Mike McDaniel discusses where the Miami Dolphins stand now

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We hear from Mike McDaniel recalling last weeks game. McDaniel mentions that his team has grown since 3 weeks ago and would not have won this game then. He also discusses all that needs to be cleaned up.

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00:00Uh, Mike McDaniel reflecting on the Miami Dolphins win over the Patriots.

00:06And, uh, Mike McDaniel McCoach and saying he thought that they made it close only

00:12because they kept making mistakes.

00:15Here was the Dolphins head coach.

00:16Absolutely going into the game with no, uh, non-negotiably needing to win it.

00:25We felt that way as a team.

00:27Um, and we were able to do that.

00:29However, after the game, you're feeling like, wow, this, this game was really

00:36close and it felt like we'd, we positioned, we did more, um, you know,

00:45even given credit to your opponents at all times, we did more, um, to put

00:50ourselves in the situation for it to be a final drive game than the opponent.

00:55And both things can be true.

00:56You can be satisfied with the result.

00:58You can, um, understand that the results, uh, we, I'm not sure if we would have

01:04won this game, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have won this game three weeks

01:08ago, we needed all the stuff to go on, to, to occur, to, to kind of grow, um,

01:15into being able to win a messy game like this.

01:18However, um, there, there are certain things we will never feel good about our

01:24football, unless we, unless we clean up, you know, errant snaps over somebody's

01:30head, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, Miss snap on a field goal, a blocked punt, um, you

01:40know, a explosive, uh, run touchdown.

01:43Um, you know, those, those things, procedural stuff, we can control those

01:49things.

01:51Okay.

01:53I have been listening with my mic, make Daniel, um, translator.

02:00Oh, and let me see if I can bring it out.

02:03I'll give it a cliff note to what he said.

02:06Please.

02:07When you run for 180 yards, you're supposed to win a game hands down.

02:11Yep.

02:11That means you're controlling the clock.

02:12You're controlling the game.

02:14You have everything working in your favor and you're

02:16dominating the line of scrimmage.

02:18However, when you have a punt blocked, a missed field goal, a ball snapped 20

02:23feet over somebody's head, you, you're actually keeping the other team in it.

02:32Um, not to mention all the penalties now, it's easy, you know, to sit and

02:42talk about that, but we still won the game and we still know there's a lot

02:46of things we got to correct.

02:48Like things that shouldn't at this point, we should not be correcting.

02:52Like you should not have to go to a center and have him do extra

02:57work because he snapped a punt.

02:59Yeah.

03:01I also don't feel like you need that to happen three or any

03:03mistakes happened three weeks ago.

03:04Well, I would say, I would say this.

03:09The reason why he said that is based on where they were.

03:13Anytime something went bad, it went all the way back.

03:16They couldn't stop it.

03:19Right.

03:19And when you look at those games previously, they couldn't run the

03:23ball, they couldn't throw the ball.

03:24They couldn't do anything.

03:26So this game, they could at least do something.

03:27They could run the football.

03:29Yeah.

03:29But is that, is that based on opponent or is that because they actually clean

03:33things up?

03:35It doesn't because you could argue, but you can look back three weeks.

03:38You can look back to the Seattle game and you've had those same opportunities,

03:42like usually a game where you're winning the turnover margin, like they did in

03:46that game is usually a game you're going to win and they didn't pull it out.

03:49But is that because Seattle's better than them or have they really improved?

03:54Uh, a bit of both, a bit of both.

03:57Um, he's probably also telling them guys, if just not doing name

04:02compatriots, we lose this game.

04:04Probably.

04:05And we have no business even being in a position where, cause I promise you

04:11any NFL team you play, if you rush for 180 yards, 90% of the times you're

04:16going to win the football game.

04:17I just miss it.

04:18Just miss offense.

04:19So for the fact that you run for that many yards and the game's close means

04:22you got some other things that like you need to evaluate, you know, and that's

04:28the, that's the whole, you know, basically what the conversation was is that I'm

04:33looking at these numbers and the game shouldn't have been close when you

04:37dominate the line of scrimmage like that.

04:39I know.

04:40It's just like this guy, this long-winded little rascal, you know, he was, he was

04:44supposed to fix at least the entertainment factor.

04:47We were enjoying, we were having fun, baby.

04:49And now I feel like I'm in the Philbin era again.

04:51I don't want to be in the Philbin era, but it's football like you do it.

04:55I want more fun.

04:57It's football.

04:57I tell you this all the time.

05:00The damn in 2001, the Baltimore Ravens went five weeks without

05:05scoring an offensive touchdown.

05:07And then when the Superbowl.

05:09Oh, I saw the jet up today and they were saying, should we be concerned

05:12about the chiefs offense being five?

05:14And I gave the TV middle fingers, right?

05:17That's see, but that's, that's my point.

05:20Like, when are we like, this is the NFL or this is college.

05:26Now, all that matters.

05:27And the great thing about the playoff and what is done for college football is this.

05:33It's all about winning.

05:35It's not about style points.

05:38So at the end of the year, if you're 11 and one or 12 and one or whatever,

05:43that'll get you in and you don't have to worry about it.

05:46You're going to have a chance at the national championship.

05:50It's not old strength of schedule and this and that, and whatever.

05:54If you're in a major conference and you only have one loss, you

05:56are getting into the playoff.

05:59So like, it's good that we've gotten away from all this style points or whatever.

06:04Guess what?

06:05Everybody who's talking about why our team can't do this or our team can't do

06:10that, or look how bad and look at what Patrick Holmes is doing with it.

06:13They're undefeated.

06:14Who cares?

06:16Like, yeah.

06:17What would the dolphins do for two more wins?

06:19I don't care if they only score 15 points game.

06:21Like, yeah, you gotta get wins the way you can.

06:25The other stuff you have to hope that the team is working

06:28on it and it'll get fixed.

06:30But until then.

06:32Try to win games.

06:33So listen to Harlan last night on the way home.

06:36Oh, this Harlan dude.

06:38They're going to stick us with Mark Sanchez the rest of the year.

06:42We deserve it, dude.

06:44We made our own bed.

06:45Here's more of Mike McDaniel.

06:48He says they have to fix things.

06:49They can control and play better the rest of the year.

06:51A lot of things you can't control in this league.

06:53There's certain things you can.

06:55Um, I, you know, the way we started off today was talking about all of those

07:00things that we can control, um, with absolute certainty.

07:04That's our job to get cleaned up.

07:07And, um, all the while understanding that it is a badge of honor that we

07:13found a way to win that game relative to, you know, the, the, just how we've

07:20found success in the past to win a grimy game that isn't perfect is,

07:25is a step in the right direction.

07:27Now do, um, how, how do we take, can take control over the controllables?

07:35Um, that's the most important thing for us moving forward, building

07:38upon, um, the, the growth of the team.

07:41Um, but we, we have a long ways to go and some, some time to do it.

07:45So we'll, we'll keep chopping wood every day.

07:49Um, what?

07:51Oh, don't even get me started on chop.

07:54Jeez.

07:55Oh God.

07:56Hey, can I just explain something about chop Robinson?

08:01Yeah.

08:02Chop Robinson is being chopped.

08:03Robinson.

08:05Chop Robinson is not doing anything different than he did when he was in

08:11college, they said the same things, man, he gets off the ball, he gets around

08:16the quarterback, but he never gets the quarterback.

08:21So why are you mad at chop Robinson?

08:27Cause he's playing two hand touch with the quarterback again.

08:30You're such a bastard again.

08:32Why are you mad at him when he left college?

08:35That's what everybody said about him.

08:37I'm the good side.

08:38Listen, on the good side of things.

08:39First of all, he's a rookie.

08:41It's five games into his year markers.

08:43Oh, the other good side.

08:44I'd say he was been awesome this year, to be honest with you.

08:46Agba.

08:47Yeah, that's true.

08:49I was been, I was like right off.

08:51He was just hanging, lying in the weeds.

08:53He goes, they'll call back.

08:56Yeah, that was the highest paid player on the team two years ago.

09:00It was Frank's fault that he was phased out of the defense.

09:04They'll want, they'll want me back.

09:06They'll want me back.

09:07That's they always want Agba back.

09:09He's getting interceptions.

09:11He's wreaking havoc, doing good things, man.

09:14Doing good things.

09:15You want to control the controllables, whatever the hell that means.

09:18Did he really wear that win as a badge of honor?

09:20Listen, like coaches love winning ugly games from the standpoint of you can go

09:32in on Monday after a win and get on your players pretty hard, right?

09:39And so, yeah, look, you know, when it'll mysteriously get better, when

09:45all the players start returning.

09:48That would be nice.

09:49That would be nice.

09:50Yeah.

09:51Especially the quarterback.

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