This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.

What is up, Dahlf fans, and welcome to the Drive Time podcast.

I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, a tough showing as the Bengals blow out the Finns 4521 here at Hard Rock Stadium.

We'll tell you how the game got there.

We'll go through the pregame checklist, the themes, the story of the game, the standouts, a takeaways, all of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios.

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The story of the game was the third quarter undid a really inspired first half performance, as it kind of has for the entire season.

And going back a few years now, quite frankly, the dolphins had ideal balance and

enough pressure and plays to get a dynamic offense off the field a few times in the first half.

But it all came crashing down when that balance was reduced because of four third quarter turnovers,

some bad tackling, not such great effort on a few plays, bad rush lane contained in that third quarter,

which bled over into the fourth, and the game got completely away from the Miami Dolphins.

It was 1714 Dolphins football at the minus 40 yard line with a buck 40 to play in the second

quarter. By 1332 in the fourth quarter, it was 4514 and the game was pretty much over.

And it's just kind of been that type of season for the Miami Dolphins.

Like obviously being six and nine after a two and seven start as well doesn't bring a lot of

moments to cheer about as a fan, right?

And I was just thinking about this.

Like every time we've had a chance to sneak back into it and watch the Isletown scoreboard,

it doesn't go our way.

It's just been one of those years where, like, you don't extract a ton of enjoyment from it. And sometimes you get those seasons for the Miami Dolphins this year. It appears to be that way. Let's go ahead and get into the pregame checklist here of things I was looking for going into the game. And whether or not they were a satisfactory or checked or X's, whatever you want to say about that.

So I was first curious about what the offense might look like with a new quarterback.

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