Dolphins Defense Dominant Again, Beat Jets 20-3

final month of the season. We're gonna hear from coach Flora's on the defensive performance someone he thinks does not get enough credit. He'll talk about the quarterback situation and his fourth quarter offensive philosophy. And we'll hear from Mike Gasicki on his touchdown reception and how he's grown as a route runner as a player. And Land and Roberts discusses a defensive success. Will give you all the staffs

from that dominant showing from three points allowed. Get the five takeaways here on the podcast individual performances, and here from John Conjemmy. All of that and more here on this Sunday, November the twenty nine edition of The Drive Time podcast Draft is brought to you by AutoNation. Hey Dolphins fans, the New Year starts now at Auto Nation.

Let's skip the rest of and get to big New Year's savings on your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's, Forwards, Toyotas, Honda's and more shops safely at the AutoNation store near you or Auto nation dot com and save right now. So the Jets take the opening kickoff and go down the field for a field goal drive to start this game off, but then Miami scores twenty unanswered points for the win. Win. Jay rocks a little bit later, but that's okay. We still get the seventh win of the season.

Back in the win column after a one game hiccup in Denver, Miami have now won six of their last seven games and head into December again at seven and four for the first time since Miami's last playoff season. The Dolphins also not up the all time series against the Jets fifty five apiece. There was one tie in the series. They've now won eight of the last ten games over the Jets. The defense is allowing eighteen points six points per game. Dominant dominant defense through the first

eleven games of this season. And you know we talked about this team coming under Brian Flores and Chris Career and putting together a package of resources for this previous offseason and more for next offseason. How this thing is going to be built hopefully ideally in the vision for

sustained success. Well, here you go, your number two defensively for Brian Flores, who has the defensive background, though we know he is much more than that as a leader, as a delegator, as a person that elevates people in his organization to do good things like we've seen with Josh Boyer and more on that here in just one moment. But your number two. Eleven games in eight teen points

six points per game. You have to love the progress with how Brian Flores has instituted his defensive system, his defensive coaches, his defensive players, and the results you've gotten on defense that will be in the takeaways portion of this podcast. No doubt, a couple of storylines I was looking at in this game. We'll talk offensively here because most of the takeaways they come from the defensive side

of the football. Why wouldn't they, But two things I wanted to take a look at was the Jets ran more nickel personnel and granted this numbers right around sixty five to sevent for most teams in the National Football League, but coming into today, the Jets had run nickel defense eighty point five percent of the time. That was second

most of the National Football League. So I was kind of curious to see how the Dolphins might attack that because if you go twelve personnel, that gives you the numbers count in terms of players in the box against their players in the box. It gives you more size to kind of force them to put linebackers onto the field unless they want to try to tackle running backs going through blocks of tight ends with defensive backs, so you can kind of draw them into their ace package.

And what does Miami do early in this game? Durham Smith has three receptions on the first two drives. He has a big block on a Matt Brida conversion, So plenty of twelve personnel snaps. We'll talk more about that on the Tuesday podcast when I have the numbers official. But quick completions dr Derham Smith early in the game, Miami comes out with twelve personnel to help combat that.

I was curious about running back because we had no savan Akhmed Miles Gaston did not get elevated off the injured reserve, so we had Matt Brida, DeAndre Washington, and Patrick Lair available for this game. I love the way that Matt Breeda bursted through that hole on a moving that gap open, greeting that gap scheme hole on that

third two conversion early in the drive. He would later have the fumble, but Brian Flores did make a note that he ran the football well aside from that fumble, and made a good note on Patrick Laird's long run that he too had a good run before his fumble on offense. But DeAndrea Washington I thought he played really

well in this game. And Coach Flores talked about this at his press conference about taking control of time of possession and picking up first downs in the fourth quarter, and that's a sign of how closed out football games. And obviously we talked about the situational importance of everything that Brian Flora's overseas and everything he wants this team to do. Those little situations like trying to cultivate for

first downs in the fourth quarter. We talked about this and wins over teams like the Rams or even the Chargers game, or you go back to other you know, kind of blowouts, and against the Niners and Jets earlier in the season, how the Dolphins had goals on offense to move the chains and put those drives together because that shortens the game and helps your defense stay fresh and close out the opposition. And Miami has done that

very very well this season. And while this game wasn't a blowout per se, it was a ten point game in the fourth quarter there with the Jets and plus territory, but it always felt like Miami had control of the game. And that's because the Dolphins are seven and oh in games this season with halftime leads. They are good closers. Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's on his philosophy in that fourth quarter with getting those first downs

and controlling the TP. Yeah, I mean, you know, those fourth quarters, first downs, fourth quarter of rushing yards, fourth quarter time with possession. I mean, it's those are things we talk about. Things are very important. We can get those done and kind of finish off games like we did today. That's always good. At the Wash, I thought he ran the ball effectively and we need that especially

trying to close out a game. I had a big run there in the fourth quarter that kind of sprung I think the final they're trying to put us seventeen. So and DeAndre Washington thirteen carries for forty nine yards, which led Miami and rushing in the game. And so just before we get into the five takeaways from this game, the stats from this game, and don't forget to check out Tuesday's podcast as well as Monday's article. We're gonna go more in depth on the film and the snap

the snap counts, and the stats. I can't wait to see what the defensive stats look like after this one. But in this game, Miami three total yards of the Jets to sixty one oh four on the ground to the Jets eighty seven. Miami had to forty one through the air to the Jets one seventy three. Dolphins converted eight of sixteen on third down conversions in this game.

The Jets were three for thirteen. Last game, the Jets were two for seventeen, so five for thirty converting third downs against this Jets defense and two games great work by the Miami defense. Dolphins also had three sacks. The Jets did get four on Ryan Fitzpatrick. Miami commits three fouls for twenty yards, the Jets six for seventy four, and Miami has the TP victory with thirty two minutes

and thirty seven seconds of time of possession. The five takeaways in this game, we started a little bit on the offensive side early. Let's go ahead and get to the first takeaway here. How many free rush sacks is this team going to get? Brandon Jones comes clean on quarterback Sam Donald in the very first possession of the game to get a big sack on third down in the red zone. Those were four point plays. Man Brandon Jones. We talked about it on really for a long time.

Now you go back to his rookie profile. We talked about here on drive time at Texas. What did I say? The most guy plays fast, guy has a quick trigger, Guys instinctive. We knew about his skill set based upon or his his preparation skill set based upon that offseason goal he had to get everybody's playbook in the NFL. He couldn't work out at the combine, so he wanted to prepare himself mentally to be as strong as he could that area. While his physical was catching up, and

we've seen that progress on his college tape. On the training camp portion. We talked about him all the time, those articles about how fast he played. We had Gerald Alexander on Tuesday, himself, the man himself who has the Gospel word when it comes to this stuff. Defensive back to the Miami Dolphins. He said he loves the way he plays, the way he prepares, and a quick trigger and quick instincts that gives him so he comes free

on that impact play right away. We saw the Dolphins get a free rusher against the Rams for a scoop and score. Emmanuel Ogball comes clean. Jerome Baker did later in the game to hit golf to get an interception for Eric rowe Aga. Again in the Cardinals game, I mean, how many times are you gonna get free rushers on the quarterback with the scheme with this defense, And yeah, the players execute, but you give him a free run. That's the best hope you can get for quarterback pressure,

for hits, sacks, takeaways. That's what Miami did once again in this game to save four points down in the red zone. Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's on the performance of his defense and the unheralded d C Josh Boyer here in Miami. So we play well defensively, I guess he turnovers. Josh, you know, called a great game really throughout. We had some sudden chain situations there

with turnovers, we will get ourselves off the field. Big stop fourth to one in the red zone kept him, you know, obviously, keeping them mind of the end zones always a great accomplishment in this league. So turnovers, big stops on fourth and one. But Josh called a great game, and he's done a great job really entire year. I think often times for people probably give me too much credit. Josh has done a great job in the entire year. And so that's just kind of how it goes on

this team. If you're gonna if you're gonna play or perform well, or Brian Flores is gonna give you credit, He's not gonna take ano that credit himself. He takes accountability and he passes credit. Just like in the Joe Shad article over the weekend on the Palm Beach Post of Miami's Miami's true Leader and Brian Flores, Josh Boyer on defense again, this this entire staff and system and putting guys in position to succeed. It's been fun to watch. And in two games against the Jets, man, that's been

fun to watch. I talked about it all week. I just don't like that team. Man, It's always been a team that has been the biggest rival for me as the Miami Dolphins. Twenty five possessions this season against the Dolphins for the Jets offense, and they scored three points in the two games. That's point one two points per possession. Miami had three interceptions, six sacks and now has a takeaway in seven teach trade games, the longest active streak

in the NFL. And on the day the two picks, a missed field goal and six points three of those for three announced. That's eight three an ounce over two games against the Jets offense. And they just continue to do it with so many different looks. We talked about the Brandon Jones blitz where you basically have four guys on the line and Brandon Jones plays in the box like he often does, but he's not really showing pressure. But at the snap he flies in there and comes

cleaning to the a gap. Because you kind of watched the Jets offensive line say, well, both the defensive lineman on either side of the center, so we're gonna kind of fan out and kind of get the edge created better there for Sam Donald, as they did. But Ogbach shot through a double team as well and got pressure that way. But also the free run for Brandon Jones. Just good ski, good execution, pairing both those things together

for big, big plays. Then later in the game, you get a zone look on third and seven and it's a four man rush the kind of keys Donald throughout the throughout the play, as they kind of did throughout the game. You'd have Jerome Baker or Kyle van Noy, because we saw Donald can make you pay with his legs. They were keeping eyes on him and kind of rushing into line and keeping containing off the edge and not

letting him escape. So the Dolphins played that kind of pressure contained with coverage look on a third and seven and Donald sells the thing out of bound. So you play multiple coverages, multiple fronts, multiple rushes, you confuse another young quarterback, and how about this for the stat of the game on past targets for Denzel Mims, Burchard Perriman and Jamison Crowder, who got some production in this game.

Don't take you know, don't get that twisted. But for those three guys, the big storyline coming in that I heard on pregame shows was the Jets have their first for the first time. They have their top three receivers available eleven for twenty two passing to those guys for a passer rating of thirty nine point four on those twenty two targets. So hat tip there too Byron Jones xaviing, Howard Nick need him, Bobby mc kane, and Eric Rowe takeaway number two the defensive line. Just in general, these

guys were dominant in this game. I can't really tell you who was more dominant than the other one. We'll talk more on all twenty two Tuesday, I suppose, but just constant penetration, shedding blocks, kind of keying to play in the backfield and getting off those blocks and making

plays at the line or behind it. Fifteen of the twenty three run plays in this game for the Jets game three or less yards, So we're gonna have tons of run stops to cover in the ends of the numbers piece on Monday, and that just sets you up for success on third down and long and and third down in general. We talked about it again. The Jets in two games against Miami five for thirty on third down conversions. So you limit them to the to so many run wins, you limit them to eighty seven yards

on the ground. And I just talk about this all the time on the podcast. To me, it's not about the cumulative it's about winning plays and giving yourself a

position to make a play on the next play. And I don't care if the quarterback, for instance, if you want to go on the offensive side of the football, I don't care if the quarterback starts the game with the pick and then throws one on a hell May at the end of the first half and that derails his passer rating, because maybe he had a great game on the other thirty eight throws, but those two interceptions kill his passer rating. So there's this perception around that player.

But in actuality, what did he do with his other ten drives? If he'd lead seven touchdown drives and we're complaining about the two picks because he didn't maybe have the stats you want to see in the passer rating. So I like the idea of counting wins over cumulative, which I think, you know, cumulative approach kind of zaps all context. This is the context I'm talking about. You get enough wins on these rundowns fifteen twenty three, you're

gonna create opportunities for sex Dolphins got three. You're gonna create opportunities for interceptions, Dolphins got two of those. And you're gonna create opportunities to get off the field and get the punt team on the field. Miami got six of those in this game as well. Let's go ahead and get to my question for you, good Land and Robert's about how much success or how much conference does it give you guys to get those early down run stops.

What can that do for a defense? I do big, you know, you know it's it's no it's no secret. You know. It's very disappointed in our details a week ago, and I think we came out and play good fundamental Dolphins football, you know, and um he was able to, uh, you know, play some good run defense this week and takeaway number three from this game. The Dolphins stay hot and special teams with Jason Sanders, who hits field goals from fifty four and fifty one that gives him a

couple of really nice marks. He has an eighty five point seven career field goal percentage on field goals of that distance that's the best in the NFL since from fifty yards, his eight successful field goals of plus fifty yards this season are most in the NFL, and he's hit ten consecutive field goals from that range fifty more yards fifty yards or more going back to last season and earlier this year, Sanders set the Dolphins franchise record

for most consecutive made field goals with twenty two. That of course, topped Linda Murray's run of nineteen consecutive field goals in So, if you guys want to go ahead and vote for Jason Sanders for Pro Bowl and the rest of your Miami Dolphins team for the Pro Bowl this season, go ahead and do that open now on NFL dot Com. So Jason Sanders stays completely and just continues to help the Dolphins with a weapon putting points

in the board. From when you get to the thirty five yard line, you pretty much know, okay, we're here, we're good. We can rely on Jason Sanders. And also people on Twitter are not entirely convinced that he and I are not the same person. I can confirm the Jason Sanners and I are not the same person. He has a right, a golden right leg. I do not all right. Takeaway number four, The Dolphins continue to develop

players no matter how old they are. Davanta Parker and his six NFL season, Mike A Sicky in his third NFL season, coming over from a previous regime and being a player that Brian Floores and his staff inherit and they focus on the development of these players. Mike A Sicki has a big touchdown catch in this game. Davanta Parker has his season high and a season high for the Dolphins this season in general, with a hundred and nineteen receiving yards. He kind of just mixed in different

looks all game long. He caught some passes on slants, went to the ground once and made a tough catch. The broadcast crew talked about how tough that is for a six ft three receiver to go to the ground like that and make a sure catch like that. He can again winds up with one nineteen yards and eight catches. Caught a couple of slants and had some yack run after the catch some back shoulder balls. I think you just love to see the variety of ways which Devanta

Parker could beat defensive backs in this game. The true, really, the true, the true merit of the number one receiver is how well can you do against double teams? How well can you do on third down? How well can you do in short condensed areas in the red zone? How well can you do in the other team. Everyone in the stadium knows the ball is going to you, how do you perform well? Devanta has become a big on third downs all season. He's been big in the

red zone catching touchdowns. He has just been a good weapon all season long. Whoever the quarterback is today, it was Ryan Fitzpatrick, and here's what Fits had to say about Devanta Parker. DeVante is very special, you know with the ball and some of those tough catches, and so, you know, for for us and and really for me as a quarterback, of teams are gonna give us the opportunity to do that that I'm going to give up DeVante the opportunity to make that play more often than not.

And uh, you know, people can say sometimes that's not the right move and whatever else, but if I've got a guy that I trust that I seemed to over and do it over and over and over again, then I'm gonna give him every opportunity to make a play. And he did a great job making some of those today. It was just a lot of man coverage out there in a pretty classic Davante partner game when you play him in the end coverage. I talked a little bit

about the run after catch. Last year. There was a game up in Buffalo where Deavante put his shoulder down at the pilot and and just thrust into the end zone over a Buffalo Bills defender. We saw that throughout the course of the season. He talked about staying healthy, fighting through nis and bruises, just that development his game to be a little bit more willing to fight through those things, to be a little bit tougher, to be

more physical. He's become that guy. He's been reliable, durable, dependable, all those things you talk about. Mica Sicky, we talked a lot about tight ends and you're number one. Maybe it's a tough transition to the league because you have to work on pass protection, running game, pass routes, all

these things. Mike A. Sikey's rookie year to not get off to the start he wanted to, I'm sure, but in year two and three he's um flying up the boards in terms of his stats and production, and a big part of that is a finely tuned machine and working on the craft diligently, as Mike Kasicky has. I asked him post him about the touchdown catch because Ashton Davis came up and tried to get hands on him, how he works to fight through that contact, what he's learned as a route runner in the NFL in his

three years. Here's Mike on a great little breakdown of that touchdown reception and how he's worked to work different releases and different looks and different approaches into his game as a route runner. I think I've learned more about like releases and you know, using my hands, um, you know, making moves on guys and not just trying to beat him with my speed because at this level and everybody can run. So yeah, I knew that, you know, thirty two and come down try to get hands on me.

Was it was covered zero, There's nobody back there, So I knew if I just got his hands off me, and when we broke the huddle. It said like it's coming to you, no matter what said. Okay, So like when you when you hear that, go out and make a play. So um, how to get his hands on me? How to get open? Ran back fist through the ball as high as the stadium I think was up there for it felt like a minute, and I just jumped up,

caught it and he would though. I called the game when he touchdown the super Bowl because I was so excited. And you gotta love that final comment there. Earlier in the season, Ryan Fitzpatrick told us about how happy Mike Asiki is every time he catches a football. Looks like the first time, feels like the first time for Mike Kasiki every time he catches the ball. I apologize for the horrible singing. So let's take away number four. Takeaway number five, And I don't know how to phrase this.

I just think that the perception that we see on a daily basis, whether it's social media or whatever, has just gotten so much worse than it used to be. Where these narratives form and you can almost see them kind of mount and build up and manifest, and the ball just gets rolling and out of control, because you know, Twitter, to me, was not that much fun to be on. This week. The Dolphins are seven or four going into a home game against the Bengals with a chance to

get to eight and four. There were four and one in November. They're winners of six other last seve even and yet you would have thought that on social media the sky was falling. And I'm not sure if that's just an overexposure to information into access we have these days in the social media world. But I just would caution and suggest to just take a step away and relax and stop and smell the roses a little bit, because this team has played good football all season long.

The defense has been really, really sharp. The offense has been efficient. They've been good closers they've had they've made plays and they needed to. They've been big in the red zone, score touchdowns. They've had a weapon and a field goal kicker. They've got great special teams that gets it done every single week. We talked about Jason Sanders once again. Another Jets drive after a Dolphins kickoff starts

at the seven yard line. And I say all this because I know a bunch of the listeners do follow me on social media, and we're very much a family in that way. For the way we interact with each other talk about Dolphins football, it's kind of a safe haven, a release I get away if you will. And I just think we can maybe learn from that experience and from what today was a solid, resounding victory when after a week of getting all this praise and all this love,

it kind of stopped last week. And so now the Dolphins again seven and four at the end of November in a great spot heading into December. I want to go ahead and play some audio here from coach Flora's on the situation at quarterback because we again we saw many many things out there the last couple of weeks. Let's let coach talk about the situation at quarterback. Yeah,

he's healthy, he's he's he's the diamond. How many different ways do we have to say that, continue to say that, but keep we keep asking, keep answering the same the same way. So again, you know, he's he's dealing with with something with the hand. We'll take a day to day. He's a tough kid, he wants to be out there. Thankfully, we have guys who other guys who stepped up. We talk about we can talk about two, but we had fifty two other guys who were not there and play

their butts off today. I don't know in all three phases. And we're able to get a division win on the road, and now you have the most important part, the division win on the road. Flora's also said they try at him out pregame. We saw the CBS broadcast talking about two of throwing the ball in the tunnel back there. Flora Has also mentioned he was close to going in

this game. They decided to roll with Ryan Fitzpatricks. So we'll see about next week, evaluate and got the course of the week and we'll get you guys updates here on drivetime Miami Dolphins dot Com and otherwise. How about some individual notes here, Just talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick earlier in this game. I thought he was accurate on some of those slants against the Jets, kind of playing off coverage.

Good job taking advantage of what the defense gave him on those plays, got those drives, rolling, got some field goal range early in the game at running back position. I love the way DeAndre Washington kind of has that shifty look, but also the way he works in the

passing game. He's so well adept at kind of you know, on that screenplay where he picked up six seven yards, he shows a blitz pick up and it forces the pass rusher who comes in clean to kind of take an angle and basically get himself into a position where the time he took to go around it was basically the same amount of time it would have been if he had been blocked. But Washington dummies that blitz, that blitz pick up and then the leaks out there for

the reception. He had a couple of nice plays in this game again, lead the Dolphins with forty nine rushing yards. At wide receiver Davante Parker again so many different ways. He caught the football tenth career, one hundred yard receiving day, second this season, one nineteen yards in the game. That was the most for a single game for a Dolphins

receiver this season. I loved you Achem Grant's conversion on third down and eight created plenty of separation on that play, gave a big target there to Ryan Fitzpatrick, and they had really good pass protection on that play as well. At the tight end position, we talked about Mike Asiki and the growth and development there with a big, strong contact balance and running through those routes catching several passes

in this game. You see the big strong mids, the big strong hands of pull balls off the top of defenders heads, and it really helps when you can have that one on one situation to kind of loft that thing up there. He also joked after the game about Fits throwing the ball out of the stadium height wise. Durham Smith had a few catches, had a couple of nice blocks as well that I noted in this game. On that one screen pass to Washington again, Ted Carriss wiped a player out the second level on a block.

He does that just about every single week. Eric Flowers also had a big one thought. Jesse Davis had several nice plays in the running game as well as pass porten action in this game. And Robert Hunt had a great block on the second level on Matt Breda's eleven yard run, the biggest for him in the game, got downfield and made a big play. So you see the size and athletic ability of this offensive line just about

every single week. On the defensive line, they got there on takeaway Ray Kwon was knocking guys back and getting off block. Zach Seeler was in there almost every single play that seemed. Christian Wilkins did multiple things from stacking up the run, getting off blocks, shooting into the gap one one gap penetration style, getting into the backfield. These guys made so many plays. Shack Lawson had plays against the run, Emmanuel Ogba had some impact rushes, drew a hold,

played the run well as well. So this defensive line had one hell of a football game. At linebacker, Van Ginkl draws that hold early on in this game with that instant push off the line dips down around the corner, explosive first step and dips down to get that hold around the collar, the horse collar there from the offensive tackle that he then later beats a dig out block, and that's where the tight end comes across the formation,

tries to dig out the edge. He knifes and under that thing and trips up Frank Gore with what was a huge gap behind him for what could have been a huge run. Instead, it goes to third and four. Dolphins defense gets off on the very next play. I thought the way Kyle van Noy played in this game was very special. Are very good as well a couple of special plays where he got half a sack on the quarterback. He also had one big play where Donald broke out of the pocket and he met him and

kind of cut him off at the pass. Worked from the opposite side of the defensive line, came all the way around, kept his eyes in the quarterback and forced Donald to kind of throw falling away instead of attacking the line of scrimmage, and that throw sailed in complete. Dolphins defense gets off the field. Jerome Baker fantastic pursuit speed on a backside flare to Frank Gore where he has to run across the formation, gets a big open

field stop there. Earlier, had a great pass rush on Sam Donald and just continues to force blitz the way teams picks up pick up the blitz to change because he's so effective and getting after the quarterback through multiple gaps and different blitz looks as well. Eland and Roberts. We talked about his game shooting the gap on that fourth and one. He does that pretty much every single week. Nick need him talked about a post game We just we know he's gonna do it once or twice the game,

and there he did it. On a big important play. Speaking of those defensive backs, we talked about the numbers on the Dolphins up against the Jets. Top three receivers Byron Jones, just constantly staying in phase and not taking the cheese on takeoff routes or double moves, gets himself into perfect position. He got one catch over the top of him today which was just a great catch by Abrashott Perriman. But my goodness, these guys they're playing so well.

Xavian Howard has his hands on two footballs, does get the second interception, possibly saves a touchdown on a long pass play with a pass breakup as well, just continues to play at an all pro level. This guy has been so much fun to watch this season and in his Dolphin's career. Nick Needon gets the interception, a couple of good plays otherwise as well. So this Miami secondary just continues to light things up. Can't wait to watch

that tape on defense for Tuesday's podcast. As for now, let's go ahead and welcome in my guest, John con Jemmy, as we do every Sunday on the podcast, the co host of the Audible podcast. Let's get him in here. John con Jemmy and joining me now on the Drivetime podcast as we do every Sunday. Couldn't make it happen last week, but we're bad back again this week. John con Jemmy, the co host of the Audible here on the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. First, John, how are you doing?

How is your Thanksgiving? Man? Thanksgiving was great. I was thankful for a lot of things, and health and safety number one and number two. Um, you know, bouncing back to see the Dolphins bounced back after a loss last week at Denver and then this week winning by any means necessary. I think it was. It wasn't pretty, but it was. It was beautiful at the end because you're seven and four and and you're heading uh down the

road where winds get tempered to accomplish. And I think the Dolphins are on the right track at least, uh, you know, grinding out wins they need to need to win. It's certainly beautiful when you look at the cumulative stats for the Dolphins defense and two games against their a f C rival this season, really fun to watch that defense turned the heat up on those Jets and we got again John. Contributions from many many players in this game. Like you mentioned, let's go ahead and kick things off

with your first takeaway from Dolphins twenty Jets three. Well, I think, you know, I have to call out the sudden change defense in terms of when the Dolphins turned the football over in the second half and they were struggling to to put positive plays together, struggling to get first downs and string them together. Uh, you know, Brita lays one on the ground, Laird Laze one on the ground,

and the defense responds. You know, they forced a punt on the first turnover and then a Landed Roberts comes up with that big fourth and one stop on the second one. I just thought that that was probably a turning point in the game, other than early points scored by Jason Sanders when he needed to come through with big kicks. I thought the defense was put in a

tough spot in the second half, and they responded. They responded by uh, you know, coming up with some big answers against the Jets offense that couldn't move the football on third down and and get stuffed on fourth down

by a Landed robertson that defensive front. So I think the sudden change defense was really huge for the Dolphins today and Nick needn't talked about a post game about how on one side of the ball might be not you know, not doing their up to their standards, then another side of the ball has to pick them up. When you talk about Jason Sanders, those fifty yard field goals he hits, do you wonder how much that changes the complexion of the game in terms of how the

Dolphins can call it, how the Jets call it. It all worked out for the end for Miami twenty three once again, and John conjemmy second takeaway from the victory is what, well, it's it's a kicker. It's Jason Sanders. It's he's been the difference in the Dolphins feeling comfortable in games or feeling anxious in games. He's been so solid and the majority of his kicks are tough, difficult kicks, eight in a row from fifty yards plus. I mean, are you kidding me? The guy's been money and I

just can't believe that. You know, we we we go by week after week and you kind of paid lip service to it, but how important those points were early

in the game against the Jets. Number one, you know, to answer a field goal with a field goal, but then to get that pad to go to thirteen to three just before halftime, to have to have a feeling of, you know what, we need one more score that's gonna you know, have the knockout punch to this Jets offense because unless we really screw it up, they're not going to have the firepower to come back and beat us. And I just think, you know, give credit where credit

is due. And well, I know we've talked about him a bunch throughout the season, but Jason Sanders was really pivotal and and being able to get the points when you needed to get them because you weren't getting touchdowns, you weren't having a lot of momentum, and he was able to come through in a big time way today. I like your point there about how it makes Dolphins go from comfortable to anxious or from anxious to comfortable in these games. We saw the Chargers game twenty to fourteen.

A long field goal there puts it right through, makes it a two possession game. You go back to the Cardinals game on the road to was that big win where to Or drove the team ninety three yards and then again in the fourth quarter and I think that fourth one play right on that fringe of field goal ranger, maybe where other teams might think they're on the fringe. For us, we're in full blow and field goal range. But it gives you the conference to say we can

go out and take the league. We don't have to take a risk here on a fourth and one. We just put stars in the game. He puts three points on the board. So I love that point, John, And with that, let's go ahead and finish up your third takeaway from again Dolphins twenty judge three. Miami moves to

seven and four on the season. And I thought the veteran quarterback Bryan Fitzpatrick did just enough today to be able to move the offense, to be able to keep alive place, to be able to run the option like theeen year old when he tucked it down and ran it late in the game. But I thought he got everybody involved. He had eleven different receivers. He was he was pretty much accurate throwing the football early. You know, he didn't start out the second half of the way

he wanted to. But then there was a lot of pressure in the pocket, which reminded me a lot of last week's game when Ta was a little bit frustrated because he was trying to navigate pressure and still be accurate and find receivers down the field. But I thought Fitzy did a really good job of just calming everybody down and finding Davante Parker getting him going again with eight catches for a hundred and nineteen that was the

season high for him. But finding the tight ends and throwing touchdowns in the red zone, all the things you need to do to be successful. I thought Bryan Fitzpatrick did an excellent job of of guiding the offense, especially on third down where they you didn't have the running game to rely on a lot today. Uh, they did just enough in those areas, But I think Fits did

more than enough. I guess when I when I take a look at the overall picture of coming in on a short week of preparation, getting your number called, and being that veteran presence that Brian Flores uses and needs and relies on in a backup quarterback. He joked post

game he mentioned the option there. John, He joked post game that I think that was a play they had in there for two of but they kept it in for me and then he and then he went on to say that you know, I heard the play call, I laughed, made the call to the all, and then just kind of thought to myself, this is a pretty fine situation. Guy that turned thirty eight years old earlier in the week. But nonetheless, like you mentioned, he gets

it done. Dolphins defense and special teams gets it done once again and win the game twenty three going away there, scoring the final twenty points of the game seven and four. John, we got a home game coming up against the Bengals at hard Rock Stadium next Sunday. We'll see you then, my friend, thank you so much for joining me. No, you got it one we need at home, that's for sure. To get dating for looking forward to Travis. And so there he goes John can Jemmy the co host of

The Audible with Kim Bocamper. You guys can check that out on the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. Before we get out of here for this podcast, couple of quick notes. It is December as of this week. It will be

later on in the week. And as Mike Francessa always said, season doesn't start to after Thanksgiving Dog, and it is now after Thanksgiving week twelve and the books Dolphins defense playing strong, got some tough opponents coming down the pike here, coming both to Miami and on the road the final two weeks of the season, but for now, a three game homestand and look I talked about it in the fifth takeaway, kind of stopping and smelling the roses of

what has been a successful season so far. Plenty of games to go, but so far it's been fun to watch, and the Dolphins are in good position. As a lifelong Dolphins fan at age thirty three, I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna enjoy this. I'm gonna cherish it. I think the future is bright Miami. I think a lot of us feel that way, and we are just gonna get things started here this season. But I'll be damned if I'm gonna stop, not stop and smell the roses along the way. We have a fun December coming up.

Patrick Mahomes coming into our building here in a couple of weeks, a Patriots rematch that we, you know, want to avenge from earlier in the season. The Raiders are a tough team, the Bills another tough a f C opponent, And speaking of the Raiders and Bills. Man I thought the Chargers might pull that game out there laid against the Buffalo Bills. They did not, so Buffalo moves to eight and three and maintains that one game advantage in

the a f C East. But Miami at seven or four now among the non division leaders, is tied with the Colts at seven or four for UH six and seventh in the a f C standings right now. Of course, Baltimore at six and four plays the Steelers on Tuesday, so that could chan age things. But the Raiders lost to the Falcons knocks them to six and five, and then you have the Patriots at five and six, with a couple of four win teams beyond that. So the a f C is starting to kind of round into shape.

Dolphins have a great opportunity to ahead of them starting this Sunday against the Bengals, a chance to get to eight and four, and that would be a great spot to be heading into the final quarter of the season. All right, that's gonna be my time here on the Sunday Recap podcast. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcast Spotify. Leave us a rating, leave us a review, give me a follow on Twitter. It's at Wingfield NFL. Follow the team at Miami Dolphins.

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