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Time with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if not far of what is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it is a Wednesday. That means we get to hear from coach and quarterback. And since that quarterback is back, I'm gonna take a look at some
of my favorite plays this year from QB one. And since it's Wednesday, that also means we're looking at five big picture things that I think. Plus we'll hear from some of the seventy two team, as well as Mike McDaniel. Plenty more to come your way here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
the Drive Time Podcast. So I ended last Wednesday's podcast talking about Mariners and Astros and how that series really brought on a whirlwind of emotions, and I would say of that was tied to thinking about Jason Mr. Jenkins. And a week later, Jason's Astros are headed back to
their sixth consecutive American League Championship series. But man, I just can't help but think about the conversations that he and I would have had after each one of those nail biding, tense tight games the entire series that resulted in a serious sweep for the Houston Astros, And it's funny to think, you know, how important we as fans think the outcomes of these games are. But if I learned anything from that series, it's that a lot of
things transcend the scoreboard and the entire series. All I could think about was the true value in sports, and that is the communities it creates. That's what Jason was all about, right, bringing people together. And what better avenue than sports than to do that. I know we didn't talk about that in the lead, but I just wanted to put a bow on that from the podcast last week. But Jason, I'm telling you right now, we'll be back
next year. We're gonna get y'all in three. I also wanted to make that comment because there was a great story on the Miami Herald today on on Tuesday, I should say about two a tongue of Bloa and his impact and what he means to the Miami Dolphins record.
Barry Jackson wrote that piece where he talked to Duke Riley and Eric Rowe about Towa's involvement in the locker room, talking to not just the offensive players, defensive players as well, talking trash on the practice field, inviting guys over to his house to hang out after practice. Really good stuff,
Barry Jackson, Miami Herald. Go check it out. It just reminded me about the connections and no kind of relating back to, you know, my relationship with Jason, about what sports is all about and the camaraderie in the community and the brotherhood not just for the players, but for the people that follow the sport, people that cover the sport, It's the most important thing to me, and so I
just wanted to put a bow on that. And also we'll go ahead and turn the page here now and get into Dolphins talk on this Miami Dolphins podcast network kind of. We're about three minutes into the show right now and we haven't talked Dolphins football yet. We're gonna go ahead and do that right now. With five things that I think, and we start with number one, and to me, it's that the defense looks to be hitting
their stride. Ten three and ounce last week is to me a better sign than if we had generated a whole bunch of takeaways. Don't get me wrong, Takeaways change the complexion of the game, have the biggest impact on the scoreboard. But takeaways are not as easily forecast able or repeatable. At times, they can be a little bit random.
But to stym me an offense with the firepower that the Vikings have on ten of their fourteen drives not even allow first down that is I mean again, takeaways the the ultimate for a defense, but a three and out is got to be right there. I mean, you can flip the field, you can control time of possession, you can maximize the amount of possessions your offense gets by doing that. It's a really big deal. And so to sty me them on ten of their fourteen drives
fifteen if you include kneel downs. We don't do that around here. We add context to our drives, pat and look, year to year carry over is hardly relevant, right, But I do think there's some moticum of relevance here given two things. Number One, the scheme for this defense is relatively similar, at least the nuts and bolts of it. You adapt, you change, you add wrinkles each year, but it's the same guy with the same principles calling this stuff,
right Josh Boyer. And Two, the personnel is largely unchanged. I mean, aside from injuries mounting in certain spots, the cornerback position most no doably, largely the same rotation up front, largely the same linebacking crew, and aside from Byron Jones being down, it's like the exact same secondary against Sam's injuries Javon Holland, Brandon Jones, Eric Rowe, Xavian Howard, Byron Jones out, Nick Needam out. Those guys are or were
going into the season. You know your top six guys in terms of the depth chart in the secondary, and so with that mine you look back at and it was Week five when the defense really found its stride in a blowout win over the forty nine. Last year, I think we saw the defense get it's footing in a loss the Week eight game at the Buffalo Bills, when they had kept Josh Allen and the Bills out
of the end zone for nearly three quarters. Their first score came with three forty nine on the clock in quarter number three, and then from there we saw them hold Houston to nine points, Baltimore ten points, the Jets to seventeen, Panthers ten Giants nine, Jets twenty four, although when those was a pick six, and Saints to three points. A dominant run, allowing just eleven point seven points per
game and winning all seven of those games. That coming off an eight game stretch where it was twenty nine point one points per game. A big shift mid season just happened, right, snap your fingers and there it goes. It was a twenty four points per game allowed start through a one in three record that the first four games. Then it was fourteen and a half points per game
over another eight game stretch that produced seven victories. And I mentioned this on the Sunday Recap pod, but the style of quarterback play to meet is notable here as we try to look for reasons why this is the case, right, Why are the Dolphins going through four or five game stretches to start a season where it's not as good and then all of a sudden it clicks and they get hot. Now they have had success against some mobile quarterbacks. I don't want to make it sound like they're just
lost against those guys. We saw them hold the Allen Lead Bills to just nineteen points. We saw them completely stymy the most athletic quarterback the league has ever seen in Lamar Jackson last year for ten points in a horrible game for that Ravens offense. But the numbers against quarterbacks who don't scramble hardly ever or have designed runs called for them at her the proof has been in
the putting there that stretched back in. Here's the quarterbacks that started with Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Flacco, Jared Goff, thirty four points allowed in three games, eight takeaways. Then Kyler Murray shows up and it's thirty one points for the Cardinals offense still a Dolphins victory to a big game. Then you go back to Herbert, who he's certainly athletic, but he doesn't run a whole lot. He can't scramble, Drew Lock, Sam Donald, Brandon Allen, and it's back to seventeen,
twenty three and seven points one. That stretch of seven wins straight is another collection of quarterbacks who had fewer than ten scrambles and design runs the entire season. That's kind of my my threshold here, have you scrambled and had design runs ten or more times or less, because that kind of tells you what type of quarterback you are. Well, that wasn't the start of the stretch, as it was with Tyrod Taylor Lamar Jackson, who obviously are two of
the most athletic quarterbacks ever to play this game. But then it was Joe Flacco, a combination of a most athletic running quarterback, Cam Newton with p J. Walker coming in who's also a pocket quarterback, Mike Glennan, Zack Wilson, and Ian Book And only two of those guys had more than ten scrambles and design runs on the entire year. So what I'm ultimately getting at, that's what the schedule
now produces up through the bye week. We'll see if it's Kenny Picket or Mr Rbiski on Sunday, Jared Goff Justin Fields is super athletic, So that's like I guessaid, uh detour from this course. Kobe Brissette, Davis Mills, Jimmy Garoppolo, and then Justin Herbert in week fourteen before Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, Mac Jones, Zack Wilson to finish out the schedule. So now they have to go execute. They have to put in the work to repeat those performances that they've
put up in the past couple of years. But that's the point of this big picture item. I think. I think, I think the defense showed us signs against Kirk Cousins and the Vikings offense of what they can be and I'm really excited to see if thing keep that rolling. And all of that is to say that even against the athletic mobile quarterbacks, I mean, going back to last year we mentioned it, Tyrod Taylor, Lamar Jackson did a
good job against those guys. Lamar had his revenge game this year by in a lot of ways, Josh Allen it's been three straight games where he hasn't been at his typical dominant performances. So get the athletic quarterback thing kind of sorted out here, and then also handle the quarterbacks that don't have the same type of mobility, design runs, scramble type of plays in their statistics. It's a good omen going forward against either style of quarterback. I'm excited
about this Dolphins defense. Number two, Christian Wilkins, Zack Seeler, Jalen Phillips pushing up leaderboards. This could have been on topic number one, but I wanted to separate then because I want to give these guys their own limelight here. Christian Wilkins right now is second and run stop win rate of the snaps he wins against the run. He's fourth and past pass wash win weight pass rush win rate at eighteen percent among defensive tackles. Second and fourth
Pro Bowl season for Christian Wilkins. Jalen Phillips is eighth among defensive ends outside linebackers, edge defenders with thirty three percent pressure rate. Sorry sorry sorry, run stop win RPE.
He's also leading the team and pressures with eighteen They're picking up more and more here He's now twenty eight in the NFL at the edge position, which I know sounds like it's not a very high mark, but there are like a hundred and seventy eight of these players in the league, so he's in the top twenty or I should say, the top eight percentile of pass rushures off the edge. Zach Seeler is ten and run stop
win rate at forty three percent. And just to kind of finish off her posterity here on the offensive line, ESPN measures OH line win rates as well, Connor Williams is fourth and run block win rate among centers at seventies six percent. So I just wanted to go ahead and shorten that or shoehorn that in here. I should say I believe to Ron Armstead fell just out of the threshold because he's not on the graphic, but he is at in pass block win rate, which would be fourth,
but he's not in that current graphic. Thing I think number three, Tyreek is that dude, man, I don't think I really need to try to argue this point all that hard. I think most of you probably agree. The attention that he commands, the way he forces coverage to play so far off we'll talk about this in our next takeaway about how the skill group can challenge whatever defensive system you throw at us, and Tyreek is a
huge part of that. Also, when you can throw a fourth down and five and a play, you have to have to a guy who's being double covered because he can generate five yards of separation against bracket coverage. I just don't think you can quantify that value. It's immeasurable. I also want to say Jalen Waddle too, for all intents and purposes, is that dude too? Because I'm just really enjoying watching these two guys together do what they do.
And I'll say it here in this next takeaway. I really think we're just beginning to scratch the surface with these two guys. Might be takeaway number five, but we'll get there eventually. Because thing I think number four is that efficiency meets expanded possessions equals complementary football. Let's repeat
that again. Efficiency meets expanded possessions equals complementary football. So if you look at the Dolphins offense the first three weeks of the season versus the last three weeks, what's the difference weeks one through three? Second and offensive ep A with thirty two. That's points expected points added. And the way you define that stat is this statistic used to try to define how many points a player or
play is worth to a team. Every play is considered with context and my meaning down a distance and field position are used to evaluate the amount of e p A compared to the actual result of the play. If that sounds like a lot, I just ask for some trust in it. In the same way that, for whatever reason, analytics seems to be a bad word, a cuss word in football. Like now, all analytics is is just giving you additional information to help inform your decision making. It's evidence,
it's not analytics. Remember the resistance that baseball had to say metrics for a long long time. Well, now football they made a movie about it. Oh, these money ball thing is gonna work worked out pretty well. Football is in that same phase right now. But the fact of the matter is this, there's no model that can perfectly predict everything. No one's trying to say that. We're just trying to maximize the resources we have to get the
most accurate model we possibly can. And just like in baseball, when OPS took over as the primary stat because no, stack correlates more with winning in baseball than ops and ops allowed. It's on base plus slugging measures your total bases earned overplate appearances and at bats. Just like that. E p A is a very good indicator of success. So that's my diet tribe on EPA and advanced metrics.
So Miami weeks one through three, second e p A at thirty two and one of the arguments I recall seeing was that while they're only scoring thirteen points on offense because the Patriots, they only scored twenty points against the Bills. That's why I love advanced metrics because it provides what oh context, Travis loves context, so you can look at volume and make your assumptions, but that doesn't measure efficiency. Another sport crossover reference here in basketball, who
makes a bigger impact on a game? A player who shoots ten threes and makes three of them or a player who shoots two three's and makes both of them. Nine points is more than six. Yeah, but player B used two possessions to get us six points, where player A used up ten of our possessions we're gonna get to get us nine points. One of those is one less than one point per possession compared to three points per possession. You're probably asking, Travis, where the hell are
you going here? Dog, big dog? Trust me, this has all been worked out, so we'll stay with me. So that thirty two e p A in weeks one through three was paired with two point eight one points per drive. For the longest time, two points per drive was always a target point. I haven't seen the numbers this year, but it's probably down given scoring being like a ten year low. Right now, those two point eight one points per game per drive, I should say, per drive, we're
first in the NFL. The last three weeks we were twenty eight and offensive EPA and twenty nine points per drive at one point three. These stats, to me prove the complementary nature of the Dolphins operation during the win street compared to the opposite of that during the losing streak. And we arrive at the conclusion of all this, I think the offense is close to getting back to that efficiency,
especially if you get some guys back. As we wait to see the status of players like toront Armstead, Austin Jackson obviously to Ah preparing as though he's going to start the game on Sunday Night. A return of offensive efficiency paired with the direction I think the defense is going in. That's thing number four that I think that we can get back to offensive efficiency and as a result, see the entire team get back to the complementary style of football that we love to see that produced three
straight wins over three good teams. But just in case it's not abundantly clear, everyone has to do their part right. The entire fifty three special teams gotta step it up. Defense has to keep it rolling and be even better with the takeaways and splash play. So it's a total team effort. But I think that offensive efficiency can help out the other sides as much as anything else. Number five. This is five things I think, and the last thing is that the offense is really close to clicking on
all cylinders. I mentioned this on the L twenty two podcast how I was a fan of the structure and spacing of the offense time and time again against those vikings. Honestly, with the way that they showed they can attack gaps and zones and the daring nature of playing man coverage against the speed this offense has like tried. If you want at your own peril. I just think the offense is equipped to be able to attack any look you
give it. Now, executing is never guaranteed, but just in terms of how I think this offense is designed to be flexible and really go after potential vulnerabilities. I think that's getting better and better each week. I think the run game has a lot of moments the last few weeks. I think the passing game is obviously productive, but I think we're really on the cusp in a lot of areas, and I fully believe in the personnel and staff to execute and to get us to that point we want
to go to. Injuries clearly have been a bugaboo, but you can look at any team across the league and say that, Like look at the Charges on Monday Night football. They were down to their third string center and had three rookies from left tackle, left guard to center position. That's a tough, tough way to make a living. So there you go. Those are the five things I think on this Wednesday, heading into week number seven. We'll go ahead and take a break here and come back on
the other side. And here from some of the nineteen seventy two alumni, as well as looking at some top passes this year from our offense. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We'll go ahead and get to some of the media here from Let's see who was it. We are honoring the nineteen seventy two team the fiftieth anniversary on Sunday
night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. We had Larry Sonka, Larry Little, Paul Warfield, and Bob Greasy were available to the media on Tuesday. But I want to look back here first, excuse me at five of my favorite plays this year and revisit those films and break it down. My five favorite passes of the year. Number five, stick nod to Jalen against the Ravens at second down and third team down seven nothing ball on the minus three yard line, only one personnel, empty formation with a four man front
and off coverage from the defense. We pick up the foe man rush well to a works to the boundary the short side of the field, comes back to the field the wide side and does a little shoulder roll to waddle on a stick route. A stick routes where you put your foot in the ground and show the quarterback in numbers quick throw seven eight yards wherever the case maybe stick route, stick nod as if you fake
the stick and go back upfield. The stick gets Patrick Queen the linebacker to take one step up and Marcus Williams, the boundary side safety, has rolled to the boundary because he's keying to his initial head movements, which takes him
to the back side of the formation. It gives him three steps of width from Marcus Williams to where Wattle is because of that, so he's literally moving two people to create space from his pre snap read to his post nap application and puts the football in a literal perfect position over the linebacker on waddles back shoulder away from where the safety is key whole accuracy throwing the ball from the middle of the end zone to the
twenty yard line twenty yard keyhole shot. It gives Wattle room and of course he picks up forty two yards after the catch for a gain of fifty nine yards, dealing Waddle dime number four. Waddle again touched down versus the Patriots. We talked about some of the fine details that can take this offense to another level. What better
example than this one. Wattle on the top of a stack where have a receiver's stack behind him, wins inside access against inside leverage with a post safety and backside hook defender potentially impacting his slant from the other side of the formation too. Takes the snap and looks at the backside to hold that hookbacker, which creates the smallest of windows for Wattle. He then whips back to the front side and he throws the ball before he even
sees it. Why because the backside read gave him front side information. That's been the biggest thing for me with two of this year is how quickly he's picking up stuff that should be blind to him based upon the information he has on what's in front of him. And then the ball is perfect and Waddle takes care of the rest. The nicest part of it all. Two accomplished
all of that on one hitch. Timing the fast processing is not just the difference between completing it and getting a first down, but creating the chance after the catch. High high, high level stuff. And that's before you talk about ball placement in the right exact spot. Number three, The throat of Mike get Sicky versus the Bengal second down thirteen and in the first quarter, down seven three on the scoreboard. We are three by one to the field.
Three receivers of the wide side, one receiver to the boundary to the short side, with Mike Gasicki as the two to the field, which means your furthest receiver out is your one, next guy injured two closest guy to the formation usual three. Mike is in the middle. He's a two the slot. I guess there's two slots there,
but Mike. Mike takes an inside release to run a deep out route and pressure is in onto before Mike even gets the top of that route to a speed up, A drop hitches up and as he slides around the rush, the ball comes out before Mike has even come out of the break, before he's even cleared that hook defender, and there are two defenders within five yards and four defenders within ten yards, and the ball is once again exactly where it needs to be. Low percentage throw, that's
right on the money for a big conversion. More very high level stuff. Number two, the first Tyreek touchdown pass against Baltimore, third and ten down by fourteen just dropped a second down pass that would have been a first down. We have tie Reek of the boundary against a two high safety look and off coverage from the cloud corner,
so a bunch of cushion for Tyreek. My favorite part about this play is how to Us sees the overload pressure from the strong side the other side of the formation and just casually slides his drop away from it, and it bought the requisite time that he needed to uncork a ball from his own forty two, which then
allows Tyreek, who's at the thirty yard line. By the way, he lets it go at the thirty yard line and the safety's at the twenty five, which five yards before he's even leaving elite level anticipation, and the ball drops into the bucket at the two. He slows up a little bit, but feel free to go watch literally anyone else throw deep balls. That happens like every day time,
so don't get weird about it. It's a forty eight yard touchdown fifty eight yards through the air if you take where he lets it go and then where it lands obviously behind the line of scrimmage, and it puts Miami right back in the game. Dime number one, third and two, my favorite thrill by a quarterback in the post Marino Era third twenty two, trailing by three points, the eleven minutes to play against those damn Buffalo Bills.
Buffalo brings just three They have three backers in the hook to cloud corners out wide, two high safeties, and Waddle widens one of those safeties with a great route to the fake to the with the fake to the flag, a fake to the corner on a copper route corner post to hold the backside safety with his locking on of twa or tyreek, I should say on that back side, and once again the backside information gives him what he needs on the front side so he can throw the
ball before he actually sees it. Ball is out. It could not be more perfect. It's a handoff from where he throws it on his own thirty nine yard line to where Waddle catches at the eleven yard line, so fifty yards through the air, dime handoff and the time of the game. Man, what a great play. There are so many of these. The Craycraft touchdown against Buffalo, the Waddle winner against Baltimore, those are tough to leave off the list, but it's basically just to a thrown with
anticipation and literally hit and the keyhole. That's just it. Man, perfect passes is passes us passes. I just can't wait to watch him play this Sunday. Let's go before we turn the page here and get to Mike McDaniel. And two was Wednesday press conference conferences. Go check out the YouTube channel for the press conferences of the Dolphins alumni who are going to be in attendance on Sunday night for a big celebration the fiftieth anniversary of the nineteen
seventy two undefeated team. Larry Little, Bob Greasy, Paul Warfield, and Larry Sanko were on those calls. They'll all be out there on Sunday night Primetime Football in the throwback uniforms. We can't wait to celebrate. Let's go ahead and take our last break here and come back on the other side with those press conferences of Mike McDaniel to a tongue of by Loo. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We pick it back up here on a Wednesday afternoon with
the Wednesday morning press conference. First of Mike McDaniel, will hear from quarterback to a tongue of Balowa here in just a second, But we start with coach who provided some injury updates with regards to Jalen Waddle, Keion Crossing and Kater Cohu just mentioning that those guys are gonna do everything they can to get back onto the field to play on Sunday, said they're optimistic about Waddle being
able to play on Sunday. He of course, returned to the game after his injury that he sustained in the game against the Vikings. Coach was asked about special teams and how he evaluates that process of kind of some some good play, some good down punts, and also some gaffs here and there. Here's coach talking about his special teams through the first six weeks and what he sees that really encourages him on that side of the football. I don't look at everything UM entirely is one thing.
I kind of go through the progression of each game because one thing specifically with our crew, UM meaning our team, we've had UM a good amount of lineup changes. So you're assessing the way the way I I like to do it is, you know, what are we identifying the unit we're playing against? As how are we preparing for them. How are the players executing um, what we've prepared for them? Are we articulating things appropriately? Was were things told correctly
or not? UM? I think that the results haven't been where we want them. There's no doubt about that. UM. What I do see, UM, and what is important to me and I know is the fabric of teams that are able to have success in any phase is there. You don't see loafing, you don't you don't see lack of strain. Um. These are things that um, the misques have to do uh with things that need to be coached up. And I don't continually see the same exact things.
So my confidence, um has not been affected. UM. We It's more that are we continuing to get better and do those same things that happened last week or the
week before happened this week relative to our opponent. I thought coaches answer about Sunday Night Football, which he said that he kind of picked up from Kyle Shanahan something like ten years ago, about how, more than anything, not the TV or the viewership, it's that you're the only game that's on that particular time, and the entire league is home from their games after Sunday afternoon, so it's an opportunity for the players to perform in front of
their peers. Again. If you want to see these full quotes, go to the YouTube channel and see Mike McDaniel's entire press conference. Let's go ahead and spend this far now. As coach was asked, what do you want to see from two of this week to prove that he can be the quarterback that he was before the injury. Here's
head coach, Mike McDaniel. It's pretty easy considering considering there's UM, there's an extensive amount of time spent on the relationship between the starting quarterback and the head coach in the play caller. So you know, those are hours and hours of field meeting room time and you get to know each other pretty well. So what I want to see is the same locked in guy that I know when he's on it. He's UM, he's laser focused, he's in his normal mood, UM, but he doesn't lose a tension
span at the task at hand. And that's what what I've grown to love about the guy. That's why he's been able to have some success in a completely new language and system. UM, and that that would be my expectation for this week because it is um not the the the two Adolphins. He's right, it is a fifty three man roster. But we did go back to the quarterback position with our next question here, a really good follow up question about what To has kind of been
about the last couple of weeks bouncing around the building. Uh. Coach mentioned his thirst for the brotherhood that comes with playing football, which that was a really cool way to
describe it. But he was also asked about how he's embraced the role of that leader and the practice field last week when he knew he wasn't playing the game on Sunday, but getting back out there on the guys, the camaraderie that he illustrates, but also the way he works, and we're hearing a lot about this from coach and you know, this season, but more recently even more I should say that the way that to a works and the way he prepares and the attention span, the love
of the game, all that stuff is really high level. Right now, let's go ahead and hear from coach about how TO embraced his role in practice leaves that's not um a lip service, like like the thing that you're just like, I'm going to be a leader. And that's what's cool about it. What you saw was every single play of practice. Say in the play, Um, you know as I after I say it, like he stayed in
the huddle. Then UM watching the timing of the of the concept, watching the footwork of Um skylar Um getting excited when um perfect technique is executed because he knows it, Um exactly what it looks like. Um. And then you know, you go through a entire practice. You're used to be in the starting quarterback, which in the NFL season means you are taking every snap when the offense is up, So you're getting a routine where it kind of goes
by fast because you have all this stuff going on. Well, to see that focus last for the entire practice, Um also speaks to the point that it's not just about him his selflessness, which is why he has He has a unique aura of leadership that people gravitate to because it's genuine, authentic and real. Finally, I thought this last one here was really good about coach on are you
what your record says you are? And how do you kind of evaluate Is there any key statu you look at to kind of just determine what type of football team you have based upon the results. Coach went into this this long, really good answer about how do we evaluate the team on day by day basis. Here's coach Mike McDaniel. As far as you are what your records says you are, I think there's truth in that because you uh, you you know, to spend time saying, well,
but this, that or the other is a fool's aaron. However, UM, I think teams are whatever they define themselves that day. I think I think the Miami Dolphins are as good as their Wednesday. UM. It's kind of I think the approach that when you when you watch UM great competitors across all sports, UM and just people that are doing anything UM at a high level. There's a common denominator there and it has nothing to do with forecasting. We
are this or that or whatever. It is present in the moment and it is UM completely convicted, committed to what you're doing, knowing that that will UM affect future outcomes. So for me, UM, you know what I've been I've been on a team that was uh that after last year, I was on a team that lost two games or won two games in the lost four in a row. It was in the n FC Championship game and two. UM we were five and oh in Atlanta and finished
it and eate UM. I think whatever I think people clinging to what their record says they are UM, you know, might be not quite focused on UM the job at hand, which is continuing to get better so you play your best football UM at the end of the season, UM, which is uh what teams good teams end up doing. I think it's very hard to do that. I think there's a lot of noise about records trends. UM. You know,
you're three and oh and you're awesome. You lose three in a row, and that will always be the case. But it's always going to be distraction techniques that UM. If you're truly committed UM to being your best and having your team be your best, UM, you have to and feel very comfortable ignoring that's the head coach. Let's go ahead and hear from your quarterback to a tungle by low and start here first with how he felt
about all the support he received following the injury. I would say it was pretty cool, um with the support UH that that was shown a lot of love and support and uh, you know, I would say shout out to my neighbors, um that live in in uh the community that I live in. UM, they were very very respectful, very kind to have made some things. They brought over notes from their kids. Their kids would bring over candies, you know, uh, you know, things that they would bake, UM,
things that they would color. So you know, I thought that was super cool. Um. You know, I could feel the support and my family could feel that. And then just guys from across the league reaching out and the hardest part of the injury for TWA here's QB one watching watching my team, you know, go go out to battle and I can't. I can't do anything to help them. Um on the field. Uh, there's there's things you can do in the locker room to keep the guys encouraged,
to keep the guys going motivated. UM, but it sucks as a competitor. I want to be out there with the guys. I want to be able to go out there and uh, you know, help our guys win games. And that that was a you know, that's a terrible feeling that I could only watch from the sideline too. Did also acknowledge the idea of throwing the football away and living to fight another down and the importance of longevity at the position for him to stay in that
position as the quarterback here in Miami. Here he is talking about the difference between last week and what he was doing in the practice field compared to now this week, and how he was able to get back on the football field for football activities a week ago. Yeah, I went into last week prepping as if I were how we're going to play still, um, you know, just being able to get back into football, getting to do team activities, throwing routes to the guys. But I would say no
different than this week. Um. You know, I'm I'm just really excited that I can prepare um and you know, uh this Sunday, and I think everyone's excited to go out there and compete, um against a really good Steelers team. So there you go. Thursday Preview podcast is tomorrow. As I'm sure you all know here my favorite episode of the week, probably besides Victory Monday podcast, But I digress.
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