Are Tua Tagovailoa & Mike McDaniel On The Hot Seat If The Miami Dolphins Lose? | NFL Week 18 Recap

On this episode of Phinside The NFL, Reason recaps and reviews the Miami Dolphins HEARTBREAKING 21-14 loss at home to their division rivals Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills at Hard Rock Stadium, dropping Miami to 11-6 as they lose the AFC East title and now have dropped to the AFC’s #6 seed with an NFL Playoffs first round matchup set to take place in Kansas City against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs!

He’ll look over the snap counts from Week 18 for the Dolphins, passing charts and Next Gen Stats, PFF Grades for the Dolphins against the Bills plus more!

Are Tua Tagovailoa and Mike McDaniel going to be on the hot seat if they lose this week in Kansas City?

All that plus more on this episode!

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Time Stamps:

0:00 – Opening

1:03 – Intro

2:09 – Thoughts On Fair To Be Critical Of The Dolphins, Chase Claypool, Taking On Quality Teams Without Quality Personnel, Past Dolphins QBs, Fangio & More

20:03 – Has Vic Fangio Overcome Injuries Much Better Than Mike McDaniel?

37:45 – Should Mike McDaniel & Tua Tagovailoa Be On The Hot Seat If The Dolphins Lose This Weekend?

52:35 – AVG & Jerome Baker Done For The Season With Injuries

54:01 – Xavien Howard Expected To Miss The Week

57:40 – Miami Dolphins PFF Grades For Week 18 Vs. The Buffalo Bills

1:02:55 – Josh Allen’s Week 18 Next Gen Stats Passing Chart Vs. The Miami Dolphins

1:03:39 – Tua Tagovailoa’s Week 18 Next Gen Stats Passing Chart Vs. The Buffalo Bills

1:05:03 – Miami Dolphins Vs. Buffalo Bills Week 18 Next Gen Stats

1:08:17 – Multiple Dolphins Players Lead The NFL In Major Statistical Categories At The End Of The 2023 Regular Season

1:12:07 – Final Thoughts

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Man today dolphin Nation we all hurting after that loss we went from battling for the first seed in the AFC in week 17 to settling for battling to the number two seed in the AFC East Crown in the final week but I will say this listen

With our game coming up on Saturday any weekend not just this weekend but any weekend even if you win this weekend could be your last as we enter the playoffs listen I know it’s sucks after a loss but enjoy every moment that we still have playoff football to hope for

To plan for and to watch and for this team to play for a lot to talk about today we’ll go over the snap counts nextg stats PFF grades all of that we’ll talk about if Mike McDaniel and Tu a Tong blow should be on the hot seat or

Will be on the hot seat if they are one and done in KC so much to discuss let’s get into it smash the like button [Applause] the presser trouble loses the football the touchdown you have got to be kidding me Jaylen W has a dolphin touchdown and he will score Downer SL that open PCH down the run from cha Tong bya touchdown he’s going deep [Applause] [Applause] he for to the dolphin beautiful day to be a Dolphin fan let’s Go what is good Finn Nation what’s good I know what’s good I know how bad it is today listen we are all feeling it we are all feeling it you know um that was tough you know I will say the post game show Dolphins after dark

You know it was it was great shout out to cat for coming Lou um em ball game obviously the homie Martin couldn’t make it shout out to every Rhino for coming through that was a great show uh a little therapy session because listen I’m going to tell you

It’s okay to be critical and to critique your team right now where you got to draw the line is the over dramatizations and I got to discuss this is you know I’m seeing people out here a taking trying to take Victory Laps on Tua or B trying to call for Tua to be

Moved on off from when when ladies and gentlemen some of these are the same people who I remember seeing them in tanah Hills last year on YouTube saying we would go 17 and0 and win a Super Bowl because they believed in Ryan tanah Hill so much there are multiple people where

You go from YouTube to X wherever where they were out here claiming Josh Rosen was the franchise quarterback all right and now they’re trying to take Victory laps and push out a guy who’s had the best statistical year bar none by far since Dan Marino won sorry since Dan Reno

Wore our Jersey I don’t get it it’s crazy now if you want to sit there and say listen I need more from TU a Tong Alo and big moments and critical moments you ain’t going to hear an argument from me I said yesterday on the postgame show

He’s two and five this year in big moments listen the Chargers game anyone can say what they want to say with hindsight but I I say it every time I remember there’s over 1,200 people in that post game chat I remember how popping it was I remember the

Expectations of the Chargers heading to this season and the expectations of Justin Herbert okay won that game no the defense got torn up and we had no Run game won that game won the Dallas game cool there’s your two wins Kansas City and yes I’ve explained the cont of the

First half so many times that I’m sick about it that we should have been blowing them out it shouldn’t even have been coming down to a last drive but it did so two a tongue blow in those other games yes Tyreek dropped a ball against Philly yes Tyreek dropped a game tying

Ball again yesterday against Buffalo but the five losses Buffalo twice Philly Casey and the Ravens and he was vastly you know Lamar looked like the MVP I said it before before Lamar looked like the MVP in that game not Tua so two and five in big games critical moment situations this

Year and what did I say I said if we lost this Division I literally said this weeks ago I said we lost this division it’s not going to come down to the Ravens game and it ain’t going to come down to the Bills game this should have been sewn up with the Titans

Game that’s just a fact of the matter Titans game should have been a wrap but I digress you got people out here who are telling y’all rosen’s franchise quarterback you know tanah Hill’s the guy Brett’s going to win it we should trade for jamus Winston all these I

Remember all this I remember all of this stuff but now they want to say okay well now that we’ve got a guy who just threw for over 4600 yards remember he was taken out of games early multiple times not because we were losing because we were winning this

Year we’re five games above 500 65% winning percentage they you know they got all the answers but they got no Solutions so what we trade up for Caleb Williams you don’t know what he is I already would take Drake May or Michael pennx over him but people got no answers who who’s the

Free agency or who’s in the draft that’s good to come in and replicate that and remember we were fighting for the first seed the second seed the AFC title two through for 4600 yards all this and it was his first healthy 16 Game season it’s not like we’re coming off year four

And he’s been healthy every year last year looked like he was going to put up similar stuff to what he did this year would have been 4500 yards last year and we would have seen some growth this this year and the yardage and the I don’t

Know but you got people out here saying move off that like right now like to dismiss injuries and to say blow it up it’s over dramatic let me ask you this how can you win at the highest level against the best quality opponents without your top Quality Personnel

Think of what we were with just last night alone on offense and this is not an excuse because I I just want to say just think of what we’re missing but this is not an excuse because we were in a position to win yesterday so I’m not

I’m I’m prefacing this with saying it’s not an excuse I’m just I’m just context see people want to label context as an excuse my biggest pet peeve anyways context of the situation we’re out with we were without the top Center in the NFL yesterday we’re out without the lead one of the leading

Touchdown scores in the NFL and rahee mo hurt with over 20 touchdowns and we were without Jaylen W who let’s be honest has anyone stepped up and raised their hands and said I will be I will step in for this role this this two- game losing streak

Against the Ravens and I kind of knew it against the Ravens I really didn’t say it against the bills but I did say was one of the things I was wor about against the Ravens you know jayen Phillips and Jaylen Wadd being out against the Ravens when they’ve been two

Of our biggest producers in the last two games we won against the Ravens we got we need people to compensate for that right and we didn’t get anyone to compensate for Phillips or Wadd anyways I digress is Jaylen Wadd a bigger Cog in the wheel than we all thought in terms

Of creating space for Tyreek and everyone because no one stepped up in waddle no one Chase Claypool listen we went back I went back and I watched it and it was all over Twitter today I’m going to say this Tua bad decision throwing to Claypool on that

Interception why throw to him he hasn’t had a lot of reps I wouldn’t be putting him in a pressure situation like that but anyways what a God awful route by Chase Claypool if you go back and you watch that what a God awful route by Chase Claypool

Unbelievable if you actually look at it Tua put the ball where it’s supposed to be but Claypool ran a terrible route like it was awful rounded it out he ran it wide and rounded it out it was awful but I still go back to my first what I said firstly bad decision

To it don’t throw to that guy you you should know that you’ve worked with him in practice he hasn’t had very many reps he just just dropped the football in bracketed coverage that you threw a dime to him against the Ravens the week before buddy put him in your dogghouse

Don’t put him in spots to make plays in critical moments I don’t know like that’s not a when we need completions and we need the sticks and we need it to happen bro I ain’t even Claypool buddy you’re like the fourth option so uh you know I’ll say to a bad

Decision Claypool it was a bad decision but it was the right throw and he made and and he made the throw but it was a bad decision because of the guy you targeted that’s what I’ll say I wouldn’t have thrown him that’s just me but hey you know Tu Tango is

Playing at a higher level than all of us in the chat combined will ever play you know so I don’t know what else to say but yeah going to Claypool in critical moments I don’t know about that buddy uh you know I don’t know if I can get on

Board with that my friend I I don’t know if I can get on board with that so you know and you know what’s funny too is a lot of these people who are telling you to get off Tua or Tua is not the guy or etc etc remember they were

All the ones shoving Herbert down your throat the last 3 years and they want to call to a tongue of ala choker the audacity of these people think about that one for a sec let that settle in not only did a lot of these people say Rosen was a franchise

Quarterback not only did they say tan they were all AB the tanah hill train but they also told y’all Herbert was the answer the ultimate Choke Artist just saying and if you want to talk about the 2020 draft let’s talk about the 2020 draft there were two

Players I said I wanted cuz I knew burrow was out of the discussion I knew he’s going one tell me where I was wrong cuz I see some of them are trying to Hype up Jordan love well thank you for giving me the Barry Horwitz without giving me the Barry harowitz because

Let’s roll back the film whether I was on here or other platforms what was reason saying draft to a tongue below at 5 or trade back and take two years and develop Jordan love that’s exactly what I said and guess what let’s call it spade a spade 2020 draft class this

Year Tua blew the divisional lead right Herz blew the divisional lead Joe burrow has turned out to be the most injury prone of them all and Herbert once again leading the team to an underwe Herbert’s gotten two coaches fired everyone wants to talk about how two has gotten Flores fired

Well he’s gotten Herbert’s gotten offensive coach and a defensive coach fired Anthony Lynn was an offensive coach Staley was a defensive coach he’s gotten two coaches fired now in his regime Jordan love was the only one who won a crucial game this year out of all them

Richie says don’t forget oh brother you don’t got to remind me because I remember 2019 2020 on this platform and other platforms me and EM Dolphin fan doing our rounds telling everyone Trevor Lawrence is not the answer trust me and I kept saying it through and through Clemson he looked like he regressed

Every year see at least we can sit here and say two has gotten better every year as a dolphin that’s undeniable Tu a tonga baloa has gotten better every year but I talked about it early in this season when we were winning and I’ll tell yall it again there’s levels to

This when it comes to winning Joe burrow hasn’t even learned to won he’s learned certain levels of winning but he ain’t won the Super Bowl Jaylen Herz certain levels of winning last year but he didn’t win at all Herbert hasn’t learned anything when it comes to winning I remember that guy

On the sideline against the Raiders saying man I’ve never wished for a tie harder in my life like a loser erwood Tu a tongo and Mike McDaniel two years together here’s the fact they’re growing they’re still developing they’re still learning to win I’ve brought this up i’ I’ve talked about our Personnel

But even outside of Tu and McDaniel I I literally brought it up I said the only guys on this team who know how to win are who Armstead Ramsay and Tyreek one of those guys is continuously dropping footballs in crucial moments moments and he’s supposed to be our offensive leader

Philly game Buffalo game last December Buffalo game yesterday he could have tied it remember think about it last year in December where Tua was lights out when everyone was worried about snow that’s why I’m not worried about snow this week when everyone was worried about snow and

Cold weather to was lights out in Buffalo but sherfield who’s now making Madden glitch catches against us sherfield and Tyreek drop game-winning touchdowns in berer lets us down this today the yesterday guys should that interception have either happened to Claypool no Tyreek should have had a walk-in touchdown but he

Dropped the football like he did last week against the Ravens like he dropped a dime 90 plus yard touchdown against Dallas three games in a row what have what have I been saying we’ve been in the playoffs for three games now we’re one and two now every game Tyreek has a crucial drop

And people were trying to tell me I was crazy when I was pointing it out after Buffalo last year when I saw it people were telling me I was crazy all right so now Teran Armstead other leader other big guy we pay this money to for Big Time critical moments

What’s Happening two critical penalties yesterday that cost us Jaylen r Ramsey I can’t say anything about Jaylen Ramsey you got to be lucky to be good and good to be lucky Jaylen Ramsay Stefon Diggs had you for an 89 plus yard touchdown but the the pressure got there

Allen was inaccurate the football God Smiled On you out of the three of them Jaylen Ramsey I’m not going to sit here and complain about we Real Talk man and Danny Crossman I’ve been saying for years how does Danny Crossman still have a job I said when when we cleaned house I said

Boer I did I not say Boer and Crossman should have been gone immediately with McDaniel retool it right away how is Crossman stuck around two games in a row Ravens and now the Bills game two critical games in a row what happens two back breaking suck the air out of the team

Deflating special team breakdowns one to open the second half against the Ravens and then one to tie the game for a punt return touchdown holy Jesus to sit here and say it’s one player is ludicy to sit here and St even two two people is ludicy because on offense

Alone the blame is sitting at the at the at the feet of our three-headed offensive monster in two of Tyreek and McDaniels that’s three alone Addam Crossman I’m at four but people want to make it just about twoa when the interception shouldn’t have happened no one wants to talk about

How Tyreek got hit right in the hands and should have walked in tied the game to have made the throw to have made the game tying throw Tyreek let us down again and then what happened to a ball in your hands he let us down again that’s what

Happened your two big boys on offense that we got other than aan who McDaniel let us down again by not feeding three-headed monster all let us down again thank you very much what do you want me to like that’s a fact it ain’t one person here offensively at least we’re losing as a

Team special teams they’re helping the cause to lose the only phase that’s going unscathed this week is the defense and last week the defense against the Ravens got obliterated so out of all three phases the only one who gets a pass is the defense and only for this week cuz

They don’t get one for last week even though yeah they gave us some opportunities in the second half but come on they got gashed all day on the ground they got destroyed Vic Fel and that defense rebounded man they answered the call that’s it so let’s talk about this I want to talk

About a few things here let’s talk about Vic fangio and let’s talk about Mike McDaniel and we’ll segue into um you know McDaniel and Tua here but let’s start off with Fano because I remember through the first eight weeks the same people who are saying get rid of Tua get

Rid of McDaniel what were they saying in the first eight weeks what were they telling each and every one of you what were they saying you know look deep down inside of you whether in your heart or in your memory banks you know what they were saying to you

Fangio’s defense sucks fire fangio fangio is no good this defense is terrible remember first half of the Season it was vanio in the defense’s fault I remember they were in my chat other people were making videos about it other people were making tweets about it I remember everyone the same people who

Are trying to get Tua and McDaniel run up out of here they’re trying to run Fu up here in the first half of the Season see these people they live off just looking of who to like they live off just honing in on one particular person

For blame to get clicks that’s what they do but now what now what because I’m going to tell you this Vic fangio compared to Mike McDaniel who’s made more with what they have after they’ve been ravaged by injuries Vic fangio and that defense have been ravaged by injuries just as

Crucial as we have been offensively let’s go through the list Bradley chub Jaylen Phillips Keon crosson xaven Howard now Cameron good Andrew vanko Jerome Baker Javon Holland still battling the injuries didn’t have Jaylen Ramsey for the first half off defensively it’s they’re just as big names Conor Williams was playing

As a top Center in the game Isaiah win was having a career Renaissance at left guard Jaylen Waddles missed serious time Raheem moser’s missing time salvin Ed’s on IR Tyreek Hills Miss time Davon Devon aan missed serious time when he was tearing the league up tan armstead’s missed more than six games

Robert hunts missed a handful of games Leon ikenberg been in a walking boot for weeks Austin Jackson’s missed games Lester cotton Robert Jones have missed games the injuries are everywhere right now the Dolphins are down to their fourth and fifth Edge rushers and their third inside linebacker both their safeties are

Starting safeties are banged up but when are we going to get the performance from the offense that we’re getting from the defense despite the injuries see and I want to have this conversation with the people that were levelheaded and like-minded like me when people were bailing on fangio and the

Defense in the first half of the Season what was I saying literally what was I saying wait till week eight let’s have this conversation let’s revisit this after week eight people didn’t want to revisit that conversation after week eight did they they didn’t want to revisit that cuz

That defense had done turn the corner and it was on and popping baby and we’ve really only had one slip up since then well two The Raven the Titans game in the last two minutes and the Ravens game so we had two slip UPS in the last

Nine weeks since then and we had started turning the corner in like week five week six so I want to have this conversation with those people the same people who are like me yes I’m sitting here telling you the three-headed monster Tua Tyreek and McDaniel they’re all not coming up

In crucial moments they’re all not coming up in Big Time games they’re two and five in Big Time games in crucial moments I’m the first one to tell you that but I’m also not here ready to jump off a bridge and bail ship back-to-back playoffs appearances

Was the last time we had that do the math first season to his healthy in this offense we’re competing for the AFC East title we were in the driver’s seat to is leading the league in major statistical categories including passing yards and no Tyreek didn’t have to reach 2,000 for

That to happen and he was benched for quarters due to us blowing teams out but Vic vanio and the job he’s done comes down to McDaniel right a lot of us have have not been fans of the play calling especially in critical moments especially situationally and big

Fangio he’s done a lot he’s he’s done he’s done more with just as much in terms of injury and having to compensate for injuries with his unit compared to what McDaniel has been able to do with his unit now I also get it’s not all McDaniel we’ve had Personnel on offense that hasn’t

Executed whether it be the quarterback whether or whether it be a receiver we’ve had the the we’ve had lack of execution too there’s been times where Mike’s made the right call and execution has held us back from moving the football not him Josh Williams said last year when we

Played the ners as we held uh Christian mcaffrey to 66 yards when he a when he averages 80 to 100 yards rushing what did Kyle do let Christian mcaffrey get eight catches for 80 yards and a touchdown what did I say all week I tweeted it out I told all you all week

Josh and I know you listen I know you know between the Run game and the pass game aan should have had 20 plus touches inexcusable he’s looked like and what did I say keep threatening the seams how many big chunk plays again did we have

This week with Smite like how is a guy on YouTube identifying this stuff that we should be honing in on that we should be highlighting in our game plan for these teams but we got a whole staff of guys over there and no one’s having the light

Bulb go off off when they watch the film how is how is how are the light bulbs not going off I I I don’t get it I bro the subject earlier this year I’mma Broach it again if if Frank Smith gets an OC job sorry gets a head coach job job and

Daryl Beville is next in line to BR OC have the conversation about him taking over play calling Mike it is not a bad thing if you learn under darl Beville for two years until he gets a coaching job how to get better at play calling

It’s not a bad thing I bro this guys I brought this up when we were winning I brought this up when we were winning and we were struggling situationally what did I say what did I say I was worried about a Sanders Sanders field goal screwing us or Mike mcdel situational

Play calling screwing us you know I didn’t factor in Tyreek and Tua not you know stepping up enough in critical moments because we’d seen them do it you know we’re just now seeing it a 30% clip which just ain’t good enough so but I digress you

Know it’s not that bad darl Beville led a top five offense in Seattle for five years in a row top 10 for five years in a row and Russell Wilson looked the best he’s ever looked in his career under him it’s not that bad of an idea sure did Daryl Beville

Situationally make a great call by not giving the ball to Marsha Lynch and having Russell Wilson drop back to throw and throw the interception against New England no but he won a Super Bowl before that and he got to Super Bowl the second year in a row just

Saying I i’ I’ve talked about this all year and I’m going continue to say it it’s not a bad idea and there’s nothing embarrassing I know it’s all about ego and pride with these guys but you got but I’m about to W swallow it suck it up big

Like darl bevel might be a more qualified play caller right now cuz part of the growing pains we’re going through are Mike McDaniel learning how to be a play caller in the NFL this is the problem with Kyle Shanahan not letting these guys call the plays and it’s what he’s doing to Frank

Smith so what is Frank Smith going to go somewhere and have the same issues maybe it’s okay Mike if you just are the head coach for two years and you delegate the duties to Daryl Beville and Vic Fango because it’s working on the defensive side keep designing your plays

Keep designing the Playbook focus on that while Daryl Beville calls the plays because clearly when it comes to game Flow and situational flow Daryl Beville has a better thumb on it his resume speaks louder in critical games and critical moments and critical situations cuz the man still has 20 wins

In two years so I’m not going to sit here and say as a play caller he’s absolute trash that would be ignorant but I’m just saying maybe we got a more qualified guy in the room that could you know take this offense a little bit further I’m just

Saying and that’s not a bad thing that’s a good thing you want to be surrounded by Brilliant Minds because I’m going to tell you this this lack of the commitment to the Run guys I want you to this season check this out when the Dolphins run 26 or more

Times this year we are 9- one when we rush 25 or less we’re 2 and5 just saying and we’re one and five with a minus 91 Point differential against playoff teams this year only the Giants and commanders had a worst Point differential against playoff teams now I understand Bill started loading

The box with six Defenders just you know totally totally sold out against the run and yes I understand we had um two drops past the sticks um one overthrow one throw that one to baros that was just short of the first down and the interception and three runs and

And only two first downs you know over 13 plays before our final drive I get all that but man there was a perfect time where you go back to that game yesterday where we had the perfect time after we gained a first down to run the

Football I mean I’m sorry we threw we got us it was on first we got five yards a f it was a five yard here I’ll tell you the exact drive all right it was a we gained five yards I want to say it

Was on one of those um it was on one of the drives where we punted it was in the uh here I’ll tell you right now it was in the second half obviously and it was yeah it was that first drive where we punted right where

Tua threw it to aan we got five yards off that first play you’re second and five come back to a run what did we do pass to Julian Hill that only gained two and then baros was short of the sticks for two right after that we were in

Second and five and third and three and we didn’t run the football we dropped two a back three times in a row second and I gained five I I’m at second and five run the ball now on second down run a delay boom just run a delay up the

Middle I mean these guys were averaging over five yards a carry I mean you know realistically if you handed it to a Channer Jeff Wilson Wilson was averaging five yards a Chan was averaging 5.6 technically on second and five if you hand it off to one of them you should

Get the first down based on the game Flow just saying again I go back to it fangio but you see fangio bend and break making better decisions with his Personnel teren says I I 100% agree I’ve been frustrated with some of the play calls feel like he’s being cute at times

I want to see some toughness and git I agree the cutesy thing you know you can’t get away from I agree 110% Rocky other teams have figured out McDaniel’s Tendencies more than the offense there’s an obvious pattern of behavior with his play calling and this is what it comes down to

Listen what did I tell all of you guys again in the off season this offense is going to be figured out I’m glad you make a great point you this is a great Point here Rocky this off offense is good I said it was going to get figured out by the

Second time we saw bich that’s exactly what I said and I said it up here publicly and I talked about it privately with multiple people what had me excited was we saw what happened to McDaniel last year we saw how he got figured out he didn’t have a counter punch and I

Said to em em agreed with it I said to like a bunch of people you know privately and I said to you publicly I can’t wait to see what he’s used this offseason for to put in his bag as a counter punch and now I’m sitting here

After week 18 and I’m still waiting for the counter punch listen you can go off and we’ve gone off in September and October the last two years why I’ve told all you guys this the tape doesn’t start coming out on teams till week 6 S8 that’s when

You start getting a GP grasp of what this offense is doing the tape really starts coming out at that point and now it’s about you and what’s frustrating to me is hen and smite have shown you the switch up options they’re right there in front of

You they are right there staring you in the face of hi I’m an adjustment to the game plan but we’ll take them in small doses instead the problem is for two years in a row and what’s eerie here and why you might want to put it on

McDaniel whether we had Tua or we didn’t over the last two years it’s pretty much been the same start off hot for the first two and a half months two months slowed down a little bit offense gets figured out no counter punch from the coaching staff no terrible in-game

Adjustments or not many in-game adjustments if any at all at time times and then here we go I don’t know what else to say rocky it is what it is anyways let’s get into this let’s start off cuz we got a bunch to get into let’s start off with this article from Chris

Perkins let’s have the conversation and I’m going to add something to it though all right this isn’t going to before we get into snap counts and PFF and all that stuff let’s talk this conversation all right and I’m GNA add to it so should Mike McDaniel

And Tua Tong maloa be on the hot seat if we’re one and done against Casey so let’s bring up this article from Perkins Chris Perkins all right this is what he said um you know he said if Dolphins lose Saturday Mike mcel will be on the hot seat tal Rich dolphins are 3

And 11 versus playoff teams under Mick Daniel so it’s a must-win it’s must-win time for the Miami Dolphins and Coach Mike mcdel Saturday night’s playoff match up at Kansas City is not just a game it’s a referendum on the two-year Mike McDaniel era I like McDaniel he’s creative quirky

Innovative intelligent funny smart quick wited upbeat and positive he’s a good guy but let’s be Crystal Clear if the Dolphins lose their first round playoff game McDaniel te should be uncomfortably warm during the off season the game isn’t the final Judgment of McDaniel but it’s a crucial pivotal

Checkpoint on him his methods and his team McDaniel has improved as a coach but not enough McDaniel is 20 and 15 including a0 and one mark in the playoffs more importantly the Dolphins are 4-9 under Mike McDaniel in December and January most importantly the Dolphins are 3 and 11 against teams that

Have made the playoffs the last two years those are underachieving numbers for such a talent-rich team it makes you ask yourself what has this team actually accomplished under McDaniel I’m not being an alarmist this isn’t clickbait overreaction Monday or an attempt to get in front of the issue that doesn’t exist

This is real talk here’s a better way to look at things a victory on Saturday night salvages the entire season a victory on Saturday at Kansas City keeps the McDaniel era worthwhile and relevant it would provide credibility optimism and a heaping spoonful of offseason excitement regardless of how the second

Round playoff game would end a victory on Saturday validates almost everything that Daniel stands for and has been preaching it would be a testament to one of his favorite sayings adversity is an opportunity a loss and those are just Hollow words no more significant than anything ex dolphin coaches Joe Phil and

Gates or Brian Flores ever said oh and one other thing for the record there’s absolutely positively no way Mike MCD should be fired during the off season if the Dolphins lose to the chief that’d be ridiculous it’s out of the question however owner Steve Ross and general

Manager Chris Greer might have to get some offseason concessions from McDaniel a receiving tight end and More Physical running game revamping the challenging process some Assurance a change or two will be made why a loss Saturday night would cap one of the greatest collapses in Dolphins franchise history based on

Expectations might be a greater collapse than 1993 Miami was 9-2 and lost its last five to finish 9- seven and missed the playoffs there Remain the only team in NFL history to start 9-2 and miss the playoffs at the start of December the DOL this Dolphins team which led the

League in offense to scoring and had six Pro Bowl selections was 9 and3 three weeks ago the Dolphins team was 11-4 and had Super Bowl expectations while coming off arousing 20 20 22 to 20 victory over the Cowboys now they’re simply hoping to limp into Kansas city and break a season long

Trend of getting smoked by quality teams McDaniel has the best offensive Talent the franchise has had in what 30 some years the Dolphins have a franchise quarterback a future hall of fame wide receiver the best young receiver in franchise history a record setting running back a pro bowl fullback and a

Pro bowl left tackle they had 10 of the 11 projected offensive starters coming out of training camp either named a pro bowl squad or named a pro bowl alternate and the offense can’t score against quality teams we know the Shanahan offense works in other places we don’t know why McDaniel offense doesn’t work

Here you know my theory however I think the entire offense is based on Tyreek and the threat of Tyreek when those things are neutralized the offense has nothing left whatever the case for now for the purposes of this offseason it all comes down to one game win this one

And people can see the light a way out of three decades of dolphins Darkness loses one and the same old Dolphins refrain will live again it’ll have been more two more seasons without playoff Victory two more seasons of disappointment two more seasons of getting surpassed out class

By teams such as Buffalo Baltimore and Kansas City we all like McDaniel but Super Bowl windows don’t stay open for long if the Dolphins lose at Kansas City on Saturday it’s time to start questioning when and whether their Super Bowl window under McDaniel will be opened now here’s what I’m going to tell

You right now because he makes a lot of valid points by no way is that article nonsense but I’m going to tell you why listen you’ve got to come to a point where you can put and maybe it’s because of what I do as a content creator of why

I’ve done but you got to come to a point where you got to put your put aside and you’ve seen me do it like not just with t and McDaniel but other players who I like or don’t like you got to take a business approach and how they’re going

To see it from a business I can already tell you how this conversation is going to go McDaniel’s going to go in and he’s going to walk in he’s going to list everything I listed earlier oh you know fighting for the number one seed in week 17 fighting for the number

Two seed in the AFC East and 11 wins after all those injuries I just had last year and you know yeah he’s right Perkins is right he’s going to have to make like some concessions and say okay I need this or I’ll change this I get that but the

Injury thing it guys this is why I keep telling you it’s not an excuse in his context because that is going to be a real conversation that Ross and Greer are going to consider because what that article isn’t pointing out and what I’ll point out to you is it’s not just

McDaniel and Tua tied at the hip Chris Greer is tied to their hip as well Chris Greer it was basically you got to roll with who you want to hire or you’re out this is your last shot when we bring in McDaniel so Greer’s tied to their hip

Just as much so I’m telling you that’s going to now that’s just the fact of the matter now with Tua guys I’m telling you I said this before the Bills game and I’ll tell you this again we could have lost these two G next two games KC and

Buffalo two is still getting extended you know why we’re 41 million over the cap and that’s going to save them 15 million now what they’re probably going to do is put an out in it after like the third year I think they’re going to extend him

But there’s going to be an out they’re going him a five-year deal and there’s going to be an out in three years guys Justin Herbert is known as this big choke artist right but he won Rookie of the Year never been in the MVP conversation and the guy got over $215 million

Guaranteed what do you think Tua just led the league in passing yards he’s been in the MVP conversation two years in a row last year when he was healthy and then this year up until week 17 he was in it he’s going to get paid that’s the fact of the

Matter and it comes back to what I keep telling you that 65% winning percentage and those numbers y’all are trying to label as Hollow which are the best we’ve had since Marina War our colors yeah that’s going to matter at the negotiating table two is good two is really good two

Is a top 10 quarterback the problem everyone has with him is let’s use this year Tua was two and five in big games that’s the problem 30% is not good enough in big games this year alone it’s actually it’s actually about 29% or 28.6 if you want to be real real close

Here that’s that’s that’s the reality of the situation and guess what you know what the problem is ladies and gentlemen we have all these expectations this team is built the way he is and we’re going through the Growing Pains of Tua that was his first season he

Played second year in this offense and Mike McDaniel is learning how to be a head coach R for says reek through his career has been inconsistent in big games dude even froz in the Super Bowl and two his biggest chokes have been in two-minute drills McDaniel when the Run game has

Any resistance is when he goes all past I agree I I agree especially with that when any when the running game has any resistance he goes all past I agree with that on 10% and our Force I’ll do one better remember when he was getting into

It with Steve Smith cuz Steve Smith was questioning uh reck’s hands people forget about that listen I defended reek back then I ain’t going to defend reek now maybe Steve Smith had a point just saying but guys these guys listen I think the the the seat’s going to get

Hot if we underachieve next year something’s gonna happen something’s gonna happen after next year if we underachieve I don’t know what because there’s multiple factors okay what if Tua keep what if Tua and Tyreek keep it coming up short in these big games and Mike McDaniel goes in for goes into business for

Himself and says man they might can me hey I turned two of into the into the number Factory you’re seeing but I can’t win with him let me go get my guy that I can also develop but I think I can win with what if Mike McDaniel says that if we underachieve next

Year what if Tua has another has a great statistical year but it comes down to bad coaching decisions like we saw Flores blow in his final year in Jacksonville and against Atlanta in the final two minutes what if it comes down to that and then Tua goes in and says man I love

Mike but I don’t know if he can get us over the hump I’ve learned enough from him I can lead us I mean this could go so many freaking ways I I don’t know but Perkins also right and I broached it to the guys yesterday and

I’ll say it to you I want to hear you in the chat if we beat KC this weekend does that absolve us of the Ravens and does that absolve us of the last two weeks because now here’s the here’s the thing here’s the thing ladies and gentlemen you’re about to go into

Arrowhead all right you’re about to go into Arrowhead where they’ve only lost two playoff games at home dating back to 2019 both in the AFC champ Championship one against New England one against the Cincinnati Bengals home record wise they are the since November 2021 they have the best home record in the

NFL but they’re also the defending Super Bowl champions and what’s the narrative not only can we not be beat good teams we can’t beat good teams on the road and look what Dawn says yes it’s a playoff win yes oh Noah John I brought up the injuries on the pregame show sorry on

The preview show go look at the injury report on the preview show we had 19 players on the injury report the bills had like six got to win a playoff game bottom line injuries killed us but let me know no the the Casey a winning Casey does not absolve Rocky says

Yes you know I want to know in the chat he says hell no Josh says hell no pyro says he’ll still be mad he’s still in his hole no you have to make the AFC Championship even with these injuries I don’t know about that bro yeah it’s true you you you let me

Know te says a win in KC and yes this year is a success yes because em Court says yes because KC are defending Champions T says the goal is win the playoff game go do it you R Force listen I’m going to be honest with you bro we match up against better

Against the Chiefs the problem is the Chiefs are at home you’re not crazy go askem before that game yesterday I said bro I don’t know if I like our chances beating Buffalo two weeks in a row and if they and the thing is I was watching Josh Allen crapped the bed yesterday and

I’m like do we really think we’re going to get two games back to back like this from Josh Allen for the offense to to to take advantage of no and we couldn’t take advantage of it yesterday alone so you know tough tough stuff man for 440 of

You in the room smash that like button subscribe if you’re new we got a bunch to go over here um we got a bunch to go over here all right so let’s go over it quickly here um we got some you know key injury updates I think

We should go over first before we op in that everything guys um in case you didn’t know Andre van gko Cameron good and Jerome Baker won’t play in the Wild Card round their season is done Baker had wrist surgery this morning remember when he went down people were saying it

Was his arm and I said it looked like it was his hand or his wrist well Baker went and had wrist surgery this morning Andrew van uh Cameron good toward his PC guys we’ve lost like how many Edge rushers do we have left man so now Andre van gko Cameron good

And Jerome Baker are done for the year it’s it’s unbelievable it’s really unbelievable we even lost Cameron good this team’s going to have to start firing chanting Tindle off the edge that’s where we’re at right now we even lost Cameron good literally Ingram and ogba that’s all we

Got we better go get some bodies Jason Pier Paul better be coming back and then even further here remember I told you the ideal scenario for X coming back would have been when the divisional round well here we go and a here’s a quote from Mike McDaniel when

He asked about xaven Howard status for Saturday and I quote I’m more optimistic about Raheem and jayen I wouldn’t rule anything out with X but I would say it would be fair to say we’re not we’re not planning for him to be in this game but

If things change they change so we might not even have xaven Howard again now secondary was fine for the most part but no xaven Howard too but it does look like Raheem moer and Jaylen W will be back so here we go Andrew van GLE done for the year Drome Baker wrist surgery

Done for the year Cameron good torn PCL done for the year year Jaylen wad not going to be available for this game and people will try to tell all of you not to mention we’re missing the best center in the game this year from PFF standpoint well not to mention we are

Also missing a guy who’s having a career Renaissance in our Run game hasn’t looked the same since he went down and Isaiah win not to mention we’re missing the best pass rush duo in the NFL Bradley chub as well as Jaylen Phillips both had 95 pressures were leading the

League Jon Baker comes back for one game wears a brace and hurts his wrist not to mention Javon Holland was on a snap count yesterday why because his knees apparently Javon Holland mcl’s are bugging him again you got to go up against the highest quality of teams in the NFL in the

Playoffs and we are coming in without so many highquality players and we’ve even lost some a lot of their backups too oh my God it’s just one thing after the another it really is it’s ugly man it’s just ugly smash that like button subscribe if for

New almost an hour in you know what we’re just GNA we’ll skip the snap counts this week I mean it is what it is um and what we’ll do is we’ll hop over to the PFF grades you guys can see how we graded out um cuz there’s some stuff to go over

There too right so let’s hop over to the PFF grades oh let me do that hold on yeah we’ll hop over to the PF grades right now hold on all right here we go all right hopping over to the pfff grades all right man I feel the pain dolphin Nation don’t

Worry all right so let’s get into it offensively um look at two a Tong low is our third highest grade offensive player yesterday River Craycraft was our highest Tyreek number two Tua number three aan number four Robert hunt number five your worst graded guys Robert Jones Alec ingled Taran Armstead

Austin Jackson and Jeff Wilson Junior were your lowest graded offensive players when you look at Tua um on the Deep level he was two for six intermediate level they have him charted here three for seven short level they had him almost perfect at 11 of 12 and then behind line of screamage clean

Two for two when he was kept clean he was 14 of 19 for a 73.7 um completion percentage one touchdown two interceptions um turn two turnover worthy throws which were the interceptions obviously um uh he had one big time throw when he was kept clean he had two all game

Um his passer rating was 65.6 his NFL passer rating was 65.6 when he was kept clean his uh adjusted depth per Target was about 9.2 yards because his uh yards per attt was about 5.8 Under Pressure he was four for n for 59 yards no touchdowns no

Picks um he made a big time throw he had no turnover worthy plays under pressure um his both of his turnover with the plays came when he wasn’t even blitzed um his adjusted uh completion percentage jumps from 44.4 to 50% um his average depth of Target was about 14 and a 14.5

Yards um time to throw when he was kept clean was 2.03 seconds when he was under pressure was about 2.76 total he was about 2.26 in terms of time to throw now when you look at block the offensive line was good man six pressures they did everything we needed

Them to do here you I want I want to I I want to hear this Liam mikenberg and all of you y’all showed up y’all came to play I give you your flowers Lee mikenberg listen they can say what they want here in terms of your grades you were a lot

Better than you were the in week four against them so offensive line other than Armstead with penalty right Armstead with penalties and letting us down you guys in terms of pass protection you guys get your props defensively Christian Wilkins highest graded Defender he looked like the $24 million man after disappearing the week

Before 88.7 Jerome Baker had an 81.1 cam good on 12 snaps had an 80.3 Brandon Jones had a 76.8 as he had a really strong outing taken in on snaps for Javon Holland right um DeShaun hand 76.3 rayquan 71.5 deshun Elliott Good showing to he had a 70.7 your worst graded guys

Ramay had a 42.6 NM had a 44 ker coo Kar coo there was a play when you went back and watch it back where on Josh Allen where Kar made a business decision and didn’t make the hit um Melvin Ingram low graded syo low graded yeah not not defense was good

Enough I’m not going to sit here and harp on them man coverage wise this is what it looked like Eli Apple targeted 12 times allowed nine receptions for 141 yards allowed 49 yards after the catch five first downs one interception also had a touchdown David long targeted five times low five

Receptions for 33 yards Deshawn Elliot targeted five times allowed four receptions one touchdown two first downs Jaylen Ramsey targeted four times allowed three receptions for 40 yards Duke Riley targeted four times lot four receptions for 53 yards and two first downs Dron Baker targeted three times allowed 15 yards no first

Downs ker coou targeted twice allowed one reception for 28 yards and a first down Melvin Ingram obviously targeted once allowed one re for 26 yards so Nick Needum targeted once did not allow a reception so those are your PFF grades for the Miami Dolphins all right that is what we are

Looking at over there so all that said let’s head over let’s hop in to the next gen stats for all of you guys um Josh Allen this is his passing chart he was 30 of 38 359 yards two touchdowns two interceptions a plus 12.3 completion percentage I mean it is what it is

Man spreading the ball out two picks we made him look human like that touchdown that mad and glitch touchd down to sherfield unbelievable shows where our Luck’s at but we made him look human I mean we made him look human we gave our offense opportunities to blow the game open and

They just didn’t get the job done period now when you look at Tu a Tang of aloa and his passing chart he was actually under completion percentage he was a minus 1.8 in terms of completion percentage over expected 17 of 27 173 one touchdown two picks drops bad decisions just not good enough

Man just not good enough not good enough period it’s all there is to it just not good enough from Tua from Tyreek from McDaniel not good enough period not anywhere near good enough so Florida Dawn says M for 28 months shout out to you man over two years

Still have faith in this team never quit Fins Up agreed it ain’t over till the fat lady’s out here singing But brother she’s warming up she’s sipping her herble tea warming up the vocal cords I ain’t going to lie to you right now it ain’t over and we hoping they

Come in and say hey you’re not up next we got a scheduling change sit your fat ass down but she’s warming up she is warming up all right that’s just a fact of the matter now nextg stats Josh Allen longest completed air distance 48.9 yards two at 36.6 khil Shakir fastest

Ball carry yesterday 20.7 Deon aan fastest FR us got up to 18.8 86 fastest sacks Dodson had it in 5.2 seconds Wilkins had it in 2.8 now you look at um the passing chart here and um now so Tua when we focus here on the right sorry on the right side

Here they have him here 0 for four on the Deep level remember pfff um remember they had him what two for six so on the intermediate level they have him three for nine here while you look at PFF again on the intermediate level PFF they had Tua uh 3 47

Short to a he on here at least um 10 of 12 then behind the line of scrimmage two for two rushing aan was just eating off that right side just eating off that right side it’s just disgusting that he had 10 carries just disgusting and then you see Jeff Wilson

Hitting the gaps more like three attempts for 17 yards two attempts for seven yards in the gaps like two like come on man run the ball they were screaming receiving average so the league average in terms of routes per run on separation is about 2.95 yards Hill had

3.03 Smite had 2.63 Cedric Wilson 1.1 Barrios 2.51 Claypool one yards Tyreek Hill was the only person Over The League average and yet he was still dropping footballs on the flip side KNX Shakir Diggs concade all over the league average sherfield was the only one under it defensive pass rush League average of

Separation from QB is about 4.54 yards dayquon Jones was at 4.62 Roso 4.68 Oliver 4.84 Leonard FL letter Floyd 4.86 on the flip side we were under it Ingram 4.19 Wilkins 4.59 agma 5.45 and Syler 5.6 just washed out Syler yesterday huh rough rough rough rough rough

Anyways and um I wanted to read this article from Barry Jackson here let’s head on over to it where Dolphins rank among NFL leaders why Miami put foot down on moer and waddle amid a disappointing end to the regular season several dolphins finished a top in several statistic categories

Two a Tong below led the NFL in passing yards with 4624 beating out Jared gof he became the first Dolphins player to lead the league in passing yards since Dan Marino did it in 92 with 4116 yards what’s more is his 4624 passing yards are third most in franchise history behind Marino’s 84

Season and 86 season two a tongala became just the second Dolphins quarterback to throw for for more than 4500 yards in the season joining Marino among quarterbacks who played at least 10 games tongoa 69.3 completion percentage was the NFL’s third best behind Prescott and perie his one1

Passer rating was fourth best behind pie Prescott and Lamar but tugalo was 62.7 passer rating and Sunday’s 2114 loss in Buffalo was his worst of the Season he finished tonight 17 for 27 for 173 yards one touchdowns and two picks Devon chain averaged 7.8 yards per carry on 103

Rushing attempts that’s the highest yards per carry average since the NFL AFL merger topping the 6.4 by Mercury Morris in 73 for Miami and Jamal Charles in 2010 for C Kansas City it’s the highest per carry average by any running back minimum 100 rushes since BD feathers averaged 8.4 for the Bears in

1934 Tyreek Hill led the NFL in receiving yards with 1799 top in CD Lambs at 1749 Hill is the first player Dolphins player ever to lead the league in receiving yards in a full season his 13 touchdown receptions tied Mike Evans for the NFL lead and Hills 119 receptions

Were tied for the mo second most in the NFL behind CD Lambs 135 though he missed the final two games of the final season of this season with an ankle injur rahee Oz’s 18 rushing touchdowns led the league Zack Steelers 10 sacks were third all defensive tackles behind Justin Muki and Chris

Jones Bradley chub tied Antoine Winfield Jr as a league leader in force fumbles with six as a team the Dolphins led the league in total offense averaging 41.3 yards per game just ahead of the 49ers at 398.29 that the Dolphins have led the NFL in total offense it’s just the

Second time that Miami has averaged 400 plus yards per game in a full season the Miami Dolphins averaged 433.92 in points per game at 29.2 behind Dallas’s 29.9 but excluding defensive touchdowns Mi Miami averaged only 16.5 points in its six games against teams that are playoff bound the Dolphins

Finish the season with the NFL’s top passing offense averaging 265.0 the Dolphins ranked first in passing Dolphins average 235.68 point3 yards per game which is 10th best in the league but the Dolphins were only 22nd in points yielded per game at 23 the Dolphins were 15th in passing yards

Allowed per game and seventh in rushing yards relinquished per game and Miami’s 56 sacks were third most in the league and we set a team record with those 56 sacks so there you go final statistical notes and numbers as the season comes to an end and hey you know there’s there’s

There’s some optimism and guys we’re 3 and0 against Kansas City in the playoffs remember that we beat them in 71 1990 and 94 just saying interesting note too I know you guys have he hearing me stressing about the seam seam seams do you know the Miami Dolphins

This year their tight end group finished without a touchdown I want you to think about that I’m telling you man if ceki could block he would have still been here we are missing a guy that can block a offer us something after to the catch no touchdowns from our tight end group this

Year brutal brutal brutal brutal and again 3 and0 against the Kansas City Chiefs historically in the playoffs who knows anything can happen Any Given Sunday is a freaking movie named after it I know some of y’all were expecting me to have Omar this uh today he had to

Push it back just because he’s going to the Heat game and uh everything happened late in terms of interviews and uh sorry press conference and everything with the team so I’m going to try and make it work this week um we’re either going to do all 22 or the show with Omar tomorrow

I don’t know we’ll figure it out um but you know Omar will be on this week we’ll do the film breakdown we’ll do the preview all that good stuff all right um I’ll figure it all out for y’all we’ll get it so smash that like button man I said it

Earlier in the opening I’ll say it again guys the season isn’t over and I said I was going to reserve judgment till we are knocked out so you haven’t seen the reason loses this yet you seeing me get critical though so I’m just saying all right we need Tua everyone’s wor about cold

Weather and snow I we need Tua from Buffalo last year in December that’s what we need all right you show up and this defense shows up and Tyreek doesn’t leave his hands on the plane or back in Miami we can make this thing happen with Raheem and jayen back let’s go

Baby season is not over enjoy the moments listen that loss is in the past move on on now we got to move on the same way we did against the Ravens and reset now we got to move on and res to the bills now we got to move

On and reset to Kansas City a lot of us wanted another shot at them CU we know in Germany we beat ourselves right we beat ourselves we had a 16 to 23 Point swing in that first half with the wild catch at the 26 that was called back because of penalty reeks

Drop then reeks fumble return for a touchdown those three plays so we got a chance for Redemption let’s Shock the World upset the defending champs in their home building and guess what it’s not like the Ravens the chief are lights out they are very susceptible to an upset so I’ll

See all y’all tomorrow smash the like button you already know what time it is Fins Up all day every day