Dolphins Ravens Week 10 Recap

Victory Friday edition. Check that of the Drivetime Podcast. The Dolphins win twenty two to ten over Lamar Jackson the Baltimore Ravens here at hard Rock Stadium. It's two in a row, a ster defensive performance because Miami two victories in four days. We're gonna talk about it all the takeaways, the postgame show segment. We were fired up for the postgame show me Seth and o J from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. It's not

that late yet. This is the Drive Time Podcast. I'm too excited to talk about anything else. I want to get right in to the five takeaways from this Dolphins victory that we saw on Thursday night in prime time on national television for the entire country to get to watch a party at hard Rock Stadium following Miami's twenty two to ten victory over the Baltimore Ravens and takeaway number one. What else would it be? The defense shows up big. The Ravens began this game oh for seven

on third down. They finished this game two for fourteen on third down. How about that Dolphins defense getting back to Sachs takeaways, pressures, third down stops, and holding teams off the scoreboard almost entirely, as Baltimore only found the end zone very late in the fourth quarter of this game. They went ten consecutive drives without allowing points to the

Baltimore Ravens. I don't know this for a factor for anything, but I would I would venture to guess the Ravens have not gone ten straight drives without points and quite a long time. Xaviing Howard, you're all pro cornerback who is known and privy for getting around the football and making big game changing plays. Well, guess what he did it again? A forty nine yards strip, scoop and score and that was a third down conversion. But you know when you work on X, you're gonna have to find

a way to put that ball away. He once again gets that thing out, scoops it up and takes at forty nine yards for a huge, huge touchdown late in this football game, and what was a six to three football game and about to be a first and tent for the Ravens right around midfield until X did what he does and made a big play in the football and got Miami a twelve point lead at that time.

Different looks from this Dolphins defense without the course of the game, the different philosophy and game plan we saw this early on. We're a little bit concerned myself and John Conjemmi and Seth watching the game about how the Ravens were able to rush the ball early on. They had thirty five rushing yards on their opening series and a handful more on their second series, but that was about all they got. They finished this game with ninety

four rushing yards about the course of the game. This, of course, a team who has led the NFL and rushing each of the last two seasons and had a good year so far this year. Not so much tonight in the rushing department for the Ravens against this Dolphins defense, and they did it with a game plan that we really,

frankly haven't seen out of this defense. And one of the reasons is for that, you haven't seen a quarterback like Lamar Jackson faced this defense since nineteen because there is one of one when it comes to Lamar Jackson. But the idea and they wrote hated guys. So you're gonna hear this on the next podcast. We'll see you in the next Drivetime podcast is I'm not sure it's gonna come out over the weekend at latest on Monday.

Taking a look at the All twenty two. You don't want to miss that one, as well as the stats and snap counts and all that fun stuff. We'll take a look at that on the next edition of Drive Time. But early in this game and throw out significant chunks

of the game. Lots of four linebacker looks with really three interior defensive lineman types up front in a traditional three four with different variations of of of Nickel and Diamond said that they ran out of that, but with Christian Wilkins up front, with ray Kwon Davis and Zach Seeler or Adam Butler, any of those four guys in a three man rotation with Andrew Van Ginkl and Jerome Baker off the edge, almost exclusively playing off the edge in this game for a guy like Jerome Baker, and

I thought it was the best game for him this entire season, with then Duke Riley getting a bunch of snaps, not just in place of Baker like he did last week but or two weeks ago rather but getting snaps alongside Jerome Baker as well as alongside a Land and Roberts on the inside there, and that just kind of forced the issue for the Ravens in terms of how

they played this game. Of course, you saw plenty of zero pressure from this Dolphins team in zero looks where guys would bell out, guys would come off the edge, and the a gaps just all kinds of confusion and a tough day for the Ravens offense on the day.

Lamar Jackson finishes forty three two and thirty eight yards, a touchdown, a pick sacked four times, a seventy three point six passer rating, and in earnest most of those passing yards came late in that fourth quarter and then nine rushes for thirty nine yards and his long in the game was just eleven yards. The defense did a fantastic job, the coaching staff, the execution of that game plan. I thought it was brilliant. I thought it was aggressive.

I thought that aggression poured over into the offense, which we'll talk about here in just one second. Let's go ahead and talk about some of the individuals in this game. And where else do we start besides the guy I've talked about a lot on the podcast last couple of weeks, and he's earned every single ounce of the praise that we've all given him, Javon Holland, My goodness, this dude is making plays. On the official stat book right here, I see four solo tackles, one assist, a seven yard

loss on a sack, two pass his defense. And on my own notes here, I thought that, and Seth Levitt talked about this, and you'll hear this on the postgame show, uh segment we're gonna run at the end of the podcast here about how Miami set a tone physically with a Baltimore Ravens team for two decades now has been a team that out physicals almost every single team they play. And I thought that and Seth thought that that first hit Javon Holland put on a long run up the sideline.

I think it was actually an end around and it was a big game. But halland deck the dude, he knocked him out, decleted him, and it was a great clean hit. He of course won the fair play recognition a couple of weeks ago for his clean hit on

Calvin Ridley and that Falcons game. He did it again here, great clean shot, knocked the dude to the ground on the sideline, and that kind of I thought, and Seth thought set a tone for this Dolphins defense and the Dolphins game in general, and just the physicality about we're here, we're gonna play sixty minutes. And the Dolphins certainly did that. So that first hit on the big hit on the

first drive. Then he came right back with a pressure that forces a throw away from the r Jackson in the back of the end zone right before the Justin Tucker missed field goal. A great pass breakup on the ensuing series, flying up over the top on a Lamar scramble play that gets the defense off the field again. The drive right before the end of the first half comes on pressure again gets a blitz pass, breakup on the blitz, and then in the second half gets a

big third down sack of Lamar Jackson. So many of those third down stops, you saw Number eight doing multiple

things to involve himself in the game plan. That one play where they ran a jet sweep a little pot pass and he was off the edge and he had to fight around the block of a tight end and get on the upfield shoulder and win the corner while staying with the foot race of a receiver a Devin DuVernay who once ran a four to forty yard dash Olympic level speed from that guy, and Holland finds a way to not just carry a blocker all the way out to the edge, but get himself out there in

position to make a play. And also there comes Brandon Jones scraping right off that work from Javon Holland to help team up for that big stop on that play. How about this from next gent Stats. We've talked a lot about the Dolphins blitzing their safeties the last couple of weeks. Next gent Stats has this Dolphins safety Javon Holland twenty one and Brandon Jones seventeen blitzed more times tonight against the Ravens than any other defensive back in

any game this season. Hollywood Vaughan, as he has called on Twitter, also set career highs and defensive snaps and QB pressures seventy snaps for QB pressures for Javon Holland. He also they also had the Dolphins safeties aligning all over the field. Both safeties played over of their snaps in the box, Holland as the safety in the box eleven percent in the slot, four percent at corner, and Brandon Jones seventy two in the box at safety in

the slot and one percent out at wide corner. And again back to the postgame show, we touched on this, or I touched on this in the post game show about how both these guys were essentially slot cornerbacks their final year in college. Now they did a lot of

things and rotated all over the football field. But go back to Texas tape in nineteen, go back to Oregon tape also in twenty nineteen, the last time Javon Holland played, and they were both getting plenty of nickel slot type of snaps, star position type of snaps with their covering trade up in that slot position and what does that do?

It just gives Miami so many guys that can play that zero pressure and you can disguise your blitzes who drops into coverage because Xavien Howard, Byron Jones, Justin Coleman, Nick need Hum, Javon halland Brandon Jones, Eric Rowe, all these guys you can put out there and cover one on one. It makes you so creative and so flexible. And a lot of that has to do with these two young safeties who are playing outside of their mind right now and really helping this Dolphins defense ratchet up

the pressure and finish off that thought. Brandon Jones seven solo tackles to assist in this game. We don't stop there. The defense keeps on coming. Thought. Jalen Phillips had a great rep along with Andrew Van Geinkle, which I believe

they split the sack on this play where he wins inside. Immediately, He's becoming a real threat from that three tech slash four eye technique pass rushing situations where he can work over guards and centers and kind of just overwhelmed them with the size and athletic combination that he features he and Van Ginkl I thought were fantastic and their snaps off the edge, especially Van Ginkle, who I thought had one of his best games of his career and in

my opinion, the best game for him this season. He finishes with what did Van Ginkle have? Two solo tackles to assist, a half of sack and a pass breakup. Fantastic work there from number forty three Eric Rowe. We haven't talked about him a lot. He's kind of had a snap reduction the last couple of weeks, but he also winds up with a forced fumble in this game.

Three solo tackles and a past defense, so he was getting after it and just to kind of further the point about the zero pressure looks the Baltimore Ravens approach that was not to max protect or pull more guys in or trying to just withstand the pressure and throw

the football from there. Their plan was to get the ball out quick in space, out on the wings and just basically trying to have challenged the Dolphins cornerbacks to make a tackle and hope, if you can't win these one on one matchups out here, we're gonna spring one and that's gonna get you out of the zero pressure. Look. But the Dolphins cornerbacks tackled well all night long, not just justin Coleman on the pick. He wasn't there for

several tackles himself to solo one assist. Also had two pass breakups and a pick Byron Jones winds up with seven total tackles, six solo in this game, and xaviing Howard has five of his own, and of course the forced fumble. So when those guys can tackle like that out on the edge, it gives you a big advantage in the defensive backfield against the team that wants to throw the screen passes out there. It's just hard to get any work done on that. Some other stats here

for you guys. Your own Baker four solo tackles, but I thought that he was fantastic, sidelined the sideline all night long. Adam Butler gets his first sack as a Miami Dolphin. Good on him. He also has two solo tackles. So this defense just brought the heat all night long.

They brought the pressure from the safety position, They got off the field on third downs, and right around the end of the third quarter, talking about Lamar having two hundred thirty eight passing yards as well as the thirty nine rushing yards, so he winds up there with right

around two hundred and seventy total yards. But at the end of the third quarter, as the Ravens were trying to get something going, Jackson had a hundred and twenty two total yards at that point, so almost three full quarters in the books and he had just a hundred and twenty two total yards at that point. I wrote down some some notes here individually. I just put the Jerome Baker looks really fastest, I thought his fastest, best pursuing game of the season. Andrew van Ginkl, same deal there.

Christian Wilkins continues to make plays and set up big plays beyond him because he makes so many players in the backfield to get defense or offenses rather into these long down and distance and that creates opportunities. He's part of five tackles in this game. Jalen Phillips continues to pursue outside so well, and you see that speed and athletic ability. Emmanuel Ogba continues to reject passes at the Lion screamage. Just so much good work from this Dolphins

defense Byron X and Coleman. Coleman also had a big pass breakup down the field. The Ravens entered this game averaging twenty seven point six points per game, that was seventh best in the National Football League. They get just ten on Thursday. They average six point one yards per play coming in. They have just four point three yards per play in this game, and they average over four yards coming in per game. And they gained just three hundred and four yards in this game, and most of

that again in the fourth quarter. So thinking about that also in contrast to the twenty nineteen season open, the first Dolphins game against the Ravens in terms of this coaching staff, for Brian Flores, I should say, in that game, and they go for five touchdowns for Lamar and fifty nine points. In this game, just one touchdown and really not until about fifty six minutes had gone by, and just ten points. So a great reversal of fortunes from

the last time we saw this quarterback. Hell of an effort. Fantastic work by the coaching staff and the game plan and the players squat there and executed just fantastic work all around. Round to the applause with the coaching staff and the defensive players take away number two. It's two

a time. He came back into the game in the second half after Jacoby Brissett suffered an injury, but it looked like Jacobe was ready to come back in Brian Flores addressed that post game and said that they were happy with the way two was playing and put together a couple of good throws and eventually some good drives and decided to stick with the young quarterback. Hopefully Jacobe is gonna be okay going forward, thinking about him as he came out of that game into the Blue Tent

and luckily came out of there looking good. But to a came into the game in relief of Jacoby Brissette, and I think we all were hoping he would come out and put together three or four or five touchdown drives and throw for two and fifty yards and two touchdowns and just be the you know, the story that came out and really superseded what the defense had done.

But it wasn't that kind of game for him until it kind of was towards the end, and I thought it kind of got started for him with that weird double pass where he hands it off to Gascon who just turns around throws it back overhanded. I've never seen a flee flicker ran like that, but it actually worked out as Gascon found some space to have found him

for a ten yard game. They got another ten yard game on a screen pass right after that that gets flagged for a ten yard holding call, and all of a sudden, you're in a big hole first and twenty in a position where you really needed some points there because it was still at that point of the game six to three and Miami hoping to find a way down the football fielding and get some points on the board to put Lamar Jackson and that Ravens offense in a bind. They go first in twenty five yard air

shot dealon Waddle to move the sticks. He goes up high into the air and pulls that thing down. And by the way, I don't know if you guys saw this. After the game, Marlon Humphrey, the phenomenal corner for the Ray wins. He is so good. He tweeted after the game. Jalen Waddle going to be top ten next year, so that you have one of the best cornerbacks in the league. A big fan of the Dolphins rookie receiver. They come right back later with a fade to the Jailan Waddle

again in the end zone. That gets a easy d p I call. He gets open and they have to pull him down to prevent a touchdown on that play. So some big play elements coming back into the offense. We'll talk more about that here in just one second. But back to tow his game, the sixty four yard passed to Albert Wilson. They busted a coverage on that one, but that's part of the conflict of the r PO and good running and just the multiple options where you

can kind of select your conflict within that scheme. That's where it really set you apart in terms of what it can do to put the defense and conflict. But on that drive, I mean, shoot, you give the ball back to Lamar Jackson there. That's just what he's done all year and granted they were not doing it in this game on Thursday, but all year they've come from behind and put themselves in position to win the games with big plays for the passing game through Lamar Jackson.

But the offense, I love this. My biggest thing is, like you can win games with your offense, whether it's scoring a bunch of points or closing games out. The offense went out there and never let that even become an opportunity. Don't give Lamar Jackson the primetime football and the chance to move down the field win the game for his team. The aggressiveness to put the Ravens away with the passing game. I loved that, absolutely loved that.

And it really started and earnest with a sixty four yard pass to Albert Wilson where to a fax a handoff and goes out wide and finds Wilson up the sideline shrieking all alone. That was the second coverage bust of the game for the Ravens. Will come back to the other one here in just a second. But to to us credit, the scoring drives over saw them overcome that first and twenty and then that seventy five yard touchdown. Remember he caps it off with a sneak into the

end zone. And what a great dance that was in a celebration for him down there on the Dolphins offense. What a night for him. Had to feel good. Now he's got ten days to rest up and get better. He said it was sore after the game, but also said it was happy to have ten days to get better, but just to finish this point, the four minute offense like gotta have at time, and also when you're trying to drive from behind as well, you know, trying to

put the other team away and win the game. Three games that year, the Atlanta game, the two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to get the Dolphins at one point lead, the New England game to close that game out, when if you don't get a first down you have to punt from your own end zone with the Patriots need just a field goal to win that game, and now this game to keep the ball out of Lamar Jackson's hands. Big time work there late and fourth quarters from your quarterback.

Takeaway number three. How about the unsung receivers, the heroes at that position. Isaiah Ford has two catches on the final drive before the half, which gives Miami a lead when it looked like they were probably gonna have to just go into halftime at a three three game. He has a nineteen yard catch, a fifty two yard catch, which he tweeted after the game, gotta get out of bounds. I know that won't happen again, Good on you, Isaiah, But to pile up seventy one yards on those two plays,

what a big night Friday A four is he? I think was number two on the team in receiving in this game. Pulling up the stats, now he was with eighty four yards on four catches and four targets, so twenty one yards per target in this game. Frisaiah Ford. Albert Wilson led the Dolphins in receiving with eighty seven yards on four catches. Also the sixty four yard long

certainly helps. But seeing Albert Wilson get back involved some jet sweeps, some quick screen, some tunnel screens to him, seeing him involved, that was a nice boom for the Dolphins offense. And then you also wind up with Adam Shaheen three catches thirty four yards, Storm Smith one catch twenty three yards, and Waddle and there as well four

for sixty one. But he's been obviously more prevalent weekend and week out, put some big time names for the Dolphins stepping up that when you're down a couple of guys like a Will Fuller, Davante Parker, these guys making plays, that's what it's all about next man up, great night Friday a Ford and for Albert Wilson number four takeaway.

There are always gonna be corrections to make right. There was too many missed opportunities in this game, like on the very first drive of the game and Wattle comes wide open off the snap and they look like maybe they busted another one there and he has some space to run. The ball does not go there. You gotta find a way to exploit those. Jalen Waddle also gets a deep shot right before the first half, but he

can't get off press. You'd like to see an opportunity for him to kind of get off the line there and get open down the field because there was no safety help and they had about seventy yards of grass behind that cornerback. But he couldn't get off the press and he had to go play defense as the ball was nearly intercepted. And after the big Isaiah Ford play, we just talked about the Shaheen non penalty or they he catches the ball and goes the turf and they

kind of hit him in the back. They throw the flag, they come out and they picked the flag back up. The Dolphins come up to the line on that play, they're not set, they run motion, they bring someone across the formation, and it cost the Dolphins about four or five seconds and Miami winds up kicking a field goal on third down on that drive with five seconds to play in the half. That mismanagement time, they're costing the play.

You've got to be quicker than that. When you have the opportunity with the clock stopped, get to the line, get a play called fuel position. All night Miami did not capitalize on good field position really in that first half. With drives beginning at the thirty seven thirty two yard line their own two. That's great field position. Gotta find a way to capitalize on that. The holding on the screen to Miles Gaskon that would have put them at the plus forty yard line right after the double pass play,

that's a killer. A false start on third and goal from the one yard line, they wind up kicking a field goal. There three drives goal to goal that resulted in without touchdowns. That has to get better. So some opportunities for Miami to get some things fixed. Mostly they're on offense. The fifth takeaway, how about one draft classes within this game and how many times have we had the conversation about Christian Wilkins and you're number three right now.

He's gonna set career highs in every stat you can think of, tackles, sacks, tackles for loss, QB, hits. He's been all over the place this this season, having a breakout third year after a good first two seasons, Mike Gasicki goes about a year and a half before he really starts to pick it up with the touchdowns and the big games they can have, like a ninety five

yard game at one point. But after all that, he starts putting together consistent sixty seventy eight yard receiving days, one or two touchdown days, and that's just become who he is now. Even though in this game seven targets on Thursday Night, no receptions, no receptions for himself, Mac Hollins or Preston Williams, And that again speaks the ability of an Albert Wilson and of Isaiah four to step

up big. But back to the point exaving Howard, you know, his first year often injured, didn't really have any players in the football. Then December of that second season starts having all kinds of picks, picks off Brady twice against the Patriots, and that's just become who he is. The ultimate ball hawk in the league. Jerome Baker goes from a kind of sub package player, a rush specialist, to a guy that plays eleven hundred snaps and kind of

the focal point of the middle of your defense. We talked about the free agent acquisitions like Emmanuel Ogba and Eric Rowe having their best seasons once arriving here in Miami. The idea is developing players and seeing them get better. And so when I look at the one draft classes within this game, and we'll start with one class, Waddle, you guys know how I feel about him and how he's produced this year and what he's meant to this team. He's gonna he's on track to break the franchise rookie

receiving records for yards and receptions. Jalen Phillips, the pressures keep coming. He came into this game just tilling only uh odof O Way and in terms of rookie pressures off the edge position, and he got a few more tonight. Javon Holland continues look like an absolute stud back there in the defensive backfield. So it looks like early on here, you've got three picks you're feeling pretty good about, and some more guys working and developing. Leam Eikelberg playing a

bunch of snaps as well. He's coming along at that left tackle position, and the rest of the class there has some time to go as well. And then the class in this game to a tongue by Lowo obviously comes off the bench and throws for a hundred and eighty three yards in less than one half of play, and of course has the big rushing touchdown that really helps this this offense out hundred for passer rating on the day. Then you go back to Rob Hunt, who had the amazing play that you have to talk about.

I mean, how just the effort to get the ball across the goal line was was pretty great. You're gonna see that play for a long long time to come. But at the end of the day, it was in fact a penalty don't catch the ball, Rob, even though we all had a great time watching to do it. But that's besides the point, because Rob Hunt's playing great football right now. We talked about this earlier this week. Sevent scent run block Win Ray on ESPN was tied

for second among all offensive guards. He's having a good year. And then Brandon Jones, the third round pick that year, to go along with ray Kwon Davis, who we all believe is having a we all think is you know, a tremendous player on the interior defensive line of that Dolphins d line. And then Brandon Jones in the third round with what he's done the tackles, the pressures, the sacks.

So as you kind of look a year and a half into those guys' career and you look at three guys this year, you know, and there's obviously more that can join that party and continue to develop themselves, but you know, it's it just illustrates to me that the

jury is in on exactly none of those guys. And the idea behind you know, this kind of retooling rebuilding process for the Dolphins they began a few years ago, was you know, if a GM or a front office or a drafting team can hit on three or four guys every single year, that's a great, great draft class

to have. If you hit on just technically are really like your picks across the board, You're in a good position as far as how this league works, and when you have you know, nine, ten eleven picks and you get yourself those four hits. That's that's what you're talking about,

those great draft classes. So hopefully those guys in these last couple of draft classes can continue to progress and if they can enjoy the similar success in terms of the trajectory of a Christian Wilkins, a Mike go Sicky and Exaviing Howard Jerome Baker, then all of a sudden, you've got a great young nucleus of players showing growth and improvement every single game, every single year. And hopefully that's the case or the track we're on right now.

So those are the five takeaways. Now what well the Jets are next, But look at how different the outlook is now still three and seven. I know, I know that, But we have a good stretch of home games coming up after one quick trip up to the Meadowlands to face the Jets, which, by the way, Seth o J and myself and DJ Presh of the Fish Tank podcast all gonna be up there on the Metlive takeover, So come see us out of the Met Left takeover if

you are going. But all of a sudden, road game for the Jets three home games here back at hard Rock Stadium. Let's keep this thing rolling, play some good football, one win at a time, and get this thing rocking back in the right direction. A couple of other notes here. I mentioned Marlin Humphreys tweet after the game about Jalen Waddle. You love to hear that. Javon Holland said after the game that was the most fun he's ever had. I

believe it. And xaviing Howard broke the team down, he said at a press conference by saying, remember this feeling. I hope they all do, because that was a great night, a great team win. What a night. Stay tuned on the other side here for some postgame stuff from the five six d w Q AMS Country Seth levitt O, Jim McDuffie, and myself on the postgame show. I'll play you guys the first segment from the Thursday night recap in the meantime, that's gonna be my time you all.

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but Daddy is coming home. What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the fifth quarter postgame Show. The Miami Dolphins podcast network is all here. Seth Levitt, O. J. Mcduffee from the Fish Tank. Travis Winkfield here from the Drive Time Podcast. It's past midnight, but we're not tired yet. It's not past midnight yet. It's almost past midnight, Juice big dub tonight. Man, oh man, it feels good to be here again. Back to back weeks within last four day's actually get back week right? Yeah? Can we play

another game before the game before the weekend? Bro? You know what I'm gonna tell you what, Man, The way that defense played and the way the offense found the way that and then find a way to get in the end zone. Late in the game. I mean, that was that was a fun one. Man. You know, I love the game, especially on Thursday night. We just never know what's going to happen. And people have a four day you know, uh, four days to get ready for an event or for a game, and the teams got

come on the road. Our team went out there, man defensively, especially man, and play a one heck of a game Thursday night football is nothing like a Travis you know, you know, the hype man out there that got him hype before the game. I think that I think he carried. I think he's the one that the reason that it all went the way it went today. I hope so, I hope so. I didn't mind that at all, man.

But yeah, great game, great defensive job today, the pressures in the face, you know, Batton balls down, picking them up, scoring with it. I mean, it was just fun to watch, man, That's what we expected. We talked about this last week. We talked about this last game when when when we held the Texans to nine points and once again a great job by the defense. One bad series, but the rest of was just s We're gonna talk about that defensive game plan a lot tonight the quarterback position as well.

Obviously very intriguing there in terms of that storyline. But Seth, I want to go to you here real quick, because you had to take away in this game of sorts that you kind of kept coming back to and it just kept showing itself time and time again. About the physicality the Dolphins showed tonight. What do you think that this Baltimore team usually the one that gives it to this Dolphins team. Well, that's it. That's been the history.

You know, I saw all the stats all week about what the you know, the Ravens have beaten the Dolphins by this margin over the last Who cares what happened two years ago. This is a different team. They're a different team. Certainly don't care what happened prior to that. But one thing that has been the theme has been the Ravens just come in here and they're physical and they're nasty, and the Dolphins haven't been able to match that.

But the physicality and the night juice, and it started on the opening drive when the Ravens they I forget who it was, but they ran that end around and you think that guy's going to distance and Javon Holland comes out of nowhere, hit them up high and and bodies go flying everywhere. You know, mouth pieces are flying everywhere. And from it, from that moment she was hit, was

on and this team played fast. They were physically at the defense was what we had hoped they would be and then some and I think that that's what was necessary to come out here and punch those guys in the mouth, and that's what they did. Yeah, I think our team is tired of getting punked by these guys, and we really are. And I'm glad they played like. Yeah, I'm glad they finally went out to it that type of attitude because we've had a physical defense before with

a lot of same guys out there. We've had a fast defense before with a lot of same guys out there, and they showed that today. The different looks, the different blitzes, and then what you said when they finished the play. Remember the beginning season we had trouble finishing tackles, finishing the play, finishing to drive as a defense or as an offense. But the physicality of the whole thing today

was what I loved because that's what Baltimore does. They want to impose their will and they weren't able to do that. Today we were able to go out there and do that to them ourselves. And you talk about these young guns. I know we're talking a lot about these these young guys, you know, the Brandon Jones and the and the you know, the Polls Man. Those boys right there there have been the difference makers because they've been allowing our defense to do what they love to do.

And the rallying around him right, you can see it there. It's infectious. The way they're playing their energy there again, that physicality. It's fun to watch. It's changed the way they've played defense the last couple of weeks. And it goes back to those safeties and the pressure. And I was like, keep talking about on the podcast about bringing down Brandon Jones and Javon Hall and the pressure the quarterback. And it's been the case three weeks in a row now,

even going back to that Buffalo game. And I'm gonna go ahead and get out over my skis here and talk about a campaign for Rookie of the Year, defensive Rookie of the Year. This dude's bawling right now. Four tackles night solo tackles. He had two passes defense and a sack that lost seven yards. He was he had his hand in on four plays on those third down get us Baltimore in this game was want to for four He had he does hand on four of those stops.

And just to go back to Lamar Jackson and kind of what the Ravens have unto the Dolphins team over the last several years. Here in this game, two d and thirty eight passing yards and a big chunk of that was late and what I won't quite call garbage time, but it was close to it. And he only rushes for thirty nine yards on nine attempts in this game. Juice. Lamar Jackson came into this game averaging three hundred fifty one total yards per game. He comes away with less

than three hundred and a seventy three point six quarterback rating. Man, this Dolphins defense, I mean, we just talked about it, but that's that's the story of this game, right, Yeah, it really is, man. I tell you what. Also that the pressure came in a lot of different ways. We saw our young guy and Zaiden Phillips getting there. We saw with some bad balls, We saw a lot of guys out there that were contributing. Kristen Wilkins again, I

know it's me. He's just having a heck of a year or two, and a lot of times you don't really notice it because the interior guys don't getting numbers that dictate that they had a really good game. But the presidents and stopping up the middle of him in Ray Kwon, you know, taking a Baltimore team that loves to run the rock and and pretty much neutralize him

on you know, running the football. But the constant pressure and these guys out there able to go out there and and and play the style of defense that we were hoping to see, and they never stopped playing at the whole game. We did a lot of zero today. We played a lot of zero. We played a lot of single high. We're like we were daring him. And I talked about a lot in the post game today

on the pregame today. You know, um, when I when I did a hit that disciplined football stand in your lane containing Lamark Jackson, and they did a great job that keep him in the pocket when he did want to run, put him on the ground four times, right, I got it down. Really impressive well, I was just gonna say they held him to ten points? What were they averaging coming in Travis when he seven point six and so twenty seven point six they held him to

ten points. You know, I got on how happened with the palmty post. I love how great guys been covering his team for a long time. He gave this defense to see last week just because of who the opponent was, and I said, well, we don't control who the opponent is. Well, guess what. They played the Baltimore Ravens today and held them to ten points. So if this isn't a day from this Miami Dolphins defense, I don't know what more we want. But this was a lot of fun to watch.

And as you said, this was the expectation. This team is built around the defense dominating in the offense. Just you know, I hate to say it, but if the offense is capable, right, if they if they're capable, if they protect the football, they move it down the field steady. This defense is supposed to win football games, and the last two weeks they have showed up big time. And to the point about the rushing defense, they go for just ninety four yards in the ground seth was it

thirty five yards they had in that first drive? You you and I and John Conjemmi were talking about how the Ravens were rushing right at what we saw Juice as a different defensive lineup in terms of they went Bake and um, who else is off the ginkle? And then Riley and Roberts, which is a lineup change. Usually you have augba and and Jalen Phillips and there they go lighter but faster off the edge, and that speed

showed up in this game tonight. Nine rushing yards for a Ravens team that loves to run the football and basically leads the league in rushing every single year, not so much in this game. And then kind of to further that point, you talk about the aggressiveness and and

set how the defense sets up this team. How about the aggressiveness of the offense late in this game to to Albert Wilson for what was that fifty yards on that second to last drive there and then the fourth like they're going forth, they're pushing the temple and they're trying to win the game on the offensive side of the ball. Do not give that thing back to Lamar Jackson and let him come down and beat you. They were the aggression of night and to me, that was

the difference in the game. Yeah, you know, I mean, look, we look, we've been waiting for explosive plays from this offense and they did incredible it's supposed to plays. And I tell you the one at the end you talk about to Albert Wilson, I mean you, it doesn't get much bigger than that. When you've got to put a drive together, you've gotta get points, the game is still in the balance, and you're able to go out there and make a big throw, make a big play, um,

and it was. It was nice to see. Man. You know what, man, I think this team is tired of hearing it. They're tired of hearing all the trash talking. They're tired of hearing all these you know, I want to be eighting that fans that come out there, you know, and and and they hear it. Trust me, as an as an athlete, you hear the noise. Now check this out. You know you want on Sunday, you want on Thursday.

You got a long weekend, and they're going to enjoy public, right, They're going to be a public all weekend long public. I could promise you that right now, many and they and they deserve it, man, But it's gonna be time to get back to work. Headed to New York next week. But stef, we do the post game seth. We don't do the pre game right. So we're gonna talk more about how they did after a win streak, a chance to put together a three game winning streak that has

happened before. Hopefully it happens here again. I want to talk about two more plays before I get out to break guys, talking about the aggressiveness on offense and and just the game in general. I talked about it was sixty four yards. I just looked it up to to to Albert Wilson, But how about the thirty five yard passed at Jalen Waddle on first and twenty in a series where they needed to get points and kind of

take the pressure off this defense. Juice, I thought those two plays with two come back and then we'll talk about that next segment. We're two of the biggest players of the season for this team. Absolutely, I mean nothing explosive so far, even the beginning game is like three yards two yards. For years did have a fifty two yard or Isaiah four got a little boy, yeah, get outside, made a play down the field which really got at the end zone. But that was a broken play type

of each way. But I'm talking about in terms of game plan in itself, it seemed like that was still the mentality. But they did take some shots down the field and we completed them. We completed some shots down the field. Hopefully that that trend continues. We start losing some defenses up and we'll start finding some running lanes.

But we gotta start going down to feel like this a little bit more, giving our playmakers a lot more opportunities to get those explosive plays, and good things will happen. You hit some fifty yard plays and played that good of defense, you're gonna win a lot of football games in this league. We're not gonna not talk about the quarterback. We'll do that next segment here, but first let's go ahead and pause ten seconds so our stations can identify themselves.

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