Quarter Pole Takeaways and Travis' Five Favorite Memories from Dolphins Jets

your pulse. If none of them, what is is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield. And on today's show, it's Pivot Day Day, Turn the Page Day. We are taking a look at the five

things I think from a big picture team perspective. Plus, in honor of Jets Week, my own personal favorite Dolphins rivalry, I'll tell you about my five favorite Dolphins and Jets moments, will share a cool story from Mike McDaniels presser. This week on Robert Salah and we're moving the pis component of the show to Wednesdays, so we'll make week five picks today as well. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.

Glad to be back with you all here kind of a flow back into the regular schedule. We like to peek behind the curtain here on the podcast, and to be honest with you, primetime games always make for a very very long night. The game wraps up around eleven if you're lucky, myself, Juice and Big Seth go on for two hours. And actually this week I remember very distinctly because I was, you know, the preseason game started

at seven and seven thirty eight fifteen start. I was a little bit worried about what time I might be done that night, so I looked at the clock even two as the time we started, because I knew that in two hours after that I would be done at one two. Then it's either to the studio if we're at hard Rock Stadium, or back to my home office slash studio to tape the podcast. And I always say I'm not going to plan it out, just talk about it.

Get it done and send it off. But then I just think the show is way better when I plant it out, So I wind up doing that, and by the time I tape it is three o'clock in the morning. And then here's a question I have for you, guys. Are you able to just go to bed right after you get done with your work? I personally need to wind down. Usually it's over an hour, but at least an hour to wind down before the night comes to

an end. So all of that is to say, the weekend was an absolute blur, But buddy, it does not stop there. I described this as some of my friends in the press room, soft A Dean and Marcella, Louis Jock and some of the guys that you know I talked every single day. On Monday after Coach McDaniel had mentioned it was his daughter's birthday over last weekend, and many of them, as you well know, know that I also have a two year old daughter, with the second one on the way, and my wife flew home for

her baby shower with her family this past weekend. So I was on dad duty from Friday night at five thirty two that's when the flight left, until Monday night. At five twenty I knew exactly the times of those flights because we were on a Jack Bowery style countdown. And parenthood's the craziest thing but also like the biggest microcosm and all of life. I've mentioned on the podcast so many times before my philosophy on life, the yin and yang of life. If something can be that good,

then it can be equally that bad. And positively, nothing is more rewarding than being a father, and it makes other thing things seem so much less important. Now that said, it's also the most challenging thing you'll ever undertake. Fits right, So after exactly seventy one two hours did the math, I was feeling like Jimmy Butler at the scores table in the NBA Finals. But we are back. We are revitalized and ready for a fun Wednesday show, starting with

our in weekly segment five Things. I think was bumped last week because of the short week, but it's back here for week five. Almost said week four. We'll dive briefly into the five big picture things. And this is one of my probably favorite because you know you've hit one of the checkpoints in the season. I know it's

no longer the exact quarter poll. But if I had a nickel for every time I heard an analysis over the last twenty five years that teams would break the schedule down into four quarters, you try to go three and one and every quarter. If you do that, you're twelve and four. Well, you know mathematics. Well, I'd have

a whole bunch of nickels if I did that. So these are my five things I think from the quarter pool the first quarter of the season, even though it's not exactly a quarter anymore, heading into the second quarter of the season, five big picture items. Five things I think. Number one is this team has potential to win in any given way on any given Sunday. It rhymes, but it's also true, which is awesome because that's how the

good teams in this league are constructed. You know, all offseason long, I was so encouraged by the depth of this roster. We've seen that come into play with shuffling guys on the offensive line, getting production from young guys in the cornerback position. Uh, linebackers kind of had some changes here and there. The edge position has been a

big rotation. The offensive skill guys you're seeing, you know, elevation of Jalen Waddle getting more and more work down the field, but guys like Craig Craft and Sherefield and behind him, and you still have more options that really, you know, Cedric Wilson, Mike GASICKI, Chased Chase Edmonds and Raheem Moster are proven guys in this league that haven't gotten to that level yet either. So I'm encouraged by the fact that they have depth all up and down

the roster. The defense, you know, has been solid and efficient. Offense with big plays, you know, week one, and then in Week two you have the offensive onslaught, then back to a masterful defensive showing in Week three against the Bills, and then I talked about this in the Friday recap pod how it felt like Miami was kind of going to take that game back with the ground game. Ult ultimately did not, but it felt like that was how they were going to get back after a big Raheem

Mostart run on the eventual interception drive. And I think as we go along, you know, as this team continues to get better, we'll just see more of that, you know, potentially getting Byron Jones back here sometime in the near future. Potentially we'll see I don't know the timetable on that, but hopefully it's it's not too far off, you know,

hopefully the quarterback as well. And then obviously, uh, you know, like we mentioned across the offensive line, Austin Jackson, the players that are out there and and getting more and more work. Hopefully it continues to build and we see this team get better as the year goes along. Number two things that I think is that it's a great start to the season through a very tough slate, and how that gives the Dolphins an opportunity to you know,

continue this strong season. Look at the I know this doesn't really you know, track, I suppose, but if you look at last year's records of teams, and Dolphins have played the Patriots for a playoff team attend win team a year ago. I've mentioned this a million times. Ravens were eight and three and the one seed in the a f C before injuries began to mount and kind of took their toll on that team. And then Buffalo we all know what Buffalo can do is in my opinion,

still the best team in the National Football League. I really wish Baltimore it held on late in that game. But they're rolling right now still. And then the Bengals playing the Super Bowl last year. You know, everyone's saying they're back after a couple of wins over teams that had their qb ones injured. Now, so we'll see about that, but obviously they were a Super Bowl team a year ago. It's a tough road to start off with, especially when the ladder they're the one that you lost, was a

short week playing on the road. It's never easy to do that. And you know, if you go off of the records from last season, it's the second strongest schedule to start the season in the NFL, and if you go off PFF's projected win totals right now, which you know, who knows what that actually is, but I mean, it holds up because you look at the schedule and it makes the most sense. But the Dolphins have the fourth easiest remaining schedule over the final thirteen games of the season.

But we're not looking back. All of this is to look at what lies ahead. Starting three and one gives you a chance to keep it rolling into that second quarter, but nothing further than the Jets this week obviously, and four and one. If the Dolphins get this dub would be the franchise's best start since two thousand three. Let's go get it, baby, come on, should be when we go get Let's go take care of business on the road. Number three, how about the last three draft classes here

in Miami, I mean judging and draft class. You know, Uh, it's always said to be done three years after it happens. And we are there with the twenty nineteen class. We're getting there with twenty and this third season. Now for all those guys, then, frankly, I don't think you need three years one Because Jalen Waddles fIF in the NFL and receiving has made big play after big play. He's changed the complexion of like three of these games so far,

three of the four games. Uh, the touchdown against the Patriots, you know, from ten nothing to seventeen nothing a halftime is obviously massive. The hundred and sixty yards yards versus Baltimore, that fifty seven yard reception where he just went how many yards was it? I don't know, the long, long one where he ran like a million miles across the field. Obviously, the game winning touchdown, how about that, I'll do two touchdowns in that game in the forty five yard to

play against the Buffalo Bills. Want to find jill and Waddle was remember all the conversation about the Dolphins what they should have done that year. I think getting an extra first round pick and getting in my none in my opinion, the best receiver, the best skill player in that draft class, I think that was the right move. Jalen Phillips got his first sack of the season, but that's that's you know, that stat doesn't do his work

justice so far. He's drawing lots of attention, drawing double teams, applying pressure, playing the run, and his possessional flexibility. He got his sack from a four technique Like this is a guy listen as a linebacker, but he's playing, you know, off the edge. He's condensing down to a more true defensive tackle position. Jalen or not Jailan Phillips, Christian Wilkins

and Zach s Heeeler play that position. Do you realize how how rare that is for a guy to be able to play that spot but also play off the edge like he does. It's not normal. And then Javon Holland, I don't think I have to talk much about him. We rave about his game in every single film pod our film review podcast because he just does so much and cover so much ground and make plays outside of his responsibility with them and given a defensive call. Then back to funny I mean to I mean looking like

the real deal this year. Austin Jackson looked good this camp and in his first game before the injury. Obviously, Big Rob Hunt looks like one of the best right guards in football in my opinion. Ray Kwon Davis is a very solid defensive tackle, nose tackle type. And then Brandon Jones. You know how many pairings are better than Brandon Jones and Javona Holland right now, there's not many, if any. Uh, the twenty nineteen you've got Christian Wilkins and Andrew Van Ginkle in a year where you know,

draft picks wasn't it was. That was kind of the depletion year. It was kind of moving assets into the future. So even with limited resources in the draft, he still come away with a you know, fantastic defensive tackle, a good edge presence. You'd have Michael Dieter for deaf on the offensive line, and then obviously Miles Gaston here as well from that draft class. So drafting has been pretty good, Man been pretty good. Number four takeaway defense, Defensive continuity

is paying gividends. The flexibility of this defense. I mean, we talked about it on the UH. I don't even know what day it was the last podcast that came out. How many guys can play so many spots that allows them to be game plan specific. But just the the ability to disguise average where you show one look and

you bell out the last second. You know, Javon Holland and Jerome Bakers speed allowing them to basically go from line of scrimmage threats to post safety or you know, twenty yard deep hook Tampa to drop for Jerome Baker. It just helps you have, you know, so many different game plans. You can roll out so many different ways to disguise quarterbacks. And you know, I have this this big thing, this big take about how essentially the best defenses in the league right now are the defenses that

have played the lesser offenses. That's why, like Miami's ranks are not gonna be good because no one's gonna stop Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and at various points as well. Joe Burrow and that Bengals offense. No one's gonna stop them, like for a whole game consistently. They might happen a couple of times, but those teams are gonna put up points, in stats and yards every single week. And and that's

how this deep, this you know league is built. That's why I was so into the game plan idea against the Bills of making them dink and dunk and do something that makes them uncomfortable and then you just kind of hope they make mistakes, and they did in that game. So that's why I like, you know, you're gonna see the defensive rankings are gonna jumble up all the time. When you get to a run of really good offenses, your defense takes a big step back in terms of

their ranking statistically. And so we've seen this Dolphins defense played pretty well through you know, the top two m v P candidates right now, probably in Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts probably in that conversation as well, but two of the top three m VP candidates, and then last year's you know, the guy that everyone fell in love with, Joe Burrow, played a game as well, and then Matt

mac Jones in the first game for the Patriots. So it's been you know, three really really good quarterbacks and another pretty solid quarterback, and the Dolphins are hanging in there defensively. And then you get a stretch against you know, a second year quarterback this week Kirk Cousins obviously has a bunch of experience. After that, then a rookie in week number seven Jared Goff and the lines who are

on fire right now. Then another second year quarterback in Justin Fields, then a second year quarterback in Davis Mills and Jacobe So you see what I'm saying, Like, I think the defense will will really kind of take off in the stretch, and that continuity plays a big part of that. It helps you have a damn good defensive coordinator like Josh Boyer. It helps when your front is deep and flexible, like we talked about in the previous segment there with Holland and and um jeez, Holland and

Baker and what they can help you do. I guess that was the same segment. And I think, you know, again Javon Holland and Brandon Jones coming into their own together such instinctive players who seem to know what they're processing instantly. That's kind of your book end of this takeaways that those two guys, their maturation is allowing you to be so creative and flexible on that back end. And eventually it's gonna start confusing quarterbacks and it's gonna

lead to a bunch of takeaways any given week. Now, I think it's coming. My guess is this week, but I think it's coming very soon, a pile of takeaways in a football game, takeaway or a big picture thing. I think number five is they're still room to grow, you know, kind of borrowing coach McDaniel's steam here about how if you're on the journey you want to be on, then each game you play will be the worst one,

the next worst one in line. You should get better each week and with you know, the nice start, still plenty of things you can work on to get better than the three and one football team you are right now. You know, coaches address that about getting the running game going a little bit more one or two blocks away on some plays from some big, big plays out the gate.

Special teams has had you know, a rough couple of weeks, I expect them to get back on track offensively, you know, maybe a fewer drops or penalties or things that kind of bog things down offensively, because they've been pretty good for the most part offensively with their their E p A and there. Maybe it's just getting more cracks at the apple because their efficiency numbers are fantastic right now.

But just fully buying in on coaches thought that there are are about the improvement and think it's heading in that right direction. Was still room to grow despite a very good three in one star and again Sunday a chance to make it four and one for the first time since two thousand three. I was a sophomore in high school. Let's go, man, come on. Speaking of that, we'll talk some Mariners here a little bit. Last time I watched them play a playoff game, I was in

the sixth grade. So sixth grade. I don't know, man, I forgot, I don't know. I'm like thirty five. We'll do some of that stuff next. That's all part of the podcast coming your way. A second list coming your way here next my top five Dolphins Jets memories. That's next Drivetime podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a day of lists here on the Drive Time Podcast, and I want to cover my

five personal favorite Dolphins and Jets memories. But first I want to play this sound from the story that Coach McDaniel said it his Monday press conference telling us about his former co worker and new division rival head coach Robert Sala of the New York Jets, and I just thought it was really good. He was asked if he could share a memory of story or something in general about coach Sala and their time together. Here's Coach McDaniel. Well, he was a squatter um when he first got the

job in Houston, which was hilarious. Um So, I came with Gary kubiak Um and Troy Calhoun really from the Broncos, and we uh in Houston. What was in Reliance Stadium. We had like a office that uh you know, there's one guy in there when I got there. It was Robert Sala and he hadn't been terminated. He was, um, I think working with Dom Caper's um before. He hadn't been terminated. I think he had like two more weeks

of pay or something. Um. So he did an excellent job of just forcing his hand and getting face time with the head coach. Sat in there all week. I think I got there like on a Tuesday, and he just sat in across from me in this awkward room like, hey, dude, you got a job. No, I'm not really trying to see Gary Kubiak. And he just waited there until I think like Friday barged in and told him, Hey, you know,

I'd really want to work for you. Um. And you know, there's a lot of those those stop gaps at the beginning of Robert Seal's career. Um, always a sponge, always unbelievably smart. He would he would always blow my mind because our like we'd have a problem with our printer and we're trying to print video or excel or something, and he wouldn't call it t he would just like open up this manual and figure out how to how

to figure this stuff out. Um. So he's always always super smart, but had some hiccups in his career, which I really really respect because he just he just really stayed true to himself, kept pressing. Finally, UM was a little more fortunate when he was with Seattle and as an assistant there. Um and then UM, you know, but he's he's never been given anything, just like he wasn't given the job UM with Gary Kubiak in two thousand

and six. UM, I think when he went to San Francisco in two thousand and seventeen, it was under um the it was under the impression he would be the linebackers coach and he asked to interview for the defensive coordinator spot. Long story short, he hasn't been given anything, and every time he's been given anop, he's taking advantage of it. So UM, very very close with him as

a human being. UM, really respect him as a as a man, UM, But from a professional standpoint, he's lived the whole mantra of of you you don't define me, I define me. And he's pushed through and really, UM, you know, one of the better defensive coaches and head coaches have ever been around it. Sure seems like most successful people have a story similar to that, like resilience and that never quit attitude. Uh, that's kind of how

I wind up in this position. And you know, talking to my former boss Jason Jenkins, that the great Jason Jenkins, you know, just knocking on his story every day. So an emails getting ahold of him saying, hey, I'm here. I'm still here, so I gotta be that way if you want to find success, I think, and that's that's cool to hear that story from coach McDaniel and obviously

rising to the top of the coaching ranks. Is you know, that's one of the most impressive jobs to hold out there because it's thirty two of those guys and thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands of people doing this hoping to get to that position at some stage of their career. Let's go ahead and get to Jets Week and my five favorite memories. And I emphasized my favorite memories because I realized that AJDA is probably number one for a massive, massive chunk of the fan base. We'll

see about the listeners on this podcast. I don't know the demographic in terms of, you know, those two generations. I think it's probably good, a good split. But I wasn't alive back then, so I'm going to you I'm not going to use that fake out because I wasn't there for it. So we start here with number five, Saturday Night Primetime Football in the Meadowlands. Matt Moore goes nanners or gets hit puts it out top racing stars, Who's got it? Stills touchdowns Dolphins fifty two yards. It's

more hangs in against the plits. Remember that game going into it, how tough it was dealing with the fact that Ryan Tannehill was finally hitting a certain level of play in his career, and then the a c L had just happened six days prior to that, as the Dolphins were rolling with wins in seven of eight games to put themselves in position for a December run to

the postseason. The Dolphins. He did two out of three against a four win Jets team and a six win Bills team, both on the road, and if you don't remember this one, it didn't start well though it did end.

It was really on ice by the end of the third quarter, after the Jets were up seven nothing and driving behind Bryce Petty, and being a Saturday night in the holiday season, my buddy was having an ugly sweater party after the fact, so my wife and I drove about forty five minutes to my brother's house, who was neighbors with said buddy, to watch the game. Both Dolphins fans, both wives converted into Dolphins fans, and my brother is that ultra pessimistic fan who when the opposition of scores

on the opening drive the game is over. I hope you're listening, Ryan, but as they're driving, you can't help but wonder if Matt Moore's got the juice to get going to overcome a to score deficit. But that's when Cameron Wake gets the only pick of his NFL career, and from there it was on. We get a touchdown to Dan Simms, missed the extra point to make at seven six. Then Kenny Steeles gets deep on a bus

for a fifty two yard touchdown. The Jets kick a late field goal and it's a three point game going to the break. On the Jets first possession of the second half, fan favorite Walt Akin scoops a blocked punt and takes it back for six. Then Dion Sims scores again with six and a half to play in the third, and then Jarvis Landry has that sixty six yard catching run where even that four or five speed ran away from the Jets secondary that day, four six speed maybe,

I don't know. It was a pretty funny looking catch and run, but it worked, and we do the play before the play segment on the Sunday recap shows this was the game before the game, the one before that Buffalo victory at the Buzzer in overtime, the j g I E run What a game and what a fun year? Will come back to that j j I run here

in just a second. The number four play on my top five personal favorite Jet memories, Ted Gain gets loose twice side step in the top of its still going look out at least one block, one block, and he's gone checks this time hundred yards. On a day where the offense could do nothing, we called upon star return man Ted Gain to make something happen, and boy did he.

Book Ending a Jason Taylor defensive touchdown, Ted Gain piles up two hundred and one yards one hundred and one on one on back to back kickoff returns for touchdowns and fourteen points in a wild third quarter where the Jets score sixteen but Miami's twenty one puts him on top, and then Joey Haynos puts the game away later with a five yard touchdown pass from Chad Henny as the Dolphins get to three and four in an up and

down season and swept the Jets. The Jeets the Jets, but that was something I'm not sure you'll ever see again. To kickoff returns for a touchdown in the same game, I feel even more confident saying you won't see a team score three non offensive touchdowns in a single quarter for a long, long time, probably ever again. That was the second Jets game that year. Number three on our list.

Here is the first Jets game of the season. Gain gets loose again, this time as a wide receiver loft year of the fourth quarter Dolphins Trail Live three where I actual play getting back control and I detected why Keith field work in dopen here's that big way you've been playing before? Oh right, my emmy, how about fact was? Wow? Cat did he put that right on the money to Teddin who ran by everybody in the stadium. So I did not know I had Jim Mandish on that call.

So that's freaking awesome to hear. Two thousand nine, Monday Night Football, Orange Jerseys, just three weeks after our number four moments the Dolphins at one in three, or before our number four moment at one and three after a tough start, needing a win to get back in the mix in the worst way, and this wasn't as much about Ted Gin as it was the entire team, although he became a mini Jet killer there for a couple of years to kickoff returns a deep shot over arguably

the best cornerback we've ever seen in Durrell Reevus. And I know all of you know how this goes, but we wanted Chad Henny to be the answer so bad, right. That's how it is. We have a young quarterback and we were dying for him to take that next step, and on this night it really really felt like he had. Hen He spun one yard, two touchdown game with no

turnovers and a one thirty point four rating. Ronnie Brown scores on the opening drive and third and goal from the two with ten seconds to go in the game to cap off a third team play seventy yard game winning drive that left the Jets with just three seconds to score touchdown they could not. Dolphins win head into the bye week at two and three, and of course, would sweep the Jets just two games later. We're going further back for my second favorite Dolphins and Jets memory.

Bye Bye Ricky, Bye Bye Streaky look to the forty Ticks. Another at tackle Ferry goes bye bye, bye bye Withey bye bye Street. Up to five s left and the byas Dolphins have just I believe have put away to New York Jets put a fifty three yard run by Wicky Williams touchdown. We got music with that one too. The Dolphins enter Sunday with a four game one streak over the Jets, winners of eight of the last nine

in this particular rivalry. But back in the late nineties and into the early two thousand's, the Jets had our number, including that Monday night miracle game at the Metal Lands, with eight straight wins in the series from to oh one.

Then we unveil a new weapon and superstar running back Ricky Williams, who ran for over one hundred yards in his first three games, including a one hundred and fifty one yard hundred seventy four yard from scrimmage Day, and a fifty three yard touchdown run with five minutes to go to make it twenty three to three, And as you heard the play or the radio voice there in his opinion, puts away the Jets, and of course that legend area Bye bye Ricky Bye bye streak radio call

that O two season man, I still to this day feels so shortened by the outcome of that year. So much talent, Brock Maryon, Sam Madison, Pats Sir Tan with Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas, and obviously Ricky Williams in the backfield, Chris Chambers, Randy McMichael. That was a good team, but the broken thumb after a big win in Denver to get to five and one and you lose the

next three, including one to the stinking Jets. But that day, that streat breastbuster, the pronounced arrival of Ricky Williams and the famous photo of him stiff arming Del Roberts, a photo that I had commissioned in my favorite piece of r I've ever owned, him putting the stiff farm on Roberts on that day. Number one should be no surprise to anybody. The Dolphins win the division in an improbable season,

featuring the biggest turnaround in NFL history. Or quickly back to the line of scrimmage, and that's the second interception of the game. Put the upack pret so for the New York Jets. Week seventeen, two thousand eight, Dolphins take the discarded Jets quarterback from that August into the meadow Lands and win the game the division on the final day of the season, just three days after Christmas, and

I remember this one like it was yesterday. I remember celebrating Christmas with my mom and brother and just thinking day I'm looking forward to. I'm counting down to the Jets game. I had to look some things up for the other games, not this one. It's ingrained in my memory. They strike first to Lavernias Cole seven nothing. We get back with that guy again, that many Jet killer, Ted Gain on a catch where he squeezes the nose of

the football. I know you guys when I'm talking about he barely hung onto it for a twenty something you are touchdown from Chad Pennington. Then right after that, Philip Merling stabs a Brett Farve pass and rumbles back for the touchdown. The Jets kick a field goal fourteen nine at half. They score on their opening drive and get the two pain seventeen to fourteen. But not so fast. It's a beautiful pass to the flag to Anthony Fasano

to bring Miami back to a seventeen lead. Then Dan Carpenter puts a long field goal through the put Tony Sperrano's fist bumped through the skies there in Jersey, right before Andre Goodman picks off Brett Farve on their penultimate drive and the division title celebration is on after Lousaka Polite gets stopped on third and one on that second to last drive for the first time all season, and then Pennington sneaks it for a first down, and by the time we end up putting the ball back to

the Jets, they have seventeen seconds and ninety nine yards to go. They could not what a day that was, especially again in hindsight with the pickoff there of Brett Farve and Chad Pennington taking being cut by the Jets into the meadowlands and winning that game against the guy that we now know to be pretty freaking terrible. So how cool is that, even in hindsight, that win gets better. Those are my five moments. Number five, excuse me, was Primetime went over the Jets. Number four Ted gains to

kickoff return touchdowns. Number three the Dolphins beat the Jets on Monday Night Football in two thousand nine. Number two Bye Bye Ricky, Bye bye streak. And number one Dolphins beat the Jets in week seventeen to capture the greatest turnaround from one win to eleven wins in NFL history. Let's take our last break here on the Drivetime Podcast

and come back and make our Week five picks. That's next, your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation Drivetime Podcast, rolling along here, we are making a bit of a schedule change going forward. I'm gonna try to make the picks. I just wanted to spread the love on the show here. The Friday show goes a little bit too long for me. Let's go ahead and put one of the segments, probably the shortest one, so it's kind of, I don't know, moot point at this point.

Let's move that to the Wednesday show. It's the Week five picks. We are eleven and five last week. Pretty solid week, although after doing the math, twelve and four is where you want to be to hit the goal that I said this year, So we still got to get some work done to get back to that point. Thirty four and twenty one. That doesn't seem right. Forty and twenty one, hang on, you know how I always say I suck at math. I put thirty four The members supposed to be forty two. I don't know how

to add one and one one. Uh no, yeah for one and one? All right? Should I cut this now? I'll keep it in. I'm taking the Broncos over the Colts on Thursday night. I'm just taking the home team there. Both those teams have struggled offensively. I think eventually the Broncos will get going with the Colts. I think on Thursday this week that Broncos getta done at home. Give me the Packers in London over the Giants. Think that both those teams are three and one. I think one

is absolutely for real. We'll see about the other. Dolphins over the Jets. I'm taking the Dolphins to win that one on the road. Give me the Bills over the Steelers. Give me the Chargers over the Browns. Going out East, I'll take the Vikings over the Bears. I'll take the Lions. I think the lines are gonna get it right here sooner or later. Over if it's Brian Hoyer or Bailey Zappy in New England, give me the Lions either way.

I'll take the Saints over the Seahawks at home to get their second win of the season after a tough loss in London. Give me the Titans to keep it going their third straight win over Washington, Jacksonville over Houston. I wanted to pick Atlanta over Tampa, but I don't think that will happen. Give me the Bucks over the Falcons, the Niners over the Panthers on a short equal going out east could be tough, but Niners, I think kind of showed you what they're capable of in that game.

On Monday, I'll give them their third win of the season. Rams over the Cowboys. I shouldn't do this, but I'm gonna put it out there. Cardinals over the Eagles. I don't know why, I'm just gonna I'm gonna put it out there, Baltimore over the Bengals, and the Chiefs over the Raiders on Monday Night football. So you know, I haven't talked to you guys since this happened, and I wanted to close the podcast here. It's kind of a book end to my entire theme today about my Seattle Mariners.

What a season it was, man, And I know a few you turn the show off right now, but just stay with me here because I'm getting to a point and I think you can all appreciate this coming into the season, expectations for the Mariners were super super high.

They had this young team they've been drafting and building, and they finally replenished a farm system that had been barren for like a decade and a half, and it's why they were so bad and sixties seventy win seasons for literally twenty years in a row, like they were in the hunt maybe two or three of those twenty one years that they hadn't made the playoff, and they had replenished the farm so much and had this upstart rookie Julio Rodriguez who people didn't know if he's gonna

make the roster on opening day. I did, because he's obviously a phenomenal player, but like there was some speculation he might start the year in the minors. He didn't. He made the team. He's Rookie of the Year. He probably should be a top ten m VP candidate. So that was kind of the focal point of this young nucleus they had put together, and pundits were starting to say, maybe they'll win the AL west over Houston, which was way too optimistic. I mean, they finished seventeen games clear

of us, or they will at the time. You know, the season ends on today, but still the expectation for many was the twenty one year playoff drought was gonna come to an end. And they had a winning April, and then May happened and they lost eighteen twenty three games, going ten games under five hundred before something you know, before same old Mariners was pulled back out of our potential vocabulary because it was wrong. They ran a lot fourteen straight wins and climbed into one of the wild

card spots and never relinquished it. They held at the entire second half of the season. September got rough there for a little bit and one of the crazy statue'll ever getting baseballs. They were the only wild card contender. I think it was teams within five games of the wild card who had a winning record against teams over five hundred, but also the only team with a losing record against teams who were sub five hundred. And those last couple of weeks, that's all it was. They played

teams that were twenty games out. The Royals, the Tigers, the A's, the Angels, the Rangers. September call ups in full force, like the seasons over for those teams they're getting ready for the the off season as far as baseball goes. But the Manners stumbled and the Orioles did too, which suddenly cut the Manners magic number down to one, and they had a chance on Friday night to win the game and put punch their ticket to the postseason for the first time in twenty one years. Their postseason

drought was legally able to drink. And so I was fast asleep early on Saturday morning, because remember we were team two hours of sleep heading into that busy Friday, which was a long day. So the nine forty pm Eastern start time was just not going to produce a conclusion that I could remain awake four And what a moment. I woke up to my buddy Noah. You've certainly heard his name here on the podcast The Spaces on Twitter. He bombards my phone with all these different radio calls,

TV calls. Someone even made an edit using the Moneyball score. You know I'm talking about you know, even just typing this gives me goosebumps thinking about it. But you die hard Moneyball fans, And I'm talking about when Brad Pitt is back in the clubhouse getting his workout on or whatever he did during games or still does. Billy Bean. Obviously, when Scott hadd Aberg hits the walk off home run to clinch the longest winning streak in American League history,

they used that score. When called cal Rawley makes contact with the baseball, you hear the crack off the bat. The whole thing goes silent. Then the triumphant music starts when the ball ricochets off the hit. It here cafe high above the right field seats, and man, where are all these goosebumps coming from? Today? That gets me fired

up talking about it's such a cool moment. You know, you literally cannot play Dave Neehouse's call of the n American League Division Series walk off Edgar Martinez double without getting the hair on my arm. Just stand up. This one has the same effect because Dave Simms and Mike Blowers have been calling so many September games for this ball club the last fifteen twenty years that didn't matter, and they got their chance to call one that really mattered. And I wanted to play it for you guys here

because it got me excited. It got me thinking about the nostalgia of all those Jets moments and It got me thinking about the potential of a future moment like this with the Miami Dolphins. Here's Dave Sims and Mike Blowers from Roots Sports. When the Mayor's clinched their playoff berth one week ago, a lot of anxious folks out here at the ball park three two to cow. But picture my Silvatore slider ended up the window there of course right of the year, that's right, the party is

going on. Congratulations to the Mariners. A long seed to gets paid up with a trip to the postseason is beautiful Mariners prints. The car pitch hit home run by Cattle Rawley, and it's been so bick for this club in the second half. Two els and a home run to send them to the postseason three to pins. It didn't get amen, brother, That little laugh there at the end is so out of character from Mike Blowers just

tells you about how much that meant to him. A guy that played for the marriage for a long time, and like I mentioned, it's been calling games for even longer and he finally gets to have a moment like that. I was just thinking about it and bringing it back to the Dolphins. I was wondering what moments previously have done that for you, you know, kind of plays with the Jets memories here. Andre Goodman picking off that Brett Farve pass, you know, is one of my top ones.

I think weirdly, the Miami Miracle does that even though it's not attached to any type of advancement or playoff win or anything like that. Like j GIU run to get into field goal range and that Week six team Buffalo game I mentioned earlier that radio call does it. I want to hear from you which moments like that in Dolphins history give you instant goose bumps anytime you hear it a certain call or coverage from that game. And that's a good place to call it a podcast.

No preview, I should say the preview show is coming your way tomorrow. I'm stoked for this week's opponent perspective. He used to cover the Dolphins, now he's on the wrong side of the rivalry. Antoine Staley will be my guest on the Friday show. So busy week coming your way here on the Drivetime podcast. In the meantime, it's gonna be my time you all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcast Leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on Twitter

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