2022 Review: Quarterbacks

is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it is part four of the season review series. We stopped by the quarterback room and also the specialists and knock out the two smallest rooms in one day. And also we're celebrating today the top ten celebrations of the season who had a

better year than Miami in that category. Will also give you championship round thoughts. All of that and more from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is and just like that, there was one one football game remains, the Super Bowl. I get like super down this time of year. Man like we only have one football game left and then zero football games left.

I always wind up kind of counting the minutes off the clock in the Super Bowl, and I don't really enjoy it as much as I probably should because we don't get football for seven more months after that. So I hope you enjoyed it. Let's go ahead and talk about the Championship Round, but first we open with some

Miami Dolphins related news. On Sunday afternoon or Sunday morning, the NFL Network reported that the Dolphins and Vic Fongio NFL uh around the NFL fans will appreciate that reference have agreed in principle on a deal to make him

the newest Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator. And I want to give you my flashpoints and then give you a better breakdown on Wednesday's show when I've had some time to look deeper into Vic Fangio and the numbers will go to Sports Info Solutions and Pro Football Focus and grind some tape as well. I want to go back and watch how they defended Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills, how they defended Patrick Mahomes Kansasy Chiefs, how they defended Too a Tongue by looa In and that game up in Denver.

All that stuff I want to get to and when we get an official for you, I'll give you the deep dive on coach as well, which I prefer anyway, because, like I said, it gives me more time to give you a thorough, credible analysis on what coach brings to the table. Off the top though the flashpoints. We a few things that he brings good defense, He coaches good defense wherever he goes. He brings a lot of wisdom, a lot of knowledge, a lot of experience, a lot

of respect around the NFL. And there are several things that get me excited about this higher. All of you guys know that I was big on the Mike McDaniel train last year. In fact, I wanted him to get the O C job in when his names circulated around that particular position. This was the guy that I was hoping the dolphins would land. As many of you were in that same boat, because why wouldn't you the proof is in the pudding, just like it was with Mike McDaniel.

This reminds me, and I'm sure you've heard this already. I've been talking about it to people that have you know, text with about the potential of Vic Fongio joining the Dolphins staff reminds me of when Sean McVeigh got his Wade Phillips. Like I'm in the head coach of the team, I specialize in offense, you go be the head coach of the defense. That's what the contract those guys got would signify that they basically run the defense. And it gives you another head coach in the building, which is

never ever, ever a bad thing. What a perfect balance, by the way, that's kind of how Wade Phillips was. You've got the young, very very smart, kind of quirky, upshot guy and the old, respected, grizzled vet who clearly has a mutual respect between the two of them, which is so vitally critically important. Uh, you wouldn't take that job if you didn't. They share the same agent, so

I'm sure that was a big part of it. And making him the highest paid defensive courtier like Dolphins got their guy man um More on that just a second. The four man rush package. I'm sure you know about his defense and kind of how he runs things. Four man rush, no blitzing. It's like acent blitz defense, which is a reduction of over fifty of what the Dolphins have ran traditionally the last couple of years. And we as we talked about on the podcast, the personnel kind

of shifted away from that style of defense. The Dolphins did not shift away from that style of defense. You have to imagine this goes in that direction, especially after the Bradley Chubb trade, and how this team should should be able to generate pressure with just four rushers. Again, we'll talk more about that on Wednesday, but man on the fire about that. The three year deal is what report on NFL Network, which gives you continuity which you

have never really gotten. I mean the Dolphins, We've always talked about this, right, how one side of the ball seems to get good and the other seems to set backwards. And what's a big reason for that? Because you're in stable at the assistant positions, at the coordinator positions, you can't develop the same system on either side of the football.

Every coach the Dolphins have had has failed at surrounding themselves with good assistant coaches, going back to like Tony Sperno, I mean Brian Flores didn't work out for him, didn't work out for Adam Gays At bringing in a defensive coordinator on the other side of the football, Joe Philbin

didn't do it. I mean Kevin Coyle was his first hire. Uh, Tony Sprawna was really the last one with um Mike nolan In was actually the last time the Dolphins hired a not first time defensive coordinator on that side of the ball. Those are some of the best defenses we had in those early two thousand tens. Uh. I already know what the defense can do. I think this corrects a lot of issues on the Dolphins defense in terms of the personnel match and that the talent they have

in the scheme. I think the expectations should be a lot higher for this Dolphins team. And I just think the Dolphins ability to close on big time names is different and attracting big time names Tyreek Hill to Ron Armstead, those guys both had to choose to come here. Now Vic Fongio makes that same choice. I just I'm really pumped up about the possibilities here and how the defense will match it's personnel. Now, um, in terms of the zone, we talked about that a lot, right two high shells

zone defense. We'll see what the safety position looks like going forwards to know Javon Holland probably has a big role there. We'll talk more about players this benefits UH with this new defensive shift on a future podcast. But man, it's there's a lot to be excited about here. But those are your flashpoints. Man, it's a lot, a lot of stuff to get to. I want to start at the tape and come back to you. Guys can talk about that. Before we do that. On Wednesday's podcast, Let's

talk about Championship weekend. What we learned from the a f C, NFC championship games. One really good game, one not so good game. Another quarterback injury takes the Niners pretty much out of it all away across the boards, Eagles wiped them out for another blood victory for themselves in the championship round. They've had that in the last two times they went. And the Kansas City Chiefs knock off the Cincinnati Bengals, which I was happy to see.

The Bengals were talking too much and the Chiefs were I like Mahomes a lot better than the the personnel the Chiefs or the Bengals have, I should say, But what we learned from Championship weekend pretty brief to me. We talked about the running game, control a lion scrimmage in the divisional round weekend, which I think is still very important this time of year. But what we noticed in this round was that the stars make the plays

that make the difference. Davante Smith's catch on that fourth down that wasn't actually catched, but I mean still hell of an effort and looked really good. Christian McCaffrey's tackle breaking running for the niners only touchdown and tie that game after Brock Party had gone out. Hassan Reddick having like forty five sacks and sixteen four fumbles and recovering forty five of those. Uh Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey

on that scrambled touchdown. Both Chase Higgins or Chase Higgins, Tee Higgins and Jamaar Chase making absurd individual efforts to make big plays, one for a touchdown one on fourth and sixth to keep the Bengals kind of in that game. And then obviously Chris Jones was getting pressure upfront constantly.

I've always said the defense is as good as the offense they play in the NFL, But man, that dynamic changes when your front four is unstoppable, which kind of goes back to the Vic Fongio stuff like get Chub, get Phillips, get og Ball, get Wilkins, get Seedler, coming downhill, rush the quarterback, put pressure on them, and if your coverage schemes are confusing enough and complex enough to confuse the quarterback to hold the ball for just a few more seconds, for a few more tents of a second,

that will make all the difference in the world. For the Dolphin's pass rush that was very good but couldn't quite finish the season. Kind of learned that in this game. In these games with the Eagles front and with how the Chiefs got after the Bengals with their mismatch offensive line, the Chiefs fronts not normally that dominant, but the Bengals offensive line was so shorthanded it kind of turned out

that way. So again, more on vic Fongio, the rumor or not the rumor of the reports that he's been hired by the Miami Dolphins will have more and that's official for you guys. On a future episode Real Quick, Whipple Blast did not finish. It did not bring the title home. I had a chance on the very last

game to hit the longest shot. Once you tie a game, uh, they go to a one hit pitch off and I was hitting some some pretty good shots all day, so I got the I got the call to have the tie breaking hit off, and I hit a groundball that like hit the ground and skipped all the way beyond the home run marker, which I thought was good, but they said no, it's where the ball first lands. The next guy comes up and hits the groundball that just barely gets higher than mind, but then stops like right there.

So I was like, man, I hit that. My exit villa was like a hundred miles more than his, but it went further. So we lost. It was my fault. Um Sucks lost in the first round of the playoffs, went four. Oh we've now gone eleven and o in the last two years with the Blaste. A failure though for Juice Crew because we got bounced in the first round.

So there you go. That's the weekend update, Championship round, reports of Vic Fonjio being the Dolphin's new defensive coordinator, and with full blast updates for twenty three busy podcast still to come here, So let's pick it up with the fourth part of our season reviews series and go to the Quarterback Room, a place I'm sure many of you have been looking forward to this particular episode of

the series. Here breaking down the roster, what we have, what we have going forward, what's out there, and all that fun stuff getting you ready for the off season ahead in just a little over six weeks now before the new league year, and we're gonna do quarterbacks as well as a specialist talking with the quarterbacks here and

the team accomplishments and stats that occurred. The Dolphins had the fourth most passing yards in the NFL this year four thousand, seven hundred and sixty five, and again that's without their quarterback for four and a half games. They were tied for fourth with thirty touchdown passes this year without their quarterback for four and a half games, and they were eight in passer rating at nine five without

their quarterback for four and a half games. We threw for the most yards we've thrown four since Dan Marino was under center. That's pretty cool. And as a whole, I mean, what have I talked about on this podcast more than two a toungle by Lowa. I'm just such a believer in his game, and I think he showed

you why I felt that way this season. His ability to attack the whole field based on a snapshot of information, to be able to get information backside based upon his front side read and make decisions and have the release get the football out. Commiserate with that decision making. It's your your mind, your feet, your arm are all hardwired together. That is immense quarterback talent. And we're gonna touch on this more in a second here I'll circle back to that.

But the strides that he made with his eye discipline and the fact that the offense had progressions built in rather than just like hey, look at that. If it's not there, figure out yourself, like good luck. Um, that was cool. The downfield threat that was among the best in the NFL this year. The ability to make plays against pressure and mitigate free hitters or create with his pocket mobility, Like I feel like that's an overlooked part

of his game. Like people say, it's not mobile, and he's not like the fastest guy by any stretch, but he creates. I mean, his first two years in the league he had some of the best pressure evasion rates in the NFL. Again, he's not gonna burn you with like the you know, fifty yards scramble. He's not gonna get out on the move and throw a rope fifty yards downfield on the move. But he can still evade pressure and make plays against pressure, and that pocket mobility

is very good. And of course the accuracy to turn a fifteen yard complation versus the Packers into a chance for Wattle to open it up and run eighty four yards or the fifty nine yard or in Baltimore, or the sixty seven yard or in Buffalo, or that you get the freaking idea seventy five yards against the forty nine. Trent Surefield, I think we have a quarterback who has shown high, high level of play in terms of the

between the ear stuff. And you know, Mike McDaniel talks about it with two on the sidelines mid games when he doesn't have to. He's not doing that for the cameras or for the show. He's doing it because it's the truth. Do you think you know more about quarterback

play than Mike McDaniel, I don't. I take his word over mine, and I do this stuff a lot to It took a professional approach, put in the work and showed you he has what it takes to excel in the most important arena of the position, the processing, manipulation, application of all that stuff. And the best part about that is he's twenty four years old. It's only going to get better. We even saw growth with things within

the season, even within a game. McDaniel described the mistakes on the second interception of the ball all the more game and what he was able to do after that, I mean, five touchdown passes in the second most passing yards in a game this season in the entire National

Football League. And let's go ahead and circle back to the talent thing, because I've seen this in a few places, and I don't worry about fans that you know of fans don't understand the nuance that is football, and that's totally fine, Like it takes a lot to know this game.

But I also see it from people that cover the game, beat writers and you know, like, for instance, there as a beat writer in Houston was talking about he used to work for the Jets Beat and he was talking about TWA and Zach Wilson and said that Zach Wilson's more talented than to U. No, he's not. Like, Talent isn't just how far you can throw a football. Man, it drives me crazy. Talent is the things I just

talked about. Talent is what Kurt Warner broke down after the Baltimore game, and Josh McCowen broke it down, talked about his time with Kurt Warner in the same quarterback room and the ability to see things, to see them open up before they do, the processing, the application. That's talent, that's part of the quarterback position. Talent isn't just what's attached to your shoulder. It's everything. It's you know, and

even armed talent, like that's not just velocity. Armed talent is layering a football into you know, into a bucket, over coverage and underneath coverage at the same time, like the two hole the cover two hole. Armed talent is you know, mitigating a rusher and having your feet not aligned to your target and being able to drop your arm slot and throw a football accurately regardless of where that elbow is or where the release point is to what does all that stuff? Man, He's not going to

throw a fastball through your chest. But he's got immense arm talent in terms of the awkward platforms and the multi level of pitches you have to have in your bag to excel at this position in this league. So that's talent in and of itself. But also the other stime I mentioned, which really is what really Peter Griffin grinds my gears, Like, that's talent, man, It's not just about who can go out for a Pro day and throw the football. In short, it's like it drives me

absolutely nuts. So this is what very talented quarterback. There's a reason that everybody wanted a piece of him after

his college career before the hip injury. There's a reason why he played at a super high level for a super for the majority of the season, a super majority of the hells that mean, I don't know, man, Like I get on these tangents and rant and rave on these podcasts talking about this guy because I just feel like he is so unfairly covered by everybody else and it's held to a different standard that even you know, go watch somebody else play football, tell me what their

games look like like. Compare other quarterbacks to what toa does. And he all year long except for a bad stretch of games, which, by the way, just because you had four bad games or you know, it wasn't even that like in the four losses, I think two and a quarter of those games were bad by two the other game in three quarters was really really freaking good. In fact, that Buffalo tape on the road is one of the best quarterback tapes I've watched of a Miami Dolphins quarterback.

And I've been doing that since two thousand and twelve. You know, Ryan Tannehill's rookie year. It's not a high bar, but you get what I'm saying, Like, that was a great tape. And so you can't just discount a quarterback because he had three games you didn't like. You can't pick and choose that way, because I can give you any even more games that he was good. And so I just get really, I'm really annoyed by the discourse around this quarterback. I thought his performance this year would

end that I think it mostly has. And again, you know, Twitter's on a representation of real life. But I see some folks talking about it the durability. Not going to argue with you guys on that that's got to get its self corrected. But as far as the ability, it's really, really, really damn good. I say so. Mike McDaniel says, so

you should trust people like that. With Teddy Bridgewater, we heard Skyler talk about his presence a lot in terms of that veteran leadership that he provides and helping him understand the nuances of the offense and the league in general. I think when you talk about backup quarterbacks as a whole, as the football cactnes senti as it were, we tend to undervalue the well the value of the backup quarterbacks supporting the room in general, helping with cut ups. Hey

go get me their third long reel. How do they blitz uh, you know when we when we motioned this h back across the formation. How do they divert their coverages? How do they rotate their safeties? How do they make them hybrid and interchangeable? Explaining what he sees in terms of coverage decisions, communicating the offense in the way that's easiest for a player to digest and based on the way Skyler talked about Teddy this year, I think it's an invaluable trait. Miami has to find that again in

that backup position. Teddy did see the field, including you know, some up and down spots against the Vikings and Bengals. Uh didn't play. I think like you would hope from a player that you put that type of investment into. But I think his veteran presence was tangible in that way.

Then with Skylar Thompson about as much as you can ask him a seventh round rookie and his coach mentioned at the one press at one press or the challenge of getting the experience, uh, you know, as the number three guy, when the only rapture getting are the ones over in the indoor structure after practice. You know. I would think it's safe to say you can see a big jump from Skyler in terms of how he just understands the offense, understands the pro game and the speed

of the game. I hope so because that was, you know, something we needed when he stepped onto the field and it's your three quarterback, I don't expect, you know, a whole lot more than what you got but you need to take a big step in that area. And I think the way he works, the way he you know, perfects his craft, no doubt about it. He'll do that this offseason. When you asked me, let's go ahead and look at the numbers of the individuals here to a

Toungo by low up. We've been over the rankings, right. He was the top ten quarterback in virtually every category, top two, three and the ones that really indicate the level of individual performance right alongside you know, combinations of Alan Mahomes Borrow hurts. But for some reason when to A does it doesn't count. Fired up here man oh yards per attempt eight point nine. Let the NFL touchdown

interception ratio was three point one to five. I haven't had that at a quarterback since Dan Marino or did Chad Pennington do it into us and they I don't know, but a three to one touchdown interception ratio is pretty good. And you know three of those in the Packer game to drop touchdowns whatever uh yards per game two hundred and seventy two point nine, he was second NFL and e p A per drop back at point to four. That was behind only Mahomes. His five percent sack percentage

was also top ten. His pass rating of one oh five point i was tops in his total QBR at sixty eight point nine was third in the National Football League. Teddy Bridgewater had an eight point six y p A, so not a big drop off from Tuah, but his touchdown interception ratio was one. His yards per game was one thirty six point six, so over a hundred and

forty yards fewer than what we got with TWA. At quarterback, his ep A per dropback was in the negative, so it was either top two or you know, under thirty two. E p A per dropback sack percentage eight point one percent went up three percent without two, and they're passer rating eighty five point six total QBR forty seven point six. Skylert Thompson had five point one yards per attempt, a touchdown interception ratio of point thirty three one to three

seventy six year passing yards per game. His ep A prier dropback was way in the negative, five point four percent sack rate sixty two point to passer rating, and a twenty seven point one total QBR. What's going to be available out there, let's go ahead and take our first break and come back on the other side and do that. Next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We ended the first segment

they're talking about the quarterbacks. I want to get into the specialist here and segment number two after recover Championship weekend and with full blast and all that fun stuff again. One more football game left and then we dive all the way into Senior Bowl coverage that's gonna come your way on the next podcast here. I haven't quite nailed down what I'm gonna do exactly what Senior Bowl I'm

not going so we will figure that out. But let's go ahead and get back to the quarterback position here and talk about what's you know ahead in terms of the primer and probably the most intriguing talking about free agency here at quarterback uh and unique situations or team needs, not just on the Miami Dolphins but in the league

in general. The Dolphins need one of two things. Either better stability from their franchise quarterbacks, something you know two has proven with his ability the franchise quarterback just needs the former to make it so, and think two is much much, much better play when he's not out there. You can't control number one, you can control number two.

And the upshot here, since too remains on that rookie deal is you're still at a significant advantage in terms of your contemporaries across the league who have quarterbacks on their second or third deals or you know, non rookie contracts. Even if you pay your backup quarterback the most money in football. They tried that with Teddy Bridgewater just didn't work out. We can talk about Skyler in that role.

For me, it was just far too green, far too many mislayups, you know, things that we needed in that Buffalo game we didn't get. That's my first requirement for a backup quarterback. Hit the layoups, protect the football, and if you can play better defense and have a better running game, that's how you play the backup quarterback role. So really, we need to do those things better to support our backup quarterback in the event that you need him.

But for Skyler Thompson, like, let's see how he looks after an offseason of getting the offense down and having that kind of second nature language and see where he can take his game from there, because that element was it just really hum hamstrung explosive offense in those games. Now, what are the options? Like? There are? There are plenty. We know the top of the potential market is going to occur with trades, and we know Derek carrs on the move. We know Aaron Rodgers might be on the move?

Is it Hammer Jordan Love? I'd personally be far more inclined to spend draft capital on Jordan Love. Just not that crazy about putting premium picks and with a thirty nine year old player who holds his franchise hostage every offseason. Even then, you know this doesn't pertain to Miami. Like, don't get me wrong, I would love Jordan Love. A huge fan of his game. But he's gonna be a start somewhere next year, right being Greenberry, Green Bay or elsewhere.

It's not going to be here. But I would love to take him as a backup flyer and develop him further. That's I like his game a lot. The most glaringly obvious one is Jimmy Garoppolo, but that's going to depend on the other dominoes. I have a hard time seeing Jimmy g not catching on the carousel when the music stops this offseason for one of the three two gigs

out there, and the contract commisurate with that potential job. Now, if the dominoes fall in a way that he's without a starting job, then it makes a ton of sense to me to make him the I has paid number two quarterback in the NFL. That looks like yet again

another one year deal, probably seven eight million bucks. Maybe it's more for a guy like Garoppolo because of his familiarity in the system and just what you know he's going to get from Jimmy Garoppolo when he's healthy and when he's playing to possibly maybe parlay that for himself into one more big contract next year. Who knows. I think it happens for him this year, but beyond that,

nothing really concrete. And frankly, I know what you'all say, but the best non starter on this list in terms of anticipation, accuracy, maximizing you know, playmakers with his processing is Gardner Minshew. I saw that man take the six play call sheet of Mike Leech Rest in Peace and the Air Raid and just carved teams up with it in the Pack twelve and then go on to play. He played well at Jacksonville at Philadelphia. Every time he has an opportunity to play, he plays well. The Saints

game this year was bad. I thought he was good against the Cowboys, though. I think he's a great backup, and he also gives you that sort of Ryan Fitzpatrick lift where guys of him and and you are excited to play for him. The other one, I'm really intrigued by his Sam Donald. I do think he, like Garoppolo, will get a starting gig somewhere, but if not, he's not just good enough to give you some good playing

the penchion. There's plenty to not like about his game, like trust me, I get it, but there is some upside to his game, and there's an outside shot he continues his development in a way that he did this year. I thought his best ball as a pro into something more like I'm not banking on that, but it's an element that exists with him. They really doesn't come with

any of these other quarterbacks out there. In fact, I would say the guys that have the most like long term upside on this list that are not like well known names or I guess well established guys in the league are him and Gardner Minshew, Lamar Jackson's not going anywhere. Brady to the Raiders feels like it makes a lot of sense. I think Jimmy g winds up with the Jets personally, Daniel Jones gonna resound with the Giants, and

that's essentially it in terms of the potential starters. So I'm not gonna list those guys in my top tier here because I don't think any even makes sense for Miami. But I'll go with Andy Dalton, who's the top market value in terms of backups at seven million per year,

same amount we paid Teddy Bridgewater. He would be kind of that same level of veteran presence, and he can step in employ football at a high enough level to win games against like middle middl NG and bad teams if you lose your quarterback like the Dolphins against the Jets this year. I would even say the Vikings, although they won thirteen games, we could have won that game the Patriots late though, for instance, like all games, you probably could have won if you had Andy Dalton level

play at quarterback. The mid range guys Gardner, Minshew, and and look, I think he's better then the top two guys on this list. Personally, but in terms of market valume, what I think he'll get is in this mid range, and then Baker Mayfield is my other mid tier option. The bargains I just pulled a tune form Niners because you're not gonna get anything of value at the bargain level. At quarterback doesn't work that way. The only one guy plays at the time. C J. Beth and Nick Mullins

are on that list. Market value has Donald and Mayfield, and the five to six per range. Jimmy G's at thirty five million tells you what they think he's going next year. Then they've got Andy Dalton at seven million, the top guy on that list. So interesting in class. We'll see what happens. I expect Miami to to probably have to kick some tires here and see what happens

in the free agency market at quarterback. As far as the draft goes, I have long subscribed to the notion that most second and third round picks on quarterbacks are wasted. And don't tell me Travis Russell Wilson and Jalen Hurts. Yeah, to tell me the other hundred guys that were drafted in rounds two and three over the last decade that didn't work out. If the guy is in the franchise player, it's a waste because again, only one quarterback and play at a time. So you can't, you know, draft a

number three receiver, you know, a swing guard. You can't, you know, draft an interior defensive lineman who goes to a reduction oft like, it doesn't work. Either you're the percent playing or a zero percent of quarterback. And you know, the odds against guys hitting at that level in those rounds is very, very low. On top of the fact that we're nowhere in position to make any kind of move for one of the top quarterbacks, and we should in any way, you're as actually looking at day three.

So who are those Day three options? Well, let's first here start at the top. I love, love, love Anthony Richardson's game and talking about him since last year when I just saw him do a freaking backflip after running four fourties, like I thought that was really cool, and then he kind of showed you that the traits this year,

he's awfully green, has a long way to go. I think Will Levis is a lot better than folks are giving him credit four and I like the fact that he went through some s at Kentucky in terms of just getting beat up and not having the best surrounding talent around him. I think Bryce Young has a lot more question marks, and the consensus is telling you right now. I think c J. Stroud is the best passer in the class, but his limited mobility and just kind of I guess the way he plays the game. We'll see

if it works out in the pros. I like his game, but it needs to be the right situation for him,

as it is for all these quarterbacks. Should be a fun draft as a result, but I think the real prizes are coming in what are those Day three names that I'm looking at, To be perfectly honest, not that far into it, but I just in general or in terms of general college football, you know, observations this year, and honestly, man like I just I would go to the free agent route and keep developing Skylar because like all the guys that you typically get in this range

are the high volume guys that come from past heavy offenses, that you have like five or six years college experience, and you basically just see if they can continue that production at the next level. I'm just not about that life, So like you know, whether you're looking at you know, Clayton tune from Houston. Yeah, h Hendon Hooker. I guess this is a good developmental option, even though he's twenty five years old coming off from a C L bow Nick's Oregon. I don't know, man, I don't love it.

So yeah, go back to the free agency portion. Listen to that part again. Let's talk specialists here. Uh. Number four Thomas Moore stead forty six point four yards per punt. He had a net of forty and a half. These numbers were consistent all year long. H Forty five point nine percent rate inside the twenty yard line and just a three point three percent touchback. Thought he was very good this year. Jason Sanders, Joe Hailey. The six kicks this year seemed to really come in important times, and

just two of those were from under fifty yards. But eighty one point three p has to go up next year. P A t s forty one forty four Hey, forty four touchdowns not bad, right, but he's got a kick better next year. He knows that everyone knows that forty four Blake Ferguson, no Botch snaps. I know it's not an official stat but from memory, we didn't have any snaps that forced us to like, you know, a punter kick to not get off. But there were a lot of balls that kind of rolled into more steads. So

let's get those up next year. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there and come back on the other side and do Top ten celebrations from your twenty two Miami Dolphins season. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Top ten celebrations on a Monday from your twenty twenty to

Miami Dolphins season. We start here on Christmas Day with Jalen Waddle, who takes it all the way home home and celebrates with the only other person in the state of Florida who could have kept up with him on that day, Tyreek Hill Pressure found the hole for Jalen water, got a black got free water with the speed, takes it inside. The funny takes on down touchdown Mabby, any

lightning strikes Dolphins things you love to see this. One of the underrated aspects of Jalen's usual touchdown celebration to me was how he and Tyreek always did that like hands on the helmet across from one another embrace, he hits what the wattle. Tyreek runs over and they dap each other up before the rest of the guys to

the offensive line. Christian Wilkins eventually get out there. They did it here after the long touchdown run when Twa throws a dime under pressure, Wattle hits the heavy step and Tyreek's late block springs Wattle for the long touchdown. What a play, What a fun celebration to watch all year. But why no Wattle on Chris this day? Jalen, I don't know. I'm not gonna fault you. The big guy number nine. Get you some friends that gas you up the way Christian Wilkins gases up Zack Seiler, two best

friends that anybody could have. Celebrate the sack from Motown's own son Brown and Motion on third down and nine from the Lions. Thank god Seiler sailor with the sack. It was first of the year. He was playing a whale of a football game, Joe will of a football game, well of a season for Zach Seiler. A massive stop

by the defense amidst a fourth quarter shutout. Offense had just scored to take the lead for the first time all day, after the defense couldn't get off the field all day, and it's Zack Seiler coming through for a sack to put the lines behind the chains. On second down, he comes off the pile and there's Christian Wilkins jumping

on his back. And if you're a regular listener of the postgame show on five sixty with Me and Juice and Seth, Seth always refers to Zack as a gam gm, a grown ass man, And I think that's pretty well exhibited here by the fact that three pound Christian Wilkins jumps on his back and it only like makes him stumble off of his path, like not even noticeably, like he just basically absorbs it and keeps walking. Also, the touchdown celebration in Buffalo, I thought was my favorite one.

Get a little big spoon, little spoon action cuddling in the end zone after z actually was touchdown in Buffalo. Honorable mention for that one. There number seven, number eight, Rather, a gang of Dolphins arrives on the scene to pull down Cleveland quarterback j Koby Brissette, and we see one of Bradley Chubb's many patented celebrations for the first time in Aqua and Orange. Jillen Phillips, Melbourne Ingram. I like that radio call or TV call if you were unfamiliar

with Bradley Chubb before. Didn't get mentioned in the call there, but his dancing and celebrations are a close second to his ability to heat up opposing quarterbacks. Here, Chub, Phillips, and Ingram meet at the quarterback after a dominant day of pressuring, hitting and sacking Brissette. After this final one, Phillips and Chub hit the I don't know what it's called. I'm doing it right now, hit the studio like you put your arms in a circular motion, your hips orbit

in the opposite direction. What's that called? I don't know. But what I liked about it was the guys embracing their new teammate after the best pass rush day of the defense had all year and his second week there in Miami. First game in Miami as a Dolphin number seven, Raheem goes surfing in prime time hill and motion back to throw. It's a little bit of boaster clips. Bosters got the first of touchdown Miami. Boster don't talk if I go upon some time pulled up in the pocket

saw moll Stirt out there all open. Jimmy wasn't looking to run, he was looking for an open receiver and he got it. Most for the touchdown that of course was to us first touchdown after coming back from the

uh concussion. Suffered agains the Bengals and a beautiful drive to start that punctuated by two of scrambling and finding Raheem on the sideline and into the end zone, and then Raheem, Tyreek and Jalen all do the pop up in the end zone before catching a big wave that would have made Canuku in forgetting Sarah Marshall, Paul Rudd very very proud, and you're doing too much. Now you're

not doing anything. You're just boogie board. They're doing more than boogie board and they're surfing in the end zone. At hard Rock Stadium number six, Mike Gasicki introduces the world to his version of the gritty third down and fifteen fourteen naked Edmonds the running back to a back to throw plenty of time looking end zone, your sticky touchdown. He went high end of the year to pull that down. Mike Kasicki is first touchdown of the year. He threw that up high in the back of the end zone

and Mike Kasicki went up and got it. He sure did go up and get it. Two of the high back five throw Gasiki, the reach taps the feet, the ensuing gritty. That was a story all year long, doing it all over the field against the Vikings after the fact, then to close the year with it in the wild card playoff game in Buffalo. Good stuff, Mike good Stuff number five. Alec Ingold needs a divin repair. After spiking the grass to a close it down, I puts it

too outside and that is lands off touchdown. So Arch it's gonna be that kind of a day. Oh yeah, look at this ball handling to First of all, he takes a high step and then it just sort of ends. Just two weeks after Mike McDaniel praised his ability to punch the ball off the Ford Field turf and into the sky, alec Ingold gets another chance after a beautiful scrambled touchdown throw from Tua Good blocking up the sideline and a great lunge by the Miami fullback to find

the pylon. He springs to his feet and gets by my inexact science a solid fifteen feet of hang time off the bounce. Alec ingold elite blocker, great fullback, elite spiker of the football. Number four snow Angels in Miami. It's four picking second try force again and the safety Javon Holland chucking away. He's going around the field. Snow Angels in the snow for a snowman. Makes sense, right, But can a snowman do a snow angel? Apparently they can. Javon Holland jumps ay Kenny pick it past to Ford

a potential go ahead drive. He in the entire defense race to the opposite end zone to join the snowman for some snow angels or are they beach sand angels in South Florida? The jury remains out. Javon hallad number four, number three a cheetah flipping among a sleuth of bears. By the way, sleuth is a gathering of bears and learned that today for the podcast, Bell has it till the end zone text time, tyree kill. We just told you it's all been tildeted once in the rags of

all year. He just caught one right here up three wtch don reception set it day. The final ends with this flattered dolphense and a touchdown and a lead for the Dolphin. After the Bears bust of coverage and Tyreek is all alone in the corner of the end zone for an easy touchdown grab. He sprints across the end line and hits the back hand spring, finishing with a backflip. We saw all kinds of backflips this year from Tyreek, including that one that got the training camp crowd fired up,

juiced up, gassed up. I can't even talk right because of it. Tyreek brings a lot of hype with him and he delivers on it every step of the way, all the way to an AP Offensive Player of the Year finalist nomination for Tyreek Hill number two. The band is on the field. Only the band are the victorious three and Oh Miami Dolphins ticking getting up first day, both these teams getting everything and Moami is beaten Buffalo for the first time since the sumber of the You're

don right they have Kevin Harlan. You know a game is big when the entire team runs onto the field as the clock hitch triple zeros after a fourth quarter of long bills drives, both ending without points. The Dolphins entire sideline races out to greet a defense who played over ninety snaps and held the high powered Buffalo Bills to just nineteen total points en route to a three and oh start. What a moment. That was. What a moment. The last time I recalled the entire team running out

like that was the Miami Miracle. And for good reason. Number one, our very first wattle of season. They're going for it and a touchdowf for Waddle and waddle. J Waddle is right, Let's go, Jimmy, tell him about it. Two A drills, a fourth and a glance route to Waddle. After looking off the front side safety and coming back into that vacancy with an absolute dime, Waddle splits a trio of Pats defenders and races in for a forty two yard touchdown strike to give Miami a seventeen zip

opening day halftime lead over a lifeless Patriots offense. That was all they would need. The best part was the pan to the fans and the stands, all doing the waddle in tandem, just as Jalen hit his first of his sophomore campaign, a celebration we would see plenty more of throughout the year and without a doubt, the best

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blame you guys for this not taking accountability here. That's one of the funniest freaking as I've ever seen. I flew through the entire thing last week Elite elite comedy show Eric Andre Show on Hulu originally part of Adult Swim. What else I watched was the Casey Anthony documentary. Are you guys able to watch that? On peacock without like getting upset? I had to stop doing this several times.

I listened to Bill Burre a lot his podcast, and you know, he always says that he has to exit the room when his wife is watching Real Housewives because he just provides commentary and she gets mad at him. That happens to me a lot as well. I have to excuse myself because I can't handle not making commentary on the TV we watch. And with the Casey Anthony thing, I just kept saying, liar, your love, and my wife was like, hey, I get it, I know how you feel about it. Watch it yourself and tell me how

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