And so I the night before, I'd
told the guys that
you know, I was really hoping that we get some off
adversity this game
and like I want to see how they respond
to a deficit and apparently they just took me way too
literal.
Yeah, I would say that the kind of adversity that Mike McDaniel
was anticipating that his team would encounter, did not entail
a 21-point deficit in the fourth quarter culminating in
a back-breaking touchdown run by Lamar Jackson that had Twitter
explode.
With pay that man which it was over. It was done any other
time. Any other game you ever see a team goes up, 21 points
with that kind of a play from one of the
Players in the NFL
and it is over. The problem is the Ravens defense, agreed and
acted accordingly
and poor John Harbaugh, one of the best coaches in the NFL
dude. You got to keep you guys Focus for 60 minutes. That's
the cardinal sin of coaching. Letting your guys take their
foot, off the gas prematurely and letting the team back into
it. No lead is safe in the NFL
including 21 points in the fourth quarter.
I mean it's funny because I feel like we saw this all over
the NFL yesterday where it's like okay you see something?
And you're like, boom, that team, they got it. It's done.
It is finito. And then the other team gets paid to write
in players. Talk about this all the time, the other team gets
paid to. They're still good.
Like boy, they're one of the best this that and the third in
the league. And we hear this from Wednesday, through Friday,
when guys are talking to the media in the locker room, or at
the podium, and then we get to Sunday.
In just for whatever reason, it seemed like there were all
these lapses across the NFL and especially when you talk about
the Dolphins.
This was a really, really wild victory in large part to me,
because the Baltimore Ravens did not have any turnovers.
And so, like, how do you defeat a team when you're down like
that? That late in the game with no turnovers gotta use
speed. You gotta score within 90 seconds 2 times. Like that's
what the Dolphins. Did you Yesterday
is mind-bending.
On the idea that the Ravens just kept letting Tyree kill
run by them. Like they were surprised, they didn't trade
from Tyree kill yesterday during the game. They got him
in March. Hey hey Ravens you are going to be dealing with
Tyree kill. He's not going
to tap out of the game when you're done. Yeah he know he
did that. He did, that's that's supposed to be taunting, but
he's perfect. But he waited do it, get it pays. He, he's,
he's, he's found a way to kind of keep it down and
like, Like this and it's not really taunting like I'm not
doing it at you. I'm doing it this way but still a little bit
of at you
but it was incredible.
Jamming water and Tyree kill are the first teammates in
league history to have ten receptions 150 or more
receiving yards and two touchdowns in the same game.
That's never happened before.
I have a feeling, it may not be the last time. It happens
for this team and the straw that stirs, the drink
is to a talk of Allah. We got to give him his props
six, touchdown passes.
Six touchdown passes yesterday
and he's now 8 and 1
against super bowl-winning, coaches 8 and 1, I told Coach
Dungy last night. Don't come out her time. He's gonna get
you next.
Yeah, is also noting these, the first Dolphins, QB, the throw
for six touchdowns in a game since Dan Marino, in 1986
before, it was even born like five years before, but it did
happen,
but it did happen
even though you were not born yet, it happened.
Yes, that's true. But now I mean tools. Great and you know,
you did have two picks but like, when you're able to
engineer a comeback like that it has to start with the qd2,
you've got to be able to make the throws
and to his credit time, to by Lowell was able to do that. He
was able to get the ball into spaces where Tyree kill and
your Jalen waddle could catch it and then sometimes run with
it or just
catch it and get themselves into the End Zone. It was
a really, really strong performance by 2. And you know what, if
You are a dolphins fan. If you are a member of to and on, you
should be feeling pretty darn good about your quarterback
today. I don't know if you'll be feeling the same way in
three weeks, but today
go where it man, go out and strut you earned it.
Well, my email box was overflowing yesterday with
Communications
charitable, and
happy, and
good natured from Dolphins fans, who
wanted to remind me of all the things I've said about to it,
look, Just I expressed appropriate skepticism based
upon what we saw from him. His first two years he has changed,
he has matured, he has improved, we saw the preseason,
he's shown up early at the game, he's doing all of his
stuff before the game. Going through the motions. Mike
McDaniel was happy to see that. That's a change from last year
and the guy who hasn't been mentioned yet, but I'm going to
mention him now, Darrell Bevell, the quarterbacks coach
and passing game coordinator. The buzzes building that he's
had something to do. That's the worst gritty ever. He's had
something to do.
Do, that's my kiseki after a touchdown catch, but he's had
something to do with Tua getting better.
And to a really has improved, you got to give him credit.
He was criticized because of where he was based on two NFL
seasons and now he is much better. Helps have Tyree kill
in jail and waddle
but still he's firing that ball down the field. He's kind of
hitting Tyree killing stride, kind of, not quite, but it
doesn't matter. You don't have to hit him in-stride when he's
10 yards behind the defense, but who actually
a to a has been playing
phenomenally. Well, there's one where, it's
Since tried kind of, there's the Deuces that he's not, he's
not getting flagged for, but
incredible. And and let me just mention this, since we're on
the topic, the Jalen waddle game-winning touchdown waddle
admitted to me. He called it a little remix he admitted that
he changed his route. There he goes, he's cutting out. He
sees the opening the middle,
he ad-libs and cuts in and to a sees it
and reacts accordingly and
waddle said, we got that chemistry all the way back to Alabama.
That's what happened. That was not the play. That was called,
that was not the route that was called waddle. Oh, freelanced
to that in
after he cut out. It was a pic.
And instead of continuing out, he cut back in and found a spot
into a that that's, that's growth. That's maturity. That's
a v that's flexibility.
That's finding things that aren't supposed to be there
to is maturing before our eyes. So
Dolphins, fans and some Dolphins fan said, I should
apologize to them. Why would I apologize to you? Wow!
That that makes no sense.
If I apologized But it'll be the Torah and I still don't
apologize because we were assessing a based upon what we
saw.
He's better now. And so now we praise him.
Yeah, look, I don't think that there's anything wrong with
criticizing people based on the what the product that they put
on the field and that's kind of what we're doing before.
I think that when you talk about those things and that
chemistry that he has with Jaylin waddle that they remind
me what coaches like to say that we love it when players
take ownership
and they always like to talk about this, you know, when
players Is take ownership. And when the players feel like
it's, there's then that's when we can really start getting to
where we want to go. And I think that's a really good
example of it because
sometimes you see
players and to get on the field and they are very locked into
what the structure is Cris Collinsworth. Was talking about
this last night with Mike Tirico on the broadcast of
Sunday Night Football, where
if you're thinking
and you're like, you take dance lessons, right? And you're
going one, two, three, one, two, three, right? You're not
really going through everything. Way that you could,
if you were not thinking about it where it's just really
natural to you. And sometimes I think that's what
happens when you get these guys who are college teammates before
and they have those, you know,
built-in reps of. Okay. We've done this, we've done something
like this. We've been in this situation before we've been in
that situation before and I trust you and I know that if
I do something, you're going to understand what it is that I'm
doing
and you're going to be able to play right off of it. And
when you have now
Jaylen waddle and To a tongue of my Lord, doing those kinds
of things on the field, in a game-winning situation. You
know, to come complete, this crazy crazy come back. I think
that says something about their chemistry, but it also says
something about the way Mike
McDaniel has presented A system that works for them,
right? And that works very well for them and allows them to
take ownership. So, it's a really, you should have some
real, good vibes. If you're a Miami Dolphins fan right now,
because the fact that they made that come back is great, but
the how they did it
all. A really should be encouraging. You they came and
they took that from the Ravens, right? They, the Ravens are not
give that thing away.
Quite, you know, literally, in terms of giveaways, right? The
the dolphins really have to take that. So I think that
should make you feel good.
I don't advise falling behind by 21 points. In the fourth
quarter, on a regular basis though because the next time
around
if it happens this week oh let's say when the bills come
to town they'll be more prepared to not
let their Add down and let them back into, by the way, it's at
the Bengals. After that, on a Thursday night. How about that
game coming up? September 29.
Dolphins at Bangles? What a great way to finish. The first
month of the Season at least the first calendar month of
the Season. Looking forward to that one. Looking forward to
watching the, the Dolphins focusing on the Dolphins
and nothing else
because they are a fun team to watch.
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