Dolphins Panthers Week 12 Recap

hear this win win, win, win, win win. That's right, four straight victories for your Miami Dolphins, and it might have been the most impressive of the entire bunch. We'll talk about these draft classes of the last couple of years, two U to Waddle, the defensive performance on the five Takeaways, special teams, everything from this complimentary victory by the Miami Dolphins.

Will talk about the game by the numbers, and we'll play a segment as we do weekly from the post game show on five sixty with yours truly, Seth Levitt and O. J. McDuffie from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Let's go ahead, and soak this one in for a day.

What do you say, Dolphins? A comprehensive, complementary team victory, scoring on teams, sacks and hits and takeaways, and third down defense on that side of the football, explosive plays and balance on offense. The Dolphins had it all working on Sunday in a thirty three ten victory over the visiting Carolina Panthers. And I want to go through these stats real quick because I think it kind of paints

a picture for how this game went. The Dolphins had twenty two first downs, the Panthers had ten, and three of those were on that final drive, So we're two of their third down conversions they go for for fourteen in the game. Miami goes six for fourteen, the Panthers two for three on fourth down, Miami two for two on the money down there the fourth down. Three hundred and fifteen total yards from Miami one for Carolina. The Dolphins have two hundred and four passing games to Caroline's

one thirty four. Miami rushes for a buck eleven to Carolina sixty four seventy two plays to fifty four in this game, and the Dolphins turned it over once on the fumble, the Panthers turned it over three times. Miami also picked up five sacks Carolina had just two in the game, and for penalties Miami five for thirty five, Carolina seven for sixty one. Time of possession thirty seven minutes thirty four seconds to twenty two minutes, twenty two seconds.

Complete football for your Miami Dolphins. But even then, and To have mentioned this in his postgame presser, that there are still plays that you can go out there and correct and play better, because think about the sack on the opening drive to knock the Dolphins from field goal range into a punting situation. They later block a punt and score on that one, So all things worked out there.

But the failed snap at the end of the first half likely a six point swing there is you're well within Jason Sanders range for a mid range field goal, the player reverses, the field reverses rather, and all of a sudden, the Panthers are in field goal range for a mid range kick. You miss an extra point that hadn't happened in sixty a t tries of Jason Sanders. That was the best mark in the NFL at the time. Now he did make two field goals and those were big,

so were his other three extra points. And then the weirdest drive line I've ever seen in my life. Ten plays, nineteen yards, six minutes and thirty four seconds of game clock, and there was three penalties on that drive that basically caused Miami to bog down despite the fact that they were still having success offensively. I mean, there were even more chances to make this a more lopsided game than

it was. But we are not going to dwell on that. No, no, no, We're gonna get to our five takeaways here because it's a fun podcast. If you cannot hear it in my voice, I'm a little bit fired up. And if you haven't heard the post game show on five sixty w q A M yet with myself, Seth and o J, go

check that out. We had a bunch of fun on that show, one of our best to date, and the Dolphins made it easier because doing a show after a game like that, you're gonna have some fun, and we're gonna have some fun here starting with our first of five takeaways. First half, dominance sets up this team the way they want to play with the lead, and this goes back to the offense in general and kind of the offensive structure. So it's not a long enough takeaway

for you. Like we mentioned, you're a mid range field goal away from going up seven at half and instead it's but then after that Miami goes touchdown field goal, field goal, and the defense doesn't allow an inch in that second half. Just a dominating performance on all three phases.

It allows Miami to play more hair on fire with the pass rush and play that coverage to pair well with it on the back end because the offense is having success, the special teams is having success, and it allows the defense to play really the brand of football they want to play, with the aggressiveness and going and attacking and getting the quarterback and playing that tight coverage and boy did they so. Also the takeaway refers to the offensive game plan here, which I thought was fantastic,

But just a dominating performance on all three phases. Will keep it to the offense and this one because we'll talk about defense and teams later on and specifically this offensive game plan in the structure. We'll talk about that also more on the All Pod tomorrow for you guys here on drive time because I gotta watch the tape to see just how comprehensive it really was. I can't

wait to do it. But first, early on in this game, the quick game the first four plays was a running play and three quick throws from Tah that gave the pass rush no opportunity to make their big plays. You negate those pass rushers, and that's something I talked about all off season with how you could construct an offense around this quarterback because of the release, because of the footwork, because of the ability to get the football out quickly.

Then it kind of pairs up well with the strength of TWA's game, and that in itself can help negate the pass rush plans. We saw that in terms of how the play calls went early in the game, and it was that way all game long. I mean that little flat route to Durham Smith coming under the formation in motion or kind of pulling off like a split zone block, and they just dumped the ball off to him.

I mean, that play worked over and over and over again and seth Levitt during the game next to me at one point, I think it was like a one or two yard game to Smythe on that play because they ran it several times. In the game, he said, I think that's a case of going back to the well one too many times, and then a few plays later they go right back to it. And Smyth has a big chunk game set up like a second and short on first down, so that worked out for them

pretty well. He has five catches for three or two yards in this game, actually had the second most catches among Dolphins receivers, tied with Albert Wilson. We're seeing all kinds of motion return, motion, stacks, bunches, things that can give to a pre snap indicators, and then once the ball is snapped, there are wrinkles on top of wrinkles that are continuing to play sequence and develop as the

year goes along. How about this as well from the backfield, and this will lead to another point here as well. In the rushing category, Miles gaskin two rushing touchdowns in the game, Philip Lindsay rushes forty two yards and his Dolph debut. They carried the ball respectively between Miles and Lindsay sixteen and twelve times. But it wasn't done right there. How about a fake quarterback sneak little option flip to Savon Akhmed for sixteen yards on fourth and inches. I

love that call. Fantastic call to take advantage of the aggressiveness of the Panthers defense and get the ball out on the edge, which they did consistently throughout the course of this game. Attack those hair on fire pass rushers with the running game. It works that way. How about durham smythe motioning and for a pair of quarterback sneak snaps they were both successful. That's awesome. And then two runs for a big first down late in the games.

You have rushing contributions, passing game contributions from the entire roster, up and down the quarterback, running back, and receiver position, tight end, offensive line, whatever the case was. There was

plenty of guys involved in this performance. So the whole damn party was contributing in the running game there And to that point, Brian Flores talked about this post game, how Philip Lindsay got here on Wednesday night after being claimed off waivers by the Houston or from the Houston Texans other and he's in the game plan for twelve carries and we'll get his snap count tomorrow, but that speaks to his preparation and I gotta tell you between

fresh legs and the juice he has on those wide runs. Guys, I just talked about this that pairs beautifully with Miami's complex horizontal game and all that shifting in motion and crossing and mesh and all the high load they can run. And we talked about some of these busts and coverage you've seen really just about one per week that Miami has taken advantage of over the last month or so, and how you can dictate and set the temple or set the course for those coverage busts. That's a product

of the operation. And then when you add Lindsay, like when he was rushing for one thousand yards and back to back seasons going to a Pro Bowl in Denver his first two years in the league, it was a lot of wide zone, stretch zone stuff, and it's a phenomenal compliment to what you do well. And I want to talk about past protection as well, because that's an

area where Philip Lindsay was exceptional in this game. I thought, and how about this quote which was posted by the ESPN Beat writer Marcel My Good good buddy over there e SPN. He had this or he posted this I should say about Philip Lindsay's quote on past protection, and he said that doesn't take talent. All it takes is a termination and effort and being of the dog mentality to say, I'm not gonna let my quarterback get hit. Honestly,

that's what it's all about in my head. How I process things, and I'm a little bit crazy, but how I process things is how I'm protecting this man his health and everything about him. With an he would go on talking about how important it is to protect the quarterback and how that's a big part of the position and really the game for his for what he does. And I love that and he showed it in this game. So he comes in and makes a big contribution early.

Then you are continuing to see more creativity. How about two in the gun with Lindsay dotting him in the pistol and then wait for it, Preston Williams in a single wing. Look. I mean, we're seeing all kinds of innovative stuff from this game plan. And I thought that that they called it positively brilliantly on Sunday Aggressive dictate the terms get the ball out of to his hands, take away their strengths, by going against what they do well and just getting guys to slow up Burns and Reddick,

those two pass rushers. They did get one sack, but guess what that combo of pass rushers which had I think someone tweeted this week that if they were a team by themselves, Burns and Reddick, they would bring thirty in the National Football League in sacks. They're that good. They were averaging one point five eight sacks per game coming in and they get just one. And I know Burns had at least one tackle for loss. I'll have

to circle back on that. He had a big sack that changed the drive, that basically took a field goal chance off the board, and their presence was felt because that's what they do. But they didn't wreck the game. That's what you have to plan for against the opposition's best players. And by the way, Christian McCaffrey ten carries for thirt or five yards also didn't wreck the game.

That's for the next point. But just a good job of game planning against the strength of the opposition, both offensively in defense, a great job all around by the offense. The Dolphins are the third team this year to score thirty points against the number six ranks scoring defense and the Carolina Panthers only doc and that x blosive Dallas offense have done it and Arizona and I would say it was Kylie Murray, but it was actually Cult McCoy.

But he's playing well for the Cardinals too. So those are the teams with Miami that I've scored thirty points against. This Panthers defense. You know who else did an awesome job in this game? Takeaway number two dominant defense baby. Oh and let's takeaways. Oh and the sacks and QB hits. The Panthers had seventy two yards on their first seven plays, and I mean it was sixty four on one play. That's an average of ten point three yards per play.

After that, a hundred and twenty six player yards on forty seven plays, that is two point six eight yards per play. That'll do. That will do. And you have Xavien Howard and Javon Holland. And if you recall, I think it was last week, Xavian basically said, our mentality is of the balls in the air. I'm gonna get

it or that guy is gonna get it. High praise from your veteran all pro cornerback for your rookie safety who is now the first safety since twenty our first defender rather to have two interceptions in a season since Nick need him to the back in nineteen. I love

that comment. Tho both those guys get picks. It's vintage Xavian Howard running a route where he basically runs the route for the receiver where he disrupts him at the lion scrimmage, disrupts him at the top of the stem, and then gets in the catchpoint and basically is the receiver at that point undercutting an incut in breaking route and he makes the pick for another big play by

Xavian Howard. Javon Holland on his pick, You've got trips to the field and he's in a split high safety look where Cam Newton has three options to that portion of the field. They run a post and a corner, trying to put Holland in conflict. He's not having that. He drives in the corner route and makes the big play for a pick. Awesome looking rookie for these Miami Dolphins.

So X and Holland doing their thing. They're also heating up the Dolphins defense in the pass rush game which actually Nick Needham's interception comes off at Andrew Van ginkle pressure and tipped pass, and Van Ginko had an awesome game as well. I don't have QB hits yet for you, but i'll have it tomorrow. I know it was a lot. Cam Newton from ESPN here twenty three point eight percent completion rate in the game was the lowest ever by a former National Football League m v P fantastic. Jalen

Phillips three sacks. What a great game for the rookie a land and Roberts I thought was tremendous. In this game, Christian Wilkins gets a sack, and there's so much that he does for other guys to actually on one of the Phillips sacks, Wilkins set him up and on a sack where Phillips had an opportunity for his fourth of the game and fell off the quarterback. Christian Wilkins cleans it up because he took on two blockers and cleaned out a lean Elaine rather for Jalen Phillips to run through.

So he kind of got paid off there for his hard, dirty work. But he does so much that you don't see if you're just box score scouting, He's a fantastic player. Emmanuel Ogbad gets a sack, makes it seven straight games as well with a line of scrimmage, batted pass a past defense. He leads all defensive lineman in the National Football League in that category. Talked about Roberts though he was fantastic. I thought him and Jerome Baker had a

fantastic game. Van Ginkel was exceptional off the edge his sack or his pressure that he had on Cam new And where he hit him on the blindside and kind of jarred that ball free for a a fluttering pass there. He has an excellent pass rush move where he dips under the punch of the Panthers left tackle. He didn't even get touched on that thing. He played tremendous in this game. I thought Zack Seeler continued his dominance in the run and well as well in the pass brush

game as he applied some pressure there too. I thought ray Kwon Davis was tremendous. I think I'm missing something here, but this Dolphins defense. Eric Rowe some great tackling in this game and a more elevated snap count in the replace of the injured Brandon Jones, and on that topic, I mean Javon Holland, you know, kind of quarterback in the defense from that back end, one of those signal caller positions. With a bit of a change in the lineup. With no Brandon Jones in this game, he's back there

communicating things. I didn't see any breakdowns or any coverage bust. They were pretty sharp in that regard all game long. So for him to be able to do that, to play up on the line of scrimmage, to wheel out and get back to the middle of the field, to cover out in a slot, whatever the case may be, he was on it today. And this Dolphins defensive flexibility, I thought you saw that too because Eric Rowe a few times lined up in slot coverage, which Brandon Jones

has done, but he stops right in. Next man up. They get the job done. This Dolphins defense right now is tracking better over the last four games then they did last season when they were a top was a six or seven scoring defense, when they were the best third down defense and best takeaway defense in the National Football League sample size. Absolutely, but that's what you want to see, third downs, takeaways, points. They're not allowing anything

right now. And hopefully they keep that rolling because if they do that, they're gonna have a chance to win every single game they play. They're heating up as they do in this month. Brian Flores post Halloween and his career here, sixteen and six, he's ten and three in November. Let's look at Carolina's drive chart here, real quick, blocked punt which, by the way, it was justin Coleman's fourth career touchdown. Great staff there too, interception returns, a fumble return,

and now a blocked punt return. And let's actually we'll go ahead and say that, give me a second, I'm a little bit hot right now, guys. We'll come back to that blocked punt touchdown. That was the Panthers only really good drive of the game. Interception, interception, punt, punt, punt, field goal after a fumble return took them down into field goal range. They run one play, it's a successful field goal, punt punt interception downs. So let's take out

that field goal real quick after the touchdown. Interception, interception, punt, punt, punt, punt punt interception downs. That will work. Takeaway number three, walla, walla, walla, wattle, Wattle, Wattle and twa. These two guys man against the top ranked passing defense in the National Football League. Jailean Wattle

goes over one hundred yards and the first half. He's the first ever Dolphins receiver, or rather the first Dolphins receiver to go over a hundred yards in the first half of a game since Joachim Grant did it on Christmas Eve seen up in Kansas City. He's also on pace to break both reception and receiving rookie records by

a Miami Dolphins rookie. His twenty five yard catch to kick things off, I thought that was fantastic, where you get that big play to kind of start the game, set the tone and really make the Panthers aware of his speed, his explosiveness and where they want to go with the football. Ten targets, nine catches, a hundred and

thirty seven yards in this game and they touchdown. Also, the play before that, or before thee of the Brian bird Strip sack he was he was opened down field, but two wouldn't have time to get down there to him, so he had a chance for even more yardage. We talked about it all the time, but he continues to make plays down the field. The touchdown cats was so impressive for a speed guy to go in between two defenders,

ball right between those defenders. He goes up and to a trusts him because he makes that catch and he does the stick route. I mean, to run a stick route against zone coverage in those areas and to know you're gonna get hit and secure that football. Fantastic work. And the accuracy of that throw, the accuracy of the third and six play where they gain eleven yards and convert their I mean, waddle got fouled multiple times on that route. He's held at the line, he gets held

again at the top of the route. He still breaks it off and still makes a contested catch as the balls on the outside shoulder away from danger from Tah. That connection is really coming along here. And Brian Flores and two A Tongue of Baloo both talked about the way this kid prepares, how he's in early, how he sets himself up for the production that he has by the way he prepares and gets himself ready to play all positions on the offense. He's really doing it this

rookie season. He's having a fantastic rookie year and he also came to his postgame media wearing sunglasses. So that's about where it looks for him right now. He's bawling, So was the guy that throwse accurate passes? How about the first sixteen career starts for two a tongue of blog and now in the books, you want to hear those numbers. I do three hundred and fifty one completions

on five hundred and twenty four attempts. That's sixty seven percent completion for the layman, two thirds three thousand, five hundred and fifteen yards. That's about six point eight yards per pass, twenty one touchdowns, eleven picks, a nine point five passer rating, and why don't we go ahead and sprinkle in six rushing touchdowns to go along with that?

And a nine and seven record as a starter. Hopefully he can continue to build that win lost red, But that's a pretty good start for the first sixteen games with a player's career. He looks the part. He has surpassed a one hundred passer rating and four of his last five appearances his first half passer rating in this game, when you know it got lopsided there towards the end, so I wanted to track the first half when it

was still close on the scoreboard. Once a one seventeen point seven pass a rating, he finishes eighty eight percent on the day, a one oh eight point nine passer rating in the game against the top ranked passing defense in the National Football League. And one of the last points here on to is that over that span what has been added to his game, the longest completions of

his career continue to pop up. It didn't happen today, but just check this out in Buffalo that forty six yards passed on fourth short to Mike Kasiki, the longest of his career at the time. Then he missed a couple of games. Sixty four yards coming off the bench against Baltimore of that surpasses his career long. One week later sixty five yards to Mac Collins for a touchdown that is now his career long. And then today fifty seven yard passed to Jalen Waddle. And you talk about

the fire he exudes on some on that drive. I talked about the ten play nineteen yard drive, all those penalties he was getting getting on guys for the mistakes and the penalties there. And of course he's accountable for his own and he'll take blame for things in a post game. But to see him out there kind of trying to barket guys and get things corrected, that's the kind of fire. That's the kind of passion you want to see out of your leader, out of your quarterback.

Thought today was one of the best days in the Dolphin's career. Of two tongue by loa to a man, that's a takeaway. Him and Waddle are doing the damn thing. How about the fourth takeaway here the second quarter. The Dolphins average two point five points per game in the second quarter coming into this through the first eleven games of the season. Fourteen in this half. Could have had seventeen there if not for the failed snap and made

field goal. If they put that away. But pair that with the way they've played in quarters one, three, and four. If they do that, they can compete with absolutely anybody. And finally, fifth takeaway, special teams, Baby, is such a big boost to a team when you can score on special teams early in the game. And Miami wasted very little time doing that with a blocked punt. And let's talk about that blocked punt. What a great shift there.

First of all, Duke Riley is the one that got the block, and he comes onto the field late and gets into the into the formation, and at the very last second, just like last year on the Andrew van Ginkl block against the Chargers, you have the jammer out on the on the I can't remember what side of the formation it was left of the defense and the jammers across from the gunner. I don't know what he's called.

That's what I called him. O J called him something else, but whatever, you know what I'm talking about, the guy that's supposed to prevent the gunner from getting downfield. At the very last second, he shifts and comes in and leaves that man on an island, the gunner on an island, and he crashes in as a blitzer, and that pulls the protector back there away from the interior, and that opens a lane for Duke Riley gets the blocked punt justin.

Coleman catches that and then everybody dog piles and pushes Coleman into the end zone from one yard out. So you talking about out teams like a team effort. That was it right there. Coaching adjustments, special teams, ACE and Duke Riley coming clean the adjustment on the jammer, Justin Coleman recovering it, the rest of the team pushing him in microcosm of the game early on there, and that's in a tone that basically was played out the rest

of this game. So they blocked a punt, they had two points into the ten yard line, another at the twelve yard line, another into the twenty yard line. So four points for polarity, all into the twenty yard line. I thought Mac Jones was down there for at least three of them, if not all of them. Jason Sanders goes three for four on p A t s, two for two on field goals. I think it was all touchbacks by him as well, because the Dolphins had three returns for twenty six yards. Caroline did not have a

single return in this game. Boom, that's how you do it. I want to finish up with a five B takeaway here, and this is just kind of an update on the topic I've been talking about for a few weeks now the last two draft classes. Jalen Waddle a hundred and thirty seven receiving yards in this game. If you go back to Week six and on, he is PFF's highest graded rookie receiver and a top twelve grade receiver in the National Football League. After Week six, Jalen Phillips three sacks.

He's top three among his position mates in quarterback pressures. A breakout game for him. He now moves into I think it was third or fourth all time among Dolphins rookies for sex. He's he's coming up there. Eight is the record to see if you can continue to pursue that as he has five and a half now. Javon Holland gets his second career or second pick of the season and career has another big game for the safety

Liam Eichenberger. Reddick had no sas he works off that side largely had some nice seals in the running game as well. Hunter Long, I heard this on the radio broadcast by Jason Taylor, and I thought it was the Wattle completion the fifty seven yard play. But I went back and looked and it wasn't him. But Philip Lindsay had a great pass pro pick up on that play, by the way, But Hunter Long, I thought it was that play that JT referenced. It wasn't. It was another one.

I'll circle back to that but he had a big block in this game, and he was on the field for a pair of Dolphins touchdowns down there in the red area. To a tongue of blow back to here's a list of quarterbacks who have completed eight percent of their passes and back to back games since nineteen fifty minimum thirty attempts. Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Kyler Murray to a tone of volo one. That's it, as logic says, he's balling. He's balling, y'all. Austin Jackson, I can't give

you anything in this game, specifically without watching the tape. Again, I can't track all twenty two guys. I just can't do it. But we talked about his growth throughout the course of the season. I think we saw more of that today. Same deal with no bunogamy. I'll keep I'll peep the Special team's tape tomorrow, give you guys a better feel for how he's doing. Big Rob Hunt sort of the same deal with Austin, but I think he's playing his best ball as of late. Ray Kwon Davis

was immovable on Sunday. Brandon Jones didn't play, but we know about his impact. Big trip sack last week all kinds of pressures. Solomon Kiley is you know, he's played some games and had some production for this Dolphins offensive line, and Blake Ferguson continues to be the long snapper and one of the kind of key guy on that special teams group. So you guys want to stay tuned for a postgame show segment with the great O j McDuffie

and Seth Levitt. Just real quick, by the way, O Jim mcduffee to me, he's my he's my personal goat, because this man, he's just the great, greatest guy. He invited me to my family over Thanksgiving, went over there and watched some football with him, and he was just the best host, and the family is so polite. O j thank you so much, man. You made our Thanksgiving even better than it already was. You're the man, dude. I truly love you. Hit you and Seth like you're

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Let's hand out some game balls. We don't break all right. That was a great job and we got it from everybody. Offense, big drive, defense, They're gonna father again. Don't make you a direction. You're gonna get better. We're gonna go without prop though, going to play without proff all right, better, get ready to go call it on as it's time to present today's game balls with Travis Sethan O jays Well.

I was gonna throw a Tonton teammates here. But I'm gonna go ahead and be selfish because the Apple Cup streak is over nine years in the running that the Washington day Cooters took that wins. I'm taking the game ball first off here, and I'm going to the quarterback to a tongue by Lowa. A shocker day. The biggest shocker of the day is me taking him a hundred and eight point nine passer wading against the NFL's top

ranked passing defense. The sixteen game stats of his career now he's starting, he is a sixty seven percent past or three hundred fifty one completions and five hundred twenty four attempts, three thousand, five hundred and fifteen yards, twenty one touchdowns, eleven picks. That's a ninety point five passer writing. Oh and by the way, six rushing touchdown to go along with that. So I'm a believer in this kid

long term. And how about the fact that since he came back, guys, well, he's had some time here and there. But going back to the Buffalo game, forty six yard completion to Mike Sicky for a big gainer, missed a little bit of time then sixty four yards against Baltimore to Albert Wilson, sixty five yards to Mac Hollands in the game against the Jets for a touchdown, and today fifty seven yards to Jalen Widdle. The big plays are coming.

The efficiency is there, the touchdowns. We got rid of the wall mistake today, so that was out the door as well. Big game for two again, he's turning in the right direction. Juice, who's your game ball? I mean, come on, you wait, hold on, let's see everybody take a big guess you're right man, Wattle wattle Man. I love his wattle man. I even loved the spike even more today when you got a f in the Enzo. Man, how about this in a couple of weeks, Man, he's

got seventeen grabs over two hundred yards and score. But big play after big play at the big play, moving the chains man waddles. Starting to get it. Man, I was watching the game to day and you see him all over the place. He's in the slot, he's outside, he's inside, he's running the Jets. So he's doing all kinds of things. Man, What you do with a playmaker

like that? So we finally getting what we wanted to expected out of our you know, our first round pick, our first first round pick this year, and Jaben Waddle Man, I just love it, man. I talked about it all the time. Man. Nobody wants to get on me about you know, all these other guys that we probably could have taken if it wasn't for Waddle's injury. Hid been the first. We wouldn't have Waddle. If Waddle didn't get hurt, we would not have Waddle Man. Can you say, could

I say thank you for the injury. Let's just go there, Let's just you that his production because we've got this talk about we've got this guy right here production and I am I am all in on number seventeen Daalen waddle Man. And I think a lot of people are too. Man. So you know, my my my ball, my game ball of course goes to the wide out. So he has absolutely an open assault on the Dolphins. Or you were

telling me something, please tell me more about it. Big Well, first of all, he had his first hundred yard game of the season, but he got those hundred yards in the immediately immediately, and so go with this, we have to go back to Juice's draft class. The last time the Miami Dolphins player had a hundred yards and a half, it was your guy Terry Kirby, who I saw in the hallway coming over here. Who was he was kind of was double edged short with him. He's happy for

the Dolphins the way they played. But you know, so he got leap frogged with receptions his rookie reception record today. So he's now third time, he's in third place. And Wattle, you know, Jarvis, Landry, Jalen Waddles coming after you, right, he's coming after you there with receptions. But yeah, t k was last guy I have a hundred yards receiving in a half for the Dolphins as a rookie. Farrell

Edmonds was the only other one. So that means no Dolphins rookie receiver, not even the great O J McDuffie had got no burn offenses rookie. But Jalen Wattle did it today. But you know the four touchdowns, right, so he's he's climbing up there, he's chasing I think Jarvis, he needs one more to tie Jarvis there for third place, and the right he's got the rushing touchdown as well, and I think he's gonna chase down Chris Chambers with

the yard is as well. You know, I saw Chris on on Twitter this week and he said, Hey, I did it in the sixteen game season. Well guess what chrismas in that seventheen he might just put a little cherry on top. So and listen, while we're on the topic of the last two draft classes, we heard it from Brian Flores in his press conference. I was leaning in a different direction, but how could you ignore what Jalen Phillips was doing out there? Every time you turned around,

he's knocking the quarterback down. At three sacks today becomes uh so A J. Dowe and Mark old Coleman are the only other rookies in Dolphins history or three sacks in a day. Um. But now he's up to six and a half on the season. He moves in the fourth place all time already for sacks by the Miami Dolphins rookie. And I don't think he's done either, Definitely. I don't think he's always just beginning. He's just starting to figure it out. He really is just starting to

figure it out. You said you're a coach flow talk about that man. He's been the guy that's been the pit guy. Now he's gonna be the guy that we're going to free up a little bit more. Yeah, well, they need to, they need to get him out there. But they all are working so well together and and you know, you see him on the right end. Next thing, you know, he's lined up inside of a bar. Next thing, you know, I mean everywhere, they're moving them all around,

and that's a difference everywhere. These young guys are starting to be able to go different places on the field and make plays before you have to line them up and play it right. You gotta line up here. You gota line up here, even waddle, you gotta line up here in the slot. And that's it. Now that moving him he's outside. The same thing with Jalen Phillips. You can put him inside outside and man what And that's

that's that's being smart guys. And that's one of the things that we talked about with the Dolphins drafting smart guys that can play multiple musicians. But these are smart guys who are also incredibly athletics, like jumping off the charts athletic. So you know, look, you're talking about the first pick from last year's draft, the first two first round picks from this year's draft. They're getting great production and all the noise that people had earlier on the season,

and I understand where it came from. Now. You can't judge your draft class after five games. You can't judge your draft class after a season or two. Quite frankly, Bro, I sucked as a receiver my first year because I didn't know enough. You know, you don't you the game is so different. I don't matter if you played the U N you played the Alabama or Penn State. You're not. You don't know enough because you're playing his grown men

and you gotta learn so much more. Man. So yeah, five games in said, you're right, man, you can't judge those guys. But watch now, watch how they start rolling. Bro. I mean, look, they're gonna be in trying in all times in the record books. They're gonna be in the record books. Here, they're there, and they're gonna I think that they're gonna set some records. Are these hands, man, they hate these records being dropping, man, dropping, jump and dropping.

You know that's why you here, That's why TK was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's part of it. Bro. He was happy though t K was happy, and you know, listen, I gotta give him a little bit lof not just because if you're a draft class, he had all those catches coming out of the back ye and you know, potentially with one eye if we drafted ball guys. So shout out to

Terry Kirby. Listen. I think that's great when you get to bring up guys from It took that long for those records to start to fall, but man, oh man, you'd like to see it from the guys that you're drafted. So my game ball goes to jail and Phillips. I'm not gonna throw up to you here because that's not what I'm gonna do. Stef, I don't do that kind

of you better. I don't care what he did in college right now because game ball today, and I'm sorry, he's really excited about he might put it on Twitter. Let's go ahead and fish off with the goose. Why not? So juwish you were so you know that half of listenership doesn't even know what you're talking at. I don't care. I know that, and I don't care. We're gonna we're gonna keep doing it because a bit here officially, but you know, back to Juice's point about, you know, his

workday season, I'm not gonna say he sucks, Juice, I don't. Didn't. I wasn't very good. But think about that Bill's game. We were all upset about that play where Mike gets the snap off of his chest and the fumble, and this is because Wildle wasn't lined up right right. And now he's thinking about how long ago. That feels like five games ago, it feels like a lifetime ago. And just to kind of fall up on both your guys points here, you know, Jayleen Phillips rushing from the inside,

rushing from the outside. The games they can run because of his versatility. Oh, by the way, the other draft pick after that guy, Javon Holland, had a pick today as well. I mean the Chris career. Tip your cap to him. He's having a hell of a run right now. Back to Waddle real quick. You know, Juice, you talked about getting him at sixth overall, you got him knowing he's a four two guy who had a billion fifty

plush your touchdowns Alabama, that's right, a billion. But Juice thirds down hot contested catches, the holding call that they did not call on that third and six where he completes for eleven yards a great throw in traffic. There he goes up and makes a contested catch. He's so sure handed and you saw that on the touchdown too. Man Like, that's why he's the six football pick r. Because he's not just a fast guy like John Ross was a couple of years back. He does everything well

and that is critical. You look at some of the guys that went before him, and there's only one receiver, you know, Jamar Chason went ahead of him. How much dirty work is he doing? You know, I don't know. I don't watch enough of their games because I don't really care to watch any of their games, you know what I mean, even though he might be on my Fantis football team at time. But at the same time, though, man, if the more you can do, the better off you are as a as a as a football player, we

only dress dress out, you know what. Many guys have to have multiple roles. I mean, he's earning punts, blocking, you know, he's catching pass, he's running the ball and jet sweeps all kinds of different things. Dude, being that multifaceted man, it's impressive, man, And that's the type of guy that that that Jalen is. Man, it's so much fun to sit out there and watch him and see the progression the seem growing weekend week out. Man. I mean,

it's it's awesome, man. And like you talk about, big props to Chris Greer, you know, because everybody sits there and they want to you know, they want to sit there and talk about a player or the draft class right away. You can't do that. You gotta give him time, especially in the first half of the season and in this year two with some of these other guys, and it's starting to pay out really well. There's a lot of work to do. The guys that we're talking about

right now, they're producing. Man this year and even last this year. You know that he is on pace that I don't care about that already. I'm already past that. I'm already past that. So yeah, get it, you get You talked about Jamaar Chase. He's only got about a hundred and twenty more yards and waddle right now. And if you go to Pro Football Focus, they have Wile going back to that Bill's game is their highest grade rookie receiver and like the tenth group graded receiver overall

in the National Football League. So he is coming on, he is balling. We're gonna talk more about that. We have the drive of the game. Still it comes your way.