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The Miami Herald columnist shares his thoughts from Minnesota on the Joe Rose Show after the Miami Dolphins' 15-10 loss on SUnday.

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00:01all right joe let's head back out to the toyota of hollywood hotline shop over 2 000 toyota's
00:06on sale one location toyota of hollywood on 441 between hollywood and sheridan toyota of hollywood.com
00:11all right woody thank you so much and uh omar kelly on his way home flying home today still
00:17uh up in minnesota again joins us after dolphins uh 15 to 10 loss to the vikings
00:23omar thanks for getting up with us how you doing i'm good joe how are you doing this morning i'm
00:28i'm okay i'm okay you know late night like you and getting up early this morning but hey um
00:33so we're getting better is the good news but with it obviously still a little frustration on
00:40on a handful of plays that uh what what was it for you maybe the most frustrating thing
00:45and the best thing both that you saw in the game for me it's the penalties so um sorry that's
00:53okay
00:53sorry sorry about the penalty yeah it's the penalties joe uh this is a these beating themselves
01:01um it will be one thing if this wasn't a winnable game and the minnesota vikings aren't better than
01:09the miami dolphins i think the dolphins are the ones that keep getting in their own way
01:15um so you have a couple plays right first of all special teams you can't start that way would you
01:23agree that that was just terrible and you got a guy that's the best return guy in the league through
01:27the first month of the season and once he do he breaks two long runs that put your defense on
01:33a
01:33short field defense just uh did a great job of holding everything till the end of the game there
01:38where i guess minnesota could have scored but ends up with the five field goals in the game but
01:43but you're right about the penalties but boy i'll tell you what there's some things that just
01:48happened that that's got to get cleaned up and i don't buy and maybe you do that this is part
01:55of
01:55the problem we're just a thin team in general i think you can get special teams guys yeah and i
02:01think they've been getting special teams guides each week um that we were on two weeks of practice
02:06squad coaching yeah um i i love it i think it helps i agree agree yeah um you know we
02:12just elevated
02:13uh a young rodney mcgraw who a young defensive end who i think had a respectable game um steps in
02:21the
02:21right direction rewarded him for how he practiced that week that's obviously a positive now the
02:28question is how do you tighten up that unit and and maybe it's continuity but you know there's no
02:35excuses for having one is when your talent starved and your whole roster is full of guys that are
02:41on week-to-week contracts there is no excuse for having lackluster special teams play yeah no no i'm
02:49with you on that one i because there was a debate we were having last night and sitting on the
02:54bus and
02:54and they're going well because i always just remember the days of you have three or four or five guys
03:00or
03:00special teams guys and whatever you get out offense or defense you know it's not going to be as good
03:06but
03:06you know how good they are on on special teams and and i just we haven't seen and we haven't
03:11seen
03:12enough of that but but uh i do want to say this uh ollie gordon man how about how about
03:16that i mean
03:18that guy is running like all right you're starting running back man ollie gordon uh well he ran hard
03:23he ran hard on two yard runs three yard runs and then breaks the big one and breaks a tackle
03:29to make
03:29it a 53 yard run uh definitely i think he's probably one of the top standouts in the game
03:36um we can have some confidence that the running game will be reliable if not consistent um hopefully
03:44you know the offensive line they can run block uh the question is can you have a do you have
03:48a back
03:49that can find the necessary holes and ollie showed that he's you know ready to handle that with that
03:54workload now that devon is done but that's kind of what you got to expect from a player who you
04:01know
04:01won the doke walker award i mean that goes to the top back in the nation um so the pedigree
04:08is there
04:09um seeing jalen wright's frustration last night obviously you know this this is a pressure-packed
04:15situation for for these guys one of them is going to take the devon hann role and establish his career
04:22and the other is you know gonna become or continue his role his role as a backup um so it
04:31was probably
04:31hard for jalen after the game but that the key in the nfl and i'm sure you could talk to
04:37this joe is
04:38how how do you respond when adversity arrives how are you going to perform when you know people are
04:45people are doubting you and counting you out and and now daylor wright's going to have to have
04:49a good response yeah i'm really it's funny you said that coming back of course he missed a game
04:55but but i i'm with you i want to see him as a return guy still running hard and also
04:59he didn't get
05:00some carries it's not like he's not going to get some carries but you're right ollie gordon's kind of
05:05taking over so so i want to ask you how do you think malik willis did uh against brian flores
05:10defense um i really don't think it was the defense they gave him problems uh i'm just not sure malik
05:19is
05:19performing the way that he needs to be performing uh that that doesn't look like starting caliber
05:25quarterback play and i'll say this um if it was to a ton of law delivered two straight games with
05:3260
05:33passer ratings uh we would be picketing miami gardens you know but that's built up frustration
05:41and built up history but i don't think malik willis should be should have any excuse now obviously some
05:47of the you know some of everybody around him is not helping uh well that's part of it i mean
05:55i i don't
05:56know and by the way i don't know how you throw to i'd love what do you think to would
05:59look like in
06:00this offense through those first four games seriously he can't run around this guy sliding
06:04around keep him plays alive i'm not saying they all work out but what do you think to it to
06:09is
06:09falling down somewhere he's looking for a place to drop or he can't outrun anybody getting outside
06:14the pocket compared to malik willis that's true and and and maybe the the age and the inexperience
06:22of the receivers would probably hinder him like it did last season but i believe to it would be
06:28executing better in the red zone and executing better on third downs that that's what he's done
06:32his whole career no matter what hey he not don't he ain't throwing those two guys those two guys
06:36aren't around those two guys on outside no no no no he did that he did that before he got
06:40those two
06:41guys and then last season's last season okay he had one of the two guys but yeah i mean this
06:46isn't
06:47this isn't about to what the bottom line is you threw you guys you guys put him in there a
06:51little bit
06:52and i'm like you're right i put him in there i put him in there oh you're not going i'm
06:56trying to
06:57i'm trying to let you know this it's not if this isn't the standard like you're one of the worst
07:02rated quarterbacks don't think that you get to keep the job because you got the contract
07:07that's not how this works no but but you realize he's limited on what he's playing with whether it's
07:13pass protection sometimes or it's receivers me i look at he made a couple throws he could have made
07:19right he threw he went over the top on a couple of throws and they were too high for receivers
07:25to get
07:26but my god that play he makes it should have been a touchdown you know nobody else making that play
07:31we're going out of bounds and flips at 40 yards down the field and chris bell can't you can't be
07:38that close to sideline and turn up the field to put your foot on the the line there but i
07:43mean that's
07:43hell of a play uh to me one of maybe five impressive plays he's made this season and it didn't
07:49even count uh i the goal the goal the standard has to be higher um two of nine on third
07:55downs i'm
07:56sorry i can't blame sit there and blame everybody else even even the pass to chris bell uh you know
08:02kevin coleman jr's why kevin coleman jr's wide open uh on your right side uh you know did you have
08:10to
08:10throw the foot that ball off your back foot could you have stepped up into it you know they're just
08:14the little decisions that yes he's got all the tools that he needs to be successful but the one
08:20thing that i didn't want for this season joe and i wrote about it multiple times during training camp
08:25is i don't want these excuses that oh we don't have the right weapons to evaluate him i'm sorry this
08:31is
08:32this is what you got it's it's it's good enough because you got two guys who people think have a
08:37bright future in the nfl yes they're rookies yes they're making mistakes but i don't want any
08:43excuses about what what you look like and right now you look like a substandard nfl starting quarter
08:49no he's got to get better i don't disagree but but you know he's not playing both those guys right
08:54now right you realize caleb douglas is out yeah yeah yeah and hopefully he comes back this week but
09:00you know i'm sorry jalen jalen tobert was there and not to say that he's good but
09:05you know he could have done something malik you know i i don't want to i don't want any excuses
09:11for a 75 yard passing effort i i i i get it but but you know that could easily if
09:18he doesn't have
09:18a drop ball and a tight end and that play goes 68 yards we're not talking about this we're we're
09:22closer talking about almost 200 yards no it still probably would have been it's 85 he threw for 85
09:29yards joe i i understand that but again did you think pass protection was that good
09:38uh for for uh going against a brian flores defense yeah it was good enough because you you only gave
09:44up two sacks and yes malik bailed you out a lot of plays well but you can't just say yes
09:49he does
09:50bail you out he moves around in the pocket he slides he moves he he turns a five yard loss
09:55into a three
09:56or four yard gain i mean i i'm just i don't think he's in the best situation but i do
10:01expect more
10:02and i haven't i'm not saying he's a quarterback for next year but man i gotta tell you i just
10:08feel
10:08like every time we we did something doesn't go right in a game we just go malik willis you know
10:13no no i i it's it's i expect better play um is he the problem right now no the team
10:19the team's got
10:19to stop beating themselves that that's the problem and to me that comes down to coaching um but
10:25kyla murray come on you saw kyla murray yesterday yeah he dropped it off to his tight end a bunch
10:30yeah yeah i mean hell maybe maybe malik needs to learn how to find the tight end because uh it
10:36it was open all game well it was open all game and he took it yeah yeah so when is
10:42malik taking what
10:43what what defenses are giving him that that's my question well that's uh like that that'd be a great
10:48question for for slowick is is it can can you dump it you saw their guy six seven yards just
10:55flipped it
10:56to him and he ran a couple times first downs other ones he didn't and you know he was short
11:00of first
11:01downs but uh listen i'm not saying he's perfect and i know people think i'm trying to push him for
11:06some kind of award here but but i'm not but i i'm going to give him time like we're developing
11:11these
11:11other guys because i believe as the wide receivers get better and caleb douglas comes back um i i think
11:18he'll get better and as the pass protection gets better i think all those things nice running game
11:23yesterday at times and at least i'm stuck with the running game and finally break a 53 yard run
11:29um and then uh i do want to ask you uh the the other part of this thing malik washington
11:36um
11:36um it's kind of become your best your best receiver right now if if that's your best
11:43receiver you got a problem you did a bad job putting together your roster well just because
11:48the circumstances i mean one guy's not playing yeah yeah yeah and i and i hope he gets back and
11:54i hope it it starts still it it picks up because you know it this is this is not good
12:00joe this is
12:01this is horrible i mean it's it's horrible the offense is horrible yeah no and it's
12:06not even the loss of devon h and because when they had devon h and they were horrible too
12:11well listen you were you were you haven't scored 20 points all season and it's not like you've been
12:17playing formidable scary defenses well i i don't know what you thought we're going to score with this
12:24this this group i i i mean i i'm with you i thought we scored a little bit more but
12:29man i um
12:31you got you got a lot of a lot of young dudes out there anyway you got them on both
12:35sides of the
12:36football i get it hey omar is gonna get to a whole bunch of other stuff thought the pass rushers
12:40uh
12:41looked a lot better man getting a lot more heat yesterday it was good to see from from everybody
12:46uche as well as chop and zach turning it up i just thought overall a couple blitzes they called
12:52really confused them thought that was a nice job of mixing things up i think it's about the defense
12:58the coaches figuring out and understanding what the identity of the defense is and i think that that's
13:04taking a step in the right direction um that's certainly a positive for for this team um and
13:11and i think they'll get better as long as they don't continue to lose players but the the the question
13:17i
13:17have is oh you what what what is it going to look like when you know why why is it
13:25that the defense is
13:25able to take a step forward as they have but we're we're still we still haven't seen the offense done
13:32no offense got to keep getting better it's fair no no no i agree we're four games in we we
13:37you know
13:37we want to we want to see a better offense hey by the way that lady just said you trying
13:42to get
13:42upgraded are you pulling that omar kelly card to get upgraded no no no no no no you're trying to
13:47get
13:47some luggage stuff free or what what are you doing oh no i'm just i'm just you know just taking
13:52my seat
13:52people in my room come on now joe all right hey i hear a female voice is that with you
13:59or no
14:00no it's not with me yeah all right thanks man solo dolo right that's a good place that's a good
14:09place for you to be a soul you can't get in trouble solo thank you omar listen i'm i'm i'm
14:16i'm about to
14:16lock it in joe so i you know it's a it's a what you know no more solo dolo what
14:22what i'll be
14:24why all right send me a picture send me a picture and i want to see word together on it
14:30right word
14:30together all right thank you omar appreciate it all right show mark kelly i'm harold dolphins calmness
14:37this morning joining us

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