Drive Time - Dolphins Patriots Week 1 Recap

eleven defeat in New England. We'll get the quotes, will get the stats, and all the analysis here on the Drivetime Podcast. All of that and more on this Sunday, September edition of the Drivetime Podcasts. Let's go ahead, start right off the top here with Brian Flores postgame press conference that happened immediately after the game ended up in Foxborough. Let's go ahead and start here first with coach Flores postgame media availability. He talked first about Fitzpatrick and the

performance of his starting quarterback. I had some spurts stairway. You know, we're moving the ball, but obviously with turnovers, um, you know those are those are huge. I mean, let's we talked about that. Um, you know, a lot as a team. That's stuff to win when you turn the ball over. Um, but I did think he you know, he had some put some drives together. Um. You know, we've only finished the one, but just too many turnovers

at the end of the day. Up next, coach was asked to talk about the run defense and Cam Newton and that Patriots offense that had over two yards rushing on the day. We got to do a better job. We're on defense. Obviously the quarterback was an issue. Yeah, we gotta do a better job. Up next, coach was asked about the availability and the usage of Miles Gaskin, who leaved the Dolphins running backs in both rushing and receiving yards. Here's coach on the second year running back

Miles of practice. Well, you know there's a rotation there to running back with Howard Matt. You know, later got a few few snatch as well, and he had a couple of good runs, some some good plays in the passing him as well, So we left him in that. Coach was next asked about the performance of his linebacker Jerome Baker, talking about how this is a team game. It's not about just one guy. Yeah, I mean, it's a team game. It's not one guy. It's not just

Jerome or Fits. You know, we we we've got to do a better job as a as a unit, as a team, offensively, defensively in the kicking game. We didn't do enough to win today. Um, and we've got to do a better job. So we'll go back and learn from the tape, meet on this tomorrow and then close the book on this one and move on to the next opponent. And here is coach on the performance or the assessment rather of his offensive line with two starting

rookies and four news starters from last season. Yeah, I thought, you know, from a PROTECTU standpoint, we were okay. Um. You know, we had the one sack late in the game, but you know, other than that, look like we were able to protect. We have time in the pocket. Um, it's a good rush, good secondary. Um. But you know again you know that that that part of it. It's a team game. So you can play well in one phase and um, you know, not playing anywhere and enough

phases and not enough, not good enough. And some of coach's impressions on the performance of rookie safety out of Texas Dolphins third round draft choice back in April Brandon Jones. I thought he had an up and down game without reviewing the film. Um again, he's practiced well. We uh stuck him in there and though he made a couple of good tackles in the open field, did a good job in a kicking game from what I saw. But

you know, we'll go back learn from the tape. Again, he's a rookie, you know, this is his first NFL game. So up next we'll hear from coach on the assessment of the Dolphins run defense and how Cam Newton and that Patriots run offense was able to have so much success in eleven victory for the Patriots. I mean, it was based on a lot of things. You know, bad technique, you know, bad tackling. We got to clean up a lot of things in the run game. Um, which obviously

that will be a focus this week. Next we heard from coach here from Coach rather on receiver Davante Parker, who left the game in the second half with a hamstring injury. He's he's in there. We'll take a look at him over the course of the week. I don't have a status update right now, but obviously he didn't return, so we'll see what that looks like, uh, you know

tomorrow in the coming days. Up next, Coach was asked about the final drive, if you considered kicking a field goal there instead of going for the touchdown at the end tilling by two scores late in the game. Here's Coach on that final possession. Um, yeah, we were obviously trying to score a touchdown. Um, if we didn't pick up the last one, we're got to kick the field goal. You know. Unfortunately the balls picked off, you know, whether they made the call, didn't make the call. I mean,

not much we can do. We just gotta live with, you know, the calls that are made or made on the field. And we'll go ahead and finish up here with coach on a couple of notes and thoughts from Coach about what he thinks could have been better on the game on Sunday. Well, I thought, you know, overall, the tackling could have been better, The conditioning could have been better, obviously without We're not gonna make excuses on

whether we had preseason games. Didn't they didn't have any preseason games all either, But um, all things we can improve on, we can improve. The tackling proved, the run defense, you can improve the conditioning. UM, work on those things over the course of the weekend. Um, we got a tough opponent next weekend. UM, you know to it. And so there was coach Flora's You guys can find all the media availabilities up on Miami Dolphins dot com as

well as on the YouTube channel. We had Bobby McCain, Christian Wilkins, Jerome Baker, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Coach Flores at the media availability postgame. Some status from this game. The Dolphins, of course lose twenty one to eleven at the New England Patriots. The Patriots had twenty eight first downs to Miami seventeen, and third and fourth down was kind of where the game was shifted as far as the stats go.

The Patriots converted six out of eleven. They were five for ten on third downs and one for one of course on that crucial fourth down on the really the drive that kind of put the game on ice there in the fourth quarter. Miami did not have as much success.

They were two for ten on third downs. The Dolphins had two hundred sixty nine total yards to the New England three hundred and fifty seven total yards in the ass in game, Miami did have more with one eight two to New England's won forty, but the rushing yards where the story of the day. The Patriots, behind Cam Newton, had two hundred and seventeen rushing yards to Miami's eighty seven. The Patriots grants sixty three plays to Miami's fifty eight.

That of course changed a lot there towards the end of the game, with the Dolphins in that hurry up, urgent mode getting plenty of plays and passes off late in the game, the Patriots completed fifteen of nineteen passes, so very measured in their approach and being very efficient on offense. The Dolphins had three turnovers, the Patriots had just the one. Miami picked up two sacks on Newton,

the Dolphins surrender just one sack to Ryan Fitzpatrick. Penalties Dolphins had four for thirty five yards, the Patriots had three for forty seven. And time of possession. Patriots take that battle thirty four minutes and fifty three seconds to Miami's twenty five minutes and seven seconds of possession. Now my five takeaways for the game, Let's go ahead and start right there with number one. It's that Cam Newton is still Cam Newton. The run defense. You heard coach

talk about it has to get better. Jerome Baker said that exact quote in his postgame press conference, that Cam is still Cam, former league MVP, we know all too well about that. Nobody on this team took him lightly, and coach talked about the importance of conditioning and rotation this week. You heard it postgame there as well, and it did feel like the team adjusted well early on

to the running game. You heard Tony Romo during the broadcast talk a lot about defensive looks and simply said, you're just not gonna run it on us with this particular look, talking about instances where the Dolphins brought down a player into every gap and overloaded gaps, sometimes as many as ten guys on the line of scrimmage, sometimes as many as all eleven in that cover zero look, putting tons of players down on the line in hopes of stopping that run game and really forcing the Patriots

to beat them with the passing game. But it was just tons of stuff based around the quarterback. Flora said the Dolphins didn't play well enough against the run to win the game. You heard him in the media availability

and that obviously started with the quarterback. They just had so much stuff that was based around that quarterback run and stuff that can be a challenge to defend, and if you haven't seen it, and if you don't have it on tape, it's kind of like Tony Romo was talking about pretty much throughout the course of that broadcast. But they ran the ball pretty successfully, starting with quarterback

lead with power. They had a nice conversion on a draw play where Cam kind of takes the shotgun, snap steps back, evaluates the defense, and then takes off right up the middle. If you get a too high structure, too safeties deep off the football, good chance the quarterback wants to see that and take advantage of the running game. Tony Romo talks about that a lot in the broadcast. There was one particular instance where the Dolphins did have two high safeties and Cam took off on a draw

for a first down. The Dolphins did adjust to it pretty well in that second quarter. After that first touchdown, they had fourteen carries for seventy nine yards on the first two drives the Patriots did. Then the next two drives just six carries for twenty two yards and two drives that did not result in points that way, but then they came back and added some more wrinkles, some jet sweep action with some misdirection the RPO that really helped hold the linebackers in and kind of create more

problems that way. And that fake sweep that one to action going left. Then Cam takes it back the right the other way for his second touchdown of the day right around the pylon. That play that was reviewed for the touchdown and held up eventually there at the end

by the Patriots. That Captain eight played drive where they threw the ball the first three times for thirty seven yards, and that was purely in the gun again going off of what Romo said, do you fake handoff the r p O, you ride it out, you read it out, you see what the linebackers do. You pull that thing out and you pop it right over the middle. It's really tough to defend an offense when you have guys

going that well as the Patriots did. Just so much to think about defensively for the Dolphins, because you have to play that thing going forward, you have to think about sideways and all that jet sweep action. You have to worry about going backwards on the r p O. If they pulled out and pop it in behind you, that's a tough task. As Flores, Wilkins, McCain, and Jerome Baker all said. It just wasn't good enough on this

day for the Dolphins. Then on the crucial drive mid fourth quarter, they break out this option toss play where Cam takes it out to the side and has an option pitch to Sony Michelle, which he does just layers and layers and layers on top of each other, which resulted in two hundred and seventeen rushing yards for the Patriots. First game out that type of offense. Again, Gonna be

tough to find out all those wrinkles. Now they have it on tape, and hopefully the next time around, as some of the Dolphins players they're said post game, they'll be more prepared for it. Defensively, takeaway number two. The Patriots defensive backfield is still really, really, really good. Stefon Gilmore's interception was a hell of a play in tight coverage, and that was the case all day long for Ryan Fitzpatrick and those Dolphins passing offense. We saw it last year.

Plenty of contestant catches Davante Parker and Mike Kisiki going up over players, and that was the case in this game as well. Dolphins won some, Patriots one some, but even on the catches, you see these Patriots defenders just

draped all over the Dolphins receivers. Davante made some nice plays on those contestant catches and that one sliding catch with the ball was a little bit behind him was just such a good concentration and effort play, really showing the ability to catch the football away from his frame, away from his body. That of course, with what made him such an elite receiver last year attacking the football

down the field. I thought Gasick's rebound type of play on that touchdown drive where he kind of snagged it and positioned it away from his body to prevent the defensive back was a really nice look there from Gisicky. He kind of got cranking their late towards the end of the game, Parker goes out and it's always tough to lose a player again who finished fifth and receiving

last year, fourth and touchdowns across the NFL. You even saw fits get aggressive and go to him when the Pats were putting Gilmore on Preston Williams because Gilmore, the defensive player of the Year last year, was kind of bouncing back and forth, and Preston did get involved late in the game on that lone touchdown drive, getting on top of Gilmore on a crucial fourth and two play. The Dolphins just had to have he gets on top

forces defensive past interference. But when you play this Patriots team, that's just gonna be the case. You're gonna have to make plays in tight contested areas. We heard Fitzpatrick talked about it in the pregame last week during his media availability. It just didn't happen enough on this day for the Dolphins offense to have enough success. One field goal, one touchdown drive, eleven points. Gonna be tough to win games going that way. So that's takeaway number two, and it

kind of ties well. And to take away number three, I thought the offensive line and pass protection held up very, very well in this game. There were some looks early on. We talked about the variety of formations and we'll get

into that here in just a moment. That the Dolphins can run with all those different guys, with Jachem Grant and his speed, Isaiah Ford in his short area reliability, Davonte Parker and Preston Williams the downfield attacking ability, Matt Breed's ability to flex out wide, Miles Gaskin's dual ability, Jordan Howard's powerful physical running. They've got so many different guys that can do different things, and they did a

good job of really kind of rotating those packages. Is in rotating the players, in getting everybody plenty of snaps. And there was a couple of plays where they had play action where Eric Flowers kind of peeled off, kind of shows you that simulated pulling guard look that you'll see sometimes, and that was actually what the Patriots did on the big Jerome Baker sack, was they tried to pull a guard and he won right in that B gap.

The Dolphins were doing that with Eric Flowers, and I love the way he would kind of search and hunt for someone to block the free rusher who comes free because of that play action look. I thought he did really well in that regard for the most part, good communication upfront, no really stunts or twist or unblocked rushers coming in because of poor communication and not passing guys off.

They did well in that regard thought. Austin Jackson looked very good past blocking his first career game as a pro. Robert Hunt got plenty of work as the sixth offensive lineman to help them slam the ball in down around the goal line on the lone touchdown drive, and it was good to see the offense offense really kind of assert their will on that possession. They basically said, we're gonna run this thing over and over again until you

stop us. And the first two plays the Patriots were up to the task, but play number three, Jordan Howard the sledgehammer finally plunges in across the goal line for the touchdown. So good resiliency there. Ryan Fitzpatrick said after the game that he barely got touched. He mentioned the mood and the mentality of the two rookies and both Jackson and Kinley and said he felt they were definitely ready for prime time, which is a great sign going forward.

You want to develop these young offensive lineman and create a nice wall there a long term, but it's definitely not easy to at that. Patriots and Belichick rushed scheme blocked, and the Dolphins for the most part on Sunday, they were up to the task takeaway number four, staying on the offensive side of the ball. Miles Gaskins strong training camp translating looks like here. Early on he changes the angle and gets kind of skinny in that gap and

sees the hole and hits it hard. And most of all, I love the way he finished his runs on Sunday. And although there wasn't just simply a lot of room to get going just three point to two yards per carry for the Dolphins on offense, I was impressed with the way all the running backs finished off their runs.

Ultimate confidence in Jordan Howard. Like we talked about on that third down and goal from the one yard line, I thought Matt Brita pushed the pile a couple of times on that late drive at the first half when Miami got their field goal. And that's certainly the case here with the push you get from the big offensive lineman upfront, Solomon Kinley, Ted Carress, Eric Flowers, Austin Jackson and Jesse Davis getting some nice push there on some

of those runs number five. And this goes back to what coach Flora said, some conditioning and the mystery that's going to make for an interesting first month of football, especially against the team again with limited tape like we

have on this Patriots offense. Romo talked about it in the open with Fitzpatrick and Chan Gaily having a history together, kind of some old library the Patriots could go off of to look at the tape and say, maybe they might do this, they might do that, But he said, the Patriots and Josh McDaniels with Cam Newton, there is no history there, So how do you really prepare for that and study for all the wrinkles they might want

to throw you. I talked about the adjustments and that was great to see, but Romo once again referenced all the new stuff they were rolling out over and over again, just continuously piling on new things. You've got players going forward, sideways, and backwards. Just tough to defend. A lot to ask, especially when you consider rotation, trying to keep guys fresh. We saw line changes about the course of the game. Linebackers going in, linebackers coming out, defensive, lineman in and out.

Just plenty of guys played, plenty of snaps. And I go back to something Josh Bowyer said a week or two ago that they expect to be playing their best football in December, So it'll be interesting to see how they perform when they've got some tape, they've got some corrections to make, and can really self scout themselves and find out who they are, because right now everybody across the National Football League has to find out who they are, what they do well, where teams might want to attack them.

And I think we'll feel pretty good about where Flores gets this team going and the coaching staff gets this team going, because we saw last year that coach Flores is capable of doing just that. It's another test next week with a big quarterback who had a big day today in the opener, and Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and on that note, around the a f C East real quick. The Bills did blow out the Jets in

the opener. It wound up a twenty seven team final, but it was with like three minutes to go and the Bills on the one yard line. They kicked a field goal. The Jets drove down late for a touchdown to kind of make it a closer game than the scoreboard would tell you, to make it a ten point game. But the Bills looked really, really good in that opener tough test next week. Some big plays that I thought really helped swing momentum for Miami in this game. The

near muff punt recover to open the game up. The Dolphins almost got a break there on that opening drive. I didn't see who it was. Initially it might have been Brandon Owns, but not quite certain, but a great job of running the blocker right into the return man. I no Cavon Fraser was down there too, so a good job by those guys to kind of cause some

confusion and get downfield and cover that punt. The Bobby McCain pass breakup on Julian Edelman where he catches the ball in front of him and then McCain swings the hand around the backside and punches that thing out. That then led to the Jerome Baker sack. So instead of first down and plus territory, all of a sudden, it's third and nineteen. Two big plays a fourth that drive there. Miles Gaston had a conversion on a third and short play.

The offense went trips to the field side of the formation. All those guys kind of flooded out to the other side, and Myles Gascon just snuck in behind, Fitzpatrick found him for a nice chunk gain to keep a drive going in that first half, and that was crucial, I thought, because it really kept the Patriots rushing offense that was having so much success off the field for at least another three plays. Jamal Perry had a huge tackle on a third and six a draw Dolphins go dime defense

six defensive backs. Cam Newton catches it, tuck, tucks it and tries to run for the first down and he meets Jamal pair he head up and that's not a matchup where Perry has the advantage. He's probably giving fifty pounds in that matchup to Cam Newton, but he did will to kind of bow up and make that stop

on a big third down. Miles Gaston had another big play in the first half, the very first play I think it was of that of the lone field goal drive in the first half from Miami, where he gets a tackle, gets hit, immediately bounces off and rips off an eight yard running to keep that drive kind of alive at the time, because you go down behind the chain second long up against your own goal post late and a half, you might have to think about getting out of that drive, so he keeps me alive with

a nice run there. Obviously, Jerome Baker's huge strip down around the goal line is just a massive play, and he talked about that in his media post game how it's really about just flying around and getting to the ball, run to the football and good things will happen. He did that there and made just a huge, huge play because it was about to be three if he goes in for the touchdown and a successful p A T instead, it's fourteen three. Dolphins get the football back and they

would go down and score. So many big, nice momentum changing play there from the Dolphins linebacker, and then Preston's defensive past interference forced on Stefon Gilmour. Nice job to get on top of the defensive player of the year and coverage there and forced him to play underneath and try to play through you to the football and of course causes the d p I which led to the Dolphins touchdown to make it a tight game there at the end of that third quarter. Some individual performances I

loved in this game. Christian Wilkins. We talked about his sack that was really more about Emmanuel Ogba bending the edge, had a really nice double chop where he swiped down the offensive lineman's hands and then flattened that corner and forced Cam Newton to step up where he then saw

number ninety four who also won inside. So don't take anything away from Christian Wilkins for getting there, because you have to get around your block to get there, But ogball forces Newton off the spot, forces him off that first read. Then Wilkins gets right in there for the sack, his first of the year. He also had two pass breakups and a nice run stop as well. Big statistical day for Christian Wilkins, but after the game he did say he'll change all that or trade all that in

rather for a Dolphins victory on the cornerback position. Out wide, not much of test for the guys like Byron Jones and xaviing Howard and Noah Ignogeny playing outside because the Patriots just didn't really go to those guys. I thought early in the game, seeing the inactives that the Patriots produced pregame with only two tight ends, I thought we might see more receivers get downfield because of the fact that they didn't have multiple tight ends available to them.

But they just went heavy personnel, heavy offense, two backsets and ran the football and when they did throw it was mostly inside to Julian Edelman or to those tight ends who also had a nice game as well, but Byron Jones and Xavian Howard when I watched them in coverage, thought they did pretty good on the outside as well. Brandon Jones, he was an enforcer in the box, making plays left and right, eight combined tackles in the first half, with six of those solo. He finished with ten tackles

and seven of those solo on his own. Bobby McCain talked about how fast Brandon Jones played in the game, saying, yeah, he's a rookie, but he's a guy we rely on and we love the way he plays instinctively in flies to the football, and that was something I kept seeing on tape, or not not on tape, rather on his Texas tape sure, but in training camp watching the way he pursued at the line of scrimmage, timed up his runs and just got hisself, got his face mask on

some footballs and made some plays that way. So good to the rookie, the Dolphins safety out of Texas making some big plays. You heard coach talk about some spurts where the offense had some success. I liked the way Ryan Fitzpatrick started going after the size he has on the offensive side of the football. Of course, the big dp I we talked about on Preston Williams, the big

catch from Mike get Sick. Then another dp I down in the end zone before the touchdown as they were trying to basically take Kasiki down to prevent him from elevating, because they know how much they can get After the Dolphins camp with those big bodies throwing high into the back of the end zone and getting touchdowns that way.

He talked about how he's going to take chances and trust his guys and sometimes, yeah, that might bite you in the backside, as it did this day with three interceptions, but it also can result in some monster days, some four yard days like we've seen in the past. And frankly, I'm just not sure how else you approached this game with those cornerbacks, because they are that damn good. We

talked about. Miles Gaskin is one of the takeaways again, just real shifty, his ability to kind of change the angle of the tacklers down in the box, down in the trash, down in the muck, was really impressive. Talked about Eric Flowers and pass protection. Thought he did really well that way. Really the entire Dolphins offensive line a note for all those guys, Jesse Davis, Solomon Kinley, Ted Carress,

Eric Flowers, and Austin Jackson all performed well in pass protection. Again, Devanta Parker thought the way he caught the football away from his body, contested catches, we saw what he did last year, kind of translate this year into Week one. We'll check on him later in the week. On the hamstring. He heard coach say he left the game, did not return. We'll have to get a status update on Devonte Parker.

He talked about Emmanuel Ogba's big pass rush win, showing that length and the heavy, heavy hands that he certainly brings. Package wise, there was tons of variety. We talked about the rotation of the Dolphins offense down around the goal line, those heavy packages, Robert Hunt getting involved, two backs, two tight ends, and an off sixth offensive lineman. They were doing line changes early on in the game as well. They started the game with Chandler Cox and Jordan Howard.

They rotate those guys out and bring two tight ends in just a bunch of different packages, a bunch of different looks. Again, more time goes on, the more of this team can find out who they are, what they want to be, and go forward from there. And we are joined now by the host of the audible podcast and writer from Miami Dolphins dot com dot com and media analyst here with the Dolphins, John Can Jemmy, John, how you doing, man? I'm doing fine, driving us up

about yourself. Not too bad, could be better. We'd be better if we had a w in our back pocket, but we don't. And we are here talking about the Dolphins post game here Dolphins twenty one Patriots or Patriots twenty one rather Dolphins eleven. And John, I just want to start here with your three takeaways. You can find them up on Miami Dolphins dot com. Johnald Wright, three takeaways and three keys before the game and after the game every single week. Let's go ahead and start John

with your first takeaway from the Dolphins loss on Sunday. Well, obviously we had a very difficult time containing Cam Newton. You know, he he had twoty total yards when you take into account what he did through the air and on the ground and the two rushing TV. So the first takeaway for me anyway was there wasn't sufficient edge defense. There wasn't enough of that setting the edge on the defensive side for the Miami Dolphins to Number one slow down Cam Newton before he got five or six yards

down the field. And that seemed like most of the time was the first contact he had as a Dolphin defender would try to tackle him. Uh So, so that was the biggest thing for me. I think you knew what was coming, and I just didn't think the Dolphins did uh an efficient job at slowing him down in and around the line of scrimmage, and he just got to use that big frame and go downhill for four quarters.

He certainly has a good way of kind of riding that that zone read out doesn't even He can keep the football in the pocket of the running back and then tuck it back out once he makes the read on the crashing end. And then John looked like they related a good job of adjusting to the Dolphins adjustment, because I thought in that second quarter range the Dolphins

kind of aid an adjustment. But then the Patriots come back with the RPO and it seemed like from there are things really kind of got back on the back hill again, didn't it. Yeah, it really did. I thought the Dolphins did a pretty good job and Josh Boyer trying to add personnel to and around the line of scrimmage,

but that only set up man to man coverage. And when you add motion to that, I think it moved the land and Roberts or whoever that inside linebacker would have been to that side of the r P O of the run pass option, moved him inside a little bit more and created a bigger window for Edelman and Harry on quick slants. And I think that they were

able to beat man to man coverage. And even though there weren't that many explosive plays in terms of getting the football down the field off of that zone read or that that run past option, they were able to keep the Patriots on the field, move the chains, and keep the Dolphin offense on the sideline. So I think in in those terms, the Patriots really dictated time of possession and they dictated the way the game was played in the second half, and that led to the first

game that ended on Sunday. The game was over almost in a flash. Other games still had four or five minutes ago at the end there, so you can tell how the Patriots really shorten the game that way. John, how about takeaway number two for you? I want to say a little bit about the Dolphin offense and their

lack of explosiveness. I think in the offense you were used to our accustomed in the second half of the season last year of seeing Mike Kasicki or Devonte Parker be able to come down with some big plays, or get Jachem Grant in space and have him break a tackle and get to daylight. You didn't see a whole

lot of that today. And I think you know, with the three turnovers from Ryan Fitzpatrick, I do not want to lay all of them on his shoulders because he had I believe it was Preston Wilson Williams fall down uh and and that led to an interception by Gilmore, I believe. And then there was a couple other times you had fifty fifty opportunities where it could have been

past interference it wasn't called. I just thought that the lack of explosive plays didn't lead to those chunk yardage plays where you get thirty or thirty five yards right away, and now you're in scoring position, and with the Dolphins struggling a little bit offensively to find an identity in Week one, you needed one or two of those plays to cut the field in half. And they sure didn't

do that today. And they certainly did that last year in the Weeks seventeen victory where they had the big chunk place to get things going, to get drive started. And it seemed like this year, this time around, they would have moments where it started to look that way, but then, like you mentioned, something to go a Ryan that you just kind of couldn't get it going and and string together consistent plays, John, how about your third takeaway? Well,

I thought we needed going into the game. I thought we needed to win that turnover margin. And I thought, you know, losing on the turnover margin really could lead to bad things for any team, no matter if it's Week one or Week seventeen. And I thought the Dolphins had to had to have a leg up in that in that arena, and you know, in that type of the ledger, that side of the ledger, the Dolphins give

it away three times. They were able to get two sacks in the game, which I thought might lead to something, uh, may lead to a turnover later in the game when you forced the issue on Cam Newton. But I just think even though the points didn't directly come from that, those are tough to come to. Get over there demoralizing to an offense. You put your defense back out on the field. I like the sudden change of the defense

in response to the turnovers. But anytime you lose in that category, you feel like you you give the other team a little bit of momentum, and that's something the Dolphins were looking for all afternoon. You can certainly see the impact of turnovers because the Dolphins were about to go down twenty one to three, and then Jerome Baker comes up with a big play that really at the time, I'm right in my postgame article, John, I put in there like, well, this could be the turning moment of

the game. That's gonna be the crux of my article. But of course things didn't go that way. John Conjemmy's three takeaways. You can find them up on Miami Dolphins dot com. He also is the co host of the Audible podcast with Kim Bokamper. John, I appreciate your time tonight, man, No problem, Travis, and hopefully we'll be celebrating at home in South Florida against the Bills next week. Yeah. I was gonna say, if you got anything on the Bills

for us, you go ahead and unload the notebook. Here's what do you think about that game right now as we see here on Sunday night. Well, the one thing that scares me is that Cam Newton went for seventy five on the ground. I could see Josh Allen. I mean, he's done it in the past. He's gone for over twenty five against the Dolphins on the ground and basically

their unscripted runs. So I would think that the Bill's defense is gonna put a little bit of that run pass option or that zone read in next week to see if the Dolphins make any adjustment on the edge of their defense. You know, we we talked about coming into the year, Kyle van Noy and Ogba and Shack loss and and you know, Byron Jones and all these new faces on the defense. I don't think we said their name maybe more than twice in the game, and

that has to change against the Buffalo Bills. So you're hoping that you don't have a repeat performance of a quarterback rushing for close to a hundred yards because that could lead uh to demise for the Dolphins defense next week. Because most of those runs in the past have been unscripted. My fear is they put a little bit of that in and see if the Dolphins can stop it next week. And you certainly hope that having some stuff on tape.

I kind of mentioned this before I brought you on, John, that having that stuff on table really go a long way to helping you prepare because, as Romo said throughout the broadcast, we just you just don't know what you're gonna get with McDaniels and Newton because you haven't seen it yet. So John, we appreciate your time again. Man the second closer here for you. I'll let you out of here and go and enjoy the rest of your night, sir, Thank you, Thanks for Havis. So there he goes John

kN Jemmy Miami Dolphins media analysts. There, let's go ahead and get to some game notes here working off of this Dolphins at Patriots and got sent out in the afternoon. Linebacker Jerome Baker had a career high sixteen tackles thirteen of those were solo. He also had one sack and a forced fumble coming into the game. Baker entered with two hundred career tackles and two seasons over and nineteen.

His two hundred tackles ranked seventh among players from the eighteen draft class, and all six players with more career tackles were drafted ahead of Baker in that twenty eighteen draft class. Christian Wilkins stands out. His first game of year number two told six tackles, four solo, two tackles for loss, one sack, and two pass breakups on the day. His six tackles and one sack each matched his career high, and his two passes defense where the most in his

career as well. He finished twenty nineteen with fifty six tackles, thirty solo, and that was the most of any rookie defensive lineman in the league. Jordan Howard found the end zone for the dolphins first and only touchdown of the day. It was, of course, his first touchdown as a member of the Miami Dolphins. It was his thirty first career

rushing touchdown. Those thirty one are tied for six in the NFL since team when Howard entered the NFL and finishing up here, Jason Sanders goes one for one on the day with the forty six yard field goal. He is now forty two of fifty one. That's eighty two point four percent on field goal attempts in his career, which is the best in Dolphins history. So that's gonna be our time here on the Sunday Recap Drivetime Podcast. As you heard John mentioned, hopefully next Sunday we are

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