Week 12 Recap - 5 Takeaways from Dolphins 30-15 Win Over Texans

your pulse. What is up, Dolph fans, and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield here for a another victory Monday or Sunday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. And on today's show, it is five straight baby win win

win win win. That's right, five straight wins and eight and three start for the first time since two thousand one as the Dolphins roll up a thirty burger in the first half of the game and close it out down the stretch against the visiting Houston Texans. Thirty to

fifteen year final score. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, quarterback to a Tungle Bloa will give you the five takeaways, the play before the play teaching tape, and a whole lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. So a really interesting game for the Miami Dolphins. Here the

last game of the month of November. It means we head into December at eight and three and again, the first time the Dolphins will be at eight and three through eleven games since the two thousand and one season. O J joked after the game on the post game show that he had season tickets that year, his first year with season tickets to the Miami Dolphins after retiring

a member of the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and get to the stats here and again, Dolphins were up thirty to nothing at the break in the game, thirty to fifteen, and they get there in interesting fashion. I I think I would be the best way to describe that. Twenty five first downs of the Texans fourteen, so some domination in that regard. Only four for fifteen on third down where the Miami Dolphins one for one on fourth down. That's the same for the Texans on their fourth down attempt.

They were two for thirteen on their third down tries. Miami did out gain Houston three thirty nine to two ten. Two hundred and seventy three of that came through the air for Miami, sixty six on the ground compared to one seventy four and thirty six for Houston. Miami ran fourteen more plays, seventy two compared to fifty eight. They also had the one turnover compared to Houston's three turnovers. Both quarterbacks, or I should say both teams took five

quarterback sacks. The Dolphins had four penalties for thirty five the Texans had five for forty five. And time possession not that big of a disparity thirty two and a half minutes for the Miami Dolphins compared to twenty seven

minutes thirty three seconds for the Houston Texans. So uh, A game that felt like it was kind of I wouldn't I'll never say over, but it definitely felt like the Dolphins had the driver's seat occupied pretty significantly and pretty confidently really early in the game, especially after that touchdown drive after the first series kind of starts off a little bit sloppy, some mistakes here and there, and

we'll get to that here in just one second. But you saw this Dolphins defense, I thought, really take ownership of what that side of the football can be. And we start there with our takeaways number one, defensive domination and a second half of the season adaptation of what we could expect to see going forward. But let's go ahead and first start here with quarterback to a tongue of by Low who was asked after the game about what a defensive performance like that can do for the

offense and the entire team. Here's QB one on the defense man. That was awesome to see from from our defense. Um, you know, the turnovers, the sacks, you know, just the big hits that that they were making defensively. For me, I'm I'm used to seeing that because in my first two years, you know that that's the type of defense we've had, Uh, a defense that would get interset interceptions and then would score, um you know, and we'd come off with like five turnovers a game. Um, you know,

my my first two years. So I'm used to seeing that and it's always great to watch UM when you know, when when we're able to also do some things UM really well offensively. And of course that all kind of coincides with the Bradley Chub trade, right. I mean, that's one of the notes I haven't here among many for this Dolphins defensive performance that was so dominant in this game.

And that's kind of the general takeaway here from this takeaway, and we've talked about it on the Wednesday podcast, right.

We talked about it back when or the winning streak when the offense had the good yards per play and some of the good numbers that typically and traditionally equated to offensive success as far as points scored, but it wasn't translating, and we talked about how typically that will correct itself if you maintain that level of yards per play production, and we kind of got there right at

least over the last five games. And then the running game kind of a similar situation where it was coming along, it was coming along, and then it had a breakout couple of games the last few weeks on that road trip and then finishing up here at home against the Browns before the bye week, and we feel the same way or at least I did. About the pass rush. It was getting close. One of the top pressure teams in the NFL didn't have the sacks to complete that.

And you also had quarterbacks that could run around and make plays and all these very gifted scrambling quarterbacks, and not just the guys that can run and make plays with their legs, but guys they can evade pressure, sidestep, get out of trouble, and make big plays with their arms. I mean, you were seeing top echelon quarterbacks weekend and week out, between Lamar jack In, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Kirk Cousins was down here in South Florida as well.

I mean, Justin Fields's performance in the Bears game. So the Dolphins to kind of really put their stamp back on what this defense has been in recent history, but also to ramp up that pass rush and get home as frequently as they did in this game with five sacks. It was three sacks a couple of weeks ago against the Cleveland Browns. But Bradley Chubb's inclusion and that the trading for Bradley Chubb kind of change the way that you can operate. And it didn't take away from the

way you were operating. It put another feather in the cap, if you will, another pitch in the arsenal to find your way to the winner circle. And that is, of course, rushing with just four or three pass rushers and dropping seven or eight in coverage, which is difficult to throw against. If you're not extremely precise and on time and in rhythm and accurate with the football. It's tough to throw

into seven and eight man coverage looks. So when you can dial those up and still maintain a good level of quarterback pressure with only three or four down man, you're gonna be tough to beat. And we're seeing this Dolphins defense get closer and closer to that, and we're kind of seeing them break through the door in that regard against both Cleveland and Houston. And you know, Cleveland has one of the best offensive line in the NFL.

We talked about with Mark Vandom here on the podcast on Friday as well as the Not Friday Wednesday, as well as the Tuesday preview edition of the Drivetime podcast. The Texans offensive lines probably the strength of that football team.

We saw Larrymie tuns Will almost catch a two point conversion which I thought was my favorite part of the entire game, and the quarterback kind of threw him open on the back shoulder there and he almost made a cool play, which I thought would have been fun to see him get that two point conversion late in that game.

Of course, you know him coming back for his first game in South Florida since the trade that sent him over to Houston, which of course resulted by and large in Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb, and Javon Holland. So just kind of a cool parallel there. But to see that pass rush really get cranked up and go

after a good Texans offensive like there was. The opening sack of the game was Melvin Ingram winning across face, Zach Seiler winning across face, and then Duke Riley looping around is kind of a delayed stunter scraping off of that inside pressure and getting around the edge to put the hit on the quarterback to get him to the ground.

You had one on one Pierre Pier pass rush wins just beating the guy with speed, like for instance, Bradley Chubb on that sack, I just really felt like you had the full compliment of his abilities available or I should say, on display on that particular look. We saw Christian Wilkins doing it time and time again. We saw mentioned Melvin Ingram. We saw Andrew Van Ginkl gets the

interception and returned down to the two yard line. We saw Elijah Campbell come on the blitz and really force you know, Kyle Allen to throw the football away before he wanted to. We saw ray Kwon Davis eating up space in the middle up on that front of the

defensive line. I thought the two linebackers again, the two off ball you know, Mike inside linebacker types and Jerome Baker and uh Land and Roberts who were coming off in my opinion, their best game in Cleveland play another really a good game with physicality, some big hits that forced fumble that Jerome Baker had, What a hit that was on the quarterback. Late in the game. Landon Roberts had a sack of his own. Just constant, constant pressure

from all levels of the defense. Constant competition in the second level of defense as well. We saw the scoop and score by exaving Howard. We saw Kator Cohu once again just continue to stick his face in there against screen passes and outside runs. How about that big stick that Eric Rowe put on the tight end to knock the ball free for the Exhauving howard scoop and score. It was just all levels, all phases, all different looks

of a dominant defense. And I kind of pulled back on the pass rush there because spoiler, the pass rush in its own right is going to be a specific takeaway later on in the episode. But I just want to go through the drive counts here because I kind of stopped keeping track at the very end. But the first drive of the game three and out four yards. Second drive of the game it was minus one yard. They did get a first down, but eventually minus one yard.

Third drive thirteen yards, fourth drive eighteen yards, fifth drive one yard and a pick. Sixth drive five yards, seventh drive negative nine yards and a fumble lost, eighth drive fourteen yards, halftime ninth drive five yards. So I mean they never got over twenty yards and the first nine drives of the game. That is absolute domination from your defense. On the day they do well. The third down numbers they were over oh for nine, I believe on those

first for seven. Check that on those first nine drives. They had four first downs on those first nine drives. They did wind up two for eleven and with thirteen first downs, but again, the game was thirty to nothing before they got their fifth first down in the game. Just really really dominant performance by this Dolphins defense. Takeaway

number two. This started off as Trent Sherfield's value is not like quantifiable, but I wound up making it the entire wide receiver room and the way it's been reshaped around the strengths of their quarterback is one of the biggest tips of the cap. I think you can get of the personnel staff, Chris Career or frankly any executive around the NFL for the way they took a part of the roster, remade it entirely and got just value

on top of value. And let's talk about Trent Schurefield her first, because the fourth down catch was the reason I made this the takeaway under Trent Shurefield at first, because you see to scan the side of the field that has Tyreek and Waddle. Maybe it was just one of them. I'll have to go back and look at it. I can't remember watching the game live, but I know for sure that one of the guys is over there and you see him kind of check check check. Oh

there's my third read. Let me get that ball to Trent Shufield, who is in the right place at the right time, knows where he's supposed to be and can make a tough catch among traffic and take a shot and hang on to the football on fourth down where

you don't have any margin for air. You have to execute in that play, and he makes that catch through contact, and just so valuable to have someone that is so in tune with Tua, so in tune with the offense, so in tune with the play caller, the coaching staff, and what his job is on a down end down

out bay Sis. I just think it's the perfect compliment to the two guys that are, you know, pacing the league right now in terms of yards and receptions and all the fun stuff that Tyreek and Jayalen are doing. I can't think of a better compliment than Trent Sherfield and what he brings the table. I can't think of a better compliment to that than River Cracraft and what he's done catching a bunch of first downs. He got

sets game ball today. I took the coug right out of my mouth and took the game ball from River Cracraft and gave him that thing. We played the Washington State fight song there on the pot on the radio postgame show, but um, I'm not gonna play it here because it was a tough Apple Cup and I'm not gonna talk about that any further. But those two guys, Cedric Wilson, what he's providing you in special teams and the the you know, occasional timely catches that he gives

you as well. Just one through five, these guys, they dressed typically weekly when they're all healthy, have just been so impressive. They're so well constructed as far as the way they work, the way they're detailed, the way they can you know, use their physical traits to beat teams. The way those receieing room has been constructed. It's just as ideal to this quarterback strength, to this offensive syst him.

It's been fun to watch and to kind of continue that tyreek I just put on here, the rare, rare speed that he showed on that catch and run on that little drag route where he ran across the entire field. And I'm telling you, the NFL football fields what fifty three and a half yards wide? Man, If that thing is fifty four and a half yards wide, he might have had a ninety one yard touchdown catch on that because they barely got him out of bounds up along

the perimeter. And then Jalen Waddle, I mean, the contested catch that he made down down the field. What more do you need to see from the kid about his complete the complete compliment and the complete skill set of his game. I mean, I've been talking about it since last training camp when he caught everything known demand and went on to have a hundred catch season, and now he has a Dolphins record for most receiving yards through

the first two seasons of any Dolphins receiver ever. That's Smart Clayton, That's Mark Duper, That's Jarvis Landry, that's Chris Chambers, that's so on and so forth. It's it's incredible what he's done first two years here in the league with the Miami Dolphin the most receiving yards. Jalen Waddle with another big game today as he caught five was five for eighty five, the same number Ty he kill had six eighty five. But I just thought that what Waddle was able to do with that was just so so

very impressive. And the way he's able to the quick release off the line, the abilities to stem and stack receivers and just keep them, you know, kind of at bay. And then explosiveness, the catching, the contested catch ability, the competitiveness, it all jumps off the tape. And in fact, let's go ahead and here from quarterback to a Tongua Baloa on Jalen Waddle. Congratulations to Jalen. Uh. You know that's news to me. Um. I'm definitely gonna go in uh

beat him up about that. I don't know if he knows too so that that'll be that'll be awesome to tell him, Um, but will deserving for for someone like him. Um comes into work, works his ass off. Um has a lot of questions every time, and you know if he doesn't get him answered, then he's not going to be in for that play. So very detail oriented person and very happy for him. You know, this is just the beginning. He's only in or two and we've got

a lot more games to play. I just wanted to play that because I think it's really cool to hear him talk about the details and the way he asked questions and the way he studies and goes about his profession. It goes back to what he talked about with you know Waddle coming out of the draft, like, oh, he's a speed merchant, we know he can do that. No, that's that's a slight to his game because he is a complete receiver, one of the best receivers in the NFL.

The way he's playing, the way he prepares. Just everything about Waddle you have to love and to kind of put a bow on this point to take away number two about the receiver's room constructed in a way that really magnifies what the quarterback does well. It magnifies with the offense does well. Because of the way they block

so well. In the running game, you get a bunch of you know, every time you get big runs down the field, you'll see a receiver putting on a big block, or the effort you get from Trent Sherfield and those kind of ghost motions, of those smoke motions. It goes across the formation has to peel back around and see a block on the backside. Just really the effort, the way they work, and then the skill sets. It's I don't know how you can say more about this Dolphins

receivers women. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a position group in this franchise's history or across the league this year that really saw, you know, more put into it and get more production out of those new pieces than these Miami Dolphins wide receivers. Let's go ahead and take our first break and come back on the

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Right now with takeaway number three, which is the subtleties in two is game and I'm talking not about the gaudy statistics, about the accuracy stuff that we know about. I want to talk about his mobility, his ball handling, and his autonomy athlone scrimmage, to get into positive looks, into good run counts, and to recognize what the defenses showing him and to attack that vulnerability based upon what

he sees. But I want to first start here. There was some good back and forth about something I know you all saw on the broadcast. Of course, being at hard Rock Stadium, I don't see the broadcast, but there was a great story about Mike McDaniel and a seven hundred play reel clip showing to a about why he believes he's a good quarterback in the league. There was some good back and forth, some good discourse between the media and Mike McDaniel, but also to a tuggle by

Lowa about that. Let's go ahead and go to to a first who has asked that question about the seven hundred play highlight tape that Mike put in front of him when he got here in Miami. I thought it was cool. You know, I think anyone here can attest to someone believing in them and um, you know how how that changes how they see um themselves, but also things around them, so perspective. But it I mean, it

was awesome. Um, there's a lot of details that UM entail, you know, me sitting down with him and and other things as well, but it's awesome. It's really cool. And let's go ahead and here from Mike McDaniel, who has asked two questions about that. First and then the follow up. Here's coach on his quarterback. You try and um put yourself in other people's shoes as best you can. I think that's an important component to be a head coach.

And you know, no one really I think it's hard for people to truly um wrap their head around what it is to be a quarterback in the National Football League in terms of you talk about as much pressure as one could ever have. You have all these teammates depending on you to do the right thing on every play. Um, people are trying to tackle you full speed while you're making split sex second decisions and you're in charge of making sure that our plus minus turnover ratios, right, that

is a hard, hard job. Not to mention this just in anybody that's drafted as a quarterback in the top ten, top five, they want to be good. They want to be good with the I would not I would not want to trade places or wish um any short, any sort of uh. Anybody really to to be drafted super high UM and then fall short of the franchises expectations. That is a tough place to live in. And that was the motivating factor. UM. Behind everything is you acknowledging

that understanding that, Wow, it's hard enough to play an opponent. UM, I better make sure you know, there's a lot of things that are telling me that this this player may not have the confidence that he should. UM. So instead

of getting mad at that or doing anything, UM. It was incredibly important that anybody that would listen, UM, would be able to see from a starting point not just you know, not just watch the face time where I'm like, yeah, you're gonna be a great player, UM, to actually know. And it was easy. He had the stuff on the tape and UM, you know, I think that's a credit to him, and he's he's to his credit, he's really

listened taking the coaching that he's good. So ka coach, I believe you, and UM, I think you guys have seen the residuals UM up close and personal for a while, and then the follow up was posed, at what point did you hear about the confidence you're talking about? And so coach game was kind of a timeline of that

and this is just really cool perspective. We broke it down to the post game show talking about how unique we think it is for a coach to just think about that kind of stuff and to have that approach and the self awareness. Here's Mike McDaniel on noticing that confidence and how it was really just about his own intuition in a lot of ways, this is not going

off of straight fact. This was just using intuition that getting beat up and having your existence be be completely tainted by people saying that you aren't X, Y, or z. And then on top of that, Um, from my vantage point, I felt like he was put behind the eight ball in a way with UM. You know the he he

basically he his strengths. He couldn't play too and so if if you're not able to play your play to your strengths in your position, that you've one of the reasons you've gotten there is you're an unbelievable point guard. I felt, how could he Um with all the things going on and all the uh, you know, it's it's a lot of loud noise that you try to ignore, but people are human, so um, it was intuition and

it started, you know, seeing him every practice. Once he started getting um, you know a little bit more confidence each and every day, you could see his personality evolve. And that's when that's what I learned kind of how deep it was because I'm learning his personality the first day, I mean, meet him is who I know him as. And then you fast forward a month and a half and he's a different guy than retroactively, Like, wow, that was real. And it's not like he admitted it either

to me at the time. Live speed, you know, this is something that um, I think he he uh, he did. All he did was just come to work, buy in, listen, um and then do what he could control instead of worrying about any of it. Is he chopped wood, got with coach bevill And and Chandler Henley and they they've not done anything but tried to work on technique fundamentals and how to play the position at elite level and

they've done outstanding job with that. And henceforth we or eight no with him um or I guess that's he didn't finish the game. But you guys get it. He wins a lot. Yeah, he does win a lot. We'll cover that here in the final segment of the podcast,

but back to two real quick. I talked about mobility, ball handling, and the autonomy at the Lion of Scrimmage, on top of what coach told us there about confidence and just you know, believing in himself and what he was able to do to kind of kickstart that belief in that confidence, which as we've all seen kind of coming out this year and it's been really cool to witness. But there was several plays in this game where I thought to us, showed you some nuance to his game

that maybe doesn't get enough credit. And number one is the mobility, the way he evaded the rush and created off script, off off his platform, off his original drop on the Durham Smith touchdown, What more could you want than that? He might have had a lane to run that, but throw the ball like that's what I want my quarterback do him and he put the ball right on target, right to his tight end Durham Smith for a big touchdown and a good celebration there Durham. At least we

didn't go gritty. I love the celebration term Smith. I want to see might get back in the endzone here soon and see what he has for us next as well. Tight ends not us a point this year when they

find the end zone. We saw it again later at the end of the first half when he had pressure from multiple angles and he had to kind of move around the pocket and get to this side and put his foot in the ground and cut back the other direction and then throws the ball away to not just keep himself from taking a hit but also preserving a negative play and getting into just a net no gain, an incomplete pass. Good stuff there from TWA. I love

the ball handling. We talked about this a lot in the podcast The Great Film you know analysts, the guys that break this stuff down, that the Josh mccowns, the Kurt Warners, the jt O Solivan, Tim Jenkins, the guys that we refer to in the podcast at all time. Brian Baldinger talk about that ball, that ball handling and how proficient it is, how subtle but how effective it can be and selling those fakes and you know, help

carrying out the entire operation of the offense. That just not even just the ball fakes, but the the ability to go from one platform to this and get the ball out and the snap of a finger. I'm talking about a quick pass he had to River Craycraft where the ball is literally in the belly of his back.

I didn't see who the back was on this particular snap, and by the time from the time that the ball comes back out of the bellies the backs belly and into crate Crafts hands eight ten yards down the field,

I swear it was less than a second. Now, maybe it's not, but the I'm what I'm trying to tell you is it happens so quickly, and it's rare to be able to do that, and his footwork and his ability to get the ball out from those different angles and platforms is a really great trade that not many quarterbacks have, and it allows you to run stuff like a play action off the play side, where the quarterback then has to pivot back to the same side of the formation and throw a glance route where your your

backs of the defense. You don't have eyes to locate what the movement is and the ball is not just like out on time and like quicker than it would be for most quarterbacks. The location of it throwing almost blind is perfect. It's it's really fun to watch. I

thought there was the Jeff Wilson touchdown run. They had Tyreek Hill to one side of the formation there and one cornerback was over there, and it reminded me of the Chase Edmonds running the Baltimore game motion away man coverage because the guy follows him run to that gap. They motioned Tyreek and the guy kind of followed him, and they run the ball right into that look. And so I'm thinking two went to the line. He made

a check. Everyone kind of did that thing when they put their hands to the side of their helmets, which you see this offense. Do you see that the Niners do it as well. I don't know if it's a check, but it looked like at least some kind of communication to get into the right look. I just think that to a and his control and his autonomy at the line of scrimmage is really high level. It goes right in line with the way that he's been playing all year long, which of course is high level and some

of the most demanding aspects of the position. I just think you continue to see it day in and day out, and and then also the the ability to kill the clock after he took that sack at the end of the first half. The level of maturity and professionalism and veteran awareness of game situation. You need that stuff to compete, you know, talk about December to remember O J always loves talking about that into January. If you want to compete in those areas, you have to be sharp in

those situational areas of the game. And to his showing us consistently that he's been that guy so far for us. Also, how about no interceptions in a hundred and seventy four pass attempts for two consecutively. That's a Miami Dolphins record. Let's go ahead and finish up here with two. Was asked about the m v P chance that broke out once again. Keep those going all year long, by the way, love here and that we'll hear from two on the

m v P chance here in the week twelve victory. Well, I would say, it's it's us just playing together as a team. Um. I understand the question of that being an individual thing, um, but really I'm not able to have recognition or any of that without everyone doing their jobs, doing their assignments. And uh, you know, if a team has success, that's what brings individual success for for anyone

on on any team. So, um, you know, if if we were losing, I mean, I don't know if I would be getting the recognition I'm getting, I don't know if any of the guys on our team would be getting that recognition. You know, it's it's really, it really is a team. So individuals success is based off of

the team success. And if we can just finish up on this point here with Mike McDaniel, who again was asked back about the sea clip about the confidence growing with Toa throughout the course of O T A S. There was a follow up about that, and I want to just play this answer because he gives you a sound bite here talking about his career in the NFL and what tool was able to do that he hadn't seen from other quarterbacks back in O T S. Here's head coach Mike McDaniel on his quarterback to a tungle

by Loa and when he really impressed him first, originally way back in the spring. Um, I think in within the off season, there were some uh it was definitely an O T S and Uh, there there was a particular practice in general that UM he he made some plays going against her our def sense that I we've been running a very similar offense a starting point, the

same offense since two thousand six or or so. So there's course concepts within it that that you build from and UM it may look different, but the principles are

the same. And there are several plays in I think a practice in May that that for the twelve or thirteen years of cut ups of running said play, UM didn't have one example of a quarterback Pano pull off a play that he did so going over the top with that, and then his teammates UM in an authentic way gravitating to him and really really being excited about very good quarterback play. Once he did that, he flipped and never went back. It wasn't wishy washed, it wasn't

back and forth. It was more that you had to just scratching cloud of breakthrough something UM. And once he did is he was good to go. So two of finishes this day, fourteen and complete passes a little high number for him. He's usually you know, we're talking about sixty one completion usually around but twenty two for thirty six yards a touchdown, a ninety six point nine pass awad in great day there for two and once again takeaway number four. We'll make this brief because I talked

about in the open. It's just how the pass rush continues to heat up. And I mentioned Elijah Campbell's ability to blitz off the edge and to really get a forced throwaway in the way that he did. The ability to win inside from those bear looks. We have a head up over the center, two heads up over the guards with Christian Wilkins and Zach Seedler and ray Kwan Davis inside, and how those guys have their ability to

disrupt the passing game with their own pressures. The Dolphins off the edge with Chubb and Phillips and Ingram and Van Ginkl and just keeps on coming with those guys off the edge, the ability to play that four man rush look, and man, if you can get these leads the Dolphins have been getting out to the last few weeks, and you can play from ahead with that four man pass rush, and you don't have to worry about blitzing because you don't have to worry about as much of

the running game because teams have to become one one more one dimensional. You can dial off the dogs a little bit and play four man pressure and get home with that. Gosh, it's a it's a recipe for success. We saw them get five sacks with not a ton of bliszing in this game. We'll have numbers for you guys on that tomorrow, but at all levels man, edge, interior, linebacker, defensive backs. The way this pass rush is kind of again starting to kind of match what the tape showed

you in terms of production. I'm excited to see where it goes from here. And then take away number five and we'll have to and coach give you the details on this, but just some general I don't want to call it rust or sloppy, no thiss, but just some things that were a little bit off early in the

game and then some protection breakdowns that happened. Obviously, four sacks, you don't want to see that all of those were after toront Arms had exited the game with his injury and a really short span the end of the first half beginning of the second half of those sacks all occurred. Let's go ahead and hear from both to and Mike McDaniel on the sack production allowed by the Houston Tech

or by the Dolphins today by that Houston Texas defense. Yeah, uh, well, I think with some of the plays that UM I told Mike I I liked. Um, I put some guys in some bad situations by doing so, and UM, you know, like I said that that's that has a lot to do with kind of finding the rhythm of the game with you know, your guys and your players. So you know that that that you know, I would say that one falls on me. Um, but yeah, well we'll be

better for it. And then of course coach McDaniel, the you know, we were struggling, UM to degree I think, UM, I would have to I would have that part in that as much as any anybody really, Um I there there was some um uh play calling decisions that I definitely learned from. I put some guys in some unfair situations. Um was way too aggressive, UM And it was something that you know, I told the team after the game then UM will uh I'll definitely learn from because it

was it wasn't fair to them. And um, when you do have some lineup changes, you can't you can't play the way that or put them in positions they were really put in. So UM, I don't think that was a fair representation of the the group in general. Even if there was some lineup changes there, they they were able to tee off and um we hadn't established a run game, and I kind of put the tackles in um some real, real tough situations and so something that

it will all get better from it. Um. And you know the good thing about this, this group of UH players in that locker room is they'll hear me say that I need to get better um at in that situation, not put those guys in the situation again. But the players will take the accountability as well, know that they can work on their techniques to make sure that you know, if I if I had a stroke and did it again, that they would they perform better. So yeah, just some

things to clean up. You can always get better, right And this wasn't a perfect game by any stretch. You had some some off target throws, some drop passes, the sacks we mentioned there, and I'm sure we'll see some things on tape to get cleaned up and get better going forward. But that's what you play the games for. That's why you get corrections. That's why you have mondays

to get corrected and go in the right direction. I was so ready to fire off a tweet about goal to gost situations and how the Dolphins entered the game thirteen of fourteen scoring touchdowns. Well, they went two for three on that. So now the fifteen for seventeen on the season eighty eight point two percent. We'll see where

the rest of the leag checks in. If the Dolphins had converted this the third attempt in the goal to go situation, that numbers up in the high nineties, but is not to be eighty eight point two percent goal to go conversion. Very good number there for the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and take our last break and come back and finish up with the play before the play as well as teaching tape and some interesting stats about

this team in this game. That's next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, back here on a Sunday night slash Monday morning, depending on when you download the victory Monday edition of the Draft Time Podcast. The play before the play was tough to choose in this game because it wasn't really like a game breaking moment or a turning point of the game.

But I went with the Bradley Chubb sack before the fumble, scoop and score because I don't think you get that same look check down against you know, rallying tacklers who wind up punching the ball out. What a great effort that was by Rick Row to get in there and put a huge hit on the tight end to force that ball free for Exhaviing Howard's touchdown, scoop and score.

But Bradley Chubb, the burst, the bend, the length of the athletic ability of finishing on that play to get the ball out put them third and a mile behind the chains, creates that situation for Eric Row to make that hit, for kater Cohu to bradt the tackler to then allow the hit to then allow Xaviing Howard to pick it up and take it back for six my teaching tape and we can do this every single week

with the guy if you want to. Jalen Phillips is an absolute menace and he had to play in this game where he pursued Kyle Allen starting off the three tech position. I think is where he was maybe it was a four eye. It's between the tackle and guard on the right side of the offensive formation. He then loops inside around the center so to the opposite side of the formation and flushes Kyle Allen out to the right, who boots back against where Phillips came from, and Phillips

runs him down. He was like eight yards behind the ball, and he runs him down and lunges out and gets the heels, clicks him together, swipes it with his hand and forces Allen to go to the ground short of the sticks. And he does that not just every game, like every couple of series. He makes one of those hustle plays, retracing a screen going back against a boot. His effort is awesome. I can't speak highly enough of the effort that Jalen Phillips gives you every single game.

He's been so much fun to watch. He gets our teaching tape in this game. How about some numbers for you here. So Jeff Wilson's played three games to the Miami Dolphins and has a touchdown in all three of them. Jalen Waddle now has sixty five plus receiving yards in five consecutive games. Exavian Howard scored a fourth touchdown his second fumble return for a touchdown. All of those have come at home here at hard rocksty and cool stat

there for you. The Dolphins have scored thirty points in four straight games for the first time since the two thousand nine season. Wow. We continue to get those types of stats and information every single week, it seems here so far the Dolphins of the third team just scored thirty points in the first half this season. The Bengals did it against Carolina and Buffalo did it against the Pittsburgh Steelers. We talked about TWA's record a d and

seventy four consecutive passes without a pick. That previous record was a hundred and sixty attempts in fifteen by Ryan Tannehill. Jalen Waddle has eighty five plus receiving yards and four of his past five home games gets the job done. Here we have the first career pick in the career of Veronn McKinley, the rookie out of Oregon. Saw Javon Holland celebrate that pick with him. That was really cool to see. It's the Dolphins third straight year with a

five game winning streak. That's a cool stat. Cheetah has now caught at least five passes and eight consecutive games to h is fourteen and two in his last sixteen starts. That is awesome. The Dolphins have won eleven of their past twelve games at hard Rock Stadium, the best twelve game home stretch since they went eleven and one from December second, two thousand one to December fifteen, two thousand two.

So competing with those fun teams early in the early two thousands, I should say what else we got here to was two hundred seventy eight first half passing yards were the most in a first half by Dolphins QB since at least nineteen Dolphins are now twenty and fourt teen all time and games immediately following bye week, the Dolphins held Houston to just thirty six rushing yards, the fewest rushing yards allowed by the Dolphins since in a

game against the Patriots back on Monday Night football. Actually believe or not, Dolphins allowed just five point six four yards per past since Week seven, which is third best in the NFL. That the Texans had just four yards per pass in the game today and with eighty five receiving yards Tyreek Hill moved into fifth place single season all time Dolphins receiving behind Clayton Duper Duper and Irving Friar. His one thousand, two hundred and thirty three yards are

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