Dolphins Jaguars Week 6 Recap

they were always the team that I followed. But when you grow up in a town with a team that has four Hall of Famers on it, Liketle Mariners had, that's your primary focus. And as I got older, it started to appreciate sports more than just being a wide eyed kid watching with stars in my eyes. Football became my thing, and the Miami Dolphins became everything, not just

in sport, but in hobbies and interest. It was the Miami Dolphins, And I just wanted to reflect on the last twenty or so years as a fan, because as this season goes in a direction that I don't think anybody saw going this way through six weeks, I find myself reflecting as a fan. And I mentioned the Manners because current Mariners outfitler Mitch Haniger wrote a tremendous letter in The Players Tribune earlier this week talking about the eleven and three finish the Mariners had this season that

put them in position to qualify for the postseason. On the final day of the regular season, they had to have a win, and they had to have a Yankees or Red Sox loss. Had they done that, they would have ended the longest playoff drout an American professional sports

at twenty years. But they didn't. They lost. They came up short, and Mitch reflected upon that upon carrying the weight of the twenty year playoff drout and how even though that twenty year drought wasn't the current players burden to carry, it also was because they wore the star, the nautical star on their hat. That's the Manner's logo. And I say that as a precursor to absolve anyone in this building of past performances, because those should not

be attached to anybody that's here now. Players and coaches now should not be held accountable for what happened to thousand and six. They can only control what happened since their arrival. But that's why I come to you as a fan of this Miami Dolphins franchise. A fan who cried tears of joy when they beat the Jets in two thousand eight to win the a f C East literal tears of joy. A fan who earlier that year went way out of character, way off script by putting

a hole in my bedroom door. It was flimsy, cheap wood. Don't worry about that, but I put a hole in that bedroom door when Matt Shob converted a fourth in goal in that game on a quarterback draw to beat Miami with the Houston Texans. A fan who has received Dolphins themed Christmas and Birthday gifts every year since I can remember. I don't need any more Dolphins socks. Guys, this is tough. It's deflating. It's the word I keep

coming back to. It feels like every time this team has built momentum over the last twenty years, it dissipates in the most gut wrenching fashion. After that oh eight season, quarterback gets hurt, the Dolphins win seven games, and the young quarterback who would possibly be the future really ruggled in his place. We later find out he was never the guy for anybody before oh eight. The last winning

season was two thousand five, not that long ago. Before that, and the next year our coach didn't leave to Alabama and the Dolphense won six games in the free agent quarterback acquisition blows up in our face, while like we didn't sign goes on to a Hall of Fame career.

Before that, two thousand three, a ten win season, didn't make the playoffs, but it was a good football team that was followed up by a shocking retirement by the best player on the team and one of the best players in the National Football League, a consequent coaching fire, and a four and twelve season after. It took a lot longer but ten wins playoff appearance. How do you follow that up? The quarterback suffers a second a c L injury inside of a calendar year before the season

even starts. Six wins, then ten wins. A team that established an identity as a strong defensive team that could take the life force out of imposing offense, turned the football over, put the clamps on third down, rush the quarterback, play type man coverage, and win in all the small areas and be disciplined and find their way to victory through the things that make a football team great together, and then they have a great offseason, a draft that

everybody praises, a free agency class that fixes a bunch of perceived holes on the roster. National media starts talking about you, giving you some hype, and you're one in five. We are one in five football team, and we have to wear that we just lost to a team that hasn't won a game since Week one of last year. It's twenty game losing street. They busted today. That's a bitter pill to have to swallow. And as we go forward and search for answers, I get how you're feeling.

Football is supposed to be something we do for fun, right, It's an escape from everyday monotony. Some franchises stay in that winning spotlight for years, decades, even others find short bouts of success for a couple of year period and they go back into obscurity. Others have a pop up year here or there, maybe they even make a deep playoff run. But for us, for the is the bleed Awk went orange so much that we fight about it on Twitter, that we come out here and watch them practice.

We deck out an entire room or garage in our house full of Dolphins memorabilia. Those moments of success and joy have been way too fleeting for way too long. One solid year which ends in a first round playoff drubbing, typically, and then it's back to not knowing what's going to happen in the future. Right now, at one in five, we don't know what's gonna happen in the future. It's not good right now. There's plenty of season left to go. But all of that is why this is so painful

and why you are demanding answers. Everybody wants to know why, How does it get better? Maybe you don't want that right now. Maybe you want to be upset and let all these emotions come out in anger and sadness, emptiness. Is a football fan, and you know, we know that a game of football is much bigger than a game to you, the football fan. Whatever emotion you want to feel, you're certainly within your rights to feel that way. I'll never tell you how to be a fan of this team.

Do your thing, man, but gosh, it's been a tough go and I just want you guys to know that the most important thing among this entire community of Dolphins fans is the community itself, and regardless of the results, all forever be thankful for the relationships and opportunities afford to me because of this team, this organization, and the sport. But yeah, this sucks. It sucks so bad. I want

to bring you that upbeat, positive show. We can talk about all the great things we just saw, all the great plays and great players and great long term outlook. But for five weeks it just hasn't been the case. So we four, John, let's get to the show here, we'll have the five takeaways and then we'll get out. Let's go ahead and play the music and get this thing going. Cutdown, Miami un Drawn? What's up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins

podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. I am here to bring you or daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we did the monologue off the top. Why don't we go ahead and jump right in to the five Takeaways from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.

This is the Drive Time Podcast, So we had the opening monologue, So if you fast forward the opening part of the show every single week, go ahead and go back and check that out. That was a big part of the show. So hit that rewind button a few times to get a nice little state of the die

hard Dolphins fan right now. And for the takeaways, I want to spend it back to what we took away from this game in particular, and maybe we'll discuss next steps as we get to the animal see how much time we have and how we feel we might pump

that to another episode. We start here with takeaway number one, which is playing within small margins, and the Dolphins, I thought on Sunday improved their ability or opportunity to win within those small margins to stay on schedule, which I thought flipped everything with an efficient day from the quarterback and the offense as far as putting up yardage and moving the football average yards per play, it flipped everything.

From time of possession thirty three minutes, twenty seven ments for Jacksonville, sixty eight plays from Miami, sixty two plays for Jacksonville. Miami out gains Jacksonville four three six On third down, Miami goes nine for seven teams a great number. Jacksonville goes three for twelve also a great number for Miami. They got the things they needed in so many areas to win the game within the capacity of the type

of game they invite by their style of play. And last year it was a master stroke with the defense setting up short fields and the special teams winning the hidden yardage battles, to not get penalized, to create penalties, to get knocked back on return men, to pin teams deep on kickoffs that you poach inside the five yard line, and then the offense came up with timely plays both in the run game in the passing game. But now you have other mistakes popping up that give you almost

no chance of victory in a game like that. Let's talk about the entire or how the recipe rather and ingredients are both finding ways to come together to not succeed. A holding call that turns a second and goal from the one into first and goal from the twenty a very high nineties percent chance you score a touchdown in that position right three places from two yard from the one yard line. Analytics and research numbers tell you you're probably gonna score from there. Then you go first and

goal to twenty. That number is cut significantly in half, especially when the next two plays are a two yard rush and an incomplete screen pass two Miles Gaskin, where he's gonna have to make several guys missed to even have a chance to find the end zone and get a touchdown. It's okay to kick field goals when you have a dynamite special teams and a defense that's first in every major category from third down, takeaways, and points

throughout the course of most of last season. But that's not what this defense has been this year, not even close. And that's before you're down Xavien Howard and Byron Jones on the perimeter, which is going to be our takeaway number two. Spoiler alert. Next drive, Albert Wilson catches a pass one yard short of the sticks on second and six, and he runs backwards, giving those three or three of those yards back, and we miss on the third and

four punt. The football two A misses the throw on the next drive on on third and two, but then he converts the twenty yard pass on fourth and two to mccollins. And this is what I'm talking about, an instance where being aggressive, playing the numbers to your advantage and hitting a play with your big playmakers, you can make mistakes when you have those types of plays created and when they happen. That's a positive example of this

little case study here in our first takeaway. So there was a mistake, but they corrected it by hitting on the next play. Then we drop a pass on third and goal and settle for a field goal. Next drive, Mike Kasiki runs arounte one yard shot of the sticks on third down, and now we have to punt again.

First drive in the second half, overcome a penalty and convert on second and fourteen, moving to Jacksonville territory and hit a big pass up the sideline to knock on the door of the red zone, but it's coming back offensive pass interference on mc collins first and twenty run for no gain, a tunnel screen to waddle to set up a third and fourteen, no dice punt the ball. Next drive, Bing bang bong touchdown master class. Look fantastic. Next drive, dropped pass on third and one. We lose

the challenge there. There goes a time out and one of the challenges you have. Then we punt and lose a challenge there, and that looked very very close, but their chances. I think of overturning that on a play that looks that close on replay, they're not gonna overturn something like that. That one hurts too, but still lost time outlost challenge. Next drive, savon akbed drops the past that would have given Miami a third and three. Instead, we get another route one yard short of the sticks

on third and six. Then we run on fourth and one out of shotgun. Durham Smith gets beat across his face and the block or the block does not succeed. He gets beat across his face by the opposing defender who gets in the backfield and makes a play on Malcolm Brown play it fails, and then Jacksonville kicks a field goal after that, after a quick hitter on fourth and doubt fourth down from Trevor Lawrence to set up the game winning field goal from fifty three yards. So

how many mistakes were in there? Double digits. I mean, that's no recipe for success in any former fashion. But if you play the small margins game where you need to be really sharp in those areas, and that's the type of performance you're gonna get that is gonna be tough to overcome. That's one in five takeaway number two the defense without exaviing Howard and Byron Jones. We know

we talked about this last season. We heard Brian Baldinger talk about it, even put some of his sound on the air waves here where he talked about how a lot of the creativity and blitz packaging and the confidence to send extra rushers up front is because of how good this team is in the back end and coverage with Exaviing Howard, with Byron Jones, with Nick Needham, with Eric Rowe. Today, both those guys are down and they had to play a different type of game because of that,

and that's that's understandable. But you coach to the personnel you have, and they played I thought fairly well for the most part. On the outside. They gave the Jaguars a lot of chances to make plays, and just like we talked about in the previous segment, the Jaguars made their fair share mistakes. How many missed rows do they have? How many drop passes did they have? Especially in that

first half. But when you're built around those guys, it's gonna be tough to win without them, even when you have a pair of corners playing largely off coverage and giving up those cushions. I talked to Seth Levitt about this during the game when we were getting for the postgame show, about all the second and fifteens and how that seemed to be the time that Miami like to dial up the pressure after a false start or after a negative play on first down, and that was so successful.

But it was hard to get into those spots because on those first downs there was a lot of space to be given to the Jacksonville offense, and they for large stretches of the game, maybe even the entire game. I don't really recall his name being called barely at all. They avoided Nick Needham, and no, it was not gonna

gets himself in great position a lot. He got beat by a perfect throw in the touchdown pass from Lawrence to Marvin Jones, and then he was beaten later again where I thought he had a chance to get his head around on that penultimate Jaguars drive. I think it was. But we did see the Dolphins go back to more pressure looks late in the game when the Dolphins really had to get a stop and must have spots, we saw some exotic stuff and the pressure worked I mean

Jerome Baker running downhill. To me, he looks way faster than he does going side to side right now. I don't know. I don't know why. That's just what it looks like to me. You get the Emmanuel og Bob bat down, Baker running free on the quarterback. Christian Wilkins wins around the side of the tackle from a three tech position where he loops around the outside and corners for a big strip set. What a big time play from big time player. There. There was some positive stuff,

but then I keep seeing this question on Twitter. Where is the Amba defense, Travis? Where is the guy standing up and dancing around and looking for different gaps to shooting confuse the quarterback. We saw all the time last year. We see it a few times this year. But I look at this defense and I continuously see these same things popping up on tape where we talked about on the podcast last week. Too many instances of guys covering grass.

There's instances where guys are miss aligned pre snap. There was a play in the game last week where Jerome Bakers on the wrong side of the formation. I don't know if that's him, if that's someone telling him where to be or what the case. Maybe all I know is the running backs on the right side of the formation. He's on the left side, and that was the guy that he covered and it was an easy ten yards

before he even got there to the football. There was a couple of plays last week where they went unbalanced offensive line and Brady had like three or four blockers to two or three hats in the area. That's just not being lined up in a competitive way to to compete on a football field. And if you're having issues at times getting aligned, how do you operate a complex defense that asks guys to kind of freelance and pick their way into certain gaps. Maybe freelances the wrong word,

but you get what I'm saying. It's complex to run that AMO defense. It's complex to run a gamut of twists and stunts and games up front. To have linebackers looping and scraping, and you have safeties filling and guys blitzing and capping off those blitzes. That's a lot of reactionary play you have to have that comes from preparation. And this is a young team for sure, but if you can't get those other things executed, you're not gonna

get that executed. So basically, my takeaways that in order to get to the complex stuff, you better be rock solid and all the other stuff. And right now this Dolphins team just is not. Take away number three. Look at how different the offense looked in this game. We talked about four and thirty one yards. We've been clamoring for that for a long time. That's that's good eating

in today's NFL. And you know, the the command of the offense that to a tongue of iloa held in this game, I thought we saw it right away on the first touchdown pass of the game, the first drive of the game of a master class drive by the Miami Dolphins offense ended on Jalen Waddle touchdown reception, where that's a running play. It looks like a running play to me that he checks too. You see him kind of stand up with the line scrimmage, make a little

hand signaled to to Jalen Waddle. They get that thing checked to the right. Look he comes with a little glance route off the r p O off the fake handoff. It was exactly like the play in New England on first and four teen, backed up in our own end, having to have a first down to extend that drive and win that football game. The exact same thing he checks so that gets out of the bad run play, gets to a positive pass play, turns into a touchdown, and post a possibly a negative play behind the line,

converting third downs. The Dolphins had their best third down performance of the season today. Two with his legs, by the way, talked about the time position of flipping in the other direction. Now instead of being on the field for forty minutes, defense is only out there for twenty seven minutes. Lengthy drives, you know, a ninety one yard touchdown, driving eight yard touchdown drive to start the game, up and down the field to produce four thirty one yards,

hitting consistent layups, getting guys the football early. You saw him hit the top of that drop and the ball came out and on time, gave guys chance to create after the catch. We'll talk about the yacht numbers on tomorrow's podcast. To me, that's how the offense was supposed to look with the pieces they brought in, with the offensive line strenks they had, with the quarterback strenks. He

has obviously the rotation of running backs. To me, that was today what you want to look like as far as moving the ball from twenty to twenty, and you know, we'll get the other mistakes figured out and corrected later, because I thought this offense was so close to putting up thirty five forty two points in this game if they just get some of those airs corrected. We talked

about the third downs. How about the must have its situations the fourth quarter on the go ahead drive two ago, six for six, eighty three yards and the touchdown pass on what could have been the game winning drive if the defense held their end of the bargain. And he finishes that fourth quarter after that drive nine for ten with a hundred nine passing yards and the touchdown pass,

So play his best ball late in the game. On third down, he himself was eight for fourteen with eighty passing yards and two rushing first down, So nine total conversions on sixteen tries, and a lot of those were third and long. Two on the first scoring drive under pressure, even with a hand in his face kind of throwing

a football from an off off platform. Look, there was one place where he's looking down the middle of the field and he fires to the left because the footworks not a line because he's off the platform after being chased from pressure, and he delivers a strike for a first down a big third and six on the go ahead drive in the fourth quarter, utilizing Jalen Waddle ten catches, seventy yards, two touchdowns. All three of his touchdowns for both two and Waddle have gone from the other guy

to the other guy. Getting Mike Kasiki running in space eight catches for one, fifteen crossing routes, getting going vertical with a thirty two yard pass to him, and just finding ways to get him on linebackers on safeties and creating after the catch because he's getting hit and stride checking to that glance route off the run look based

on the spacing on that first touchdown pass. Ultimately, I think that some of the misses were just little things like communication, like for instance, on the one of the field goals you kicked from its ow the ten yard buying where Gascon sits down his route instead of continuing up on the little angle route. That was like a little miscommunication. I thought that they could iron out and possibly give themselves a touchdown pass the next time they

see that. And there were a few drops again in this game as well, now to me too, A did have one big air and one big mistake. The big mistake was the interception, and after the game he owned it. He said that was an awful decision that he should have never thrown that football, and the error was the third and two that I talked about earlier, and I actually liked the throw of the decision to put it up there, and I want to see it on tape and see what he saw because the TV broadcast didn't

show me where guys were coming from. But I think we just gotta hit that because I thought he had a couple of guys open. The ball just kind of flew to empty space and he gave up a first down to make that throw. But he came back and converted on fourth and two. Anyways, but to go over three hundred yards thirty seven nine yards, two touchdowns and the bad pick one passer rating three rushes for twenty

two yards. To do that without Fuller, Parker and Williams, that says something to me, but it doesn't say anything to to UH. Every time he was asked about his performance individually after the game, he said what he should have said, that we lost, and that's all that matters. But take away number three was I thought the offense looked better and more proficient, more efficient, and more successful,

and he about them being close. I tend to agree with to about them getting closer to the ultimate finished products. But week six, now in the NFL, you don't have that much time to get it figured out. So it has to happen. Now. It's a go time right now. Takeaway number four the mystery of the first and fourth quarter versus the second and third quarter. We've been following

this script all year long. It seems basically going back to that Las Vegas game or even you know, even the Buffalo game where the offense had some drives early and bogged down. But the Radar game, for sure, you start off fast, the offense has some success, the big

Malcolm Brown touchdown running that Raiders game. In the Colts game, you get out to an early lead as well, and then the offense kind of disappears in the second quarter and the defense starts to kind of come undone in that second and third quarter, and the opposition scores to start the third quarter on their first drive of the game. They closed the second quarter in this drive with pointed

in and the half as well. It's just been the same script of strong first quarter, strong script offensively, defensively, getting some stops, getting some drives, getting some field goals, even touchdowns for both of two of start. Now, his first drive as a resulted in a touchdown, two for two in that regard, and then you just have this this empty vat of space where nothing is being accomplished for the most part, and then the fourth quarter turns it back up and it's right back to the same

old stuff. The offense is hitting key third downs, the defense is getting the pressure they desire, they're getting stops. Just a weird, weird script for the game. And on that track, Jalen Waddle in this game had twelve targets. Eleven of those targets came in the first and fourth quarter. He made four catches on four targets on that first drive or in the first quarter rather for twenty nine yards in a touchdown, and only had his next catch came in the fourth quarter. I don't, I don't. That's

all I have for the takeaway. It's just it's it's confusing to me. I don't know why that's the case, but I just think it's very curious that the games keep following the same script almost every single week so far. And take away number five as the special teams. You know Sanders from fifty eight. I've seen him hit that field goal more times than I can count, even in his sleep. I've seen him hit from that distance no problem. But it wasn't even close. And that's three points that

would have been valuable in this game. And Michael Pollardi less than forty yards per punt four for an average of thirty nine point five and a couple of those we're kicking from around midfield and we're not even getting a chance to down the football. It's short of the ten yard line, and they're fair catching and not giving you a chance of a a bounce or a roll or a pen. It's it's costing you yardage. So those are the five takeaways. Special teams are strange and not hitting

well at all. Right now, the mystery of the first and fourth quarter versus the second and third quarter. The offense looking different under two a toungle by Loa and his performance in this game. Takeaway number two without Byron and X, the defense is difficult to execute. And then number one takeaway playing with small margins. It's difficult, especially when you make that many mistakes. So I want to talk about a few individuals here before you out here

on the podcast. We're not gonna do a postgame show today, maybe tomorrow's podcast. We'll see, but I'll tweet the link out for you guys either way so you can listen to me Seth and o J kind of unpack this. But as far as the individuals that we didn't talk about in the takeaways, Christian Wilkins is certainly deserving of a nod in this game, had a big strip sack. He continues to really hold the point against the running game.

I mean the sack that he got from the three tech, which is aligned right outside the outside shoulder of your offensive guard. To go from that position to looping around the defense or the offensive tackle and corner from that defensive end position and get a strip sac is impressive, especially when you consider all his run game work that he did in this game and all season long, with the tackles, the TFLs, the run stop win percentage. He's

having a hell of a year. He's a hell of a player, and I continue to take my hat off to Christian Wilkins I think Jalen Phillips continues to not just look the part, but you can tell by the way offenses are playing against him that he's he's either there he's getting there because they're doubling him, they're chipping him there, using him as the unblocked freeman to try to use the quarterbacks ball handling and you know, the decision on on zone reads and RPOs and that type

of thing to influence him and make him have to react rather than just play straightforward. They're doing so much on Phillips, try to negate him out of game plans, and he's doing everything from set in the edge, providing pressure on the quarterback, condensing inside. I just continue to be really impressed with his game, and he continues to get after the quarterback. So does Emmanuala. Had a couple of big players in this game. The big sack in this one, a big bat down at the lion of scrimmage.

He continues to look to part off that edge. After his kind of drop off performance last week with no quarterback pressures, he got right back to work in this one and return to being the same Emmanual. But we all know and love around here talked about Jalen Waddle, just the way he approaches the football and makes tough catches. I know he has some drops this season, but he made a couple of tough catches in traffic in this game that I was really impressed with. And he continues

to impress me. I just want to see more. Just give me more Waddle. I want more and more Waddle. I want more and more. Mike KASICKI, he has himself a heck of a football game in this one, just catching the ball and rambling down the field for big games eight for one fifteen. What a big game that is for a tight end. I thought Robert Hunt had a lot of big time hits and blocks and coming across the formation wiping guys out good and pass pro creating space in the running game. Really made a mention

of Robert Hunt in my notes. We'll talk more about the offensive line on the Ultimately two podcast on tomorrow's show, so keep an air out for that, and then Javon Holland want to talk about here for a second. There was a play with Holland where he's a split safety on one side of the field and the play goes

to the opposite side of the field. And he comes all the way across the formation basically disregarding a guy that ran through his area and coming down and closing on a pass that Lawrence through and getting the past break up, and they almost flagged him for it. I think for a camera what it was there was there was some flag they picked up after the play. But

he came from nowhere to make that play. And we saw that all the time on his organ tape where he was just relentless in his pursuit of the football to not just show the speed and reaction skills that he has athletically and physically, but the mental makeup to understand this route is going behind me. That means this route is gonna feel this place. I'm gonna come off and jump that make a big play. We saw all the time in Oregon. I thought we saw a couple

of times in this game. We'll talk about it more on the AL twenty two review when you get a better look at the safety's But I continue to be so impressed by his coverage, the way he flows downhill, his work coming around a receiver who's stationary and coming to the quarterback. There's so many times where he could easily get that hand and the lower back and turn him and get a past interference call or a hold

or whatever the case may be. And he's just not drawing those fouls because he does it clean, and he's so adept at finding the football and the tackling the sure tackling the run game and you know, off the football when receivers are in space. Been super super impressed with Javon Holland's game, and he Jalen Waddle and Jalen Phillips and then Leah Meickenberg has had some moments as well. Those first four draft picks. I think you really got

something there with that class. So that kind of takes us into our final talpic here that I told you guys we talked about as far as like where to go from here? And where do you go from here? To me? Seth made a great point on the podcast about how you know, we kind of got we got some some heat on the on the postgame show for not calling for people's heads, and that's just not something you're ever gonna hear from us, because that's what well beyond our pay grades and well beyond our ability to

assess who's doing what kind of job around here. So we wanted to kind of, you know, fight back on that, and just in seth point I thought was really good to the point point of you're never going to get out of this perpetual rebuild you find yourself in that we kind of talked about earlier in the podcast, if you don't find a system and and work through the kinks and work through some of the downfalls of whatever

is going on within your organization. We've seen so many coaches, GMS players, anyone involved in this league has had slumps, has had moments where it looked like maybe that wasn't the guy for that job, for that team, for that particular possessition, wherever the case may have been. There has

been a lot of those moments. I thought Seth said it well when he said that you're not gonna get to where you want to go if you just repeat this rebuilding process over and over again and don't give guys a chance to find their footholds and find and

establish their hold on this football team. And while we get that a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars previously win list and previously when listen their last twenty games combined going to last season, yeah, that's gonna that's gonna really cause some questions to be asked, some hard questions about adjustments or what are you doing that's not working, because it's not working and you've got to find the fix.

But to just think that you're gonna go out there and make whole cell changes and have it all fixed that way, I think that's not realistic. I think you have to look at the man in the mirror, like O. J always says, and find those results internally, and especially for the rest of the season. It's only it's week six right now. We have eleven football games left to play this year, right, seventeen games? Yeah, eleven games left

to play this year. To me, that's a chance to evaluate a lot of young players this roster still has. And I'm not even looking. I'm not gonna look at the standings anymore, because what's We're not doing that right now? One in five you're a looking at the standings. So what do you want to do? You want to see if this quarterback can continue to build upon the things that he showed in training camp in the preseason and week one and out week's number six. I thought he's

played well so far. Really the entire calendar year, and George Gonzi talked about him building off what he did in training camp and in preseason, and I thought we saw a continuation of that in this game. But the running back position, you have two young running backs and Miles gascon Savana. What can they give you? Is Malcolm Brown a long term fixture there? At receiver? Wattle continues to get pumped targets and continues to make catches and

make plays and score touchdowns. Excited about his development. Can we get some le game going with Jalen Waddle at that at the position as well Parker and Williams. Can they come back and kind of earned earned some of their their keep as far as production, because it hasn't been there this year for Eill of those guys with the injuries popping up here, Mike Asiki continues to show his trajectory towards a year by year improvement. The tight

end position. How does leam Mykenburg progress? How is Robert Hunt progress? I thought both guys had a good games today. I thought Robert Hunt was fantastic today. What else we have on the offensive line there? Michael Dieter was off to a strong star. Greg Mans has played pretty well in his place as well. On defense, Christian Wilkins continues to show you things here your number three. Andrew van Ginkl I thought his best game of the season today.

Jalen Phillips continues to show a week by week improvement. There are a lot of developmental players on this roster. Javon Hall on the second Dary Brandon Jones in the secondary. Nick Needam continues to play well. No Whatnogady got a chance to maybe he gets more chances going forward. The linebacker position. Jerome Baker is still very young and on a contract he just signed. Can he kind of turned things around? To me? There's lots of things to look

at on this team. And I know I talked about it last week about not going into evaluation mode because it's just way too early for me to do that. I understand the need and the the release for something to think about a fix. How do you fix this mess wearing right now? Like I understand the want and the desire to do that, just not really keen on doing that. I think you have to go out and figure out what's going on with in your football team.

What's going on on this fifty three man roster, which guys, this is what you're gonna find out right now, gut checked time. We found out back in two thousand nineteen, which of those guys were going to be around long term. Eric Rowe was a guy that proved himself. Preston Williams kind of guy that proved himself late and that's he's in. Vante Parker sure as hell proved himself late in that season.

That's kind of how you approach this season. Now, how can they who's gonna be the guys that galvanize and really are the engines that drive the turnaround, but drive victories and drive this team? Just playing better football right now? It's I mean about victories anymore. It's about playing better football for me right now. I'm sure you know they'll tell you something different. As far as coaches and players,

it's all about winning. But I want to see better football be because it wasn't a lot better on Sunday lose the Jaguars. It's not a lot better. Let's see more consistent. All three phases complimentary football is continue to build and get this thing better and make the program that you have right now improve. That's the best way You're gonna get back into success and turn this thing around and get off this perpetual cycle we talked about in the monologue. You have to have the guys internally

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