Who Is To Blame For The Miami Dolphins 0-3 Start?!

Who Is To Blame For The Miami Dolphins 0-3 Start?!

On this episode of the finish line, I am joined by Richmond Webb and Mr. Ball Game and we will discuss who is to blame for the Miami Dolphins current terrible start to the season. Plus, I know Jonah has been a topic of discussion. We’ll get Richmond Webb’s thoughts on the struggles of the young left guard right now. We’ll get his thoughts on if moving him back to the right side could help fix things or not. Plus, we’ll cover a whole lot more as we get ready for the Dolphins to take on the Jets in week four. Smash that like button. Go ahead and subscribe if you are new and as always, let’s get into this. [Music] [Applause] [Music] You have got to be kidding me. Heat. Heat. Beautiful day to be a dolphin dance. Let’s go. [Music] All right. Huddle up. Huddle up. We’re gonna crank these engines up on one. On one. All right. Wait. Wait. Set. Drivers. Start your engines. [Music] The Larry Vodka. This is the finish line. I approached a great office in Japan. very little white Stevenson Hall game and Richmond web in that same group. Here are your hosts, legendary Miami Dolphins left tackle Richmond Web Reason and Mr. Ball Game. [Music] What is good Finn Nation? What’s good? It’s your boy Reasonz and we are back here for another one. I’m joined by the legendary Richmond Webb and Mr. Ballgame for another episode of the finish line. Welcome in. And gentlemen, another week, another loss for the Miami Dolphins. They’ve started off 0 and3 for the first time in the Mike McDaniel regime. Hey Richmond, I know you were a little low on this team heading into the season, but I didn’t think it would play out this bad at the beginning. Uh, how you feeling, brother? Hard to keep your head up as a Dolphin fan these days. At least you got Marcel Reed and the Aggies. Well, yeah, we do. We got a we got a tough game coming up Saturday against Auburn. We going to go to that game. So, uh first Aggie game I’ll make and then u after that I’ll be headed to South Florida for the Chargers game. But um yeah, I I think disappointed. I don’t think nobody uh had the Dolphins going 0 and3. Um, the takeaways I get from the Buffalo Bills game is that it seemed like it was more of a concerted effort um to me from the players seemed like they played harder. I think it was just um penalties at inopportune times or dumb penalties and uh or just mental mistakes that’s I think costing this team, you know, games. I I thought realistically if if we played be better as far as not making those mistakes, I thought this was a opportunity we had to actually win this football game. But um it didn’t start out that way, but once they kind of settled down, it seemed like um they got going and and I felt good. And then, you know, we were kind of talking before, it was a couple of key plays that, you know, we talked about and what you mentioned and and I I agree with that. So, um I’m trying to look at the positives and I’m like I can deal with the effort if we can minim minim minimalize the penalties and the dumb mistakes and we should be at home so it shouldn’t be an issue crowd noise and all that especially for our offense that we finally get get things rolling. And I I know as a player when you’re in a slump like this, the first thing you want to do is if you can get a win, you don’t want to keep hearing that, you know, guys, we didn’t play as bad as we thought, but we keep losing. You you need to get that W in the column, and I think they’ll feel better. And Monday night, this is a for me, I look at and say, okay, this is I’m this is showtime for me because it’s only two teams playing Monday night, so this is where, you know, four there’s two games. Okay, four. I forgot that they do that. Yeah, I’m still thinking old school. But um like you said, it’s only four and this is your your prime timing. Don’t get no better than that. It’s um 28 28 teams at home, only four playing. So this is the time to shine and and then this is an opportunity for the team to get a win and then for you know analysts to be talking the next day and say where was this team the first three weeks of the season or why did they fin you know they finally put them together. So that’s what I’m I got my fingers crossed but I think this is a winnable game but I think we got to make improvements from the Buffalo game. Continue to make strides and I think we can we can win this game here. How you doing Mr. ball game. I’m good to be truthful with you. Um I’m not as upset as I thought I was going to be because they did at least fight and they didn’t lay down. They didn’t just take it on the chin. They actually tried to go out and compete and actually was in the game. But you know, like anything else, man, at some point you got to stop, you got to start hurting yourself. Really what it come down to. And I think sometimes to some degree there’s a lack of there’s a lack of preparedness and most of those things in my opinion although these guys are professional that stuff starts at the top with the coach. So depending on the nature of what Mike’s preparation during the week is for these guys that’s going to determine how well they’re going to be able to go out there and you know and stay true to alignment and assignment football. And you know there were lapses of that you know and those all fall back right at the feet of the of the coach in my opinion. You know you can blame the players for a lot of different things but you know ultimately it’s the coach’s responsibility to have them as prepared as possible to go out and uh and compete. And um I just saw some some really weird stuff in that game with players that I just didn’t think should have even been on some of those com, you know, some of the special teams blunder and all this stuff. Like there’s no way in the world your your number one DT should be on special teams. Like what sense does that make? You got guys on the bench that can fill that role for him, right? you know, Zack Costas, all all sorts of stuff that’s real questionable in my opinion. But, you know, like I said, I was I was happy for the fact that they actually at least competed. So, um that’s a plus. And I’m I’m I’m going to look at the positives instead of the negatives. But, you know, I I know for a fact that, you know, um a lot of this stuff falls squarely on the on the shoulders of Mike because they only gonna be as prepared as he’s ready. I mean, they’re only as prepared as he can prepare them. And to some degree, he’s still struggling through some stuff, too. Especially when when he out here giving um quotes about tour that nobody seem to be able to make any sense of, you know. So, let me ask you this. Um I know you said a lot of it, you know, falls on Mike’s shoulders, especially the undisiplined stuff with the fight you guys saw that the Dolphins put up. in that Bills game. Do you think he extended his shelf life? And what are you guys thoughts on all the reports that came before the game and after the game that Steven Ross is going to be practicing patience and there was no real thought process uh regarding firing Mike McDaniel based on the outcome of that Buffalo game? Um, do you think the fight that this team showed, they clearly showed that they haven’t given up on him yet? Do you think the fight that this team showed might have saved his job for a little longer? Well, can I take it, Rich? Yeah, you you got to ask. Go ahead. I think I think the fight that they show shows that this team has the ability to go out and compete when they’re focused. I don’t think that has anything truthfully to do with Mike himself because at the end of the day this you still we’re talking about veterans, professional football players that have done a lot of this what they’re doing being asked to do on a high level. So they still have some level of integrity associated with themselves. Problem is is that when they get into those spaces where they’re looking over there for him to give them something, you know what I’m saying? or to answer a question that’s happening on the field in regards to something that’s going on. He doesn’t have that answer and then that’s when things go off the rails. So, um, did he save himself? Yeah. Only because Ross and and and Gre would have to admit that they made a mistake because they go ahead and fire him now. And I think that’s probably the only primary reason why they haven’t done it because they don’t want to be they’d rather be half right than all wrong. But that’s But shouldn’t Greer be out the door with them? You’re going to give this guy a chance at a even if it’s an interimm head coach, you’re going to give this guy a shot at a fourth head coach as a GM. He know the bodies are married, bro. It’s got to be something. Yeah. Well, we know this. Yeah. Regarding the lawsuit, right, with the four, we agree. We agree 100% that he should be gone with him. But yeah, you know what I’m saying? Sometimes these dudes will spite them, you know, they’ll cut off their own nose and spite their own face. You know what I mean? fight the face just so they don’t have to admit that they were wrong about see what I wouldn’t be surprised if they give him an executive role. They get him out of the GM role, but they give him an executive Yeah, they give him an executive role. So they still get him out of the GM role, but they don’t step on the toes in regards to what you were saying about knowing where the bodies are buried and stuff. But if but if Mike is if if Mike is getting a reprieve and and is getting an opportunity to still figure it out, Gre going to be right there in the same spot he in. Greater for 25 years, he still ain’t figuring it out. What’s another six months going to do? I’m just what I’m saying. So that’ll be the thought process like what going to change? What can change us? Yeah. What what can actually change in six months that he ain’t figured out in 25 years? Yeah. What do you think do we don’t? You feel me? What do you think, Richmond? I mean, you’ve been in these locker rooms. You saw the fight this team was putting up. Um, you know, if not for two boneheaded plays, the Zack Cer roughing the punter and then to his interception. I mean, we could be sitting here singing a different story or at least had seen overtime football. Um, they clearly were fighting. Um, what are your thoughts? Did McDaniel extend his shelf life a little bit? Uh, you know what? Even though we’re 0 and3, I think he did. And I think it was due to the uh one I think is due to the effort that we played against the Bills, but the other the other thing is just kind of how the owner responded to, you know, you know, the fans being upset and this and that, but basically it didn’t seem like it was a real sense of urgency for him to make a decision right now. Yeah. And so I was kind of like, well, he’d have to really, I guess, really really stink it up for him to go ahead and just pull the trigger. It sound like that I don’t I don’t know what it is, but it didn’t seem like he was in a sense of urgency say, “Okay, pull the plug. Let’s fire this guy, you know, name an intern coach and let’s go another direction.” So, it didn’t it I I’m not getting the feeling just based on the statement came out from Mr. Ross, the owner, um this and that. So, I I think he has some more time, but I think he needs to cons seriously work on, you know, getting his ship headed in the right direction. Not just the effort, but you got to put some W’s in in the in the win column. Yeah. Um, I don’t know. my whole thing and uh you know another thing I can attribute to maybe that he could have came away looking pretty good from and I don’t think anyone of us have talked about it yet was that was probably one of McDaniel’s best game plans especially against a team over 500. I thought he game planned pretty well. I mean that opening drive you know look at we were getting the drives we did score touchdowns on were long sustained drives that were keeping Josh Allen off the field and eating the clock. You know what I mean? Now, I will say at the same time, why is Ollie Gordon not getting the ball more still? Like, what are we what are we doing here? You know what I mean? What I didn’t like too was he tended to get away from the run a little bit. Like, you know, we could talk about that inter that play for the interception, but you had just converted that first down with Malik Washington. That should be a rundown. Why are you dropping to a back? Like, what what what are you doing? You know what I mean? like and we can sit here and we can nitpick like certain instances like that, but I think overall Mike McDaniel doesn’t shoulder any of the blame for that loss really. I think the the blame is going to go towards Weaver for how that defense started off. Um and then Cer and Tua for basically finishing us off. But that’s another thing I wanted to ask you. ball game. Jack Jones, brother, he’s clearly clearly clearly struggling in zone. He’s making errors, you know what I mean? Like whether it be taking defensive pass interference penalties or whether it be, you know, not rotating and switching off of his man. Um, but then you put him later in the game, you start running a little bit more man, a little bit more press, and he starts making plays for you. He actually forced the fourth down that Sealer took the roughing the punter on. Um it’s clearly been obvious just for the minimal reps. I mean you look at this defense right now and the majority of everything they’re doing is basically coming right now in zone. Um, you know, I think they’re running zone like 63% of the time right now in the mid60s they’re running zone. Where you at with this? Because the like the cushions they’re giving like they’re they’re making fundamental mistakes you learn in like pee-wee. I mean, these guys are clearly like Roswell Douglas, you know, these guys are who’s probably been our best corner. These guys are clearly more suited to run a little bit more man or press man. and we’re getting chewed up underneath by Daniel Jones, Josh Allen, Drake May, it doesn’t matter. They’re getting the ball out quick and they’re getting the ball underneath into space. Um, what are your thoughts right now on the coverages that Anthony Weaver is rolling out? I I think the I think the big issue right now is the fact that he has and still consistently puts out a defense, including the front and the assignment of the linebackers behind the Dline and the edge players that he’s got. that’s not suited to the personnel that we have. You know, Jack Jones has never, if you look at his history, he’s never been a guy suited for zone coverage. You have to have high awareness and high football IQ to be able to understand the intricacies of zones sometimes. And even though a lot of these guys have NFL experience, they’re just not well suited for all schemes. And we right, we do have guys that are better suited for man coverage because they’re smaller, niftier guys that can actually get in and get into spaces when the routes of the receivers and hug and get close and be able to play the hand, you know, hand fighting and stuff of that nature. But when you asking them to just cover space, they’re lost. And that’s that falls on the falls on the coordinator. And in the same sense, they’re like up front, we’re not we’re we’re we’re not a three D. is not big enough really unless you going to switch out Grant for Bonito to be up there talking about putting three D three D lineman down and then standing two guys up. Our guys spend too much time looking in the back field watching and spectating as opposed to just getting up the field. Right? You’ll never see Miles Garrett standing up. Miles Garrett is always in a four-point stance or three-point stance getting off rushing up field after the quarterback cuz he don’t concern himself with nothing but getting after the quarterback. Simple. And if it’s a run down, then he just goes butt deep and then he’s standing there waiting and watching. But it’s not his responsibility because he has two DTs in the A gaps with a linebacker behind them to fill and flow in any other gaps that’s needed. But when we head up like we are, we’re exposed. We get stand up, we get stood up, push back, then it’ll creases for everything else. And now you got guys in the secondary got to turn off of their responsibilities to turn back to go make these tackles before. We’re a man team right now. We’re better suited for man. But I don’t understand why Weaver is trying to turn these guys into something that they’re not. Rasool Douglas thrived in Buffalo and man coverage. Hell, I used to have him a lot of the times on the backside corner manned up all to himself and everybody else plays zone to the field. You feel me? Stuff like that. You can do all sorts of intricate things, but you got to play to the strength of your players. And right now, we don’t have guys that have the wherewithal or better yet the football IQ to play zone. And zone requires that. You got to be able to process really quickly. And they’re just not all these guys with the exception of Razul who has the longest tenure career in the NFL. They’re all most of them in backups. Our best corner right now on the roster by name is Kada Kohu and he ain’t even here. He’s not available. So every everybody else you taking shots as at corner at least on factor in Minka. But for the rest of them, they all been backups. None of them were actual starters. You feel me? So all of the real gritty in in the middle of the fray reps that you would have needed, none of them ever had them. So you got to start with what’s most easy for these guys to run. And it’s that’s man coverage with the exception of a team that’s crafted enough to give you some switches, but even then, right, all that stuff can happen between a corner and a slot. So if the guy’s coming inside on a motion, slot takes him and take I’m taking come out. I just don’t I know I can’t be at the same level as a slot. So I back off a little bit. I slide in a little bit, shuffle my feet and I take what’s coming out and then he take what’s going in and we still good and the man coverage is still there. All these things I don’t see us doing, but these are things that you teach and you got to play to the strengths of your players. So right now at this point I’m pushing it all back over to coaching again. I mean, like, I’ll I’ll give you some some stuff to really some stats to really sit on here. The Miami Dolphins currently have the highest drop back EPA per play allowed as a defense against quarterbacks. All right, they’re getting they’re getting lit up in the passing game. Okay, you look at rush EPA per play allowed. The Miami Dolphins again, they’re like I want to say I think they’re about eighth worst in the NFL right now. And then this is what’s really scary. Check this one out, gentlemen. This this will really shake your boots right now. The Miami Dolphins, they have a blitz rate of 43.2%. That’s number one in the NFL. Cuz you can’t stop nothing. They have a pressure rate of 17.9%. That is the worst in the NFL. They have the highest blitz rate in the NFL to the worst pressure rate in the NFL right now. Which means they sending all them people and ain’t nobody getting home cuz the ball’s getting out underneath. Look at the time to throw for everyone. They made they made, you know, they made Daniel Jones look like Andrew Luck cuz he was just quickly getting it out underneath right into space because I mean these guys aren’t like look at the cushion they’re giving on some of these zone calls. It’s just they’re just getting chewed up underneath. You know what I mean? And I don’t I I you know I don’t know if what the answer is for for Anthony Weaver here, but I’m going to tell you this right now. Simplify it. Well, we did look like we settled in a lot more in the um second half, but even like like look at we’re dropping back Jaylen Phillips into coverage. We’re dropping back Kenneth Grant into coverage. Dodson’s a disaster in coverage. Gay should be on the field more. Yeah, but they won’t because Brooks turned down having the green dot. So, Dodson’s the green dot guy. Um and remember, they didn’t even want to sign Tyrell Dodson. They tried to sign Dre Green Law. Yeah. Yeah. And then they settled for Tyrell Dodson after they couldn’t get Green Law, so he wasn’t even the original plan. Um, you know, I I just I I I don’t know. Um, something I wanted to ask you. Um, we looked at a few plays before we went live here, Richmond. Um, a lot of people are really panicking about Jonah Sonia right now. I was on the set with Teran Armstead a few weeks ago. He told me he said Jonah’s going to be fine and he’s going to be really good. Um the discussion has been why is he on the left side when his natural side is right now he did play some left tackle last year at Arizona. He actually split time between left tackle and right tackle but for the majority of the time it is Arizona. He’s either been at right tackle or right guard. Um, you know, they signed James Daniels who was coming off an Achilles injury to play right guard, but he has reps on tape in the NFL at left guard and he’s found some success there. Austin Jackson is always hurt, you know what I mean? I wanted to when I wanted to bring in Jonah Savvy and I before the Senior Bowl when I was pushing for him, I wanted to bring him in at right guard and eventually when, not if, but when Austin Jackson went down, you had a guy I thought you could kick out to right tackle. Um, what are your thoughts on Jonah’s play right now? And do you think a switch, even though McDaniel’s on record saying he’s not going to do it right now, do you think a switch back to the right side where he is more comfortable could help things or do you think this is just something he has to figure out at the NFL level right now? Yeah. Um I think he just got to figure it out. U this will be his fourth game. Um, I know the starters didn’t I don’t know how much he played in the preseason, but I know the starters didn’t play much in the preseason, but um, he’s been taking reps over there. He should start kind of feel a little bit more comfortable from the plays I seen. Uh, one of them he got high and the guy got up underneath him and then the other one uh is that wide rush and the guy was basically in a inside technique on Patrick Paul which is we call it like a four eye and when you’re rushing like that you got to set back but sometime you got to get a little deeper and I think if he would have kicked one more step and got a little bit more width on his his um on his pass set I think I think he would have been fine. It looked it looked like he was bracing for the guy to bull rush him and the guy slapped his hands. When you bracing like that, your weight goes forward and he kind of went around him. So, um, I think he’ll be okay. I think, you know, you got young guys over there. I think the thing that they got to continue to do is communicate. And that’s that’s one thing you got to do. Who you got? Hey, watch out for this that because the one he got bull rested on that was a they slid right to that um right they had the perfect um scheme on or protection to slide right to it. He was just too high. The guy got up under him and everybody knows low man win. So I think he’ll be okay. Um, and I know I I haven’t seen recently, but I know at times Terron Armstead used to go out uh to practice every now and then, and you know, if he can get in the young fells and tell him some key things to work on, but um he’s got a really good offense, which Barry’s, he’s still a offensive line coach, right? So, if he’s still there, he’s he’s got a good coach. He’s just got to tweak a few things. It’s not like he played all, but it was just it’s always worse when it’s in key situations or when you got to make that play to continue to let the chains move that you know you get kind of blown up like that. That always makes it worse. So, um I I I agree with Terron. I think he’s going to be fine, but he’s got to figure out how to block when he’s got that real wide rush because if not, he gonna keep seeing it every week. And that’s just the way the NFL is. they figure out you struggling with something, they’re gonna keep giving it to you until you show that you can adapt to it and and you can block it. On the flip side, another rookie that some fans are concerned about, Mr. Ballgame is Kenneth Grant, because of where he was drafted. Now, I’ve highlighted he’s made some really nice run stops the last couple weeks. Um, you know, by him, but he not getting any help. Zack Cer getting probably playing the worst football of his life, getting blown up off the ball. The edges are getting no pressure, you know, like I I saw one he made a really nice run stop last week. He was telling Matthew Butler to line up because where to line up because Matthew Butler didn’t know where to line up pre- snap and Kenneth Grant I’d say, “No, you’re over there.” So, this kid clearly knows what he’s doing if he’s already lining up veterans who have been in the league. People panic with Chop last year and Yep. Chop’s off to a slow start. Our whole other than Bradley Chub. Everyone’s off to a slow start on that front seven. Um, where are you at with Kenneth Grant right now in the first three games? I’m to be honest with you, I’m completely fine where he is because what he’s not doing is giving up. He’s fighting for every rep. He’s winning a couple. Just It’s unfortunate that he doesn’t necessarily have the they don’t have him in the right position to win. I He’s not. And I don’t know why they they got him playing it, but he’s not Vince for he’s not Vince Wolffork type. And that’s what you need for this three down lineman sets that we be running. They put him in the gap, he’ll thrive because he’s wide enough and strong enough and quick enough to be able to get off and then get into the engagement points that he need to with the offensive line. But right now, when you got him stuck right there above the center, all the center got to do is hike and hold. And that’s what’s happening, right? And at that point, right, it ain’t going to be much push that he’s going to be able to get because center’s getting help with him. Zack’s getting doubled to some degree and they running away from those guys and they isolating the side because our our our edges are standing up and they’re getting washed away. They getting blown out of the plays because they standing there as spectators. That’s why I was saying I don’t understand why you dropping all this all this fancy stuff with guys that have never proven to you that they can do it in the first place. Phillips is not a Phillips is not a drop in coverage guy. Chubbs is not a drop in coverage guy. You know what I’m saying? Let them rush the passer. Let them get up field and cause havoc. Put pressure on the tackles. That’s what they do best. But no, you try to get them to do a whole bunch of stuff that’s outside of their wheelhouse and you’re never going to get them to do it because that’s not who they are. But Grant, I’m fine with to be honest with you. He’s not getting his butt kicked. And you know, the fact that he plays down there in the trenches where he plays, there are going to be some losses that he’s got to take, but he’s working through the process of figuring out what he can and can’t do. But again, they’re not putting him, in my opinion, in the best position to be overly successful because of the because of the the defensive fronts that they’re giving him. Well, a lot of the nice run stops he’s making, he’s either as a three tech or a four tech, I’m noticing, you know what I mean? like he’s having a lot more success as an end. Yeah. Than, you know, than, you know, um I’m not worried about him either. I think he’s going to be just fine. I think he’s figuring it out. You know, I think, you know, I think that’s one of those positions, too, where how good was Christian Wilkins in year one? Yeah, exactly. He was a train wreck. He was a train wreck. I remember it. I remember it was like, well, why we take this guy so high and and he’s not doing anything. But then you have to figure it out, right? You have to figure out what you have to truly figure it out. And it’s the defensive coordinator also has his responsibility to put the guys into place to be the best. You know what I’m saying? To match what they bring to the table, their strengths and weaknesses. He’s he’s just not he’s he’s not a nose. He’s not a zero tech. Yeah. You feel me? Not yet. He put on maybe another 20 25 pounds throughout his career. You know what I mean? But he’s too tall for one for that, right? He’s too tall and he’s not wide enough. You need a Vince Wilfork type to be able to do what they’re trying to do with this threeman down, you know, three down lineman stuff. Yeah. And we just don’t just It’s just bad. It’s just bad scheming in my opinion. So, um All right. So, the Dolphins have started off 0 and3. We’ve seen a defense that has been eaten up, you know, and just ran through like, you know, holes through Swiss cheese at times. We’ve seen Mike McDaniel have issues, you know, especially time management issues. You know, we’re taking dumb penalties. Um, you know, I remember what, two weeks ago, we’re taking too many men in the huddle on fourth down. You know what I mean? Like just stupid stuff. You’re seeing Tua making interceptions. Sorry. you know, throwing interceptions in key moments, back-to-back weeks. He had chances to bring this team back into the game late in the fourth quarter. He threw interceptions. Okay. You’ve got Steven Ross who co-signed all of this right after Tyreek Hill quit when we lost against the Jets last year. Mhm. When you look at this right now, gentlemen, if you had to point your finger, who do you think is shouldering the most blame right now for the Miami Dolphins starting 0 and3? Who’s responsible or who’s shouldering it? Who? Well, I mean, the everybody going to blame the quarterback. Okay, but Okay. Okay. So, who would you contribute most of this failure on the shoulders of? There you go. Greer. Okay. Go off. Why? Yeah. Because of the fact that the coach can only the coach can only work with what you give him. So, you gave him you gave him you gave us two Ferraris and then you gave us no midlevel play whatsoever from the tight end spot. A bunch of guys that ain’t nobody really going to ever run out to try to resign. You gave us a promising talent at quarterback, but then you went and you you you patched up the the guys behind your starters on the offensive line with guys that probably not even pick up and be picked up at Home Depot anytime soon if they wasn’t playing in the league right now. So, you you you you didn’t do the best job of filling out the roster to the best of its ability. You didn’t spend money the way it should have been spent. And then when you had an opportunity to do so, you stayed, you know what I’m saying? you stayed you stayed put. So the roster is only going to be able and give you as much as you time and effort you put into developing it. And on the opposite side of the ball, I don’t think they really spent a whole lot. You sent away your best player. You got back one, but he’s completely he can’t affect what’s what’s happening in you right now. Hell, at least with Ramsey, the Rams could take away the team’s best number one receiver, but these guys that you have right now can’t do that. And you’re not even Yeah. So it starts with Greer cuz Greer is the one that provides you all the ingredients. Now whether Mike’s a chef to be able to prepare it or not, doesn’t even matter if you giving him, you know what I’m saying, if he if he getting um inferior ingredients to cook with. I do blame Mike though because we we we all we all were led to believe that he was some sant, right? And maybe he is, but I still haven’t seen it. I’ve seen splashes of brilliance here and there, but nothing consistent. M but even again is the one that cosigned bringing this guy in and hire him too. So he had to have some say on that too. So the GM it starts from me at the GM spot. I’m not going to blame I’m not going to blame the soldiers for the misfortunes of the generals. You feel me? If the war if the war is the war is lost in the war room, not on the field. It’s the decisions made by those that make the decisions that cost you or win you the war. The soldiers just go out and execute. simple and plain. So, you know, I I I hold all players accountable when they need to be held accountable for things that they do, but at the end of the day, if if you got them in a bad set that doesn’t support their strengths, that’s not on them. They only playing to what, you know, I’m saying, the rules that they’re giving, the directions that they’re given to, right? You can hold them accountable for not knowing. Yeah. But they don’t make the decision. So, I mean, I I think I think yeah, it starts with griff for me. What about you, Rich? Yeah, I agree with you. Uh, at first, you know, uh, I like the way Reasonz asked the question because like you said, most people do blame the quarterback, but um, I was going to say, uh, McDaniel probably showed it more, but then I started, you know, listening to your take and and and I kind of agree with her, but I would probably say, um, McDaniel because like you said, as important, like you say, we trade away our tight end that was so productive last year and to not get anything or not replace that just didn’t make sense to me. And then the other thing you brought up earlier that I kind of honed in on was when you start talking about the the the uh secondary and how nobody’s been a starter or backup and typically you’re a backup for a reason if you hadn’t started anywhere else. So to bring guys here that’s already a notch. So now, like you said, even with with Weaver, he’s dropping off Phillips and Chub and this and that. I think maybe he’s trying to come up with something to possibly compensate for guys that not at uh starters level maybe at the secondary, but but now you got holes everywhere else because those guys are not doing what they’re supposed to do and everybody playing. So it’s just it’s just crumbling. you trying to hold it together and and hide the cracks, but everybody say, “Okay, I know what it is this and that.” And then like Reza said, every time we blitz, we’re blitzing 43 45% of the time, but they’re they’re hitting the balls underneath. So, it’s still ineffective. You might It’s like no matter which way you you choose to try to stop them, they know and and it’s not working. But, uh damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Yeah. And and so when when when you kind of focused on on the the uh GM because really I think as a coach, yeah, you coach the guys, but you should have some say. So it’s hey, I need this guy here. If you gonna get rid of him, I need somebody that’s pretty comfortable because you can see the results that we had last year like at the tight end position or even like if you gonna trade away Ramsay. I think the thing with him, like I love Minka, but he could play safety, he could play corner, you know, he could that’s that’s real real valuable to get. I know he wasn’t happy and he wanted to get out here. I understand that, but you got to bring some guys in that are if you lose some starters, you got to bring in a starter type guy. You can’t replace everybody Yeah. with backups and things going. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I got some blame to hand out here, too. I’ll give you some stuff. Okay. So, let’s start at field level. A TUA has to soldier some of this blame. Yeah. Okay. You in big moments. Okay. In big moments, critical drives, we want you to come out on the successful side between 50 to 60% of the time. You had a chance over the last two weeks to go 50% between the Patriots in critical moments and the Bills. You failed both times. Okay. Now, I do think the offensive line let him down a little bit on that. You know, Brunskll whiffed and gave up the instant pressure. I think he didn’t get a chance to reel the uh read the curl hook defender, let alone get to his backside progressions, he read the um flat defender and because the pressure bearing downs like Waddle should be open based on play design and what we’re asking him. Boom. Ball goes there. Interception. bad decision, bad decision, bad O line play, but still, man, Tua, you just haven’t been good enough. Um, in in the big critical moments, which last year when you came back from that concussion and you were lights out for those first six games, throwing for 13 touchdowns, an interception, and over 1,600 yards, it was kind of the writing on the wall was we’re still not good enough because we still managed to go three and three in that stretch. So, that brings me to McDaniel. McDaniel, undisiplined errors are going to continuously fall on you. In week one, it looked like we were a team that was in week 16, 17, or 18 of the season, and we were checked out. We knew we weren’t making the playoffs, and we were out on our coach. Week two, we’re making critical errors on fourth down. We’re having time management issues where we’re burning timeouts, right? We’re too many men in the huddle on fourth down, right? And then your call from the 11 11 yardd line that Han thank god scores on because he showed some p power is a swing pass out of the backfield with Tanner Connor as a lead blocker. That was your great design. Okay. So I think there’s some I think McDaniel deserves some blame for this. Okay. Okay. Chris Greer, you Oh, let’s talk about Ramsay. You knew Ramsay wanted it out since well before the draft. Okay, Stephen Ross is your owner. Michigan ties. How does no one in that building know Will Johnson is an absolute steal at the top of the second round and you’re getting a first round talent? I love Jonasia. I wanted the Jonas pick, but Will Johnson was the pick to make there based on everything you had going on in the cornerback room. Yeah, let’s be real with ourselves because he went one pick before your pick at 48. He went at 47. So, you would have had to trade up anyways, but I mean I know Will Johnson missed this past weekend, but he went into this weekend leading the league in pass break. Yep. Okay. So, I mean, and your and your guy is an alum who was in with Harbaugh and Harbaugh, it’s known Will Johnson was one of his favorite players ever at Michigan. So, we all knew what the talent level was. Okay. You didn’t address that. All right. The whole tight end situation, we know what it is. We don’t got to get in deep to it. You didn’t address that. You brought in James Daniels, who, let’s be real here. This is another reason why Jonah should have started at right guard. He’s not a long-term plan. You got him at $8 million because he’s coming off an Achilles injury. If you look at his contract, it’s ready to be negotiated after year one. He’s got no guaranteed money. So, that’s not a long-term answer. Jonah Savvy just drafted, you know, you got for at least four years. That’s a long-term answer. Why are we moving the long-term answer to the left side? Yeah. When when the short-term guy is getting the right side, what are we talking about here? Okay, that’s McDaniel and Greer. Okay, Greer been here for 25 years. We’ve had zero playoff success. I mean, you don’t got to be a mathematician to figure out the common denominator on that one. All right. And I think a lot of the blame needs to fall on Steven Ross. We are in this position because Steven Ross didn’t have a set of kahonas on him after Tyreek Hill quit on this team to say, you know what, we got to get this over. I don’t know. Did this guy strike a deal with the devil that he knows he’s got another hundred years on this earth? I don’t know what’s going on here. You know what I mean? Like, does did he does he got pictures on the grim reaper that he knows he ain’t coming calling anytime soon? Because, brother, you’re in your 80s. You’re not getting anytime soon. This is you’re not getting younger anytime soon. Is this really the time to be practicing patience right now? Everything’s blowing up in your face. You can see the coach is not adjusting and adapting to how the how NFL defenses have adjusted and adapted to him and it’s costing us. You can see the quarterback because you guys signed him to a $212 million deal and you said no more perform, no more 3D QB because you’re an insurance liability and because of insurance purposes, we want everything in-house now. He doesn’t look like he’s in the physical top shape he was. We saw the velocity gaining on the football every year under Nick Hicks. You can see the velocity isn’t as tight and the spirals aren’t as tight. And you can even notice this, Nick had him doing a lot of work where, you know, muscle memory mechanic wise, you’re having issues right now. His only incomp completion over the last two weeks deep outside the numbers, it was all base. It was all mechanical. You could tell it’s not being ingrained and in him as it was underperform. And that again falls on Steven Ross listening to the people around him. So I I think there’s a ton of blame to go on around here. I really do. And I do think this all starts back at Stephen Ross. You could have avoided this by cleaning house after Tyreek Hill quit on you. Your best player quit on you after the Jets game and you said, “Well, let me double down on these guys.” Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do you think the owner I mean I guess that’s I guess I mean I hear your point but I’m like why did it have to go all the way to the top if you a coach and you a GM and you see it’s a issue. I just think that they could have said hey we’re not going to tolerate this. I think even in other organizations, I don’t think if you put the right people in place, the owner don’t have to make I’m not saying he couldn’t make that decision, but I’m thinking like, yeah, but doesn’t that fall on the owner now? Because he’s not putting the right people in place to make those decisions. Yeah. So, he’s not being a good decision maker either. What did I say to someone? I said, what did I say to someone? I said Ross is about a uh Ross is about as good of a decision maker football-wise in terms of putting the right people in place as Tua has been this year in the fourth quarter. Fair enough. Fair enough that and well you go back to Bill Parcels’s you can go read by Bill Parcell’s book. One of the one of the reasons because there were multiple one of the reasons why he said he left was because he didn’t believe Ross was going to surround himself with the right people. and he wasn’t going to put the right football people in charge. And is he not right as we look around? Well, Parcels know how to build build, you know, as far as, you know, whether he’s a head coach, GM, he surrounds himself with what seemed like the right people to get the job done. So, yeah. He brought he brought a Spirano. Bill Parcels brought a Spirano who figured out the Wildcat. So, what does Ross do when he comes here? goes and courts tarball behind his back. G then when it gets found out gives Spirano an extension. Sorry. Even he turned me down. My bad. And then what does he do? He gave that extension in January. Spirano was fired by December. Yep. Right. And this is he put Tannibal in charge, right? You know, look at the people that he’s put in charge and given leeway to. And I’ll tell you right now, I I got no excitement for the next general manager because I know it’s gonna be it’s going to be Brandon Shore. I’m gonna tell you, I’ve been saying this for like a over a year and a half now. Watch. It’s going to be Brandon Shore. I can almost guarantee you this because M because Brandon Shore, the cap guy. All right. The money guy. I’ve been told for two years he has more power in that building than Chris Greer. Chris Greer hands. If that’s the case, do you think his hands are tired? Oh, this is what happened last last off season. Brandon Shaw did not want new money going to Tyreek Hill and to a tongue of Aloa. Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel went above Shore and went to Steven Ross. Ross signed off. That ended up being a mistake. And look it, what a coincidence we all of a sudden pull back the spending this off season, right? Sounds like Brandon Shore got his way. Sounds like he’s like, “Yep, you guys messed up last year. I’m listening to Brandon Shore now.” And that’s the start of it. Remember, that’s what the Steelers did with Con, right? Their their current GM. He was he was the cap guy. He was the finance guy. And what he did was he hired a football mind as his assistant GM, Andy Widell, and that’s how he’s rolled to learn the game more. So, we got a whole bunch of internal struggles going on. Yeah. Basically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can’t win like that. Yeah. You just can’t. But guys, hold on a sec. The Savior’s on the way. Darren Waller. Oh, is confirmed that he’s going to be playing Monday night against the Jets. Let’s get into the Jets here. Um, we got the Jets on Monday night. Richmond over here trying to find the positive of us playing in prime time when we have three wins under McDaniel and his regime in prime time. Okay, we’re what I think what we’re 3 and 10 in the regular season in prime time and three and 11 if you include the Kansas City prime time playoff game. All right. Okay. So, uh you know, oh boy. Um, and now we got the Jets who, let’s be honest, the Jets in week one, you know, they pushed the Steelers to the limit. Last week they scored what, 27 points. They didn’t look good in week two against the Bills. Um, we’ve always had problems with quarterbacks that can use their legs. Um, hey, we got brand new rivalry jerseys. I mean, Richmond, you’re sitting here talking about, you know, only four teams are playing, so the world’s I’m sitting here saying, yeah, the whole world is watching and you’re in new uniforms. Imagine if you crap the bed in that scenario. Who uh uh you know, that’s blame it on the uniform. You can blame it on Oh, yeah. Is Fields gonna be back? Who Justin Fields? Fields. Uh we won’t know until this weekend, Saturday, the final injury report. Okay, so um by the way, shout out to the finisher. He says, “I read there were 12 screen plays on 34 passes.” And George says, “I’m okay with McDaniel getting fired, but would love to see McDaniel with a new GM.” So, what are you guys thoughts on the Jets and week four? I mean, you think the Dolphins get back to their winning well get back? Do they think they find their winning way or what do you think happens in week four? We’ll start with you, Richmond. I think for me, I think uh I think you know what you gonna get from the Jets. Um uh Aaron Glenn took that that team over and um he’s a demanding coach. He came out from under uh Dan Campbell at at Detroit. you know, he’s worked a couple places, but um even though they’re not winning, like you said, um they had an opportunity to beat uh Tampa Bay and and uh the first game, I forgot, but Buffalo, they didn’t, but but they Oh, Pittsburgh, that’s who it was, but Pittsburgh. Yeah. Yeah. They they are compete. You gonna get a good effort. I mean, they’re not going to come down here and lay down. It’s that’s a rivalry game, this and that. And so, um, I think if we play like we played against Buffalo, but minimize the the dumb penalties and and mistakes, I think we got an opportunity to win. But, uh, I’m I’m definitely I don’t think it’s going to be a cakewalk and they going to just come down here and and just lay down. I think we going to get a real good effort from um the New York Jets. And I think that’s because his head coach because he’s not he’s not tolerating, you know, he he has he has set the bar high and even though they not there, he’s consistently putting pressure on say, “Hey, we got to get here cuz we’re not where we want to be, but we’re working toward that.” And I think we got to we got to play our best game. I think each week it gets a little bit tougher, tougher, tougher. So, we got to play better than we did against Buffalo and not continue to make dumb penalties and mistakes to to to beat us or to cost us a game to where possibly it could have been a different outcome. And I I think that’s that’s what was tough for me during the Buffalo game because I I I love the effort, but I think it was just some of them was just dumb penalties and dumb mistakes that really cost us in crucial times. And if we can minimize or eliminate that, I think we we we get a we get a W. Where you at ball game? Well, for me, you know, I’m I’m stick with that. You know, this this roster is more talented than probably twothirds of the rosters in the league, the front 11, I mean the top the top 22 players. But it all comes down to fire and desire. how you know whether they want it or not. Like this, the game shouldn’t even be close to be honest with you. The New York Jets offense is not something to write home to mom about, but the defense got a whole bunch of problems that they can give you because they going to punch you in your face. Play after play after play after play. We don’t do well with the physicality show up in the room. We’re a finesse team, so we got to figure it out. Are we going to get bullied at home or are we going to stand up and fight for ourselves? That’s going to be the number one question of the week. How they gonna how are they going to respond to the physicality of how is our offense going to respond to the physicality of the Jets defense? I’m not and on and on on the flip side, if Phils is there, that presents a whole another element of the guy having to run with the ball. I think who is that by co back up? Tyrod. Yeah, he got banged up a little bit in the in in Sunday’s game, too. So, we’ll see how that all plays out. That might be a benefit for us, but it ain’t going to matter. They want to hand they want to turn around and if they want to turn around and hand the ball off, you know what I’m saying? 20, 30 times a game. If we can’t get into the gaps and control the gaps that we just going to get pushed around and then their offensive line, who is humongous, right, they don’t stay healthy that long, but they humongous, that’s a big ass old line that the Jets got. They can get things going for them, too. And if it can slow the game down and make it ugly, I don’t like us in an ugly game. I just don’t. So for me, we got to we got to establish our ground game and then work off of that and then hit the players that they they don’t expect because everybody expect to try to get the ball to Rick and um and Wadd. But after that, we don’t really have a tight end threat because we don’t know what water we don’t know what um boy going to look like and the other tight ends have been like Luster too. So without that key element in this offense, it’s a big question marks on how effective they can truly be. And you know, there’s plenty of options out there, I think. But we just haven’t pulled the trigger to go get any. So he like what we got in the room. You know, he went brought in Waller who have been sitting around doing god knows what for how long. So makes no sense to me. He got rid of a thriving piss. They didn’t want they didn’t want to pay him. We knew they wouldn’t pay him. this guy. I knew they wouldn’t pay him. Um, what what are you guys score predictions? 2113. Dolphins or Jets? Yeah, us. Where are you at, Richmond? Uh, I go I go 2017 Dolphins. I I don’t think it’s going to be as highscoring uh of a game. I think it’s going to be a close game, but I think we can pull it out. So, I go 2017 Dolphins. 21. You know, I just want to remind you guys, we hadn’t lost to the Patriots with No, no, no. Don’t bring up the I hate when people throw that right out the window now. Yeah. Watching. Well, he hasn’t lost to the Jets as a starter. Detroit quarterback hadn’t hadn’t threw an interception in something and next thing you know they got those in. I’m like, man, stop bringing up those stats. I think they brought up a stat uh when we played the Colts. They hadn’t won an opener and this and I’m like, okay, they win the damn opener. Like, no. Just man, did they win? Yeah. Did they win? They they earned that win, that’s for sure. Um I don’t know. I don’t uh Hey, Avery. I don’t know. I don’t I don’t got the the most faith in the world, that’s for sure. Oh. Oh, there the boss lady here. There she go. How old is she now? Is she two ball game? He’s muted. She Is she two ball? Is she two? Yeah, she’ll be three in December. December 9th, she turns three. Yeah. Look at my Hey, little lady. Tell Say, “Hey.” Say, “Hey.” All right. Go get your bed. Oh, you ready for that problem in about uh 13 years. Who? You. Her dad got to deal with that. I already went through that. I’m back up now. The phone going to be ringing, brother. Don’t worry. It’s all good. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. If you call me, you know I’m coming to fix it. I ain’t just coming to talk. I’m coming to get some resolution ASAP. All right. First thing I want to do too is shout out to the sponsor of today’s video and that of course is sponsor. That sponsor is Sleeper. And the NFL season is here which means you now have a thousand times chance to thousand times your cash on daily fantasy football. 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I guess uh final thought is, you know, I think we know where we at. I think the thing for me is um you know, we start diving in to whose fault it was and you kind of brought up the the cap guy and all that is that sometime we see things, but it’s it’s not always what you see, it’s the stuff behind. So, um I think it’s some things internally that we got to get fixed that would help alleviate a lot of this, but um that’s another story show. Just uh let’s get this W uh Monday night. That’s it. That’s all I got. I was I would say guys got to really stop worrying about what it look like and get down to the basis of what it really is. We are not a very disciplined team. um fundamentals always going to last a whole lot longer than pure athleticism and ability. And um man, be willing to admit what you don’t know. So there somebody there got to be somebody that knows something more than you or less than you or can help you enhance whatever it is you know. You know what I’m saying? I don’t understand why these guys aren’t collaborating because you can sell there’s some dysfunction, right? There’s Mike seems to be all by himself on Sundays and I don’t know if he wants it that way but that’s a crazy way to exist and you can’t be successful like that as a coach man. You got to rely on the guys around you that there are for a reason. Tap into all of that. You know what I’m saying? Put the ego to the side for a bit at least because all you’re doing is hurting yourself and you hurting the team through those selfish, you know, the selfish way of seeing things. I just we talk about it but he still ain’t I want I want the guy to be successful, man. But I can’t make you you can’t make a man you can’t make somebody get out of got get out of their own way. So yeah, self-inflicted wounds are the worst type too. So I mean it’s it’s I mean did you guys see uh we got coaches admitting failure here and giving up play calling this week? You know what I mean? And I don’t know if you guys saw that today, but um, you know, there is people actually, you know, putting their egos to the side this week. And it isn’t Mike McDaniel because I don’t know if you saw it, Brian Callahan, uh, he gave up play calling duties after the Titans started 0 and3 this season. So, and that’s one of the best co, you know, O line coaches in the in the NFL admitting he’s wrong, you know. So guys, smash that like button if you’re new. Go ahead and subscribe. We appreciate each and every one of you for coming through. Till next time, you already know what time it is. Finn’s up all day, every day. Tomorrow, I’ll be live with Neil Driscoll around 5:00. Um, and then we got an episode of the starting lineup coming this either Friday or Saturday. And then I will be doing the preview on whichever day the starting lineup doesn’t drop. So, we got a lot of content coming your way. And then we’ll be live reacting on Monday to Monday Night Football. So, smash that like button. 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