Live Dolphins-Bears Preseason Opener Recap

Live Dolphins-Bears Preseason Opener Recap

See? Hi everyone. I’m here. I with full apologies. Bad Allen. Bad Allen. Very, very, very poor planning. And is this thing even working? There we go. Yeah. Full apologies. Bad planning on my part. silly me to think it would take me uh 45 minutes on the good old Kennedy expressway in Chicago to get back to where I’m stationed at my good buddy’s house. Um and when it took wound up taking uh an hour and a half. So that’s on me. That’s my bad. Again, I I massively apologize. Appreciate everybody hanging out. Um, and we’re going to get started here in a second and I’ll be joined very shortly by deputy editor for Miami Dolphins on SI Dante Colinelli. We’re going to be talking Miami Dolphins preseason opener against the Chicago Bears. Something you don’t see very often. In fact, uh, if I recall the note correctly, it happened since 1982. The Dolphins preseason opener ended in a tie. As always, of course, when we’re talking about the preseason, final score doesn’t matter. What matters is what happened, what we saw, uh, who played well, who didn’t, and I guess this is the part where I should immediately, um, discuss the injury updates because we saw two Dolphin players leave the game because of injuries. Those two players being safety Elijah Campbell, running back Alexander Madison. the uh Alexander Madison injury. Mike McDaniel said after the game he was dealing with neck and shoulder soreness. And if you saw what happened on the play, basically he got kind of tossed up in the air and uh landed on his head as we say hi to Dante Colinelli. And I have to apologize to Dante as well because Dante’s been waiting. He’s been ready to go at six. probably thinking, “Where the hell is that bozo who said pm central time, 7 pm Eastern time, fighting the streets of Chicago?” That’s what he was doing. Hey, Dante. Uh, give me your over overall thought. We’ll start with this. Give me your overall thoughts on this game this afternoon. Yeah, I um it was roughly what I expected. I don’t know that I expected a tie. I don’t know that you ever expect a tie, but in so far as, you know, it was your very stereotypical preseason game, right? Like when the Dolphins starters were in, the defense had a couple quick three and outs. The offense went right down the field. Obviously, they didn’t score on that opening drive, but went right down the field. Smooth operation. We can talk about the goal line stuff if we want to. Um, and then the backups came in for, you know, the Dolphins and the Bears got into their third and fourth string and things started to get uh a lot less productive, a little bit wacky there at the end as well that, you know, Ali Gordon almost he got a lot farther than I thought. So, it was about what I was expecting. I I think um a lot of the rooms that didn’t perform well, I I was kind of expecting them not to perform well. I don’t know that there was a ton of surprises for me personally. Um, but I think you know the rooms where there were depth. You saw a lot of good stuff. I thought there a lot of defensive linemen flashed. Um, Derek McClendon had a really nice game. I thought Matt Dickerson made some plays. He’s someone that you’ve pointed out a couple times uh in recent weeks. He did some good things. I thought both I thought all three of the rookie defensive tackles had their moments in this game uh that were encouraging. You don’t agree? I do. I was I spent a lot of time watching those guys. I thought they had their moments up and down, but they’re rookies in their first preseason. And then I think you saw the depth at receiver. That was nice. That was nice. Both Washingtons I thought made some good plays. You know, those guys are going to be your, you know, third, fourth, fifth receiver. I think there’s good depth in that room. And I thought you you saw some good things from all four running backs as well. Obviously, Alexander Madison left the game, but you know, really nice catch and run on the play where he got hurt. You got touchdowns for Hold on. Let me let me interrupt here because because this needs to be said that injury with all due respect is on Quinners because I don’t know if you guys could see it well enough on the television but in the press box from the angle I had which was right behind the play Quinn through the pass to the left side to Alexander Madison when Pharaoh Brown is 15 yards behind him in the same line of vision completely open and for some reason Quinn yours didn’t spot him threw underneath to Alexander Madison which was a good play resulted in a 21 yard gain but that should have been a walk-in touchdown for Pharaoh Browners missed him and he winds up getting and getting injured and I was saying as I was saying earlier I don’t want to I want to like micro it a little bit micro it nice word nice vocabulary there I’m tired of being in traffic uh I want to condense it to more specific areas and take instead of doing like an all-around picture otherwise um we won’t properly address it. And then the other injury is Elijah Campbell. Based on what McDaniel said, which is how it looks from the press box and seeing him on the side in second half, it looks like the Dolphins avoided uh a major issue there. So, I mean, that’s good. They’re they’re going to they’re about to run out of of fully healthy safeties pretty soon. They got guys coming in and out of the lineup. So, that’s good to hear. But I I mean, my overall point was I think you just saw good things from all the running backs. a certain point. Devon Han averaged seven yards per carry on his three carries. Um Jaylen Wright had the, you know, the nice little touchdown there in the red zone. Alexander Madison had his nice little run out through the catch. He also scored down on the goal line. And I I thought you saw a lot of pop from Ollie Gordon as well when he got into the game. So, you know, rooms that have good depth, uh I thought that depth showed up a decent bit. Uh rooms that we have talked about on the show before that had questionable depth. Uh, like what? Like what? Dant. Well, well, we can we can uh we can start with the offensive line. Not not great behind the starting five. And um you know, Larry Bor had some not so great moments with the starting group as well. Um so I mean I mean you know a player like Keon Smith just got absolutely blown up on the on the Quinn Eure’s first fumble. And Quinn’s ball security is a whole other topic that we can talk about if we want. Yeah, we’ll get to it. I’m sure. Uh but I mean Keon Smith just absolutely blown into next week right off the snap. Um I thought Germaine Ephetti had like four or five plays where he was a huge problem. Uh whether it was missing a block in pass protection or as a run blocker. Now I mean they just signed him, you know, he could be getting back up to speed, but I don’t I don’t think that it’s I I I it’s not great. It didn’t look good. Um, I I thought the interior backups were like a little bit better than the backup tackles. They didn’t like stick out like a sore thumb to me. You know, there was less like obviously blown plays uh from guys and I thought Daniel Brunkill got some movement in the run game a couple times. So, a bit up and more up and down from the interior, but like the the tackles that were not named Patrick Paul, I probably the worst performance of any group on the field in my estimation. So, um, and we can argue about that. I I think it’s close. There there are some other groups that are going to push for that title, but overall, like I thought it was a very normal preseason game. I I I thought Okay. Okay. Let me let me jump in. Yeah. So, we can I want to point out Alexander Madison did drop a pass. Very easy swing pass. However, he had somebody in his face. It wouldn’t have gone anywhere regardless. Uh, that’s what I want to mention. Let’s provide. Let’s take care of the information first. Tyreek didn’t play. Jaylen Wadd didn’t play. Jaylen Phillips didn’t play. Mike McDaniel indicated after afterwards he wanted to play all the starters except that Phillips and Waddle were dealing with minor things and there was no point in risking aggravation with J model. McDaniel said specifically it happened during practice Friday. We can only imagine it happened when he got kind of hit in a practice where you weren’t supposed to get hit. Um and then everybody else played two had the one series was very efficient. It was a lot of underneath stuff but it was again it was efficient. The numbers like four for five for like 18 yards and not not overwhelming. No but it was efficient. He converted the fourth down pass to Malik Washington who looked very good. The return game kicked some butt. That was yes that was impressive. Special teams might have been the best of the three phases. I I don’t know if you feel differently. I wrote that in my recap. I thought thought they were great. Um the Bears, they held every Bears punt return to under 10 yards and um every kick return was 22 yards or less and you get 20 for a touchback. So it’s pretty good. It’s not bad. And they had long returns. One by Isukama, one by AJ Henning at the end and one by D Eridge. the one negative in the kicking game and I don’t know if Jason Sanders just shanked it or what but you have to reach the opponent what’s his own 25 I think u and his ball landed like at the 35 and that gave the Chicago the ball at the 40 yard line so um okay I want to talk Zach Wilson and a lot of fans were killing him on social media and basically for kind of looking like a deer in headlights at times in the pocket wasn’t finding receivers open hanging under the ball got sacked four times times, including on fourth down. I asked specifically Mike McDaniel after p after the game. Um, what were you seeing there? And he said he was very curious to look at the film to see if it was a case of Wilson not finding open receivers or what else. What did you make of Zach Wilson’s performance? I mean, this this is the Zach Wilson experience that this is it. This is who this is who he’s been since he entered the NFL. Um, he is a player who is addicted to holding the ball too long. He he just he he can’t get away from it. And I we know that he’s consciously aware of this issue because when he spoke to the media, I don’t remember if that was during OTAAS or early camp, but I remember we wrote a story about it. You can read it on dolphins onsi.com. And and Zach Wilson said, “Hey, I need to get rid of the ball faster. That’s what I’m working on. That’s what I’m focused on. That’s what the coaching points are.” And look, Mike McDaniel’s right. You know, we only have the TV angle. The offensive line wasn’t great. There were a couple times where Wilson got sacked where he got quick pressure, but I felt like on those plays, the ball was designed to get out on his first hitch and Zach Wilson did not get the ball out. So, I think it’s a scenario in which two things can be true. Zach Wilson can be holding the ball too long and the blocking in front of him can also not be very good. And so, I think when you combine those things, you end up with four sacks and five completions for Zach Wells. I think he finished five of nine on the day if I’m not mistaken. And and two balls that he threw at the feet of tight ends who were wide open in the flat because he didn’t he didn’t put enough on. It was ridiculous. I won’t One of them was a touchdown if he just floated it to Tanner Connor as a walk-in touchdown. And so I mean I’ve never really been a believer in the Zach Wilson’s uh you know reclamation project. Um today did not change my mind in any way. I think he is who he is at this point. to me. We’ll see what the film says. I don’t disagree with you, but uh but let’s give props where props or do he made two to me big- time throws. One of them was a completion down the field to the right side to Taj Washington as he was about to get pounded and the pressure was coming from directly in front of him. So, it’s not like he couldn’t see it. He knew he was going to get nailed. Stood in there and made that the beautiful floater, right? And that was a big boy throw. And there was another one to DGridge in the back of the end zone that he was very very well covered and he put it basically there was one little window where he could fit it. That’s exactly where he put it. Escridge couldn’t make the catch but there was a DPI on the play and that led to one of the touchdowns but overall like you mentioned the two p the two passes to the tight ends were like oh and then that’s what he did with the Jets. That’s why he took so many sacks and the Jets offensive line was like the Kennedy Expressway. It sucked. Um, and then the he’s not helping them either. And it’s like to me it’s like got you got to have a like an internal clock, you know, one Mississippi to Mississippi. If you’re not seeing anything, bail out or but don’t stay in the pocket. I mean, you know, Yeah. I mean, to me it looked like, you know, there were a couple times where it was a two-step drop, get the ball out, right? And you could just see Zack freeze in the moment. uh the one sack that he took, I mean, he went to go through his first progression and it was covered and he just never went to progression two and he get sacked. He just stood there and he was just frozen. And you can’t have that at quarterback. You just can’t. Um, and that’s always been a problem with Zach since he entered the league. And the Dolphins know it’s a problem. Zack know it’s a knows it’s a problem. So far, I’m not seeing a lot of progress. There’s still weeks of training camp and two more preseasons to go and joint practices. So, we’ll see. Um, I agree with you. He made he made two, you know, he made a couple nice throws. I thought he had a nice rip in the middle of the field to Oh, geez, I forget. Yeah, he’s a was a little bit high, but anticipation was there. It was a decent throw. It was fine, but um overall not very impressed with Zach Wilson, but um I don’t think he was the worst Dolphins quarterback that took the field. Really though. Really? Because my thing is the numbers are putrid for Quinners and there was bad ball security on the first fumble. The second one’s fourth down. who cares? Uh the ball was going to be there anyway once he got sacked. Uh the numbers were really bad. There were a couple of throws where the guys are just not open and he’s trying to fit it in there. I I don’t know that I had as many glaring mistakes on the quarterback from Quiners as I as I saw from Zach Wilson. I mean, we’re probably splitting hairs, right? Like I I don’t really think either of us are want to get up on a hill and defend either of these quarterbacks today. At least I know. Yeah, at least I know I don’t. I think with viewers, um, I’m a little bit more forgiving to Quinn because this is a player who’s a seventh round pick who’s playing in his first NFL game. I understand if it’s just like a little bit overwhelming for him. I that doesn’t really bother me. He’s a seventh round pick. He’s a rookie. Like I I get it. You know, he’s not a veteran in this league. Um, you know, he missed his first throw. It was a wideopen first down to Theoise Jr. He just completely sailed it. No pressure in his face. Clean pocket. Uh, the first fumble is poor poor ball security. Um, you bring up a good point about the second fumble. It was fourth down anyway. Um, I I the ball has to go somewhere. You can’t I’m sorry. Like that you got to get the ball out. I know that was quick. That was really quick pressure though, dude. It’s a You know, it’s cover zero pre- snap. Pick your first pick your your best matchup and throw the football. It’s fourth and 15. I’m sorry. Like it. But again, like he’s a rookie. That’s an easy teaching point. It’s very easy to go, “Hey dude, fourth and 15, they’re showing you zero blitz before the snap. Just throw the ball up somewhere, like take a shot, you know, but ultimately not the biggest deal in the world.” I I think for Quinn to me, the bigger issue was just like accuracy. I thought he was inaccurate. Um there there was a drop down the field. I thought he put I forget who he put a nice ball on on a vertical route down the right sideline. Um someone dropped it. I don’t remember uh off the top of my head. I’ll have to look it up. But I don’t agree though. Um, but other than that, like I I thought Quinn was just really inaccurate. I thought he missed some throws in the middle of the field, missed some throws out to the flat. The arm looked not very good to me. I didn’t see a lot of drive on the ball. I didn’t see a lot of velocity on the ball. There were some tight windows for sure. Uh there’s no doubt about that. Guys were, you know, corners were on those receivers. You know, he’s working with the AJ Henning, Theoes, Andrew Armstrongs of the world. So, um, you know, I think obviously if guys like Tyreek Hill and Jim W out there, those throws are are easier for sure, 100%. But um I I for Quinn it’s like he performed exactly how I would spec expect a seventh round rookie quarterback to perform playing with fellow third stringers. I’m not really surprised. Um and I think for the Dolphins like the backup quarterback position is what it is. I I’ve been worried about it all off seasonason. I didn’t really like the way that they addressed it. I didn’t like the process with which they addressed it. And so far it’s not looking too great on for either guy. Yeah. I’m not I’m not ready to give up on on Zach Wilson because I because again I see big boy throw and it just may be that it’s going to be like really really inconsistent. Andrew Armstrong is one guy he had a who had a drop in the middle of the field uh for yours. Um trying to think here again lineup note here for those interested in such things. Jonah Sabaya w up playing the entire first half. He was the only offensive lineman. They started their current starting group of Patrick Paul, James Daniel, sorry, Patrick Paul, Jon Savaya, Aaron Brewer, James Daniels, Larry Boram. After the first series, Daniels and Brewers left. After the next series, Patrick Ball left and then late in the second the second quarter, Borum left and Sean left for uh played the entire first half. You mentioned the defensive lineman and you liked all three rookies. I I zoned in on zoomed in I should say with the Box on Jordan Phillips on several snaps. I’m sorry but he was getting handled and was one-on-one. It wasn’t like he was double teamed at the line like like he’s getting handled one-on-one. I mean like way too easily. Kenneth Grant had a really nice sequence late in the in the second quarter where he had a passes batted down at the line of scrimmage where he chased down Travis Homer, former University Miami running back after a screen pass or whatever. And then he had a third down stop, well third down tackle, which was after they gained the first down. So, I thought he did some good things. um thought the defense didn’t look bad and but I’m trying to think of like guys who stood and it was ironic to that Tyrell Dodson and we’ll get into that a little bit later before we attack viewer questions and comments and again I want to take a second here to apologize once again um to you guys for making you guys wait. I appreciate you guys to no end and love the fact that some people stuck it out and a lot of you guys have stuck it out. That means a ton to me. Um would even mean even more. Please like, subscribe, all that good stuff. But again, this for for sticking to it. Had you bailed, I would not have blamed you because it sucked. Anyway, my apologies one more time. Um, so Tyrell Dodson made the first third don stop, which was interesting in light of what happened with Jordan Brooks and both players addressed it in the locker room after the game and two big brothers fighting. We love each other and all that. That was that was all that. Mike McDaniel, I asked him as well and he said basically what happened wasn’t up to the Dolphin standards, but the players owned up to it. They apologized to their teammates, apologized to the team, and the Dolphin will will be better for it in the long run. So, and anybody else stand out to you? Yeah, I know you mentioned the the defensive lineman earlier. I’m trying to think on the second level or in the secondary. Um, Bonner had the nice play that created the interception. That was a good play. He he closed on that window, got a hand on it, popped right to Patrick McMorris. Probably the easiest interception he’s going to get in his life. Um, honestly, I I I have a difficult time evaluating the secondary from watching TV. You probably had a better view of it than I did. I thought there was a lot of space for the Bears receivers um at times. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I was more so like uh that long third down conversion where Luther Burden beat Mike Hilton in the slot. Like to see that one from the all 22. I wasn’t sure if that was a scheme thing or if Burden like actually just beat him in man. I wasn’t really sure. I missed that. So, um not a great I knee-jerk reaction. Probably not the best showing for the Dolphins secondary, but I don’t know that it was bad either, you know. Um so, we’ll we’ll see. And we should mention BJ Adams is the one who was was beat for the touchdown. Yes. Uh in the corner, but a great throw. Well, correct. This is one of those you I mean, the coverage was pretty damn good. I agree. A perfect pass. And also should point out, and again, this is not me being a hater for the Dolphins strong showing early on, but this these are the facts. The Dolphins started a lot of their starters on offense and defense, and the Bears didn’t. The Bears practically went with nothing but backups. So, let’s keep that in mind. It’s not taking anything away. And this is where, of course, we got to bring up the first drive, which was efficient. Shocker. Mike McDaniel goes forwards it for it on fourth and three, I think, from around midfield. Zero issue with that. Love that, especially since he he knew going in he was playing the starters one drive. Wasn’t going to end it there with a punt from midfield. So love that easy completion to Malik Washington who got open and then they get down near the goal line first and goal from the eight. Jaylen Wright has a really nice run. Six yards to the two yard line. Turnover run on downs. Yeah. And then and I and I’m scrolling social media when that happens and the here come the shots from national folks like here we go again. I mean, to be fair, like, could you have scripted a more ironic opening to the Dolphins preseason? They spend the entire off season talking about how we got to fix short yardage, we’re going to be tougher in the run game, and they come out and it’s four straight runs and goal to go and they won’t score. Like, I I I it’s it’s funny. Like, I laughed. I chuckled. Like, it like it’s just like ah like that’s the funniest possible way the season could start. But, um, Mike McDaniel mentioned postgame that he did that on purpose. He wanted them to get four straight runs in short yardage to get those reps. And I think that was the right decision. I I do I think that was correct. Agree. Yeah. And like they didn’t get it. And you know what? I I would have to pull up the numbers in front of me. And I’m sure the numbers for the game overall aren’t great because of that sequence, but they punched in the following one. They had a rushing touchdown that was not in goal to go or was it close. Jaylen Rice was like five yards out maybe. All right, goal to go. So, two goal to go rushing touchdowns later in the game. Ali Gordon had a third in short yardage later in the game. So, you know, again, playing against backups with your own backups, blah blah blah blah blah. But, you know, not the end of the world that they didn’t score on that opening drive. Obviously, it’s good to get those reps. They punched the the other ones in later in the game. So, yeah. I mean, just a really ironic way to start and I think they made the right decision just trying to rep that out and get those reps and have those things on tape. Um, like I I think an easy one is the third down one. I think that’s a touchdown if Jonah Saladia just connects. He whiffed on his block on on the third down play and I think if he just connects it’s it’s a touchdown, right? And that that was an easy one. That that was an easy fix. He just whiffed, right? So like the the coaching point there is, hey, don’t just like step into your guy. just, you know, make sure you make contact and it’s touchdown, right? So, easy fix. No need to overreact. It was really funny, though. Like, it’s just I know. It’s like, yeah, they’re going to take Yeah, they’re going to take shots. And then, um, so it was a 24 tie. Um, yeah, again, as you as you mentioned there, it’s some good, some bad, and I’m trying to I’m looking at the the the box score over here to see if anything else really jumps out at me. If you look at the final numbers, um, seven for 16 on third down, which is actually pretty good. Uh, penalties, Dolphins 10 for 16. Oh, I want to mention this, and I want to I’m going to do this because I like doing this. I’m going to do this. I’m going to pat myself on the back. You guys have been watching the All Offense podcast or you and you saw pointed this out on Twitter because I had to, but I’ I’ve mentioned this before. I watched Larry Borm at practice and that dude is lining up too far back from the line and if he gets a zealous official, he’s going to get flagged. And lo and behold, the first snap of the game and it was a nice run by Devon HM over the left side. No, illegal formation. 79 offense and spoiler alert, he did it a couple more times. I think the next series was like he’s doing it again, but they didn’t call it. That’s one of those where I mean he’s got he’s going to have to hone in on it. It’s like Joan Taylor from the Chiefs would do it entire season. Yeah. And I do think it’s a point of emphasis this year for the refs. So like they are going to try to call it uh more often uh if I remember correctly, right? Like they every year the refs get a certain uh degree of rules that they are supposed to focus on a little bit more than usual. And I do think that is one this year. No, it’s not. Sorry to correct you, but the only the only reason I I’m correcting you right now is because I we had the the media sorry the media session with the officials that that they they produce every single training camp where they bring and they talk about the rule changes and I I literally asked a question is there have there’s been anything decreed as being a point of emphasis for 2025 and the answer was no. That’s what I mean. would be that would be the first time I can recall that happening. That’s interesting. Okay. Well, maybe he’ll get away with it then. You don’t have to worry about there. Dan Taylor got away with it for a whole year and that has nothing to do with a couple years. Couple years for Dwan Taylor. Has nothing to do with my Chiefs fatigue. Nothing at all. I just mentioned that out of the blue. So, uh, anything else from the game? I’m trying to think here. Um, both guys punted for the battle for the or battle, which Dante hates. Dante hates when they do or but Jake Bailey I mean Jake Bailey 59 yards on this on this punt inside a 20 as well with an and a nine nine yard return that’s so that’s a net of 50 that’s record-breaking stuff and Tone House his punt was 50 and the return also was under 10 that’s also a net of 40 which is uh you get that u that’s really impressive so that was good uh Jason Sanders 56 yard field goal No problem. But he sucks because the guy from Jacksonville did 70 yards. So the hell’s wrong with you, Sanders? I’m sorry. I’m joking. I’m joking. We were talking about that in the press box because the end of the game, if you missed it, it’s like both teams are 24-24. There are there’s no overtime in the preseason and each team traded possessions like around the 40 yard line because they went on four on fourth down and they kept missing and we’re like debating I’m thinking how far are they going to let Sanders try a field goal and the last Dolphin snap I want to say was from what the 45 of of the Bears or something like that. So you looking at 63 yard field goal. I would rather seen that than another Quinn Eer snap. So we’ll see. What? 63 yard field goal is exciting. That That’s pretty cool. I was I was pumped at the 70 yarder yesterday. That was sick. Funny. Let me Let me find real quickly here the exact I’m going look at the game book. Find the exact yardage. Um, yep. It was fourth and fourth and 15 from the Chicago 45. So, 63 yard field goal attempt would have been exciting. I think it would have better shot of success than than I agree. What what were they gonna do? Like I uh whatever. It’s fine. Maybe next time. That’s fine. That’s funny. Uh what what say you? We start tackling some of these viewer comments and questions. There we go. We’re going to start with Garpump. Garp Gump. Oh, Garpump. Okay. Thank you very much for the kind contribution, my friend. Allan, just a reminder, I said this team reminds me of the 1991 team. Let’s sally this comparison forward as a season unfolds. talking about the starters, of course. Continue to admire your work. 36 years on. Oh, dude. Much appreciated. Love that. Um, the 1991 team, Whoa. 1921 or 1990. 1991 team was the one that went um, sorry. Well, I’ll get back to that one. 1991 team was the one that went 8-8. 1990 is the one that went 12-4 when the defense really blew up coming out of nowhere a little bit. Um, and the Dolphins finished. No, they were a wild card in the FC because Buffalo was 13 and3. Beat Kansas City in the first round of the playoffs. Lost against Buffalo in the divisional round. So, I think maybe that’s the one you’re talking about because 91 91 was was an 8 and8 season and they lost out on making the playoffs if memory serves on a late field goal by the Jets in the season finale. Um, okay, here we go. Uh, Garb Gump again. Again, thank you very much. I’m the 36-y old long fan who mentioned this team reminds me of a ton of the nine seed. There you go. N 90 Dolphin squad. Very similar criticism of the team yet similar adjustments toward bucking being finesse. 11 wins. I’ll sign me up for that. Dante, you do with that? 11 wins. Yeah, that sounds good. Let’s do it. Um, yeah, I think this defense this defense has has potential. I I I I I think but as with everything with this team, the ceiling is interesting, but there there are just an awful lot of question marks and you have to avoid the injury bug and you see injuries around the NFL in the preseason. That’s going to happen. Um and you just hope you don’t get nailed. Uh Juan Vargas, thank you very much for the contribution. I am sorry, but two is the mannequin of the dolphin. Not quite sure what that means, but okay. Noah, super sticker. Thank you very much, Noah. Much appreciated. Let’s move on over here. Oh, if I go to the top of the comments when I was massively late, it’s probably not going to be very good. Biggers look great. Biggers look good. Oh, Derek, I want to say something about Derek McClennon because somebody here, Valaholic is saying Mlennon looked good. that roughing the passer pen or unnecessary roughness penalty had bogus. Completely bogus. Sorry. What the hell was that? What the flight for? Did you see the play? It’s preseason for the refs, too. You remember the play? Look, I they I I’ve had a problem with the the the freaking uh unnecessary roughness calls for a couple years now. I mean, there’s like what, like probably five or six a week that are just like, what are we doing? you know, like I I it’s been a trend in the league for a couple years now. I didn’t think that was roughing, but uh I’ll be honest, when he when he made the play, I thought they were going to call it because that’s where they’re at. They call those now, which is absurd. They do though. How many of those do we get with you? I don’t disagree with you, but it’s like But usually they do it if it’s a bigname quarterback. And I’m sorry, but was it Tyson Begent? It’s either him or Keenan. So, okay. Oh, well, the network it’s Case Keenan. Oh, sorry. I know. Rude rude on my part. Sorry. Yeah. And I had to be corrected because I called him Badin at first. I was like I was told it was Beijing. So, you know, agent Tyson agent. Be agent. There you go. That’s how I’m going to remember. Um, the fans are pretty s I would imagine. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Uh, Hill Waddle, NWI, Washington Bros and Easy. That’s my six. Cody, if they keep six maybe, but if they do right now, I’m sorry. I think Isizukama gets beaten out by DGridge. Yeah, guess right now. I would agree. And I I think Escridge did some nice things in the return game, too, which matters. And and Isizukama did too, to be fair. He also had a good return, so probably an interesting battle. But yeah, I’d probably lean Estridge as well if they keep six. Uh Garp Gump, I was goofy with my initial message. kind of like Zach Wilson standing flatfooted with no horns in the pocket. That’s funny. That’s pretty funny. The second super delivered with a quick release off my back foot. Well done. Well done. There we go. That was a good one. But I see I remember what your point that she had made earlier because I I swear on my two children that I I was talking about you maybe thinking about the 90 team before I actually saw it. I wasn’t like I read it I read it secretly and then I’m going to show them how smart I am. No. Um, uh, Jeff, hey Jeff, I don’t know if either of you saw it, but he said at a practice video breaking down everything he saw in one-on- ones and what he liked, disliked. It was very interesting. Uh, I don’t know if you mean you mean a video about the joint practice. Yes, I listened to all of it. And in fact, if you read my melons.com, you will see that I wrote a story about what Terron said about the Tyreek tour relationship as well as the Jake Mendle story on J. Take two. Jordan Brooks emerging as a leader with Terron’s quote about what happened. In fact, because he’s the first one who kind of revealed that what happened was that Jordan Brooks was mad that Tyrell Dodson strictly thutdded a Bears running back on a third down play as opposed to hitting him and basically putting him to the ground the way the Bears defenders were doing against the Dolphins. And Dodson said after pra after the game today that he was going by what the rules were supposed to be. And so let me ask you this. I mean you’ve read everything that there would have been to be to be read. Do you blame the Dolphins for doing it the way it was supposed to be which is it was supposed to be thutting no life tackling where the Bears kind of took liberties. They one guy ran through Jaylen Wadd on a screen. The guy clubbed the top of the helmet of his Yukama on a pass over the middle and there was another one involving may have been Devon Chan. Two or wound up getting hit twice. So where do you stand on the Dolphins should have done the same thing or bears suck for not living up to the rules? I think it’s um it’s a tough one because from my like outsider perspective on this, it’s very easy for me to say, “Hey, the Bears were not following the rules. Nobody wants to get hurt in a joint practice on both sides.” Like both teams really should be looking out for each other in that vein, right? Like they should be. Um however, I was an athlete. I I was competitive. Uh if if I was in the Dolphins shoes and I saw them thudding my guys or not thing my guys, they’re hitting my guys. They’re they’re putting them in the ground. I’m going to hit somebody. I get it. I I really do. I understand I understand both sides. I do. I understand Terrell Datson saying, “Hey, I’m not trying to get anybody hurt. I’m trying to do the rules. I that’s totally fine. I get it.” I also understand why Jordan Brooks was in general upset and losing his patience and wanting to u you know ask his teammates to be a little bit more physical and match the physicality that the Bears were giving them uh on the other side. So uh to me it’s it’s kind of tough. I get it. Um I think one of the reasons I didn’t overreact to the fight in the first place is because these things happen in these practices. These guys get really fired up and competitive. Um, I I I understand where Jordan Brooks is coming from, right? He’s he’s tired of of watching his guys get popped and and and they’re not popping back and and what is the the prevailing narrative with the Dolphins. Um, they’re not tough, right? Like that’s what they’re that’s the label they’re trying to shed. Whether that’s fair or not, we could do a whole podcast on that. That’s the label that they have and they’re trying to shed it. So, I understand where Jordan Brooks is coming from. I don’t really have a problem with it either way. It seems like both guys, you know, were fired up. They had a conversation about it. you talked to them in the locker room, Mike McDaniel commented on it. Seems like it’s all good, you know, like I I I think it’s water under the bridge, if you will. And for me, the the the the important point is was Tyrell Dodson at that time aware that the Bears were not playing nice. And if you weren’t, because I played sports all my life as well, and trust me, if if I’m aware that you’re doing that to my guy, Mr. Bears running back, you catch a pass, I’m nailing you. Yeah. and then you want to come at me, bring it because then so sorry it’s if if it’s good enough for you, it’s good enough for us. So anyway, let’s move on. Um Douglas Anderson says Mlennon was possibly the best defensive player. Willie Gay Ballh Ball Holic. Willie Gay was everywhere. Willie Gay was was actually was given half a sack after after giving the full sack. And if we’re going to be honest about it, Benito Jones is the one who made the play because he got the pressure, forced Mr. Beagent up in the pocket and really get cleaned up. Agreed. Uh, shout out Bonner, Duck, Jack, and uh, Isaiah Johnson. Yes, Jack Johnson’s had a couple of decent play. Isaiah Johnson was involved in the fourth down play and it’s one of those had great coverage. should have been defensive pass interference but wasn’t I think I think Austin Reed should have thrown a good pass. How about that? I I the my other huge pet peeve is underthrown DPI enough. I’m I’m tired of it. Throw like stop rewarding these quarterbacks for underthrowing the ball. I’m glad I didn’t throw the flag. Okay, hold on. Okay, that’s fine. But okay, now tell me, come back to me when it’s Tyreek Hill who’s the receiver and it’s a it’s an opposing DB who does that. Tell me. If it’s under throw, my opinion is going to be the same. If it’s a bad throw, my opinion is not going to change. I I am very consistent on this. I cannot stand it. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves. Constantly rewarding quarterbacks for throws that are five yard. What do you want the DB to do? Grow turn and look at the ball. That’s what I want the DB to do. Sometimes you can’t though, especially when it’s that underthrown. What? Like what what was Isaiah Johnson going to do? The guy’s running past him. He had a step on him. If that’s a good throw, it’s a completion. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So, he’s going to grow eyes in the back of his head and turn around. You know how hard it is to turn around when you’re not in phase? It’s incredibly difficult. I understand that. But if he’s looking at the receiver, you This is where you pick up clues from the receiver that the ball’s coming. Whether it’s the look on the guy or some receivers will or not good at this will bring up the hands. Um, right. Well, you have to play through the hands. You don’t turn around in that scenario. You play through the hands. You try to stick your hand in when they go up. That the the risk you run is if you’re if you’re running at full speed and the pass is under thrown and the receiver starts breaking to adjust for the ball. And the rule is clear. I mean, we may not like it. The rule is clear. You can’t run through a receiver on a ball that’s under thrown because he’s stopping and you keep running into him. No, I look it they could have thrown the flag and it would have been DPI by the rule. I just hate the rule. I think it’s terrible and I I’m very I will be very consistent on that all year. Even if it’s to a underthrowing Tyreek Hill and they, you know, like I it’s it’s terrible. Like I I don’t understand. These corners have no chance. No chance. Yeah, you’re right. The rules are good for the Jeff, I love you, my friend. I’m gonna have to disagree with you here because Jeff is saying that fade in the end zone was rough. The corner got burned and he knew it. Felt bad. Adams. Yeah, that’s pretty damn good coverage. I’m sorry. Um I thought so, too. That was a great throw. That might be one of the best throws Case Keenum’s made in his whole career. That was a great throw. Back to high school probably. Yeah, that was a great case had a long career. He’s had some success in the league. That was a great throw. That was a dime. I mean, a great elite offense is always going to beat good defense. It just is. Like I like they could the quarterback if they can put the ball in a position where you can’t get to it. You can’t get to it. At the end of the day, you could be in as good position as you want to be in. Stuff like that’s going to happen. I don’t blame BJ Adams for that one at all. I mean, maybe he got beat off the line or whatever, but he got back he got back into the picture. He was right there. Really good throw. It happens. I agree. And as my father used to say, the other team gets paid, too. I I have to put this very random. Has nothing to do with the dolphins, but sure, I’ll put it up. Brian says, “You have great hair, poop.” A thanks, dude. Thank you. Is that is that you your subtle way of trying to tell me that you don’t want me to wear the expo hat? Um I have I have gel on right now. Generally, don’t wear gel. And if I don’t have gel, it’s a little bit crazier. Um not as crazy as when I was in like a high school senior where my hair was all poofy like this. It’s a pretty It’s not a pretty sight, I promise you. Um, interesting interesting take here. Grant was antilimactic. He’s a project like Christian Wilkins. Very interesting take. I uh I don’t know about you. I didn’t mind his game at all today. Actually, I thought it was okay. No, I thought it was I thought it was fine. I I really did. I I think um I think if you expected Grant to come out and like be this quarter, you know, pass rushing savant, like that’s just not who he is right now. Um so that that really didn’t surprise me. I’ll be curious to go back through the the all 22 and just see like rep to rep was he creating push? Was he creating movement? But I thought the plays that he did made, he looked good. And the plays where I tried to focus on him and not worry about what else was going around, I I saw a player who was strong and it was stout. generally speaking. Um, and so I I think that’s what you’re going to get out of Kenneth Grant, at least in the first half of his rookie season. I I don’t know that he’s going to be this, you know, box scoreer guy who’s going to put up a bunch of sacks and a bunch of QB pressures. I think he might get credit for a QB Harrier or QB pressure in this game. He might I the play was kind of close. We’ll see. Um, I didn’t check if they put those up yet or not, but I don’t know. I will tell you right now. How about that? How about close? Uh Kenneth Grant who was credited with two tackles, two assists, one pass defense. There you go. All right. So, no no QB Harry. It was close. It was on the fence. Harry, sorry. No, no QB Harry. Okay. It was close. So, I mean, I I I I thought Grant was okay in the in the snaps that I watched where he was on the field and I was focusing on him. I I didn’t see anything to make me think that he’s a project. Uh because I I feel like project implies like player has a long way to go and I don’t I don’t feel that way about Kenneth Brand. He has areas in which he can improve for sure. He’s not a finished product, but I I don’t know that I’d call him a project. But here’s the point again. We need to say this and somebody in in the chat mentioned it way earlier. Dolphins were not were not going against the Bears starting offensive line, which now has some players on it after their offseason shopping spree. I want to mention one player I forgot to mention who was kind of active and was sent on the blitz quite a bit and I think there may be something there if that’s how the Dolphins want to use him when they do use him which will I think will still be sporadically that’s Channington uh Noel my friend Noel how are you buddy thank you so much for the contribution appreciate it I thought the game as a whole wasn’t bad obviously work to do but don’t feel like the sky is falling thanks for the live after game show. Absolutely. And I plan on doing this um this thing right here after every game. I I promise you guys it will runs more smoothly. This was a a oneoff. And did I mention to the Kennedy Expressway? No. Noah with a super sticker. Thank you, Noah. Appreciate it. Let’s go toward the bottom here. We’re probably going to run about an hour or so depending on what we get in terms of of comments and questions and all that good stuff. Um, see what we got here. Uh, Jim, in fairness, is Zach Wilson, I believe, on one of the passes to the tight end in the flat. It was poor play design where he was running to his left and had to throw across his body, which always affects accuracy. Sorry, Jim. And, um, I’ve not been shy about praising Zach Wilson for his work in training camp. Sorry, that was that was as easy a throw as it could be. Uh, yes, he was rolling to his left and he didn’t need to be accurate. He need to be in the same zip code as Tanner Connor and it was a walk-in touchdown and he flucked it. Yeah. No, there’s there’s no getting around that one. That’s a That’s as easy as they come. Those are the the easy ones. You gota you That’s a what they call it in golf? A gimme, right? That’s that’s like the official the official turnout. It’s a gimme for Zach Wilson. You got to make that throw. Yep. No, I agree. Uh Wobson unsalted Washington squared looked good. Yeah, Taj Malik Washington is set. He’s there’s never been a concern an issue about him being on the 53. I think Taj Washington has looked very very good throughout training camp. Probably I didn’t know much ton about him to be honest with you because we didn’t see him very much last year before he wound up on IR. So yeah, strong. I was uh the Bears played so much man coverage in this game off the like top of my head especially early in the game. Like I mean Tosh is going to separate against those guys very easily. That’s his whole thing. That’s the whole stickick. Malik and Tsh. Uh so teams are going to throw a lot of man coverage at the Dolphins which I frankly would not anticipate when the full offense is on the field but Taj is going to win those battles a lot. Uh, right. Like the big one that he had from Zach Wilson that was a I off the TV broadcast looked like a zero blitz with man behind it. Like TSH is going to be third string slot cornerback every time. Like that’s just that’s his game. That’s where he excels. So it’s good to see him show up uh for sure. He needs he needs it because it’s going to be a really tough battle at the bottom of the receiver room. Yeah, I think I think it’s going to be Hill Waddle, Malik Washington, NWI. I don’t want to say they’re locked, but pretty close. And then again, it depends whether they keep five or six. Last year they kept four at the beginning, I believe. Memory serves, but I think two years ago at one point they had six. So, it’s four, five, or six. I would be surprised if it was four because I think they had they have more options, more good options this year. Um, we got Devin ATL. Thank you, sir. Do you think Waller will be activated from the PUP list this week? Would be nice, right? Holy moly. And we keep asking, we asked him last week and I’m trying to remember what his answer was. Um, he said it was it was coming soon, but the joint practice schedule make things. Yes. Is what he said. So, and like I said before, I mean, the guy’s completely ripped and had somebody on here in the com. By the way, I read the comments. I reply to some of them. Some of you guys, I like most of the comments, even those who disagree and all that. Those who call names or like are condescending. Seriously. do better. Um, but I think I mean Waller’s coming is like again, how do you get into football shape if you’re not playing? Uh, again, he’s ripped. He’s got the conditioning because he was doing that stuff. Okay. So, what’s missing? Um, I don’t know. And he doesn’t have to do every single rep when they do joint practices. So, yeah, I don’t know. Um, what do we have? Oh, that personal foul at the end of the game when the Dolphins stopped the Bears with a bunch of bull. If you’re talking about the personal foul on Eugene Asante, the rookie free agent linebacker, it’s pretty high hit. I I It’s one of those that to me was a more of an automatic flag than the one on Derek McClendon. I’m going to be honest about I I missed it on Asante. I was I was writing the gamer for the story, so I missed that one. But the Mlendon one was was not good. That was bad. That was a bad call. So, yeah. And then this one was like I’m not ready to say it was it was the right call, but it was a high hit. And from my vantage point, it looked like the second that the play happened, yo, here comes the flag. Uh yeah, Sam Gladstone, we don’t have a tush push. Be nice. It’d be nice. Remember they had they had not a tush push, but they had a quarterback sneak when Jacobe Brassette was the backup. Jacobe Brousett’s a big dude, but then Skyler Thompson was a big dude, but while he had size, I don’t know that Skyler Thompson is somebody I would call strong physically. Jacobe Brassette’s a big dude and strong. U Mike White certainly wasn’t strong. They should try the uh the tight end sneak. There you go. By the way, you mentioned I apologize for cutting you off there. You mentioned tight. You mentioned tight end and we’re talking about tush push and all that and maybe tried the tight end. Dolphins did that at times with Durham Smite and I bring that up because he was on the other side today and he failed to come up with a very catchable pass at one point. Yeah, they should do it again. Do it with Julian Hill. I I don’t know. I I to me there’s like no excuse to not have some version of a of a sneak in today’s NFL. Like teams have been innovating. Like I it sounds it seems like a ridiculous thing to say, but like there’s been legitimate innovation on the quarterback sneak in the last three years. Use a tight end, use a big receiver, a big running back. If you can’t, you know, you don’t want to get too under center and push him into a pile. I get it. I don’t really I’m not interested in seeing that either. You have other options, though. Other teams around the league are doing this stuff. Do that. I I like I It’s It’s It’s silly. It’s It’s not hard to do. Julian Hill can take a snap and push. He’ll be fine. I promise. Yeah, except I remember. Oh, I’m gonna I’m gonna do this and I’m gonna get some hate here, but I remember him fumbling near the goal line last year, two years ago. Well, it’s different. Was it in a pile like we’re just We need him to get like But it was a fumble and and have you seen six inches in a in a cloud of dust here. All right, that’s it. I’ve also seen him drop a lot of balls and easy passes and train. All right, make it Pharaoh Brown. I’m I’m not I’m not dying on the Julian Hill gold. Okay, I’ll like I’ll take that one. Um interesting here. Pretty boy FPV. We need to get more starters for the O line. Why not get Win and a couple of others should be starters and have them as rotational pieces. Isaiah Win, Chris Ger’s comment was very interesting when we asked about Isaiah Win. I think it was at the pre-draft press conference where I think the question may I remember if they tried resigning him. I think how the question was phrased and he basically said he went for free agency and that was it. It wasn’t, pardon me, it wasn’t totally explained, but it was kind of like the interpretation of it from all of us was like that that ship has sailed, the bridge has been lifted, there’s no going back. I don’t know what’s going on there. I don’t know what happened. Isaiah Win, if you notice, hasn’t signed with any other team. And by the way, this is the part as chronicled on Miami Dolphins onsi.com. If you check out the website, you already know this. Duke Riley signed with Washington on Sunday and Jeff Wilson Jr. signed with the 49ers. But Isaiah Win has not signed with anybody. And I don’t know what his physical status is. I know it took him a hell of a long time to come back from the injury he sustained against the Eagles in 2023. And then last year when he did come back, he was rotating with Liam Iikenberg. So, I don’t know what deal is going on here, but I no, I don’t foresee a an Isaiah win re reunion. Although, to me, he joins the roster and if he’s right physically, he’s immediately the best backup interior offensive lineman on the roster. Yeah, that might be fair. But I I don’t know if Isaiah Wins played what, more than 10 games in three years. Like, you can’t the you can’t keep bagging on the dog. you in general, the general public, you cannot keep banging on the Dolphins for all their injuryprone players and then go, “Why don’t we sign Isaiah Win?” Good point. Oh, fix it. Another injury-prone offensive lineman. Good job. Like, like if they sign win, I’m not going to be like, “Ah, terrible signing.” You know, but like like what what are we doing? We can’t keep being like, “Ah, they have all these injuryprone players and the offensive line’s not very good. Let’s go sign a injury-prone player who we probably have better medical information on than any of the other teams because he was on our team last year. Yep. That’s it’s not doing it for me. I’m sorry. Very good point. He troeno um should have should have won all trade free agent and draft for quality lineman signing worst rated offensive lineman is not the answer. broom run skill any petty. I mean I I would just simply trade for good players. I I would just simply do that. Why didn’t they think of that? That’s crazy. That’s what I would have done. I agree. I agree with the latter point. Like No, no. I I I don’t disagree, but it’s like again No, you’re I’m I’m having a hard time. Yeah. I mean, they they You’re right. They should have, but I don’t know. There were great options at tackle to be honest with you. Um there were got Larry Tonsel back. Yeah, he was it was the best tackle move this off season. Okay. I don’t think they had the financial wherewithal in terms of the caps. Sure. Yeah. Um let’s address this. Cody, I think they call four straight runs to see what right looks like in goals line situations. It also was the first team offensive line. I think they want to see what those guys look like. Yeah, they want to see what everybody looked like, right? That was the whole point of that. We have most of the starting line on the field. We have Jaylen Wright who might be the first man up in short yardage. Here’s four straight reps. Let’s let’s go get it and we’re going to go back and watch that in the tape next week and we’re gonna try and fix it. So, I Yeah, I I think you’re right. That’s exactly what they wanted to do and they’re smart. They should keep doing it all preseason. Keep running. I agree. Here’s here’s been my answer here, Dave. Relax. A lot of backup offensive linemen will be available when cuts are made, including veterans. Here’s the thing, Dave. How what kind of quality offensive linemen are you expecting to get when they get cut by another team when the entire league is looking for offensive line depth? Good luck. I’m not saying it’s impossible. I am saying counting on finding a quality offensive lineman who’s been cut by his original team when this is such a precious commodity. Uh okay, very rare, very rare. And by the way, I’m very very relaxed. Thanks for thanks for your concern because this actually this this is very enjoyable. I enjoy doing this. Um, this is somebody not relaxed. When you use all caps, that’s not relaxed, my friend. Try this exercise. You You’re bringing your two like this. You’re doing Sorry, I digress. I hate those stupid sweep runs. If memory serves, they actually did those worked out pretty well uh with Achan early on. I think somebody else might have had a good run like that. I don’t know that those runs do poorly on a regular basis. So, I don’t I think one of them was for minimal gain and then two were like pretty solid gain. It was like a two out of three success rate if I’m not mistaken. So, not bad. B Mcds also said they were going to flag more cheap motions. No, they No, they didn’t. No, that that was a madeup story by another outlet that confused everybody. Yeah. and it was last year and no they didn’t and I remember and this is something I don’t know why the Dolphins have stopped doing it because it was very successful in 2023 and there a lot of times when Tyreek would get just a little bit of a head start um at the snap and they weren’t calling it so not they’re not calling it it’s perfectly fine right Navy Eugene Asante Derek McClendon and Dacoin Jackson all played very well which one do you think makes a 53man roster roster. They’ve got to be honest with you, none. Uh I don’t Jackson and Asante, no chance. I mean, if McClendon really shines, but I’d be shocked like it it’d be like legitimately surprising. I think they try to practice squad him for sure. Uh they’ll try to Yeah, they’ll try to put him on the practice squad, I think. But, uh, that edge room, you need guys who are going to contribute on teams and in the running game a little bit. And I think you’re going to get that more from from Cameron Good and Quinton Bell for for those depth edge players, but we’ll see. Oh, you’re like you’re like me. So, in the because I’m having a debate with another Dolphin Media member, um, whose name rhymes with Bromar Belly, uh, and and and the debate is Cameron Good versus Grayson Murphy. And I’m telling you, Cameron Good makes a team over Grayson Murphy because to me, I think he’s a lot more assignment sound and he contributes on special teams. Grayson Murphy had a two-play sequence that to me shows this the ceiling and also the concern. And the ceiling is, if you saw the play, he didn’t bite on a play fake, came straight into the QB. Boom, sack, he’s down. And he’s got those pass rushing instincts. But that’s what he is first and foremost and second and second most is a pass rusher. And there was another play where he went really really hard. There was a a running back leaking out of the back field right next to him where veterans savvy veterans would recognize, oh, they’re throwing a screen right over here and he didn’t and he just full blast to the quarterback allowing for a very easy completion and a healthy game for the offense. Yeah. Do you um do you worry about having an extra pass rusher in that room with the injury history of Bradley Chub and Jaylen Phillips? Because that to me that’s the argument for keeping Grayson Murphy. It’s like, hey, we’re going to add we’re going to keep a six receiver on teams and we’re going to keep Murphy as the fourth edge rusher because we’re going to need pass rush juice if Phillips and Chub go down. That’s the only like because I I don’t know if they I think they’d like to keep Murphy in an ideal world. It’s just can you find a spot for him, right? So I don’t like that would be my concern in that room is because I think Quinton Bell’s a perfectly fine depth edge player. You don’t really want him as like your pass rusher opposite Chop Robinson consistently. He can play and he’s a he’s a good player. Like I think you keep Quinton Bell for sure, but I think you’d rather have Grayson Murphy in pass rushing situations in the event that they have some injuries in that room. So, no, you make a valid point. And maybe they wind up keeping six edge defenders. Maybe. Yeah. But this is what we’re talking about. Are they keeping six wide receivers? This is where it’s going to be give and take throughout the roster at some point. Yeah. So, this this is going to come down to who they prioritize. Okay. You know what? We have reached the one hour mark and I wh I got one more. I gota got to take care of um my my people contribute. I will always acknowledge you guys and this is much appreciated. Uh Garb comp 1990 and 1225 Miami mirror each other. Small explosive wide receivers. Duper Clayton 59 Hill Wadd 510 timing QBS with fast releases. Marino Tua and youth on the left side of the O line. More to follow. Um, I don’t think Marino and T were exactly the same. I knew that. I knew that was I’m not I knew that was going to be the first place that you went. But I’m I I’m not even I’m not even talking about quality of quarterback or passer. I’m not going there. I’m talking about in terms of playing style. Uh, yeah, Marino had a had a fast release and to so does Tua. Marino threw down the field a whole lot more. is it wasn’t so much of like like anticipation and rhythm and and and I I’m not going to say spot throwing because spot throwing I was thinking about that the other day is I need to say this very very delicately. If I’m throwing if you’re running a five yards and cutting to the outside and I’m throwing where you’re going to be I’m throwing to that spot. If you’re running a curl and I’m throwing where you are, I’m th even though I’m not, if you know I’m not throwing ahead of you. I’m throwing where you are. I’m still still throwing to that spot where you are. So, isn’t every single solid solitary throw a spot throw? I mean, seriously. Well, I sure technically. Yeah, if you want to if you want to take the very literal definition of the term. Yeah, I guess every throw is technically a spot throw. Sure. Yeah, but it’s like I I get the mean the meaning is basically throwing to where your receiver is going to be. And again, there are c certain fans who make it seem like this is some sort of like novel 2075 idea like I mean this is not again this is not something that’s not been done over and over and over again. I mean what’s novel about the way the Dolphins do it is that they push it vertically. Not m not not so much last year. Historically under Mike McDaniel they pushed those concepts vertically more than offenses have in the past historically. Last year they didn’t do that as well and that was a big reason that the offense was and I don’t even mean like vertically like 20 yards down the field. I’m talking about Tyreek Hill will run instead of a typical spot throw being a seven yard curl. Tyreek Hill so fast that becomes a 12 yard income, right? And like that’s that’s the novel part, not a quarterback that throws with anticipation. Quarterback’s been throwing with anticipation for, you know, hundred years. They’re going to keep throwing with anticipation for another hundred years. The novel part is how you uh build that into the offense to maximize the speed that you have at receiver and the accuracy to throw the ball into those windows that you have at quarterback. Right? That’s the novel part of it. So yeah. Okay. On that note, that that is going to wrap it up. Uh gone a little bit past an hour. Again, my apologies for the delay. Thank you so much for joining and hanging on those who were there when it was supposed to start. Uh please like, subscribe. Hope you enjoyed this. He is Dante Colinelli, deputy editor of Miami Dolphins onsi. You know who I am. Find our work at Miami Dolphins onsi.com. As for the upcoming upcoming schedule, I am not quite sure. The Dolphins are scheduled to be off tomorrow. Let’s say at this time, I do not plan on doing a podcast. Um, take a little bit of a break. Uh, check your notifications. I’ll put it on social media, but we will be back at some point sooner rather than later. And we’ll be doing this again after the game against the Lions next Saturday. In the meantime, again, thanks everyone for watching and have a great rest of your evening.

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