Points Catching Up to Production, Tua's Crazy Season Perspective, Run Game Creativity, Winning the Trenches and Unsung Heroes

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, we've made it to the middle of another week. We've made it to the turn the page day. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and

quarterback to a tong of Byloa. We'll look around the web and see what folks are saying and do our regular Wednesday thing with the five big picture items I think about this football team from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast.

Always loved this episode of the pod. Taking a big picture step back look at the team and the perspective of offense, defense, special teams in the collection of the entire team nine weeks into the season now, and we do that with five things I think. And the first thing I think on this Wednesday, November the nine is that the offense is point production is catching up to what the yards they've gained all year would suggest they have. And let me go ahead and put my Brian win

Horse hat on here. Why is that? First? The reason I wanted to get to this was because just two weeks ago after the Steelers game, you know where we went up and down the field but managed just six team points on a day where it felt like the offense was really clicking but just gotten his own way

a couple of times. I wanted to look back at the last two games here for this Dolphins offense, and if you look at the red zone conversion percentage, nine drives seven touchdowns at seventy seven point eight percent conversion rate in the red zone, it is difficult to beat teams for the opposition's sake. When you're allowing touchdowns seven out of nine drives into the red zone, you're not gonna win many games doing that, and also on third down for the Dolphins, thirteen of twenty two on third

downs in those two games. That's just a smidge below. So two very very efficient numbers and two of the most critical areas you're gonna see in terms of a box score, in terms of a stat count for a football game and a football team. And so, you know, the Dolphins point production and really just general offensive production has caught up to what that yards per play metric would suggest that we talked about a couple of weeks ago here on the podcast. They are tenth in the NFL.

Right now in points per game at twenty three point seven, they are second in the NFL. How does that field Dolphins fans? You have these second best passing game right now in terms of yards per game, and I would argue it could be probably better than that. You know, if a certain player was here every single week at two nine three point six yards per game, second best passing attack in the NFL by that metric, rushing eighty six point nine yards per game is NFL. We'll get

to that here in a second third down. We talked about being sixty percent the last two weeks on the season forty one point three percent, tied for four Also going to get back to that stat here in a second. On the year in the red zone six nice That is six the best in the NFL, and they're six point three yards per play our second, so think about that. Yards per play is one of the most important stats

in football. Second points their tenth red zone they are six, and third down they're tied for fourteenth, which I'll tell you why that's gonna get even better here in just a second. But the running part of that stands out a bit right the third downs too, obviously, which I thought was strange given two US records heading pace on third down pass this year, but also only one team who has played nine games. Most teams in the league

have played eight games right now. We're one of the few teams that haven't had their by yet, but most teams have played nine games, and only one team that has played nine games has ran fewer plays on third down than us. The Falcons have a hundred third down plays, the Dolphins have one d four and no team has more yards per play first downs or a higher passer

rating this year than the Miami Dolphins. So we're getting to third down at one of the lowest rates, but then executing them at one of the most efficient rates in these last few games. Uh. As far as third downs per game, the Dolphins have eleven point five five That's tied with Buffalo, who have the fewest third down attempts this season. From a volume standpoints, the Dolphins on a per game basis have faced the second fewest third downs in the National Football League or tied for it.

That's why you look at fourteenth in the league and say, well, yeah, they're scoring points because they are as explosive as anybody on the early downs and then they're highly efficient on the money down. Not to mention the big plays were on third down. You know, third and six, thirty nine yards of Tyreek Hill. A third down you throw a twenty nine yard touchdown pass to Jaalen Waddle. It's been

that way all year long. Third and twenty two you get forty five yards to Waddle to basically beat Buffalo. As for the running aspect of that, I think it's a kin to what we talked about with the yards per play and how it tends to play out that the points will catch up to the stat but more so the eye test of just saying, hey, this looks like more than a twenty one point per game offense,

doesn't it. So from average yards per rush last four games, and this removes victory formation kneel downs at the end of the game. I did not go back and look at halftime, but I think there might be a couple in there. But it's pretty pretty Uh, it plays out pretty much the same. So the last six game rushing totals, where you subtract seven kneel downs for negative seven yards for seventy seven, twenty six for one oh seven, seven for one eleven, seventy three, six for one thirty seven

and eighty five. So for total, that's one and thirty seven rushes for five hundred and ninety seven yards, which is four point four yards per carry. So I think you're getting plenty out of the run games, since you know, a bit of a slow start to the season in that category. But even still those first three games, you know, and going back to the number of third downs that

we haven't had this year. In two of those games, the Baltimore and the Buffalo game, you're chasing points really all the way until to the fourth quarter, and for Baltimore, up until the last play of the game, really and we did get some success back in that Week one game over the Patriots with fourth quarter running the football, and I want to hammer home the point that it's really providing a great balance and compliment to the passing game.

The ability to get to four point four yards a clip is more than adequate enough in terms of capitalizing on what this defense does best, which is makes a lot of the variety of the playbook look the exact same like it's like again back to my baseball references, Felix Hernandez was the best right handed pitcher in the league for like ten years because his nine four mile and our fastball looked identical to is eighty five mile changeup, and that nine mile hour difference in speed was impossible

for hitters to gauge, especially when the changeup just fell off the plate, so that it was the same idea. Right, we're gonna run this play from this formation, and this play from this formation one is a run. One of the past one capitalized on this conflict defender. The next one will take him and put him in a different position of conflict. It creates some hesitation and that second level and exploits any motor come of a false step that you might take. And I mean, just look at

the flow of these games. They haven't exactly been, you know, again conducive to a run heavy attack. When you need thirty points to win a game, you tend to see the rush attempts go down a little bit. And that's been the case in four of these six games. You needed thirty points to beat the Bengals, you needed more than forty points to beat the Jets, You needed thirty points to beat Detroit and Chicago, so kind of harkens

back to that. And then I want to go ahead and look at the stat that I'm sure everybody wanted to hear here, uh with and without tah so with doah again, this is a fun element where my hypothesis did not play out the way I thought it would, but eventually got to a different point that helped carry the point in general. But with two A in the red zone, one drives fifteen touchdowns at seventy one point four percent touchdown conversion rate in the red zone, fifteen

of fifty six drives got to the red zone. That's twenty eight percent of your drives under two A without too ah eight drives five touchdowns. That's a sixty two percent red zone conversion rate, so just a nine point four or nine point six drop off their percentage points and red zone execution without TAH. And then also it drives getting too the red zone eight of thirty seven twenty one point six percent, so only again less than

seven percent drop off there. So my hypothesis was that the red zone execution and getting to the red zone is gonna be a lot higher. It's not, but here's where it is. How about third downs with two a thirty three at sixty nine, that's forty seven point eight percent without to a ten of thirty five percent, So yeah, that's the rub. And then your points per game with two point seven without to a six team point five.

Pretty big deal there. My second thing that I think, how about a round of applause for Mike McDaniel, Frank Smith, and Matt Applebaum and really anyone that has any involvement in the running game coordination, uh that puts puts their part into the game plan, which I'm sure includes Eric Sudsville as well, and in different offensive staff members that I did not include here, but those three guys, you know, run game coordinator, offensive coordinator, uh, and obviously what Mike

has done, and then your offensive line coach. We did the film review portion on the podcast every Tuesday, and you guys hear my excitement about the run game in general, the design of the offense in general, I should say, and I would hate being a linebacker preparing for this

offense because there's just so much going on. Again mentioned it in the first takeaway, so many false keys and things that are designed to get you taking false steps and if you get it wrong, you then are flat footed against somebody like alec Ingold who's coming downhill ready to put a hit right in your chops. And in fact, Sean Payton and I'm gonna lift this from the around the Web portion I was going to do later on

he did calling Cowherd on Monday. I know, shame on me for watching that show, but I'm not gonna promote it on social. He said that when he was in New Orleans every week, they would have two or three other offenses around the NFL that they would study and try to get ideas from. He said on the show that if he were still coaching right now, the Dolphins would be on that list of teams to cut up every single week, regardless if they're your opponent or not.

They want to get an idea for what other offenses do for creativity and things to take away from them. He said the Dolphins would be in that list for him as a head coach, and obviously Sean Payton is one of the greatest offensive minds this league has ever seen, so pretty high praise and we don't have to deep dive this, but a lot of it for me starts with alec Ingold, who does just so much in all

aspects of the game. Hill align in a nasty split, which, as you know by now if you're a fan of the podcast, means you're in tight to the formation, up against the tackle tight end area close to the quarterback, and then chip the edge from that spot. He'll come across the formation and split flow action and get that last chance block before two it gets hit to afford him the extra you know, three tenths of a second to deliver one of the strikes that he's thrown all year.

He'll lead you know, a running back on the outside toss or in the screen game and the swing game. He just does so much and you look at the offensive line. There were so many reps where the use of the running game, and this ties into thing I think number one where the function of play action the

full line slide. You've already just essentially men, you factured a pocket for twa where he can turn his back to the defense on play action, get to his drop, get his head back around and has room to survey, process hitch up and there's nobody even close to him. It has to be so comforting as a quarterback to know you have those reps baked into the game plan.

I think it all ties together with the run game working off the past game and vice versa, and with alec Ingold being a big part of that takes us into our third thing. I think here on this Wednesday, heading into week number ten, is speaking of alec Ingold. This team has stars everywhere, but we are winning and find margins think to some slightly unsung heroes we mentioned. Ingold just does so much for the offense. Trent Sherfield, you know, he's only he's only had one target this

year that he didn't catch. I think it's fourteen out of fifteen. I mentioned those swings and tosses on outside runs watch Trent Sherfield bust his ass to not just get wide of the defensive formation and like, you know, be a guy that gets in the way. He gets out wide, puts his foot in the ground and then changes his momentum and leverage going back against the flow of the play to make sure he doesn't just get in the way but lays an effective seal block. It's awesome.

One of my favorite things to watch each and every week here on the Draft Time podcast. Uh Duke Riley Special Teams tackles his speed to the perimeter, his ability to spy quarterbacks, He's playing well in coverage, and he can give you the occasional rush to the rest of our guys are primarily here on this list. Special Teams contributors Andrew Van Ginkla twenty five yard scoop and score last week a franchise record off the punt block. He makes a couple of plays on teams every week, it seems.

And then his efficiency on defense has been really good too. Not as many snaps this year, but as he's working back from the app end deck to me from the end of camp, he's given you a lot of good quality reps on defense as well, justin Bethel, what he did in a pinch at corn Her when we were so thin cannot be overstated. I'm not sure we win that Pittsburgh game without the effort that he gave on defense that day. And then he seems to have a big special teams play every week, either making a tackle

or downing a punt inside the ten yard line. And on that topic, Thomas more Stead has just been aces. We never really punt from in our own end, and that's a credit to the offense for not having many three and OUs. But he does hit forty five point two percent of his punts down inside the twenty yard line. That is the sixth best rate in the NFL. And his six team point one percent pinned inside the ten yard line rate is eighth best in the NFL. So

there you go. Unsung heroes is my third thing I think this week, let's take our first break and come back and do the things I think four through five. That's next, and will also look around the web. Coming up here on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Wednesday here on Brown's Week nine game in the books. We are halfway home this week to game. Number ten goes by

faster every year, doesn't it. Thing I think number four is I cannot remember the last time we had this many, you know, air quotes, players and the trenches producing at this level. An update on espns, run block, UH, run block, run stop win rate, pass rush and pass block win rates. I wrote that down in a way that I thought made sense in my head, but I read it back and it doesn't make any sense. But basically, run, run defense,

and pass defense in the trenches. So on the individual portion among defensive ends and outside linebackers, Bradley Chubb is third with his twenty seven percent pressure rate as far as the run defense goes to that position group, Dyalen Phillips is tied for seventh at run stop win rate. At defensive tackle, Christian Wilkins is sixth and pass rush at six and he's also second and run stop win

rate at forty percent. On the offensive line to Ron Armsteads tied for tenth at pass block win rate among all tackles. Among the offensive guards and run block win win rate, Rob hunt is tied for eight at nine percent. As far as centers go, Connor Williams and run block win rate is tied for fourth at seventy four percent, so Chubb, Phillips, Wilkins, Tehron, Rob and Connor. And then also I know that Zach Seeler is right on the

fringe of that. Uh. In terms of run stop win rate as a team, pass rush win rate sixth at forty percent and seventh and run stop win rate at thirty two percent. Offensively, I think it's twenty one and twenty seven, so uh yeah, it's been better on on the defensive side in terms of pressures and run stops from a team perspective than it has been on the

offensive side. The fifth thing I think are the fifth big picture takeaway is that I just wanted to give you further to a perspective and has worked on third down just looking at some two of stuff because we've not seen a run like this with the quarterback position for the Dolphins since I mean, that's basically what it goes back to. I thought this was really cool as well,

Seek Parrott on Twitter. Chris Kaufman did the research here to is twenty one of twenty five with two hundred two passing yards, two touchdowns and no picks when targeting wide receivers not named Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle, it's a one twenty seven passer rating. It's better and better than his rating with those guys. To is also forty two of sixty three for three hundred and fifty eight yards and two touchdowns and no picks. When he's throwing

two backs and tight ends. That's a passer rating of one or two point five and throwing too players not just wide receivers, players other than ten and seventeen a one eleven point four passer rating. Pretty incredible on third down this year, how about forty two of fifty seven, it's a seventy three point seven percent clip for six

hundred and one yards. That's ten point five yards per pass, eight touchdowns, and a one hundred and seven forty seven passer rating for two uh on twenty yard throws this year, sixty four point three percent completion with a one seven teen point six passer rating. That's first and second in

the NFL. And he has eighteen completions of twenty or more yards, which is the most in the NFL, which is so funny because last year he was from an efficiency standpoint one of the most accurate downfield deep ball throwers. But everybody had to say, but not Bylesage. Well, now he leads a league in that stat so shut up. Uh. Did you know the last time a Dolphins quarterback led

the league in passer rating was four? That's wild to me to doing it through nine games eight more to go, of course, But did you also know that the only quarterbacks with a higher passer rating for a season then two was one fifteen point nine was Aaron Rodgers, Ryan Tannehill in twenty nineteen, Matt Ryan in twenty sixteen, Nick foles In, Aaron Rodgerslen Tom Brady in two thousand seven,

and Peyton Manning in two thousand four. That is one, two, three, four, five six seven, the eighth best single season passer rating of all time at this stage. And of those names, two guys didn't play the entire year, which too will not have played the entire year having missed those two and a half games, But Tannehill and foals In didn't

play the whole year. With the other guys the Aaron Rodgers, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning, they all won the m v P just think about that unreal. Let's go ahead and look around the web here real quick. I moved the Sean Payton on Calherd segment up to the big picture thoughts. I want to go ahead and read this from Peter King's week nine Football Morning in America. So this segment that I do on Wednesdays is something of a cheap rip off of Peter King's weekly column

and a fun fact. At a sports marketing class back in my sophomore year of high school, that was basically all the athletes at the school and our favorite teacher doing cool projects that were related to sports, Like one was, you know, we drafted a fancy baseball leagan. Then you had to actually like run the baseball team from the tickets and concessions and promotions and all that type of stuff.

And one time he showed us, for some reason, know why the Longest Yard the Adam Sandler remake during class, and when they panned the press box in one of the scenes, the teacher, Mr Judy offered extra credit points if anybody could name the sports writer who had the one line in the movie which was not bad crew not bad, and it was Peter King, And I got those extra credit points because he was my favorite writer.

So that's why I'm telling you about that. Because in his five Things he Thinks this week, he mentioned the trade deadline and gave us this blurb. Since spring, Miami general manager Chris Greer has traded six first round picks, traded away four or yeah, traded away four, and used first rounders to either draft or acquire Jalen Waddle, Tyree Hill, and Bradley Chubb. That's one heck of a job, but Miami signing Chub twenty six to a multi year deal

gives Miami another piece to its defensive front. What I also like for the Dolphins is despite being docked one first round draft pick, Chris Greer retains three picks in the top three rounds of the draft, a second and two thirds. Well done, Chris Greer. King also gave Phillips Jalen Phillips his Special Teams Player of the Week award after blocking that punt, one of just four blocks punts in the NFL this season. He also shouts out Andrew

van Ginkol in the blurb. I'm not gonna play it here, but Brian Baldinger had three breakdowns of our game two on the offense one of the pump block. Really cool stuff where he breaks down the offense with Tyreek, Jalen and Tua and then of course Phillips and Van Ginkel on the pump block. A couple more things here. How about some midseason power rankings. NFL dot Com has US at twelve, but that guy is a die hard Jets fan who has the Jets ahead of us from which

I don't know why, but that's what we're doing. ESPN has US at sixth, CBS Sports has US at sixth, YAH who has US at seventh, and Pro Football Talk has US at ninth. I want to go ahead and do this before our last break. Mid season awards for the Dolphins. My m v P is two A TABLOA. My Offensive Player of the Year is Tyreek Hill. My Defensive Player of the Year is Jalen Phillips. My Rookie of the Year is kat Cohu, My comeback player is where he moster, and my coach of the Year on

the staff is West Welker. Receiver's room is getting done. In my opinion, this team right now has two first team All Pros halfway through the year, Connor Williams and Tyreek Hill. In my opinion, they have uh three second team All Pro and go talk to a wall about one of these guys in here, to Ron Armstead, Jalen Waddle,

and to a Tungo by Low. I would take Jalen Hurts as the QB one on in terms of for all Pro teams, and I would say two was the second team quarterback the way the years going so far in the Pro Bowl, I would put Phillips, Wilkins, and Holland and of course the other guys ahead of that. So that would give you one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Pro Bowlers. And we'll also see where Bradley Chubb

winds up. If you're going off the Denver stuff. He's easily a Pro Bowler and maybe arguably in the All Pro teams as well, So I would give you nine total. It could be a fun year for the Dolphins and the Pro Bowl. Are they playing it this year? I can't remember. As for the league, my m v P is Jalen Hurts, and then to I'll probably go Hurts first, just because the rushing element of the game that he adds. Offensive Player of the Year is Tyreek Hill. Defensive Player

of the Year for me is Micah Parsons. My offensive rookie is Damian Pierce. The defensive rookie is Sauce Gardner. Come back is tough. I want to get with the gino, but I think if you're not, you know, Gina didn't have an injuries, I'm gonna give it to Sa Kwon bar Lee. And then my coach of the Year is Robert Salah. He edged out Nick Sirianni after that win over the Buffalo Bills. And my executive of the Year would be Chris Career. So there you go. That is

segment number two. Here we're gonna come back on the other side of the break, and here from Mike McDaniel and two a toungo by Loa in their Wednesday media availability. That's Next Draftime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Alright, so I lied in the previous segments saying we're gonna have to a tongue of by Loa audio. It's gonna be a late press conference on Wednesday. Wanted to get the podcast out to you guys as fast as we possibly could, So we're gonna

have just head coach Mike McDaniel's Wednesday news conference. We'll talk about two was on the Thursday preview show. But if you want to see the entirety of two A Tongue by Loas press conference, go ahead and head over to the team YouTube channel and you can find it in its entirety up there. Let's go ahead and stop by Mike McDaniels. Wednesday news conference. He was asked about Byron Jones and basically gave us the same update we've

been getting all year long. But he did say that they are not bowing out of the possibility that he could return this season. I want to first play these couple of clips for you about Tyreek Hill. Coach was asked about an on field moment and an off field moment where they realized this offseason, this dude's different. I'm gonna go ahead and play him in succession for you here, but I really want to focus on the recall of coach.

I remember the name Leonard Hankerson because I am obsessed with football and that's all I do all day long. But did you remember that name? Did you know about a two thousand thirteen route that he ran that was against the specific San Diego Chargers that coaches talking about

here this recall is incredible. And then also the response that Tyreek had two coaches kind of ribbing of his top speed in terms of the GPS tracking at practice, about Keion Crossing and Berylan Sanders having the better times over Tyreek in the first part of O T A S. And how Tyreek responded to that. I'm just gonna go ahead and play it for you guys here because it blew me away. This is awesome stuff here from coach about Tyreek Hills on field moment and off field moment

where they realized this dude is different. You know, there was Okay, I got it. There's a particular route UM that you know, I think we we came up with um in two thousand thirteen trivia fact is Leonard Hankerson against the charters. UM. That's a deeper, outbreaking route that UM not all that many people can run because the timing of the play and to push it that deep, UM,

you don't always have protection for it. So but running that kind of UM kind of got steam and ran at the most and we had Julio Jones Um who was unbelievable at the route and then seeing tyreeke in I think it was probably O T A four if

my training camp installed schedules correct in my brain. UM when he ran that, UM, I just had a lot of deliberate reps at viewing that ran at an exceptional um uh uh speed, depth, intent, and it was like, WHOA, I've been fortunate to be around Andre Johnson, his prime UM,

Julio Jones and his prime Josh Gordon. UM, you know Pierre Garson, UH leading league and receiving all these great great players, and he is different and we we knew then UM in O t A s that, Yeah, this is a this is a different deal in the off field part. UM. The first time I took the trust fall and called him out in a team meeting, I think, UM, and it wasn't a call. I guess I shouldn't really say call out because it's not. It's more UM and tea meetings. I think it's very important to UH state

the facts, and the facts are what's on tape. So anything that's on tape we should be able to discuss openly. And there was something that he didn't do. I can't remember what it was, but I vividly remember his response that day. Um uh was corrected and then so I kind of made note of that. Two days later, Um, you know, I was at the beginning of team meetings and training camp, were showing, um, the fastest GPS is of the practice the previous day, Um, and there was

he was. He was fifth that day, and so I made a big deal about. I went over the top and said something like, dude, congratulations, even working hard, this is great achievement. Um. And then once I think Keian Crossing was the fastest that day, so I just was like, no, actually it was Brian Sanders at the time, um, whoever it was. I was like, man, you're the fastest guy in the Dolphins. This is awesome. This is from the

whole team. And uh. Then that practice, he um he ran the fastest ever recorded in practice here or that I've seen. It was like something absurd like eight or something like So it's like, okay, yeah, you're different. Okay, so that on the field, off the field, UM, it's not a happenstance that he's able to have success. I mean, how cool was that? Wa man Coach's answer was awesome.

Up next, he was asked a question that I asked a couple of weeks ago, and he kind of gave us more in depth on it here, and the part that I liked about the most was referencing certain coaches and their expertise is in this area, particularly Frank Smith, who if you guys listened to the Thursday or I should say, the Friday edition of Draft Time, we pump out these incredible q and as every week with Josh Bowyer,

Frank Smith, the entire coaching staff. But Frank Smith is new this year, so I didn't get a chance to know him before this year. But I just love hearing him talk, so hearing coach talk about his experience. And also how about the fact that I wrote this podcast script before we had coach on Wednesday, and that reference I had earlier about the running game with Frank Smith, Matt Applebaum, and the entire coaching staff with Mike McDaniel,

how they've kind of cultivated this successful group upfront. Pretty cool to have it carry over with the question that I didn't even ask in the press conference on the same day, here's coach talking about the growth along the offensive line. It's the it's the least appealing, most real answer that exists, and it's like the down to the bones deliberate work and intent on UM defensive specific techniques

and how we execute our fundamentals and details. Um. Uh it's one of my UM, you know favorite parts of the whole coaching staff is that. Uh. The offensive coordinator Frank Smith has deep um O line coaching roots. It was a center himself, UM and I think he's spearhearted spirit, spearheaded that charge and really led in a moment that UM. You know, there's there's a young group that was a little uncertain of themselves. UM that along with applebamb and

um lem and my person. You know, it's there's no quick and easy way to have success in the National Football League. That's why I liked the game so much. It's because when you see success um or improvement, I should say more than anything, UM, you people are too talented, people work too hard. There's there's no shortcut around it. It is just they they're wedding after practice for you know, practice ends. UM. I try to give the players a

nice a schedule that they can get out of the building. UM. But the linemen don't aren't afforded that because they are out there working UM after practice and uh it's to all their credit. UM. Collectively. Um, and then you know, every everybody else getting used to it. You're starting to see the skill position players be a little more productive in their areas. The running backs, UM, running in space better. It's a trickle down effect that they can really dictate.

Got a really good Q and A from coach regarding Joe Woods, Brown's defensive coordinator. We're gonna say that for tomorrow's podcast on the game preview. Hey my computer booted up. But this last one here from Coach was asked about the small details between winning and losing close games, as the Browns have struggled in that department and the Dolphins are five and one and one score games this season.

Here's Coach on the fine margins and how the Browns are not to be taken lightly because they are a team that is rallying together and will give you a tough football game each and every Sunday. The you know it, that's the part of football that you don't necessarily You're you're hitting on the part that isn't necessarily on the

stat sheet, which is which is the cool part. Um. There's you find that teams kind of um kind of snowballs for teams where you can be in tight games consecutively and um, you can find yourself with the same result until you get yourself out of it either way. UM. But that I think being involved in those games gives you a competitive advantage moving forward when you're able to

get when you're able to learn from them. So teams that are learning from them, whether it's high low or whatever during at the end of the season, they end up winning more than they lose of those In my opinion, I think those because it's hard. You want you do all. I mean, just think about it. You're we're starting on coaches start on Monday, UM, players coming on Wednesday. We're grinding on this one objective all week has all sorts

of variables countless number of variables. Um, that you're learning, that you're trying to master. H Then you go to this huge build up of this competitive game that everyone is watching and being able to critique. And then just finality, one final result when teams aren't of the right mindset they want to point fingers or you learn how to not point fingers. That's something that UM, I've been on teams that it happens a ton um just by the tape,

you know. I wouldn't dare to speak on the Cleveland Browns. It looks like it doesn't look like they're doing that at all, So it looks like they're in the process of the same process a lot of teams are. We are where Okay, it's a close game, It's okay. I don't the finality of that whole work week. You don't

need to think about that. Just worry about your individual job and collectively, the more people that do that end up finding a way because, um, the biggest mistake is when people get in in tight situations, tight games, and they start thinking that they need to do it themselves. And um, that's something that you have to learn through trial and error. UM, and something hopefully, UM we have learned from in our close games. But that doesn't guarantee anything.

We could very well um buck the trend this week, UM hopefully eat injinxis each week. I enjoy these press conferences more and more again. Check out to a tongue of by Lois press conference on the YouTube channel. By the time you hear this podcast, he might have already spoken. If not, it's coming up around three or three thirty on this Wednesday afternoon. All right, that's my time today. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Leave us a rating, leave us a review.

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