
their run scheme to inside zone, to lead, iso, to
counter to duo to trap, to compliment what Jalen Wright
does well. And they ran it down your freaking throat.
I want to say the F bomb there, but I'm
not allowed to. They ran it down your throat and
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it immediately opens up the passing game. The first drive
right down the field on the run and you throw
a touchdown on the last play of the drive. The
second drive, you throw it all the way down the
field and you hand it off to a chan for
thirteen yards and a touchdown run. Fittingly, both drives ended
with the opposite approach to get the ball down there.
I thought that was a beautiful thing of symmetry there.
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That's pretty much it. That's pretty much what it's gonna be.
On the other side of the ball, you get a
rookie UDFA quarterback that was just flat out in over
his head. He fumbles a snap early in the game
on a third and two, had ball, had ball bad security, right,
We'll call it bad ball security on a chop Robinson's
tripsack where he tried to get rid of that thing
too fast and just it just he looked like a UDFA,
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a rookie UDFA. That's what it looks like when you
get those guys out there. So on top of all that,
the Jets defense played a really poor game. I think
they kind of got, you know, lost in the sauce
early on because of the way the game played out.
And I just think that they kind of gave up
on this game because the tackling efforts that played the
line scrimmage. It was uninspired pretty much from the first
from the second quarter on so critical moments breakdowns. I
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don't think it's even necessary to do that this week
because I'm gonna punt on it, because the only third
down of consequence like in the whole game was the Jets'
second drive, and it was already a two score game,
and then it was a three score game after that,
And there were some third downs in the second quarter
where it's like the offense isn't playing very well, but
if the that's convert a third down and go make
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it a twenty one to seven game, even a twenty
one to ten game. You didn't feel like it was
ever going to be in danger because of the situation,
because of the implication, but the result of the game, Like,
I just don't think it's worth doing it this week.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Let's go ahead and keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Dolphins were at an eighty five percent win probability seth
Levitt's favorite stat of all time six minutes into the game.
So was there really a critical moment? I say, no,
first break right there, come back on the other side
and talk about the standouts in this game. That's next
Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by AutoNation. I probably should
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have let off with this bit of news to start
the show, Mike McDaniel said after the game, although you
probably don't get any news updates on this podcast right
Like you've heard by now that Devon ah Chan was
able to go back into the game if he needed
to be, and I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's a very McDaniel ism.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
When you see mcachan on the sideline wearing the coat
and have the hellt on. You knew he could have
gone back in, but when you're beating the crap out
of the New York stage, you just keep on the
sideline and let Jalen Wright run right over them. Their
bare butts just built to bare butt on those guys
for the next you know, thirty minutes with Jalen Wright
and so a Chan. He didn't commit to you know,
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a timeline, but if he could have gone back in today,
you feel pretty good about his position here going forward.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So that's the good news.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Let's talk about some stats real quick, because we didn't
do that yet on the show. I think I forgot
to do it last week too, so shame on you, Travis.
The Dolphins in this game, man, the win probability numbers
are pretty great. It's like always at eighty five percent
or better. Twenty three first downs to twelve. The Dolphins
were just two for ten on third down, the Jets
just one for twelve. Three hundred and fifty eight total
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yards to two oh seven. We had one nineteen through
the air and two thirty nine on the ground. We
only were on the field for fifty seven plays. Defensively,
had sixty three Offensively, the Jets ran for sixty five
yards on seventeen attempts. We continue to beat the crapout
teams at the point of attack and that's been very
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So one two for the Jets through the air, sixty
five on the ground.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Three giveaways for the Jets, none for the Miami Dolphins.
You'd love to see that we sacked the quarterback six times.
They got two of just one time in the game.
And we had five for fifty four on penalties. Hey
that Nika Fitzpatrick DEPI what excuse me how? And they
had six for fifty We had the ball for thirty
six minutes of game clock in this one. So if
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you're thinking about next week in the Steelers like they
just wanted an emotional, like last second victory over the
Baltimore Ravens to take first place in the division, and
the Dolphins were kind of cruising by the third quarter,
so perhaps there's some lingering effects for that game and
you can come out and punch the Steelers in the
mouth the same way you did the Jets in this one.
Let's go ahead and talk about some standouts from the
game individually. I had two in the notes off the
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top because the first few drives he was playing some
of the best football of the year under a met's heat.
Threw a good ball on time and rhythm. Feet were
in the good spot. Just was put in the ball
where I had to be. But then after, you know,
he missed Waller on the third down before the first
punt where Waller had a defender stacked on overrout.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We got to hit those.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Then the first down throw on the next drive to
Waddle was way off his target and he has to
dive and can't make that catch. Like I thought it
was telling. On third and eleven with two and a
half minutes to play in the half, up by fourteen points,
they ran a screen and Greg Adultchits went full Jesus
mode and ran through the entire jet secondary, breaking multiple tackles.
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But then they handed it off after that play was
called back on offsetting penalties. So I thought that kind
of You know, sometimes your play caller can tell you,
like the story of the quarterback play right, and I
thought that did it in that spot right there, the
near pick six to start the second half, the backwards
throw at the end of the first half, which that
was a backwards throw by.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The way it got kind of built out on that one.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That's the kind of stuff that makes you scratch your
head from both an operational standpoint but also the quarterback position,
and you just can't have that. That's not going to
work against the Bengals and against the Steelers. Like, I
know the Bengals are a bad football team, but like
when there's a quarter back on the side that can throw,
you know, can put up thirty five points, that's not
going to play. So it was a good start, but
did not finish that way. Devon h Chan certainly gets
into this part through the thirty nine yard run, like
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what can you say about this guy?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Man?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He runs through a tackle, spins off of another one,
continues to put stress on the edge. There were so
many runs, Like we talked about this in the post
game show with bush Rod, Me and Jamal bush Rod.
If a Chan played the whole game, which they would
have brought him out late anyways, But if he was
in this game, with the way they were blocking and
creating lanes, I thought right struggled early but got it
going late. Obviously, Man, with some of the gaps that
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they had, a Chan might have broken the record in
this game.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
In Jess, I fully believe that because he had what
ninety two rushing yards in the game when it were
over one hundred from scrimmage, and that was in a
quarter and a half of football, and we we had
a drive in the fourth quarter where we ran the ball.
We ran nine plays, eight runs, and ran right down
their throats for a touchdown. Ah Chan could have gone
for two hundred, like two fifty plus in this game.
In my opinion, he looked so good. He looks so good.
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He's one of the best players in football. He is
fun to watch. I'm going to continue to make this
point and I'm gonna be annoying about it because y'all
were annoying back to me. And when I say y'all,
I'm like talking to the diehard draft time fans that
don't talk crap on Twitter. So I'm really not talking
to any of you, but I'm talking to the general COGNACENTI.
I tweeted about jonasavite you Naya's game coming along in
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the Buffalo game, and all I got back was the
four plays where he whiffed and made bad plays, and
what do you know, it's coming together. For Big Jonah
had a key block on the thirty nine yard HN
touchdown run. He had second level control all game long.
The feet are under the hips, the hips are under
the shoulders. He's driving guys off the football. He's connecting,
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he's staying attached to blocks. He's also had a super
heads up play. On the first nap of the game.
Jawan Briggs comes over the line of scrimmage, go ahead
and touch him. That's a free five yards. Good job
by the officials to correct that wrong call at first.
But jonahsavite Naya man. The light has come on. It's official.
He's playing good football, and he's playing alongside Aaron Brewer,
who had a critical block on the HN touchdown run.
He drove a man to the turf on Jalen Wright's
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touchdown run. He had a big part of Olie Gordon's
touchdown run. He is a elite center in this league,
and he's got a really good rookie playing next to him.
And next to that rookie is one of the best
left tackles in football, who had solid pass protection all
day long. Wiped out the edge on a Chan's first
core A touchdown run and was part of that all
the Gordon touchdown run where he pushed him across the
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goal line as well. That left side of the offensive line, brother,
is what you've been wanting for a long time, Dolphins fans,
Patrick Paul Jonas, Ivit Naya, Aaron Brewer, and how about
the right tackle Austin Jackson, who was erasing humans off
the face of the earth. He was impressive. Three drives
in on Ryan this after Milik Jones or Malik Jones,
Malik Washington pop pass. He was consistently squaring guys up
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and putting them on their backsides. There was a player
where a Chan ran right into his back where he
had a great block lined up downfield, and a Chan
took him out by wiping him out. But the entire
Dolphins offensive line, I thought Cole Strains had some struggles
and it's why he's not in the notes for the
individual stowns. But the pass pro and the two touchdown pass,
he got kind of beat on that one. But that's
four guys that are really really getting it done, and
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Cole Strange has not been bad. So I think across
the board, the five offensive linemen are just getting it
done big time. Greg dolsich Man how about this guy. Huh,
what a nice release valve. He is making catches, running
through you, taking the soul out of your body as
he runs through you. Strong hands. He's caught balls down
around the shoe strings a few times here. I like
his game. I like the cut of his jim. I
like what he does. I like it a lot. How
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about wabble moving, catching it in stride, roll in good separation.
The block in the back was I thought, smart football,
got in there, got the hands up. I wouldn't thrown
the flag there if I'm the ref, but I'm a
Dolphins fan, so who knows. Jalen Right, I thought there
was a couple of runs he missed in the first half,
and we talked we'll talk about.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It more on this Hape review and get into this
more in depth.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But as he got into the flow of the game,
his conviction and play speed. I saw this dude in
training camp his rookie year look like that. That was
why I saw every day in practice. That's why I
saw in the game against the Patriots when AHM went
down last year, running hard with power and the way
he opens up your run game diversity. We'll get into
more of that here second, but that last touchdown drive
over one hundred yards for him, physical runs, running through
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people's face, masks, awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. Ollie Gordon, awesome.
He gets in here on the touchdown run alone, but
he had more than that. I had a great pass
protection pickup on the first touchdown of the game where
they blitz the second level defender and he goes in
there and greets the linebacker.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm gonna come get you and knock you back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
A big play there, depleting the Jets will on that
and the touchdown run, and then alec Ingold was like
game ball worthy, wrecking ball talk about run scheme, flexibility
and versatility. He's the key cog to all that. He
just disposed of the Jets will. It keeps saying that mentality, mindset,
knocking heads. Alec Ingold captain at the forefront of all
of that. Defensively, how about Zach Seeler. He was barking
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out runs and directions they were gonna go before the
snap went off, like, hey, they're going to the right.
There it goes to the right. Then he beats his
man across his face, stacks it up with a one
gap win. He was two gap winning. The sack he
split with Chubb was a dog walk. He wrapped, just
took John Simpson back into the quarterback's lap to chucked him.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Made the play.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Then he gets in there on the pick stunt to
dump a quarterback on third down early on the third quarter.
Getting more of these rush games up front. The pups
are starting to feel it and the old dog is
he's biting again. His power was popping right now.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Man. I'm happy he got full credit for that second half.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That second sack too, because the rest of it was
kind of clean up duty. But he walked the right
guard of the quarterback and tripped him up, gets the sack,
and he gets gifted a second sack in the game,
two and a half sacks for the day because Brady
Cook steps out of bounds short of a line of
scrimmage and Zach was the last one closest to him.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
So good for you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Zach keeps stacking those sacks. My friend Jordan Brooks all
over the field, flying downhill, two run stuffs on the
jets first two run drives. He's awesome as always.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Jack Jones.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It feels like since the Washington game and the pick
in particular, there's a higher level of juice for jack
Like I think he sees like, hey, this coaching staff
like bought into me and invested in me and developed
me and took me through all the ups and downs,
and now he's like paying them off by playing his
butt off so much better than he was early on
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in the year, playing fast with conviction and confidence. Had
that run stuff in the first quarter, had a nice
tackle right at the catch point on a third and
nine ball that was caught like seven yards down the field.
Keep doing your things, Jackie boy. How about Rasul Douglas
who got my game ball in the postgame show. He's
awesome that breakup on the first drive from a cloud
zone position driving, He's so good in those spots. Completely
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ran a route for ad Mitchell on a pass breakup
at the end of the first half in man coverage.
Then he gets the room service interception. He's not going
to take the cheese on the double move. Why you
even trying? He has that third quarter pass breakup where
he comes off his responsibility and gets in there on
the crosser. Gets a third and eight pass breakup at
the end of the third quarter where the ball was there.
Ad Mitchell has his hands on it, but he rakes
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the back hand and pulls it apart because you can't
catch it if you don't have your hands for another
breakup there. This was the guy that you probably viewed
as a one year stopgap solution, but he's a freaking player,
been very very good all year. Tyrrell Dawson's having a
nice stretch right now. That pick awesome job, runs to
the football, finding a way to squeeze it, has a
tackle for loss to open the third quarter. He's playing
his best ball of the year the last couple of weeks.
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And if e Mela Falma I thought had a really
good day. A play that's a will backer condensing down
into the formation, rushed the quarterback in there for the
fits against the run, and the rush did a little
bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Defense was just flat out awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
No third down conversions allowed that the first thirty five
minutes of the game. Did it against Taylor, and granted
Brady Cook like you'd expect him to look the way
he looked, but Miami turned him over. They sacked him.
They dominated into the way they should have in this game.
The only player they had was the DPI and that
led to the Bristol Douglas pick, and the DPI was
like almost like a mercy thing. Something else that Jamal
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bush Rod talked about post game. I kind of alluded
to it there with Jack Jones's breakdown. But you know
Anthony Weaver and the way he always gets to the
press conference podium and talks about how he loves these guys.
He puts his arm around them, how they can get
better and develop. Like Jamal mentioned, like talking life into
your team, the developmental process, not beating you down, lifting
your guys up.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Man. Look at Zeke Biggers, Like the comment this week
about developing his game is mad and you can't just
throw him out there getting him ready to go. The
cornerback development. You go into this year thinking the cornerbacks
are gonna be your biggest bugaboo. They've been a flat
out strength of this football team. The young defensive line, Like,
I kind of love what they have right now. Man.
There's some things you got to get better at, obviously,
and some decisions that have to be made, but like,
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what can you hate on right now? It's been fun
to watch the last four games, especially this one. Now
on the stand doowns portion. I had one player and
one player only. It was the quarterback. We talked about
him already, so I'm gonna go ahead and buy it
past that. Take our last break right here and get
into the five takeaways. We'll talk more about the quarterback
and that portion as well. Draft Time Podcast brought to
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Speaker 3 (24:38):
Oh no, No, swept again.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You got swept again for the fourth time in six
years New York Jets by the Miami Dolphins. And from
that we get five takeaways from the Dolphins thirty four
to ten, trouncing of the rival. They just can't find
a way to beat the Miami Dolphins. Number one, we
found out what this offense looks like when they balanced
the dynamic the dynamic passing game WHOA with a newly
found dominant ground attack. I mean the sheer stress on
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the Juts defense. They're overplayed to run downhill. It took
two runs, one to waddle, one to eh hm, and
for the rest of the game, well until they weren't
and we ran it again. They were attacking downhill, they
were attacking out wide, trying to take away all the
different angles this run game creates, and Tuoo was just
replacing those vacancies with the football. And by the way,
this Dulcic and Waller and Hill tight end room, I
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saw someone called it an average tight end room. No, no, nope, nope, nope,
it's pretty damn good. It's pretty nice. And I still
think you can do more. Like I'm a huge Kenyon
Sadik fan from Oregon next year in the draft, but
like this is working. It works pretty damn good. And
then man, the ability to be flexible in your run scheme.
I haven't shut up about this since the spring, but
Miami can be whatever type of run scheme team they
want to be, and it has to do with the
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offensive lineman with Patrick Paul Brewer, Jonas about Naya Austin Jackson,
and I'll throw Cole Stranger there because he was a
first round pick that had the athletic chops as well.
You see the fit there. Larry Boram comes over here,
he has athletic chops to kind of run some of
the stuff. Like, you can be flexible with your power
and your finesse game on the outside, and Miami's paired
that together like a beautiful white to wine. I don't
I don't what the I don't know what the hell
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I'm talking about. But Jalen Wright ran like lead iso
trap power inside zone.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
We have the backs.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We have the backs to do it all and to
line up to do it all like they can. They
can do multiple things within their scheme. You can get
the Jets completely out of their their fits and their
responsibilities and their assignments. All three backs are young, they're
all in the rookie contracts. Him probably gonna get some
new money here coming up soon, i'd imagine, But uh right,
going into his third year next year. All he going
into a second year next year, Patrick Paul into his
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third year, Jonah into his second year. Aaron Brewer is
like the oldest guy on the offensive line. Austin Jackson
is twenty five years old, and if he stays healthy,
he's a dominant piece of the group.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
But your oldest guy.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Is twenty seven year old captain center who is in
the prime of his damn career. And we'll get into
the quarterback, which is still a big piece of this puzzle.
But man, this is a portable type of offense that
can win in September while you're trying to figure things out,
and you can melt in the Miami Heat. It can
win in December, it can win in the playoffs. It
doesn't matter. It's portable, it's more sustainable than what the
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offense was previously. And Travis has to take an l
on that. I was all about speed and throwing it
all over the field and being receiver heavy and the
way the NFL is right now. Maybe that mindset was
good ten years ago, but the way it is right now,
this is what you gotta do. This is what you
gotta be there. You know, Number two a learning opportunity
when it comes to handling success and your pedal to
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the floor mentality. That second quarter just got two sideways
too of missus Waller and the third down the big
punt return, we miss waddle on a first down play,
we nearly get picked off, we punt it back. And
this might be nitpicking, but every play stands on its
own merit. They'll make these corrections within the game themselves,
the Dolphins will. And you're not gonna win every play,
but that sequence was that, like, you know, for taking
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a Jordan Brooks approach. Here, you're gonna play sixty snaps
in the gate game, excuse me, fifty seven of them?
Are good, but we're looking at the three snaps and
how to improve those right, and in this game it
became a lot more than that. But you're trying to
make the corrections within this game. I think that portion
of the game is a good way to show the
team something that keeps them hungry, that does not allow
for complacency to set in. It's like you say, hey,
you either win or you learn right. But those few
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plays will give the coaches a chance to say, we
need to be sharper in these spots when we play
the Steelers, the Bengals, the Bucks and the Patriots and
then whoever we get in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I'm just joking. I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm joking. O where am I to further that point?
The sequence at the end of the first half, the
Dulcuch scream and the run on third and eleven. I
get the situation, I get who you're playing, preserve the
field goal, all of that. It just seemed like the
opposite of the aggressiveness we've gotten to known from Mike McDaniel,
and I just wish we had the pieces to make
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that part of the game too, because then you can
really step on some throats and be a dominant football team.
The same with the sequence at the end of the
first half and the backwards pass play. There's nothing that
can excuse that. In my opinion, that was just a
horrendous cavalcade of errors decision making the play itself. McDaniel
mentioned after the game that's a rep between Tua and
h Chan and Right hadn't repped it very much, Like,
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so then don't call it, right. That's kind of my
position there, and you know, I don't want to get
in trouble here like that. That's my position, Like, don't
call it then, you know, time out on the first
posession to start the second half through a swing blindly
into a player that was crashing on that, Like, you
just got to find a way to be sharper there.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
And McDaniel had.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
A comment after the game as well about how they
have worked to condense the meeting times where he's talking less,
getting more to nuts and bolts in their instruction.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
They're doing less walk through Like all of that is great.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's like learning how to coach these guys and learning
what's working for your program. And I'm excited about that fact.
But to see it put into practice more and more.
I can't complain in a four game winning streak, but
within the winning streak are some less to learn, and
that's a big one for McDaniel, his staff, this team.
Everybody like we can be better. Still, that's my whole
point here. For number two, number three, it's it's pretty
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clear they don't trust where the passing game is right
now because of the play calls that has talked about
and the near pick backed up the backwards start like,
we got to be so much better than this. He
was rolling in the opening script. But literally the only
way that Jets get back into the game is if
you give them points. And we tried on like three
consecutive possessions. It was insane. We have to get better.
Number three. We have to get better in the passing game,
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at the quarterback position, all around. Number four, back to
the fun stuff. Rookie and youngster growth feels really fun again.
I gotta spike the football on the Jonas ofvit nya
take about how he was coming along the feet, the control,
the balance, it has taken off, the light has gone on.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Jalen Wright.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I love coach McDaniel's comments after the game about how
Jalen like had expectations going into the year. The year
didn't start the way he probably wanted it to, but
he kept plugging. He kept making an impact on a
scout team, on special teams, and look, it gets an
opportunity and he runs for one hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm so excited for him, for his family.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I know how important stuff is to all them, Like
go get yourself a game ball to the right. That
was awesome to watch. Ollie Gordon had himself a nice
touchdown run the big Blitz pick up. You guys know
how I feel Patrick Paul about being a top tackle
in the game. He's in year two, first year starting.
Dulci is not crazy young, but he's only twenty five.
He's not a first or second year guy, but he's
new to us. He's a long term fit here. Jordan
Phillips did what Jordan Phillips does every single week once again,
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chop on a strip, sack, peer pass rush, chucks a
tight end, then blows around the corner on that pick
ctent with Zack Seeler. He's heating up now. Kenny g
and Biggers I thought played well. I'll get more on
the tape review on those guys, But it's nice to
win games while you're developing a solid, hard working, gritty
young foundation on the roster. Like, damn it, man, let's
go number five. The interior rush and heavy blitzes and
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pass rush games are an area to focus on for corrections.
I'm not gonna harp on this. The offense has been
so much fun to watch, but over the last few games,
like when there's been break downs, that's kind of where
it's been that and like you know, the quarterback play,
but they get the third six sack on two in
the second quarter even to a touchdown pass was a
pass rush win over the interior of the offensive line.
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But again, like it's working, so uh, we're just nitpicking
at this point. But I think if you're gonna find
a way to make corrections and play better football and
try to strive for perfection, that's the area this offense
can find a way because the last couple of games,
that's where the breakdowns and passpro have come from. Nothing
else really besides that have caused issues in pass pro.
But like you're still playing like nine out of ten
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right on the offensive line, they've been awesome. Two hundred
and thirty nine yards, two backs over ninety yards, like
everybody score a touchdown like awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, And
if there's a five B if you will, oh real quick,
all he got beat in passpro on the sack I mentioned,
we had eight chan on the wrong side and a
Blitz pick up. Just some things to iron out, that's
all it is, big dog at five B if you will.
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And the reason it's not in the takeaways is I
don't think it's a situation that has been consistent. I mean,
your third and special teams eta coming into this one.
But I have to mention the touchdown return allowed. Like
Bonnard got out of his gap. Hey Barnard, great bounce
back on the pick, but like he had some rough
reps in this game, and then they executed a fake
punt as well. That's again all to say, nice to
make corrections after win, but we're gonna have to play
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a lot better than that on Monday if we're gonna
get to seven to seven.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
If there's a five C here AFC.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I was excited to talk about the Bills possibly losing
what they came back and won that game, But I
told you about a possible Colts collapse Daniel Jones is
going to be done for the year. That was an
achilles injury. Pretty clear on that They're not gonna win
more than nine games. You're gonna jump the Colts in
my opinion, if you win ten Chargers on Monday is
a huge game. I'm recording this at seven o'clock on Sunday,
I'm gonna go watch the Chiefs. I want the Chiefs
to lose the Texans. We need the Chiefs to lose
this game and then one more game and the Chargers
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and the Colts to lose three more games each. The
Colts did one today, so two more for them. Absent
Daniel Jones. Feels like it could happen, and the Chargers
to the Eagles. They played the Broncos again, they played
the Chiefs again, they played the Cowboys. There's a lot
of opportunities there for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Get back in this. Go ten seven, make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If this is your win a playoff game, I'm not
gonna get too far ahead of myself. If this is
Eily win the playoff game, that would be freaking hilarious. Also, Uh,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That's good. That's all done.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Let's go ahead and get Out of Here Film Review
podcast tomorrow. Until then, you all please be sure subscribe, rate,
and review the show. Follow me on social at WINKFLD NFL.
Follow the team at Miami Dolphins, check out the YouTube
channel for Dolphins HQ, Media availabilities, and so much more,
and last but not least, Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Until next time, fitz up I can bring it again, Caroline,
Cameron
Speaker 1 (34:23):
And Daddy and Billow Daddy come on home,
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