Preseason Week 1 Rewatch Omissions, PFF Data and Mike McDaniel Day After Presser

your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, we're going back over everything we missed from the initial reaction show, our second glance at week one of the preseason, taking a look at the copy again. We'll give you some interesting stats from PFF, and we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and his day after presser from Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast

kicking this thing off here. And if you missed the Sunday recap edition of the game that had the original notes, you're gonna find your Skyler Thompson breakdown in that one. You're Darius Hodge, a little bit of that Porter Gustin

uh turnover sequence there with Sam Aguavin. All the stuff that was I suppose more obvious on the first watch is going to be available for you on that podcast, but I want to go back with you know, rewind capabilities and watching every snap three or four times and give you kind of my general takeaways from the Dolphins first iteration of this season, first game under head coach Mike McDaniel, and just some notes that I thought were

interesting here about the individual play. That's what preseason is about, right, taking a look at individuals and how they kind of come together to form the greater some of the parts for a football team, you know, a void of really any scheming or any of that stuff that goes into a weekly game plan. As to Ron Armstead told us earlier last week in Tampa base let's go ahead and kick it off on the offensive side of the football.

Excuse me. With the very first play of the game, and the Dolphins come out and an unbalanced twelve personnel set, which means you have both your tight ends, one running back to tight ends, two receivers. That's twelve personnel, both your tight ends on the same side of the formation, which is unbalanced, right. You get heavier uh more gaps on one side of the formation, less gaps on the

other side. And I thought instantly you saw the beauty of the Mike McDaniel offense with the flow of the defense really pressing and pursuing play side, and then here comes Skyler. Take that football out of the belly of the back and take that bootleg back to the weak side, and then you bring the flow of the tight end, you know, Mike Kasicki in this instance, across the formation, across that flow, and he has a wide open thirteen yard catch and run going against the flow of that defense.

And you saw That's what Shack Barrett talked about after joint practices right, this offense will challenge your eyes. They will really challenge your i Q to make sure you are right with everything you do. First play, we see in there Mike McDaniel is is springing a tight end loose across the flow of the action with the play action game for thirteen yards, easy first completion for Skyler Thompson.

Jason Taylor talked about it on the broadcast. I can't wait to see more of that as we go along, especially especially with game plans that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities and weaknesses. So that was my first note. I also noted some offensive line stuff that you that that gets way easier to do an EVL on the offensive line on the rewatch, it's it's really difficult to get a great feel for it live off the broadcast, but off the rewatch. Thirteen snaps for Austin Jackson. But he

was rock solid, man. I noticed in training camp he's got very sturdy, gotten very sturdy, become very sturdy with his initial punch, and he stays square, so like his feet are often under you know, under his knees, under his hips, under his shoulders, and he just gets too spots patiently is kind of what I've noticed. And the initial punch, he's been locking that thing and right on the chess plate. Square him up, and that allows you to control the rep and stay balanced and stay square.

And that's what I keep noticing from him. It allows him to either run the guy around the arc, which is the least dangerous spot on a football field behind the quarterback, or change in direction and mirror back inside when the pass rusher redirects to me. That confidence or that patience rather comes from confidence, which he talked about last week. Right, I'm the most confident I've ever been. I think it really showed him this game, and so

far through practice and training camp. Solomon Kimley stood out big time in the past Pro game as well. On the interior, you'll often see guys with the mission of just resetting the line of scrimmage and running through their block. Like we'll come back to Ben Still, the U d f A from Nebraska. That was his job all night. Just push that center, that nose tackle position, take him back into the quarterback as far as you can. Hopefully, what that does is eliminate the step up option for

the quarterback. And then if you get that done successfully on the same snap to your edges, win and get around that corner. That's how you wind up with sacks and taking away all escape hatches for your quarterbacks. Solomon Kinley did not allow that all night long. He held firm. Excuse me, he was just fantastic on the third and inches run on the first set of downs on the game winning drive, that sixty playyard drive where they were

backed up to the minus four yard line. You're thinking, like even j T on the broadcast says, I would sneak this ball behind big Solomon Kinley. They didn't do that. They pulled Solomon Kinley play side and he goes in there and just absolutely clawbers the defender who shot that gap, hoping to make a big play to get his name some recognition for a third and short stop. Didn't happen. He wiped him out and it's a first down for Jared Oakes in behind that block from Solomon Kinley and

Adam Pinky at that center position. Going back to the first team offense or the first part of the game, there was a third down conversion to Cedric Wilson that I just think was indicative of something. Defenses are going to have to find a way to have solutions for this Dolphins offense all year because we've seen tons of

successful offenses have this similar thing. I think about the Buffalo Bills frequently when I thought about this idea that Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle commands so much attention on the perimeter, and we know what Cedric Wilson can do from that slot position. You get him in a one on one situation with a two way go which means you can break in, you can break out, and with his intelligence and chemistry with tow Ah, that ability to make site adjustments off of that, you have to feel

good about. It's just a really tough order for some of the best nickel cornerbacks even in this league. On this look, that's what he gets. He gets inside leverage and he presses up, kind of drops that shoulder into the chest plate of that inside leveraged slot cornerback, and then from there you put your foot in the ground, run that crisp route, get out of the break, and it's it's easy separation for a guy like Cedric Wilson.

I think about that Buffalo Bill's offense with Stefon Diggs, with Emmanuel Sanders, with Gabe Davis, all those perimeter options they had, and you know, Cole Beasley has been a productive player, but he's athletically, nothing real special about you know, his profile, and he was able to just win those two way goes with quickness and good route running. I think Cedric Wilson's very, very capable of having an exact same nothing not the exact same role, but getting those looks,

those situations and exploiting them time and time again. When you get that one on one coverage, just you know, a matchup based league, Cedric Wilson against some of those cornerbacks with his size, and then from there his ability to go vertical from that spot too. I think it's a great, great addition. I think we're gonna see more of that as the year goes along. We also know

about the yak theme with this team. Right yards after catch, I've got Trent Sherfield, Tanner Connor, Cedric Wilson, and Eric Azukama was slipped tackles after the catch and also real quick regarding Eric Azukama, you know you mentioned the yak with his game. It's a big thing that stands out. But his release on that route was so nice, little stutter step at the line at the hand of the jam attempt. He looks really polished for a rookie receiver.

I love two things about the Lynn Boden touchdown. The vertical horizontal stretch of the player where you get Tanner Connor, who is the inline attached tight end. He takes his rat to the flat to the route to the flat, basically looking like stick where you have Mohammed Sanu run a little a hook up and you have Connor to

the flat. But instead of that hook up, Mohammed Sanu takes a square in that occupies that third level of the defense, and then you have Preston Williams on the backside of running acrosser, which you see influence the second level of the defense. And now all sets up Lynn Boden's double move. He has to get one guy to take the cheese. He does, he bites up on that. It takes the top off the defense. Really cool design

and a good example of spacing. And you get that good pass pro, which is the second part that stood out to that touchdown. Stood out to me about that touchdown was the pass pro was excellent. Coleman, Kinley, Panky Jones, and Kean Smith all won their battles. Gave Thompson a clean pocket. He stepped up and did not miss. Also on offense a super brief showing. But I thought Kelln Diash showed the stuff that popped on tape for him in college. He covers a lot of ground on that

kick slide to get to his landmark light feet. He looked very good in that limited action on the defensive side. I thought Ray Kwon Davis's first snap where he shocked and shed the center of the Buccaneers a brief showing, but his strength was evident throughout. So was John Jenkins, who played really, really well, the first rep that I noted him on was a pure man handle rap where he just took dude and chucked him out of the gap and made the play the tackle right at the

line of scrimmage. He later thwarted a cut block and for a guy that size to kind of put your hands on the guy and then get your knees back to keep yourself clear and then get back into a position basically an updown but using a human body instead of the grass to to get up off of. And he gets up off of that guy and makes the play in the gap. They're a very good game for John Jenkins. I thought Porter Gustin was very good. He

had a versatile role. We saw him with his hand in the dirt standing up, had that pressure slash hit on the interception. He slipped some blocks in the running game. A guy that has played on special teams a lot in his career, He's got a good shot here. I think chilling Phillips. I mentioned his bull rush, but on the holding call that he forced. Just watch the way he chases the football, and not only that, but a lot of times in that situation, guys, will you know

you get the grab of the Jersey. You look at the reff and kind of throw your hands like, what's up? Ref? Like why didn't you get that call? He didn't do that. He just took off and kept his eyes in the quarterback, and once he saw the quarterback took off, he chased after him. I love that effort. I love not concerning yourself with things you can't control. Fly to the football. It's a philosophy on this defense, and it shows every

single time. Speaking of speed, Andrew van ginkle he had just there was one play this out to me, a free rush where you know a lot of times that position you're gonna be the unblocked man. You have to get to the quarterback, but also break down and stay kind of, you know, in control and make that play. Is there anybody you'd rather have turned free as the unblocked man? Him? Andrew Van Ginkl gets in there so fast,

so often. I also really appreciate the way Brennan Scarlett consistently resets the lion scrimmage with how he attacks his man. He just consistently gets that push back which forces the back to have to make choices when they come that way. I talked about the defensive backs tackling on the perimeter earlier last week in the podcast, but to me, it's more than that, and it stood out in this game. Eric Rowe, Brandon Jones, No Egg, Monogny, Trill Williams all

inserted themselves in the running game. And Trills first play of that second half with that you know six on his jersey. I had to double check to see why why would you put Javon Holland beck in after not dressing him. He looked like the snowman with the way he came down and popped that thing and made a big physical hit. He's got some skills, man. I'm looking forward to hearing what coach has to say about his injury.

Hopefully it's not too bad. And I don't want to double dip here on Darius Hodge, but he was just so dang good because we talked about the pass rush, but his first play was an excellent backside pursuit where he got around that corner, flattened and made the play on a chase and tackle opportunity. And I don't think this showed up in the stat sheet, but again, Ben

still the U d f A from Nebraska. He occupied that thankless nose tackle job so frequently where he just had to move a brick wall over and over and over again. Just hut, hut, put your head down, run into a guy and try to get push against someone that weighs three pounds. It's not a fun job, but he didn't. I thought he did it consistently and helped create chances for guys around him. And then finally here

DeAndre Johnson had himself one heck of a night. I thought it was cool to see Austin Clark super fired up when he Owen Carney Jr. And Ben Still met at the quarterback for a sack late there in the fourth quarter. Last thing here on the defense before special teams, the touchdown pass that is being debated about on Twitter. That's a pretty basic looking Cover three type of rapp where you have, you know, a defensive back in the deep third ig Manogamy need him, and I think it

was key on crossing on the other side. Good route concept to try to occupy that post safety with which they did with the first crossing route. And then you have Brandon Jones who's playing the hook curl and he was in the right position based upon a cover three look. I thought the depth and that final third back there with Eggan agony, just a little bit too much depth and especially knowing that no one's coming in behind you, Uh squeeze that route me be a little bit tighter.

You might get a bit of a different result there. So that was the one note on that play. Special team Sethan Carter had a nice tackle on the opening kickoff Trent Sherfield. This guy has this the skill set that I think is gonna make him a fan favorite. He already is for me, but working as that jammer on special teams, the way he just kind of holds

guys up and helps you get better punt returns. With Preston Williams first punt return, he was a big part of that blocking and that blocking shows up and the receiving game too. There was a big catch and run by I think it was Azoo Comma might have been Linbow and I can't remember, but he goes down and gets catches himself a big time blocked down the field. He broke a tackle on the one catch, just again that fan favorite type of skill set that he offers.

Channing Tindall had a really good game. I thought special teams tackle was awesome. But he also had two open field stops on defense, and then the battery of Blake Ferguson, Thomas Moristead and Jason Sanders absolutely on point. If there's anything any obvious and omissions on this podcast, it's because I covered those in the first pod, the Sunday Morning Podcast.

Let's go ahead and take a break and come back to some Pro Football Focus data that's next here on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a rewatch edition of the Drivetime Podcast, taking a look at Dolphins and Bucks Week one in the preseason. Going to be a short segment here we'll hear from coach McDaniel. In the third segment, I want to get you guys some quantifying by the numbers here as we take a look at the Pro

Football Focus report and the advanced metrics. Starting on the defensive side of the football, Elijah Campbell was the highest graded player of the Dolphins defense. Should be no surprise with the interception, four targets, two catches on eighteen coverage snaps for nineteen yards. That's a great spot to be for Elijah Campbell. Channing Tendall had fourteen coverage snaps and allowed just five yards with two run stops. To go, have a day, rookie, Cameron Good speaking at rookies, three

run stops on nineteen run defense downs. That is very very good. Benito Jones had four run stops on twenty three rundowns. That also is very good. We had Porter Gustin leading the way with four QB pressures in this game. Benito Jones had two, and then a handful of guys had one as well, but Porter gust and four that stands out. Darius Hodge, Trill Williams, D'Angelo Ross, DeAndre, DeAndre Johnson, Duke Riley, Quincy Wilson, and John Jenkins all had two

run stops in this game. Duke Riley allowed three yards on thirteen coverage snaps, had a pressure and two run stops, a very good day for him. And then Keion Crossing allowed twenty two yards on twenty one coverage snaps. You

gotta love seeing that. So that's your defensive metrics. I thought I would have offensive numbers for you guys by now, but they're not available on Pro Football Focused just yet, and I'd rather push this podcast out then wait on numbers that I can just give you on Twitter or you can check out PFF yourself. But normally on this podcast we do go over the entire PF gauntlet. I'll update it if it's gets back in time. If not,

I'll put it on Twitter or the next podcast. It's really not a big deal, but we'll have you guys updated on that, as we do all the time on this podcast. Is what we do. Let's go ahead and take our last break here on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We'll come back on the other side and here from head coach Mike McDaniel. Back here on

the Drive Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield. Last break there, We're gonna go ahead and get now to this Mike McDaniel. Sunday afternoon press conference and not a lot of reporters in the room, so we had a chance to kind of for idea, I should say, ask a couple of questions. Really fun setting there with coach talking about the game on Saturday, but also just some ideas and philosophies as he educates us. Every single time we get a chance

to talk to coach and those pressers. Let's go ahead and start here with a question posed to coach about the possibility of moving Eric Rowe back to cornerback in the light of the Trill Williams injury news, which coach also addressed the reports that it is in fact an a c L but not quite sure yet what's gonna happen for I R and all that stuff. You can hear that up on the YouTube channel the media availability.

Coach did address that. Let's go ahead and go back to coach now though here for this question and answer about the possibility of moving Eric row because he went in depth about Eric Rose position on the team, standing on the team, and what he means for that defense. Here's coach the first, first and foremost that was, you hate to see um an injury like that. UM for a guy that's been working as diligently as as Trill has.

He's really um. You know, he he was an example of a player early on that I could tell in the healthy way that he wasn't totally happy with where he was at in terms of depth and and you want to talk about an example of a player doing handling that the right way, transferring that energy UM to the point that he's been making plays daily on the ball and you can tell from his teammates how pumped they were for him, So you know it. It's one of the hard things about the profession that that I

really struggle with UM when I see that happen to someone. UM. At the same time, I think he's proven, you know, uh, time and time again that things of that nature won't keep him back over the long haul. UM. The challenges to make that thing UM happen for a good reason and come back stronger and better. But it's a it's something that I think it hurt the hearts of the whole team, myself included UM. With regard to Eric Roe, he's he's been, you know, getting pretty involved in the defense,

uh in a good way. And it's I kind of like where he's at UM in terms of his his play and he kind of there there's a new side of him that that was kind of displayed in the joint practices. UM. I was talking to the team about the salty side of row UM and he was getting competitive and it was really cool to see. I like where he's at right now this position. I do think he does have versatility that you could go down that

road if need be. But you know, right now we're just um evaluating a couple of guys and then we'll, um, you know as Chris and his department always does for the quarnerback position, UM, Bill, you know, we'll we'll be in discussion of, you know, how to handle some of these injuries and UM moving forward, Uh, what we need to to continue to develop an overdo the other existing corners UM on the roster. Really really good stuff there, especially the salty side of Eric Row. I love hearing

that about him. We saw that in the way he fit the run in that game last night. Really throughout the course of training camp so far this year, he's come a long way since being a cornerback to US safety that can get his nut his you know, his face during the fan and go make place up next. Coach was asked about philosophy for cut down Day. I continue to love this point about not getting too far

ahead of yourself and staying present within the day. Here's coach, That's something that you know, we talk a lot about people getting opportunities every day and how valuable and every every practice is so valuable, and um, every opportunity is

so valuable. So it's a balance where going into preseason game before you know that there's a cut, you're kind of saying the state of the union right then, fully knowing that when there's opportunities in front of people, you don't make your mind up because you learn so much about players each and every time they're out on the field, specifically when you have to handle the emotions of a game. So that we were long discussions UM last week and

then some discussions that we started today. But then we're careful. You know, this is their livelihoods and it's also the team and organization. UM. These are big decisions that when you have a competitive talented rosters like we have that they that they've built here um, and that we were growing right now, you don't take them lightly at all, So you discuss them. We discussed more today, but we'll

sleep on it. UM. Further discussion comes tomorrow. It's just a constant communication with Chris and myself as well UM as the coordinators and position coaches for every every every real decision that we make. And to the team's credit, UM, it's not easy, and that's a good thing of the Dolphins. It's not there's no no brain earlier and the sky is a fish out of water. Now it's far from that. So um, we'll continue to discuss that before we make

those final decisions, which are tough, and that's good. Coach also answered a question about Greg Little and basically referenced the fact that they wanted to get Greg some work what he was day to day with little deing that he had and that he established a bunch of confidence with the work he put in during a training camp, and he didn't want to put Greg Little out there to play at less than a percent and diminished the

confidence he has built up. I thought it was interesting, just more philosophy and and kind of where the Dolphins are coming from on some of the decisions they make from Coach McDaniel continues to fascinate me. Next, coach was asked about Austin Jackson and Rob Hunt and Liam Eichenberg and their development, their growth and now after an off season full of excitement and Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel and the players themselves having a lot of confidence about

what they can do in this system. How he feels after getting thirteen reps on tape and how they performed with their first game tape here in system under this head coach, here's Mike McDaniels. It was really cool because of how they have developed where it's the first opportunity.

You know, these guys have. We talked about deliberate practice the punch, and you know, I was talking to the team today about it that the idea of delivered practice is so that in the games you there's no it's just a virtually another practice that you're putting yourself in

game situations all the time. And so there was really out of those thirteen snaps, probably for all three of those guys, there would have been like ten pluses and then the three minuses were all things that they have executed UM against our defense in practice, whether it's combinations or pass process that maybe we're a little off. So it was awesome for those young dudes to get that

feeling for us to say, hey, why is this different. Okay, it shouldn't be you have you should have all the confidence. It should feel the same as practice for you. And that's the goal that the the spectacle that is a game UM isn't anything but doing our craft that we do every day. So it got it got us a chance to revisit um kind of the primary pillars of philosophy of how we go about our business. I think they felt it, but they didn't. They didn't lose confidence.

It was like, oh yeah, and then we're at a good spot with them because of that. I absolutely loved that comment about thirteen snaps, you know, ten pluses each and the three negatives as far as the tape grading goes where things that they had excelled with in practice, and Coach relating it back to that philosophy about being deliberate about how you work and making those practice reps the same as far as working on your craft as a game rep will be, and how those three minuses

where things they've already at heathen practices against this defense and trying to figure out how to bridge that gap to make it the same from the practice environment over to the game environment. Really really fascinating stuff. Up next, here Coach was asked about something he mentioned post game in Tampa Bay about being so relaxed and not having the nerves because of that philosophy and approach of being deliberate with your work and the carryover from practice to

a game. Here he is now with a chance you know, twenty four hours or so later to reflect upon that thought and where he thinks he is now in terms of that NFL debut, Here's Yeah. I think it was more that I'm not good at anything else. It was less of like, yeah I'm good, um, but it is where I am comfortable. I think you guys can feel that, um, And you know I'm not gonna hide from it at all.

I'm not. There's a lot of things that I'm not gonna necessarily have this whole um dialogue about how terrible I am. But there's a lot of things that I'm like, yeah, that's not not what I hope it to be. Um, Which it was ironic. I knew that going into it. I knew going into it. I'm like, yeah, this is not It's an odd thing to be something excited for something. But also no, hey, I'm about to go not put

my best foot forward or my final product forward. So just like the players, Um, there's a lot of things, and I think that's important to as a coach to identify and be transparent with that with your players, like hey, yeah this wasn't good enough, Um, this will this this short changed you in one way, shape or form, UM, so there to say that I'm excited because it's over, because I wanted I wanted to to identify exactly where, um that I just wanted to get to that point

as fast as possible. And hey, okay, well did this. Now I can get better at this, and I can manage this better, I can communicate this better, this decision, um could be better all those things. So yeah, um, it's what I expected. And I expected to get a C on the math test and I got the sea and so I'm like, yeah, cool, now I can um, now I can work towards getting to be in an a someday. Um, if you guys allow it, I just

love it. But next, here a great question and a better answer about the idea of shuffling on the offensive line in a break in case of emergency situation where a starter goes down and shuffling guys and making two guys change positions opposed to just one. Here's coach answering a question about what would happen if something happened to one of your tackles. Do you shift a guy like Liam Ikenberg to tackle, you know, move someone else inside.

Here's coach talking about the philosophy of multiple shuffles and changes in light of an injury potentially on the offensive line, versus just plug and play one guy in and keep the other four intact. Here's coach the there's a starting point to that, But I think absolutes are a dangerous place because the the if you live in that, then

what about the exception that flourishes. But from a starting point, it kind of has to do with the combination of your combinations of players, because if you the starting point for me is that moving a player that's in a spot where he's being productive now you just now you just have two spots that are less than what you you know, as opposed to just having one thing that

you can work around. UM. But there are exceptions to that. UM. Left tackle is an interesting one because you can, you know, with with the ed dressers in this league, you're you can go from sack fumble to completion explosive with like you know, there's just so much space. So that I would I would say for a starting point, I would try not to move a starter to to um out

of their position to cover up another position. UM. But that I wouldn't say would be an absolute because there's you just have to think through no, no, the pros and cons um and kind of address it the best you can. And I guarantee there'll be a situation where I won't. I will go back on that statement at some point in time, because I don't believe in just being like all right, oh, this is my philosophy, brain

shut off, you know what I mean? Yeah, I would say not being stuck in your ways is a great

quality for this position, for this job. Up next, Coach was asked about Teddy Bridgewater not practicing much on Thursday and then not playing much in the game or I should say at all in the game on Saturday, and the idea about taking advantage of an opportunity to the Dolphins had with a little bit of back tightness for Teddy which was not a big deal at all, but the opportunity to give Skyler Thompson the football to start the game and go to bed knowing he was starting

the game. Here's coach on that philosophy and a Sage Rosenfelds reference to boot. He was he had a little um, you know, back tightness to degree on practice on the practice day, and but it wasn't anything major. We saw it as an opportunity to get Skyler some reps UM in practice and then Skyler's ability to um handle uh those reps, you know, all important reps with the two's, and we kind of just got thinking, you know what, UM, here's an opportunity to do something that you don't generally get,

which is UM. I think I've talked about it before, but UM. I had one experience with Sage Rosenfels when I was when I was coaching in Houston and Sages point to me, UM, that always stuck out with me. It was like, yeah, you know, I'm so much better coming in as a reliever. It's so different when you're not preparing as a star and then in game you come in and play. But then when you have, whether it's a night or a week to prepare as the starter for whatever reason, it's just a different set of

circumstances that psychologically. Sage was like, I didn't flourish in and that always stood out to me because like, huh, I wouldn't know that, but it was like that's probably real. UM. And and I think that over time you can look at back a quarterbacks success and see that UM, that is more common than not. You know, so I was paying attention to it after we plan that seed. So fast forward to that week and I was like, wow, here he is operating at a pretty high level. Um,

if he does have to play, should circuit circumstances present itself? Um? When else could we have that opportunity where he would be a known starter in a three preseason game that would typically yeah, that would come up in the fourth preseason game. UM, and you could cross that bridge. But three you can't really um with in conjunction to how how two was performing. Where I thought that, um, the first team quarterback was at um and then that practice were like, hey, why not do this and see how

it reacts? And we learned a lot about the guy. I think his teammates did too. So it was more, um really the opportunity to you know, Teddy started plenty of games, you know, and I think you could see by Scholar's play that, um, you know he was he was pretty ready. Although he will be harder himself and say he was, there was plenty of stuff that he missed. UM. That was kind of the objective, and I thought he

handled it well. The mindset of I'm going to start right now and where that for for preparation for um the night before, for that sleep. You know that that was something that um, you know that, like like I said, that you just try to observe surroundings and that that's something. It stood out to me so much because I never been in that position and I never thought about it that way. So, yeah, that that was exactly what we thought, Wow, we can get this opportunity out. Why why go play

Teddy for a quarter or two? Um? When shoot, are we gonna get this up? What if this is the only opportunity we have before live bullets ever? Um down the road, Let's see what this kid's made of. Which I think it was back in O t as you talked about kind of calibrating your aggressiveness on offense to

reflect a good defense that you have here. I was curious, when you have a guy like Jason Sanders who's making four field goals to from fifty plus down the middle, how does that kind of change the way you see the game or see the field from an offensive aggressive team point. No, it's a it's a great question because that it's direct you there's that area the field where you know it's third down and you're between the twenty five and thirty. UM, and do you want to be

aggressive or not? Do you wanna do you want to put yourself in a situation where maybe you could get UM an explosive uh, and you you feel a little more willing to do that if the worst case scenario, which I think happened to us twice. UM, the worst case scenario happens, you get sacked, Okay, so that it expands that you get get in that area where you

might take yourself out of points. Well, now you have a little deeper area where you can be a little more aggressive because if you do have the worst case scenario happened, he can get your back, which is what he did last night, which is why it was UM a team win and something to build upon. I think I said this last week about coach making my job easier because he gives me so much good content and

talking points and well thought out explained answers. A planned for this podcast to be about twenty minutes, but I just played almost every answer coach game in that press conference. I left a couple out those. If you want to see the rest of it, go to the YouTube channel and find the rest of Mike McDaniel's media availability, where you can find all the team's media availabilities up on the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel. We are back at it

too Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for practice this week. Those practices are closed to fans, so no tweets, but I will have a Twitter update after practice, a post game, a post practice story I should say on Miami Dolphins dot com, and then of course the podcast that night with Twitter spaces on Wednesday, and then game day on Saturday, once again against the Raiders here at home at hard Rock Stadium. The season is getting very very close. I can't wait. Man, I'm so pumped up for the season.

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