Dolphins Texans Week 9 Recap

When the Dolphins are off the schnide with their second victory of the season, snapping a seven game losing streak here against the Houston Texans on Sunday with a seventeen to nine victory, losing streak is no more. A win is a win, is a win is a win, and

the Dolphins got one of those wins. We'll break it down with the five takeaways, some individual mentions as plenty of dudes bought out in this game today, and if we have some time, we'll play a segment from the post game show on five sixty with myself, Seth Levitt and O Jim McDuffie from the Fish Tank Podcast. We'll talk about Saturday night at bow Campers plenty to come here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health

Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast, So I want to go ahead and begin this podcast with just some interesting stats and nuggets that we learned throughout the course of this game heading into the game. Now the conclusion of the game, and the first thing I want to mention is something I'm sure all of you saw

watching the game at home. Was that interesting graphic they displayed towards the I think end of the first quarter up on the television on the TV broadcast that Miami and you know, of all the teams with two or fewer wins coming into the game, had the highest percentage of leads held within the course of a game in Miami coming into this game had the lead forty of the games this season, trailed for forty one, and tied

for twenti seven percent. So Miami tells you there they've been competitive and close in these games, and they finally were able to pull one out late in this game and close out of victory. And they also took the lead in this game with sixty one to play in that first quarter and never gave it back. So that percentage has to have increased big time. For the Dolphins as they get their second win of the season and first win back home here at hard Rock Stadium. Some

other statuments game. If you look at the staff book, offensively, it was not pretty, but also the Dolphins defense on that end really provided the Dolphins offense with opportunities to put this game away because they too made the Texans stats offensively quite ugly in their own regard twenty two first downs to fourteen Miami wins. That battle the big difference in this game for me third downs nine for

sixteen to Houston six for seventeen. The Texans did convert once on fourth down to sixty two offensively for Miami to seventy two for the Texans. Miami pass for two fifteen and rush forty seven. Houston through for and ran for seventy three. Dolphins ran five more plays than the Texans in this game. The turnovers the most turnovers in a game in the NFL since two thousand and sixteen.

The Dolphins commit five. They had one on special teams, a fumble from Miles Gascon, a fumble from Jacoby Brissette, and two Brissette interceptions. The Texans have four of their own as Javon Holland gets his first career pick, Brandon Jones recovers a fumble that was taken off of the force fumble of Eric Rowe. We also get a Jerome Baker interception as well as the pick from Justin Coleman, his first as a Miami Dolphin, and then five to four in sacks. Also, Miami had five sacks, Houston had

four on Jacoby Brissette. The Dolphins penalties cleaned it up big time this week, two for thirteen in the game. Houston committed eight fouls for sixty yards. So interesting stuff there as far as they found their way into the

winner's circle. Defense definitely created enough plays. There was some complimentary football there as well as one of those takeaways produces they touchdown in Miami's best drive of the game, going eighty yards early on in that game after the Javon Holland interception, so complementary football, strong stowing from the

defense and then just real quick before the five takeaways. Here, I want to go ahead and mention the fact that Jacoby Brissette starts this game over to a tongue of Valoo who was active and available as the number two quarterback and they did not elevate the new quarterback called or signed up rather to the practice squad Jake Dela Gala,

he was not available. He was still on the practice squad, so they wind up going with Brissette, who filled in for two because of a finger injury that he suffered last week in the Buffalo game. Finished the game, was limited in practice all week and the Dolphins thought he had a chance to play today, but it did not happen that way because he came out and worked out, couldn't quite get the distance on the throws. He wanted the correct spin to make all the throws, as coach

Flores told us after the game on Sunday night. So Jacobe Brissette comes in and gets his first win as a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. And we jumped right into the five takeaways from this game, and number one was kind of the offensive concepts, plans and approach. And there will be a theme with a few of these, and we're starting with offense first for a reason. But these first couple of takeaways, it's that doubles is best.

Triples is great, but doubles are good too, And so as far as the offense, goes the doubles of Waddle and Gassicki. I mean that first touchdown drive of the game, eighty yards on twelve plays, nearly six minutes off the clock. Waddle, Waddle, Gasicki one handed catch, Gasicki attempts another one handed catch, didn't make it, But I love that plan to go right back to Waddle after that to get those two guys who have been the most involved all year long,

they've played the most, they've produced the most. To get those guys active and involved early, I thought was a great plan for the offense. And then just back to Waddle real quick, because he winds up in this game with eight catches for eighty three yards on ten targets, highly efficient, made some big explosive plays, converted some third downs, move the chains, and I liked how they moved him around the formation, and that's kind of one of the

big takeaways overall. Here's how the Dolphins young players in this game, notably their rookies, really showed out in this game. And I thought with Waddle it really showed a level of growth in his game because I thought he played inside outside maybe more than he has all seas and I don't I can't confirm that yet, but I am excited to see the splits on that when we do the Tuesday review, the AL twenty two and the and the stats from Pro Football Focus to give us an

idea of his inside versus outside splits. And o J McDuffie talked about this in the post game show on five sixty, which you should definitely check out every single Sunday on five six w q A M, as well as Kiss Country with myself and Seth Levitt and o Ji McDuffie of the Fish Tank podcast here on the

Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. O J talked about how that's a great sign of growth for a young man to do so much from so many positions, but what it really does is it just creates more avenues to get him the football right because he can take jet sweeps, he can take screens, you can pitch him the ball out of the backfield, you can throw him vertically, you can throw him the intermediate short. Whatever you want to do,

this kid can do it. And to see him kind of take on some of those snaps into the boundary or Devonte Parker would typically be when he's healthy and again, boundary short side of the field, so balls in the left hash you light him up off to the left.

And when that can sometimes do in that exposition is sometimes the safety has to roll to the other side of the field if you're going to be in that single high safety look, and that creates opportunities for that guy to get one on one opportunities down the field. It gives him a two way go inside outside sometimes.

And I thought Waddle with that look, with some of the speed outs and the quick hitters they threw to him in this game that they have thrown to him in a couple of the previous games, can create some chances down the road for some possible double moves, some possible vertical action and again just create those one on one chances for your four two Ferrari in the garage and see if he can win a foot race. At one point there was a play that they dang near got to him on a deep ball. Jacoby wanted it.

You could see him loading up for it. It was a play I think in the second quarter of this game where they're split safeties too high safeties and Wattle this time from an inside split. A slot receiver split runs right down the middle of the field and you could just see like even he's leaving right, the safety did not have He was not ready to turn around and run, and Wattle flew past him. I thought that

was the best example of his speed. And Jacoby was loading up to get it out, but he hits the top of his drop and just cannot quite get the ball out because the protection wasn't quite there. There was a body in Jacoby's face right away. He breaks that contained, rolls out and still tries to fit it into Wattle. And when he threw it, I was thinking to myself, he looks open. I thought he had a chance to

get it to him. But because of all that time for guys to move around and kind of recover, the ball goes up, the safety closes and makes the pick and it's a turnover there. But we saw some opportunity, we saw some chances for it. We saw him split those two safeties and just fly right past them. And you know, Jacoby had a chance to get the ball down there and it just it didn't quite work out for him. But to be able to do that and to incorporate these different looks, like you score a touchdown

on a miles gaskin wildcat play. There was a play in the second quarter I think it was where they went with Miles Gascon and Savan Akhmed, both from the backfield two back personnel. Haven't seen a whole lot of that this year. Love seeing that, and Acmed motions from his position to the right of the quarterback over to the left flat and then they run the inside handoff back to Myles Gask In the other direction. False steps

put your linebackers and some peril give them conflict. I loved seeing that for this offense, with some of the double moves, the deep routes, the crossing patterns. Waddle had a seven teen yard reception on one of those crossing patterns. So just I thought the offensive game plan sequencing in

this contest was very good. Now, of course the turnovers and execution you have to do better with regards to that, so not quite up to par in the production standpoint, But eventually I think we're gonna see this whole thing kind of come together and get the production you want. Hopefully it starts on Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens.

But in this game, structurally, game plan wise, I thought the plan was solid, especially when you kind of make a switch their last minute to go to your second quarterback when you can't go to two to start this game. But for the Dolphins offense, Jacoby goes this game forty three four passing yards, one touchdown, two picks, and the four sacks and for a sixty four point five passer rating.

I mean that's kind of you know, for the defense too, to win a game where the passer rating was at that level of efficiency, and that's not a quarterback number, like passer rating incorporates the entire passing game because there are players that tip ball friends and some pressure wire Jakobe winds up getting the ball batted up in the air and gets picked off. Like that's not nothing he can do about that. So it's a passing offense number.

And to win this game really not handily, but like the Dolphins were always in control, right, they always had the lead that it never felt like it was close to kind of slipping away from them at any point in this game. To me, that's a credit to the defense. And that is our second takeaway on this podcast and really the main one that I wanted to get to, but the structures podcast away I wanted to we had

to do it this way. With the second takeaway is the defensive creativity with Javon Holland and Brandon Jones, and since doubles is best also with Phillips and Agba. I mean, we saw it all day long. These four guys just continuously put pressure on the quarterback, lockdown on the back end and coverage, stopped the run, executed games together, rush the quarterback together, and made plays as a pairing in

terms of their position groups. The interception from Javon Holland, First of all, thank you guys for going out there and do that one or I think three days after the drive time snippett off the podcast, and I spent a lot of time last week talking about Javon Holland and Brandon Jones. Thank you for going out there and producing big time because that makes the podcast look good and we love that. We love that you guys played

good and the podcast looks good too. So on that interception, you know, Brandon Jones comes into this game with a league leading amongst safeties nine QB pressures. Chavon Holland comes into this game with a safety rookie class leading three pass breakups. He registers two more in this game, including

an interception, and on that play. What I loved about that and I cannot wait to watch the all twenty two of this What I saw on that play was they both showed pressure off the same side of the formation. And what you it wasn't pressure. Rather they both are on the same side of the formation capping the slot receiver.

And what that typically means if you cap them, that means the cornerback lines up over the receiver and then the safety behind that lines up behind the cornerback because you typically will blitz that corner and you have to have a defender there to fill and of her right. And so when you cap like that, it says blitz. Both Dolphins did with that was they brought Brandon Jones

on that blitz. But Javon Holland got the heck out of there and wrote hit a deep to center field, and Tyrod Taylor didn't worry about that slot receiver being open. He looked at the other side of the field because there was no safety help over there. But when you have Javon Holland getting on his horse, he flies back to the middle of the field deep post safety and

doesn't stop there. He continues all the way over to the other side of the formation and winds up getting an interception at the back pylon and the end zone. What a heck of a play, What a heck of a design, What a heck of a marriage between those two safeties in Javon Holland and Brandon Jones, who in this game they were doing, Man, they were doing all

kinds of different stuff. And I'll never forget talking to a tongue by Loo back in Week two about Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde up and Buffalo who, even though they lost the game on Sunday, allowed just nine points in that game. Nobody has success against that Buffalo defense. And it's for a number of reasons, but Mike A. Hide and Jordan Employer being the best safety combination in the NFL for my money, is a big reason for that. And a big reason for them being that is because

they're basically interchangeable. You can put one in the whole being the rat in the hole. You can put one in the deep post, you can put one on the slot. You can play one as a dime linebacker. You can do both of those. Are all of those things, Rather with both of those guys, super impressive, versatile players that are creating big plays and producing. Brandon Jones coming on now,

Javon Holland been coming on all season. Jones winds up in this game rather on the first two drives two solo tackles and a quarterback hit that helps cause that interception, and within that same drive Holland a pick and a pass breakup on the second drive to get the Dolphins defense off the field on a Tyrod Taylor p BU. Fantastic work for both these guys. They finished the game five tackles for Brandon Jones solo, one assist, one pass defense. He also had a Phonel recovery at the end of

the game. And then Javon Holland of course has a tackle and assist as well, and a pass breakup and an interception to cap this thing off. So great work from both of those guys to get at work done. And then just another note I put in here later in the game, and Brandon Jones does this a lot of the time too, But Javon Holland on a first and goal play ran downhill and fit a gap and just smacked the ball carrier. I think he didn't get the tackle, but it lands and Roberts did on that play.

But again, you can just see the fact that he can do that and fly twenty five yards down the field and make a pick. I sure do like that combination of those players back there, so they're looking fantastic. And then you can't really quantify this because there's no stats to go off of it, but their coverage was so good throughout the course of the game. Having that press box view helps you see that, especially on those

red zone plays. Tons of split safety looks down there, and they were just plastering as Taylor would kind of break the pocket and try to extend down there around the goal line, around the ten fifteen yard line going in, and they were just there. They had answers for it all really all game long, and it was good to

see those guys working in tandem. And it goes perfectly off of what Jerald Alex aeran tol Us last week about how both those guys are coming along and really showing some stuff here and you're two and you're one respectively. Now still on the same concept of d defensive creativity and the production of doubles. Doubles as best Barracuda's Nova. The double deal is now complete. It's now official. That's a good thing. Emmanuel Ogba and Jalen Phillips. The what

series was this late in the first half? Yeah, it was right before the first half ended. There was back to back plays then I thought were indicative of what these two guys can be together as pass rushers, as defensive ends, or just defensive lineman. Because on this particular series they got a sack, an Emmanuel Ogbas sack and then on Jerome Baker pick And here's what happened to set those up. So the first play, you go five technique off the outside shoulder of the tackle. That's where

Emmanuel Ogba lines up. The three technique the outside shoulder of the offensive guard. That's where Jalen Phillips lines up. On a defensive end. That's a defensive tackle position. But five tech and three tech and they're gonna run games off of that. What's a game A stunt, a twist, a slant, just finding different ways to kind of confuse the offensive protection by changing places, changing gaps, setting picks, and creating gaps and opportunities for your teammate to run through.

And on the first one, the stunt they ran a te stunt. Jalen Phillips makes that three tech position, rushes the outside shoulder of the offensive guard and takes him out because of his speed, getoff and power forces that guard to retreat and get up field on a vertical set, and that opens a massive lane for Emmanuel Ogball, who takes two steps upfield crossover, great lateral A jilie there from Ogball, the longest, heaviest, strongest due on the defensive

line terms of edge rushers. He crosses over and closes on Tyrod Taylor for a big sack to get the Dolphins into great position on that first or the first play of that drive. Very next play. I love this one even more because it really showed you the freakiness of what Jillen Phillips can do. There's two plays in this game that I thought showed you why he is the first defensive end, first pass rusher off the board in this entire draft class. Back in April, same thing,

five tech and three tech. This time, Phillips, rather than going up fielding on the guard, attacks the center, pounds center and he bulldozed him, bull rushes him, puts him on his back, and runs right through him. So there's the power, right, the speed to power, the ability to condense inside and over a center, like you can speed to power attackle And I get that because you have that runway. But to do it from that position, I mean, that's where the Aaron Donalds of the world's live, That's

where the Christian Wilkins of the world live. Like, that's not that's a unique thing to be able to do. So he comes down in the middle, runs over the center and then it gets better, guys, Like it gets better from there. He chases Tyrod Taylor step first step and flags him down in a foot race and forces Taylor not just to go out of bounds and give up on the play, but to try to flip that

thing as a throwaway. And there's Jerome Baker who has fantastic awareness to know his foots on the line to put the foot back inside to re establish his position there and make the catch fall out of bounds turnover leads to points there for the Dolphins at day of the half. Great great play from Emmanuel Ogba, from Jalen Phillips, from Jerome Baker, but it just shows you the bite

of this rookie defensive end. This rookie pass special, the rookie outside linebacker, whatever the heck you want to call him, because he does so many things. He's coming along now. I thought we saw in this game. He also gets a sack later on in this game. So he has a big, big day and that was awesome to see and just to kind of continue that thought process there, we talked about the rookie class. Jalen Waddle eight catches, eighty three yards, Jalen Phillips a sack of two game

changing plays. Oh the playoff forgot to talk about option play. Tyrod Taylor takes the ball out left and he's got David Johnson out wide and Tyrod Taylor, who's reading that end Phillips in that position to decide if he crashes, I'm gonna pitch it. If he goes wide, I'm gonna keep that thing. And not only does Phillips keep outside or rather keep contained to force Taylor to pitch the ball out wide. At that point, he gets on his

jets and goes and flags down David Johnson. Like, if you can defend the outside quarterback, run the option like that with one player, that's gonna help you go a long, long way. And we'll see if he can continue it this week against the Baltimore Evens. But that's for another podcast because we're talking about this win on Sunday night over the Houston Texans here late night in the Baptist Health Podcast Studio UM. But the young guys. Jalen Waddle

eight catches eighty three yards. Big time contributor on the offense. Galen Phillips gets that sack in the game, has a play that turns into a pick that he basically was the pressure on that particular play. Helps create another sack for Emmanuel Ogba, who had two and a half in this game, as well as a pass rejection. Great job by Emmanuel in this game. Javon Holland gets his first career pick. Has plenty of other players we talked about in this game. So the Dolphin's rookie class was really

showing their stuff in this game. You love to see it. There's eight more games to continue to see that. If those guys can continue to grow and show you their bite, that's a good thing to look for the rest of the season. Number three, it just talked about, you know, a little more unique offense in terms of that little shovel roll that little rollout shovel overhand pass that were sent through to Mike Gasicki. I believe it was for

a first down conversion inside the five yard line. Wildcat into the five yard line, contribute to a touchdown pass the one on one fade to Mike Gasicki and he makes a great one hand and catch. Go right back to it, Go right back to Mike who is making all kinds of fantastic catches look super easy. What a year he's had. He continues to produce in this game. He comes up with four catches for fifty four yards, including an eighteen yard reception as his long. But just

the mixture of offensive looks and plans and ideas. I loved it in this game. That was takeaway number three, number four, I gotta talk about something that kind of held the offense up in this game. I thought the

offensive line struggled in this game. And it's really at this point, or in this game at least, it seeped into so many other elements of the game that I had to bring it up here on the five takeaways, Like the Dolphins had a chance to close this game out on back to back drives and just couldn't get any push in the running game. Miles for one miles, for two miles for a loss, pump the ball to drive before that miles for two miles for four miles for one pump the ball or no incomplete pass rather

pump the ball. There was a sequence where you go minus five yard run, strip sack when you had a chance to really put that game out of reach. I think it was seventeen six at the time, maybe seventeen nine to put that game away. You're driving, it's a

good methodical drive. You get that strip sacked because of some shoddy protection and just overall not good offensive play that ends that drive and gives the text in some life there the deep passing game just cannot materialize because there's not enough time to protect and get that thing going, among other reasons, but that's definitely a big focal point of that the running game. The Texans came into this game, I think the thirty first rushing defense in Miami. Miles

gaskin twenty carries for thirty four yards. Jacobe Brissett had one for seven, Savan Ackman had four for six, So just thirty four plus thirteen is forty seven yards rushing on the ground in this game. That's not enough against this Texans defense. The turnovers, negative plays, the sacks that hits, the pressures that forced the bad throws. The offensive line play just has to get better. We'll have more for you guys on that on the AL twenty to review.

That's a big takeaway here from me, though. The offensive line play needs to be better than it was in this game. Number five, rather than bringing linebackers on multiple pressures, and I'm not saying they didn't do that. They brought so many dbs and it was so effective at getting home, and it makes me think about the plan for these mobile quarterbacks, like a Josh Allen last week, like a Tyrod Taylor this week, Like Lamar Jackson on Thursday night

across the street back at hard Rock Stadium. But Brandon Jones gets home. Javon Holland gets in there for a hit on the quarterback that leads to the Justin Coleman pick. So he had that play as well among his fantastic game and fantastic start to his rookie season. Now, Nick Needham gets in there on a big sack that looks like a force fumble did not quite turn not that way, but he comes in and squares up Tyrod Taylor and knocks him to the ground on a big sax. So

pressures and sending guys from the secondary. Cat blitz is safety, blitz is to safety, blitz is a gaps off the edge, whatever you wanna call it. We saw plenty of great work from this Dolphins secondary and I thought they were fantastic all game long. And let's go ahead and finish up that note with some individuals some possible game balls here. Uh no, let's do the individuals first before the game

balls talked about Byron Jones. There was some plays in the first half where Chris Connley got him a couple of times, but I thought he responded fantastically in that second half and had a good second half of football. I thought Xavian Howard had himself a quiet day, and that's always a good thing. They basically avoided him throughout the course of the game. I thought Rob Hunt was the best on the offensive line, but the All twenty

two will give me a better view of that. Mac Collins that great touchdown catching the back of the end zone, big time play for him, thought Christian Wilkins. Continues to do his thing up front when he got injured for for a couple of plays, a little bit concerned, but he comes right back into the game. Super durable, reliable guy, never misses a game. Zack Seeler, so powerful in the strength, but not just to hold up blocks, to get off

the blocks and make plays like that again. And then I mentioned Nick Needham here as well, a couple of guys I thought played well in this game. As for my game balls, you probably know where they're going. Jalen Waddle, Mike get Sicky, Javon Holland, Brandon Jones, Emmanuel Ogba, Jalen Phillips, and Jerome Baker. Lots of game balls getting handed out. That's what we do here on a victory edition of the Drivetime podcast. And that's pretty much my takeaways, my

individual my game balls. We're gonna play a segment on the post game show for you guys after the outro here when I get out of here. Had some friends in town this weekend. Thank you to Chris and Noah and Kyle Krabs at Locked On Dolphins for coming down hanging out. Had a great time with those guys on Saturday night at Bow Campers for Fan Club Weekend. I just want to go ahead and mention this real quick because there are way too many names to shout out.

But the social media love that I saw when I woke up on Sunday morning from all the photos and stuff we took was just unreal. You guys are the best. And I said this on Twitter. It's kind of funny I talked about sould media because I'm gonna slam it. But do not let social media give you any impression about any walk of life. Really. I mean, you may see things on Twitter that will tell you one thing,

but this fan base is passionate, friendly and welcoming. And if you wanted a proof of that on Saturday night at Bow Campers, that was a perfect example. So a great time with everyone out there. And again, congrats to Mark Angelo for his nomination as the Dolphins Fan of the Year, one of thirty two man, that's a special honor,

thanks to Seth and DJ Preacher. Coming out from the fish Tank and getting the I G Live show going didn't really go our way, we tried it out, but we had a great time nonetheless, hanging out with all those Dolphins fans and kicking it there at bow Campers in Fort Lauderdale. Just a couple of quick notes here before we get out of here before the postgame show segment here at the end of it all talking fast at it, guys, I'm kind of fired up. Sorry about that.

Some schedule changes for the podcast this week, Same thing today, same thing tomorrow. Wednesday will be the preview podcast. We're gonna get rid of Deep Dive Wednesday because we have a game on Thursday night. So I want to give you guys a soult two days to check out all the podcast this week leading up two Ravens at Dolphins here at hard Rock Stadium. We'll come back and recap

it on Friday morning. We'll do the All twenty two review and publish that thing as soon as we have it out for you guys, and get back to our schedule next week as well for you guys. So a little bit of change this week on the short week in the primetime game, but that's gonna do it for my podcast here tonight. We'll talk to you guys on Tuesday. Stay tuned after the outrow here for the postgame show segment with myself, Seth Levitt and O Jim McDuffie from

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dot Com. Until next time. Fins Up, Caroline, Daddy is coming home. Stay tuned, folks for the postgame show segment coming up right now. What is up? Dolphans and welcome to the fifth Quarter Post Game Show on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network. It's a victory edition of the Postgame Show Miami Dolphins. A victory edition of the fifth Quarter post Game Show the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. As you can hear, is all here Seth Levin and a very well dressed Ojen McDuffie to my left here from the

Fish Tank Seth, you dressed pretty well too. I am Travis. This guy the host of the Draft Time podcast Juice Seth A win, A win, A win O J. I want to go to you here first, as we do every single Sunday here on the post game show. What does that locker room look like right now? Seven game winnings are losing streak rather snapped. We saw some jubilation from the guys there at the end on that fumble that kind of looked like it put the final nail on the coffin. What does it mean for those guys

in that locker room right now? Is a lot? Man? You know, these guys actually, you know they feel the heat. You know, we we feel it all the time, is as what we do for the off an organization. But as players, man, there's nothing like feeling that. And honestly, I don't know what a seventh great game loser strick

feels like. I'll just not from not from their perspective, man, but for those guys, man, you know, they read the press clippings, you know, they read all the social media, They see all the stuff that's going on, you know, so they know what's going on and what's being said about them in the organization, what's going on, what's being said inside that locker room. But nobody's been inside that locker room but them, you know, so, honestly, not a pretty game set to hit me. We we we we

were chatting during the game. Ugly game. But I don't care how you you know, just find a way to win, right Max set for me, no matter what, find a way to win. Because there's one team that's gonna go and get on the plane and not feel good about themselves. There's another team that's got their second win the season, which is us, and they're gonna be okay about it. They're gonna be able to go grocery shop this week, Seth.

They're gonna be able to Yeah, yeah, they're gonna be up to show up in publics now, you know what I mean. It's gonna be great for these guys, man and little victories. Man, honestly want to know this week

We're want to know again, big Seth. You know that's all that matters right now, Travis and I I'm just happy for those guys because of course, you know they've been hearing that, you know, all the chatter, and most of the chatter has been about not necessarily then, but just the whole organization as a whole, you know, So let's let's quiet for a little bit, and we got a Thursday game. I wish we had a Sunday game, you know, as we give I get a few more days.

But now now that we've you know, gotten off the snide against the Hut, yeah, we gotta, you know, Houston, Texas, no matter what on us, we're gonna get that Baltimore as well. At Steth wants to move on to Baltimore, but he's gonna let us give us at least one hour right now talking about the Texans, right at least we'll do'll go two hours today. We have had an opportunity to do this too often, just so so we talked he Joe's alluded to the kind of ugliness of

the football game. They're the most turnovers in a game in the NFL since team, which actually happens to be a Ryan Fitzpatrick game for the New York against the Kansas Chiefs in which he threw five picks in that game. Like Danny used to say, right, what's between three and five picks? That's all the same after that much, but set so, five turnovers for the Dolphins offense, four sacks, two s two yards of offense. They were nine for

sixteen on third downs two penalties for thirteen yards. But I want to turn this around because that's the offensive stats. And you won the football game because your defense showed up to play today. Well, the defense sure did show up to play. Look, let's not kid ourselves. You're not supposed to win a football game when you turn the ball over five times. But this just so happened to be the day that you showed up. And the other team was one and seven as well, so you know,

there was some bad football. There was a lot of bad football, but they're also were some things that I can't wait to talk about today, uh, that that we're exciting to watch. And and we talked about this before. I think it was it was either last week or was it the lunch bunch. It's like, you know, what are you cheering for? And I love every Sunday or every opportunity there is to turn on or to show up to a Miami Dolphins football game, regardless of the record.

And this is one of those days where we get to feel good about ourselves. And as you said, Juice, everybody in that locker room, everybody in that coaching staff, everybody who works for the organization, whether it's in a personnel department, whether you're supposed to fix the TV here or whatever it might be. If you feel a little bit better about yourselves today, and that's what winning does

for you. And it was so needed. If nothing else, they get to breathe, just a chance to take a deep breath, man, And I think these guys deserve it. You here, Coach Flores talk about it every week. These guys work hard, they practice hard. He believes they're doing it the right way. Today it paid off, and you saw the execution of from the defensive side of the ball and also some offensive drives they sustained. And it wasn't for the mistakes. I think we could have seen

a significant blowout game today. I mean, that's that's kind of season long. And we got a couple of segments we're gonna get you today that we haven't done since week one, like game balls, for instance. So I can't that a little bit. Let's that one up there. There's some good options on this team today, juice, because I you know, I was looking at the way this this defense played and kind of got back to that pressure. Look.

We talked about last week a little bit where they brought more guys on blitz is the defensive backs were all over the place and just a quick tease or game balls. I'm going to be in that secondary from my because I love a couple of guys played really good games back there. But juice, what'd you see out of this defense there? Man? Because we listened off our stats offensively, I'll pull up there's for you here in just one second. What did you see office defense? Well?

You know what I what I saw was was was interesting. Remember to comment last week, I think um Davin Howard made about we're finally back to doing some of the things that we've done before, you know, I mean I saw us today doing some of the things we did before, bringing pressure from the secondary, bringing more guys and they can block, putting heat on guys, trusting that you know, number twenty four, number twenty five on the outside can make these concover these guys, you know, And that's what

was what was good. I also saw it with that being said, you know, Javon Holly's becoming that guy has a young guy that's able to handle that situation. And that's what you have to when you start sending pressure. You gotta make sure you're guy in the middle of the field deep your deep safety. You know your your center fielder is able to handle. He's been doing it very well. So I love the fact that Aga was able to get home and when they weren't getting home,

their batting balls down. You know, things that you teach but you don't see. It happened a lot of time. Tyrod Taylor has been a nemesis to us no matter where he's been. Every time he lines up his his Dolphins, he's he's kicked our butts, seems like every time, you know, for them to have him contained and be able to go out there and and and put the pressure on him and get there. We got there today. Man, even with pressure before we didn't get there. Today, with pressure,

we got there. So the defense man, hats off to those guys. They went out there and played well. Force four turnovers. I believe that that last one at the end I think gave him the fourth one, and man that that was fun to watch. Adversely, our turnovers, you know, didn't kill us. We're only minus one in the turnover battle, which is what is the difference of the whole thing and what did we You know what if the Dolphins yield with those turnover six points, the defensive such change, defense,

sudden change was amazing today. They did a great job. Five turnovers and you only give up I think it was six points. I have to go back and run those numbers, but that is impressed. It was the plus thirty three yard line the plus twenty three yard line, both results in field goals. One of those a one yard drive at four place, one yards three points. Kind of how it goes sometimes, Juice. You mentioned Tyrod Taylor forty three that's fifty five percent, pretty low in the

today's NFL. Two passing yards, no touchdowns, three interceptions, five sacks, forty two point eight passer ratings. So the Dolphins got after him big time. In total, two hundred and seventy two yards allowed, the four takeaways of five sacks, six for seventeen on third down. The recipe was kind of what it was a year ago, like you mentioned, and quickly to that point, Juice, I want to talk to you about this because I saw a lot in this game. I think we're seeing it more and more each week.

You talked about Javon Holland rookie safety has played was eight NFL game today record ninth NFL game Brandon Jones one year, nine games in. I'm seeing these two guys operate as you know, agents of chaos that don't play the same position. You like that seth It sounds like a really cool poster. It sounds like a terrible punk band or something. These guys can rotate and play each

other's role. It's it's interchangeable. So as a receiver, when you have these safeties that can I'm gonna go down to the box next play, I'm going to the deep post and we're gonna cap this guy and we're gonna blitch you, and I'm gonna rotate. What does that do for receive either, right? I guess maybe for a quarterback, but just the offense in general. When you have two safeties that can do it all, I think that's how

you go out and get your safeties. You have to have safeties that can play center field or the ones that can come down the box no matter what, because you know how it works, Travis and Steff. You know when teams run motion, they're determining whether they're gonna be a man the man or if you're gonna be in in zone. But if you can do that, you can bring your safety. Just swap all right, I got free, you go, you go too strong, and then I can

still bring pressure from there. It's it's a huge thing, man, you know. And the whole key to the whole scheme right there is guys being smart about what they're supposed to be doing. Because now if you start doing that and trying to get you cute and we start messing it up, then teams to take advantage of that. But the fact that these guys are the same page and they can interchange at that position, which is great because we saw them both come off the edge. We saw

Nick Natum from off the edge. But everybody's able to cover up. There are a few times now it's be one hundred where the guys are still running free, but the pressure calls for errand passes, you know what I mean. That's that's one thing that we still have to tighten up. Even though we got there are sometimes and calls from Aaron passes. Some guys are still running free and they couldn't connect. But at the same time, man, it was fun to see that. It's fun to see guys finally

get home from different positions. It's finally good to see, but finally getting those one on ones, you know, unable to get to make the opportunity to the best of his opportunities as well. And uh man man that the defense man and and this you know, to be transparent here, that's my fantasy football defense too. It's my it's my it's my Dolphins today. I knew it was gonna be a big day and board to day show. Yeah, that was a great call. I can't. I just feel for

anybody who started Tyrod Taylor on their fantasy team. I don't know if there's many people that did that. Well, if Aaron Rodgers is your quarterback, you know, Juice get up here and told me, why don't you put Jordan Loving driving? Sounds like that's a great idea. That's what I should have done. We're gonna save that for maybe the second hour because I have major issues with that. But right now I'm feeling good. Were you three and a half hours ago? Bro? You could have held my

life this game this week? I could have used that. My wife does my fantasy football team. So yeah, So you meant the interchangeability of the safeties and what it does a confusing a quarterback or a receiver. That's what happened on Javon Holland's pick. They had both those guys were lined up over the slot, the slot receiver, and that usually indicates if you're gonna cap a cornerback that he's gonna blitz right because you have to fill that spot.

And so Jones blitzes, and then Holland gets out and rotates back to the deep post, goes all the way to the other side of the field. Boom, Jones hits, makes the hit on Taylor h halland winds up with the pick on the other side of the football. I thought that was awesome to see. And both of those guys perfect center field play right there. He went a long way to get to that one, and he had to tippy toe to keep it in bounds right here, you know. So he went a long way to get

down for sure. That's all he did at the University of Oregon. And it paired up well with the pass brush right Seth. And I kind of asked you at some point in the game, we got a quick manute to get it before we get out here. But I want to go back and talk about this on the other side. Actually the manual agbat Jalen Phillips combination today where I asked you what Jason Taylor was saying and you're like, oh, yeah, put the radio bugs in my ear,

have putes in. I wanted to hear his breakdown because there was a play where Jalen Phillips, I thought, showed you exactly what he's capable of doing. We'll talk about that. We're gonna talk about the quarterback situation with what happened in the game today. We'll hear from Coach Floors before we do that. We're not gonna speculate until we hear from Coach on that game balls, game balls, guys, and

the drive of the game. All of that and a whole lot more coming up on this edition of the Post Game Show again the final score from hard Rock Stadium Dolphins seventeen Texans nine. You're listening to the fifth quarter post Game Show on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network, brought to you by the Palm Beaches