Week 3 Dolphins at Raiders Recap

daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're at the first and we won't be the last ones to have our hearts broken in Las Vegas as the Dolphins fall in overtime on a Daniel Carlson buzzer beater field goal as time expired as Miami falls to one and two on the season. We'll give you the reactions on this podcast before we come back on Tuesday and really clean it up with the rewatch in the Omissions podcast in the All twenty two. But I want

to talk to you podcaster to listener today. We'll do the five takeaways, just kind of assess. Thanks here on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast, So look right now, it's tough to be a Dolphins fan. Slow start to the season one and two in a year where you know expectations outside. We're definitely gleaning a little bit with fans and had excitement

for the season. It's only three games into this thing. You have the same record as last season, but we were pretty excited coming into this year. I think that that maybe is what kind of permeates the feeling you have right now, is expectations versus what the results have been through just three games. And of course it is just three games, but they were explosive all off season, in training camp and through the preseason. A good reminder

that August does not necessarily equate to September success. And you've been waiting for this breakthrough year as a Dolphins fan, right like you want it. We all crave. It's so bad to be able to become that brash and confident, cocky Dolphins fan and go into games knowing that you're gonna win, or at the very least you're gonna be competitive, regardless of which team it is across from you. And this Dolphins team has been competitive with almost everybody they've played.

But I get it. I'm with you nothing. It is better to me than hanging out at the w q A M station with o J McDuffie and Seth Levitt and you know, slapping hands after big plays. You guy saw a reaction video up on my Twitter handle at Winkle NFL after the two point conversion of Will Fuller where we're slapping hands and given let's goes and jumping around the place. And thanks to DJ Presch for filming those moments for us, very special moments that we will

we love. We talked about it on the radio show that we'll remember those moments for the rest of the season even though it didn't come out in a game or result that we wanted to the way it did. But you know, it hurts, and I understand that it hurts, Like let it hurt. I think it's good to have something in your life that you can look forward to and get excite it about. That's a hobby. That's something you look forward to, regardless of the outcomes. Shoot. For

a long, long, long time that was me. It was a hobby. It was a hobby that I loved so much that I refused to not let it become a career so that people wouldn't think I was weird for having such an obsessive hobby Like it's I love this team, I love this game. I love being part of the Dolphins community. But we have to also enjoy the all encompassing experience of football fan, and we have to find ways to enjoy it and not be so wrapped up in every little thing that we become prisoners of the

moment and can't see the forest for the trees. Like this is a tough speech to give right now. It's tough. I know that, and you're well within your fan rights if that's even a thing to be frustrated. But I promise you this, all the guys in that building are ten times more frustrated than you are right now, and they're gonna work until it's right. So Miami falls and

overtime to the Las Vegas Raiders. A valiant effort comes up short as Miami's offense answers back to the Raiders twenty five when I entered points with eleven of their

own after a fourteen zero start. To get themselves into the overtime period, the Raiders would win the coin toss, go down, kick a field goal, Miami would respond with the field goal, and then Las Vegas would kick another field goal, so three field goals in the overtime period and Daniel Carson Carlson's game winner makes the Raiders a winner as they moved to three and oh in Miami falls to one and two here and your three underhead

coach Brian Flores. But you know what, actually, I want to finish the entire point off that intro on the back end of the podcast. We'll stick with us and before we get to the takeaways, you know the show is gonna look a little bit different tonight. I have a lot I want to discuss, but I think you've got to tip your cap here first to the Las Vegas Raiders because you know, the Dolphins did a good job and we'll talk about this later on of kind

of minimizing what Darren Waller did in this game. He had he had some catches in some yards, but nothing like last year and nothing like his usual per game pace and nothing like he's done to the first two games so far. So the Raiders spread the football around, went away from what they did best in that regard. That's what they've done through two games. Six targets twenty six and total to Darren Waller for the whole season.

He had just seven in this game, and they had chunk plays from their entire crew, and that's what makes us offense dangerous for the Raiders. And also finding a way to get Hunter Renfrow on Exaviing Howard in the slot, Like if you want to find a good matchup on X, there's not many of them, but try to find a way to get him in the slot. And that's where you know Hunter Renfrow can do what he does and does best and score that touchdown. So good on them

for finding matchups that work for them. There's a real rhythm to that offense. And I think the way that Derek Carr through the well through the ball well behind the blitzing attack of the Dolphins and under pressure and kind of fading away from that pressure and putting these perfectly placed intermediate balls that would kind of scrape the sky there an Allegiance Stadium and come back down to

the earth right in the correct place. That was very impressive and just their overall game plan to throw in vacated areas behind the Dolphins blitz is you have to take your cap to the Las Vegas Raids. They had some answers for some of the questions of the test. The Miami Dolphins through at them in this contest. More than that later as well. Let's do the five takeaways here real quick. The number one takeaway I think have to start with the offensive struggles and it got better late.

Dolphins had a couple of nice drives there late in the game too, really kind of bookend what was a nice defensive showing to help the offense get some points. I mean, fourteen Dolphins points came off of a pick six and eighty two yard pick six by a land and Roberts. What a great play that was by him. We'll talk about that more in here in just one second.

A fourth, third and short and fourth and short stops to get you a drive in Raider territory that would end with a twenty four yard Malcolm Brown touchdown run.

So early on the offense was doing a good job of finishing off with the defense did on that one drive to get that four team point lead, and I thought that was gonna be a great way for this game to play out because of the Raiders kind of and Jacoby Brissett talked about this, how Gus Bradley invites short stuff because it's a sin in that defense to let the ball get behind you. He said those words about it being a sin to let the ball get behind you and this guys Bradley defense in his postgame

press conference. And that's one reason why I think it was impressive for Miami to find the way or to find a way to get the ball downfield the way they did late in that game, because once the Dolphins started going vertical, it seemed to open things up for guys like DeVante Parker, for guys like Mike Kasicki. And even though they didn't convert on those long balls, Parker had a chance on a deep one where he was

a step behind the defense. Balls a little bit underthrown, but a great play by the defensive back to get his hand in there. Will Fuller had a chance at that catch in the end zone with a slight tug on the back of his jersey there, but still the ball was kind of in position to make a play. The point is, once Miami started to go vertical and

open things up, they found offensive success. But other than that, at one point this offense was you know, the numbers aren't favorable still that they were so against Miami in terms of just overall successive drives throughout the course of this young season, going back even to Week one when the Dolphins had some i'd say four good drives against the Patriots and three scoring drives and the one to finish that game, and then really nothing to write at

home about the Buffalo game. And then you come back and that's the showing so far through the first you know, two and a half three quarters of this game against Las Vegas, it just wasn't looking good. And you take a look at everything that has gone wrong with the offense. It's just kind of a little bit of everything. They're too stuck in the mud, whether it's you know, big penalties, protection breakdowns from the entire offense, not just the offensive line.

There's not really any rack built into the offense so far. Some of the throws are off target and causing some some errors that way as well from the quarterback position. It's just largely been broken as an offense early on in this game. And you know, late into that game, the longest passing play was twelve yards, where the Raiders had seven players with more than that for their long reception in the game. So we start getting those vertical shots. I think that's a good way to kind of open

things up for the offense. But so far, the offensive struggles playing back where it's playing under pressure, playing behind the chains, just not capitalizing on the opportunities you do have. It's just not been good enough, and it has to

get a lot lot better, especially in today's NFL. You've seen what poor offensive production can do to a defense, because this Dolphins defense was off to the races in this game and they start playing more and more snaps, wind up with eighty snaps in the game, and that's how Derek Carr goes for almost four passing yards. So it's complimentary. Everything goes together, and the offense needs to pick up their part to help the defense, who has had their own struggles as well. Later in football games

so far this year. But offensively finding a way to get the football to receivers running up the field, running horizontally vertically. I'm not sure how that works or what the Dolphins you know, staff is looking at, or how they want to attack that. But you watch the Raiders attack and there were guys catching the football already taking off, you know, heading up vertically up the field, and O. J.

McDuffie pointed this out. So many of the Dolphins routes are coming back to the quarterback to where they're stationary when they catch the football, and it's very hard to create yards after the catch when you aren't on the move, where you're not being led into a good position to attack the defense with the football in your hands. I mean, we've talked about that with two a tongue of Vloa and some of his skill sets that made him a

top prospect. It's putting receivers in position to run through the catch and never break stride, and that results in big yacht numbers. It results in offensive production for both the quarterback and the receiver and on the scoreboard as well. So again I don't know how this works or how they do it, or what the plan is or if

that's been the plan, just hasn't worked out yet. But finding a way to get the ball in receiver's hands on the move to make them a threat after the catch, I think it's a very big key for this offense. They haven't had it happened barely all so far this season, and that's something that has to I think has to

improve going into week number four. So hopefully some of these things are ironed out and we can get a w or two under our belts so that when two a tongue baloo comes back, we can hit the ground running with the quarterback back into place and the offense hopefully clicking at that point. But so far it's just not been good enough through three games. Takeaway number two. The heart and the resolve of this team. You never can question it under Brian Flores. It's been that way

for three for two plus years now. You know, you go down eleven points and admitted out there, we mean we were pretty doom and gloom in the in the w q a M station, admitted out there, you probably thought that that game was put on the Rocks when they went down by two cours, even after the miss p a t just because of the way the offense was performing and it just didn't look like it was gonna happen for them. But they go out and they get a field goal. It doesn't sound great, but they

got points, make it a one score game. They go out on defense, complimentary football, They get a stop and get it right back to the offense. Then they go down and score a touchdown with two fourth down conversions, a tough, tough fourth down catch by DeVante Parker to keep the game alive. Then the scramble played by Jacoby Brissett on fourth and goal to keep the game alive, to get them to a two point conversion to then

convert that. I mean, there were four or five players in this game for the offense alone, not not even the defense, which also has included in that. For the offense had to make a play to keep the game going, and they did it, and that was impressive. I thought, to measure those team's heart and the resolve and the fight they're gonna show you and why, I think that's indicative. And you know, again going back to my experience with OJ McDuffie and Seth Levitt, I walked out of the

building with O J to nine. He said, I'm not worried at all because of the way the team finished that game. I think it tells you everything you need to know about their heart and their resolve. They're gonna work to get it fixed and they're to find a way to get it fixed. And I know it's all like it's all talk right now, you don't want to hear it, but that's that's what I took away from the end of that game. This team's heart and resolve will end up going a long way for this team.

Take Away number three. We talked about it all week long, Right, run the football and try to minimize Max Crosby and Yannikway and that raider's pass rushing. For the most part, that was the case early on. Miles Gaston had thirteen carries for sixty five yards in this game. No savan Akhmed carries in this game, no receptions either, But Malcolm Brown had seven for thirty one as well. And you know, there was a couple of players that were really well blocked.

I thought, you know, there was a wide run, an outside run where Myles Gaskin kind of presses outside and cuts it back inside. The Malcolm Brown twenty four yard touchdown run is as well blocked as you could ask for on that player. We'll talk about that here in just one moment. But they also wind up with seventy eight rushing yards in the first half, and then they got some more late in that game. So some good

balance stretched across that game. For a hundred and thirty three rushing yards, that's a good number for any team in any offense and any level of football. And I thought that was impressive that they got the run game going that way, and a lot of that has to do with the offensive line because and I talked about it on the podcast last week, I thought Austin Jackson's work in the running game has been pretty strong so far,

especially in this game. And on that touchdown run, he is six seven eight yards downfield on a block and buries a guy into the turf their Allegiance Stadium for a pancake block and a touchdown off the back of that. And also, you know, I talking again about Oj McDuffie.

He and I lined up and broke this play down because we were so intrigued by Adam Shaheen's work off the edge to not only reach the five techniques, so that the tight ends playing outside the outside shoulder of this defensive end who's lined up with the five technique and to reach him, you're gonna have to get back across his face on the inside and then swing your butt around that. I was kind of showing Oj this move, like, you have to get that left leg and I was

pattent it. You have to get that thing around your backside and wall that thing off and put it in the ground and anchor against this guy, so you can seal that lane and create space for your running back. And the way O J and I did it was like kind of fun. Today I'm sitting with a NFL player breaking out a play. We talked about that and

that was very impressive. With Adam Shaheen on that play, with Austin Jackson on that play, with Jesse Davis on that play, and Michael Dieter and really the entire group upfront Malcolm Brown to find that crease and to hit it so offensively the running game finding some footing, I think it's pretty encouraging. They got some stuff outside and there,

they got some stuff inside. Now there are sometimes I'd like to see Miles just hit it and go, like, hit that thing with some acceleration and try to hit some home runs because this offense is lacking in the home run department right now. But I thought there were some nice things to build on in the running game. Takeaway Number four is that the defense in general to me was just interesting and has been this season. Number One, Let's let's talk about the obvious, like third down defense

has to get better. It's more than double the conversion rate than what it was last year when they led the National Football League at a thirty one point third down conversion rate. Right now, it's just not been anywhere close to that. They're allowing way too high of a success rate on third downs. It's extending drives, it's given the offense less chances as putting the whole team under pressure. So this is not to say the offense is to blame for the outcome of these last couple of game.

It's a it's a full team effort and the defense is a big part of that, and that the third downs isn't maybe a bigger part of that, and of course red zone as well, which they've been pretty good in the red zone. So we'll keep keep that, you know, moving forward and trying to correct some of these other stuff. But like the pressures, the sacked numbers have not been

there so far this year. The defensive structure has been really the main takeaway for me here because they start office game three and out, pick six, four and out and then punt and then it just fell apart for several drives in a row. And some of that is the offense making place. I mean, Derek carrs putting the ball where it had to be an offensive. Guys were making catches and tough catches and tapping their toes on the sideline and and you know, making plays after the

catch and all that stuff. But there was a period of the game where the Raiders had converted on seven of nine third downs after starting I think it was over three on third downs. And they finished off with some third down stops as well to get to eight to eight for fifteen on the night. But they've got to get better on third down. It's just that's the

money down on defense. And that's why they've not been able to get off the field on some of these long drives that probably gassed them towards the end of games. Because the Raiders nine drives thirty one yards field goal. This is after the first four ten plays nine yards touchdown, nine place, seventy two yards touchdown, eleven place, eighty four yards touchdown. Like that's that's taxing on both the scoreboard

and your energy. And I got a couple of three and outs off the back of that, and obviously starts the game pretty well as well. But I just thought the defense in general and the way they defended Darren Waller, and I think this kind of dictated how the Raiders offensive attacks spread the football around so well. Byron Jones was on Darren Waller quite a bit in this game.

That's an interesting matchup piece to think about for future reference in terms of you have different body types and different builds, and obviously a tight end on a cornerback is not something you usually expect, but to get Byron Jones to hold him to just fifty four yards, and I'll look at the coverage numbers on the Tuesday podcast and talk more about who was who else was responsible for containing Waller because it wasn't just Byron Jones alone, obviously,

But I thought that was an interesting game plan. I love the fact that you saw the safeties get back to coming after the quarterback, and a couple of those safety pressures were so paramount in this game at the time, like Eric rose pressure on Derek Carr lead to a land and Roberts's pick six for eighty two yards and

that touchdown to kick things off. And Brandon Jones had two sacks in this game, one cutting right down the pike down the middle on a five man front where he comes clean up the middle and runs through a running back and gets home to Derek Carr and then later in the game a huge sack to lose a bunch of yards on Derek Carr. So big day for Brandon Jones rushing the passer. Good to see them get

back to that. But I think you've seen three completely different game plans for this defense so far, and they'll they'll find their stride, they'll find their rhythm, and they'll continue to plan for each opponent. But I think that when you look at the structure of the defense and that Waller and Jones matchup today, to me, taking away that best target against most teams is going to be

an effective means of stopping the posing offense. Now today it wasn't because Las Vegas had so many weapons that made plays in so many options that made the clutch places, and they had to like I'm never gonna get mad about a guy being in phase and perfect coverage and having the hand between the two elbows and the receiver goes and makes the catch and it's a tough play and they make it happen, Like, I'm not gonna get mad about that, because in football, you cannot stop a

perfect pass. And there was a couple of those instances in this game, I thought, but in general, I thought Miami's defensive approach was pretty good. Execution wasn't always there. At times it was, but during the big chunks of the game, in the middle of the intermediate portions of the field of tackling just wasn't quite good enough. But the entire story of this defense, I continue to be intrigued by it because through three games it's been pretty

different all three times. And the last note here on the defense, I thought, the edge, the edge players are getting so close to really giving you a true four man rush, because the defensive line had a great game, and I thought, for the most part, like several guys had big games. Zach Seedler, Christian Wilkins, Manuel Ogba, Jalen Phillips I thought had a good game. Andrew Van Geigle

was in there a few times. But I think with Ogba, Phillips, van Ginkle, some of the edge options you have, they're coming so close and making those plays on four man rushes, and man Ogball was so close a couple of times. Phillips came looping in a couple of times and got in there, and Andrew Van Ginkle got in there close a couple of times so close you need those guys to finish out. Hopefully we'll get that coming up here

really soon. Takeaway number five was we had to win the small things right, the penalty battle, the field goals, punting game. Uh, you can combine the penalty's seven for sixty five yards. That's just too many for those Dolphin's team. That's not what they do best. It's it's uncharacteristic. A couple of those personal foul calls early in the game, I think we're almost like a sign of how charged up this team was. But you have to remain poison

still look in those moments as well. But to miss a forty eight yard Jason Sanders field goal, to have that many penalty yards yardage, the safety on the past to Jalen Waddle, which Jacobe Brissette took full responsibility for that play, by the way, at his postgame press conference, and that's just a dumb play on my part. I

gotta do something different. I went to the wrong decision there and they went empty and through that quick screen to Waddle, who the ball was a little bit high and he couldn't make a move and they got him tackled. In the end, zone for a safety fourteen to two, and that's when things kind of started to go off the rails for Miami a little bit. But in general, I thought there was some nice field flips. I wouldn't say the hidden yardage battle was lost necessarily, but so

of the mistakes like that's that's what hurts. And that's why I think has coach saying after the game that you know, you have a different feeling than in this one if some of the players go the other way, like he says, if we do those things, will experience a different feeling. And right now, you know those couple of plays went against the Dolphins, and that's why the

feeling is what it is. And that Dolphins kind of postgame mood was a little bit somber because a tough, tough loss here after you thought you had a chance to come back and when that game late, so I had to do the small things right when those small margins, I think Miami camp just short in that area. And that was my five A, My five B takeaway was you needed the big plays. I talked about this from all three phases. A Land and Roberts certainly gave you that.

On defense with the eighty two yard pick six Malcolm Brown twenty four yard rushing touchdown that qualifies. Didn't really have one on special teams. Damn, You're got a second one from Roberts on that great stick around the goal line for a forced fumble last I guess got it back. You really had a or nearly had a big play from Will Fuller with the defender all over his back on that possible late touchdown throw that went incomplete. But all things told, they needed a big plays, they got them.

I just thought the margins, those small margins, is where this game was lost for the Miami Dolphins. Some other things I like in this game. Kind of talking about some of the shortcomings that are in the takeaways might get sick. He's involvement ten catches for eighty seven yards, and you saw the athletic ability, the long reach, the catch radius. I think that has to be a focal point because of how gifted he is. When the balls in the air, he finds a way to either get

open or make those tough catches. We saw that in this game. Talked about Austin Jackson in the run game, talked about it all week in the podcast. Some of the push he's getting that touchdown runs the thing of beauty. There's another rep later in the game and past protection where he has helped with Jesse Davis inside and then a looper comes back around the edge and he peels back and gets both blocks in their loves that that

anticipation and awareness from Austin Jackson. I like that Jalen waddles being pumped targets twelve catches on thirteen targets, but for just forty for fifty eight yards in this game. I'd like to see him get a little more vertical and some catches going, like I talked about going upfield and maybe maybe a little bit laterally to just to have him with a chance to make some act But I love the fact that he's a feature in the offense. I like the vertical game later on, talked about that early.

I like the defensive plan against Darren Waller. I like their ability to create pressure out of multiple packages, like car was under pressure for a lot of the game, and a tip your cap to him for some of the throws that he made, but creating pressure with four aug ball off the edge looks fantastic again for the third straight week. Jalen Phillips had a bunch of tackles and plays in this game. Talked about Van Gekle as well,

and then also some of the play sequencing. We talked about the the screen past that was you know, Jacoby Brissette took responsibility for It wasn't quite what you wanted there, But there was some good play sequencing that I was a big fan of. Like, for instance, the third and seven run to Miles Gaskin was a brilliant call. You knew what you're in, four down territory, You've got a good look. You check to that run. He gets a big first down and some yards after the two point

play to scheme up Will Fuller. That's a great looking player right there. He's wide open. You cannot miss him on that play. Talked about Jacoby taking responsibility for the screen past that went for a safety like you love the accountability and that's across the board for the Dolphins

coaches and play is all that stuff. Um. The other thing I loved was there was a play in the game where they were in this like hook swing concept where Mike Asiki runs in the in the hook zone, little curl route in the hook zone like five yards upfield from the slot, and then Myles Gaskon ran a swing route off the back of that, and there was a play in the game where they ran that and they were both open, and I said, no, throw it to Miles because he's running up field and he's running

back obviously the guy you want with the football in his hands, like, throw it to Miles, and Seth was saying, right now, we'll take any good play we can get, because it was during a tough period of the game.

They came back to the exact same look later on and Jacobe threw it a little bit short that missed Miles, and I thought Myles had a chance to catch that and run all the way to Vegas, up to the down the strip and for you know, keep running until he until someone stopped him, because no one there was gonna stop him at Allegiant Stadium. That play comes up just short. But I thought the sequencing to get to that play later on that was encouraging and cool to see.

Some of the other things I liked in this game the individuals. I thought Zach Seeler had a tremendous game, getting off box, batting down passes, the line, making patting penetration in the passing game. He had the third and fourth down stops when Las Vegas went for it and deepened their own territory. I thought at Landon Roberts was fantastic. Obviously the forced fumble, the interception, had the third down stick with Zach Seeler on that three, third or fourth

down stop on that big drive. Defensively for Miami, he's been really good so far this season in the same place where he had the injury last year. Great to see rob have some success in that building. Thought Christian Wilkins had some really good moments, some tackles at the lines, some TfL. He had a sack in this game where Adam Butler did a great, great pick stunt for him getting off the ball, forcing the center to open a gap and then Wilkins shoots in there for the sack.

Talked about Phillips and og Bollow some nice pressures off the edge and tackles as well. Andrew Van Ginkle loved a lot of their their work in this game. So there were some individuals that had some moments. Some moments I liked in this game. In general, I thought the defensive lines ability to kind of take over the game at times with all those guys. That was pretty impressive as far as just winning those reps in a unit where we knew Las Vegas was down some offensive linemen.

For them to go ahead and make those put the onus on that group and forced car to make the big plays that he did. I thought that was really really impressive and good of this defense to make that happen and take over a game at times up front on the defensive line. Now, I want to finish the podcast with this point about the first few games of the season, because here we are one and two Colts

on deck at home. Hopefully we'll get a w in that game, get the two and two, and then we have the game in Tampa and then we hopefully have to off the injury reserve. We'll see what happens with him long term, but that's when he's eligible to come off injured reserve, which he was added to on Saturday. He'll miss a minimum of three games with the cracked or the fractured rib injury that he suffered against Buffalo. But this point about the first few games of the season,

like what have we seen so far? Pittsburgh beat Buffalo on opening Day and all of a sudden, people think Buffalo is vulnerable. Well since that time, Buffalo scored four that's eighty three points in the last two games, looking just like the juggernaut they were last year. So what are the Pittsburgh Steelers? They were eleven or the start of the season last year, lost one five of their final six games to close out that season. That's the

team that beat Buffalo opening Day. They lost to Cincinnati on Sunday to follow one and two Titans last year off to a five and oh start that got into a wild Card round exit. The Broncos have started the every season two and oh for like the last seven years. I believe it is our three and oh now and they haven't done much with that since the Payton Manning time. At one point people were calling the Arizona Cardinals last year going into the game against Miami Super Bowl contenders.

They missed the playoffs altogether. Look at Seattle's first half of the season. Offensively, they were breaking records Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett. Second half of the season, they were scoring like ten thirteen points in games. I know every game there's a point to this. I'm going to get there. Every game is live or die and they're all very, very important. That's not the point I'm trying to drive home here. I'm trying to tell you. I'm not trying to tell you to be okay with losses

because they suck. They hurt. Last week fucking sucked for me. I'll be honest about I hated last week, and who cares about me? But it seeps into all the things that you enjoy, right podcast, football, television programs, primetime games, other games, college games, your social media experience. I know for a fact worsens significantly after tough losses. It affects it all. But if there's one thing I can leave you with tonight on this podcast, it's to remember it's

a long, long, long season. To remember that this team will get better. To remember that this just went on the brink in a game with our number two quarterback against the hottest offense in the National Football League and damn near pulled out a victory. This part of the season, though as important as any other part of the season, is not where the story of this season will be told. I recall three and O start back. I recall as well both those teams missed the playoffs. Both those teams

finished below five. In fact, the last two times this team made the playoffs, and that's actually include last year, to call it, the last three times this organization won double digit games. They started off one and three. They started off one and four, two thousand and eight, won the division that year, started off two and four that season. Now it's incumbent on the staff and the players and

the entire team to get it corrected. You're not just gonna show up and have that happen because it happened in the past. That's that's malarkey. But September is not the part of the season the chill, remember, October really isn't either for that matter. And so while the loss is hard to deal with, Dolphins are one and two,

that's hard to deal with. Everything remains right in front of you, and they have a chance to get better tomorrow and make this team better, come back and get a victory next week, and continue to build off that and make this team the best version of itself as they can in the stretch of the season where things really heat up and the standing start to matter, because right now you're just wanting to trying to get better, trying to find a way to win football games and

as Brian Flores said, have that feeling feel a little bit different for you by making those few plays. Make the corrections so you can make those plays. That's the idea, that's the focus this week. Let's get back to work, Caroline, Daddy is coming home. You all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple pod Cast. Leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL. Follow the team at Miami Dolphins.

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