Dolphins Bills Week 2 Recap

to the Buffalo Bills. We're gonna unpack it, have a little bit of a therapy session, do the five takeaways. We'll hear from Brian Flores on the loss. Will also hear from o J mcduffee from part of our post game show, the Miami Dolphins Fifth Quarter Post Game Show on five six w q AM. We had some great conversations, kind of unpacked this thing for you guys, myself, Seth Levitt,

Oji McDuffie of the Fish Tank Podcast. We'll play some sound for you guys from O J from the post game show as we kind of worked our way through that and got through it together those two hours after the game. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. I want to jump right into the takeaways on this podcast. We'll keep it short and sweet for you guys and get you out of here with some optimism. Some frustration

vented out here on the podcast. But number one takeaway is trying to get the offensive line sorted in a way that can be more competitive than it was in the game on Sunday. Just not good enough up front, and we'll see what that looks like in terms of who plays where, who has some shuffling going on, whether

the injuries have an impact. We saw Jesse Davis leave the game at halftime after taking an ankle injury in this game, But it was his guy that came off that side of the formation and got to to and buried him into the ground that knocked him out of the game after just two possessions, after just four passes, one completion for thirteen yards from tah and he was under darrest from the word go. The first play of the game was a sack. The third play of the

game was a sack. And we'll talk about this a little bit later on with regards to how the Dolphin's offense approach, went to the Buffalo Bill's defensive approach, but getting to a Tungule Bylowa knocked out of the game and kind of disrupting what this offense is designed to do and really to be at TWA's controls and in terms of doing the things that he does well, that's just not something that can happen that early on in

the game. And it came from a rusher who came around clean and the one on one assignment and just got through the block and got to the quarterback and drove him into the turf and just knocked the wind out of him, I'm sure, but also caused a rib injury that would keep Toungo Byla out of the game for the entirety of that game. And you watched to a coming off the field or attempting to come off

the field after that injury. He went down to a knee, he popped back up, walks over a little bit, goes back down to a knee, and then we see him go over to the sideline on the car and he exits and would not return. Now. Tom Pelo Serro of the NFL Network tweeted out at the conclusion of the game, the X rays Onta's rib were negative and m R I coming on Monday to see just how that looks. Brian Flora spoke after the game to the South Florida media.

Let's hear from the Dolphin's head coach, number one source on Dolphins injuries. We're getting some tests run. I just asked, UM, don't know the severity of the the injury right now, but you're gonna run some tests tonight tomorrow morning hopefully have a little bit more information. So you hear from Brian Flora's there and post game, we had a chance to talk to o J McDuffie, one of the great benefits of having a former Miami Dolphins star on our post game show on five six w q AM and

ninete point nine Kiss Country. I had a chance to ask o J. You've played through injuries. You've played through you know, nix and bruises here and there. What is it like trying to come back from that injury and play a football game? Here's o J McDuffie bottom lines and nothing you can really do about it, you know, as as you there's no treatment. They're gonna do some some stem and some ice and trying to you know,

handle some information. It's it's a pain thing, you know, with the ribs, you know, not even if they're not fractured, so you can't breathe with with the rib situation, you know, and they're gonna try to protect it as much as possible. I mean, what can you do right there? I just feel back, you know, because if if he could have came back in this game, then it would tell you

how severe the injury is. I think the pain's gonna get worse because when you get it during the game, it's more adrenaline and you're sorry, you're good to go. But by the time he goes to lay down tonight, you know it's gonna be it's gonna get hell. Man, it really is. Man. Then the breathing part of it's

one of the worst things you can do. Um. You know, I was talking a little bit, you know, I've had some injuries where it's so much pain that you feel like almost a heartbeating there, and self was talking about it during the break something that JT went through. Man, it's some of these injuries, especially those like like that, they're they're tough to deal with and people just don't

get as all it's just the ribs. You can cover it up, get banged in your ribs, get a broken rib, broken car leads, and then try to breathe, walking up and down your steps and see how how how little pain there is. I can still write a press release, you know if my ribs off. But here, so here's a question, though, does it matter what side of the body of you know, as the left handed quarterback. Do you think it matters what side of the body it's on? Or rib injuries, a rib injury and that, you know,

you know, it's kind of funny, just curious. Well, I know that's a that's a great point because honestly, I mean, you think about it. If you're defensive guy, I might come, I might come blitz from the rib side, you know what I mean. You don't want to hit him on this side and see how much alt much he can

take of it. You know, it really doesn't matter because I think more than anything is to breathe, because you're everything's gonna expand and uh, you know, and we just talked about it with you know, just a second ago. Even sleeping becomes a problem. Breathing can walking becomes a problem with many comes of ribs man and so um, you know, I just hope that X rays have already come back negad and hope them a right doesn't show anything bad. But bottom line is it's gonna be painful

a long time. So that you have a duffy talking about pain management and pain tolerance. And we know how tough of a kid too is as you heard Brian Flowers mentioned at the top of the press conference there as well. So we'll see how that goes to out the course of the week. We'll update you guys here on Drive Time on Twitter and the like. I can get you the latest on Dolphins quarterback to a Toungo by Loo, who exits this game with an injury after taking a strong hit on a fourth down in completion

on Miami second possession. He also had taken two sacks prior to that in the game, So Dolphins pass protection not great in this game, causing some consternation. Puts Jacoby Brissett into the game, and he of course would finish it as the Dolphins get shut out at home to

the Buffalo Bills. Now, to further this point, we also talked about some of the gramifications this result might have on the game, and you know, this team is very much regimented by the day to day and you put in what you get in what you put out each and every day by you know, stacking up blocks and stacking up wins and putting in good day after a good day, and eventually you're good. Process will give you

good results. But with regards to the offensive line, we've now seen two different offensive line combinations, and last week in New England it was pretty good. The Patriots didn't really pressure a whole lot as far as sending extra rushers. They got some pressure with those three and four man looks, but they did not send the house at Tungo by lower the way the Bills did against both he and

Jacoby Brissette. And whether it was Matt Mlano coming clean up the middle and and good on Miles gasking for some of the past protection reps. He had to step up and get his face and the fan and take on a very tough assignment. But then he would fill that area and defensive back would rush off the edge, and you've got guys coming clean off the edge, or you've got guys winning one on ones by by getting

the tackles armed down and ripping around that way. Both Davis and Jackson and even Eichenberg where he came in, had some moments where they had their hands knocked down immediately and the Bill's pass musters were able to corner and get in on the quarterback. But as far as that right side of the offensive line and two had taken that hit, that's the big takeaway from this game

right here. I think you find a way to try to solidify that part of the offensive line, whether it's some shuffle, whether it's you know, putting extra guys into block, whatever the case may be. I think you need to find a way to get better protection off that side because the way it went for two of those first two series, that's just not going to be sustainable for

this team if he's under pressure or drest that much. Now, my other point here in this first takeaway is that the way the team is constructed with this offense, and we've seen it absolutely hummed during training camp, during the preseason, and during a few drives last week against the Patriots, with the quick game and the ball out of two, his hands quickly and his ability to mitigate pressure to get off of his spot and have that quick twitch to find a new spot in the pocket to make

Hay where he can. And this is something that that Ojan McDuffie talked about post game again. You know, we we had a TV on in our conference room that we were doing the postgame radio show from and the Titans and Seahawks were on and Tannehill took a drap back and was kind of stationarying the pocket and got blasted.

Ball comes out, Seahawks recover, score a touchdown, and he talked about how if you're standing back in the pocket in that particular spot and the rush is getting in or the coverage is holding up to where you're just gonna stand there for two or three beats, you better find a new spot in the pocket because that pocket is not going to become available to you when guys

do uncover. And that's why I think two A does so well to kind of have the feet under him to you know, on the balls of his feet and dancing around or the toes of his feet rather and dancing around and finding new spots to to be a threatening position. As far as how to attack the defense, I think that the offense is built around two was ability to do that around the quick release and around

the ball, just coming out fast by design. And I think when you saw that shift happen, typically in that situation, it can be more challenging for the defense to deal with a quarterback that they're not they're gonna prepare for Jacoby brit obviously in this in case this happens, but a quarterback that you're not necessarily as ready for as

you were the QB one. I think in this instance it might have had a bit of a reverse effect where the Dolphins are like, we have to come now and basically scrap that game plan after two series and go to a new game plan to fit this quarterback. And you saw early on with some of the heavy packages in terms of bigger receivers, you know, DeVante Parker and Preston Williams on the field in your twelve personnel packages, and that's what you had last year at certain times

with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. So ideally you have two of back, you have some of these speed guys, the burners, the guys that can make plays on the outside, and hopefully we'll get a chance to see that all come together here very soon, because through two weeks it has not so the overall takeaway offensively, just get right, hopefully get the best guys onto the field and go from there.

Hopefully we get that here in week number three. Takeaway number two is the defeat defensive approach has actually was sound in this game. They I thought early in this game, and you know, the Bill scored their first two possessions. You let a big run out the gate for forty six yards for Devin Singletary, which you know that's that's

a problem that can't happen. And on that particular play you had Jerome Baker and Brandon Jones is kind of the stack linebackers in that particular assignment or in that particular alignment, and Brandon Jones kind of got caught on the block and that run when out his gate, and Jerome Baker couldn't get over the top of his block to get over there to make that thing happen. And then also Adam Butler kind of got sealed off on

the inside to open up that big gap. And then Jason McQuary, the single high safety, just couldn't get over the top in time to stop that run from going all the way in. So you get that play and then you get a fantastic from Josh Allen. After Emmanuel Ogba gets pressure in his face, he does what he does. He pump fakes, gets a ball off the ground, rolls to his right and then find Stefon Diggs all the way on the opposite side of the field in the end zone and you see Xaviing Howard shoe laying there.

So X had blanketed Exhabing or X had blanket rather Stefon Digs on that play. But because of Alan's ability to extend the play and make a play, they got some points. And that's to me what the game plan was. See how often Josh Allen can do that, Because as good as he was last year, and he did it every freaking game everything single play, it seemed like he was doing that, but today he didn't. And the Dolphins defensive structure, the Dolphins defensive plan in that regard, I

thought was very strong. There was instances where they're asking Josh Allen to hit the whole shot up the far hash and a cover two type looker. It might not have been covered too, but you have an over the top defender and underneath defender. There's plays where you have man on man coverage against xaviing Howard throwing a back shoulder coming back down the curl the stem on a crow route and you have to hit that throw and

the balls are going high. They're getting in position where Dolphins defenders can make plays on it and get p bus. We saw x have some of that, We saw Byron Jones have some of that. We saw some of the safeties have some hands on footballs. So I thought the plan to really kind of rush for and they did get pressure to move Alan off of his spot and

then he had to make plays off of that. I thought in general that first half they did a great job of making him make that big throw, and he did it a couple of times, but not as much as he did last season, and that to me was a big win in that first half. So they have nine possessions and they score fourteen points seven straight possessions. No points there for the Buffalo Bills in that first half.

So the defensive structure early on played in a way that gave the offense a chance to take advantage of all those possessions. They got long game right, and the offense just didn't do it. So defensively I thought was very good. The first run was problematic out the gate for forty six yard touchdown, but in general or in total, fourteen yards on sixty four plays four point nine yards per play. That's not like blowout thirty five point lost

crazy numbers. Usually that plays that numbers like in the sevens or eights when you have these big discrepancies, but just trying to make them make the extraordinary play to beat you, I thought was the game plan I thought was executed in that first half, and things kind of came undone in the second half. And you can challenge whether or not that's a function of the weight of that game and the way it had gone so far

starting to wear on you. I mean, eventually the levy is going to break, and I think it kind of did to open the third quarter their Miami's defense that they allowed to drive to go down for a touchdown there. But there were so many instances where they got pressure with four and forced Alan to to throw off platform, and there was a situation where Exaving Howard even bated Josh Allen to a throw and damn near got his

second pick. We did see him get the one pick where he makes the play he makes time and time again to undercut, undercut a crossing pattern and the catches this guy makes, it's like better than receivers can can make catches. It's sensational the way he makes plays. But to undercut that over route on Stefon Diggs get himself a pick and to set the Dolphins up in scoring

position to the twenty four yard line. Man, xaviing Howard, you can do a lot of stuff with him in terms of how you kind of funnel this defense around what he does well. And what he does well is takes guys out of the games and gets his hands in the football and takes the damn ball away. He's done it now and back to back weeks to open the season. So defensively, I thought xaviing Howard was fantastic

again and the Dolphins in general Josh Allen. If I told you before the game that Josh Allen would go seventeen for thirty three with a hundred and seventy nine yards, two touchdowns and a pick and a passer rating a seventy five point nine, you would tell me, Travis, the Dolphins are two note today because that's what I would have thought as well. It just didn't go down that way. But again xaviing Howard, I think is the way this defense kind of works around him as the impressive part.

In the part you can take away from this defensive performance and kind of hang your hat on it because before and I hate to use the term garbage time because I don't feel like there's ever garbage time in this league, but a throw late in the game with the final result probably are dy in hand. Stefon Diggs makes a forty one yard catch, but before that he had three for nineteen on saving Howard and a pick and a touchdown too, but he finishes with four for sixty.

Emmanuel Sanders, with a second leading receiver on the team with forty eight receiving yards, Josh Allen only rushes for thirty five yards in the game. Their top back had eighty two yards. It just wasn't a bad day for the defense in total. The result is not what you want, but it's tough to keep going out there and getting stops after being put in tough spots time and time again. So we'll take away number two defense structurally sound execution early on after the first two drives sound and then

things kind of unraveled from there. Takeaway number three, and we had this discussion on the post game show with Seth Levitt and I loved the point Seth made here and my takeaways that I was telling Seth about this as we walked over to the conference room to film to record the post game show, was is this Dolphins team just not ready for this big time opponent yet? We when we saw them play the Chiefs tight last year and then the Buffalo game weeks sevent, team didn't

go their way. This is a chance to kind of change the perception, and not that there's a negative perception around the Dolphins team, but change the overall perception to say, wow, that, okay, Dolphins are here and they came up short and that's been something you've kind of become accustomed to as a fan a little too often over the recent years. And are they just not ready to take on this kind

of game? That's the big takeaway, right Seth Levitt said, No, it's not because I didn't feel in any particular area of the field except for one and we'll come back to that, that Miami was outmatched talent wise, Like there was no just overwhelming bludgeoning of this game that made you say they don't belong on the same field, and I'm gonna tell you why, because well, DeVante Parker has made a career of high pointing footballs and making contested

catches over Nobody had more contested catches in the NFL than DeVante Parker. Albert Wilson had a drop pass on a third and five I think it was that would have put Miami inside the five yard by with the first and goal. If not scoring a touchdown on that particular play. Drops that pass, they wind up having to go for it on fourth down and they fail. Might have been fourth and two, actually, now that I think about it. And they also had another drop past later

on in this game. How about Jachem Grant's fumble right short of the sticks on third and five? That was a third and five. I think he fumbles after it would have been probably fourth and inches, And given Brian flores his comments earlier this week about being aggressive and the calls they had made, it at that point in the game already tells you they probably go forth there and fourth and inches. Jacoby Brissette sneaking the ball has

been pretty effective that way. That's a missed opportunity. Jalen Waddle drops a swing pass. That's I mean the balls on his outside shoulder, outside hip, and it's gotta be better location than that. But he also has to catch that past two. That's just uncharacteristic muffing the punt to put the Dolphins in position to make up to make

a drive. At the end of the half, after Miami's defense gets another stop and forces Buffalo to punt to the entire field, he has a punt return opportunity after Jachem Grant left with an injury to make a return from his own forty two yard line, and he must a punt and it goes back over to Buffalo, where you had thirty seconds to make a drive happen and get points on the board. Didn't happen. So the reason

I'm telling you about all these misques and misfires. How about a season high nine penalties or I think high in Brian fess tenure, nine penalties for eighty three yards. What I'm telling you is that these are all uncharacteristic traits of what this Miami Dolphins team has come to be over the last two plus years under Brian Flores.

I mean the pressure all over the place, not picking up the additional blitzers, the defensive backs getting home early with their blitz is, the off target balls, the drop passes, the penalties, just everything that could go wrong went wrong, and I don't think that's indicative of who this team is. Sometimes games play out like this. We talked about it last week, like, hey, the result was all that mattered,

The win was all that mattered. We got the win out of New England, will go home with it, will be happy with it, will make corrections and move on. And that's a great mentality to have. But I think you also have to have the same mentality when a game like this occurs. Because we saw the Packers in their Week one game, a team that was basically, you know, ticketed for a deep postseason run once again as they've been the last two years, they got blown out. It

just sometimes it happens. I'm not trying to excuse it to say this team will bounce right back and win every game the rest of the way, but it's just not the end all, be all, And so I think that that's kind of the ten thousand foot view in terms of it sucked. It went bad, Everything went bad. But I don't think you can say this is who this team is because of those things, those mistakes that are so uncharacteristic because they occurred that way. Now, Brian Flores,

he's not gonna want to hear any of that. Let's go ahead and go to coach Flora's about why this game got out of hand the way it did. Uh, I mean we didn't play well in any area. Um, well beat ourselves. No penalties, drop drop passes, mis tackles. Um. You know that starts with me. I gotta do a better job. I gotta do a bead job of getting us ready to go. Um, that wasn't the case today. And um, you know, give Buffalo credit, they're a good team.

They played well in all three phases. We we need to we need to do a much better job from an execution standpoint, um, and give ourselves an opportunity to be in the game, which you know I thought, you know early week, we we we missed, missed a lot

of opportunities. So that's that's the point right there. I want to make just the fact that execution was standing between Miami and being close in this game at halftime, going into the second half and really competing against the Buffalo team with your backup quarterback no less and staying competitive in that game. So again, mistakes I don't think are indicative of a bad football team. But this week they were a bad team. Let's just call it what it is. And the hallmark of Brian Flores is I

don't think that. And part of my French for this, I don't think that ship happens back to back weeks. They have to go out there and prove that it doesn't, but I don't think it does from my perspective. Like looking at this team from the perspective I have, I don't see them going out and doing that back to back weeks. We will see if it happens. If it does, that's another conversation. But as far as what Brian Flores and this coaching staff in this organization represents, I don't

think it does. Takeaway number four, twenty four consecutive games with a takeaway. We talked about xaviing Howard not getting the first one, but he did come back and make another play later in the game. He and Jerome Baker forced takeaways. In this game's mind, he gets a couple of those on the board after you know, straight games coming in. We get it early on in this game set the offense up and scoring position with two more takeaway. So good on Miami for continuing one of the most

impressive streaks in the NFL. The next closest streak I believe is nine games by the Dallas Cowboys twenty four straight games. Dolphins have a takeaway takeaway number five. I think Sam eeg Van is quite a fine at this point. He had two more pressures to get the Bill's offense off the field. After that Jacoby Brissette I n T where he tried the whole shot to Mike Kisiki, and man, he is just a slippery rusher who can exploit gaps. He has great speed off the football explosion in that

first step. He can get skinny through those gaps and just he gets to the quarterback. And you don't often see him bouncing off guys in a way that would suggest that he's not effective as attack or as a blitzer, and just as a pressure guy in general. So I think you look at this roster and you continue to talk about the resources they've used or the guys they

have in place and how they got here. There are so many guys like Sam eg Van who just continue to make plays and show up in a position where they were not acquired with a high capital resource, and they show up here, they make plays, they earn themselves the right to play significant down for the Dolphins football team. And eg Von another one of those guys that continues to show up in that way. So those last two there, you know, kind of some silver linings for your Miami Dolphins.

And at zo defeat at the hands of the Buffalo Bills, we get that team again Halloween here coming up in a few weeks, but that's a long way down the line. Next week will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Um, I'm looking forward to that game Buffalo. And this was a tough one obviously, and the Dolphins had their chances, like Brian Floores mentioned, but you just have to execute. If you make that many mistakes against a bad team, you're

gonna lose football games. You make that many mistakes against a good football team like Buffalo, you're gonna get blown out. And that's what happened today. I don't want to excuse it anym or because it sucked. It sucked to sit there and watch it. It It stuck to do a postgame show and talk about it. It It sucks doing this talking

to you guys. You know, after a big, a big loss like that, I wanted to come on this podcast and praise a two and oh start and talk about how great it is to be too no En Division with wins over those tough, tough football teams in New England and with the Buffalo Bills. But it didn't happen. And as Brian Flores said, their credit Buffalo, they I

thought they played a great game. I thought early on their ability to squat on some of the quick passes, like we saw it on the very first snap of the game, to A fakes the handoff and looks over to Parker for a quick slamp, and they were playing that route, they jumped it, they were in position to affect the passing lines. So much of the point that to A said, I'm not throwing that ball. I can't

do it because it's it's not open. So I think you look at that and you try to develop a vertical option off that, some more stretch options off of that. And again the things that TOA does well with a quick twitch, his inclusion back into the offense I think can have a big boost for this offense going into

the two, Week three hopefully and beyond that. But today just not good enough in this game with that regard, and and they gotta find a way to adjust and make plays off that and get this offense up to speed. Because so far defense through two games, I think they've done their part. The offense has has been a bit of a challenge so far, and we'll see if they can click here going into week number three and beyond.

But so far offense just hasn't been good enough, and we'll see if they can they can pick up the slack and join the defense and special teams in being better that way. A couple of individuals I want to go ahead and highlight. I thought Jalen Waddle, despite the drop and the muff, you know, every time you see him kind of be involved as a focal point in the offense. To me, he looks like one of the best guys on the field, and I thought we saw

some more of that today. The speed, the burst, the wiggle, the hands, everything. I just continue to be impressed by him. He finishes the game with just six catches for forty eight yards, but still he's a guy that I think is going to wind up popping for this Dolphins offense. I thought Mike gat sick. He had a stretch there with three catches for forty one yards. I believe it was where he was almost uncoverable, finding ways to get soft spots against that Bill's defense and working off man

coverage at times. I thought he had a good showing there early on in that game. Obviously, Xavian Howard has a big, big day, interception, some ball production. They're doing a good job on s to Fawon Diggs, thought Byron Jones. If you're gonna credit you know, Stefon Diggs for having a kind of small yardage day. Byron Jones pretty much gave up one big catch and that was it. Had a couple of pass breakups, had his hand on some footballs.

He continues to me to do a great job getting out the outside of the shoulder, outside of the outside shoulder of his receiver on wide runs to funnel things back inside. Got his hands on the football today for a near interception, but wind up batting that thing down. But another good day from Byron Jones. I thought Javon Holland really continues to show you what he can do. Had a fumble recovery, had a QB hit in this game. I think we're gonna see more and more of Javon

Holland going forward. But as far as the individual marriage there, besides the guys in the takeaways, that's pretty much it. We're gonna go ahead and put a bow on this thing. Not the best performance. Offensive line has to get better. Offense in general has to get better. Gotta stop dropping passes for your penalties, Gotta gotta find ways to create space in the running game, and gotta do better and pass protection across the board, and the quarterback's gotta be

better everything offensively obviously, it has to be better. The final stats in this game it's ugly, So go ahead and bear with those. One first downs to thirteen. Miami were eight for eighteen on third downs, the Buffalo Bills seven for thirteen. Dolphins were over four on fourth downs. That's a lot of fourth down conversion attempts to not

convert any of them. That's a big play in the game, right there, A big, big stat in the game, I should say, And you know, Miami in that first half, after allowing just fourteen points, you have a drive start at the plus twenty four yard line. After the exhabiing Howard interception. You have another drive start at the minus forty two yard line after the fumble takeaway there for the offense, and both those drives result in no points.

You have a punt late at the end of the first half, with about thirty seconds to go, where Waddle receives the punt at the forty two yard line and loses it right there. So that's three drives where one drive you're already in scoring range. Two drives your two first downs away from being in scoring range. So if that games fourteen to nine, going into the break at like worst case scenario, you think maybe maybe the outcomes different. I don't know, it's it's if if if butts and

candy and nuts and all that fun stuff. But it just it didn't feel like Miami was just getting ran rough shot up and down the field, like they had their chances, they just did not execute them, like Brian Flores said. So back to the status here, three fourteen total yards to to seventeen, Buffalo out past Miami just one seventy one to six. Rushing was significant more than double us up one to seventy one. Miami had seventy plays to Buffalo sixty four and turnovers to Miami had three,

Buffalo had two. Dolphins were sacked six times to Buffaloes one. That was the big difference in the game for my money. And then penalties nine for eighty three, so uncharacteristic six for fifty three. For Buffalo time of possession, Miami had thirty one thirty four, Buffalo twenty six. So those are your final stats from the game. Around the league, I mean, the scoreboard looks interesting right now. I'm recording this as

the Titans and Seahawks are in overtime. Titans are trying to put together a drive right now, but the Chargers go down. That's an a f C foe that falls to one and one afflo to the Cowboys. The Steelers fault to one and one. The Raiders, our opponent next week, are two and oh two. Big wins for that Raiders club. We're gonna get a good shot at them next week. They are a tough, tough football team. Right now, the brown has improved a one on one by beating Houston,

who falls to one and one. What else around the A s C. The Colts fall to o and two and the Patriots pickoff Zach Wilson four times six in that game. Man, they were coming after him defensively. His final stat line nineteam for thirty yards, four picks, four sacks. That Patriots defense looks legit to kind of round out last week's performance, giving you some more evidence to kind of compare how the offense did last week up in Foxboro.

So that's about it. One on one after this game, let's go ahead and play the opening segment from the post game show on five six w q AM, the Miami Dolphins Fifth Quarter Post Game Show with me, Travis Wingfield, Seth levitt O, Jim McDuffie from the fish Tank Podcast on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. Let's go ahead and roll that after we do our outrow here and close this thing up, Caroline, Daddy is coming home. Until next time.

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after this What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the fifth quarter post game Show on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network. I'm here with Seth Levitt, oh J McDuffie, I am Travis Winfield, and guys, the good news is this team is in position to play a big game at hard Rock Stadium here in week number two. But the bad news is, well, it started basically from the word go juice. Yeah, it was awful from the beginning, three and out, two sacks, giving up long play, big run for the you know

to play touchdown right after that. But they have an opportunity to have you know, go up you know too and O home game is Buffalo Bills and go out there and just literally laying egg offensively, defensively, special teams. It's it's it's it's unbelievable that that's what happened today. Buffalo. We knew they were better than what they showed last week,

and we weren't up for the task. They were hungry, hungry than we were, and obviously on all phases of the game, they went out there and showed him man. So it was disappointing, especially when your team looking at an opportunity to go two and oh, you know, two wins in the division. Some of the hardest things we've ever had to do with our team, and to go out there and not even you know what, not even

show up jobs, you know, Seth. Last week, the theme of our show after the Patriots victory was that, as ugly as it might have been at times, you come away with a road divisional victory, you want to know, a top the a f C. East. You're feeling great about that fact. Now you have a chance this week to get the style points and get another victory in division and really take I guess the perception of this team to another level. That obviously did not happen today.

But I think the biggest news of the day with the Dolphins quarterback Seth in Paris Pella Sero from NFL Network says that X rays on Toa's rib are negative. He's in a lot of pain. He'll have an m r I on Monday. But what's your take away from losing starting quarterback on the second drive of the game, Seth, Well, well, yeah, it's a great point, Travis. I mean look, this was

ugly and ugly early. And uh, that's what's gonna sit with fans as they're driving home here or turning the TV off and trying to figure out what they want to have for dinner because they've lost their appetite. But to lose your quarterback, uh, And so you know, justice, you know this one's there. You want to burn the tape and move on to next week and let's focus on on Las Vegas. But when you don't have your starting quarterback, you don't know if you're gonna have your

starting quarterback. And it's not just any player on the roster, right, it's it's it's to uh, it's a starting quarterback. You've gotta figure out what your offense is gonna look like and when the loss is going to sting beyond Sunday,

that potentially could be problematic. And so that that is a concern O J. Sometimes you know, you bring the backup quarterback off the bench and it can kind of surprise the opposing defense in a way where they don't have tape or they don't have preparation for that particular quarterback, at least not to the extension with a starting quarterback.

But in this game. It almost felt like it was more of a shock in the Dolphins system because this offensive system is built a round a specific skill set of two, a tongue of byaloa Jacoby Brissette comes off the bench and they just look stuck in the mud all day long. Yeah, it really was, man. You know, we we try to keep it quick, keep it simple, get it to our skill guys, uh, you know, early and often, and let them do things. And I think that was the biggest thing. Let's let's let's let's talk

about a little bit why it didn't work out. You know, you talk about what we do for two, but the game plan is the same. They don't have two game plans. You don't have all that time all week to put it in two different game plans. So no matter what, Jacobe has to go out there and run that same game plan. Now when it when that happens, it becomes on the skill guys to be able to execute it. Our skill guys were terrible today. I'll be let's be

a one hundred with it. Fumbles, dropped passes, not getting open. There were so many things that did not help our quarterbacks out. Not to mention we'll talk about some more later. And so I'm sure the offensive line not giving opportunities either. So, I mean it was a horrendous offensive day. I think the defense settled in after a couple of touchdowns, but down two scores mean better in right, But offense was was absolutely garbage. Whatever that game plan was, our co

offensive coordinators, rip it up and burn it. Don't use it again. He said, burn it. So if that is a concern though, right, Look, sometimes in games like this you start to see late in the game. I don't want to say guys check out, but you start to see more of those mishaps, more of those drops. Concentration

is lost a little bit. But we were dropping balls and critical critical uh times of this game early early, and guys who you're not used to seeing that happen from So, I don't you know what do you attribute that to? Yeah, it's so funny, man, because things like that do become contagious. It's it's amazing how the trickle down effect. One guy does it, the next guy does it. Now guys start pressing like, oh, I can't drop one, guy,

just drop one. Now, I can't drop one, you know, I can't put it in the ground, you know, and then and it's it's amazing, especially when it comes to professional athletes. You know, you think that young guys, you know, in high school or college, they go through that, but when you get to this level, you've got to be the guy that stops the bleeding. You know, there was nobody out there to trying to stop the bleeding, make

a big catch, make one in traffic. You know, defense made a few plays, gave offense opportunity to get back on track, and we still couldn't do it as an offense. You know, defense gave up what they gave up. You know, they helped Josh Allen and check for the first half and ended up, you know, ended up being what it was at the end. But they gave offense opportunities and some short fields and they just had nobody that stepped up and made something happen for him. Man. And that's

that's that's frustrating. I always talk about it. Man. When I was playing, when our offense was so bad and our defense was so good, I just come off the field like I need. I wanted to go to the long way to get away from the j t s and the Zacks. You know what I mean, all those guys and Sam's and pass their own defense doing so well, you know, and giving us opportunities and we couldn't do anything.

That's how it felt in this game today, where the defense was trying to make it happen, making plays, a couple of takeaways, give them short fields and the offense to turn around and turn it back over or you know, three an hour quick converted fourth down. It's it's pretty bad.

Is this one of those instances where maybe the Buffalo Bills are kind of in the Dolphin's head in terms of that big brother like you have to get over the hump type of thing, because I think sets before we came on the air, this is this is not a very Brian Flores characteristic performance out of this Miami Dolphins team. With the misques, the drops of penalties, the blowing protection assignments. I mean, it was just everything on top of each other. O. J mentioned there you contain

Josh Allen. I think in the first half he was something like six or fifteen for seventy yards and a touchdown in a pick and like a sub sixty passer rating. This is a guy against the Dolphins and his career has been over one ten the passer writing every single game he plays them with a bunch of rushing yards mixed in, so juice? Is there an element of big brother kind of comes to town? A couple of things go wrong and you start to let that kind of cascade in your mind and you can't get over like,

is there a mental hurl here with this Buffalo Bills team? Man, it's so hard to I'm starting to get that. But it's a week two yeah, year, you know what I mean, this year before that. It's not just you know this week two, it's it's been it's to the last three games. Yeah. Seen this guy now, I think what is he? He's five and one, six and one against us right now as a starting quarterback. So it's not just you know

week one or week two, big seth. I think it's the fact that you know, this dude is coming in here and he's he's beat us up there, he's beating us down here. So yeah, we are a little brother of them right now, and they are the creaming of crops in a FC east and one of creaming the crops in a f C maybe in the league, but so yeah, I mean, I yeah, but is that going through. So you've been in that offensive huddle on that field,

on that grass. Is that going through your head on the second drive if you're an offensive lineman trying to protect your quarterback or is that going through here? Are Are you thinking about Josh Allen's success against this team historically when there's an opportunity to catch the ball and make a big first down or score a touchdown in the end zone? Is that going through your head? Well? As an offensive line. They don't think anything about Josh Allen,

That's what I'm saying. But what they're thinking about is how they just got their their quarterback crushed, you know, you know, three and out with two sacks. That's that's their biggest issue right there. They don't think about that, but they are thinking about us, how that front four and maybe a fifth guys coming at him and making it impossible for them to make you know, anything happened for us. You know, I was. I was shocked at how bad the offensive line played today. Yeah, I really was.

Man getting Atin Jackson back, take that pride that you see the offensive alignment take and their leader, man Josh Allen, he had zero pressure. You had a couple of opportunities. You know, we could have got at him. He got out of there, but they gave opportunities to throw the ball. Man when they're gonna take pride in protecting their the number one on the football team was the quarterback, and Jacoby came and had the same issues with him on

the play that he got hurt. We talked about it before he came on the air here that it was a second, maybe a second and a half having the football in his hands and then boom, he's planted and right away the ground. And you saw him come off the field. He went to a knee, got back up and went back to a knee, comes over to the sideline, goes down to the knee again, and then you see

him getting loaded onto the cart. And man, I was I was kind of having flashbacks to his time at Tuscaloosa there when he got taken off the cart with a very significant injury. But again, the good news out of the NFL network reporting is that it's just a bruise rib at this point, X rays negative m R I on Monday. If this team doesn't have two a ton of Baloa next week going in to Las Vegas. I mean Jacoby bursts a really good backup to come off the bench and maybe in a pinch gets you

a W in a tight game. That was not today his game obviously, but it would be in a tight game he can kind of keep the ball close to the vest and play play smart, sound game manager style of quarterback. But when you have to put up points on the Buffalo Bill's defense, you know it's just not gonna happen that way. And then next week to Las Vegas that offense can score two, So hopefully two was

back next week. Right said, well, absolutely, but but I would also challenge that a little bit, Travis, because to Jacoby's credit, look he threw the interception, he floated the ball out there to took a sicky there, probably had a lot more to air under it than than needed to be bad decision right there, but period, if if it has zipped it or with the air, that's that. And Buffalo reacted to the design too, because you had

Jalen Waddle kind of take that defender off. Then they wanted to rowk Asiki behind it, and he tried to shoot that and it was like kind of a turkey whole shot, right o. J where the cover two but he put way too much air under like you mentioned, sure, but then he also put this team in a position to score multiple times. The anger of that half and the thing that you just can't do, particularly against a team that has had your number, is you can't miss

scoring opportunity after scoring opportunity. You can't get inside the red zone. There were three opportunities to score, and you had the fumble, you had an interception, Uh, you go for it on fourth down. But I just wanted to put that out there, is that Jacoby Brissette did move this offense. He moved it between the twenties, and he put the team in a position or he helped put the team in a position to score. But they did

not come away with points. And that's just not gonna work against his Buffalo Bills team.