Miami Dolphins Week 1 Game Live Postgame Recap

Miami Dolphins Week 1 Game Live Postgame Recap

And we’re off. We are live. Welcome everyone to the live all Dolphins podcast recap breakdown autopsy probably be better word of the Dolphins stinker of a performance on opening day 33 to8 loss against the Indianapolis Colts which was every bit as lopsided uh as it was. We talked about entering the question before actually before I start rambling on further. Welcome aboard. Thanks for joining us. Please like, subscribe, share, comment, all that good stuff. And as I was about to say, we entered the season with a lot of questions regarding the Miami Dolphins. Not a whole lot of answers provided on this particular day. Maybe even more questions. And I made the statement, this is not the most lopsided loss in Dolphin history on opening day. It might be the most disappointing one, though. Yeah, I mean, I think that’s a fair assessment. Um, I think my assertion was this was the worst loss of the McDaniel era. I don’t know if it is by like margin, but like what my eyeballs told me this felt like the worst loss of the McDaniel era. Tua doesn’t get hurt. There’s no backup quarterback shenanigans until they pull him for garbage time for Zack Wilson. So, like to me, like just what I saw on the field, this was the worst performance I think the Dolphins have had under McDaniel where you didn’t have a backup quarterback playing the majority of the game. No. And it was but ugly. And let’s get this off out of the way because so much of the focus always is too much on the quarterback. And I push back against Tua winning games. Tua didn’t lose his game. Tua didn’t play well at all. But you find me many players on the Dolphins who did. Good luck. I I can count one who stands out to me as having a good game. That’s Stevon Han. Outside of that, I challenge you. Good luck. Find me somebody. Escrage had a couple of nice kickoff returns. Outside of that, anybody else really play well? I don’t think so. And and I wrote this in the recap that’s up on Dolphins on SI right now. You can go check it out. Like I don’t really know that there’s free. Yeah, there you go. For free. How about that plug? But like I I I wrote this in the recap. I don’t really know if there’s any positives to take away from this game really. Like I don’t like I’d love to give Devon Chan credit for averaging seven yards per carry I think he ended up getting. But like the Colts didn’t care, you know? Like the Colts were just like, “Yeah, sure, dude. Whatever.” Like, you know, so I I don’t I don’t know that there’s any positives to take away from this game. I I really don’t I don’t think that anybody on, you know, maybe when I dig into the film tomorrow, there’s one or two players who had a positive performance perhaps. I have no idea. But like generally like as much as I could see from Sunday, I don’t know that there’s a a single player that you can really hang your hat on. I mean, Achan statistically was fine, I guess, but like the running game itself really didn’t matter because they fell behind by so much so quickly. Um, the receivers chemistry-wise didn’t look like it was there with Tua at all. Tua himself wasn’t very good. Um the offensive line I I think is probably going to take a bit more of the blame on some of the pressures than they deserve. I think a couple of those were on the running back, a couple of those were on the tight end. Um couple of them were on Tua. So like I but they weren’t good either. I’m not trying to defend them fullheartedly. And then defensively like all three levels I thought were terrible. I like I I don’t really know that there’s a single redeeming performance there. I’d be shocked if I find one in the tape tomorrow. So um all negatives in my opinion. I I don’t really know. To me, this is a burn the tape game. You just you light it on fire and you you try to move on and play week two against the Patriots. Well, thanks for this cheerful recap there, Dante. Holy moly. Uh, no. And and and here’s the thing is when I said the Dolphins entered the season with a lot of question marks and I know a lot of the media, not fans and a lot of the media too were pumping the tires of this front seven. Like I know you you guys know I love him, but Chris Perkins was pumping. He was asking players about could this be like one of the best top front sevens in the NFL. And I’m like, dude, whoa, slow your roll. Why? Yeah, they all have promise, but um let’s see it happen on the field first before we crown them. And the pass rush, where was the pass rush? I mean, Bradley Chubb day and that was pretty much it. And props to the Colts who came out and I think a lot of us expected there’s going to be a whole lot of Jonathan Taylor early on and boom, it’s nothing but passes. Um, and the guy looked good. And this is why I said before before the game, no, Daniel Jones is not a great quarterback. He’s a major question mark. Underestimate that Colts team at your own peril. That’s not a bad team. And you saw that. I mean, overall, they’re not a bad team at all. the Dolphins obviously made him look a lot better probably than they than they really are. But um I think this notion the Dolphins were just going to come in there and by this by the way for the records of the first opening day loss for the Dolphins since 2020 when they lost 2111 at New England the COVID year and it’s the first win for the Colts on opening day since 2013. Now it was like win what? Win for Jim. Uh do it for for the boss. They had t-shirts all over the place at Lucas Oil Stadium. I said that was an X factor to me. Whether that played into it probably to only a very small degree, but clearly this was bad from start to finish. Yeah. I mean I I the Dolphins came out and that first drive, right, Indianapolis goes right down the field. They hold him to a field goal, but not really a ton of resistance on that drive. And then the second drive, I mean, James Daniels goes down on the third play of the game for the Dolphins on offense. And then two plays later, Tua sails a pass that he’s probably we’ve probably seen him complete that pass to Tyreek Hill what 90 times in the past three years. And he just sails it right into Cam Binham’s hands and the game the game was practically over at that point. That was that was essentially the end of the game. I mean, the Colts the Colts scored. The Dolphins fumbled on the ensuing drive. They scored again and it just it just went downhill very quickly and like I think I I don’t want to get like too much into overreaction territory. It’s a week one game. It is what it is. They were terrible. I’m not trying to defend them at all. I think what bother what worries me more than any of the specifics that we’ve kind of talked about is like I didn’t see a lot of fight, you know, like I I this was not a team to me that like I I I don’t know how would it manifest itself though that that’s the thing because I you’re not the only one who said that. It’s all over social media. Dolphin fans are like they were uninspired and all that and I’m like okay what would it have looked like had they not been deficient? I’m thinking about those those last Colts drives where they’re just running through the teeth of the defense. Fourth and one, you’re going for it. Up by 28, you can’t get a stop to save your life. They didn’t stop him once, not a single time, you know, and it’s like even when the game was out of reach, you couldn’t get like a pity stop, you know, like that. That’s that’s no like truly like you’ve watched enough football that happens at the end of games, right? like the team just goes into a shell. They run three straight halfback dives, pick up four yards and punt when they’re up by 30. The Colts were trying to do that and they just kept getting nine eight yard chunks on the ground. And like I I I don’t like again I’m not saying that this was some like I don’t know that effort was like abysmal or anything like that, but like it felt to me as if this team went down early and they just there there was really no point in this game where they felt like they picked themselves up at all. There was not even like a a little bit of momentum that they generated. I think the closest they got was when they got the uh the turnover on downs when they creeped into indie territory um or in like the middle of the third quarter, right? And then they had like three straight plays where Tua wasn’t on the same page or made a bad throw or whatever it ended up being. They turned over on downs at like the Colt. It was like the 34 or something like and they just I don’t know. I I didn’t see a ton of fight. I’m not like I I don’t really like that stuff’s a little bit overrated to me, but again I I just you know you’d like to see this game and not that it matters a ton 33 to 14 or you know you get a stop 30 to 14, right? Like it’s a blowout either way. It’s disappointing either way but I mean you can’t even get one stop against the Colts. Yeah, I agree with you. Maybe the Colts are a little bit underrated but this is not a team that’s supposed to be a juggernaut. You can’t get one stop. No. Correct. And like you said, and to me it was I mean props to Shane Stiken for going for it because like one that shot was the was it at the 42 yard line late in the first half where I think a lot of coaches would just punt and put pin the Dolphins back and he went for it and it was an EG pitch and catch at Jos Downs and then the Dolphins in addition to being bad with the execution like Ter was off on a couple of throws that were not intercepted he had Tyreek sideline where he overthrew him a little bit forced him out of bounds. Malik Washington that sequence that ended with the turnover on downs the one before he let him a little bit too much could could Malik have made the catch without leaving his feet I don’t know but again that’s a throw that normally Tu would be more accurate on so he was completely off and this is where maybe you we’re going to go back the Dolphin offensive system is built on rhythm chemistry timing with two and his receivers and to where like to again everything is like clockwork worked through massive and massive number of reps. Not having Tyreek throughout pretty much the entire preseason probably didn’t help. Was it Was it the main reason? No, it wasn’t the main reason. It was just off. And then situationally, it’s fourth and two. You get a running into the kicker penalty. That was their only stop of the game. That undid their only defensive stop of the game. And then you have first and 30 and Jack Jones gets called for for a hold. I mean defensive holding. Be aware of the situation. Seriously. Um, so I mean it was just bad on bad on bad on bad. I mean I I can’t it’s just I don’t know and I know Dolphin fans are like already ready to throw in the towel. The only thing I will say it’s one game. They get the Patriots at home next Sunday. Patriots lost at home against the Raiders. Um so while the we expect the Patriots to be good toward the end of the season, they gave up 362 yards passing to Gino Smith uh on this particular day. So, I would say let’s not throw in the towel on the season just yet. Uh, understanding it’s probably not going to be clear sailing to 12 and five as maybe the most optimistic of Dolphin fans or media members might have suggested. Nothing to say. No, I got nothing to add. Like what what what is there to add outside of like Yeah, right. You don’t want to overreact, right? It’s one game. Like I said, I think you you go in this week, you burn the tape. It’s just we were terrible. We need to start over basically with our, you know, McDaniel loves to talk about fundamentals and technique. Burn the tape, start over. We got to do it all again. Everybody, receivers running routes, the quarterbacks throwing the ball, the offensive line, how they’re handling blitzes on defense, stopping the run, stopping the pass. I think um again I think if I’m looking at things that legitimately concern me outside of like the fact that the Dolphins were terrible on Sunday um Tua’s arm looked worse to me from a from a velocity perspective which I do not love because that was not a strength of his game. I I don’t know if that was a product of the pressure that he was feeling or whatever. So, that’s just kind of on my I’m going to bookmark that and see what it looks like as we move through the other games. And then, um, I addressed this at the top and you did as well. You made a great point about the front seven. Front seven was terrible. I I don’t I don’t know to put it. Um, I maybe the linebackers were okay. When I get into the tape, I don’t know, but I know that the pass rush was non-existent for the most part. They got the one sack. I think they maybe had like one or two pressures outside of that. I think it’s gonna end up being like a one sack, three pressure game for the front seven. And look, I expected there to be problems in the secondary. I expected there to be a miscommunication touchdown, which apparently the Dolphins had with Storm Duck and a Fatu Malfonu. We can get into that if we want to. But um I expected those types of things to happen, you know, because that it’s the nature of the beast when you have the Dolphins corner room. But what I didn’t expect is for a front seven that has Zack Cer, Jaylen Phillips, Bradley Chub, Matthew Judon, Kenneth Grant, um, to get to be a non-factor in this game, whether it was versus the run or pressuring Daniel Jones. I mean, I think Daniel Jones played well. I’m not trying to take any credit away from Daniel Jones. He played a good game of football today, but I mean, the Dolphins didn’t exactly make his life very challenging. They barely pressured him. I I feel like every time he threw the ball, the receiver was was open. He he might have had like two tight window throws uh the entire game. So like I I I don’t So I think the front seven concerns me and I am a little bit worried about Tua. The the ball was not coming out the way that I I like even from an accuracy perspective. The velocity on it didn’t look great to me. Um again dig into the tape tomorrow. But um I I think if you’re looking for long-term concerns, those would be at the top for me because if this front seven plays like this every week, even I mean they’re the Dolphins are going to win like five games this year. They’ll have the worst defense in football and they’ll win like five games. So it needs to be significantly better. And I don’t want to hear about the offensive line and because yes, two was sacked three times. two of them were on on blitzes and um the the game book has a call for six quarterback hits which is not a huge amount and there were a lot of plays where he had time to throw the two picks didn’t we did not come on plays where he was pressured and on the second one he just did not see uh I’m butcher his his first name liu dropped in coverage and tu didn’t see him and he was throwing to growing Don’t I don’t understand how he didn’t see him there. I like if it was a if you drop back, right, and you’re two and he gets the ball out very quickly, right? And he throws it to a dropping line. But that’s what I’m saying, right? Is he held the ball, he moved out of the pocket. He’s looking right there. I I think he saw him and he tried to thread the needle. I I think I think he was pressing there. There’s no way he doesn’t see him. If it was a quick throw off the snap, like I I think so. Okay, the replay. And by the way, there was another one that was almost picked by Binham across the middle on the pass to Alec Engel where where Binham jumped it. So that was and Binham had a clear shot at it and dropped it. Alec Engle target 10 yards downfield in the middle of the field. Unserious. Ridiculous. Absurd. I’m sorry. So you don’t like it? You don’t like it? In other words, no. I like Alec Engold. Good football player. No reason he should be getting a target 10 yards downfield on a traditional route. You know, if you scheme something up for him and he’s running into open space and everybody forgot about him, be my guest. I thought I was going insane. I thought I misread the number. I thought it was Tanner Connor. I thought it was 80 instead of 30. I watched it again and it was 30. It’s like what are we like that to me is just like what are we doing? Like we’re we’re we’re outing ourselves on that one. No, without question. And another concern if we’re going to look down the road is again this is not a deep team and now you got we have to worry about James Daniel by McDaniel by the way did not have updates after the game on the status of e either James Daniels who sustained a pectoral injury on as you mentioned on the third offensive snap didn’t come back ruled out coming out of halftime and I’m going to cross my fingers that it’s not what happens very often in those situations where the word torn comes into play and if that’s what it is he’s kind of done for the season. So, let’s hope that’s not that. And then with Storm Duck, it’s an ankle injury. Um, again, we’ll find out more on Monday. We also should mention the Dolphins didn’t finish the game with or finish the game without. Also, Bonito Jones with an oblique injury and Austin Jackson with a toe injury was Larry Borum at right tackle at the end of the game. I’m I’m not going to speculate whether it’s an aggravation of the injury that kept him out of practice for a couple of weeks or the severity. We will know more in the next couple of days, but clearly this is a team can’t have injuries because it’s not a very deep team. And the Dolphins played the entire game with Keon Smith at right guard. From what I could observe wasn’t terrible. Again, like I not pinning the offensive line in terms of the culprits here. The offensive line was pretty dough down the list and so was the secondary even though they gave up some completions. Although there was a nasty uh miscommunication on the touchdown which was pretty clear and Mike McDaniel acknowledged bad communication when Storm Duck lets Michael Pitman go behind him thinking if he’s going to come over. And by the way, look at the replay and if he if he goes over quickly to take Pitman down the sideline. Tyler Warren’s already behind Jordan Brooks. I believe it was Jordan Brooks in the middle of the field and maybe Daniel Jones throws over there instead. It’s a touchdown anyway. So, um, who knows? But my bottom line again is to me the offensive line was not the biggest culprit. The the fact that the the fact is the Dolphins bigname guys who needed who need to come up big for this team to go anywhere didn’t do anything. Tua Tyreek Jayen Wadd very quiet. Zack Seer was very very quiet. Minka was very quiet. Um Jordan Brooks had a lot of tackles but were there many that were impactful? Not really. Those are guys who need to shine. Yeah. I mean, I I think the best play that Minka made all day was not getting called for DPI in the end zone on the Tyler on the Tyler Warren play because that was probably DPI. That might have been his best play of the day. Um, but yeah, I mean, I think for the for the Storm Duck touchdown to me, I I’m not 100% sure who’s at fault there. Originally, I was leaning towards Melofanu and then I watched the play a couple more times. I think it’s probably more Duck than anybody if I had to guess. I think in that situation, given that coverage, he’s supposed to carry a little bit more than he did instead of just dropping immediately. Um, but again, that comes back to very specific zone coverage uh, responsibilities, right? And those coverages change based on who runs what routes from what position on the offense. So, your point about Tyler Warren’s very valid, right? In that situation, if Tyler Warren threatens deep middle, maybe that is not Melofanu’s responsibility. The only people who who know that 100% for sure are Anthony Weaver and the people in the Dolphins building. I I think you could split it 5050. Whatever it ends up looking like, I think again it comes down to what McDaniel said. It’s communication. And I think what’s especially disappointing to me is a player like Storm Duck who’s been in this system. He was essentially a starting corner, the really the only one outside of Kater before he got hurt who was assumed to be a player who was going to play a lot of football this year. I know they didn’t hand him the starting job and I get that, but he was kind of expected to be the guy for a while and he’s gotten plenty of reps. He played in the preseason. This is not, you know, Jack Jones who got a bit of a late start or Rul Douglas who just showed up, you know, like two weeks ago. Like Duck’s been here, done that. This is not a new scheme for him. And I think even if you go away from that play, I thought Duck had a couple of really bad plays in coverage before that where he was not in his proper positioning. He wasn’t winning at the catch point. Like I it’s disappointing. It’s a player that you’re betting on to be better than than he’s supposed to be. That was the whole thing at corner. Um and I know that you can probably put the secondary a little bit further down on the list. I agree. I’m not disagreeing with that at all. But um they were not good today either. And I and I I don’t know that that’s going to get better. I I have some like I I think you can have faith that maybe the front seven won’t be as bad as they were today. There’s just too much talent there for them to be as bad as they were today. But I don’t know that the secondary is going to get any better. I I I really don’t. Um it’s they are doing a lot of communication stuff and these guys don’t have the talent to make up for communication lapses. They they just don’t. And so if they’re not perfect, they’re going to give up a lot of plays like the Michael Pitman touchdown. Yeah. And the other part of it too, I think we discussed this heading into the season that the the pass rush needs to impact opposing quarterbacks for the Dolphin defense to have success. And by the way, the number of quarterback hits according to the official game book is two. The sack by Bradley Chub, man, now you’ve been polite. That’s very polite. The sack by Bradley Chub and the other one was Jason Marshall Jr. where the only two quarterback hits and a quarterback hit is hitting the quarter like as it says hitting the quarterback uh either while or after he immediately after he throws the ball where you’re not flagged. Uh so to get your your your hands on the quarterback twice in a game when you’re supposed to have this great pass rush. Yeah. No, not going to do it. So, um I really don’t know what else there is to say other than checking out I think I’m we’re going to go straight to check out what you find folks who are watching here have to say about this abomination again. There was uh in terms of in terms of margin Oh, I’d have to go back and look. I wrote I wrote a story about all the season openers a little while back. 5910 is the one that’s the most lopsided loss and but 59-10 was against Baltimore which was a playoff contender heading into the season and this was the quote unquote rebuilding re resetting tanking year of 2019 which made it a little bit more understandable this game was like um and I had I had I picked the Colts to win this game as you guys may know u and don’t hate me for it I just I I said it before I had bad vibes about this team there too too many things going on there during during training camp, too many injuries where a lot of play and it’s not I don’t want to put on injuries, but it wasn’t as smooth heading into the process heading into the regular season. Um, and I also thought the Colts the Colts were massively underrated by a lot of folks. So, okay, let’s jump into the comments, see what you find folks um have to say. And as usual, thank you for being with us, for joining us. Please like, comment, subscribe, and as important or even more important, check out the written content at miam dolphinssonsi.com. So, birthday salami was a good one. Hey, birthday, how are you? Or salami, I don’t or BS. No, sorry. BS. Uh, you do not want to overreact, but given the narrative to come out and execute like this is alarming. How long has it been since the team looked prepared? Maybe some fans or Ramsay, D. Elliott, and even Tariq an apology. And how much do I hate because I mean I mean full disclosure if you’ve been following the podcast you know I’m not a fan of Jon Ramsey. He’s a hell of a player and I’ve said this I think Dolphin fans on his way out the door underrated him as a player. Uh just not necessarily a fan of the guy and he wound up with the fourth down pass break up to secure the Steelers uh victory against the Jets today. And by the way in that game John Smith had a touchdown catch. And in Jacksonville’s game against Carolina, which may still be going on after they had a really long delay, Hunter Long, remember the name, Hunter Long, that was a that was a jump scare. I had red zone on in the other screen while I had the Dolphins game on and they were like, “Hunter Long touchdown.” And I was like, “Oh man, that’s just the the bad vibes were out in full force today.” Yeah. Okay. So, Salami, to your point, maybe some fans or Ramsey Dia Tari an apology. Um, I guess Tariq for saying the team needed some dogs and Elliot Ramsey for I guess for whatever com. No, he didn’t make any comments. Well, he made the rotten orange comment or statement through Instagram and then Deshan Elliot keeps talking the Dolphins. Um, I think soft and bad culture again. It’s one game. It looked bad. Um, if it continues that way. Yeah. I don’t know about owing them an apology, but go ahead. I it to me this didn’t even look like they were I mean yeah they played soft because they got beaten up in the trenches. I understand that but to me this was like last year’s team right it was you know people not being in the right place who are very talented. This year it’s you know players who we have a lot of question marks about who are just not executing. Like to me this looked like a an execution problem more than it looked like a culture and toughness problem. Um, so I don’t know. Do they owe those players an apology? I don’t know. I don’t think so. Personally, not yet, at least. I mean, if things really, you know, snowball here, maybe. Um, but to me, it just looked like an execution problem, right? Like I I know people are going to be upset about, oh, defenses have caught up to Mike McDaniel’s offense, and it’s like, dude, I the offense had like, you know, 25 plays in this game. Like, they they turn the ball over three times almost instantly on drives. Like I I I think it’s execution more than a lot of a lot of except except the part that was alarming to me again is everything in the passing game is short short shorts. Like my word it’s over it already. This is an interesting one here. Salami also want to thank the Colts for controlling the clock so I did not have to see our $2 million quarterback much. Sincerely some guy eating potato chips. That’s funny. You know what you did there. That’s funny. That’s funny. Again, he played like crap. wasn’t all on him. Uh Trey Hendricks, should we have drafted Tyler Warren instead of Kenneth Kenneth Grant? I know this guy over here is gonna say absolutely say yes. No, it’s too soon. It’s too soon. I I I think um if you look, if you were looking for instant impact player, a tight end is always going to put up more statistics than a defensive tackle. That pick wasn’t about that. Um, and so maybe, yeah, I really like Tyler Warren. I I’m pretty sure I got on this very podcast and said I would take him at at 13 a couple of times uh in the spring, but I think it’s a bit too early to victory lap that. Um, and Grant, look, off the broadcast, I don’t think Kenneth Grant played well. I’m not going to try and sit here and tell you that he did, but um, I’m gonna guess it’s not as bad as I think it is when I get into the tape. Um, but I I just think it’s too early. No, I I agree. But I I also think for year one, this is Trey, please do not make an assessment even at the end of the 2025 season because I’m going to guess Tyler Warren might be offensive rookie of the year. He’s going to be used a lot by the Colts in a lot of different ways and he’s going to be a lot more impactful. This is one of those let’s wait two, three years on the road to see if Kenneth Grant becomes the player the Dolphins are hoping he becomes because I think early on I think his impact is going to be pretty minimal. Um, so this is one of those for the future. Agreed. Uh, no. No, my friend. Thank you very much for the contribution. No, thank you everyone who contributes to the to the show. Very, very much appreciated. Uh, the game didn’t really surprise me. Just wasn’t expecting them to be so unprepared on so many levels. Yeah. And this is and this is the part this is what happens is in the postgame media session like McDaniel and coaches are asked this all the time. Did the Colts do anything you know took you off guard and the first time or no it has happened? No. You know what from coaches I know I don’t recall the last time that coaches said yeah and you know they threw a lot of things at us we never saw coming I basically suggest that you correct you did not prepare properly. So the coach is going to be telling you the answer is always going to be the same as it was with Mike McDaniel. No we practice against everything they’re going to throw at us. It was just a matter of execution. So, um, but I don’t Were they unprepared? Was it was it a lack of preparation that that two of sailed the pass to Tyreek? I I don’t think so. I I think it again I think it was execution to me. I I know that McDaniel is is doing the coach speak thing there as you pointed out. And I’m not saying he isn’t, but again, maybe my opinion changes when I look at the tape, but I mean, you look at the the Kenny Moore uh strip sack play where he comes on the slot blitz. I mean, Achan just missed him. Like I I don’t really know like that’s there’s not a ton of prep that goes in there. Like like Achan knew it was his guy, he just didn’t see him in time and he didn’t hit him and so he got to free run it to him. That’s execution to me. Like I like that like the prep’s there. Um, I agree with you on the Tyreek Hill interception. Like, how much prep is that? We’ve se hit that ball what, 90 times, 100 times in the past three years. Like, he just sailed it, dude. It was just bad execution. So, look, I’m not saying that they that they looked prepared, per se. I’m just saying like if I had to balance the scales, I’d say like 7030 execution versus preparation. Like, they just played terrible. Like, I I like they were really bad in just about every facet. I will say this also that because this I’ve noticed this this a habit the past couple years is two has got to be a lot better when when you’re scrambling to get away from pressure like the sack from K from Kenny Moore he wasn’t going to avoid it but can you not run with the ball in one hand while you’re trying to moving up in the pocket like seriously um not great and and the other sack on the blitz if you saw is Nick Cross came over a little bit late and Austin Jackson’s immediate block was to double team the guy to his left and all of a sudden he sees Nick cross running and it was like, “Oh, got to get him.” And wasn’t quick enough to to pivot around. So, not great. Matt O, thank you very much, Matt O. It’s only week one, but McDaniel has not come off as an offensive guru to me in ages. Feels like the Chip Kelly Eagles. One really fun year, but collapsed after team adjusted. Hope to be wrong. Well, the only thing I would say is two two fun successful years for the offense in 2022 and 23 23. Um but the there is perhaps some validity to the the overall point. Fish pilot, thank you very much. Can’t pay a guy like me to the can’t pay a guy like me to the way they paid him and expect to be a good team. He’s not the biggest problem, but he sure is any sort of solution. That ship is sailed. They paid him. Uh, I didn’t like giving him that kind of contract, but as somebody once said, the market is the market and the Dolphins decided they were all in on Tua and so they were going to give him what all the major quarterbacks or the the big quarterbacks who were getting contracts. We’re going to get I don’t like this notion of paying that kind of money to a quarterback unless he’s an elite difference maker, which I don’t believe Tua is. Yeah. I mean, I’ I’d love to live in the world that you just described, but unfortunately, that is not the world that we live in. It just it is what it is. The quarterback I I I think here’s the thing with Tua’s contract, right? Is everyone’s going to be really upset about it today. And I am not saying that they’re wrong or I’m not saying that they’re wrong about the assessment of Tua not being a ceiling razor as quarterback. I I would agree with that point, actually. Um, here’s the thing with the Tua contract. It’s really just not that bad of a deal. like it’s really not. It’s it’s not there are worse quarterback contracts out there and the Dolphins can get out of it sooner than other teams are going to be stuck with quarterbacks of equal caliber. So, I think look, it’s not the ideal outcome. Nobody wants to hear that. There are teams who have similar caliber quarterbacks to Tua who are going to be stuck in their contracts longer than the Dolphins are going to be forced to be stuck with Tua. Um, well, technically speaking, they’re kind of stuck with him 2025 and 2026 because I know, well, that’s there are going to be teams stuck with similar caliber quarterbacks into 2029. I’m just saying it’s gonna pretty similar caliber quarterback. I thought they had earlier than that. I thought they had an out earlier than that. I don’t think I I think it’s it might be 27 or 28. Um, golf I I feel the same way. Those guys have outperformed Tua in the playoffs. So maybe I’m just This is me just coping. I I don’t know. Like if you’re going to sign that contract, I think it’s good that they have an out in 26. Is it later than I would have preferred? Sure. But I again I I think you you have to pay these guys. You can’t just let them walk. You can’t you’ll lose your job if you let them walk. My and I don’t want to get into the into a discussion. My whole thing is somebody else in the media who shall remain nameless. But you who you probably know if you’ve been following the podcast is every time I brought up the idea of let him play on the fifth year option was always well who’s a better option. To me it’s not about who’s a better option right now because there were no better options right now. Except when you play in a conference that has Lamar, Josh Momes, and Burrow. I don’t think if you have a good quarterback who’s not to that level, I don’t know that you stop looking all the time and say, “Okay, this is good enough. This is this is as good as we’re going to do right now as opposed to keep looking and looking looking.” And to me, the way to go would have been the fifth year option. Dolphins didn’t go that route. They were all in on Tua. They’re they continue to be all in on Tua. He’s going to be a lot better in future weeks than he was today. And he’s still overall, I would think, a a good quarterback. again. This how far can the Dolphins go? We shall see. Uh Aan Bergman with a super sticker. Thank you very very much, Aan. Much appreciated. See, Christopher Small Boop. How will Omar defend to us? Speak of the aforementioned. You know how he’s going to do it? He’s going to say James Daniels left the game after three offensive snaps. That’s going to be the that’s going to be the the the rallying cry. And like I said, the offensive line did not lose this game or or sink the offense any way, shape, or form. Again, thank you very much for the uh the contribution. Much appreciated. Have the Dolphins playoff chances dropped after the loss or do you still have confidence? What’s the latest on Tyreek Hill and Zeke Biggers? Zeke Biggers was just an healthy and active, so there’s no there’s no latest there. And I’m not surprised. I thought Matthew Butler was every bit as I know there’s some folks who are surprised that Matthew Butler made the 53. Amnadi actually performed pretty well and Zeke Biggers for the promise that he showed in training camp in the preseason is still a rookie seventh round pick and it wasn’t like he showed promise it wasn’t like he was like oh my lord this guy’s got to be in the lineup and then Tyreek Hill I know he he got into the medical tent um not exactly sure why but he came out and came back into the game so I don’t know if there was some sort of issue to to be concerned about. We shall obviously keep up on it and check out what the injury report looks like on Wednesday. Nick, thank you very much for the contribution. Hope the team can figure this out or it will be a miserable year as a fan. McN McDaniel gone after week four if they’re 0 and4. It’s a better question for you because you’ve just you have the history of covering the Dolphins. I mean, I cuz my knee-jerk reaction is I don’t think Steven Ross fires a coach in the middle of the year, but I I’m not I’m not committed to that. No, but he has. I know he has. I just don’t think he I if you had like I would say like 5149. Like to me, it’s truly a coin flip. So, I feel like this is a better question for you because I don’t have the institutional knowledge that you do. It would have to be really bad the next three weeks, right? And the other part of it though is mind you the next three weeks are against AFC East opponents. It’s New England at home at Buffalo just at home. If if they lose all three games by double digits, I would say it’s on the table. But generally speaking, those coaching changes if they occur mid-season will occur at the buy, which is what happened in 2015 when Joe Filen was fired after the team came home or while the team came home from London and after a loss against the Jets. I think it was against the Jets. Um, so we shall see. But I I would, again, the way the Dolphins looked against the Colts is not the way they’re going to look every week. I’d be very very surprised if they started off a win and four. In fact, uh, they got a very favorable matchup coming up against the Patriots. I didn’t like this matchup. I do like the next matchup. I can’t wait for Omar. Omar’s getting shots and he’s not even out here. Omar, if you’re watching, they’re coming for you. Uh, birthday salami again. Thank you very much. Can’t wait for Omar to praise to his completion percentage. To his completion percentage wasn’t actually very good today. Yeah, it was like 14 of 24 or something. 14 of 23. Let’s do Let’s check out the old. I get the old calculator. Let’s see who can get it first. Oh, I didn’t know it was a race. 14 23 61%. Yep. got to round up, you know. Uh, it’s not great. It’s not great, especially for 114 yards. The passer rating is the one that that uh since Omar’s very very big on that was 51.7, which actually was the lowest of two’s career in a game. The only game that was worse was against Buffalo in 2021 when he was knocked out in the first drive by AJ Aanessa. So for a full game that’s that’s that’s that was the worst. Uh Maddo Matt thanks very much. Best news for Chu is that our backup is somehow Zach Wilson. No kidding. Thanks for the streams. Always help post lots. We are therapy for Dolphin fans after a game like this. By all means go ahead. That’s the goal. What? That’s the goal. That’s the goal. Yeah. No vent away. If you can’t vent to us, who can you vent to? I mean, and it was but ugly. Yeah. Uh, Christopher Small, thank you very much. When will Reek quit? Why would he quit? He’s got too much money on the line to quit. When will he go off? That’s a different question if you keep on. This is only one game. Tyreek was four catches, 40 yards, long of 21, which was the longest pass play of the day. Uh, Brett McIntyre, thank you very much, Brett. Oof. Really rough play calling into what just look excruciatingly indecisive. Poop. You called it though. Tip of the hat, buddy. I didn’t call it 33 to eight. But I had just you were more right than I was if that makes you feel any better. By the way, this I’m going to point this out right now like because and and I had a tweet on it. I took down the tweet because I didn’t see the video and that was bad on my part. But supposedly the University of Miami head coach gave some crap to a student reporter from the school paper because he did a prediction before the game and he predicted Kansas to win and Missou won. And immediately before taking questions, he kind of called out the guy for predicting against his own his own team. And my point to that is if you guys want me to pick the Dolphins every single solitary game, I’ll go ahead and get him then. But you’ll then have no idea if I’m legitimately thinking they can win. The idea of a prediction is I’m gonna tell you what I think and if I’m picking against the Dolphins, I hope I’m wrong, but uh I had I had bad vibes about this game. I again I was expecting a much better performance by the Dolphins, but okay. No, thank you again, my friend. While I feel sorry for fans and a bit for Ross, I really feel sorry for the Dolphins sports media. It sucks to try and dig out that piece of almond roa from the catbox. Okay. All righty then. I’m not sure about that one. That one might go over my head a bit. Uh, I could be wrong, but if I’m miser misinterpreting it, Noah, please tell me. I think Alman Roa might be a piece of turd. I guess that’s how I’m interpreting it. I don’t know. I could be wrong. Uh, plenty more comments. David, I had cold 2320. There you go. The Dolphins are the new Giants. Don’t know the the correlation there. What’s the correlation? Peter McDall, should they have played two or more in the preseason? It looked like he has regressed. Always something with two in terms of excuses. Feels like his last season with us. I would be shocked if it was his last season with the Dolphins because he’s got a 54 million guaranteed next year for the Dolphins to release him at 79 million of dead cap money. That’s painful. That’s painful. Sorry, go ahead. No, I was just going to say like I I think it’s too early too to kind of just cast Tua out as a a decent starter. You know, again, like I I mentioned this at the top of the show. I am bookmarking the arm strength a bit and and going to really try to pay a little bit more attention to that because it didn’t look it didn’t look good today. I I thought some balls really floated on him that don’t always float on him. He’s never had a great arm and I understand that but um it looked worse than not good if that makes sense. Um so again I I I don’t know this will be his last season with the team. Um, I think what I would tell you is that I think if the Broncos can get out of the Russell Wilson contract in the way that they did, if the Dolphins really want to, it’s a total disaster. And I mean, a total disaster. They can get out of the Tua contract, there’s a reason they didn’t restructure to free up more money this year. Okay. Well, here are the numbers. Okay. If And you just disappeared on me. Why did you disappear on me? If they were It just disappeared on me. What’s going on here? Oh, if they, like I said, if they release him, let me try to get back to I hate it when you do this to me. Here we go. Okay. His cap number currently is 56.4. If they release him before June 1st, his cap number goes to 79.2. So, your cap savings is minus 22.8. If they release him post June 1, his cap number is 62.4. So his cap number actually goes up 6 million. Um now trading him is a different story. Um but then you have to find a trading partner. So we shall see. And again this is a discussion for down the road because yeah it’s it’s too early. It’s it’s one game. I I I think that I think look how much better would you guys have felt if he completed that pass to to Tyreek that he sailed maybe had an extra touchdown they lose 33 to 14 he just has the one interception do you feel like he’s worthless I I don’t know I’m legitimately asking you know like I I’m not ready to like I don’t know I’ve never described myself as a to a defender but I’m not ready to say that He’s not going to be, you know, the quarterback into next season after one game against the Colts. It’s just too early. But not a good start, obviously. No. Correct. I agree. I want to bring this one up because I like it. Andrew, no, that’s not the one. I like that one, too. But that wasn’t the one because they move too fast. So, got to come back to this one right here. Here we go. Fam J, greatly appreciate poops unbiased opinion. It’s what I’m here for. This is why. And again, as I’ve indicated in comments before, this is why this is not a fan podcast. It’s the journalist podcast. I’ve covered the Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989. I know about this team. I know about the history and all that. I know the ins and outs of the team, but I’m not necessarily a fan. There are plenty of fan cat fan out there. If you want the more cheering for the team and we’re all in it this together type of thing, and there are a lot of good ones as well. This is a different kind of podcast. And I hope if you’re here that’s because you appreciate what I bring. How’s that for a little? There you go. Yeah. Um LFP boop the O line was a problem this game. Not the only problem, but definitely a big problem. And this is where my friend I’m going to disagree with you because I I I didn’t see two under duress an unreasonable amount of time. Sorry if you’re looking for Eagles offensive line on every snap. No. Uh, I didn’t think the offensive line was porous in the least, but you’re entitled to It didn’t It didn’t chub out to me either. We’ll see what the tape has. I know a couple of the sacks I would blame on the running back uh or the tight end or even just like the play call. Um, so I the O line didn’t stick out bad to me, but you know, we’ll see. It’s kind of that one’s like you you really got to like watch the tape like a hundred times to like really figure out responsibilities and stuff. So, um, but I’m with you. I I it didn’t stand out as a big problem to me on initial watch. And even the fourth down incompletion where where the play ended with two under duress, he had some times he just couldn’t find anybody open like the first two in the evening he patted the ball down and kept kept looking down field. There was nobody open and eventually collapsed and that’s not on the offensive line. Sorry. Yeah. No. And then the one where Buckner pressured him. Somebody else got the sack but Buckner ran right through Tanner Connor and Devon Chan. the way that the Colts had um set up their front. They got that matchup. They they scheme that matchup up. And if you’re the Dolphins, I mean, that’s your worst blocking running back and your worst blocking tight end on the Colts best defensive lineman. They they got out scheme there. I don’t really like it’s not on the offensive line. They did their job. It was a full slide. They got out schemed. It happens. So, um it’s it’s too easy to blame the offensive line for everything. I don’t I don’t know that they were the they were the problem today, but and there and even I saw that I saw somebody put on Twitter before the game like offensive line and defensive line like warming up against each other and it goes those two units hold the key of the season. I’m like really? I mean I really no sorry that’s too easy. I’m sorry that’s too easy. Then this is why if that were the case then go spend 30 million on offensive line all over the place. It’s not. Obviously, if you have dominant lines, it makes things a lot easier. You’re trying to what? I’d spend 30 million on offensive line all over the place. Why not? You can’t when you when you’re spending that kind of money on Tyreek and Jaylen Waddle. Then again, I say this and I and I keep harping on the fact that the Dolphins completely messed up in 2021 when they took Jaylen Wadd, who’s a good player, just not a a game in game out difference maker the way Pane Su is. I I just to me boggles my mind how they blew that one so insanely when Pen Su was as clean a prospect as there was in 2021. And there you go. You have your foundational piece for the offensive line. I think Su’s my highest graded left tackle of all time. Well, do you play right tackle or left tackle at Oregon? Because he plays right tackle for the Lions. Yeah, but I think he was a left tackle at Oregon if I’m not off the top of my head. It doesn’t matter. He’s my highest graded tackle. I don’t differentiate. I’ve been doing this since 2019. My highest graded tackle. Prospect as you can get. And I I I don’t get and then wide receivers generally I don’t want to say they’re a dime a dozen but they’re pretty they’re a lot closer to dime a dozen than than differencem offensive linemen. I I but again to to my original point it’s too simplistic to say offensive line defensive line that’s it nothing else matters or or that’s that’s the biggest key. I mean come on. Um, I think for this I think for this team, I think that’s a fair argument. I do. What was the What was the narratives about this team coming into the year? They can’t stop the run and they can’t run the ball. Where does that come from? The trenches on both sides of the ball, right? They’re not tough enough for this team in this specific case. I I agree. We We talked about the front of at the front of the show. Where was the pass rush? Where was this defensive line? If this defensive line doesn’t show up, the whole the whole defense collapses. So to me that they hold the keys to the defense. The defensive line absolutely does. But what’s not just Well, again, are we differentiating between the defensive line, the interior guys, and your edge defenders who I think they both do. I I think they both do. You got to get pass rush from both of those spots. But then that becomes seven that becomes seven of your 11 defensive players. So of course Yeah. But on offense to to me again today on offense, the reason the offense sucked was not because of the offensive line. No, I agree with that. I agree with that. Okay. It wasn’t all about uh let’s see what we got here. Uh the signs have been there all offseason dysfunction. Who in their right mind would trade for 20 with his contract number? Here’s the thing though, unless I’m reading his contract wrong. A lot of the the contract signing bonus, which the Dolphins have already paid. So an acquiring team would be on the hook for a lot less money than the Dolphins are on the hook, which is another part of why the Dolphins would be hesitant to trade him regardless of cap consideration because they’re still, you know, yeah, they still paid him a lot of money. What a great contract for Tua. Thanks, McDaniel. It is a great contract for Tua without question. Uh, the Finn’s gone from the greatest show on surf to a Cam Cameron level of crap. Oh, that’s that’s that’s not quite Cam Cameron level. If you remember the Cam Cameron, I was like, and I think what I would say right now though, if there are Dolphin fans of the thumbs like this, the thumbs down. Hey guys, we got to turn this the thumb this way. That’s Cam Cameron. Uh, for those not familiar, Google it. Cam Cameron Ted Gin draft speech. It’s um I have some homework. It’s an all-timer. I mean, it is it is one of the funkiest press conferences I have ever seen. Uh and quick history lesson the way this was. The Dolphins had a draft party inside the bubble at Nova South Eastern University where Cam Cameron was going to talk to the fans after the first round pick was made and the fans Dolphins had the number nine pick. The fans were clamoring for Brady Quinn. And when the Dolphins picked Ted Gin Jr. out of Ohio State, they went nuts and not in a good way. And Cam Cameron went out, met his his obligation to like his commitment to speak to the fans despite booze all over the place. And he kept doing the press conference or the speech. It wasn’t a press conference, the speech while being booed the entire time. And then made some comments that probably didn’t help matters when he’s talking about drafting. We didn’t just try draft Ted Gin. We drafted the Gin family. And lo and behold, Dolphin fans who wanted to have Braden Quinn should realize that Ted Gin Jr. had a much much much better NFL career than I was about to say. I was about to say, here’s a fun game for you. How old do you think I was when Cam Cameron was the head coach of the Dolphins? That was 18 years ago. So, you’re probably like five. I was seven. 2007. If you don’t remember that season, you’re the better for it, let me tell you. Yeah. No, I’m fine with that. My The My The first season I remember very well is the uh Well, it’s it was the one in 15 is like the one that I have like the best memory of. So, that’s the one. That was that that was that season. I don’t remember Cam Cameron coaching. I remember the uh the win against the Ravens very well. That’s like a flashbolt memory for me. Um but outside of that, yeah, don’t remember Cam Cameron, but hey, he was right about Ted Gin. So, Oh, Greg Souza here with a hot take here. By the way, gang, the nickname poop, which has a a long history. I don’t feel like getting into it right now. I’ll maybe I’ll explain at some point. I don’t feel like doing it right now. It’s taken from the first four letters of my last name, so be polite. It’s not P O P. Seriously. Um, Poop Dante, stop your stuff with Tua. Just admit he’s not a good fit for the NFL. He can’t sneak or run. He can’t throw on the fly. He is done in the NFL in my opinion. Move on, fits. Well, number one, they’re not moving on. Number two, let’s not pretend like the dude hasn’t had success in the NFL and the Dolphins haven’t had success as an offense at times with him at quarterback. And this is coming from the supposed to hater. Okay. Um, it’s true. I don’t think he’s elite. I think there are limitations. I’ve said that from the time he got drafted. But to suggest that he’s a scrub, I think that’s a that’s a bridge too far. No, I agree. No, to total agreement. I think um it’s somewhere in the middle, right? like he’s he’s certainly not Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, you know, whoever, Patrick Mahomes, whatever top flight quarterback you want, but he’s he’s good and when he’s healthy, I mean, he’s right. The Dolphins can win games and have a high-powered offense. It is what it is. Yeah. And he just happened to have a clunker today and and it happened. He’s not the first good quarterback to have a clunker. Um, but Matt Matt, there we go. The Cam Cameron season was followed by the best season after. So, there was always hope on the horizon. Oh, well. Yeah, that season that 2008 was funky and I’m going to tell the story history lesson. I’ve said it before and I hope my former Dolphin Digest colleague Bill Daily, if you’re ever around, hop on here to please vouch for me so people know I’m not making this up. I don’t make things up, but this is going to sound like I’m making it up. So, if you remember this season, the Dolphins drafted Chad Henny in the second round of the draft that year after taking Jay Kong first. They had John Beck as a secondyear quarterback after taking him in the second round last year. And then they had Josh Macau, veteran, who had they signed as a free agent. And so as they go into camp, the the competitions between those three quarterback and the Dolphins had made some moves, acquired a bunch of like good guy veterans in the off season, including Jason Ferguson and Anthony Fisano from the Dallas Cowboys in a trade that Bill Parcell’s engineered. And then the Jets go out and get Brett Favre and they’re like, “Chad Pennington, thank you for your services. We don’t need you anymore.” Waved them. Well, this was in August. The Dolphins quickly jump on Chad Pennington and then first practice they’re inside the bubble and it’s like the the practice went from a mish mash on offense to everything. I mean like this the first practice he’s out there and we walk out of practice and I told my colleague Bill did I’m like dude they’re going to make the playoffs with this guy and lo and behold they made the playoffs. Then again then again they made the playoffs in large part because they unleashed a Wildcat that year and Ricky Williams went nuts. Anyway, yeah, we digress and let’s go back here. We’re about five minutes away from reaching our hour mark, which is usually when we’re going to cut it off. I got Oh, I got game uh AJ in New Jersey. I was at that first and last game of 2008. And as I don’t need to tell you, both game both game both games against the Jets. Pretty cool. Chad Pennington, my first Dolphins jersey when I was a kid. How about that? Um, let me get that. Oh, that’s a good point. I want to I want to bring up right here if I can find it. Is it right here? Yeah. Mtown, no change from last year. Still burning up timeouts, etc. Burning up a timeout on a two-point conversion after you finally score a touchdown and you’re going to need every second you got. Yeah, not good. Not good. Not that it mattered in the end, but still. Um Carl Herd, let’s not forget the market is the market. So, the market for a glorified backup QB is 50 million plus. He’s not a glorified. You’re so close to sticking the landing, Carl. You were so close. You had it. Just screwed it up at the end. Sorry. Uh, let’s see what else we got. Jay, receivers do all do the same thing, too. What’s completely dependent on everything around him, and the offense can’t adjust when defenses take away the speed. That’s a That’s an issue. Yep. Yeah. Uh Jim Hall, Dolphins fan love to crown players before they do anything to pass rest of draft last day. Got absolutely nothing from Greer’s great draft draft class zero. I will tell you I I did notice a couple of nice plays by Jason Marshall Jr. He’s the only one I saw I think among the rookies. I didn’t notice Kenneth Grant, Jonas of although that’s one of those where I’d have to rewatch the game to pay attention to him only. Uh Dante Trader had a couple of nice nice plays as well. Uh Ali Gordon was barely used. Uh but no, it’s too early. Uh it’s one game. It’s one game and your top three picks are linemen. They’re not going to show up in the stat sheet. Okay. Kenneth Grant’s not stuff in the stat sheet. Jonah is not stuff in the stat sheet. Jordan Phillips is not stuff in the stat sheet. Like these guys like it’s too early. It’s one game and you can’t come out and expect a rookie interior defensive lineman times two and a guard to, you know, pop off there just jumping off the screen to you, right? Unless they come out and Kenneth Grant gets four sacks, which is like, if that was your expectation for that player, then you need to recalibrate. So, it’s too early. It’s one game. I still have a lot of confidence in the Dolphins draft class being impactful. How impactful, we’ll see as the season goes, but I I still have confidence in this group being a decent group of players who contributes to a team that is successful at some point. Now, it’s super vague, but that’s that’s as good as you’re gonna Yeah, it’s that’s as good as you’re going to get after one week. I like I don’t know. I don’t think you just throw the entire summer out the window because they played bad against the Colts week. It’s ridiculous. No, no, I agree. But by the same again by the same token because you’re talking about Dolphin fans always love to crown. Yeah. That’s what fans do. Yeah. Because you’re always it’s always the the shiny new thing that you don’t know the warts like when you see when you see or hear about flashes in training camp practices the preseason. And it’s very easy to get overly giddy. Um, and I think sometimes we as media members can can be guilty in betting that with some praise that may be, you know, over the top a little bit at times. I was like to me the whole the whole summer when I kept hearing that like this front seven is going to be one of the best in the NFL. I was like potentially, but can we just slow down the role a little bit here? We shall see. Um, yeah, a lot of tour hate today. It’s coming. Imagine having a starting QB that you can’t run a sneak with or pass outside the hashes with a complete joke. He can he can throw outside the hashes not down the field because of the arm limitation. But again, those were kind of there like the arm hasn’t gotten much worse and or significantly lesser than it was early on. And he again led the NFL in passing yards in 2023. I mean, he’s always he’s always had those limitations. They’re not new. Um, and I think the mobility thing, if you go back and watch him in Alabama, I think you probably feel like he might have been able to move a little bit better in the NFL than he has, but I I think since the hip injury, it just hasn’t been a thing, you know, for him really and all the other injuries. Like I I just he has to stay in the pocket and get the ball out as fast as possible. He’s too injuryprone. Like no, correct. But but here’s the thing is I would tell you to me that his best game scrambling in the NFL was his second start. That was that the Arizona game. Yeah. No, I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Um and I haven’t seen it since then. Right. Like correct. Yeah. And especially since the concussion issue started happening, which was, you know, a couple years after the fact. And now again, do you guys really want him scrambling all over the place? No. Yeah. No. So, uh you know what? I think that’s going to wrap it up. He is Dante Colinelli. Check out his fine work at mimed dolphins onsi.com. All the content for free. That’s going to do it for this hour of the All Dolphins podcastame show. Thanks so much for everyone for joining us. As always, please like, subscribe, comment, uh, smash that like button, as they say. Um, you know, comment by all means. I I I respond to a lot of comments more so when they’re well thought out. Hold on, I got one more. I got to check this out. Daniel Hope, I must apologize. I thought you were being too negative saying the front seven might not be as good as expected, but you are right. I must bend the knee. Thank Thank you, Daniel. No, again, it might be. I just I just to me the idea of crowning it was just way way too early. Um, and this is where, again, this is where me not not being a fan would tell you, I’ve seen it what it was supposed to look like, and I would say simmer down a little bit, guys. Whereas if a fan podcast would tell you, yeah, those guys are going to kick ass and they’re going to dominate and all that. And again, this is not not me if I if you guys at times I get called a negative Nelly for always bringing out the other stuff. I’m just like trying to you know present both sides equally and try to be fair and like you know make expectations realistic. So okay that is going to do it second time. This time is for real. Thanks everyone for watching and we’ll be back here tomorrow with all the latest. Hopefully we get good injury news regarding James Daniel Storm, Doug Benito Jones, Austin Jackson. the but the good news will not come as uh regarding this week one game because it’s in the books and Dolphins lost 33 to8. It’s on to the New England Patriots at Hard Rock Stadium next Sunday. Um and we’ll be here all week. Thanks everyone.

Miami Dolphins On SI Publisher Alain Poupart and Deputy Editor Dante Collinelli break down the Week 1 game at Indianapolis.

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