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Joe Rose breaks down what the Miami Dolphins must clean up coming out of their bye week as they prepare to face the New York Jets. From fixing a league-worst pass rush and offensive game planning for Malik Willis to addressing critical special teams mistakes, Joe lays out why the coaching staff and coordinators are under the microscope to secure Miami's first win of the season.

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00:00They're coming off a bye week.
00:02Let's start with that.
00:04This is a big week.
00:06I know you think I'm going to say the players,
00:08and at the end of the day it's about players being more productive,
00:12but, man, this one, a lot of this is going to fall back on coaches
00:16and specifically three coordinators, offense, defense, and special teams,
00:25to put together game plans to give your guys,
00:29now that you have an extra week.
00:30They talked about self-evaluation and looking at what all your players
00:37through five weeks can and can't do to put them in a better situation
00:42to have success.
00:43Very young team.
00:45A lot of these guys only have five games they play.
00:47Hell, we had a lot of guys that didn't play that much last year
00:49that are now starting on offense and defense.
00:56So, to find a way, I don't know if it's doable,
01:01but we've got to get a better pass rush.
01:03It's not good enough.
01:04Four sacks.
01:05I think the next lowest team is maybe eight, but we are struggling.
01:10Most of those sacks, if not all of them, in one game.
01:14So, we've got to find a way, and Coach has been very honest about this,
01:18Coach Halfley, that they need to keep working at it
01:21and find ways to put pressure on the quarterback so they can't sit back there
01:25and pick you apart.
01:27The other thing is special teams, just flipping around in no order here.
01:34Special teams just got to be better.
01:36And that hall pass is about done.
01:39It's just coverage, penalties that back you up.
01:45You're just constantly in bad field position.
01:48Cincinnati started the last game before the bye week
01:51with a drive on your 10-yard line.
01:55You can't give Joe Burrow the ball in the 10-yard lane.
01:58They scored in a couple plays, and you're down 7-0.
02:01Your defense really did nothing wrong.
02:03Did nothing wrong.
02:04Did not deserve that.
02:06That's fall.
02:07And that's a huge play.
02:09Huge play.
02:10Not to mention all your kicking problems.
02:12The kicker's been taken care of.
02:14He's been released, Riley Patterson.
02:17I think he lost confidence.
02:18It was obvious to everybody when the coach tells you to kick it in the end zone
02:23and you can't kick it and you miss it.
02:26You just miss an extra point.
02:28I think everybody saw somebody has lost some confidence
02:31and is not the same kicker that we had a year ago.
02:35The other big one is Malik Willis
02:39and finding ways, especially with Caleb Douglas coming back,
02:45it's on that coaching staff to come up with a game plan
02:49so he has the chance to have more success and score more points.
02:54We're sitting here with, what is it, seven touchdowns on the season
02:58and five games.
03:00You can't win games.
03:02You've got to score more than that.
03:03And if not, you've got to kick a lot of field goals,
03:06and honestly, we haven't done that either.
03:08So, finding ways, short passes, I'm with everybody else,
03:13try to find a way to get Dulcich the ball more,
03:16find a way, you know, safe, easier throws
03:19so we don't throw deep down the field so much,
03:22although I still believe we should.
03:24And then the other thing is,
03:26should I run or should I buy time and throw?
03:30And Malik, the gift that he has,
03:34and it's one of the best gifts in the game,
03:36is his ability to get outside the pocket and take off and run.
03:39And still has a big arm.
03:42If he rolls out, and this would be another critique,
03:47our receiver's got to do a better job
03:49when the quarterback is outside the pocket.
03:51Once he's outside the pocket,
03:53on a play that was supposed to be thrown from in the pocket,
03:57once you see your quarterback run,
03:59you've got to run for an open area.
04:00I don't know how much they work on it.
04:02I don't, I haven't talked to anybody.
04:05But you've got to freelance to an open area
04:07where your quarterback, to give him a chance
04:10to complete the ball.
04:12Like the one that got called back,
04:1468-yarder where he's going out of bounds
04:16and flips it up at the last second against the 49ers,
04:19and Bell's wide open, Chris Bell's there,
04:22but he stepped out of bounds,
04:23so we didn't get credit for the 68-yard touchdown.
04:27But we've got to do a better job
04:28with some of that kind of stuff.
04:30So I'm really curious to see with that extra week,
04:35but before we talk about players,
04:38I'm going to be looking,
04:39and you should be looking at game plans
04:41and how we're using people,
04:43and are we using them in the best situation
04:45to have more success and to get better?
04:48Because that's what this is all about.
04:50And try to figure a way to get that first win
04:53is really important for this group.
04:54This group needs to taste at some point
04:57a win, a victory.
05:00This try hard and come close,
05:04look, they are.
05:05They don't get blown out in a lot of games,
05:09but you've got to find a way to win a game.
05:11And the only way you're going to do it
05:13is you've got to clean up offense,
05:15score more points, defense,
05:18defense, better pass rush would be number one for me.
05:21And special teams overall has just got to be better.
05:25Some of the worst special teams,
05:26and I understand,
05:27I understand they're all new,
05:29new on special teams too.
05:31These are some of the worst special teams
05:32I've seen overall.
05:35Overall.
05:38So anyway, that's where we stand on,
05:41you know, and you clean some things up,
05:43you'll have a chance
05:46to beat a team like the Jets,
05:48either here or on the road this weekend.
05:52But a lot of things got to get cleaned up.
05:54You can't make the same mistakes you made
05:58against Cincinnati and expect to win,
06:00starting with right off the bat,
06:02first kickoff,
06:03and they're on the 10-yard line.
06:06Just,
06:08you're not good enough to overcome
06:09all those kind of mistakes.
06:11And a lot of teams go most of the year
06:14without somebody having
06:15a kickoff return that long.
06:18That's not normal.
06:20I understand occasionally somebody's
06:22going to get to the 45 or 50 on a nice return.
06:26But you can't have them
06:28inside the 10-yard line.
06:30Or inside the red zone.
06:32Just a killer.
06:34Killer of killers.
06:35Anyway, we got a lot more stuff to get to.
06:37Don Bailey Jr.
06:38going to join us
06:39coming up at 845.
06:41We'll talk to DBJ a little bit
06:44as, man, it's got to be fun
06:45up in that booth right now
06:47because they are fun
06:49even when they're down.
06:50First time this year,
06:51they've been down 21-14.
06:53And from about that point on,
06:55really put it together.
06:57Got a big turnover defensively
07:00and also our big takeaway defensively
07:02and then also really started
07:05that offense rolling
07:06both in the passing game
07:07and the running game.
07:09They were just tearing them up.
07:10Just wore Florida State out
07:12at the end of that game.
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