The Dolphins Excel with Surprise Defense Against the Rams

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00:00Yeah, there was definitely a number of mistakes that played into all of it, but you also can't

00:10discount four sacks from the Dolphins. I think they knew that the expectation wasn't there for

00:15their defense to apply that much pressure to them, especially when it came to the trenches there. So,

00:19a number of things that the Dolphins did end up doing well or better than anticipated and a number

00:24of things that the Rams can bring some correction to. The question is, is there really that much

00:28time? And then, the guys were just discussing on an in-game live kind of the strength of schedule

00:32leading up to this and teams that the Rams played probably sitting over under that 500 and really

00:37evaluating where the success lies. So, it's gonna be interesting to see what adjustments are made

00:41for the Rams moving forward and we'll talk a little bit more about their strength of schedule

00:45coming up and how just to gauge this. But, kind of touching and giving some love to the Dolphins

00:49side of the ball, you said that Tua did a little better than expected, hit over 200 as you and I

00:53talked about on the halftime show. More importantly, it wasn't a massive performance from anybody,

00:57but some success there for the tight end getting involved as expected and more importantly,

01:03not having to rely too much on Hill and A-Chin kind of playing that double role there, right?

01:07You know, it was like a well-balanced effort. Like, okay, Hill's not 100% healthy because he's

01:12dealing with this wrist thing. Okay, who else is gonna step up? It's gonna be a little bit of

01:16Johnny Smith. It's gonna be Malik Washington, you know, their rookie who did just a little bit more.

01:20So, it's not just gonna be one player doing everything. It has to be everyone, you know,

01:24that's what we saw from the Dolphins. It was a good game plan. Like you said, they brought the

01:28sacks, the pressure on Stafford. So, good stuff overall from the Dolphins, you know, coming away

01:33with this win on the road. Yeah, totally. And seven sacks combined between both of these quarterbacks.