00:00It's the first time we've really got to experience an environment like this,
00:03so to come together with the group that we had and fight them until the end,
00:07I do think there's improvement. I do think there's growth.
00:10I think there's growth back-to-back weeks, and we'll get there.
00:13And don't get me wrong. Guys, I'm not happy.
00:16I want to win the game, and I think you can sense that, right?
00:18Am I proud in certain aspects? Yeah. Am I disappointed? For sure.
00:21Do I need to do better? Yeah. Do we all? For sure.
00:23We had a chance to win the game in the fourth quarter,
00:25and that needs to be the next step.
00:29All right, the head coach, Jeff Halfley, talking about the good and the bad,
00:33and the young guys are getting better.
00:35Team's getting better. Getting closer.
00:39Hasn't happened yet. 0-4.
00:42A lot of good individual performances yesterday, which is nice to see,
00:48including Ollie Gordon.
00:51A couple things happened in the game.
00:53And, again, I'm not sitting here coulda, woulda, shoulda, and all that stuff,
00:57but Chris Bell, you've seen the play.
01:01He was on the line, you know.
01:03He was on the line, so I didn't think the ref screwed us on that one.
01:09I mean, did a close-up.
01:10I just think those are the kinds of things you just like.
01:13Really?
01:13You play through.
01:14Of course.
01:14They don't do that, Woody.
01:15The league's out to get everything perfect.
01:18Well, they didn't on that punt.
01:22But, again, I mean, come on, man.
01:25Like, you can't.
01:27I don't disagree.
01:28First of all, if they don't call it on the field,
01:30it's not like they go back and review it.
01:31That camera was not definitive that he stepped out of bounds.
01:35It was very, very close.
01:37So, even if they go back and review it, I'm not sure they would have overturned it.
01:41The other one is the, and it's really weird, they just blew by it,
01:44and they showed it one time, and nobody touched Ollie Gordon when he was down.
01:48That one, too, yes.
01:49And he gets up, and he takes off running, and the one official runs with him.
01:53Yeah.
01:53So, I went, oh, shoot.
01:56They might give it to him.
01:57Yeah, he wasn't even close to being touched.
02:00There was no one near him.
02:01So, it's just some weird ones, you know.
02:05Poor officiating.
02:07I'm not saying poor officiating.
02:08I mean, we had a bunch of penalties.
02:10They had a bunch of penalties.
02:12Hell, they were jumping off sides about every other, right?
02:15Their offensive linemen kept.
02:17I got to tell you, I really like this coach, man.
02:21I think he's doing a fantastic job with this team.
02:24And despite what, you know, Omar says or whatever, Joe, they are playing with a,
02:29well, they're playing with a rough roster, man.
02:32I think if Omar, what Omar was saying, like he said,
02:35our roster's better than this team, we haven't played against them.
02:38Our roster's not better than any team in that league.
02:40I would agree.
02:41It's just not.
02:42We're not.
02:43I totally agree.
02:44And everyone seemed to have a consensus on this during camp and everything.
02:47So, where is this coming from all of a sudden?
02:50Now, by the way, the Dolphins did outplay those guys yesterday.
02:54Yeah.
02:55They were the better team in that game, I thought.
02:58But they don't have a better roster.
03:00Let's be realistic here.
03:01Well.
03:02One team's undefeated.
03:03I mean, come on.
03:06I don't disagree.
03:08I don't disagree with this.
03:10Dolphins are exceeding every possible expectation I could have had, Joe.
03:13I would have thought, watching them at camp, they were going to get waxed every single week.
03:18Well, it's been about the development.
03:20They made it very clear that it's a young team.
03:23It's about the development of these guys.
03:25It's really, if you step back to camp, this thing's about Chris Greer's last draft class and John Eric Sullivan's
03:34first draft class.
03:35That's 21 players and finding out and seeing how quickly, in this new system, they're all playing in on offense
03:43and defense.
03:45What guys can you build around going forward?
03:49And look at, man.
03:51Jacob Rodriguez is the leader in the house right now, by far.
03:54The way he's played a middle linebacker, 18 more tackles.
03:57What did he have, 13 or 14 a week ago?
04:01He has been really good, side to side, up the middle.
04:05He's playing really well.
04:08I think a lot of other guys are getting, you see them, they've had their moments, including your first-round
04:13pick and your receivers.
04:18We just got to get Caleb Douglas back.
04:20I mean, he's been out a couple weeks with his ankle sprain.
04:22I mean, I hope he's ready for the Cincinnati game, or he's closer, and maybe he can practice on Wednesday,
04:29get a few more days off, and then get ready to go.
04:34But, yeah, I'm not sure what happened from the start of the season, and now, all of a sudden, there's
04:42this.
04:42They're just loaded with talent, yeah.
04:44We're loaded with talent, and we should be beating all these teams.
04:47And you're like, look at, man.
04:49I think we're covering up a lot of good stuff.
04:52A lot, we're covering up some stuff with some good calls.
04:55I liked the defensive game plan yesterday.
04:57We were really, really good.
04:58And even though they were able to move the ball, they kept shutting them down in the down 20 to
05:0530-yard line.
05:06Joe, they just hung in back-to-back weeks with undefeated teams.
05:09They did.
05:09They got some stops last week.
05:10They hung in with the Chiefs.
05:11They were in that game until the end.
05:13They had a chance.
05:14But, you know, they hung in yesterday.
05:17Like, I don't know what people are expecting.
05:19But just so you know, we need the Chris Bell to be a touchdown and not call it back.
05:23We need Ollie Gordon to be able to stand up and run for a touchdown.
05:26So, you're blaming the officials.
05:27I like that.
05:28No, no, no.
05:28I'm just saying we need to get those calls.
05:30I'm not blaming officials.
05:31Yeah, I just wonder how much stuff like that happens.
05:33Like, a guy's, like, toenail touches out of bounds.
05:36Like, the official throws a flag.
05:37It's just, I don't know.
05:39So, I hate that call.
05:41So, I think they got it right.
05:43Maybe they did.
05:44But, let me ask you.
05:45Well, if they did.
05:46Wait a sec.
05:47What are you talking about?
05:48Because it was so close.
05:49It was so close.
05:51Leave us alone and just give it to us.
05:54That'd go over real quick in the league.
05:55Well, let me ask you.
05:56If they didn't call it and they went and reviewed it.
05:57They're trying to get everything.
05:58That's why we're reviewing it.
05:59Did you think that camera was definitive?
06:01Like, can you say for sure that he stepped out?
06:03Yes.
06:03I think he was out.
06:05It's very close.
06:07Okay.
06:07It's debatable.
06:09Well, if it's debatable, they don't overturn it.
06:11Just let it go.
06:12Just a stupid call.
06:15The punt one is the one to me, too.
06:18That one stings, yes.
06:19I mean, there's no way they could tell.
06:20Except, they felt the ball changed from the time he touched it.
06:27Did you see a finger move or anything like that?
06:29No, I didn't see any of that.
06:30That's the problem.
06:31Ball coming off a foot, that'll move your finger pretty good.
06:36That obviously gives you a first down, and one gives you, well, two of them could have given you potentially
06:42a touchdown or a big play.
06:45Anyway, they didn't go our way.
06:47They didn't go our way.
06:48And so, here we are, and we're having this conversation today, and we haven't had a lot of breaks so
06:56far.
06:56But, you know, Chris Bell can't be that close to the sideline, where he's going to turn and end up
07:03being close to that sideline.
07:05You just can't put yourself in that situation.
07:07Maybe he thought the play was going to be over.
07:09Maybe, you know.
07:09Okay, so he sees it, and this guy's going out of bounds, and he goes, you know what?
07:13He can still flip it pretty far.
07:15Let me take off.
07:16Maybe he didn't think he stepped out.
07:18He gets way behind the seat.
07:19Maybe he didn't.
07:21Oh, my God.
07:22Okay.
07:22It was very close, Joe.
07:24It was very close.
07:24He's out.
07:25The guy, they're there.
07:26They saw it.
07:27He's out.
07:28Perhaps.
07:29I'm not saying he was out.
07:30He was out by a toe.
07:32He was on that line.
07:34Change your shoes.
07:35If it's a toe, let it go, right?
07:36Come on.
07:36If it's a toe, let it go.
07:37That's pretty good.
07:39That was a toe.
07:41Should wear different color cleats next time.
07:43He was wearing black cleats.
07:44If he wore white cleats, that would have been.
07:45That's a Jimmy Cephalo one right there.
07:47Is that what he said?
07:47Yeah.
07:48He said that.
07:48Nice.
07:49So you've got to start wearing them.
07:50See?
07:51Start wearing them.
07:51Match those up so they can't tell.
07:54Pretty good idea, actually.
07:57Anyway, that was it for Chris Bell's day, too.
