Drive Time: Dolphins Lose Double Digit Lead to Colts, Fall to 2-4

points of the game. The Colts would close it out at the final sixteen points of the game, and it felt like Miami had four or five critical moments that could have gone their way to change the tune of the entire game, but it never happened that way as the Colts took advantage and win the game.

Hoss I mentioned the four or five critical moments off the top that kind of seemed like Miami had every single chance within those moments to seize this game and put themselves in a three to three position after one of the more frustrating five or six week runs we've seen with this current iteration of the Miami Dolphins, and they just couldn't find a way to close out the game, and even late had a chance to drive the field in the two minute drill and go win the game,

albeit with one of your four quarterbacks. And he was the third quarterback to play for the Dolphins this year, and with Huntley getting the spot over to Tim Boyle, he essentially was the fourth quarterback option for the Dolphins going into the year. So you can't expect that to

work out in your favor, I don't think. But it tells you just how many opportunities there were in this game for the Dolphins to find their way into the Winter Circle and to undo a lot of the stuff that put them behind the eight ball early on this season. And just real quick, I gotta mention it because you can probably tell I lost my voice a couple of days ago and I'm trying to get it back. I just did two hours of radio drinking plenty of tea with some honey, So bear with me as we get

through this. Show here both from a perspective of the difficult nature of the content we're about to cover and another loss or and I should say the host's voice being pretty much nonchalant. I don't have a certain register that I usually do, so I'm trying to get my most radio voice for you guys here as I possibly can. But man, I just I'm gonna be thinking about this game all week in what an opportunity lost it felt like.

And I don't want to harp on it in the beginning of the show because we'll do what we normally do and go over the game script. But it just felt like there were so many moments that Miami could have seized control and put this game to rest and put themselves in prime position. It's about twenty five out here in the East Coast. Could have wrapped this podcast up and gone to watch the New York Jets hopefully lose another football game and made it a great Sunday.

But it didn't turn out that way, as the Dolphins do fall sixteen to ten. Here are the numbers for the game. The Dolphins had more first downs eighteen to sixteen. They were better on third down. They were six for fifteen where the Colts were just four of thirteen. The Dolphins had the only failure on fourth down in the game. It was the last drive of the game for the Dolphins, the Tim Boyle to League Washington shot that went out of bounds. Miami out gained Indy three thirty seven to

two eighty four. They outpassed Indy one forty nine to one twenty nine. They out rushed Indy one eighty eight to one fifty five. They ran seven more plays sixty eight to sixty one. They had three more rush attempts. They did have two more turnovers, They were sacked twice compared to getting zero sacks, and they did have two more penalties, six for fifty yards. But that's a pretty good number compared to four for twenty five for the Colts. And Miami had the ball for thirty one minutes and

eleven seconds in this game. And let's just go over it from the top, because I think that's the best way to do this and not harp on any individual things from the top here and just take it as it goes in chronological order. So kicked off with a couple of three and outs to kick off the game. Both teams had the ball for three plays and took it for four yards and it was Devon ah Chan was the bell cow back once again after he missed

the most of the Patriots game. We saw jaln Wright get some run on the Patriots game and a few carries in this one down the stretch, but a Chan was back in that main role, wearing the Guardian cap two by the way, which I thought was interesting to see as he comes back from that concussion he suffered last week, and we don't see many guys in the Dolphins. He's the first guy to wear a Guardian cap this year. I think that he is. But it was the same

stuff you've been seeing all year long. Those first couple of drives defensively and offensively. We saw Kalaius Campbell mack a TfL right away, and I just wanted to point out how often he plays that four or five technique where he's on the tackle or wider in terms of his alignment, and how he and Seler and their versatility to do that gives this Dolphins front so much flexibility with how many guys they're down off the edge right now.

Emmanuel Ogbah did not play in this game. At one point, Chop Robinson had to leave the game with an injury. He did return to the game. Obviously, no JP, obviously the Shaq Barrett retirement, obviously, no Bradley Chubb, cam good.

It's really thin out there. But these Dolphins edges, or rather defensive tackles, I should say, I really afford the Dolphins the opportunity to get more defensive tackles on the field and run stuff off of the Seiler and Campbell in terms of defensive edge package with what they can do there, and I think that you see some of the impact in that in the run defense at times, because again I continue to harp on this as well, I think the run defense has been pretty good this

year on a play by play basis. It's the explosive plays that have gotten them, and that happened in this game a couple of times as well. And typically that's when you don't have your normal rotation of Seler and Campbell with you know previously JP and you know Emmanuel Ogba out there as well. So a war of attrition for the Dolphins here trying to get through this thing from a personnel perspective, But the defense played so good. They go three and out to start three and out.

On the second drive, this was a three play, no yard drive for twenty one seconds. I had Jordan Brooks finding really good depth in the hook zone all day long, getting his depth for his drops there and breaking up a pass and damn near picked it off. Cater Cohu follows up with a great squad on the top of a little hook route and drives down the stem on that for a pass breakup. A Tias Bowser pressure turns

into a shot against Jalen Ramsey in coverage. So you had the same guys that were just continuously getting after on this defense. It's been Ramsey, it's been Fuller, it's been cater Cohu, it's been Seeler, it's been Campbell, it's been Brooks, it's been d Long. These guys continue to make so many plays and have been really the backbone of a damn good defense of the first six games of the NFL season, and the Dolphins offense pays it off with an eleven play, fifty eight yard drive that

took almost six minutes off the clock. The drive started their own forty two yard line. Eight of those eleven players were on the ground. They opened up the play action passing game which they keep running that little fake toss action and then throw the glance or the slant in behind the displaced hook zone linebacker. It looks very how do I say this like NFL level, Like it

looks professional football level. Despite the fact that you're going through all these quarterback changes and you're starting to kind of get hunting more and more into the flow of things, it looked really good. It looked like the script should look for a team trying to win a game without their starting quarterback, and it looked like it was going to happen there for a long stretch of this game. To put yourself back in this kind of the driver's seat, I mean, not the of the NFL, but of your

own season. And again it's not to say that that's not the case going forward at two and four held the Dolphins with the playoffs in twenty sixteen after a two and four start I think it was actually one in four start that year, and so you can bounce back from this, but it just feels like such a missed opportunity. As the offense found that early rhythm you had, Tea Stead was blowing dudes off the football. Robert Jones getting to that second level, getting some critical attachments up there.

Aaron Brewer, he and Ti said, had the critical blocks on that little check screen, the little chip and release screen for Jonas Smith after a bad sack on second

in goal. They get the touchdown on third and goal from the ten yard line, and they played such good football with Liam Miikeenberg digging out the backside of forced defenders and Austin Jackson doing what he does every single week, opening up these big lanes, getting serious vertical displacement on the line of scrimmage and finding ways to attack the Colts passing defense with the action you get from the overplay off your success in the running game. So that

eleven play drive was a chan. It was raheem. It was some passing game. It was John new Smith just looked the part man. They went down the field and scored that touchdown seven zip in the first quarter, and then the Colts get the ball and maybe we're gonna

have an offensive shootout at this point. And that's kind of silly to say, you know now in hindsight, but they go eleven plays, they take it seventy two yards and we had some you know, some miss gaps I thought in the running game, which was kind of again where those plays come from. Where you get one, you know, one gap and a half defensive tackle can't get off of his block, a linebacker tries to make up for it and shoots a gap, and you wind up having

multiple guys in the same gap. That seems to be where the run defensive miss has come from, not so much an individual per respective as it does a team aspect with the entire collection of guys on those given plays. But for the most part, it was pretty good, and that drive had that twenty nine yard defense or touchdown that would have been a touchdown, I should say, but was nullified because of the offsetting fouls on the defensive pass interference on Kendall Fuller and the illegal formation. I

don't know what Kendall did on that play. He kind of got pushed over and got flagged for it, and that kind of could have been a major turning point for the Colts favor in that game. But then you get that great Jordan Brooks pass breakup where he gets length in the middle of the field and extends to break that thing up. And he's been doing that all year long, and you're starting to see his Seahawks tape that made him so special. I thought, really translate to

the middle of the Dolphins defense. Then you finally lost Kntanon Richard says. He breaks a bunch of tackles off of a blitz that got home and ran for the first down after he shook off Zach Seeler, which tells

you how strong this guy is. But they convert, and then it goes right back to the Dolphins because on the very next play they lose the snap and Zack Steeler jumps in and falls in the football and gets it right back to Miami me who coming off probably their best drive, maybe their second best drive behind the Patriots drive a couple weeks ago that won the game of the post Tua injury Dolphins we've seen so far

over the last four games. And you get the ball back and you're thinking, hey, go do it again, go score some points. And they do get good displacement and they drive the Colts off the football once again, but we get a low block call on alec Ingold. Then we get a little Tyreek Hill jet sweep and he comes back with the wattle crackback for six yards and then we get Johnny on that fake toss play and

move the chains and overcome first and sixteen. All right, this is the offense that we loved the last couple of years. Then a Chan hits it for fifteen yards behind blocks, behind Testead and Rob Jones and Aaron Brewer. They're just moving guys off the football, and then we get kind of behind the chains, a mispass and a failed run for just one yard, and then Snoop tries to scramble off script, and you know, this is a

tough offense to get down. I'll talk about this in the takeaways later on, but sometimes it felt like there were opportunities to kind of stick the foot in the ground drives and throws. We'll take a look at the tape tomorrow and see if that can happen. But that has just been such a missing aspect of this offense. Doesn't find what he wants to, scrambles, gets tackled short

of the sticks, punt the ball back. But I'm okay with that because you just flip the feel for thirty yards by driving the ball down there, and what do you know, you get a Colts three and out three play six yard drive where DeShawn Han whacks a pulling tackle and knocks him on the ground for a big stop. You get a blitz that forces a quick throw, and then a third and four and Fuller drives on a stick route and makes the play for the pass breakup.

These guys were all over the receivers all day long, driving on those routes and making it tough on Richardson and company. And the Dolphins get it right back for an eight play, three yard drive that should have been way more because you once again first two plays. That drive is a nine yard Raheem Moster run that was good. That one didn't get negated. But his thirty two yard run where I thought they kind of incorrectly flagg Durham

smythe and it was close. I'll say it's definitely a bang bang play, but man I thought that he really hooked the defender and let him go at the critical point, and the defender didn't ask for the flag, which usually guys these days only ask for those flags. It would have been first and ten up seven off of a touchdown drive off of a three and out with your ball at the plus thirty two yard line, but you get called for a holding on Durham spythe then it

comes back and guess what they overcome it. They end up getting themselves a first down after Huntley scrambles for a first down, and then we get another foul behind the chains a face mask that goes for fifteen yards, and then you get yourself on a first and twenty four. You run for one second and twenty three. You get an off side call that gets negated because it's a short scramble, and then a third and eighteen pass to Obj and he can't hang on to it. Wouldn't have

enough for the first down anyways. You punt it right back to the Colts, and then what do they do but punt the ball back to you on a five to play fourteen yard drive where Ramsey is blitzing all over the quarterback and gets in there one time and can't bring him down, gets back into the second time, forces the ball will come out of his hands, and then they run that quarterback sweep where he runs it wide and slips down to the turf and Jordan pull

your touches him down. Punt the ball right back to the Dolphins and they take it nine plays sixty five yards for a field goal in two and a half minutes, alec Ingold catches the wheel route, which, by the way, another one hundred bucks to the SOS Children's Villages of South Florida Playground campaign because of his foundation. You go a ten yard run to eight chen once again behind Jones, Brewer and Jackson all pushing him for three extra yards. I love the tenacity of the offensive line at that

point of the game. They were knocking guys off the football and playing with a certain level of spirit and tenacity, and it was working. You get a third and three one twenty one to play in the half ball and the thirty four yard line. Huge play, and once again Stoop has to create a little bit finds John who for twelve yards moves the change that little release valve.

I love what he's done for this offense in terms of his feel for space and how he can kind of expand stuff beyond a team that, like the Colts, for instance, the only plays cover one, cover three for the most part we talked about on the PREV podcast, and this game they were in too high all game long, because well, you have to play that way to slow down Reek and Waddle, so you kind of could take advantage of that space with John Whu he was doing plenty of it. And then the third and four call

to OBJ, they can't get the completion. Kenny Moore makes a great play for the pass breakup running out of a bunch set there behind Tyreek Hill, but the field goals and then that's kind of where things stopped being

good for the Dolphins. The Colts go a four play thirty six yard drive and kick a fifty two yard field goal twenty two yards to Alec Pierce gets dropped that that would have been a big game for them, but then they go thirty three yards right back to Michael Pittman and it kind of seemed like they took the gas their foot off the gas pedal the Dolphins did, and allowed the Colts to get right in a field goal range to make a big time field goal before halftime.

The Dolphins ran the ball twenty five times in the first half for one hundred and fifteen yards, consistently displaced the Colts defensive line. The play action game was opening things up. All that was being effective and working Jonathan Smith four for fifty six in a touchdown in the first half, and despite the fact that Reeke and Waddle combined for no targets and you're still winning a game. It felt like it was very comfortably like you're in

a good spot. But then things just continue to get kind of they didn't like get much worse, but they just like never got better. If that makes sense. Let's go ahead and put a pennant rate there. Come back on the other side. Break down the second half where things went wrong for the Dolphins. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So it's ten to three, Dolphins have the lead and

the football. You're feeling pretty good about things where this defense is playing, and they take the ball and go four plays fifteen yards and punt it right back to

the Colts. We had a big run for eight chan once again to kick things off for eleven yards, and then you get yourself a couple of good runs set up a third and three, which is again where you want to be, and they throw the ball down the field to Tyreek Hill in a position where it looks like this might be our long breakthrough touchdown for him that we finally get. The Dolphins earned this man coverage.

They were in single high press coverage and you had Wilton, the boundary one on one, you had Reek and the slot one on one. What more could you ask for? The ball is right there, but Tyreek never locates the football and never looks back for it. It goes incomplete and it fell in a position that I just kind of felt like it was gonna be a touchdown if

he was just looking back for the football. And that again, all these little plays, you know, the end of the half field goal for the Colts could have cut to a two score game. This touchdown that could have been could have been touchdown, would have given you a seventeen to three lead. These opportunities just continue to slip through

their fingers. And we're gonna hear from head coach Mike McDaniel in just one second, and you can hear the frustration in his voice, and gosh, like, I think all of us feel that way too, because it's all right there and if this one, you know, a couple of games previously, maybe the Titans, even though it got away late, just felt like you had opportunities to win some of

these games they've they've gone by the board. So you dug yourself into an early hole at two and four, but that's where it is right now, So you punt the ball back to the Colts. They go three and out, and once again Ramsey coming down the line scrimmage filling the flat for a one yard game where he kind of plays off the deeper route and comes up into the flat and mixed tackle on the little swing route, and then Richardson has a misfire throw, which the Dolphins

created plenty of those in this game. And then they had a fantastic pass rush. And this is where I love what Anthony Weaver's done all year long, where he runs these two slants that kind of widen the formation and you bring the linebacker looping around the other side, and it creates this like interior pocket for Richardson and

step up in two. But it hems off all the perimeter stuff where he can get on the edge and start dropping shoulders on defensive backs, forces him to run through Jordan Brooks and David Long or you know, Jordan Poyer and Elijah Campbell or Marcus may and they're consistently filling those lanes and running them off and making plays there,

and they get them right off the field. Dolphins get the football right back again with another chance to go make it, you know, a two score game, but we get a one play drive, a fumble from Raheem Moster, the Colts run back to the twenty nine yard line and they take it twenty nine yards in the four play drive with a twelve yard run from richardson a twelve yard run from Doolan, and then they get a walk in touchdown where they had three guys in the

same gap defensively and just kind of misfit that run. This is this is the issue with this style of game, right and this is why I love the high flying offenses that can score thirty points per game. Because your inability to execute a lengthy drive or overcome penalties. If that's the case, which it has been for the Dolphins' last four games, you're just one splash play away like that away from letting the opposition who hung around, get right back into the game after you kick their butts

for thirty five minutes. And now it's ten ten. That has to be so demoralizing for a team to feel like they dominated the entire game, and the numbers at the end of the game tell that story too. The Dolphins outstat of the Colts in every way of this game. Because of two costly fumbles really and then some critical mistakes and inflection points, you wind up with the loss in two and four instead of three and three and

feeling really good about yourselfs. So it's ten to ten here after this nine minutes to play in the third quarter and the Dolphins go negative one yard on the next drive where Jalen Wright had a three yard run.

He checks into the game and then Layatu latu and I was I did postgame radio with Jamon bush Rod, who filled him for oj McDuffie today, and he was talking about Julian Hill on this little wrap block where he comes back across the formation in motion, and he said that Julian kind of set into his pass set where if he just went and got a lot to and made, you know, force the issue, he probably could

have made that block a little bit easier. But he sets and then law too beats him inside and it creates a sack that turns into a third and a mile and then we can't overcome it from there. And Huntley gets hit on the play and goes down to the locker room, and the offense, you know, really couldn't do much from that point forward. So the Colts go

three and out. On the next drive, we had more good contained, a good job of following these quick setup throws from Richardson, and you know, our defensive backs were squat on these plays. I saw Ramsey, I saw Fuller, I saw Cater get past breakups, and Ramsey's butzing the edge and doing all he can to keep this team in the game. He gets two back to back hits on Richard Zim damn near gets the football out once.

The next time he does get it back, but it's just like the cam Ward play in the Hurricanes game on Saturday where the arms coming forward and I agree, I agree with the call, but gosh, it was so close is the cut? You kind of see his fingers like pinch the ball the last second, and it scorts out there like you can make a case that he wasn't really throwing it what he kind of was. So it goes back to the Colts and we get that

stop there. We get the football at the minus forty five and I wrote down my notes, they must cash in right here midway through the third quarter in a tai football game, and they put Jalen right in the game, was he do but go for nine and then for nineteen yards. He's slipping tackles, he's running through linebackers, he's running past defensive backs. Damn near scored on the play. And then we get a first and goal with the thirteen yard line and we go full back dive and

alec Ingold fumbles the ball. It's just like, dude, like Alec has one career fumble coming into the game. You know, it's just like these things. Ah, that makes the sport in this game so frustrating. The Dolphins win probability in that moment went from sixty down to thirty eight. Let's go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, who addressed the fumbles from Raheem Moster and alec Ingold after the game.

with the ball. And I thought that that was unfortunate in that situation because you know, I think there was an opportunity for him to not be strung out sideways and have the ball. Uh go, if we would have executed like I anticipated, it would have gone a different spot. But you know, it's also it's a game of accountability, and you know it like at the same time, they know they can't do that, and we you know, I had you know, some players from the from the team.

You know, they didn't know where my head was at. So they came and made sure that, yeah, that they were going to get an opportunity to to that they all still believed in them and which I already knew. So that's why they continue to get ops. But they can't do that. So and then you know, just like a game of accountability, like it doesn't matter if you know, if if there's good calls, it doesn't matter, like collectively as a team, we just have to play smarter football.

I mean, it's crazy. So that starts with me and.

They get themselves in a third and fourth situation where once again cater Coo who squats on a short route and breaks up the pass, and then it's a three and out for the Dolphins where they get absolutely nothing going with Tim Boyle, and then the Colts kick their field goal on eleven play, sixty nine yard drive. They got some chunk plays, and that was, to me the difference in the game. Besides those key inflection points I talked about, was the Colt's ability to hit chunk plays

in the passing game. Sixteen yards to Donna Mitchell. They get thirteen more yards to trace Sermon on that double flee flicker or reverse flee flicker play. And then they get the Alec Pierce eight yards on mesh against man coverage when it's thirty eight from the plus forty three

could have been a critical play in the game. They're gonna stop after Klays Campbell gets in for another massive TfL and then Sermon goes for ten yards, and you kind of felt like the Colts were wearing down the Dolphins defense at this point, which is gonna happen when you have that many three, four and five play drives. Sermon goes for five, They get themselves in a first and goal, and then it's Richardson for four yards, Richardson for no yards, and then pressure forces the incomplete pass

with Jordan Brooks. So the defense once again bows up in a big spot and they take a three point lead, and you're kind of feeling this point like can the Dolphins put the ball in scoring range? It felt not insurmountable, but not probable at that point, but they do it. The drive starts at the twenty two yard line with eight thirty seven to play, John who goes for seventeen yards and now Slip Scream Raheem runs for fifteen more yards. And those inside runs have been there all year long.

Durham Smith nice block on that play. Wattle catches his first ball to day for eleven yards, and then it's third and one of the plus thirty six. We go back to that full back dive, Well, it gets stuffed, and then we missed from fifty four yards off the upright after the snap was pretty high over Jake Billy's head. He handles it, pulls it down, but the kick hits the upright, and you had some chances on defense to

get a couple of stops. They eventually would bow up to get the stop after the Colts strove into the twenty yard line, but they made us exhaust our timeouts. They made us exhaust the clock beyond two minute warning, and so they kicked the field goal from thirty seven yards and Miamis has to go the entire length of the field in like a minute and fifty seconds, and

they just couldn't do it. I mean you could. You could tell that it was difficult sledding and once the ball got tackled in bounds, it was gonna be tough to get from there. They did have a possible deep throw from like the thirty three yard line, but it was thrown out of bounce on fourth down. And that was your game. So difficult game to difficult pill the swallow, difficult game to watch, a difficult week to kind of bounce back from let's go ahead and take our last

break right there, come back on the other side. The big picture takeaways. I have one more SoundBite from coach. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation, My five big picture takeaways from the dolphins sixteen to ten loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Number one, I made this point on the radio show, and I was trying to explain to Seth why things look so disjointed offensively when it is not to in

the lineup. And it's this simple, because I saw it in the game on Sunday with both Huntley and with both Tim Boyle. Is their footwork and their timing is just nowhere near commeserate with what you need for this offense to function at the level that it does. And they've shown no ability to adapt to a different style

of quarterback. And so Number one is that the offense is morally dependent on two a tongue of by Lowe's availability, and inherently that is massively flawed because one he has a serious injury history and two like, okay, anybody could run that right. Anybody could say too, go to your thing, and that's it. Like you have to be aild to adjust and adapt upon that number one is morally dependent upon one quarterback as a flawed approach from the start.

And what I mean by the footwork is, go watch how quick and in rhythm Tua is and how much he can speed up his footwork to match where the timing of the route is at any particular time. It's the most subtle, nuanced part of the position. I find so intriguing and a big reason why I think Tua is an elite, elite quarterback in this league is that he can get to those spots, he can speed things up, he can adjust based upon where the routes are, where

the timing of the coverages for that given play. Tyler Huntley doesn't even do like baseline that stuff. He does not handle his drop with the timing of the receiver routes at all. And there was a play it was on the sack before the John Smith touchdown. We scored one touch on a game, so it's like, oh the touchdown,

Here's where it happened. It was while ran a little pivot route to the outside where you kind of stem inside and you show it a slant and then you put your foot in the ground and you pivot back to the outside and you throw that ball off the inside, leverage to the outside with your timing, and you throw it to the pylon and let waddle go get it for a touchdown. Tua has done that several times in

his career. Huntley, his feet are chopping and he's not in the right direction, he's not aligned to his target. It's just sloppy as hell. And then Tim Boyle gets in there and he catches the snap and it's like he catches the snap and then one foot drops and he's flat footed. So there's no rhythm and footwork and how it matches up in the timing of the passing offense. And so you are morally dependent upon this quarterback that has a severe injury history, and that's why you've gotten

these results. It's a major red flag in the entire program and it has to be answered for. Because two is gonna come back next week, probably gonna smoke the Cardinals because we have this awesome run game in defense and now we get our quarterback back, but it's probably too late. So, like number one is that approach coming into the year was a disaster to not be able to have the backup quarterback that can do it. But number two to not be able to adjust. I don't

care if Tyreek killing you then a while. I see double coverage and two high coverage all game long. They did it all game long last year and we threw d touchdowns through those brackets with Tua. What you can do besides that, and Kyle Krabs had a great tweet about it, like you can adjust to that, you can alter your routes and create spacing and just have those guys win on their talent alone. And there's none of that at all. So it's frustrating. It's my first takeaway.

I hate it, but it is what it is. Number two is the pre snap penalties and blown assignment calls. Continue to plug this offense. Let's go ahead and hear from coach real quick on how distraught he is about this whole situation.

killing us. So I don't I need to figure out something better, which is what I'll be doing starting the second most press conference zones.

the hell does that happen? How does that happen? And it so frequently gets us in bad spots, and with our current situation at quarterback, we cannot overcome that. I know that he's supposed to come back next week, and it is really really hard to win in the current formula. When you consistently put yourself behind the sticks, you could have given to a much better situation to come back to, but instead the start of the second quarter, you go low blocked in the gates a four yard run and

it creates a first and sixteen. The next drive, second one, Raheem runs for thirty two yards, but a whole backs it up and we cannot overcome that. On the next series, first and ten, fifteen yard offensive face mass can't overcome that. Like then that the third down bunch route to Odell Beckham on Kenny Moore, who's their best player on defense with the current injuries and one of the best cover guys in the league, and we're throwing to option number

four on cornerback number one. How does that make any sense? Or Julian Hill on the kickout block against Yatu Latu, Like if he can't do it, if he can't play and he's dropping passes, still, what are we doing? It's just the process. It's killing me and driving me crazy right now. And this, you know, back to the penalties.

This one was not pre snap and I hated the call, but the Durham hold that pulled back the three two you Everheem moster run, Like, gosh, dude, it's just time and time again, and it's when you have the explosive offensive last year. You can overcome that. But this offense has been this for three years. I don't expect it to go anywhere anytime soon. Number three and I kind of touched on this, but getting so damn cute, dude,

the Beckham play, how about? And normally I hate this point because you can point to moments, you know, I think results can always kind of be what you look at when it comes to play calls and just be like, ah, it didn't work, so you suck. But this has happened all year long. The Seattle game, you run on the ball inside, you go to the outside, tosses that lose yards and it ends up killing drives. It happened in the Titans game as well. It happened in the Patriots game.

In this game, you've got Jalen Wright, who, by the way, where's the first half touch for Jaalen Wright? He's the best running back on the damn team? Is he not? I mean, is he not? And he rips off these massive runs and we go full back dive on first and ten. What is this? Travis Wingfield created character playing a full back because my brother took the running back position and he gave me mercy carries At the end of the game, in nineteen ninety eight's Madden, Like, what

the hell? I haven't seen that since Mike Alstott was playing fullback for the Buccaneers. It just seems like we are so frequently in a groove and get ourselves out of it by getting way too cute. It drives me nuts. Number four, The defense is really good. The defense is awesome so far. I saw some tweets about it, complaining

why what are you talking about? Weaver's marriage of the front and the coverage and his ability to blitz and send different pressures and bring different guys and confused quarterbacks. He's awesome. He's awesome, and he has this versatility that we had last year with Ramsey and wouldn't have Fuller but Cater and those guys didn't get used in the way they're being used now. I love Anthony Weaver. He has a serious future in this league as a head coach.

Number five is what's next? You know two was back next week, but is it too late? At two and four we had some winnable games we let go by the wayside. The rest of the AFC is still kind of in shambles. I don't think it's that good. I think you can still win ten games and get it, maybe nine even. But the thing that has me hanging on here is can we marry the run game and this offensive line. You know you heard coach Hey that forty runs in a game limits your opportunities in the

passing game. It will shorten the game, obviously, And that's why I like throwing the football as much as I do. When you have this dynamic offensive firepower, which we will in the Cardinals game. Right, it's like the three point Revolution. Give me maximum three point shots when I've got Stephan Clay and KD. But we can also take advantage here and there of Draymond being left alone on the post. So I am excited about adding the passing game that I think we should have with John U rolling eight

chan back Jalen Wright. I think we can kind of take that with Tua and become the version the team we thought we might be back in weeks one and two. I think that's ahead. We'll see. I hope. Let's get out of here. Those are the five Take meek. That's the podcast. You all please be sure to subscribe, rate review of the podcast and Apple Spotify and get your podcast from go ahead and leave us a rate and leave us a review. Follow me on social at Winklin NFL.

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