Can the Dolphins Defy odds and Beat the Buffalo Bills?

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Mike McDaniel comments on how much the Buffalo's past success got brought up to the team this week. What did Tua learn from Week 2 Buffalo loss?

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00:00Two it's the confusion. I don't really understand. This is usually a reserve for a losing Monday

00:07Yeah, but one and seven against Buffalo

00:11You just wait. It's like The Undertaker. It's just like

00:14Josh Allen's coming in with a robe and a sickle and you're just waiting for it. Just put me out of my misery, dude

00:21Yeah, that's how you want to do it. So if you win this game though could go a little rutski

00:28If if I win this game, even though I've only won one out of the last eight

00:33Well, yeah, that is true

00:35He's only he's only lost to the Dolphins twice in his career and like the both of them are like last-second losses

00:41I think one Charles Klay dropped a ball. He never loses to the Dolphins

00:45The other one the same in the last game

00:48Yeah, really

00:51I'm not even sure if it's him anymore. I don't know if it's McDermott. I don't know if it's just the weather

00:55Who do I blame? I don't even know to blame them

00:58through tables

01:01No, one one of the things is and

01:05Usually your better defenses can do this

01:10They can play

01:12pretty good

01:14with their front seven

01:16Or front six and allow your allow you defensively to play two deep safeties

01:23If you don't do anything in

01:27the line of scrimmage to control the linebackers the linebackers get depth and

01:33that

01:34creates small windows to throw the football if

01:37You notice every time to makes that throw through the middle where that timing throw is

01:43The linebackers not there if

01:46You don't affect the linebacker. They get depth and that is the key for cover two

01:51It's not the two deep safeties. Everybody thinks you can't go deep. That's not the issue

01:56The issue is the linebackers get depth

01:59Usually teams that play really well cover pretty good cover to have linebackers who can run

02:06smallish

02:07speed linebackers who can get depth

02:10those are the killers of

02:13Your your past patterns so you got to affect them either with a shallow cross

02:20See because what a lot of teams do is, you know, the linebackers drop deep

02:23They run a shallow cross with somebody underneath them. They'll step up a little bit now you got to over the top

02:30Right, so there's a lot of things you can do as far as the Dolphins you got Tyreek

02:36He's gonna go down the field if you can widen

02:40That safety on that side

02:43Then you have a chance to throw the ball in the middle of the field. I think a big

02:49Key this week is gonna be John who Smith

02:52He's gonna have to beat those linebackers. He's gonna have to be able to catch that ball in the middle good

02:57Yeah, yeah, you know, he's like I think the thing that it's just like it's one of those I

03:04Got to see him get through a whole game being able to play clean because this is like they've already they already know what Buffalo's

03:10Gonna do like this is this story is like as old as time. We've seen it we

03:14They haven't changed. They haven't put wrinkles in it. They haven't changed. No, they're gonna play too deep safety

03:23Because you haven't beaten it yet. And that's how it works. In fact, there are other teams that try and do it

03:31That's why and here's the deal that's why

03:35They struggle sometimes against the better defenses

03:39Because the better defenses don't have to adjust to you. They can still play their defense

03:44So you got to find a way to affect them and make them adjust

03:47And again a fresh Vaughn Miller back this week the old love a fresh week, you know

03:52What does he what was he suspended for? Was he it was it was he like?

03:56Yeah, it was I don't know if it was produced for behavior, I'm not really sure what it was for it was for those personal conduct policy

04:06The team of the league

04:08Uh, well, I think it was a league because it's suspended four games without pay for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy

04:15The league announced it. Oh, wait, that means you know, that is

04:19Domestic disturbance or something. Yeah, something like that. Yeah

04:23Says he stays mum on suspension said focus on rejoining the bills

04:28That's pretty good for something to happen and it not reach the news outlets

04:34He got he got lucky though. It just the it happened at a point in time in a year

04:39Yeah, cuz sometimes that stuff then sometimes that suspension stuff doesn't come to like a year later. Yeah. Oh, okay

04:45Okay, right or it came like right before the season started or?

04:49So, yeah, but

04:52That's the thing. Yeah, it sucks that you know exactly what they're gonna do

04:57How are they gonna do it? You know how to beat it. It's just a matter of executing now in

05:03All the games before this one

05:06The one thing that kills cover two is a tight end

05:11Tight ends kill cover two

05:13Because now you're asking your linebacker to guard a tight end what about like we did see you know that Boston runs up the middle like

05:22in

05:24That helps also because now you got now think about this

05:29So you run you have you have effective runs against cover two

05:35Now they got to do one or two things

05:37Or those linebackers are going to be super aggressive to try to stop the run then you got the throws over the top

05:46If you start doing that then what they'll do is they'll roll the safety down and

05:52What teams try to do is

05:55Roll that safety down before they start doing the run

05:58And then they'll roll that safety down before they start doing the run

06:02And

06:03what teams try to do is roll that safety down before the snap and

06:09then make you adjust and

06:11Then get to cover two from there

06:14But if you try and do that

06:17You're leaving your cornerback on an island with Tyreke O'Whattle

06:22Because you ain't gonna be able to get over there to help him from around the line of scrimmage

06:26So there's a lot of different things you can do

06:29But here's the thing if you never take advantage or never have success to affect the other move

06:36It's a move point and that's kind of what happened in the game earlier in the season

06:41Yeah, it's just didn't play their best game either

06:44Yeah, they didn't and I think the thing is

06:46You know

06:47That's been frustrating is it does feel like the Dolphins have just set all their opponents up for success because they just can't

06:53Execute they have the they have this the most untimely turnovers

06:56I do say like I don't think sealer is completely ruled out yet

07:01But man trying to go win a game against that run attack without him is going to be a tall task

07:06You're gonna have to put up points like this cannot be one of these things where it's like, oh

07:10Miami is you know, you're having a 17 point stinker. You'll have no shot. It feels like right

07:16so that's kind of

07:19You know

07:20every week

07:23you go through and

07:26You realize

07:29But keep in mind teams don't make adjustments out of the realm do

07:37So if a team only plays cover two, they're not gonna adjust too much

07:44They're gonna just

07:46show it differently, but they're gonna end up in cover to a

07:50Team that doesn't blitz

07:52Isn't all of a sudden gonna start blitz and all-out because you're scared of the mistakes you could have in the secondary

07:58They might change it up every now and then

08:00So as you get to six seven eight games

08:04You have a pretty good idea of what the other team's gonna do. It's just a matter of

08:10Can you execute to make them adjust to make them get out of their comfort zone?

08:15because again, I

08:17can't think of

08:19in recent history a time where offensively

08:25You put them in a position where they had to make some kind of adjustment or you're never gonna stop you right it just never

08:30Happened on the other side

08:34They just moved the ball and

08:36Did what they wanted to do and if they couldn't do nothing then they just give the moose the ball and let him run around

08:43so

08:44this is where at

08:47some point

08:50Chop Robinson who does a hell of a job getting free is

08:54Gonna have to make a play for sure

08:57And and so that's it like which I don't know like it's it's hey

09:01We're still waiting still on the in the first sack on it and it's tough

09:05It's like this is so much pressure on this kid his his first year. I don't think there's um, I

09:13Don't think there's a lot of pressure that the team's putting on him because they do see him having some success

09:20the problem is is he's probably putting pressure on himself because he realizes that

09:26he doesn't have any and

09:29so

09:30You want to affect the quarterback?

09:34But you still have to be poised enough in

09:37Your efforts to affect the quarterback. You don't give him more of a window to throw the ball

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09:53This is him earlier in the week talking about all of Buffalo's past

09:57Success against his team here was McCoach and it's always interesting how how you know

10:04football is very similar to life and so

10:07circumstances

10:08kind of gate or direct

10:11Your tonality what you focus on

10:14and and right now

10:17You know, I think the the our main focus is

10:23Absolutely positively how we play football

10:25and how we

10:27How we do things to win games not things to lose games. So

10:34Yeah, I mean everybody it's a division road game against an opponent

10:39that

10:41you know is

10:43Everyone in our divisions chasing and and and that's uh, you know, everybody everybody knows that

10:51So

11:00Tonality

11:02Looked it up. He got lucky with that one. Oh

11:05I start looking at my feet

11:08Do you think it might be Dale looks at the the room one and he thinks to himself these yes, he's like, I'm a yellow

11:16I'm a yellow. I hit him with one of them Yale words or

11:21He looking around to see if Leroy Tobin in that room

11:25So laughter doesn't break out. I

11:28Can't like if we in serious meetings, I cannot be nowhere near Tobin

11:34I cannot be nowhere near Tobin

11:37Because he'll do this we'll be sitting down looking at a little paper to follow along and he'll go

11:44The last time I thought about that was during the Alonzo morning interview

11:52Thank god it's not here

11:55There's some stuff

11:57It wasn't what he said. It was the way he described it

12:00Okay, he's still the best like the interview was awesome, but there was one answer where I was like

12:11You're the guy you almost got inspired I know that's why I'm saying like I can't if I looked up but I saw your face

12:17I would have like I would have lost it. I would have lost it

12:21I was sitting next to the Google. I was sit right

12:27So I'm sitting here we look at our paper

12:31And me and Tobin just made eyes

12:35And I was like

12:38I just don't know. How did no one else laugh? Like how did no one else?

12:44Because they don't do stuff like us like

12:50To us says, uh, this is what he learned

12:53Uh, this is what he learned from week two when they're lost to buffalo

12:57I would say it doesn't change. I would say if you look back at the way we played buffalo

13:04earlier in the year, um

13:06Three three turnovers. You can't do that. Like you just can't do that and i'm just speaking from an offensive perspective

13:12Can't worry about what the defense does. They're gonna do what they do

13:15like we we gotta

13:17Eliminate turnovers eliminate takeaways in that sense. We gotta stay ahead of the sticks

13:23Take what they give us and if it's a 16 play drive and we get points on the board

13:27we're okay with that and we're willing to do that and

13:30This team is you know, you got to go battle them out for 60 minutes. That's what that's what these kind of games are

13:36Did infuse him intangibles getting river craycraft back this week. It seems like so he one of the things that

13:43I appreciate is

13:46He stayed on him

13:48On the offensive side of the ball, right?

13:52um

13:54and

13:55really

13:56commented on what they did wrong

13:59And and that's kind of how you own it, you know, you you you make those things better

14:05If you start talking about the the game in general, then people gonna look at you and say hey, buddy

14:09You had three turnovers

14:12You know, so yeah, I just think they they

14:17A

14:20Lot of stupid

14:24And unforced errors have been happening to this offense. Yep in recent history

14:32and

14:33I don't know and and people say it's paying attention to details, but I don't even know if that's it

14:39like some of them are unfortunate and they're

14:43badly timed

14:45Uh, and sometimes

14:48It does like I wonder if it's this because like everybody

14:52Who talks about stopping this offense, you know, the motions they use all the complexities that go into it

14:59Football heads like when it works they rave about it. But like if it is that hard if it doesn't work

15:03it just feels like

15:05the margin for error

15:07Can lead to disaster more so than right mistakes, right? It's like at what point?

15:12And I won't say simplify it

15:15But at what point

15:18Do you have to be careful?

15:21With all the stuff you're doing pre-snap

15:24To where you only end up hurting yourself, right and it doesn't make that much how much of an impact here

15:30Here's what you have to weigh

15:31How much of an impact?

15:34Is that motion that quick motion or that fast motion going to make?

15:40Or how difficult is it that you're going to have two guys moving

15:44Because we've seen a lot of times the receiver on the right is going way wide you got trips on the left

15:51They start doing their little motion thing and the guy hasn't gotten set out there out there yet

15:55It's basically like can you temper it from shooting yourself in the foot to just stubbing your toe?

16:05I'm sorry. No, go ahead. You were right. Go ahead. Push the button push the button minus one

16:10Why

16:13He was just waiting for the okay

16:16That was like

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