 So the Ravens got a big game coming up against them. Miami Dolphins, Thursday night football, 820, the world will be watching it is prime time. So what better thing to do than to bring an expert who covers the Miami Dolphins, knows the Dolphins in and out and can tell us about the Dolphins. Strengths, their weaknesses, things that they're great at, things that they're bad at and everything in between. Team Keep It Clean, very, very special guests joining us today to talk Ravens Dolphins. Let's get it. Yeah, this feels like a dream. All right, so you two, Team Keep It Clean. In this episode, I got a very, very special guest. And you know I had to get him on here because we got a special game this week. Ravens coming in the town of Florida, Ravens coming in the town, cause you know, like the whole team from Florida. But they got an additional home game against the Miami Dolphins. So, had to bring my boy Doug on here. Doug, what's going on? Not much, man, not much. Trying to enjoy the season for the most part, but is what it is. I would say I feel you, but I can't. I gotta be honest, I can't. So before we get into it, how did you become a Dolphins fan? Born in 87, I didn't start really watching football until I was around like six or seven. And watch my dad. My dad's a big Dolphin fan. He's born in 65, so he grew up during the undefeated era. And watching his passion for the team and his love for the team, and then once I actually started watching it, seeing Dan Marino play, that really sparked my interest. It's funny, cause my mom's side of the family is trying to get me to be a Giants fan, but my dad won. That's another tough one right now. Now, what made you want to start doing YouTube? For the longest time, I noticed me being up in Jersey. A lot of the coverage that I had to deal with was Jets Giants. And whenever the Dolphins would win, I noticed that the mainstream media would talk about how the opposing team lost. Like if they beat the Patriots or they beat this big top tier team, it'd be, well, this is how the Patriots lost to the Dolphins. Not what the Dolphins did. And back in 2015, I got my bachelor's degree in film and media. So I have a degree in audio editing, video and all that stuff. And I took the both of them put them together. And I was like, I'm going to make a YouTube channel where I can help all these Dolphin fans that aren't in Florida to get their news and information. Three years, three, four years later, here I am. Hey, that's what's up, but I like that. Now, what's been your favorite part about doing YouTube? Covering the Dolphins? Meeting a lot of Dolphin fans that aren't in Florida. Like it's very surprising to me how many are in Florida. I have fans from overseas. I have fans, you know, in Seattle, Colorado, all that stuff. And it just, that is my favorite thing. And then hearing people say like, I'm having a bad day and I watch your video and it makes me feel better. That's what really drives me to continue pumping out this content that I'm doing. That's definitely my favorite is the interaction. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool too. Now, what's on the flip side, what's been your least favorite part about it? The trolls. Okay, yeah. No one prepares you. They try to tell you about it, no one prepares you and some of them are good. Some of them are real good and they know how to get you. And I try my, cause just like team keep it clean, I like to keep it clean. You know, mine is, you know, stay classy and fins up. But to keep it, you know, keep it no cursing, no profanity, like I like to keep it, but sometimes on live streams when they get me, I'm like, just ignore it. Watch the game, ignore it. So the trolls are probably my least favorite thing. Oh yeah, during the game, that's when we're in such an emotional state, crazy state because in those games, they take a lot out of you. So dolphins right now sitting at two and seven. What would you say has been just the biggest issue with the team right now? It's a toss up for me. I'd say offensive line, hands down one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL, but that necessarily isn't on them. For me, it's coaching. And whether it's Brian Flores or whether it's his assistants, they're inexperienced. Brian Flores changed so much from last year getting rid of the veteran leadership and the experience on the field when it comes to Eric Flowers, Ted Cares, Kyle Van Noy, Bobby McCain, like he got rid of so much veteran leadership. And then also in the coaching room, Changeli and Patrick Graham went to the Giants and like he got rid of so much that all of a sudden this team lost all its experience and all the experience and coaching that now they're making the dumb mistakes. They already doubled their penalties. Like they're gonna match this season total and penalties last year, probably in another two, three weeks. They're very undisciplined. So for me, that is the biggest thing is the coaching is inexperienced and the players on the field are inexperienced. All right, I got you. Now, being two and seven, I know it can be sort of hard to take or look at a positive thing about the Dolphins, but what has been something that the Dolphins have done well this year? And then don't say loose. They're resilient. I'll give them that. The Raiders game came down to overtime. And I'm very bitter about that because there was a blatant PI in the end zone on Will Fuller. It wasn't called what won the game for the Dolphins. Both Bill's games, defense played really hard. It was the offense that kind of screwed it up for us. And there was a ton of games where we lost by field goal to the Jaguars, to the Falcons. So very close from being two and seven to potentially what, five and two, five and four? I don't know my brain, my math isn't working right now, but this could have been a complete different swing on about three of those games. So that's the plus, the resiliency, and I guess the defense, but it's just a lot of negatives. Now, every time I think about the Dolphins, the first thing I think about is the auto craziness that has been with the quarterback situation. With even going back to last year, they draft tour and they have Ryan Fitzpatrick. And there was a lot of flip-flopping to a start. Okay, Fitzpatrick start, back forth, back forth, back forth. And then this year, this off season, all of the Sean Watson, all the talk started and whatnot. And then it went, it got quiet a little bit, then it heated up again, then it got quiet a little bit, then it heated up again. Then when the trade deadline was approaching, it started getting real hot. But it obviously came and went to Sean Watson. He didn't become the Sean Dolphin and they still have Tua and Jacoby Brissette. So what do you make of the Dolphins quarterback situation right now and how do you feel it's going to impact them moving forward from this point of the season? It sucks because any other year or top five quarterback doesn't become available or when it's not, they want that instant gratification that you guys got with Lamar, that the Cardinals got with Kyler Murray, that the Chargers are getting with Justin Herbert, they want that instant gratification. Whereas back in the day, paint manning through 35 interceptions this first year, like the players are given time to develop. Two, unfortunately, he's played 13 games and he doesn't get that luxury of being able to develop into something. So a lot of it is like the, there's no way you can continue to keep Tua on the team at this point. And if I'm Tua, I'm probably telling my agent, you need to get me out of Miami because the owner tries to talk to Sean Watson, the Dolphins for most of the year have been in some type of conversation with the Texans for Dashaun Watson. And I get where the Dolphins are coming from because again, having a top five quarterback in his mid-20s become available, never happens. So if any other team like the Caroline Panthers are probably trying to make that call, the Eagles are trying, like there's a ton of teams that don't have that quarterback that are gonna make that call. It just sucks that Tua doesn't give the time to develop but it also, on the flip side, I understand where the fans that are angry are coming from because coming out of college, Tua was a can't miss prospect on the field. He's like incredibly smart, great pocket presence, accurate, all this stuff. So a lot of Dolphin fans expected that transition to the NFL to be quicker, whereas he's still doing, he's not bad, but he's not where he was in college. He's inconsistent. And that is messing with a lot of patience with our fans. So they wanna move on. And you made a really good point about how we're paid many. He threw all those interceptions his rookie year, but nowadays in the NFL, like you said, instant gratification. It always reminds me of a microwave analogy with how people, you want food, you want it now, you go put it in the microwave. Now it would be a lot better if you made it on a stove or you put it in the oven or whatnot, but you want it and you want it now, so you put it in the microwave so it can be ready right away. And it's also like if you go to a restaurant, a sit down restaurant versus fast food. Now to sit down restaurant food is usually better. Not always, but it's usually better. But with fast food, you like, all right, I want it now, I want it right away. Let's go through the draft still and boom, you get it. So with quarterbacks, it's the same thing right now. I mean, really with a lot of players, period. You're seeing players just get traded quicker than ever nowadays. First round picks and all, like literally nobody is safe. Nobody. Like we saw Josh Rosen get drafted in the first round, got traded like what, a year later? Yep, to the dolphins. And we saw Ryan Tannehill. I think he was a couple of years after he signed his contract extension with the dolphins. He ended up being traded to the Titans. We saw Odell Beckham Jr. signed a record breaking deal for wide receivers. Got traded a year later. So whether veteran or not fresh off new contract or not first round draft pick or not, nobody's safe because nowadays teams, they're not putting up with stuff for too long and they don't have patience. Now, dolphins are getting ready to play the Ravens. This should be a very interesting game. I know most people probably expecting to blow out. How do you feel the dolphins match up with the Ravens? What do you feel the dolphins, what do you feel like they need to do in order to win? If this was 2020 dolphins, I think we would have a better chance on defense. The defense isn't that much different than it was last year, minus again, maybe two or three veteran leaderships. But if I'm Brian Flores, I don't try to get cute. And it seems like that's what he's trying to do. He's trying to outsmart the guy across from them, but then in turn, he's outsmarting himself. I'm not, you know, put that guy on the field that is just gonna spy Lamar. And that's what the dolphins need to do. You cannot let him take over a game. And that's what the dolphins tend to do with, they have such a hard time with mobile quarterbacks. Josh Allen is one where our pass, like, we blitz. I think last year, the Ravens were second and blitzing. The dolphins were third. And now this year, the Ravens are fifth and the dolphins are sixth. We are blitzing teams, but for some reason, in certain games, the dolphins don't blitz. And they give the court, I counted when the dolphins played the pills, Josh Allen had six seconds in the pocket at one point. And I'm like, you can't do that with Lamar. You need to contain him in the pocket. You can't let him roll out. You can't let plays break down because then all of a sudden your corner is left on an island for too long. You can't let that happen. So for me, the biggest thing that the dolphins need to do, if they want any type of success against the Ravens, you got to keep Lamar in the pocket and you got to pressure them. Other than that, if you don't do that, there's no chance that went in. There's none. Even if we score every time I offense, Lamar is just going to keep doing his thing. Now, it's funny, you bring up blitzing and Ravens fans. There's been a lot of back and forth amongst Ravens fans about if they actually blitz a little too much because with their defensive coordinator, Don Martindale Wink, he lived by and died by as the blitz. He will blitz any and everybody, and he will do it a lot. Now, with that being said, it can tend to leave his corners on an island sometimes. And sometimes even when they're struggling on that island, he'll still continue to blitz because it's work for him in the past. And he's very adamant when it comes to the blitz. And again, when he's working, he's working, when it's not, it's not. But speaking of cornerbacks on an island, report came out on Sunday that the Ravens tried to trade for Xavier and Howard. That was heartbreaking for a lot of us Ravens fans, especially because we lost Marcus Peters. We love Marcus Peters, love his vibe, love his attitude, love his plate. And Xavier and Howard, very similar corner to Marcus Peters. How has he been this season? He isn't the ex that we saw last year. Is that because of he always, Xavier and Howard always has a nagging injury that bothers him. Like he was out of most of training camp after they gave him that little change in his contract because of, I don't know if it was a groin or if it was some type of injury, but he has this nagging injury. But he's still Xavier and Howard. He is going to still take the ball from you. Lana Falcons, that game, he literally took the ball out of the receiver's hands and got an interception. Week one against the New England Patriots, the main reason why the Dolphins won that game, Patriots are marching down the field to kick a winning field goal. He stripped the ball from the running back and Dolphins end up winning. So Xavier and Howard is still a ball-hawking corner, but sometimes he gets beat. You watch the Tampa game. Supposedly he was having a deal with a hamstring injury. He was getting beat left and right by Mike Evans and Godwin in that box game. So it's up and down with him. He's my favorite on the Dolphins. People like to call me a two-a-stan because I tend to debunk the bed takes onto it, but then actually I'm Xavier and Howard stan. And I remember I was like, we just gotta bring him back. Just give him whatever he wants. Ten interceptions, gotta bring him back. And now I'm like, maybe we should have given him so much. But he still acts and he's still like, all of a sudden you won't hear anything. Like you'll play somebody and all of a sudden you don't hear their wide receiver's name anymore. And then the back of my head, I'm like, I know I don't hear his name anymore because that's just shutting them down over there. So if we would have made that trade, I think you guys would have been set for the next couple of years. And now a couple of years ago in free agency, the Cowboys, everybody knew that they had a pending free agent that was getting ready to hit the market because they just were not gonna pay him what he could have got in free agency. And he was a cornerback that was a very physical cornerback. Didn't get many interceptions, but he also didn't let the wide receivers catch many passes against him. And that was Byron Jones. How has Byron Jones been this season? Up and down. Byron is Byron. If you expect, like you said, Byron to have 10 interceptions, heck, if you expect Byron to have five interceptions in the year, it ain't happening. But he will shut down your receiver. Again, you don't hear that about that receiver. And all of a sudden you see X start to get a lot of interceptions. It's because Byron's shutting that guy down and the quarterback is forced to throw an X and all of a sudden X gets 10 interceptions. But this year he was struggling a little bit. Even last week against the Texans, number 18 had his number and he got burnt, especially playing press. I noticed there was a lot of him jamming with his left. And then the guy would just go right around the jam and get free behind him. Again, to me, the biggest, the definition of 2021 and the Miami Dolphins is inconsistency. And it's all around the board, from Tuatango by Loa to the defense. It's just, it's very inconsistent. Where one game will shut down one of the top offenses in the Bulkworld Bills for two and a half quarters, but then all of a sudden we'll let the Atlanta Falcons score 30 on us. So it's up and down. And it's kind of like how Byron Jones has been. Okay. Now, I remember last season, I remember being at a sports bar, I think tap 42 with some of my people. And we were watching the game and it was one of the craziest plays from last year. And I think it was, it was the Chiefs that were playing the Dolphins. And that game, crazy game, I was hoping the Dolphins will win, but they ended up, it is close, close game, but they just didn't pull it out. And the Chiefs ended up escaping with the win. Now, in that game, Patrick Mahomes, you know, Patrick Mahomes, sometimes he does some crazy stuff. And I feel like a lot of times he does these crazy plays because he just knows he can get away with it. He dropped back, then he dropped back some more and he dropped back some more and he dropped back some more and he does this thing where he turns around and he spins around, but Jerome Baker, he doesn't have none of that. How has Jerome Baker been this year? They keep, and this is where, again, my biggest weakness is the coaching. They keep putting him in a different position than he was last year. That's Jerome Baker's MO. Jerome Baker, you don't really drop him into coverage. You tell him to get after that quarterback because he's got the speed to do it. Like he said, that was like, I think that was like a 20 yard sack because Patrick Mahomes kept running backwards. He thought, if I can give myself more time and receive what we don't, I can chuck it. And he's like, no one's gonna catch me and Jerome Baker's like, I got you. Where's my mama? I got you, like he had him the whole way. But yeah, like they put him in the wrong position sometimes, but this past week, they put him in the right position. He's got a ton of pressures because he's got the speed. Right, yep. He's gotta be fast, fast line, but he just needs to work on disengaging blocks. Once he gets those things together, he's gonna be dangerous, but the dolphin's locked. I'm up for, I think, two more years. So I'm, I liked Jerome. I liked Jerome. And he's a young talent that, like I said, they can work on getting him to disengage blocks. He's gonna be real dangerous. Okay. Now flipping it to the offense, I'm very naive to the dolphins running game. They're running back situation. I'm not sure if they still have Matt Breeder or not. I don't know what their situation is at all at running back. How has dolphins run game been? And who's back there? Probably no one that you've heard of. Miles Gaskin, who is, he's very good in the open field. He's a very good pass-catching running back. You have Savon Ahmed, again, you know, like who? Very good open field catching running back. They have Malcolm Brown is now on IR, who was our bull running back. They have Patrick Laird, who was another big physical back. And then they brought in Duke Johnson. He was on the back. Duke Johnson was on the Bronx, I mean the Browns, yeah. So that's our back field. And it's, I don't like it plain and simple. It's a combination. I always say that the offensive line and the quarterback and the offensive line and the running backs are like an yin and yang situation, whereas the offensive line can help the running back, but the running back also helps out the offensive line. Same thing would be said with the quarterback. And there's lanes. I've seen it when I'm breaking down film that the offensive line opens lanes. Savon Ahmed and Miles Gaskin want that 80 yard touchdown. So they dance too much in the back field. So instead of just playing your foot and go, they try to shift one way, shift. And then, you know, our offensive line is bad as it is. So if they hold their block for that two seconds, you need to just go. You can't try to hit a home run every time. So, but again, you know, you get them on a swing round, you get them on a, you know, a curl round or whatever. And you dump it off to them. They're going to make you miss in the open field, but when it comes to running, the Dolphins, I think Miles Gaskin has like 400, 500 rushing yards on the air. Oh, yeah. That's not too bad. Now, staying in the middle of the field, because the running backs, a lot of times offensive line, they got to make those holes in the middle of the field so the running backs can shoot those gaps and get through. But somebody else who works the middle of the field a lot is a tight end. Mike Gaskin, what's he looking like? I mean, I saw the beautiful that that man didn't catch last week. How's he been this year? They need to resign him. He's due to be a free agent this upcoming year, and they need to resign him as soon as possible. He is the him and Waddle, which we'll probably get to, but he is the bright spot of this offense. And it's another situation where the Dolphins, you know, he's not a great run blocker. So they take him off the field. Y'all, he'll catch a 20 yard pass. They'll take him off the field. And I was live streaming with my dad. He goes, why are they taking Gaskin? Yziki off the field. I said, they're about to run the ball. And lo and behold, they run the ball. So, you know, they tell on their plays and stuff like that. So if you're watching the game on Thursday, and all of a sudden you see Yziki trotting off the field, nine times out of 10, it's going to be a run, but he, top five tight end in the NFL right now, just ridiculously good, catches anything around him. There was a play against, I think it was the Falcons, where he tries to throw, two or tries to throw a fade to Preston Williams and he drops it. One on one jumps up, goes to grab at the cornerback, smacks the ball out of his hand. And when I was doing the film breakdown, I said, you got to throw those to Yziki. And then I showed them the very, I think the next series, same exact play, same exact position. It was Yziki, he had two guys on him, jumps up, grabs it, touched down. It's just so good that the Dolphins need to lock him up, because if not, if they're like, oh, go test the free agent market, and then he's going back and how they do that, he's not coming back. All right, cause I know Ravens, earlier this season, and usually throughout the season, they had really struggled against tight ends, but over the past couple of games, they've, well, minus the Bengals game, but besides that, they've been doing a lot better against tight ends. So that'll be somebody to watch. Now me, when I get some time to myself, I play a lot of Madden. I play connected franchise mode in Madden. That's all I do. I go against computer 24 set, and I have fun. I absolutely love it. I loved going through the draft. I love going through free agency. I love playing with the teams that I built. But one of the things that I did on my team, after the first year, my receivers were Hollywood Brown and Rashal Bateman, Devon DuVernay too. But I was like, you know what? I need some more speed. And I need some nasty speed, some speed that's just not even fair, because Hollywood Brown's speed is like a 98, something like that. Rashal Bateman's speed is like a 92. Devon DuVernay, his speed is like maybe like a 92 as well, but I was like, no, that's not good enough. I need like 98, 99, do that. So I went to the NFL roster, put everybody in order by speed. Waddle, he pops up. So I traded for him. And he, every year he's been getting like 2,000 yards, like 27 touchdowns, I just don't want to give balls to him. But how has Waddle been in real life for the Dolphins? He is dangerous, but he is underutilized. And I say that so much. And it's true though, he's dangerous. They like to run slants with him. There's a lot of RPO stuff, especially with Tua, they have that connection. Well, they'll be in the pistol and then he'll go to hand it off and then real quick throw the slant to Waddle, who then, if it's one-on-one, he's gonna make you miss. They really have him running deep routes, which I don't understand. Last week he had, they had him running a deep route. It was double covered, percent, there was an interception. It was just a Chicago percent for you. But it's a lot of crossing routes, a lot of curl routes, a lot of underneath the 10 yard routes. And I don't know if it has anything to do with Tua or it has to do with the offensive line, not giving a quarterback enough time for those deep place to develop. But he's dangerous in the open field. He's catching everything and then he's making people miss. They throw bubble screens to him and he's getting those yardage. He's tough. So I'm very happy with him. A lot of people wanted Panay Sule at six and I can see why, but I'm very happy. We have a chilling Waddle as well. Yeah, see that's, I'm on the same boat because I know you just said that a lot of Dolphins fans wanted Panay and I know that it was the same exact thing with Bengals fans. They were going back and forth about Jamar Chase Panay, Jamar Chase. And for me, I'm very greedy. I'm very greedy and I will always go with the sexy pick. Is it right all the time? No, it's not, but that's just me. So if I was a Dolphins, yeah, I would have taken the receiver. So if I was a Bengals, yeah, I would have taken the receiver. And I know your offensive line, everything got to go through them because if your quarterback doesn't have time to throw, can't get it to that receiver. But I still would go with that wide receiver because I just, and I do the same thing in Madden too. Game against the Ravens, Dolphins Ravens, Thursday night football should be a fun one. How do you think this thing is going to go? Oh, okay. I think at first it'll be interesting because that's like the Bills game, right? At half time it was 3-3. It was interesting. Even the first time we played the Bills, it was 14-0, but then for a whole quarter and a half, the Dolphins defense shut the Bills down. Dolphins offense was in the red zone, kind of drops, kind of interceptions. They make it interesting against the good teams. Even the Bugs game, after the first quarter, they were only down by like six or something. They make it interesting. And then all of a sudden the wheels fall off and then the opponent just starts to run it up. So I see that happening. I see a lot of people going, oh, okay, look at the Dolphins. There's a chance. And then the second half going, there it is. That's what we've been expecting. So that's the way I see it happening. Okay, okay. Do you have any score predictions or? That's not, it's okay, but do you? I think the Dolphins before, like towards the end of the game, the Pies start to score because the Ravens would be like, we won this. I'm thinking like a 35, 17 loss. Okay, all right, that's not reasonable. I don't think it's gonna get run out. I don't think it's gonna be week one of 2019. That was a completely different team back then. But I think you guys are gonna win decisive play. I know, cause this is definitely a little homecoming game for the Ravens. Cause like I said, so many Ravens are from down here. Lamar obviously Hollywood, he's from Hollywood, Florida. Sammy Watkins is from Florida. Devonte Freeman, I started running back. He's from Florida. And they're more too. But that's why I always call them the Florida Ravens. Cause they just, this is their career. But anyway, they'll let everybody know where they can find you at YouTube, Twitter, everything. If you need to find me anywhere, I made it very easily cause I have such a peculiar name. You just type in doublydooron on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube.com slash doublydooron. Heck, you want to find me on PlayStation Xbox. It's doubly dooron. Hey, there we go, man. And on that note, I appreciate you coming on. I appreciate you joining us. I appreciate you sharing your insight about those Miami Dolphins. And I sincerely hope that your predictions for this game end up being correct. They probably will be. All right, we appreciate you, man. Thank you.