00:00I think if the Dolphins would have won, today's show would have started with a montage of
00:07me saying this is a bad team and they're not going to win many games and it probably would
00:11have gone on for like five straight minutes of me talking about how this roster does not
00:18have depth, this roster is not, you know, anything special because they don't have the
00:24money to make it special and shockingly, there's no montage of Solana saying, hey, this Dolphins
00:33team is going to win 10 games.
00:34Dolphins are going to shock the world.
00:37My guess is Solana and Crowder will slunk away from their notion of, hey, sneak up on them.
00:52I'm more eerie about the Dolphins this season.
00:55This Dolphins team is what I suggested they were going to see.
01:01They can't sneak up on anyone when you, what, what's the point of sneaking up on someone
01:07if there's nothing there when you sneak up on them?
01:11So we didn't surprise them enough.
01:13I said, I said, run some tricks, some trickery.
01:15How can you surprise, what, what?
01:20I'm again, thrilled that both of you had optimistic visions of this team before the season started.
01:28I am an optimistic guy.
01:30I am grounded in reality when it comes to this Dolphins team.
01:33And just to further ground everyone in reality, we'd like to make sure that you both realize
01:40the Vegas Raiders are not a good team.
01:43And the Vegas Raiders are one of, I believe, the easier teams the Dolphins are going to face
01:50all season long.
01:51100%.
01:52So I don't know how you're feeling after witnessing what you witnessed, but that's the reality of
01:59what this season is.
01:59And by the way, I'm a little surprised on social media at just how surprised some Dolphins
02:05fans are by what they saw yesterday.
02:09I went in from a player perspective thinking, hey, we worked hard.
02:14You know, they don't know what we got.
02:16We don't know what they got.
02:17Let's have a little something for them early.
02:19It wasn't anything early or late.
02:21It was just kind of that.
02:22But like Caden Proctor, remember the story?
02:25He ran the ball in college.
02:28Why not on that short yardage play?
02:31Let Caden Proctor run the ball.
02:32It's just something more.
02:34They were running plays like they were the Seattle Seahawks.
02:37Well, again, I think that Jeff Halfley, first of all, I think he thought this is a winnable
02:43game and I can out scheme them with the talent we have.
02:48I think he got a little bit of a wake up call as to what he's going to be dealing
02:53with this
02:54season.
02:54My guess is his thought was I'll save the super cutesy stuff for a little bit down the
03:00road when we can surprise someone with cutesy stuff and and just win this one on football
03:07being a better prepared a a better executing football team.
03:15But they can't.
03:16This is like I'm not disappointed.
03:19This is what I expected.
03:21I mean, I am.
03:23I really am surprised at the number of Dolphins fans who seemingly didn't expect this this season.
03:29We know we know their salary cap parameters.
03:33We know how many people they had to claim off waivers after after everyone did their 53
03:39man cuts.
03:40Like we know what they're dealing with there, the the the reported strengths weren't strengths
03:48and the weaknesses were worse than we thought.
03:52Like I thought offensive line would be OK.
03:54We kind of said it.
03:55We heard about it in a Giants minicamp.
03:57We heard about, you know, OK, they're struggling.
03:59They're young.
03:59They're getting together.
04:01Malik Willis had no protection and they couldn't move anybody off the ball.
04:04Like Devon couldn't go crazy because he was getting hit as soon as he hit the line of
04:08scrimmage again.
04:10I just want to remind everybody because obviously we'll be critical of the team because, you
04:15know, we will be critical after every game as as we are or we'll or we'll be celebratory
04:20after every game.
04:21But this is a team of rookies, youngsters and cast offs.
04:26This team is comprised of bargain basement aside from several.
04:33Right.
04:34Jordan Brooks, Devon HN and who's the other one that Brewer, Aaron Brewer.
04:41OK, they have a first time head coach.
04:44They were opening on the road on the West Coast.
04:48This game could not have gone any other way.
04:53It couldn't have.
04:58Hindsight's 2020.
04:59I agree with this.
05:01This defense, by the way, is the kind of defense that Kirk Cousins picks apart.
05:06Yeah.
05:06Right.
05:06Vulnerable defense.
05:07This is I mean, it was tailor made for Kirk Cousins.
05:11Ashton Jenty looked really good.
05:13You'll wonder what they would have looked like if Brock Bowers was out there like this was.
05:18I thought this was tailor made for one of the few Raiders wins this season.
05:22And it was and the Raiders aren't good, but we kept talking about Max Crosby like Max Crosby
05:27was going to cause some damage and he did.
05:29He had a second half.
05:30He was giving people hell.
05:30He's the he's the one that stopped the was that fourth and one.
05:33He went inside and ran his shoulder into a body.
05:37Now he's chest.
05:38And that man ran back with like a little girl missing or missing a Christmas gifts.
05:43They're big time players made big time plays.
05:46The guys you brought up.
05:47And I love Devon A. Chan and Jordan Brooks.
05:49They didn't make any game changing plays.
05:52Nope.
05:53Nope.
05:53Nobody.
05:54Nobody is saying and Devon is a weapon, but honestly, like Jordan Brooks and he's a he is
05:59a very, very good linebacker.
06:00I'm not just don't misquote me on that.
06:03Nobody's making a game plan around Jordan Brooks.
06:06It's hard to argue with anything Hawk is saying, because there were two things that could not
06:12fail the Dolphins this season.
06:13If they had any chance at turning some heads and that's five, six wins, Hawk, I was tongue
06:18in cheek about the 10.
06:20You had to get pressure on the quarterback with Chop Robinson having somewhat of a productive
06:27season with Zach Sealer having a productive season with Kenneth Grant having a productive
06:31season.
06:32Well, Kenneth Grant's not even playing and Zach Sealer found his footing later in the
06:36game, but Chop Robinson had one tackle.
06:38He was basically non-existent in the game.
06:40The Dolphins front four, that pass rush did not get to Kirk Cousins once and the offensive
06:46line for the Dolphins had to be steady.
06:48The offensive line had to protect Malik Willis and they had to create separation up front to
06:53allow Devon A. Chan to go be Devon A. Chan.
06:55That didn't happen.
06:56So the two most important parts of this team failed miserably week one against one of the
07:03easier opponents they'll face all season.
07:07Yeah.
07:07I mean, I can't argue with it.
07:09Hawk, I was wrong.
07:10You were right.
07:11This is going to be a tough first couple of weeks for the Dolphins.
07:16I think a tough season.
07:17That's the reality of it.
07:19I'm not saying, though, that the offensive line can't be fixed throughout the season.
07:23I'm not giving up on that offensive line because I do think it's stronger than it's been in
07:28a minute.
07:29I'm not giving up on Chop Robinson after a game.
07:32He was non-existent.
07:35The secondary, I don't know what to...
07:36Like, I mean, yeah, do with that.
07:41Two interceptions, man.
07:43Jake Rodriguez looked really good out there.
07:45Did he lead the league and lead the team in tackles?
07:4714 tackles yesterday.
07:48I mean, that was a round.
07:49Yeah.
07:50Yes.
07:51So, listen, there's some positives.
07:52I'm just saying, this couldn't have played out any other way.
07:56And if you thought it was going to, you were feeling with your heart, which is fine.
08:03Again, I'm that way 99% of the time.
08:05I just couldn't get there this season because we just knew what they were dealing with.
08:10The Dolphins, by the way, are 13-point underdogs next Sunday in San Francisco.
08:16I'm betting the Niners to cover right now.
08:19Well, see, I kind of like what you said last week, which is the Niners now, it's a little
08:24bit of a letdown game, and they probably do have some jet lag, and they were really keyed
08:30up on upsetting the Rams, which they did.
08:33I'm not telling you that the Niners aren't going to win because I believe they will.
08:38I think 13 might be too many points.
08:41Oh, I'll take 15, 20.
08:45Like, it's going to get...
08:46The whole thing, even watching early when the game was close, like, one side of the ball
08:51has to bail you out.
08:52Now, Seattle's a perfect example.
08:54When Adana went down, their offense was in shambles.
08:59They didn't know, like, Drew Locke didn't do a damn thing for a quarter and a half, but
09:03the defense just kept getting stops, kept getting stops.
09:06The Dolphins' defense is not going to bail the offense out.
09:08If the defense starts getting ran through, it's not like, okay, we have a shootout on
09:12our hands.
09:12We can't shoot out, and we can't stop shootouts.
09:17What's the strength?
09:18Our special teams aren't even that damn good, to be honest.
09:20Oh, Sanders can kick, though.
09:22He can get one.
09:24Sanders?
09:25What's his name?
09:26Not, um...
09:27Riley Patterson.
09:28Sorry.
09:29Yeah, Pat Lakers.
09:30Hayes and Sanders hit a 54-yard field goal yesterday.
09:34He also stroked one of the worst field goals you'll ever see in the NFL.
09:39But Riley Patterson, I don't know.
09:41I'd take some weird joy in when he misses a field goal.
09:46He's the MVP right now.
09:47Just because of Solana's love for him.
09:50Hurricanes, by the way, are 21-and-a-half-point favorites at Wake Forest on Friday.
09:56Josh Chappelle's going to join us today.
09:58We have a lot to get to when it comes to the Miami Dolphins.
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10:14Dolphins, or excuse me, Niners to cover 13 next week.
10:18And it's not that I don't think the Dolphins can get better week to week.
10:21I do.
10:22But we saw what the Niners did to the L.A. Rams.
10:26The Dolphins yesterday got pushed around by the Raiders.
10:29I mean, what are the Niners going to do to them?
10:31I mean, it's going to be bad.
10:33It just is.
10:34Yeah.
10:34It sucks, but it's going to be bad.
10:37But this can't be a shock is what I'm saying to everyone.
10:40This cannot be a shock.
10:42But even yesterday, Hawk, as optimistic as I may have been coming into week one,
10:46and I picked the Dolphins to win yesterday.
10:48I really thought they were going to find a way to win.
10:51I'm not sitting in the third quarter or in the fourth when it's 27-13
10:56and the Dolphins have five consecutive drives
10:59where they literally have to just punt the ball away.
11:01They could not produce anything.
11:02Five drives.
11:03They had five opportunities down two scores to go make it a game,
11:07and they could not do a single thing.
11:09But how did you think they were going to be able to do a single thing
11:12in those situations?
11:13I did not find myself frustrated.
11:15I just found myself like, yeah.
11:18Yeah, that's what this season is.
11:19That's what this season is.
11:21But no, and tell me if I'm done with this.
11:25I didn't think three and out every time.
11:27Like, get a couple first downs.
11:29Change the game.
11:30Scring the field 20 yards, Hawk.
11:32Don't just go out there and get seven yards.
11:35How?
11:38You keep saying that as if there's no context as to who the personnel is.
11:46Flea flicker.
11:48Can a brother get a flea flicker?
11:51Something.
11:52Trust me.
11:53We're going to see stuff like the Wildcat at some point.
11:56But you just don't do that in week one.
11:58You just don't.
11:59You try to state your claim to being a competitive football team.
12:06And it just is what it is.
12:08Like, this, you know, we've said it and we've given a million different
12:12examples, analogies of what it is.
12:14If I give you $1 million for interior design of your house
12:20and I give me $500,000 for interior design,
12:26whose home is going to look nicer?
12:31Mine easily.
12:32It's just impossible to think otherwise with the parameters that they've been
12:36dealt.
12:37This is not a season where you can blame Jeff Halfley, John Eric Sullivan.
12:43Hopefully you'll learn about Malik Willis.
12:46Hopefully you'll learn about some of the other rookies.
12:49I mean, you had to feel good about Jake Rodriguez.
12:51You had to feel good about Caleb Douglas.
12:53Like, there were some moments where you're like, okay,
12:57I can see what's coming together here.
12:58But the reality is the reality.
13:00They're dealing with 50 cents on the dollar.
13:04Yeah.
13:05And you can't coach your way out of that.
13:07You can't coach your way out of that.
13:09No, no.
13:10And we saw it.
13:11I think we were hoping.
13:12But then when you see them on the field with,
13:14I don't want to say real NFL players because some of these young guys
13:17can develop.
13:17But those 18 veterans on one-year deals,
13:21they've had an opportunity to play in this league.
13:24And they're free agents because they had an opportunity to play in this league.
13:28Ah, we got robbed.
13:29When Juju Brantz gets called for that unsportsmanlike penalty or taunting penalty.
13:34That was BS.
13:34That was BS.
13:35Dolphins get the ball back there.
13:37They go down the other end of the field.
13:39They score a touchdown.
13:40Game's totally different.
13:41We got robbed yesterday, Hawk.
13:43That's what really happened.
13:44Let me steal a line from Hawk.
13:46Hawk, how, how are we going down the field, Solana?
13:50Seriously, I don't know.
13:51What's our, what's our strength?
13:52Name a strength.
13:53I would say after yesterday, they really missed a guy like Tutu Atwell.
14:00That was the halftime conversation.
14:03Hey, where's Tutu?
14:04That's our website headline.
14:06Dolphins truly missed Tutu Atwell yesterday.
14:09I mean, would it be the worst thing in the world for this season to have the kind of veteran
14:13leadership that Liam Eikenberg gave you on a game in and game out basis?
14:18Was that a slip?
14:19I don't know.
14:20You
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