Drive Time - Victory Friday! Dolphins Win 31-13

It is a victory Friday. Here on the Drivetime Podcast, we're gonna break down all things Dolphins Jaguars thirty one to thirteen, including some quotes from coach and players, some stats, interesting tidbits, the five Takeaways, individual evaluations, Chan Gailey's bag of tricks, Ryan Fitzpatrick pulling one out for the beards, all of that and more on this Friday September edition

of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's go ahead and kick this thing off with some audio from coaches and players here on a Friday, win win, Win win edition of the Drivetime Podcast. And one of the things we're gonna get into heavy on this podcast was the versatility the mixing of the offensive personnel groupings and some wrinkles on the offensive side to produce the thirty one points on this

Thursday night football Dolphins win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Here's coach Flores on the Dolphins coaching staff getting this team ready on a short week. Well, we got all too a good start, something we've you know, talking about. You know, I think our staff did a good job offensively, defensively in the Kidning game in a short week, getting the guys ready to go, so you know, change Josh Danny. A lot of credit goes to them for the for the for the work they did this week. Um, but

also the credit goes to the players. I mean they put the work in and did a job with the communication, the fundamentals, techniques, and they made plays out there tonight. And but it was a total team effort offense, defense and special teams. Let's go ahead and here next from coach Flora's on that Dolphin's pass rush, two takeaways, four sacks and ten hits on Gardner Minshew, Yeah, it's something we've been working on. You know, anytime they get pressure,

every team wants to get pressure on the quarterback. We're able to do that, you know, tonight and you know there's some mistesses where it could have been better, but definitely improved from previous weeks. They've got a good old line, they've got a good quarterback, they got good skilled guys. So that was it was a tough test for us. But you know, guys, they came ready to play tonight. They played fast, they played physicals, a lot of energy in the field. I'm sure you guys could see that

they were. They were fired up and they worked for you know, it was a short week and we put a lot of time in as a team and you know, they did all out of extra work this week. It was important for them and they saw the food to the labor and scoring thirty one points allowing just thirteen. We had the great punt from Matt Hawk that penned the Jaguars deep. That complimentary football coach Flora says, it's

how you win football games in this league, alright. I mean, complmarry football is always I saw you win in this league. So you can have a good you know, back them up or win the field position battle and when the time of possession battle by getting first downs offensively and turn the ball over defensively and that's how you that's how you win in this league. And I was I was a good played by calm by by Kyle. But it wasn't just calm. I mean it was It's never

just one personal play. I'm not sure who who else was. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure someone else had a really good rush that might have pulled somebody else off of Kyle and popped in there. But it was a good individual play. And we need. What we need is on every snap eleven you know, really good individual plays and love the guys trying to win their matchup. We get that consecutively, we get good results. We normally

get good results. Sometimes you don't. When you don't, you just move on to the next play and believe that get eleven guys on the same page in the right direction, good communication, good fundamentals, good technique of people. And I think the guys believe that if we do that, will

have good plays. Um. So it's important for each of them too to try to do that, not only for themselves but for the guy next to Let's go ahead and here now from quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, and how about that quarterback eighteen sixty yards three touchdowns on the day, one rushing and a bunch of rushing yards to go along with that. I tweeted out after his first drive how efficient he was in that drive that continued all night long. As the quarterback tells us here with his

first question, it was good. I felt like we were efficient today. We had a good game play and we followed it. Guys made plays and you know, the second half, running the clock out a little bit and that stuff. Um, but I thought, I thought our guys up front us but came to play today. If it's you mentioned the game plan there a little bit, and you guys ran some stuff that look new to the untrained eye, some full house backfield, some pistol that end around a Jachim Grant.

I just want to get your take on the ability to get that game plan sorted out in such a short week and how the coaching staff did with that. Yeah, it was obviously a very short week. So to have a few new wrinkles, I think it, you know, speaks to the creativity of our coaching staff and also just speaks to the guys that we have in there being able to do things like that, and you know, for us to be able to trust that they're going to be able to get in there and figure things out. So, um,

you know, Jachim made a couple of nice plays today. Davante, we really just spread it around in the first half, and uh, it was just it was nice to see everybody involved in the creativity. And uh, you know that kind of stuff on a short week, which in and how about fits go ahead and adding something here to the idea or the question about him having a totally complete game on this Thursday night and football victory for the Miami Dolphins. Here's fits on the one thing reporter

forgot to mention that made his game completely complete. You know what, you know you can add to that which rarely if you look at a lot of footage to me, you will rarely see me slide. And today I also slit, So you can throw that one in there. Um, that may not happen again all a year. So there were a lot of different things. That was my third career reception. I was glad I actually got positive yards on that one.

But yeah, I think running and you know, trying to throw a block here there and getting hit that stuff helps me get into the game a little bit. And how about what happened between Gardner Minshew and Ryan Fitzpatrick postgame when the two were seen laughing and chatting it up after the Dolphins victory on Thursday night. Yeah, I just, I mean, we said good game to each other, and I just I told him I I appreciate the stash. I like to look. Um, you know, I think I

think he rocks it. I think he owns it and that's kind of his trademark deal. Um, it's not necessarily to look for me, but I think it's I think it's awesome. Okay, So we have a lot to get to on this podcast. From the postgame report, some stats, will read, some more quotes from the players. If you guys want to see the entirety of those press conferences, check back on Miami Dolphins dot com and the YouTube channel.

We are certainly going to have some of those for you guys available, probably on Friday, I imagine we don't get them out late on this Thursday night. Actually, as I'm talking to you right now, it is Friday morning, So go ahead and check out you too Miami Dolphins dot Com for the rest of those Dolphins press conferences. As for this game, let's go ahead and break this thing down and talk about it, because man, what a

fun game. Right out of the shoot. Dolphins come down, score three consecutive touchdowns to open this thing up and wind up with the thirty one win to get back to one and two with a long or I guess I should say a mini by week here coming into week four for the Seattle Seahawks. But in this game, the Dolphins march eight and seventy five yards on the

first three drives. It was the second time since at least two thousand, as far as we go back to track that stat the Dolphins scored touchdowns on the first three drives of the game two thousand eleven. That Matt Moore Reggie Bush game at Buffalo was the other. And my goodness, the stats in this game definitely go in the Dolphins favor. They had eight team plays to start the game and twelve of those plays resulted in first downs.

You probably heard on the broadcast they didn't face a third down to the very end of that opening drive. Miami was seven for thirteen on third downs, one for one on fourth down, so better than fifty percent converting on those money downs. Jacksonville was just three out of thirteen on third and fourth down to Miami defense putting the clamps on their Miami only had two yards of offense,

but you heard Fitzpatrick talked about their efficiency. We heard Brian Flores talking about in his press conference as well. There were some things he would like to have cleaned up. I want to see a better running game in the second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter, and beyond. After that strong start on the ground, but still Miami rush was for one hundred and thirty eight yards passed for one

fifties six compared to Jacksonville's three eighteen yards. Miami had to four but we ran fifties seven plays, so they're sixty three, so just a smidge were five yards per play for the Jaguars offense. A nice uh dip in that staff from the Dolphins from a week ago. Good job with a defense on that side of the football. Dolphins got two takeaways, They sacked Menshoo four times, hit him ten times, as we talked about earlier in the podcast.

So those your pass rush getting cranked up. Dolphins had not turned the football over and Fitzpatrick took one sack, but I think that was one of those plays, or maybe he wanted to wind some clock there. We probably should have asked him that on that press conference. But he took a sack there towards the end of the game with that three touchdown lead, when he probably could have passed the ball or thrown it away, I should say, but he takes the sacks. So those are one sack

on the board. So really in earnest you know, no turnovers, that one sack a great showing. Their Dolphins out possessed the Jaguars two thirty eight and they had fewer penalties. Miami had six penalties for fifty one yards. Jacksonville had eight for sixty three and you guys heard the stat

in the game. Fitzpatrick hit his final nine passes last week against Buffalo and picks up right where he left left off here in this game, with completing the first twelve passes of the game that gave him twenty one consecutive completions. He threw for a hundred and twenty seven yards in that first half and a pair of touchdowns. His first half passer rating was one point oh. That's the fifth highest first half passer rating of his career. Of course, one fifty eight point three is a perfect

passer rating. So Fitz has had some big time first halfs in his career man and coming into this night, Fits had three of his last four Thursday night football games produced a passer rating of better than one oh five. Will go ahead and make it four out of five as he of course goes way over the clip there for a passer rating of one oh five in this game against Jacksonville. You heard the quote there. He enjoys playing. It's why he still plays, especially when you are having

success driving the football down the field scoring touchdowns. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world, he says. Sometimes getting to play football with my friends, the thirty seven year old having a great time there and Mike get sick. He joked. Afterwards, he called him thirty eight on an answer to a question, So he's thirty eight, but he probably plays like he's twenty three years old.

And then reporter corrected Mike Gassicky on that particular moment and said, you're making him older than he actually is. He's only thirty seven years old, and Mike said that, well, he looks like he's forty eight years old. So definitely a good rapport, good joking there. He talked about all the chess bumps and the and the high fives and they just going crazy on the sideline together. This team certainly has a lot of fun. They love playing for

the guy. I think you saw that on his rushing touchdown when he gave the ball to Ted Carriss on the ground after a great pancake block from Ted Carriss. The entire Dolphins team mob Fitzpatrick on that touchdown run, including Christian Wilkins number ninety four gets in there for the celebration as he always does. But the Dolphins last week, we talked about it on the podcast. They really kind of got going in the late part of that second quarter and had some nice sustained drives in the second

half of that Buffalo game. And it just picks up right here again. Eighty and seventy five yards again, the first time they scored three touchdowns to open the game since two thousand eleven. Very impressive start there for the Dolphins. And this is of course Fitzpatrick's third stint with offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, who was previously with the Buffalo Bills in the New York Jets, and he broke out the bag of tricks in this game tonight, man, we saw

the very first play of the game. They opened up in pistol formation, which is just something unique, another wrinkle, right, something the defense has to look at and say, we hadn't seen that before on tape, and if we did, it was something new with a different wrinkle. They go down that later later in that drive show the full house package with a couple of tight ends and a running back in the backfield behind Fitzpatrick to run the football.

They come back to that package later. We saw a twelve personnel in the game plenty as we usually do, thirteen personnel with three tight ends on the field, and they had that awesome misdirection play from Jachem Grant of twenty nine yards where he basically didn't even get touched until about twenty yards down the field and nobody had to hit a seal block on the edge because the

Jags defense flew or flowed rather to that completely. And Jesse Davis and his press are talked about how we kind of had an idea what they were going to do. They wanted to attack our gaps and kind of get that penetration, and they just used the aggressiveness against them. Go missdirection get the big plays that way based off the scheme and the design of the play. Great job tonight by chan Gailey. He'll be our takeaways here in

just one moment. And as the passing game was a crankin all night long, it was the running game that really got things going early on in this contest, with a tone being set earlier. Running back Miles Gaskon had eight carries for thirty five yards on that opening march. He talked a little bit postgame about what that offensive line does for him in terms of creating gaps and

creating lanes, saying that it's all about leverage. As a running back, you have to be able to read the leverage of the defender on the block, and these guys, he says, makes that job very easy. I asked him about that, about his ability to bend back on those runs, because you have three options as a running back. You can bounce where you get it outside to the play side.

You can bang where you just stick it up in the middle and try to get the yards that way, or you can bend it back against the grand against the formation and go to the backside of the formation. And Gascon really has the vision and the quick feet and the small making himself skinny getting into the gap

to make all of that very effective. He talked about how good of a job this offensive line does creating that leverage and making those gaps easier for him to read, which expounds his vision to make it even better than really it already is. And that's me adding that part

there at the end. Didn't say that himself talking about his own vision, but the way Miles Gaskin creates yardage is based upon quickness, acceleration, that vision, and we're seeing that on display so far through three games for your Miami Dolphins. I talked about Ted Carriss's pancake block in the end zone that was so much fun to watch.

Got that twenty seven third quarter lead on that pancake on the Ryan Fitzpatrick rushing touchdown, and the dolphins ninety one rushing yards in the first half of this game were the most in the first half since the win over the New England Patriots the Miami Miracle there. They had one and forty two rushing yards in the first half of that game. And to continue that point there for Miles Gaskin, he also made a point to say that they make it easy because they get on their

dudes and stay on them. Staying on blocks is very crucial. Speaking of guys that he talked about saying he did his job all the time in this game, Miles Gaskin said Jesse Davis had himself a hell of a game, and Jesse had this to say after the game. We had a good plan. We knew what they were going to be lining up in and Miles Gaskin did a great job with running hard, finding lanes, dropping his shoulder and fits got a couple in there as well. End

quote in. Miami earned the lead just seven minutes into the game and they never relented from their Miami's week to lead lasted only one series last week against Buffalo, but playing with the wire to wire lead that really allowed the Dolphins defense to tee off late in this game. We saw the four sacks, the ten quarterback hits, the

two takeaways. Gardner minshow through for just eighty three yards in the first half of the game, averaging just five point nine yards per pass in that first half, and they were threatening there towards the end of the first half, trying to get into Dolphins territory or into the red zone. They were already at the plus thirty five ish yard line and it was seven, so even a field goal, they're getting the ball back in the second half. I mean, technically the Jaguars could have made it a twenty one

to seventeen, maybe even one game. But the play of the of that drive that I was so impressed with and his performance throughout the course of the night was no igmonogamy, because they run a toss sweep out to the side of the formation that he's on, he or that he's not on, and he comes over the formation and makes the running back bubble back inside, cut back inside, and that's where Jerome Baker meets him there for a loss.

Then of course it forces a fourth down, and then we get the Commu Gruge Hill sack to get a turnover and just completely thwart any possible momentum there at the end of the half that Jacksonville was hoping to create. So very good job. Just Fitzpatrick talked about it last week, finding those moments, those big plays, and responding in those moments and making the plays in those moments. He said, we didn't get done last week, but Miami came up

big time and time again. In this game in those big moments, and for Noah Igbangny to bounce back and have a game that he had on this Thursday night, that was just awesome to see the mental toughness, the mental fortitude. These guys are wired just differently, and Imogeny certainly fits the bill that way. So great work there from Commu gruge Hill on the sack. I thought Zack Seeler got a nice pick right there as he kind of closed down the a gap on that blitz from

gruge Hill. They both kind of condensed their rush together and the center and guard kind of came over with Seiler and then gruge Hill got skinny and just exploded using that speed to get in for the turnover on downs and Minshew did pile up some yards and some stats in the second half, but overall finishes thirty or forty two with two hundred and seventy two yards. That's

just six point five yards per pass, no touchdowns. He had three touchdowns in each of the first two games, an interception and a fumble lost on the Kyle van Noy trifecta. The sack strip and Scoop van Noy provided pressure on Jacksonville's quarterback relentlessly going both off the edge and on the inside. That's gonna be in the takeaways as well. You heard Flora's talking about the pass rush

they got in this game. The Dolphins also got touchdowns in this game from Preston Williams and Mike get Sick. All four Fitzpatrick's touchdown passes this year have gone to either of those two or Devonte Parker, with those guys going six ft three, six ft five, and six ft six, and according to NFL Next Gen Stats, Fitzpatrick owns two of the six tightest window touchdown throws this season, threatening the needle when he has to get that job done.

Preston Williams snared the first one of the night, that third and goal from the three yard line. Gets the inside released there from the enter back on a condensed split. Not putting him out wide. You bring him in close to the formation, get him closer to the quarterback, make that throw easier, and make that read easier, and Williams

just breaks that thing off on the inside. But they're still tight coverage there, and Fitzpatrick just puts it on the bull's eye with the defensive back draped all over his back. Big time play there, big time touchdown from Fitzpatrick to Williams to get the party started. Then after Jordan Howard's touchdown, Gasicky makes that leaping catch in the corner up on the goal line but not quite to

the pylon. Really nice route combination there. I love the way Troy Aikman broke that play down talking about how the cornerback kind of falls off to the post for Preston Williams and that allows Gatsicky to grab that corner. And if Fitzpatrick sees that leverage, he sees that cornerback falling off, it only takes a second in this league for it to happen. And if your quarterback can see it and rip those man, you become tough to defend.

And Fitzpatrick just saw it all tonight. We're gonna talk more about him also in the takeaways, and let's go ahead and start there with the first of the five takeaways from this game from yours Truly. We're not gonna hear from John Conjemmi on this podcast. Of course the late night game. We just couldn't make the phone call happen, but he will be back on next Sunday's recap podcast after the Seattle Seahawks game. But the first takeaway here

is chan Gailey's bag of tricks. I asked Ryan Fitzpatrick and the presser about it. You heard him talk about it. The coaching staff's ability to put in the game plan that had wrinkles and different looks off of it in a short week. It just really speaks to their creativity. But he also talked about the creativity of the players to be able to get that job executed with all the different looks and different packages. They called out their

first player of the game. They go and pistol. We saw a third team personnel down around the goal line over and over again, that full house package with an extra offensive lineman. I mean, who do you how do you know where the blocking assignments are when you have three guys in the backfield and extra offensive lineman. Just

ultimate confusion. The fourth and one call after Fitzpatrick's heroic scramble, which was freaking awesome, by the way, but the fourth and one call right after that, I loved that call. I wrote that I effing love that call in my notes because I do. I just fourth and one around midfield.

The defense always tends to kind of blitz those ga apps and you actually saw Jacksonville put a pair of one techniques a defensive tackle on either side of the center, which means you can't sneak the ball because there's just no push you're gonna get right there against those guys. And running the ball in that situation makes it difficult as well. So what do you do. You get the quarterback on the move, You give him options. A quarterback that can run, that can scramble, that can pick up

first down with his legs. He has the option to do that and to throw, and he has the decision making to go ahead and make the smart decisions in the passing game or to tuck the football. That makes it extremely hard to defend for the defense. Hell of a call there from Chan Gaily and play calls don't get it done if you don't have a player executing the play call. And that's takeaway number two here. Ryan Fitzpatrick just straight dealing, starting the game off with the

twelve straight completions throwing from accuracy. Both instructure in the pocket went protected, which by the way, he was protected all night long again really for pretty much the third straight game in a row. Very good past protection from this Dolphins offensive line, but also when there was pressure the third and six conversion on the first or second touchdown drive, I forget, but he has to kind of

fade back because he gets pressure in his face. And when that happens, you have to drop the arm ankle and kind of throw the football around the pass rusher in your face. And you see that sometimes on like screenplays like Gardner minshe did on a screenplay when Kyle van Noy came free and came, you know, right in his face, and he just drops the arm around the side of Van Noy, who throws his arms up naturally to try to bat the past down in his face. And min She was able to work that ball around

vent around van Noy's frame. But Fitzpatrick did that on a slant or an inbreaking route to Devanta Parker, which is you know, five, six, seven yards downfield on top of the seven or eight yards that he's drifting back in the back of the pocket. So really impressive job by Fitzpatrick, just making it work no matter what the situation was, no matter what the platform was, throwing the football, making it happen with his legs. I just loved his work.

In this game, throwing the ball into those tight windows, into those tight targets in the red zone, in the end zone, knowing where his big touchdown makers are. We talked about Devanta Parker, Preston Williams, Mike get Sicky catching all four of his touchdown passes so far this season. You have to love the performance of Ryan Fitzpatrick. And how about that post game fit, that postgame drip that dude was showing. Uncle Rico came to play. That's one

for the Beards, baby. Takeaway Number three was Miles Gaskin and the push upfront. And I kind of want to make this point about the Dolphins investment in the offensive line this offseason and the credit you give the personnel staff and the coaching staff are going out and finding a nucleus of guys and Coach Flores talked about it in the postgame press or how those guys are doing a good job of understanding it's not about any one individual.

It's about the entire unit coming together and solidifying as one collective group. And I think we're starting to see that more and more as these games go along. That past protection has been good, the running games getting cranking more and more. Here they're creating space. Four Miles Gaskin, who, by the way, seventh round draft choice right now looks like a bona fide two way player that can give you all kinds of production both in the rushing game

and the passing game. You heard him talk about the leverage he creates, the small angle, the small strike, so in the quick acceleration he shows in those little small pockets. And then the balance, the contact balance to break tackles. I've been bringing up his yards after contact average on every single podcast so far. Here on Drivetime in the

recap podcast, he did it again in this game. I cannot wait to see what the number is from Pro Football Focus on Monday or whenever that whenever that stack comes out. But back to the offensive line, the addition of Eric Flowers and Solomon Kiley, two big, big, nimble guards, guys that have a mentality and a mindset. You see Brandon Thorne out there. He's at Brandon Thorne NFL on Twitter. He'll tweet out some images of offensive line play over

and over again. That's what he does. He grades offensive line play. And he went back over the Buffalo game and showed these two guys punishing jumpers. If you want to try to jump up at the last scrimmage and back the football down, he's gonna put you on your back. He's gonna hit you and make you feel that they're getting these hook blocks. When they get wrapped around and they seal off the edge, they do the old hip toss where you throw the guy out the club put

him on the ground. Solomon Kiley putting guys in the ground. Eric Flowers putting guys in the ground. We talked about Ted Carriss getting a pancake block. I watched Austin Jackson wipe out that edge all night long. We talked about Jesse Davis with Miles Gascon. He has himself a big night. He goes up against Jacksonville's best pass rusher, one of

the keys to the game. In the preview piece up on Miami Dolphins dot Com and here on the Drivetime podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, we talked about Josh Allen being a possible game record. I don't think I heard his name until that clean up sack he got on Fitzpatrick where Fitzpatrick basically slid into the sacks. So great job by all five of the offensive lineman.

Great job by this Dolphin's personnel staff and coaching staff so far through three games, getting this offensive line play much better than it was a year ago, and just playing really good football right now and getting good offensive production in the running game, the passing game, and for Ryan Fitzpatrick big time there. So Myles gaskon the offensive line playing good football. Takeaway number three there. Takeaway number four is a comment that Troy Aikman made about the adjustments,

and this is kind of a general takeaway. I'm going to have the adjustments of the coaching staff and the defense. In particular, he showed you the Dolphins cornerbacks playing more soft off coverage, forcing the Jaguars to make more longer sustained drives because they maybe got beat for too many

big plays the previous game. Make them go down the field and make them not make mistakes, make them pass block every single rep and not allow you to get quarterback pressure and then create chaos from there, because we saw as this game went along, the more reps the Jaguars offense took, the more it kind of fell apart for them as the Dolphins defense ramped this thing up, got it geared up, got pressure, played with high energy, and just completely put the clamps on that Jacksonville offense.

So to be able to adjust your game plan there and get let that pass rush have more time because playing off coverage there's less likely that you're gonna get beat immediately off line of scrimmage. And having the safety to kind of alternate between two high and one high in the middle of the field, and just all kinds of different looks. I saw McCain playing half field. I saw Brandon Jones all over the field. Tons of good

work on the defensive side. The willingness to adapt your game plan after do you it didn't work for you last time, you come back in this game and you adjust things, you make it happen. Troy Aikman talks about it on the defensive side of the football, and again go back to the offensive side. The gaily bag of tricks, just adapting and finding new wrinkles and new ways is Ryan Fitzpatrick said. To attack the defense, to attack the offense, just a comprehensive Dolphins win in this game, and the

ability to adjust is takeaway number four. So we have the offensive line of Miles gascon Chan Gilly's bag of tricks, Ryan Fitzpatrick absolutely dealing, and the Dolphins ability to adjust as the four takeaways. The fifth is the defensive bounce back.

And this is more about the players and the coaching staff here and this one four days after a you know, not a not the best showing against the Buffalo Bills, and the Dolphins come out here and just completely put the clamps on Gardner Minshew and a Jacksonville offense that was producing high volume, high numbers, high touchdowns, everything you want from an offense. They were doing it, and then they ran to a bus saw in the Dolphins defense on this Thursday night. Kyle Van Noy, I want to

really focus on this here, on this particular portion. I'm so glad he got that sack, that strip in that recovery because I think that you have to have the stats sometimes for the fan base to truly appreciate what a player does. We know Brian Flores doesn't believe in that whatsoever. Thinks a player can have zero zero zero across the stats board and still have an effective game.

I showed you a clip on film last week where Christian Wilkins really does a good job of standing the offensive lineman up discarding him and creating a play for a guy behind him. That's the type of play you talk about, and I think Van Noy does a lot of that playing assignment sound football. He's always in the right gap and his run defense, he's just a solid, solid, sound playoffs who he's been his entire career. That's who

he's gonna be here for the Miami Dolphins. But now he's getting that pass rush going and some of the different looks he allows you to give. We heard Troy Aikman again talking about the games the Dolphins running up front, some stunts, some twists, some slants. He has that length, that angle ability to get around the edge and bend that thing back inside to rush over the inside. Again

solid and the run fits. He is relentless in his pursuit, always does a good job of getting depth and finding land marks on his his drops in coverage as he kind of searches for for players and not just grass out there. The near interception he had last week, so Kyle van Noy kind of stepping up and seizing this defense as his own in a way that kind of the lynchpin of the middle of that defense. As a guy that can do so much and be so versatile

in a defense that wants to be versatile. I thought that was just an excellent, excellent bounce back for him, for a guy like Noah Iganogeny. Bobby McCain had a really good game, I thought in this one, the pass rush work of Emmanuel Ogba and Shack lost him. We saw the length there of ag Ba, the ability to

collapse the pocket. He had a really nice pass rush on a Noah Iganogeny tackle short of the sticks on third down where he just reset the right tackle back and back and back right into Minshew's lap, and that allowed ignog to close down and make a tackle on a pass that went short of the sticks because Minshu had to get rid of it quickly. We saw Shack lost an impact of the game with his pass rush getting after the quarterback. We saw Andrew van Ginkle get

in there for his sack as well. So plenty of guys making big improvements on that defensive side of the football bouncing back, and Kyle van Away really kind of making the defense his own on this Week three Jacksonville victory one to thirteen. So that's your fifth takeaway. Let's go ahead and breeze through some of the individual spots here that I wrote down just to kind of close

this podcast out. We talked about Ryan Fitzpatrick, the reads, the accuracy, the different arm angles, the playing kind of outside and inside of the structure, both with his legs and with his arm. Just really really nice work from the Dolphin's quarterback tonight. Myles Gascon, We talked about him a whole lot. One guy that didn't come up was Devanta Parker. The receptions he has sometimes where he has to really extend his arms and catch it away from

his body, really strong, solid hands. You heard Roy Aquin on the broadcast talk about his ability to kind of fight through the hamstring injury get himself out there, and he made place tonight despite the injury on a short week, coming off of four days rest of the previous game, being played with a tight hamstring. Big time kudos to Davanta Parker for toughing it out and making plays and being there for his offense and contributing on the offensive

side of the football. Jachin grants awareness after that catch he made where he ends a wheel stick. I guess we'll call it a wheel route and you come right back to the quarterback and he makes a diving catch away from his body and then the awareness to get up because the cornerback did not touch him and gain an extra ten fifteen yards. Awesome worked, Achem. I love seeing that stuff. Man, Keep doing that and you'll keep getting football's. I had in my notes here that Derham

Smith made two great blocks on split zone. All split zone is the tight end comes across the formation on zone and blocks the backside forced defender off the outside. Two great blocks there from Derham Smith on that Mike gets like he's touchdown catch. Obviously on the offensive line, we talked about those guys in spades. We don't have to get much further into those. I thought Zach Seler had a nice game again getting pressure on the quarterback, had a nice close down backside run stop on the

defensive line. I wrote a note here that Christian Wilkins made a really nice play coming off a block and swallowing up a running play after just a three yard game. We talked about the linebackers a little bit there with Kyle van Noy Andrew Van Ginkle, some of those guys games and the defensive secondary. No Monogamy had the bounce back game Brandon Jones. There was a play early in this game where Lavisca Chanal catches a pass just short

of the sticks. But you watch Brandon Jones on that play, he kind of sees it developed and comes over the middle and has to fight his way over a pick and he damn near gets in there for a pick an interception, I should say, over fights over a screen and dang near gets in there for an interception, and if he does, he's off to the races the other way. It reminded me of what Rashad Jones used to do, cutting off those short passes in the hook zone and taking him back the other way. I think this kid's

coming along nicely. Eric Rowe had a very very nice key and flow on an outside toss play man. They wanted to get James Robinson going, and why not. That kid is a ball or dude. But Eric Rowe coming over on another outside play, he just keyed it float over there, made a hell of a tackle off the edge. Eric Rowe, another good game. I thought, that's two back to back good games for Eric Rowe. And finally with the specialist, Jason Sanders still has not missed a kick.

And Matt Hawk, my goodness, Hawk season baby, putting those things down inside the five yard line. That punt was a thing of beauty. Stay hot, Matt, ha alright, that's gonna do what. We're gonna go into the weekend here and take the weekend off. You guys should too, because let's go ahead and enjoy this win, this mini bye week. I'm actually back home right now with my girls. And to be totally honest, Thursday, Thursday was King Felix Hernandez.

It was a perfect day, man, Like absolutely perfect. I cry a lot, man, when I get excited, when I get joy, and I had tears of joy throughout the day on Thursday. And I got to spend the whole day with my daughter, celebrate the win with her, read her a good night story tonight, put her to bed, seeing my amazing wife and just being there to help her and make her life easier with our little care bear. Both my cats, ConA and Wilson were glued to me

all day on the couch watching the game. We need love in this world, man, and I felt all the love today. It was phenomenal. And I love these dolphins, man. So what a night. And with that, you all, please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcast, on Spotify, Leave us a rating, leave us a review, give me a follow on Twitter at Wingfield, NFL, Fall the Dolphins at Miami Dolphins, check out the fish Tank and the Audible podcast, and of course Miami Dolphins dot com.

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