Dolphins Colts Week 4 Recap

We'll get to the five takeaways we're gonna hear from Brian Flores in his postgame press conference. I thought he had a lot of good stuff to say in that press conference. And we'll also play a postgame show segment for you guys with myself, Seth and o J from right after this game, all on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist

Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. We're gonna play this quickly today, guys, because I know there's not

a lot you want to hear about right now. We're gonna talk about this game critically here, and I want to jump into the five takeaways right off the bat, and the first one has to be the offensive struggles, or really, let's go ahead and call it what it is, the ineptitude of the offense total yards, inability to convert short yardage, missed downfield opportunities, offensive line and protection issues from the quarterback, running back, receivers, drop passes, muffing punts,

everything you could want to go wrong. Through the first four games of the season for the offense, it's just not been good enough. And Brian Flora has intimated that fact as well in his postgame press conference. You look at even the touchdown Passavante Parker late in this game, like there's a wide open running back on the backside who's just staying there all alone. It's Malcolm Brown sitting there,

wide open. And then on the Mica Sicki touchdown past, he's wide open and the ball hits him in the back hip and he trips and gets across the goal line but almost fails on that fourth down opportunity because of the past behind him. So every single instance for this offense right now, it just seems like it's a struggle. Seems like it's difficult for them to overcome any of the mistakes they make which apparently are appeared to be occurring on a play by play or drive by drive

or series by series basis. And you know, the first three quarters of this game, once again, the offense kind of stuck in the mud. The only points they scored early on was off of the muff punt from the Colts early in this game, after a Dolphins four play eight yard drive that winds up with three points. After that muff punt right on the fringe of the red zone, the second drive of the game goes into field goal territory, but it gets knocked backwards kind of on the fringe

of field goal range. On they sacked there on Jacoby Brissette. They went up punting that ball and getting them down at the one yard line, and then the offense gets to the ball back in the exact same position, but once again midfield cannot convert any first downs to get into scoring range. So the first three quarters looked a lot like the first three quarters of the Radar game, minus the defensive touchdown and the twenty four yard Malcolm

Brown touchdown run. And then once the fourth quarter comes around, it begins to open up a little bit explosive place on the first touchdown drive of the game, twenty one yards on that drive after the defense allows a touchdown. Right after that touchdown drive, Davante Parker forty two yards on the first play of that drive on a fifty fifty ball. So explosive plays are within this offense is capabilities.

We just are not seeing it until very late in the game of the offense is right up against it, against the clock, against the scoreboard, and has to get points. Now that's when they can start to open things up and get some of the production there. But all things told, offensively,

it's just not been good enough. You're gonna find this Dolphins team near the bottom of the rankings in every major major offensive statistical category when you open up the papers, or I guess more realistically, open up your website, your web browser tomorrow, because in this game from Miami offensively, at one point, Jonathan Taylor had more points in the Dolphins offense combined. But for the Dolphins offensively in this game three of eleven on third down, they were two

for two on fourth down. Two hundred three total yards, a hundred and sixty eight passing yards, thirty five rushing yards, forty nine total plays and they wind up with two turnovers, three sacks allowed, and five penalties for thirty two yards and twenty two minutes fifty one seconds time of possession. But offensively right now, it's broken. I mean, what else can you say about it? Your quarterback is out. That

happened back in week two. Three games now without two a tongue by Lowo for the most part, and the offense has very very has really really struggled to find any offensive efficiency or consistency or points or anything that you want to talk about positively. For the offense has been very difficult to come by. Injuries at the receiver position. Will Flour leaves this game with a hand injury and

did not return. Waddle gets himself targets early in the game, maybe part of the play script early on, and makes a bunch of moves in eighteen yard reception to break a tackle and get yards after the catch. Then a nice catch on a little stick route where he puts his foot in the ground and makes a guy miss, and then has another catch that's for shorter yardage and then doesn't see the ball the rest of the game.

Davanta Parker waits or not waits, but it took until the fourth quarter to get Davanta Parker going for four catches for seventy seven yards. Mike get sick. He took him late in this game to get going for five matches for fifty seven yards. So the offensive weapons, to me, are there, and there are some drops here and there and some miscommunications and you know, just whatever the case may be. At the receiver position, there have been some

downsides to that position. But to me, that's been the strength of the offense and could be the strength of the offense going forward because right now, at the other positions, and that's the offense in total. As Brian Flores will tell you, it's just not good enough. The quarterback position. Balls are off target, they're late. There was an opportunity in this game, and it was right after a while.

I had a couple of nice plays and big gains in this game where he comes open on a crossing route down the middle of the field and there's nobody near him and the ball goes short to Malcolm Brown on a checkdown. The offensive line, that protection issues continue to be a problem through four games. I mean this this The quarterbacks are constantly under durest and trying to

have to make plays. And I think we saw it kind of come to a head in this game when Jacobe Brissette tried to make a play where it was

dead in the water. But I don't fault him because there was so many things going on around him as far as the scoreboard and the defense, as they have done this year in the second half, kind of start to let up on their grip on the opposing offenses throw as they've kind of hold teams down early on, and then things get a little bit wonky later on in the game, and I think Jacoby might have sensed that a little bit try to make a play where he just really tried to play hero ball and it

wind up hurting him there on that fumble. So that's not good from the protection standpoint, from the quarterback standpoint, and you know, just Austin Jackson in this game, I thought had a really really rough go of it. He was chasing guys into the backfield for the majority of

the game. I thought the m Eikenberg had some really rough moments as well, even on the interior, some of the communication stuff, some of the knock back in the running game, allowing penetration just the thirty eight yards in the ground as well, So I thought offensive line had a really rough go of it today as well. And then the tight end position also, I mean, you know, Kasiki has the big game receiving, but they had a possible chance to pin an edge and get a big

run off the outside that he misses that block. Adam Shaheen Durham smythe a couple of times as well where the edge just does not quite get sealed the running backs, whether it's catching the football trying to find daylight in the running game, or in past protection, just across the board,

it's not good enough. And so the first takeaway from this game is that the offense has just been completely inept through the first four games and they're going to see the consequences of that on the stats on Monday morning when you open up Pro Football Reference and go to the yards and yards per play and every big stat, it's gonna be near the bottom from Miami, and that's just not where you want to be four games into

the season. Takeaway number two I thought was kind of a lot of these are gonna play off of that

first takeaway. Takeaway number two is that I thought the Colts were playing in a position early in that game where there were some opportunities for Miami to attack vertically, And I mentioned the wattle throw a lot of Julian Blackman's single high looks in that game where he's playing off and guys are playing in tight and there zoning things up and and maybe some chances to go at field, and we we took a couple of later in the game, not so much earlier in the game, but once they

did take those opportunities late in the game, some of the deep shots to Davante Parker certainly open things up.

And I just think Miami is gonna have to find a way, whether it's taken with the defense gives you dialing up the deep shots within the game, whatever the case may be, They're gonna have to find a way to get more space and get more creativity and get more vertical in this offense because right now, the way things are going, I think opposing defenses have way too much confidence in playing in front of them and playing short, and it's really handcuffing what this offense can do, and handcuffing,

like we talked about what the offense is main threat I think is is the vertical speed getting up field and the playmakers they have on offense. So let's go ahead and go to Brian Flores who talked about the deep shots early in this game whether or not Miami had the opportunity to get deep in vertical. Let's go ahead and go to the head coach of the Miami Dolphins on the Dolphins attempt to get vertical in this game,

trying to take a methodical approach early. Um, we did, you know, have some shot plays early, they covered them. We had to check them down and you know, we weren't able to you know, push it down the field as much as we wanted to early in the game. So there you go. There's Brian Flores talking about the approach to try to get vertical, but the methodical approach

wand up being the one they took there. So take away number two Colts kind of playing up tight to the Las scrimmage there in some instance, isn't giving some opportunities for Miami to get those deep shots. They hit a few of them later on, But once they opened it up. We talked about this in the Wednesday podcast

last week. Right once they opened up the offense, explosive plays of one yards and then after the touchdown the defense allowed they come right back on a forty two yard pass at DeVante Parker on a fifty fifty ball that looked very good. So that's the takeaway number two. Takeaway number three here is that the takeaway streak continue from Miami. I know it was a muff punt that was the only one they got in the game, and really that's about where the game turns our for the

Miami Dolphins, but they get the takeaway consecutive games. With a takeaway takeaway number four. Going right back into the offensive stuff here is that reports indicate that two a tongue of by lower from from Adam Schefter will be able to come back off the injury reserve and play in the Week six game in London. So hopefully that can kind of spark this offense and get things going

in the right direction. And I pose this question to O Jim McDuffie post game about how how much of this offensive struggle so far can be tied back to the fact that you haven't had your starting quarterback who you spent the entire offseason kind of, you know, building an offensive identity around what he does well. Obviously, you want to build it not just for one player but

for an entire team. But you also want to consider the strength of your quarterback, and I thought they did a good job of doing that in the offseason with the Jilan Waddle selection, with the Will Fuller selection. You also think about his quick release and the ball out factor in the RPO game and the vertical as well as the horizontal game. And when you do take the vertical shot, it's timing base so he can put the

ball up early and let guys run under it. That kind of mitigates the not doesn't mitigate the need for good protection. You always need good protection, but it can help kind of shore up some of those potential woes if you do have protection issues up front. With a

quick release of the quarterback. And to lose him really really after the first game because he played what two series and it was about five and a half minutes into the Buffalo game that he gets knocked out, I'm curious to see how this offense looks when he comes back in. Get some timing, get some rhythm, gets some

stuff going for the offense. As far as having some content new, maybe they find a little bit more of their identity in those next couple of weeks before he comes back for the Jacksonville game and they can hopefully hit the ground running when he comes back healthy. But from Adam Schefter, he says that sounds like two was gonna be ready to play coming off the i R in Week six in London. But of course we have a game next week in Tampa Bay that will be

Jacoby Brissette at quarterback once again. As Brian Flores told us post game that there was no thought in his mind to go to read senate after Jacoby Brissette struggles here for his third game here with the Miami Dolphins under center, and then take away number five. Some of the stuff I liked in this game. I thought Jalen Waddle had a lot of good moments operating in space.

I talked about the three catches he made and just the moves he put out there and the way he comparatively moves to other guys on a National Football League field. It doesn't it shouldn't look like that for anybody, and for a rookie to come in and look that good man. It's the way he moves and the way he can kind of put defenders in conflict the way he did on that catch the stick route where he makes a

move and and break some ankles. I thought that was very impressive and early in this game to get him the ball early on in the script of the game. Hopefully they can find a way to continue pumping him the football and get him down the field, because we talked about it again on the postgame show. Zero real vertical shots so far this year to Jalan Waddle since that first pass from two to Waddle for thirty six

yards in the Patriots game. But I thought he was a real bright spot and a tough tough game to find bright spots. I liked Waddles game. Also thought Mike A. Sikey had some good moments in the passing game. They're late obviously five for fifty seven and the touchdown catch. Davante Parker just showing you what he does best, right going up and getting the football, winning those one on one matchups. It doesn't really matter if he's covered on those contested balls. DeVante park is gonna find a way

to go up and get the football. And then also the two other guys in my list here are two edge rushers, Jalen Phillips had a bunch of QB hits today. I'll we'll see the number tomorrow on the recap show or the the omission show. It had to have been at least three QB hits. Also gets his first career half sack, teaming up with Sam edg Van on a third down stack to get the Dolphins defense off the field.

And then Emmanuel Ogba as well. I thought he played a fantastic game, getting after the quarterback, stuffing the run he had to drive in the second quarter. Maybe it was the first quarter where he basically stopped the entire drive by himself, had the run stop right at the line for no game, had a pressure on Wentz that forced an errand throw, and then comes back on third down and gets the sack to get the defense off

the field. So, if you want to look at some of the positive individual performances, I thought those guys were you're positive takeaways. Now those are the five takeaways, But I feel like that's not sufficient enough for this postgame recap podcast because we we really got to talk about some of the shortcomings and things that went wrong for this football team. Number one thing is this team is

going to have to find a way. It's still so early in the season, Like, you can't just sit here and say, well, one of three tough, tough luck for us. I guess he again next year. That can't happen for just for this season for sure, but also for future reference.

You have to find a way to rally this team together, find out which guys are gonna be the ones that can stick through it and and battle battle past this really difficult start again for the third straight year oh and four, two years ago, one and three, last year, one and three again this year. Now. Everything turned to out in Week five last year against the forty niners. Next week tough, tough task with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

on the road in that game. But you have to find out which leaders are going to be the ones that guide you into the face of this you know, this s storm as it were, because that's kind of what Miami's facing right now. It's everything looks rough. I mean I heard a podcast where someone talked about the Raiders game and they said, well, they were playing the Dolphins, Like that was not the expectation coming into this season.

This Dolphins team had a lot of positive vibes going on around them, and right now the vibe around the Dolphins is difficult. So how can you ignore that outside noise and rely on the leaders withinside the building here to to put in the work, to put in the time to make the corrections and get going in the right direction. That is going to be the key, because there are so many things right now to correct. Me go again across just kind of across the board. The

offensive line, it's it's not been good enough. I mean Austin Jackson was chasing guys in the backfield all game long. Um, Jesse Davis had some moments I thought where he was. He was beating pass rush in the run in the run game. Greg Mans some some knock back in the running game, and he hasn't played in a while. His first game starting kind of surprise, Michael Dieter gets injured on Wednesday. You pull up Greg Man's it's a tough task.

But he had some moments. I thought, Rob Hunt, I saw him on the ground a few times, you know, struggle for him at right guard today, leam Mikeelberg got beat for a second early in this game, just across

the five front there. It's it's hard to win football games as coach floor Let's actually go to coach Floors on this point, because I thought this was one of his best points in a very good press conference here where he talked a little bit about the disconnect and where things have kind of gone wrong for this team

so far at this stage of the season. And again I thought he was very forthright and very transparent about some of the issues this team is facing because you put together good practice, you put together a good camp and off season program, and you get out here and it hasn't translated to Sundays and the inconsistencies and the fact that there are too many mistakes on too many plays that just continues to hamper this offense and defense

as well the entire team. Let's go to Brian Floors and hear his answer regarding the disconnect right now for this team in the slow start. I think this is a hard working team. I think they compete, they prepare the right way. It's not it's not manifesting itself on Sundays right now. Um, for long enough periods of time, we are inconsistent. We can't string you know, plays together.

When we do string plays together, there's a penalty or a drop that sets us back, or a penalty defensively and then you know, instead of being off the field, we're back on the field. Or a penalty, you know, in the kicking game, instead of getting the ball, we give it back to them. I mean, there's a lot of things are that aren't connected. You've got to play complimentary football in this league. We had not been able to do that. I think we got to take a

look at everything. Um, we will take a look at everything. But I would say it's it's really you know, across the board, offense, defense, special teams. Starts with me coaching. I gotta do a better job. I know I say that every week. I don't want to come up here and say that every week, but I gotta do a better job. I'm figuring out a way to help us, you know, play better than that. Um, But we also

have to, you know, we gotta play better. And we're out there taking turns and making mistakes in all three phases, and you know, it's not enough. It's not good enough talking about taking turns, making mistakes, like he said, it's not good enough, and it's just something springs up. I've referred to this so many times that the Chevy Chase Um Vegas vacation scene where he's trying to plug the holes in the damn with with the bubble gum. It's like every time you plug something up and you get

the answer. Right, there's a penalty in the offensive backfield for a hole and that brings back a big completion that will fuller. Or you get a stop on defense and Bran Scarlett's off size and it gives the Colts fresh set of downs and gives them a touchdown drive when you thought you had the ball back and a three zero lead, or you have a quarterback sack in the pocket, you got a face ask and extends a drive and turns into seven points instead of three points.

There's so many instances in this game throughout the course of the first four games where Miami has just found a way to shoot themselves in the foot and be so uncharacteristic of what this team has been under Brian Floras. And that's why Flow is going to tell you every single year is different, every single team is different. You cannot bank on previous success. Like everything starts over from

from ground zero, from from step number one. It's like the video game, right, You'll lose it to the final boss at the end, and you have to go back to level number one. That's how it works in this league. And the Dolphins just have not found a way to get back that moju they had last year and continue and carry it over this year with this year's team. And it's just been tough to watch, both offensively and defensively. So to kind of continue the the theme there of

not being good enough. Like you heard from coach Flora's there talked about the offensive line, I don't think Jacobe seeing it as well as he could right now. I don't think his accuracy has been as good as it could be right now. I think he'll tell you that. I think that he's dealing with a lot at the same time and has done a great job of making plays when he when he can, when he can kind of go off script and extend. And it kind of came to a head there on that fumble he lost

late in this game. But I think it's got to be better at that position. I think the running backs have to be a lot better in past protection and in the running game as well, and take advantage of when it is blocked well like Malcolm Brown last week and hit the big runs. I think the receivers have to do a better job of uncovering there's been not enough separation down the field, like they have to do

a better job of making plays after the catch. I think they have to do their better job of catching the football when they have opportunities to do that as well. So the offense across the board not good enough, you know. Defensively, I mean, we saw the past rush kind of get cranked up today and they they found a found a way to get after Carson Wentz, and I thought the odd mac oh look provided plenty of pressure on the quarterback and even a couple of sacks there as well.

Where they were finding success early in this game against that Colts offense until the muff punt kind of sparked things back in the Colts direction. But they did have some pass rush there from San Diego Van, from Manuel Ogba, from Jalen Phillips, but at the end of the day,

it wasn't enough. We saw the linebackers in the second level, they're a little bit kind of getting caught on some blocks and Jonathan Taylor having a big day and he made a great cut in the gap to kind of get around the land and Roberts for a big touch down run there in that third quarter or second quarter, I think I think it was the third quarter, the first drive of the third quarter. So it's not good

enough on that level either. And you know, kind of getting stuck on blocks has been a theme a little bit here in the running game, in the secondary, in the back end, getting caught on the rub routes. I mean, that's happened all four games so far, guys trying to match up one on one. I mean, Eric road Got got a couple of touchdowns on his and his coverage today from Moley Cox in that area. So areas you counted on last year where things were strong just hasn't

carried over this season. And it's been struggled, a struggle on offense, on defense, on special teams, even Jason Standard kicks the ball out of bounds on a kickoff. So just everything that could have gone wrong so far that the first four games kind of has And I think you did the kind of positive takeaways that it's only up from here as far as this Dolphins team. But I know that a lot of you guys were very

excited about this season. It had certain expectations and I certainly did as well, and right now through first four games just has not been good enough. And you hope it gets better, but right now, such a struggle for this team on on all three phases of the game, and that's why you wind up near the bottom of the league in terms of statistical categor glories offensively, defensively special teams, and they're gonna have to find a way to get it fixed quickly and and by next week.

For Tampa Bay, that's a tough, tough matchup there, and falling to one and four obviously not ideal. So you heard Brian Flores, I'll talk about we have to look at everything possible changes. I refer to this in the postgame show. Back in twenty six, team I amy started off one and four and that was this team's last post season appearance. But after the fourth loss, they made the wholesale changes. And you know, I can't recommend that

or give you ideas about that. It's gonna be up to Brian Floors and gonna staff to make decisions on that for themselves. But clearly it's not good enough in several areas right now, and changes and you know, finding those leaders to kind of elevate the team and and find ways to get more production out of guys that you expect production fraud. That's gonna be the number one thing.

And also maybe there's some guys that haven't had enough playing time or haven't had playing time, I should say, they can't have an opportunity to make plays, and kind of if you don't earn your opportunities, maybe you lose it and it goes to somebody else. So that's what phases this Dolphin's club ahead this week. And it's definitely a tall older for Brian Floors and this coaching staff, but they're built for it. That's what they do. In

the National Football League. You have to be mentally tough and have the fortitude to overcome tough stuff like this, because Miami right now one in three, it's about about as tough as a start as you could have imagined.

The only thing would be worse, obviously, is if they don't get that fumble in the Patriots game they kicked that field goal, you're following four, But luckily you get that victory and hopefully you get here into October you can start turn this thing around and find some success because just across the board, it's just not not been

very good so far. And I want to go back to coach for another forty second soundclip here, so and just finish up with this before we get to the outro and then the postgame segment on the other end of the outro, I just want to go ahead and play this clip from Brian Flores here talking about the little things, attention to detail, and I think some of the margins we talked about, like I always talked about us in the show, right, like people ask themselves, how

do the Dolphins win these games? Or how are they winning more than some other parts might suggest they would because they win in the fine margins through four games this year hasn't been the case. Here's Brian Flores. The little things are important in this game. They're very important. The details are important in this game, and if you don't get them right, then you'll have a fall start penalty when you don't need them, you have a drop

when you don't need them. And those are momentum shifting plays that if you don't make them and they do, you don't get the result you want. So that's where we we that's what we have to do. We gotta we gotta focus on those uh, those little things, those details and play a smarter, more disciplined football game because we're not. We're not. We're not doing that right now, And once again, Dolphins fall to the Colts seventeen here at hard Rock Stadium and fall to one and three

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an end. So its twenty one year playoff drought for my Seattle Mariners as well. On the Sunday existence is in fact pants go ahead and play the post game show here what you can hear on five sixt w q AM Kiss Country here in South Florida and on

the Odyssey app nation wide globally wide. Myself, O J McDuffie and Seth Levit Jevron together ahead and we left off the last second with the question there from Seth over to O J. Talking about what's next because you know you talk about Seth watching the game tape on this not all that interested in going back and doing that.

I will because it's my job. I get paid to do that, but I'm not looking forward to it, tell you that much right now, But I do want to go ahead and take a look at what's next because I think Dolphins fans across across the globe here in South Florida need a little bit of, I mean, something to think about going ahead that that makes them positive for the rest of the season. And I don't know

what that might be. But when you talk about offensively, defensively, or just in the in the locker room, oh J, what comes next? How do you? How do you take this, take it in, approach it and go out against a tough team in Tampa Bay next week and put up a good performance. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else gonna be done about this past lackless of performance. Right So,

right now, everybody's got to tighten up individually. You know, the cliche always is football is the altimate team sport, But there's a lot of one on ones out there, and our team right now, instead of last week, we're losing the one on one battles. You know, whether it's offensive tackle versus defenses end, whether it's Wyrus here versus cornerback, whether it's a tight end versus one of our safeties. We're losing these one on one battles. So everybody's gotta

looking at themselves. Everybody's gotta be Michael Jackson here and you know, and look in the mirror and see what am I doing that's not working. Whether it's even even the coaches and coach Flores, I'm sure it's gonna reiterate that something's not happening right here. Weekend, week out. I get tired of here. We had a great week of practice. I get tired of hearing that this guy did had a great doing a great job when it doesn't translate

on Sunday, which all that matters. I don't care what you do all week if it doesn't translate on Sunday. It's like some of the guys you see had great preseasons, you know, training camps. I don't care. We've seen that before. What are you doing when the when the game is on the line to make a player. We've had some big time players on this team completely disappeared, you know. And I'm not gonna call anybody's names out. Half them

on defense, half of them an offense. I don't know what's going on offensive line, you know, But we knew that was an issue from the beginning until they figure it out. But our defense is what we're gonna hang our hat on. But we can't stop anybody except we can't get a takeaway when we need one, we'll get one to continue our streak, but we need three of

these special teams takeaway as well. It really wasn't even exactly really, I mean a muff punt correct, correct, So I mean we have to have guys out there that are we're at home. Man, there's eighty degrees out there. You know, they're sitting in the sun the whole time. It's warm game. But but look at it. They go out there and they took it to us, and they had injuries of their own. They had a bunch of them from the beginning before didn't even play, not even

not even injuries that happened in the game. It was injuries before the game even started. Right. But again, that's why I go back to what what has to happen? Is it as simple as that is, It as simple as everybody looking in the mirror and making sure that they handle their job and not point fingers and not worry about everybody else, but that they give the best version of themselves. I mean, is is there anything else

that can be done? You know, if you get on Twitter and if you dare right, it's scary to get on there. Right now, people are calling for this person be fired, that person be fired, that person be cut. We've seen that, you know, does there need to be a shake up? I mean that's to me, it's earlier, and I don't mean on the field, does it Because to me, I think the roster you have, the coaching staff you have is who you gotta ride with the sea.

So I want to be clear on that. But do you think there needs to be some shake up with what the product is that's being put out? Our fifty three? Right? So we have right look at some of the inactives today. You're some guys that you thought might be able to go out there and play a little bit when it's little gonn get an opportunity because what's going on with the oflphicsive line where little can't get an opportunity right now? Did you see Jackson Chason in the backfield? Unbelievable, you know,

and it's crazy. Look at like our whole, our whole line. It's top draft picks, you know, what I mean, everybody's the top draft pick. We only have seven rounds. When we talk about first three rounds are all top draft picks, you know what I mean. And the fact that we can't get those guys to quote unquote figured out. You don't even have to have a great offensive line in NFL or any any level of football. You don't have to You don't have to have a great team on

the offensive line. You have a good group of guys that know what the hell they're doing, you know, and

I want to believe that we do. Drews. I mean, I think we've seen moments where these guys have played certainly better than when this year we've seen it, not this year, not this year, right well, when this year we talked about when they needed to have that drive in game, when they when they had and it didn't work out, but when there was a comeback attempt in Las Vegas, they kind of held it together enough to put points on the board and give it. We talk

about this this this in prevent situation. Things a little wide open. You know, we had opportunities on the field because they're bringing three man or maybe a form or light four man rush. He contained you know, when it's early in the game, when you got a pound, somebody pass game, run game. When have we've seen our guy, When have we've seen our guys go out and having initial drive in the first quarter. So, you know what that takes me back to. That brings me back to

the idea. And I told you guys this after two have got hurt in that Buffalo game. I told you guys, I don't think this offense is constructed in a way that Jacobe can have success with because I don't believe that it suits his skill set. And you know, we talked about his skill set. You know last week. We had fun with it, right because he was making plays off schedule and getting out of the pocket and making the plays down the field. And it was fun for a little bit. You know, we even had some fun

with that. But I just wonder how much of this offense was built in a certain way that's that's around a particular players skill set. And you draft players for that guy, you signed players for that guy. You get an offensive line that's supposed to be able to be more so leaning on players. And I think if you look at, for instance, Austin Jackson's good plays, this year they've been. They're few and far between. Now he's having a rough star to the season, but when he's had

good plays, they've been in the running game. And so you think about those guys leaning on the defensive line and kind of established in the RPO game. You can't go our poh Kobe Price. It's not his game. So that's a it's a chunk of the offense that you remove.

I don't think r PO is the base necessarily, but it's a chunk that you can rely upon for first down, for drive starters, for you know, getting yourself seven yards and that first that first player the driving and you really get the thing going and get to your hurry up offense and the communications more fluid and smooth because you have that quarterback that has been there for the

entire offseason program and training camp in preseason. And then he goes out and we don't score points against Buffalo. We get a defensive score to start the Raiders game, and then a short field with the Malcolm Brown touchdown run. Then the fourth quarter in overtime happens. Great. That was fun. You go all game today and there's nothing happening until basically the fourth quarter so how much do you put it back on the quarterback? Is it? Is it because

you're at the backup quarterback? Or is it but it's gotta be more. It's got it's it happen. But how much of it is the fact that two was not out there right now? I'm not willing to say that's all it is. It's more than it's more than a quarterback position. It really is man and that we keep beating his horse in terms of what's going on. We haven't established anything up front and nothing even past protection, you know, even run protection. And then also I looked

at the game. It's nice to see the game in person. We see guys are not very much separation. Either it's it's a it's a combination of an NFL offense at times where guys are not making plays, not giving protection to make plays, or we get an opportunity, we have a drop or we have a bad past. You know, you talk about not an r p O offense. You've

got the Colts. Carson Winson is running the r p O s that you know, they're they're they're kind of they got the same kind of quarterback that we have, you know, but his ass is not getting tackled for loss, He's not on his on his heels, He's sitting there throwing the ball, giving guys opportunities. And so where are we at with that? You know, where where the offends that when it comes that he's one on one opportunities and uh, you know, guy's not getting opened or the

ball not being on time or zero zero protection. Yeah, I mean the protection breaking down I think had a lot to do with all of the other things you talked about, because there were moments there we talked about it. There were some moments early on in the game where it looked like there were some guys flashing down the field and maybe Jacobe chose to to go in a

different direction and I don't know what he's seeing there. Yes, at times he was under drest, but there were times there where maybe he took a throw that was in his mind higher percentage. I don't know. You know, he's gonna have to answer that later. But there were moments there where I thought guys were open. There were moments where the ball was getting to guys who were paid

to be playmakers and they were making some plays. They were fighting for tough and again it goes back to that dincin duck and and and I don't know how successful you can be in those template drives, like you talked about earlier, those things happened, but I just feel like it has to be more than that. And as much as we can talk about what went wrong till we're blew in the face, the reality is is that there. They've got a game next week and it gets pretty

good football team. Yeah, but we're doing post game, We're doing postgame. We're just I can't look back. We're talking postgame though we're talking about the game. We just understand what the hell else we gonna mean? What are we gonna do in terms of you know what I mean if we can talk about tomorrow, the next game tomorrow, but we got to talk about what just happened today.

I understand what you're saying, but what happened today needs to be talked about and discussed because that's our job right now, Well it is our job, but it's also like, where do you go from it? Because what happened today happened last week? You know, I've seen that. I've seen that movie already. I've seen it too many times this

season and we're only four games into it. So what I'm saying is based on what happened today, And I get it this is postgame, but but I don't have a shot tomorrow to talk about it anyway, So I want to look ahead as well. And again coach has to get up there. And in the second hour, in the second we got all these people that are listening to postgame right Yeah, they're not. They're not thinking about

Tampa right now. They need to. They shouldn't be. They need to figure out disagree, need to talk about what the hell happened today. I know what happened Jules twenty four will applies to wins and losses. Yeah, I'm gonna to move forward. I have to. But but again I want to know how do you fix it? I want to know how you fix it? Bro, we're in this building, the building across the street. Don't want to need to fix this, and not that we can do to fix it.

If we had the answer, they said, had the damn answer. So if we're sitting here having this discussion about you know, we can't agree on what game to talk about right now. So you have to imagine the division in that locker room. Not division that's a bad word. I want I don't want to. That's the thing they can't get. How do how does that? How does the dynamic work in the locker room? M now our guys are guys looking over their shoulder and saying, hey, this guy didn't make a play,

or they are they going back? How does Brian Flores keep this team right now on the same track and keep them all together and get them together because outside noise right now is going to try to divide these guys. You're gonna have to have your leader stuff up and and really work to write this ship right usus. I mean, every single person on this team should be extremely nervous. Every single position, every single person should be extremely nervous.

And I talked about it before with us, like on Tuesday, I'd have somebody in there trying out for every single damn position, you know what I mean? Because these guys obviously are getting a little comfortable not not making plays. You don't make plays in this league. You don't play in this league. It's a production, bottom line, performance based job. Bottom line as agree with that. And so when you're not doing your job, which is all you gotta do

with your job, nobody else's job. Talk about Will Fuller. He exces this game with a hand injury and does not return. You know, he's he missed the first game from a suspension, miss is a second game from a personal reasons. Comes back last week, plays fifty snaps and he gets injured there at the end and comes out. But he played fifty snaps in that game. Then today he plays a few snaps. Do you think that his absence because of a big time free agent receiver, ten

million dollar receiver. Do you think that maybe his absence has a lot to do with how the Dolphins are kind of stuck in the mud right now, because he was a guy that I think, I hope at that part, at that price point, his skill set was a guy that you kind of had the intentions of of kind of constructing this thing around him and Jillen Waddle I thought were too big acquisitions to make this receiving corps wave giving way more speed, giving way more explosiveness. Is

his lack of presence maybe to blame for some of this? Yeah, you know, it's it's that's a great point, great question, Especially when you get into Sunday, you never know what happens throughout the week and you've got all this game planning in so how many of the plays that our co offensive coordinators have to scrap because you don't have him in the game. How many shot players that they have scripted for him because he's not in the game.

You count on guys playing sixty minutes, and when they don't play was the first half at all or most of the half or whatever it is? Then yeah, then it becomes a problem because you don't have a guy in there that well, all right, you know what, all right, since he's out and President was inactive, you know you got other guys do we say what? All right? You got Fuller's role right here. You gotta be the one that runs his deep seven or his deep uh post

route or his deep nine route or whatever it is. No, that's not how they worked all week. So it does become a problem when you count on guys, you and you want to be able to make the adjustments, when you count on guys to be out there and be able to make those plays. You've got certain plays, certain shot plays that we've been talking about the whole time, and the guys not in there do you can't You can't.

It's hard to make that adjustment because you only get so many, so many players you work during the week, you can look at as much film as you want, but when you practicing it, you know, guys are there's not as many there's that many reps. There's way more mental reps than our physical reps. So when you've got a guy that's not out there to take those reps and the quarterins having to say, all right, our our our home run hitters out basically who else? What do

we can do? What? What can we do now with the guys that we already gained plans some other things for not to mention missing almost all training camp after

going down the very first day of practice. So he winds up in this game with one catch for six yards, gives him four for six on the season, Wattle three for thirty three And in a question I'm probably gonna ask coach this week, is it seems like what all of this catchers are in the first quarter, which goes into kind of the playscript you talked about, Like, obviously the plants to get him the ball early, why is he not getting more targets later in the game. I'm

very curious about that. We'll try to cover that on Drive Time this week, Mike Kasicki five or fifty seven. You mentioned Vante Parker four for seventy seven in this game, So some guys had some big days productive wise, Seth, you got one you want to jump in here? We need them. I believe the Dolphins need him counting. That's exactly right. This is all drawn up for all the guys you're counting on. He's one of those guys you're

counting on. You know, he's not a guy Thatt. You know mid season was like, all right, let's get full of a change. When they went out and got him, they counted on. When you put a playbook together to counting on, it's a passing league. That's what we have.