Week 1 Recap - 5 Takeaways from Dolphins 20-7 Win Over Patriots

ours is back. That's right. When win win, win, win, win, win, win up saying that Mommy, when win win win, when we win, we play win And that's what happened. A Dolphins opening day victory twenty seven over division rival in New England to kick off this season. We'll give you the takeaways. On this episode. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel on his first career victory here at hard

Rock Stadium with the Miami Dolphins. And we'll play the opening segment from the podcast, the postgame show rather with me Seth and O J. Plenty to get to here on this week one recapetition from the Baptist Health Studios

inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Times So a Dolphins opening day victory and we'll start here as we do every single Sunday night slash Monday morning, depending on what you're listening to us, with some stats, and then we'll also hear from coach on being asked how he felt about starting off his career in the

wind call Umn. First, the numbers from this game largely even despite the fact that I thought the game kind of tilted towards Miami, really after that Brandon Jones strip sack Melvin Ingram touchdown here with a Dolphins debut from Melvin Ingram back in his home home state of Florida, with the Dolphins kind of had the advantage tilted their way, but the numbers didn't really dictated that way. Eighteen first

downs to seventeen. The Dolphins win that battle six of fourteen on third downs, where in Miami the Patriots were four of nine. Dolphins had a very very crucial fourth down conversion. The Patriots o for one on their lone attempt. Miami out gained New England three oh seven to to seventy one. That was to forty two to one through the air, and then on the ground, New England had seventy eight, Miami had sixty five. We talked about the play count. Miami ran five more plays than the New Patriots,

fifty nine to fifty four. And then you had the three turnovers for the Patriots none for the Dolphins. Miami took three sacks, had two of their own penalties. Miami had four for twenty New England three for fifteen, and the Dolphins had the better t op time of possession

thirty two thirty to twenty seven twenty. Let's go ahead and here from coach Mike McDaniel, who got a gatorade bath from who else besides Christian Wilkins and the boys after the game, despite the fact he didn't want it, but here he was talking about why he didn't want it. It's about the team, not one individual. It was a

very very cool moment um against um my wishes. They just they just showered me in gatorade, made it about me, which I know for a fact it's not UM, but they they you know, the teams celebrating together and just being happy, UM for the direction that we're going in. UM, that's why you get into team sports. UM. I can also tell uh it was It was a good, good excitement and celebration because it wasn't like a satisfied celebration.

They were happy that we got it done. UM. I think a lot of guys, UM, I feel like we, the Miami Dolphints fan base and the organization deserved to win. UM. But there was a lot of frustration, UM, including me on things that you know in the game that we we really left out there. So UM, that was that

was pretty cool. UM when the clock hit zero. UM, you know, I only have a couple of reps, So I was most concerned with UM finding coach Belichick and not UM, you know, expeditions They're going over there to to UM shake his hand, and then UM trying to figure out really what I want to say to the guys. UM. It it's more of okay, what's the next step in the in the job than anything else. It's uh, you know, maybe UM with with friends and family. I'll take you know,

fifteen minutes to appreciate it. But UM, that's not why I'm here is the basque or UM cheer. I'm here to help lead a team of people. UM. And we got you know, game two next week on the road against UM, A play against the team that's very hard to play. UM at so that'll that will be our concern. UM. Other than that, UM, it's I'm very happy for the

team overall because they've put in the work. Um. It wasn't Um, it's really since April, even before that, the whole organization has really worked in one direction and and you'd like to see they get rewarded. So how about our five takeaways from this Dolphins to seven victory here on opening Day over the Patriots. My number one takeaway is the guy that I gave a game ball two on the post game show. It's Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer.

I mean, you talk about devising splash plays by putting guys in situations to get free runs on the quarterback or to hover back in center field and make a play on a pass. On a third long situation, we saw Javon Holland nearly had a chance for his second interception of the day, but Duke Riley played too good on that play for Javon to get his second pick. Because he runs the number three in the formation, your closest receiver into the formation to either particular side of

the field. He runs him down the seam thirty yards and the ball hits Duke in the back because he is in that good position on the coverage and Javon comes over and you can kind of see he was frustrated after the fact because he thought he had a chance to cross, you know, undercut that route and make a play for his second pick of the season, second pick here on opening day. But that's just what Josh

Bowyer had done all day long. I mean, two seventy one yards, you allow seven points, you get three takeaways, two sacks, less than on third down, and when you include fourth down four for ten for the Patriots. He just drew it up in ways that I thought confused the Patriots protection alignment, confused their quarterback, you know, outdueled

the play calling on the other side. I thought Josh Bowyer was fantastic in this game, and there was two plays that I thought really indicated just his ability to show things and mix it up and disguise. And just week one already picking up where he left off with a great performance last year calling that defense for the

Miami Dolphins. Josh Bowyer and the way this defense plays, the style that they play, with the talent they have, man, it's a it's really really a nice marriage and the two plays I'm talking about the brandon Own strip sack, you had a stunt from Melvin Ingram where he looped around the rush of Zack Seiler. And those are two very,

very powerful and pactful guys. And that's why I was so pumped up about the Melvin Ingram acquisition this offseason because of the way he can play in those and occupy blockers, but also the lateral agility to hey, maybe he's gonna pick this play, Maybe the next play is gonna work around the loop and stunt and get after the quarterback. And on this particular play, he looped around Zack Seeler, who is just one of the best to me, one of the best defensive tackles in the league, and

I think underrated doesn't begin to describe his game. But he loops around Zack Seeler, who commands attention from the Patriots rightfully so. And then you see the left tackle of the Patriots eyes and feet kind of get sucked inside. He squeezes because when you slant inside the offensive line, you want to squeeze that thing because again A and B gap pressure, you've got to take care of the interior first. And what that does is frees up a

C gap runner. I should say, a week side off the edge run from Brandon Jone to pair with good coverage across the rest of the field. And I'll be able to give you more breakdowns on that on the All twenty two podcast. But you create that free run and Brandon Jones, this is what he does. He led all safeties last year in QB sacks him and Javon Halla number one, number two and QB pressures among all safeties. And he does it again, and he shows up in

a big time spot. He gets the football out again, by the way, which is something he did last year against the Jets and Joe Flacco in that game at the meadow Lands. And then later in the game there's a third and long and Boyer shows the same pressure and they back out and they play eight man coverage and a three man pass rush. And I thought there was multiple elements to this that were just so so evident of how well coached this Dolphins defense and this

Dolphins football team is. Is that you had a situation where the Patriots were in six man pass pro against a three man rush, which means windows is gonna be tight downfield. You're not gonna have a lot of chances to throw the ball into a look like that. But at the same time, your pass rush has a difficult time to get after the quarterback because they have two

guys for everyone. You can send us a rusher. But what I like about this Dolphins defense is they don't run by the quarterback, fly by and wind up in the worst spot on the football field behind the quarterback. And Emmanuel Ogba, who was terrific today by the way, got a sack, was involved in the running game. Uh, you know, always involved in terms of impacting the passing

lanes for the quarterback. He comes off of his blocker, you know it, redirects his rush move and comes back over the top and cuts down mac Jones, almost said Zack Wilson mac Jones, who tries to scramble and pick up yards after he realizes there's nothing for me here in coverage because they have eight against our let's see six plus one are four in the route, And so og back keeps his eyes in the quarterback and peels back and makes that play before he can get by

that first line of defenders, which even you know, it doesn't matter how fast the quarterback is a lot of times if they get past that first line, you could become in some trouble. So the call there to show something that they were expecting. A pressure look, get the ball out hot. You drop coverage forces the quarterback to hold the ball than the discipline of your d line to have good eyes and stay in shape that or to stay in position to be in good shape to

make a play on the quarterbacks. I thought Josh Boyer that, I mean, the results speak for themselves in terms of what he was able to bring with this defensive performance today, but just the way he was mixing coverages and mixing rushes and disguising man, it was all so very good. The way they clamped down in the red zone. I mean, you had one drive that was extended by penalty and then we lose a man in coverage to the flat for the touchdown. But what a game he called man pressure, pressure,

pressure all around. And let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel on something that I thought was really cool to hear him talk about with addressing the team and saying, you know, this is the defenses team until proven, otherwise you're gonna hear coach with down talked about that right here because this defense once again they played lights out. Yeah no, this is UM. I told the team UM

last night. UM. You know, I thought it was important that you guys were introduced to uh the offensive players in the offense. UM, but this is still the defensive team until proven otherwise. And that and they they valued that that was important to them when they heard that, UH, and they wanted to prove me right, and they sure did. You know, there's there's a you know, defense is funny where you can you you have so many guys that are competitive and have high standards and then you're giving

up some yards and you're you're driving down the field. Well, UM, it's a classic example of UH, the other team has to score, so don't panic and then UM, wait for your opportunity and seize it. So it was a that was a huge momentum turner UM the pick with a with x P bu um and then Javan coming in and making a play on that that you know, who knows what the game looks like without that one, So that those are a ton of examples that will be

able to learn from. UM. But I thought it was good that the you know, the defense deserved UM to get some uh that they put in the work they've they've you know, it is the stage now where they've being able to play together for a while. UM, and so they they that means a lot to them. They they want to UM. You know, they have a standard that they want to employ that everybody knows when a Miami Dolphins game occurs that, UM, you're gonna have to

deal with this defense. And you know we got UM we're plus three in the turnover margin, which UM that that's probably the biggest indicator that you'll ever have. UM. I think that's factual, actually, uh, you know or something. UM. Anyway, you guys can check that and and uh uh but that that was the real story of the game, was being able to protect the ball and UM in the game. Plus three, let's go ahead and take our first break right here. We'll come I can get to the other

four takeaways. You've heard one so far. Josh Boyer absolutely in his bag. We'll do that next here on the Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Takeaway number two, as the Dolphins are victorious on opening day over their rival New England, Patriots. The first takeaway Josh Boyer absolutely dialing up a great game plan here against the Patriots offense. Takeaway number two comes from this play the coach is gonna talk about

right now. The decision to go for it on fourth and eight and score not just a first down, but score a touchdown from forty two yards, the longest touchdown of Jalen Waddle's career. Let's go ahead, and here from Mike McDaniel on the decision to go for it on fourth and eight in plus territory. UM, it was a

cool moment for really our whole UM team. But you know, the mechanics of uh, the mechanics of working with the game management guys UM and talking through the different scenarios, we were just at the fringe of UM, you know Jason's UM range and yeah you can, you can push the envelope, but you know, the flip side is your first uh you miss it and your first down away from giving up points. So then it then it became, UM, all right, it does kind of make sense to to

go ahead and go for it. Have a couple of thoughts in mind, UM, and then uh there you know, in communication with the offensive staff, UM, there there was I think it was John Embury. UM, you know, kind of tip the scales because I had a couple up. UM. But then then from that point on it's all players, you know, so we we decided to do it. UM. Had had a couple of thoughts in mind. You know, you try to prepare yourself, so it's not the first time you've thought about that scenario, UM, and that that

does come up an end a half. So I had a couple of bots, and but then once the place started, I think UM Cedric motioned down and uh. They we had anticipated a certain type of leverage in the man and man coverage, UM, and we got it, and we got the protection and then two ripped a strike. Part of the reason that UM, you know you you hear so much praise from Tyrek and Waddle about two U is because UM he throws that catchable ball that UM

you can get yards after catch and then he waddle. Uh. You know that's something that we've emphasized a ton UM. And you want to talk about deliberate practice, UM coming to life in the biggest moment, UM is you know, catching that in break and then having a mindset UM not being not being surprised that he's catching it now he was. He only scores because he immediately transitioned um

to take it to the house. So it was it was glad to have I was glad to have him back and told you guys, I was very confident he

back Um. But that was a cool moment for all of us and um, you know, just I wish we could have continued that momentum in the second half, but beggars can't be true choosers, and from my perspective, it just speaks to what McDaniel has done in terms of we always hear the phrase a team takes on the personality of their coach, and what is coach if not incredibly smart and intelligent, very optimistic and supportive in those ways in his intelligence and in his optimism. And I

think you see that reflecting the football team. Like I was, you know, always getting nervous for games, which is so funny because I'm not. I haven't buckled Chinz traps since the eighth grade, and I get nervous still for some reason. I think it's just because I want to see this team win so bad. But there was a video we put out on our social that the team's account at Miami Dolphins of Jalen and Javon like dancing in the in the tunnel before the game, and that kind of

helped ease the nerves for me a little bit. And it just kind of shows you that these guys and coach McDaniel saying after the fact that he had never felt more calm or you know, kind of in control of his environment as far as being on a sideline, and you kind of feel that reverberate throughout the rest

of the team. And then the confidence they play with because of the aggressiveness, not just to say, hey, this is a situation where it's good for us to go for it, maybe because of this, this and this, and I'll talk about that here in one second, but the expectation to go execute. I mean, they're gonna go out on their own terms and they're gonna be aggressive with it, which seems to be kind of the model of some of the more successful teams and offenses in the last

couple of years. And that's kind of what coach McDaniel has the thought for here. It looks like is because they line up to go for it, and you know, Seth and I up in the press box. My whole thing was like, I'm thinking about Jason Sanders range at this point, like can he hit a sixty yard field goal right here? Can you take that kick with the potential that he might miss? And then you get the spot of the ball where the hold happened. So and all of a sudden, the Patriots have the ball midfield,

but there's twenty four seconds. We'll probably lose five or six seconds with the field goal. They don't have any time outs, so they're gonna have to get a ball over the sideline or over the middle. Like I'm thinking about all these situations where the outcomes of a decision to kick the ball. Never thought they would come back from the break and line up and go for it, and they did, and they hit it, and I thought it was to his best throw of the day. A

trio of Patriots defenders. Kyle Dugger. You heard his name in the podcast, and he made an impact in this game as well today. But you heard him. We talked about him because you have two I D twenty three. Here he comes flying downhill and if you miss a tackle on Jalen Waddle or Tyreek Hill for that instance, this is what can happen, you catch it, you get out the gate forty two yards, it's a touchdown. It's

a game changing play. I mean to go from ten up to seven, teen up at halftime getting the football back. What a demoralizing play that must have been for the Patriots to see that happen and take that into the locker room and by the same token, an absolute lifting thing to this Dolphins team. So I thought the decision to go for it there the execution of the team to affirm coaches belief in them I just thought that was so indicative of what this football team can be

when they believe in themselves. The personality of the head coach being so supportive and encouraging and optimistic to rub off on his club. That's the coaches that understand the culture and play into the culture and play to the locker room. And you know, I talked to some buddies about l s U the other day and at Orgeron and Brian Kelly and like the culture fits and stuff like, I just seems like this roster really gels well with

coach McDaniel and what he brings the table. So I thought that was a big part and take away number two. Take Away number three. We're going back to the defense, and not just the coaching staff this time, but the players, because the defensive backfield in general, that's what they do. Man. First of all, I saw a few targets don Xavi and Howard. I don't recall any catches. I'll be able to give you the actual stats from Pro Football Focus tomorrow on that and the film as well. But the

first time they tried him, what happened. He pins the receiver to the sideline, gives the quarterback no window to throw to. Ball comes up, and it's at that point you talk about balls for receivers. This thing might be more you know, sixt X, because all he does is gets his hand on it and flings it up into

the air. And there is his buddy, Javon Holland, you know he went to the Pro Bowl with him last year, is on a as a visitor with with X right there to pick it off and take it back thirty three yards for a big, big run after the catch, and then X didn't really see much action after that. He was it's what he does. He locks guys down. You don't hear from until he makes a big play

and then you don't go back to him again. And speaking of javan, the patriots most success came early in this game on the ground, in the running game, and I thought there was a few situations where some holes opened up, and Javon's ability to not just make the play, but to come from depth and make hits on guys.

You know, eight twelve yards, which isn't a good play for the defense on balance, but when you take a potential twenty yard game, maybe all the way to sixty yards, and you can nip that in the bud at eight yards or twelve yards. I'm not saying those players we're gonna get out the gate, but Javon was making sure they weren't with his play in this game. Him and X were fantastic to get the pick. Javon almost had a second pick, but as you'll hear, no we're not.

We're gonna do a different segment. But on the postgame show, we gave the Player of the Game award to Brandon Jones because eleven total tackles, sack, fumble forced, and a pass breakup and some more good coverage as well, and some plays against the running game, Like I'm most impressed by his ability and willingness to go stick his face into the fan and be part of the running game.

And you talk about, you know, Eric Rowe was not active for this game, so all of a sudden, he's covering tight ends, he's fitting the run, he's rushing the quarterback like he had more roles to fulfill because one of your top defenders wasn't available for you. And he took it to another level. Man, he's him and Javon Holland. The numbers don't lie. They're two of the best blitzing safeties in the National Football League. He got it done.

Javon Holland got it done. Xavian Howard got done. Keion Crossing was solid also down to ball late there towards the end of the game. And uh, let's see, I'm gonna talk about this here more. Well, let's talk about now, Uh you know, Josh Boyer being the first takeaway and his history of finding gems undrafted late round draft picks.

I mean, there was several snaps today where you saw Elijah Campbell and Kator co who out there, And you talk about McDaniel earlier this week saying we didn't sign the veteran defensive back, like you guys keep asking me about because we have confidence in these young guys. Well, they proved you're right in this first game they have you can gotta keep going. But kator Cohu man that force FuMB but what a stick that was the PBu on the on the third down kind of hell marry

attempt on third and long. This dude was all over the place. He was on special teams making place. He was big time in camp, big time in the preseason, and he showed up big in this game as well. Mentioned Keian Crossing. Elijah Campbell got the call for some of those dime or half dollar packages on third and very long, defensive backfield man as advertised, and that's bleeds right into our fourth takeaway, the next man up situations.

You talk about Byron Jones not being available, having lost Trull Williams back in training camp, and you just find a way to plug these guys in and get production, not just production, but big, big plays from kator Cohu Elijah Campbell out there as well. I mentioned Keian Crossing like, and that's on top of x Javan Brandon Jones like, play after play after play being made by all these guys and the depth of this football team showing up. But the whole point of the segment was how about

the offensive line shuffle that had to happen today. Liam Eichenberg played left tackle for a couple of snaps, Robert Hunt played right tackle for a couple of snaps. Robert Jones, you know, typically we talked about this on the Thursday or Friday podcast. Ideally your five offensive lineman play every single snap. That did not come close to happening today Robert Jones played both guard positions. Greg Little had to come off the bench and play multiple spots as well.

So this offensive line, we talked about the cross training and how the front five guys not by designed by coach McDaniel, but because they earned it went pretty much wire to wire from O t a s to opening days and starting a five offensive lineman. Well, now, the first time up, you get tested in your depth and your ability to cross train and play multiple spots, and

it worked. So that was really cool to see just some of these things that some things you cannot possibly know about a first time head coach of you know, first time kind of regime here with his coaching staff getting put in place and they come out and they execute in those ways and they handle this adversity. I know coach is very excited about the way they did that, even though he was, you know, talking about opportunities to make,

you know, more plays and play better. But you know, he has to be happy with their ability to overcome that adversity, which for him, as he always says, are opportunities. Those are takeaways one through four. We're gonna finish up with the fifth takeaway and I have some extra thoughts as well. Then we'll close it out and do the postgame show segment with me, Seth and o J. That's next here on the Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,

brought to you by Auto Nation. Four takeaways in the bag, next man up, situation, defensive backfield does its thing, the waddle touchdown, and the identity it helps establish. And Josh Boyer was in his bag. Those are are four takeaways so far. The fifth takeaway it's not quite as spicy, but just guys that do what you expect of them because they have been that way for so long. I'm talking about Zach Seeler. I tweeted about it last week. Third after the Eagles game. Third and third or fourth

and short? Who do want out the besides ninety two made another big play down third and short. Christian Wilkins is a absolute beast. He played like it. I can't wait to watch him on tape. Manuel Ogba had the sack, played the run very well. I thought ray Kuan Davis had himself a good game working down the line on a couple of occasions making plays. How about the running backs, Chase Edmonds and Raheem Moster. This isn't a couple of parts of my notes here, but I'll say it right here.

I thought they outperformed their box scores in a big way. It's why you don't scout the freaking box score. The receptions that Chase had four for forty, we'll talk about two here in a second, so I'll pair that with him later. And then Raheem most of that sixteen yard reception he gets from to on that role and then throwback where he breaks two tackles right around the line of scrimmage and picks up sixteen very important yards there.

How about Thomas Morstead two snaps today he had to field off the ground, one on a on a field goal Sanders first field goal and then the punt late in the game, and he scooped scooped him off the turf and made plays on both of them, including the punt, which I didn't know this today, learned a new rule. I didn't know that if the punter had to take a snap off the ground that there was no roughing after that. So he got clabbered on that rush getting in there and he hits a forty one yard sky

rocket that gets downed inside the ten yard line. Morriston was excellent in this game. Also had a was a fifty eight yard that had like one yard return with kater co who down there is again making plays on special teams. Speaking of teams, Jason Sanders two for two including forty nine yards and then again the fact that you're thinking about a potential field goal from sixty yards out of half before the half like that tells you

about his abilities. So so many guys just showed up and did what you expected to do, which is played good football, and that's how you get these dubs. So those are the five aakeaways. I'm sure I had some omissions, but we'll have some more on the Tuesday film rewatch and we'll turn the page and get ahead to Baltimore. Here, but a couple more notes before we get out of here. The energy at the stadium, man was palpable. We talked, you know, we gave a game ball with Jason Jenkins

after the fact. I I know he's watching somewhere. I would have loved to have seen Jason get a chance to see this today because that was absolutely electric. You guys brought the noise, You brought the juice. There was a false start to take it from third and seven to third and twelve at some point in the game. With our pressure packages, that is such an advantage. So tips tip of the cap to the Dolphins fans out

there are bringing the noise. You know at Ghost of Adam Gaze was tweeting like crazy about you know how loud it was and how he could feel the building shaking. O J and the post game he was in the alumni sweet me and Seth in the press box. We don't get to hear it as well. You can still hear it, but Juice is like, oh yeah, guys, it was. It was rocking out there, so that was cool to see. I mentioned the running backs box scores. Hey, I'll talk about our quarterback. Now you just think I was gonna

not talk about two was game. I love the ball to Jalen Waddle. I mean he broke it down postgame. Single high coverage. Fit that thing in there. That is what the accuracy of TWA does. It puts guys like Jalen Waddle in position to take an eight yard reception and to take it forty two yards for a touchdown. That placement was perfect between a trio of defenders. He also had a third down completion of Chase Edmonds where

the blitz came right off that side. Chase checked in right behind him and to replaced the blitz of the football for a first down. He showed some of the mobility to wheel out of pressure at times to get outside that outside rusher. He faced more pressure than I thought he would in this game. And on that third down in the red zone, you know the one hitch pressure arise, That's when the ball is gonna come out just a little bit too loose with it to drop

the ball for his one fumble on the day. Luckily Connor Williams got it back. Um some misses here and there, but look like he's been the quarterback and all of our four straight wins against the Patriots. No quarterback has ever done that against a Belichick coach team. For thirty three, two and seventy yards and the touchdown longest of his career, by the way, for an eight point to average like the eight point two was. He didn't average that last year,

and the one oh four point four passer rating. My biggest takeaway from two and this team was that this team has multiple ways to win too. Will tell you, McDaniel will tell you wasn't the sharpest game, but that might be the sixth takeaway here that this team has multiple ways to win football games and you'll see them

use them throughout the course of the year. I think in general, I thought it was funny we heard coach say it's a satisfied but kind of a hungry feeling as a team feels like, you know, they could have done more in this game, and I think you had chances to put that thing away earlier than you did, even you know, driving late there with a chance to

make it a twenty point gap. You know we missed the throw to Trent Sherfield there by the way Sherfield his work in the screen game and what Waddle and Tyreek bring to the screen game man things that don't show up in the box score. And I'm certain Trent Sherfield will show will show him some love on the All twenty two episode, but just some to clean some things up, like some coaching points to address, corrections to make and I have faith that they will. You're supposed

to get better. Week one is always crazy. Just survived it. You got a victor. Always nice to get better and stack some dubs. We have the All twenty two review podcast coming your way next and I'll be on Tuesday. Stay tuned after the credits from this show the Postgame Show. Here uh to hear the Postgame Show on five sixty and nine Kiss Country with Me, Seth and Juice. That's coming your way next. But I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here right now. You all please be

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Drive Time is here. The Dolphins are here, and they are one and oh after a dominant victory over the New England Patriots and Juice that is four straight against the boys from Boston. Yeah, man, it's um, it's always nice to beat these guys. Man, And um it's it's funny because you know what happened just getting here. I mean, these guys came in early to try to get acclimated to this weather, and uh, it's tough. It's a tough field.

Tough field for everybody, those that actually play here all the time, those that come in on visits and um, but no matter what Travis. Getting to win within the division on opening day. You can't go to and oh without going one and oh you know what I mean, we call it one and a half and oh, sure we can do that. We can do that, man. So it's like it's perfect, man that we go out here and get this win that we're supposed to and we've been doing this over and over again. Now our our

biggest problems being week two. But we're gonna figure it out. Man. We've got something going right here. Man. It's been special and just a fun day to come out here and see the team play and pretty much all three phases. Silent football, solid footballs when I'm gonna go with, and plenty of room to grow and improve upon, because we're gonna talk about that as we go along here. And I'm glad you guys mentioned Seth kind of the drop in.

They were talking about the you know, one and a half worth game worth of a victory here because it's a divisional opponent. And that's what Mike McDaniel said last week, right, he said, it's like the three point contest in the NBA, where divisional games are that colored ball at the end of the rack points. I mean, he's he always does that, right, That's that's what he does. That's kind of coach. His answer was great, that's a Draft time podcast. Awesome, it's an A at the end, not a G. Yeah. I

always get that wrong with my own show. That's why postgame show here on the on the post game Show. But you know, I mean that was kind of one of the big takeaways, say, two guys, was coaches aggressiveness and that play to end the first half, the touchdown past to Jalen Waddle. I thought it was too U was best ball the day. I thought it was the best call of the day. I thought, I mean, obviously was the most impactful play of the day. But juice

and Seth. That was the those two words combined there. Seth it puts the dolphin. I see that. But seventeen zip going into the break that almost felt like the kind of deflating moment there for the Patriots in that game.

Well yeah, I mean the Patriots didn't they I don't want to say they invented it, but they certainly made a living off of it for two decades and getting that score at the end to kind of break and then you're getting the ball to start the half, and it would be nice if we had gone down and scored, But we just kept texting each other saying, where is Waddle? How do we get Wattle involved? They get Wattle involved it. Oh, there he goes, he's dancing in the end zone. So

that was huge. We talked about the stat where people say to it doesn't have enough thirty plus yard touchdown passes. Well, that was a forty two yard or so. Add that one the record books, and you guys hit it. You hit the nail on the head. They want to know. I mean, there's a there's room to grow. They left me on the bone there, But you start the season. You can only play one game today and they won

the game and they wanted by two scores. And to me, if you didn't even play your best ball and you beat a division opponent by two scores, and really I think that they were the better team all day today. I can live with that. And there's a room to grow.

It could have been a lot more lops in it, but Juice, I was curious to get your perspective on that play because I mean, watching the guys come off the field to the tunnel after that touchdown to Jalen Waddle, there was a different level of energy, so I was curious to get your perspective. On a fourth and eight call, the head coach says, hey, I trust you guys, go out and get him. Man, what does I do for

the players? Well, I think he was more importantly, he was trusting his defense just in case it didn't work, you know what I mean? I think that was the key. But I'm gonna tell you, man, that play in itself was so spectacling. I'm sitting there with a bunch of guys. Look, I always talk about where I'm at for the game, always in the game with the bus alumni, just because we can't in there. I can get you in there every once in a while, man, but just not every game.

You know what I Man, I got a couple of tickets, you know, well hanging the press. But I'm sitting there and I've got a j do A behind me, you know what I mean. I'm sitting there next to Jeff Cross, you know, And I also you know, Anthony Harris and those guys are like in my you know, my vicinity, and super Duper is back there saying, you know, basically, punnet pun It punt. It is that yelling the punt,

was looking at the punt. You know, we're playing well on defense, and me too, I thought that, I thought for a fact that we're just trying to draw them off, maybe get a couple of extra yards and then being more four down territory. The fact that we snapped it after the break was super impressive, man. And not only that, for a long touchdown to our man water we finally got involved in the game. That was that was this, That was special, man. That I'm not used to seeing that.

I don't think any of us are used to seeing that. And that was just outstanding. Uh. The coaches and you know, I mean, think about it, not many coaches do that, and a lot of guys are saying, you know, I hate to say it, we'd beholding were putting that right. But but we talked about that in the press box. We're like, okay, where are they going to spot it? Was there a man down? Okay, if he took the set, you know, and and do you punt it? Kick a

field goal? And if there was all that conversation and then they line up and then I'm like, they're gonna run this thing, right, see And they lined up before for the breakin. They're just giving them yeah, and then they came back out with the offense and I'm like, okay, there was and it was a little bread and butter was a little slant at juland Waddle. I mean, we've seen to have that to Waddle for years now, going

back to the days of Alabama. To finish just twenty three for thirty seventy yards, a touchdown pass, a one oh four point four rating, I think we all agree and we'll talk about this later that it wasn't even his best showing and you wind up a number and to me, that speaks a little bit to the offensive system, which you know, you go back over the years with coach McDaniel. It's one game here. I'm not gonna get too over the top with it, but every quarterback this

guy has coached has posted really solid numbers. And if you don't play your best, you can still have a day like that, and that seems to be what happened here with with to a tongue of VLOA. And then you have Tyreek Hill with eight for ninety four juice. I know we're gonna talk about him a little bit, but Man, the impact that he had in this game.

I thought that he was kind of the engine behind the offense that really you know, longer drives and it kind of goes against what you think with with Tyreek Hill in the vertical stretch element of his game, but man, he was a big part of that short game getting things going today. Yeah, we're just getting to learn Tyreek, you know what I mean, And every other team's gonna

learn him as well. You know, it took a while. Again, we talked about it, getting Jayleen involved, Jalen Waddle, but Tyreek is it's such a difference maker in the games and such an attention grabber everybody wants to you know, you you have to pay attention to what he's doing. And so at the beginning you can tell it's a conservat effort to get him involved. I mean, I don't

even know. I haven't looked at the final stats, but at one point, you know, I hate I hate name dropping all the time, but DUP's like, how many targets? How mean? Yeah, Dupe was Dupe was like how many targets that it was day? How many targets is that? I'm like, oh right, he's at twelve targets right now. He's like, damn, I never got twelve targets on the other side. But one thing that Duke did say though, he said, look, Tyreek is a combination of me and

Clayton together. You know what I mean, My speed, Clayon's ability to run Ralph from get in and out of breaks. I was like, man, that's a hell of a compliment, bro, you know what I mean. So he's a guy that's gonna for sure command and demand a lot of attention and all the other guys get going. Look Jalen Waddle, you know he's been hurt most of the camp and then he got his opportunities late. And what do he do?

He signed like hell But Tyreek, Man, Tyreek is doing that thing uh to to draw a lot of attention. And of course you're gonna get him targed. You get him involved early, get him going early. One thing I knew when I played was get me involved early and I'll handle the rest later in the game. If you don't get me involved so late, I'm gonna piste off in the game, you know what I mean. The wide receiver pred exactly right, exactly right, get the ball to hands and get them going, how cool. So we think

we're pretty cool sitting in the press box. Oh, we were in the press box and we were talking to I mean, that's O J McDuffie and Mark Duper talking about what's going on in the field.