Drive Time: Dolphins Bengals Week 16 Preview, Quinn Ewers Gets the Nod

Drive Time with Travis Wingfield

Miami Dolphins

Sports, Football

4.8 • 895 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We’re previewing the Dolphins and Bengals Week 16 tilt with a bit of a different approach as the Dolphins named rookie QB Quinn Ewers the starter. Travis discusses Ewers’ starting debut and breaks down this matchup as he does every week.

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0:00.0	This is drive time with Travis Wingfield.
0:09.0	What is up, Dahlf fans, and welcome to the Draft Time podcast.
0:14.7	I am your host, Travis Winkfield, and on today's show, it is Thursday, which means it is preview day, but we also got a massive shakeup at the
0:22.9	biggest position in all of sports. We'll hear from Mike McDaniel and Quinn Ewers, who will make his
0:28.1	NFL starting debut on Sunday against the Bengals, as Tua Tua has been relegated to the third
0:35.2	emergency quarterback behind Ewers and Zach Wilson.
0:38.3	We'll do that.
0:39.3	We'll hear from Quinn.
0:40.2	We'll hear from McDaniel.
0:41.0	And we'll break down the Bengals from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
0:45.0	Training Complex.
0:45.9	This is the drive time podcast.
0:50.4	So the news of Wednesday, the dolphins have made a switch at quarterback.
1:01.3	Quinn Ewers gets the nod to make his starting debut against a team from the same state that he made his NFL debut against.
1:03.3	A bit of a stretch on that connection.
1:08.6	But the bottom line is it'll be yours against the Bengals and Joe Burrow on Sunday.
1:11.4	He made that appearance against the Browns, Ohio.
1:18.4	Bad attempt at a fun connection there. But I think the preview takes a bit of a backseat to this today.
1:23.0	Let's go ahead and start with a couple of sound bites here from McDaniel and Quinn. You were starting with the head coach of your Miami Dolphins. And the first one here is more about Quinn himself and what he did to leapfrog
1:30.0	Zach Wilson on the death chart to be the starting quarterback.
1:32.4	Here's Mike McDaniel.
1:33.0	I would say Quinn has a natural disposition of confidence, not cockiness, but confidence.
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